She Hit Refresh

Welcome to Season 3 where I’ll be speaking to women in the travel industry who are making an impact and helping others live their best lives. We’ll be covering corporate runaway stories, remote work tips, grief and travel, planning for retirement, solo female travel, moving abroad, building generational income, and much more! In this episode I speak with my friend and mentor Jakiya Brown Thiaw who I met in 2018 at a Blogger’s Bootcamp in Javea, Spain. Jakiya left the corporate world in 2016 to travel the world and since then has gone on to create her own brand The Traveling Fro where she helps transform aspiring entrepreneurs into to business owners. What we discuss Her corporate runaway story, going from a lead brand manager to successful business owner What freedom means to her, especially as a Black-American woman The highs and lows of the entrepreneurs journey...and how to keep going when you want to give up How travel changed her perception of what was possible in life Why she moved to Senegal