Finding Home, Beating Burnout, and Traveling With a Dog with Lora Pope (JUMP 204)

What happens when a long-term nomadic traveler rescues a dog and decides not to slow down, but to bring him along? Jackie sits down with travel writer and digital nomad Lora Pope to talk about building a life abroad, navigating burnout, and how one tiny pug named Puglo completely reshaped her journey. From backpacking solo across the world to creating a home base in Mexico, traveling through 16 countries with a dog, and pivoting her business when the travel industry changed overnight, Laura shares the honest highs, lows, and logistics of designing a life that actually feels good. This conversation is a refreshing look at intuition, reinvention, and how sometimes the thing you didn’t plan for becomes the thing that grounds you the most. Resources: Find and follow Lora and Puglo at @explorewithlora and @adventuresofpuglo Visit Lora’s website at ExploreWithLora.com Please follow the show, leave a 5-star review if you love it, and share with your travel buddies Don’t miss Jackie’s behind-the-scenes communications - hop on our email list at TravelingJackie.com Choose your OWN international adventure curated by Jackie at jumpadventures.com Produced by NOVA Take a leap with Jackie IRL - join us in Greece and Norway in 2025 at JUMPadventures.com Advertising Inquiries:

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Finding Home, Beating Burnout, and Traveling With a Dog with Lora Pope (JUMP 204) is an episode from The Budget Minded Traveler: Travel | Adventure | Lifestyle by Traveling Jackie.

This episode is 36:15 long.

This episode was published on Feb 18, 2026.

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