Aug 28, 2026

What happens to “family travel” when the kids are old enough to order the cocktails?

For Margarita Ibbott, it becomes a completely different kind of travel – and an interesting opportunity for destinations and content creators.

Margarita started DownshiftingPRO in 2009, originally writing about professional...

Aug 21, 2026

What happens when one of your guitar heroes tells you he has your lessons saved on his computer?

In Part 2 of our conversation with Marty Schwartz of Marty Music, we pick up exactly where we left off – with Marty casually revealing that Slash from Guns N’ Roses knows who he is.

The story gets even better. On the...

Aug 14, 2026

What can a travel creator learn from one of the biggest guitar teachers on YouTube? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

Marty Schwartz is the creator of Marty Music, a guitar education brand with close to five million YouTube subscribers and thousands of lessons produced over nearly two decades.

Marty joined us at TBEX North...

Aug 7, 2026

With AI producing more content and Google constantly changing the rules, how does a travel creator actually stand out? Josefine and Dom of Red White Adventures have a refreshingly simple answer: be more yourself.

The Danish-Canadian couple has travelled together for more than eight years and turned what began as...