Media / Press & How to Work With Me
This is my media and press page that displays where I’ve been mentioned in other media and contributed guest content on other platforms.
Media Mentions and Features
Feature article in Nomad Magazine
Nomad Magazine (formerly known as Nomad Gossip Magazine) is an online print and digital magazine that shares stories about digital nomads, as well as tips and advice on the lifestyle. They asked me to write an article that answers the big question: Is it good timing to become a virtual assistant with the rise of AI? This is published in their third issue, which can be previewed and purchased here.
Guest article on The Nomad Escape blog
The Nomad Escape is a company that runs business retreats and communities for location-independent entrepreneurs and remote workers. After attending many of their in-person and online events of my own accord, I joined their new online InnerCircle Network and was asked to write a review article for their website about my experience of it. Read the full article here.
Column features in Freelancer Magazine
Freelancer Magazine is a print and digital magazine for freelancers and small business owners.
First, I wrote a column in their “Water Cooler” section about three ways that you can make the most of the freedom that freelancing brings. This appears in Issue 8 | Feeling Free – The Freedom of Freelancing. Read the full column here.
Later, I was invited to contribute to the “Water Cooler” section again in Issue 13 | For the Love of Good – Freelancing We Love. In this one, I wrote about the places that I love to travel to on workation with my laptop. Read the full column here.
Guest article on Black In Portugal blog
Black in Portugal is a community hub designed to bring together black visitors and expats in Portugal through meetups, events and online discussions. I wrote a listicle of conferences and large events aimed at those in the community who are interested in business and digital nomadism. Read the full article here.
Guest article on TravelWithHoward blog
Independent travel agent Howard Coan asked me to contribute to his Substack site, TravelWithHoward, a guide on being a digital nomad in Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, based on my own prior experience there on a 2-week workation. Read the full article here.
Guest article on Mapmelon blog
Mapmelon is a website with a directory of community-oriented coliving spaces around the world, as well as a feature to share your travel plans and stay connected online with your travel friends. They asked me to write an article on why it’s worth paying a little more to stay in a coliving. Read my guest blog post on their website.
Guest article on MINOMA blog
MINOMA is a community of mindful digital nomads that runs in-person retreats and festivals and online events. I went to their annual festival in Agafay Desert, Morocco, for two years in a row. They commissioned me to write a review of my experience attending the 2024 edition. Read the full article on their website.
Guest appearance on The Travel Transformation Podcast
The Travel Transformation Podcast is run by travel coach and author Jessica Grace Coleman, to discuss the transformational power of solo travel, intentional travel and remote working. After meeting in a coliving space, I was keen to jump on her podcast and talk about my travel journey so far, my transition from backpacker to digital nomad, and some of the events I’ve attended around the world. Listen to the full episode here.
Guest article on Nomad Retreats blog
Nomad Retreats is a directory that curates and lists various retreats, festivals, coliving popups and trips aimed at digital nomads. They asked me to write an FAQ article on what questions a potential attendee might have about attending one of the events they promote, Nomad Island Fest, based on my own experience of having attended a previous edition. Read the full article here.
Who I’ve been working with lately
La Vita Sukha coliving and retreat space in Puglia, southern Italy. I worked with them to promote the launch of their services, and my deliverables included creating and scheduling content 3 times a week on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, and interviewing them for my blog in a feature article. My work has been helping to raise awareness of their brand and bring customers to their coliving space while the founders can focus on running the business and delivering a great service for their colivers and venue hire customers.
Encantada is a family-owned villa that operates short-term rentals in Catalonia, northern Spain. I worked with them to promote their services to both holidaymakers and digital nomads looking for a rural escape. My deliverables have included creating and scheduling content twice a week on their Instagram and LinkedIn pages and editing their blog posts. I also promoted them from my own social media pages on Instagram and LinkedIn, including my review of staying at their property. I could give an authentic account of their business to potential customers, see what qualities needed highlighting, as well as help the business with suggestions to improve.
Sun and Co is a coliving space in Jávea, Spain, and one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was my first ever coliving space, and I feel honoured to have gotten to collaborate with them. I wrote an article on my blog to promote them for attracting digital nomads to stay there in their low season, along with offering a limited-use discount code.
Chateau Coliving is a coliving space in Normandy, France. I was invited to join their inaugural Writer’s Haven, one in a series of themed colivings that they run over their autumn and winter seasons. This writers’ themed edition was a great opportunity to connect with fellow writers and experts and learn from each other in a supportive community. I wrote social media posts on LinkedIn and Instagram about my experience.
Folks Coliving is a coliving space in the centre of Valencia, Spain. I worked with them to promote the launch of this new space by producing social media posts on Instagram and LinkedIn, taking UGC videos and photos on site, creating an online visitor guidebook on Notion, and writing a review of my stay there.
Viomati Co runs business retreats in Morocco and Portugal for entrepreneurs to network and build their businesses together. I was asked to join their 5-day retreat in Marrakech, and I wrote a review blog post about my experience there.
Digital Nomad Adventures (currently on hiatus) runs group trips and events in Thailand for digital nomads. They asked me to attend and participate in their 5-day Beach Meets Adventures unconference in Koh Phangan to create daily reels of my experience there, which I posted on Instagram.
If you’re interested in joining this list by working together, please reach out to me by email: toks@tokstravels.com
Work with me
Interested in getting in touch with me about a potential collaboration? Please drop me an email at toks@tokstravels.com if you’d like to discuss my working with you to provide you with one or more of the following:
- Guest blog posts on your website
- Sponsored blog posts on this website
- Social media content
- Press trips
- Write about your service in exchange for accommodation / transport / experience
- Ghostwriting
- Participating in content / creator houses and creative residencies
- Marketing support: Working on your newsletters, social media, SEO, blogs, etc.
- User-generated content (UGC)
As well as this travel blog, I have an engaged audience of 10,000+ followers across LinkedIn and Instagram, where I regularly share all the content I create as well as brands I collaborate with.
Testimonials
Toks worked with us to help promote the launch of La Vita Sukha, our new coliving, coworking and retreat space in Puglia, southern Italy. We loved the social media and blog posts she created and implemented and deeply appreciated her for being so flexible and allocating space for our specific needs at this crucial point in our developmental journey 🫶🏽
Our time working together for 3 months really flew by – Toks has been a superstar of support and fabulousness. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for everything you have done for us over these months!
Toks does all of the ATOMIC Growth Club member communications from the weekly email to the Facebook Group posts and nails it without me ever needing to micro-manage. I can pursue the more strategic projects to develop the membership with 100% faith that she is always on the ball.
She is also super proactive in coming to us when she notices something isn’t quite right and foresees issues BEFORE they become one. She just jumps in and sorts it without waiting for me or someone else to tell her.
Because of this, her role has expanded in recent months and she is now taking on even more support from managing member events to proofreading copy and so much more. This is because we know we can rely on her to be brilliant at everything she does.
Toks was recommended to us by another agency and we can’t thank her enough. Toks helped and supported us in writing and sending emails, writing and uploading blog content and scheduling our social media posts. We totally recommend Toks if you’re looking for support with your marketing activity as she always delivered high-quality work and hit all of our deadlines.
I approached Toks to work with me to support a number of my clients on various tasks. She has done research, data entry, writing and sending sales emails, and social media support. I find her to be very reliable, organised, always willing to help where she can, and her work ethics align with our work values. Her communication is 100%, which is always important. It also helps that she has a passion for the sorts of clients I work with.
If you’d like to collaborate with me, please send me an email at toks@tokstravels.com
