Becoming a Professional Traveler with Jeff Jenkins

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Five years ago, Jeff Jenkins decided he wanted to become a professional traveler. His goal was to make a living traveling around the world and helping people. Today he's doing exactly that. After years of hard work building an online platform called Chubby Diaries, Jeff is now the host of National Geographic's TV show, Never Say Never.

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0:00.0	There's a quote from the poet Mary Oliver that says,
0:05.0	Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
0:11.0	It's a good reminder that if we want to do something wild, there's no time like the present.
0:17.0	Five years ago, professional traveler Jeff Jenkins asked himself this question.
0:22.0	The answer changed his life. Jeff's goal was to make a
0:26.0	living, traveling around the world and today he's doing exactly that. After years of
0:31.4	hard work building an online platform called Chubby Diaries, Jeff is now the host of National Geographic TV show Never Say Never.
0:40.0	I'm supposed to climb this.
0:43.0	Oh, M. G. I know mama you don't want me up here right now.
0:47.0	When we up here, as a chubby black guy, I don't see a lot of folks who look like me exploring the world.
0:52.0	Ooh, mom. I see a lot of folks who look like me exploring the world.
0:53.0	That was for you, mom.
0:55.0	I gotta show people that you can look like me and still live your best life.
1:00.0	Who, this one got me.
1:01.0	It's the power of just pushing past whatever that fear is right now.
1:05.0	Oh my God!
1:07.0	That was incredible.
1:08.0	We did that.
1:09.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living an REI co-op studios
1:18.5	production brought to you by Capital One. Jeff Jenkins, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:28.0	Hi Shelby, I'm so glad to be here right now.
1:32.0	You've had a lot of Wild ideas. I'm so excited to talk to
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