Where Adventure Never Retires!
I’m Jo Barnes. I'm a British freedompreneur, digital nomad of 15+ years, and founder of The 50+ Nomad.
This podcast is for freedom seekers over 50 who want to live with more adventure, purpose, and freedom than ever before. Whether that means full-time travel, part-time adventures, or simply building more freedom into your everyday life, I’ll share the tools, stories, and encouragement you need to make it happen.
Each week, you’ll hear practical strategies for building portable income, real talk about the ups and downs of life on the road, and inspiring stories from my own journey and from others who’ve dared to start over in their best years yet.
From choosing your business model to packing light, from staying healthy on the move to finding purpose beyond work, you’ll get the clarity, confidence, and connection to design and live your dream lifestyle.
Because adventure doesn’t have an age limit, and your next chapter can be your best one.
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$20,636 in Sales, $45 in Royalties and a Billboard Dream
My Current Favourite Email Subject Line 🥳
Small wins, big dreams and the projects funding my freedom right now.
In this episode, I share the email subject line that makes me smile every time it lands in my inbox, plus what’s been happening since my Shopify store went live: 15 packs of Travel Challenge Cards sold in 11 days, and finally being back up and selling on Amazon.
I also chat about falling down an AI rabbit hole, plugging Claude into Shopify and Higgsfield, and redesigning my store without knowing a single line of code.
Then I talk through the 3 projects I’m working on right now:
This Big World: just over $20,600 in sales, 3,000 packs left to sell and Q4 looming
Amazon KDP: my first book’s grand total of $45.12 in royalties, my Vegas billboard dream and my next book, Freedompreneur, coming soon
Substack: blowing hot and cold, and the 3 clever women I’m watching to learn how to grow
Plus my hot tip if you’re stuck or a bit lonely working on your own project, and why Chiang Mai is calling.
So tell me, what’s your billboard? Pop it in the comments, I’d love to cheer you on.
Links mentioned
This Big World gift page: https://thisbigworld.co/products/this-big-travel-challenge?view=tbw-product-gift (https://thisbigworld.co/products/this-big-travel-challenge?view=tbw-product-gift)
Screw Retirement on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF27TFJ4 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF27TFJ4)
Cara Alwill, “I bought myself a billboard in Times Square”: https://caraalwill.substack.com/p/i-bought-myself-a-billboard-in-times (https://caraalwill.substack.com/p/i-bought-myself-a-billboard-in-times)
Yana G.Y., Unplugged: https://substack.com/@yanagy (https://substack.com/@yanagy)
Tracy Friedlander, Second Act Strategist: https://secondactstrategist.substack.com/ (https://secondactstrategist.substack.com/)
Olivia Wickstrom, Petal & Hearth: https://petalandhearth.substack.com/ (https://petalandhearth.substack.com/)
Claude: https://claude.ai (https://claude.ai)
Higgsfield: https://higgsfield.ai (https://higgsfield.ai)
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1 Oct 2026
How to Build an Income Writing & Self-Publishing Books
I’ve been saying I’m going to write and publish books for years, so when I reconnected with my old friend and independent author Sharon E. Buck, I basically hijacked her for an hour and asked her everything I wanted to know. 😂
Sharon has written 26 books under her own name, ghostwritten another 10 or 12, and built a successful independent author business along the way.
We chat about Amazon KDP, shorter books, covers and marketing, building an engaged email list, getting reviews, using AI without losing your voice, Sharon’s writing process, and what she’d do differently if she were starting from scratch today.
If writing and publishing a book has been sitting on your “one day” list too, there’s loads in this conversation to get you thinking.
Watch the full video conversation on Substack: https://club.the50plusnomad.com
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23 Sept 2026
Jo Barnes Authors Journey
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