Example Script & Talking Points
Overall Guidelines
- Below is a suggested script but please make the introcast read your own
- Please recommend the aspects of the show that will appeal to your listeners and highlight 1-2 episodes/guests/topics that your listeners should check out and what you loved about them
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Intro and Personal Recommendation
- I know that many of our listeners would like to travel more, but that it’s hard to fit it in with work / hard to know how to get started / hard to make it a lifestyle like some people seem to manage [select what best speaks to your listeners]
- The Zero To Travel Podcast is a show that helps you travel the world on your terms.
- Jason Moore captures incredible interviews with guests that share actionable advice, life-changing perspectives, and key resources to improve your life and fill it with travel!
Sharing a Specific Episode Recommendation
- I especially enjoyed the episode with/about [guest/topic] and [something you liked/learned]
See a sample list of great recent episodes below
Trailer
- I'm going to play a 90 second trailer from the host Jason Moore, so you get a feel for the show.
[insert trailer mp3]
Call To Action
- We here at [your podcast] have become huge fans. And we’re not the only ones. Zero to Travel has been named a "Best Travel Podcast" by The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Forbes and others.
- Search for Zero to Travel on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
*** A Selection of Recent Episode Guests & Topics ***
Top destinations from influential travel experts:
- National Geographic Senior Editor, Allyson Johnson shares Nat Geo's best places to travel
- Gunnar Garfors, the first person to travel to every country in the world twice, reveals the top 7 up-and-coming destinations you must see before they get crowded with tourists
- Travel Channel TV host Oneika Raymond shares her favorite travel advice
Practical money-saving and money-earning advice:
- How you can take more vacations by booking better, cheaper flights with Scott Keyes founder of Going.com (formerly Scott's Cheap Flights)
- How to get incredible Airbnb deals around the world with the founder of one of the world’s largest Airbnb deals newsletters
- How to build, grow, and enjoy a successful 7 figure lifestyle business from Dan Andrews, who founded the world’s largest community of location independent entrepreneurs
Everyday folks making the leap from a conventional 9-5 job to a life of travel:
- How James Hopkins went from a soulless career on Wall Street to living in Nepal
- How Maxwell Lee and his family went from a daily grind to a nomadic lifestyle followed by a move overseas to pursue his passion for music
- How Annette and Daniel Fortner went from $70K in debt to world travel
Conversations with world-class adventurers:
- Polly Letofsky, the first woman to walk around the world
- Erling Kagge, the 1st person to reach the North Pole unsupported
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