#thejeskimo

Tonight I could not sleep. Maybe because I haven't written in quite a while.  I have been working hard fulfilling my daily duties as a travel advisor. I am taking on more business than I ever thought about two years ago. I am working remotely with a group of people from an award winning travel agency, Largay Travel, who support me professionally and personally. That makes all the difference. I am grateful. When I am grateful, I reflect.

Three years ago, I found myself in St. Augustine, Florida. Single, broke and fabulous. I started a blog focused on what I thought I was going through, and called it my “quarter-life crisis.” Three years ago, I sat down and got honest about where I was and where I wanted to be in life. I wrote this down and posted it on this blog for anyone who cared or could relate. The response was filled with support from friends of all ages from all over the world. My answer then is the same as my answer today. I am free. So tonight, what do I do with this freedom? I write. 

Yes, still single and fabulous but today happily living more within my means and passionately pursuing a line of work that makes me happy and fulfilled. The reason I think this blog worked personally was mostly because I reflected. The result was small steps I took for three years to become that person professionally. With lots more work to do personally in my ever changing life, I find myself back in the same place, St. Augustine Beach… where my story continues.

This is the start of a whole new adventure on a path unknown but completely shaped by my motives and moves from three years ago with no one to blame, if it all comes crashing down, but myself.  

I realized today, in a Facebook post about whether I should fire my dad as my client, that the best way to reach people is to align my daily issues in life as they seem to be somewhat universal; at the very least relate-able. I also learned and practice the art of letting it go- specifically when it comes to family and the ones you love most. In general, I want to reach people through life issues that millennials, or any generation for that matter, are facing today or have faced at some stage of their own lives. The dad post seemed to hit home in the same way the quarter-life crisis theme was so relate-able. And just like what I learned from my visit to Walt Disney World last week; you need to tell a great story to get them hooked.

These are the stories of my life as a millennial travel advisor. Let’s call them wildcat adventures.

“The Jeskimo; a blog inspired by travel, style and success” was built on my quarter-life crisis. In this new blog, you will find stories of my daily practice and eventual mastery of being a millennial in the world today. Everyone has a story, I'm just writing mine.

This social media saturated world is pretty obsessed with themselves. Narcissistic one may say. Which works out well for me and my favorite art of expression, writing, and my favorite topic, myself. :)

The thing I find the most interesting about the results of four years of writing The Jeskimo blog and my social media practices, is how many people pretend to not care, like or comment yet they are all watching. Whether I see this through my Google analytic data from my blog or when I see people in person, I found those who don’t comment online; usually have something to say about my posts in person. Social media gives people a way to love, hate or annoy; But at the end of the day, they are reading, for whatever reason, and possibly reflecting on themselves. The difference between my writing three years ago and now, is that then I used my blog to inspire only me. My hope this time around is that I inspire people to do more for themselves to be happier in their own skin and lives. To reflect on what they need to be free and take steps to get there every day. I will do this through my own stories- living proof that where ever I go, there I am but oh man, what an epic journey!

On that note, this marks the end of The Jeskimo, but it's legacy will always remain here.  I am so proud of the foundation it laid for my next stage in life and excited for what this crazy world has to offer.

I'll be writing on a new and fresh blog/website combination, where you will be able to find resources to help inspire your own lives through meditation, reflection and travel experiences. I look forward to sharing my wildcat adventures with you and hopefully a whole new group of inspired readers. The link is coming as I expect to launch sometime in Spring of 2015.

Signing off from the sunshine state...

xoxo

Jessie

When I started this blog I was working in Fairfield County with a start-up tech company selling digital advertising space. It was 2010 and the rise of social media marketing and digital advertising was launching into a quite a profitable business. I was confident and I’ve known how to sell and negotiate since I was eight and a half but I really didn’t know enough about digital marketing. I was a Journalism major who told her parents that she was going to school to learn how to party for a living, well throw parties, you know Public Relations. I was dead serious and I've been throwing personal and professional events ever since. Determined in some sort of direction.

Oh haaayyyy. Did someone say social?! The business minded hustler I am, knew that I needed to know more than most when it came to social media marketing. So I created this blog to test how these platforms work from the back and front ends- tech, design and content. When social media giant, Facebook, switched into a marketplace for new business opportunities and brand growth, everyone jumped on board to figure out how to leverage the millions of consumers using social media. And with over 400 social media platforms today, the education continues with new technology advances daily that make the learning process endless and my current job necessary.

Content is and always will be king. Four years later and I must say that,”The Jeskimo; a life inspired by travel, style and success,” has been my most innovative, positive and proven successful marketing pieces to date. What I have learned most from my public reinvention of myself; is that success comes when you are authentic and fearless. I know we all have different forms of success and I’m not saying I’m done defining mine but I have found an amazing place to work that encompass my talents and passions. And I can say that was my professional goal and this blog made that possible along with recording some really amazing moments in my personal life.

Quarter-Life Crisis aborted. Today I am 29 years old and I have had 28 jobs in my life. Refer to my October 2012 audition video. I guess you could call me experienced professionally, haha. I have failed so many times that there was a point that I was not sure what I was going to happen to me and things got pretty messie. Was I wasted talent? Cus that’s the worst thing someone could be in the world! This blog has been an outlet through those moments of epic fails, long drives down and back up the East coast and the unexpected tragedy in Newtown that had to have been fate I was working there. Those moments of reality show auditions, spring break at 27 and so many epic family journeys. I put it all out there for the past four years; authentically me and fearless of what anyone else thought about it, I was going to figure me out my way. It is a great feeling when I would see old friends that mention they had read a post from “The Jeskimo” or even better tell me I’ve inspired them or they think my writing, my truth, is amazing. I’ve received so much positive feedback of love and support from many of my quarter life crisis and my epic journey posts. All this is what makes me want to continue writing into my 30s, but we will end this chapter first.

The Jeskimo is 4! Today I gave The Jeskimo a little make over, an upgrade for her 4th birthday and my final year in my twenties. My tech savvy self added some new buttons and a fresh background from Bali, Indonesia. This new format is iPhone, iPad and Andriod friendly, though I’d love some feedback on how it looks on an Andriod and other web browsers. Now you can easily access me for travel, social media marketing and quarter life crisis questions through all of my social media platforms. I can’t promise I know what I’m talking about but I can share my experience that it seems to all work out in the end.

#itsallhappening