The First Mile is an immersive travel podcast, bringing you untold stories from the world of adventure. It is presented by Ash Bhardwaj and Pip Stewart — two travel journalists, who are adventurers in their own right — and explores everything from the ethics of cultural tourism, to documenting your journeys and making a living from travel. Ash and Pip navigate this territory with some of the world’s greatest travellers, who reveal how they got their first break in travel writing, planned remote expeditions, or made the switch from a corporate career to a life of adventure. Alongside these in-depth interviews are travel-narrative dispatches: evocative field recordings from Ash and Pip’s adventures, which take the listener along for the ride. New episodes are released weekly, in 10-episode seasons. ****** Season one’s interview guests include: author Monisha Rajesh, explorer Levison Wood, film-maker Reza Pakravan, and travel-writer Leon McCarron. Our dispatches come from Annapurna, Nepal, and Whanganui, New Zealand, where our hosts report back on rites of passage, celestial navigation, the joys of moonshine liquor, and a whole lot more. ****** Ash Bhardwaj is an award-winning broadcaster, film-maker and Telegraph Travel columnist. He regularly reports for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, and his films have appeared on BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic. Pip Stewart has cycled halfway around the world and completed a world-first kayak descent of Guyana’s Essequibo River (where she picked up a flesh-eating parasite). She is the former Red Bull adventure editor, and her presenting work has appeared on BBC, Al Jazeera and The Telegraph. ****** We hope you enjoy The First Mile. Please let us know what you think of it in the comments, and give us a rating, too.
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Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Ash Bhardwaj on Adventure With Purpose and Becoming a Travel Journalist.
How can you travel the world and get paid for it? Ash Bhardwaj is a travel writer and storyteller - and also co-host of The First Mile. He’s reported from around the world for global broadcasters such as the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, has a monthly travel column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, and has made films for Channel 4, Discovery and the BBC.
In this special episode, Pip interviews her co-host about launching and sustaining career in adventure travel. If you want to travel with purpose, or make a living out of travel, this is the episode for you.
In this episode, discover:
- How Ash got into travel journalism.
- Why Ash was a terrible cowboy.
- How a trip to India to take his Dad’s ashes back shaped his curiosity for travel journalism and travel with purpose.
- Ash’s steps to achieving in any industry - skills, network and portfolio.
- How to network.
- Why you should say yes to opportunities.
- Why you should just keep turning up.
- Why travelling with purpose enhances your travel experiences.
- The importance of managing your mental health.
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Ash website https://www.ashbhardwaj.com/bio
- Ash Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ashbhardwaj/?hl=en
- Ash Twitter https://twitter.com/AshBhardwaj
- Levison Wood http://www.levisonwood.com
- Secret Compass https://secretcompass.com
- Walking with The Wounded https://www.walkingwiththewounded.org.uk
- Nick Crane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Crane
- Rise and Shine Audio Network https://www.riseandshineaudio.com/
- The Army Reserve https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/the-army-reserve/
- Edgelands https://www.telegraph.co.uk/edgelands/
- AA Gill https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/177627.A_A_Gill
- Michael Palin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Palin
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Enjoyed listening, Travels at home sounds amazing.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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