The Exit Row
A monthly newsletter for women chasing a big, bold life. Every issue leads with one story, one lesson, and curated resources across travel, lifestyle, career, and every other corner of your dream life.
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Hey Reader, 👋 In case this is your first Snippet: every Sunday, paid SeekPTO members get the full Drop with all 20 new paid travel opportunities, direct application links, our PTO tip of the week, and more. This free Snippet gives you our weekly story and a taste of what's inside. This week, I want to tell you the story about the day a felt-tip pen rewired how I make decisions. I don't own a single pencil. Not one. Blame Mr. Hicks, my 6th grade teacher. He handed out pens for a writing assignment. Pens, not pencils. My hand froze over the paper. What if I mess this up. What if my page ends up covered in scratched out lines and looks ugly in front of the whole class. He waited for the room to go quiet, then said something I still think about: if you write it in pen, it stays. You can't erase it. Just like real decisions. You can't undo the leap you take. Good or bad. But you can cross it out, build on it, and turn it into something else entirely. He wasn't grading us on how clean the page looked. He wanted a good story at the end. I didn't get that at eleven years old. I get it now: if you're constantly erasing your own thoughts before anyone else sees them, you train yourself to stop trusting them at all. So here's where the pen metaphor actually lands for you today. I'm a pen house now 🖊️. Scratches, crossed out lines, ink smudges on the side of my hand like I lost a fight with a ballpoint. And I would genuinely rather you hit submit on the messy, imperfect PTO application sitting in your drafts folder than erase yourself out of the opportunity before you even try. It doesn't have to be clean. It just has to be sent! Mr. Hicks never asked me to erase a single line, and twenty years later, I still haven't bought a single pencil. This week, we found 15 new ways you can be paid to travel! ✈️Fellowships, scholarships, remote roles, sweepstakes, grants, residencies: if it pays or covers your way to go somewhere, we're hunting it down and dropping it in your inbox every single Sunday. Only for our paid members of SeekPTO. But here's your Sunday Snippet, the free preview of what paid members are getting in full today: A $14,500 Trip to 12 Dream Destinations
Entirely free to enter by mail. No purchase needed, and a purchase doesn't improve your odds. 🔵✈️ Funded Flights & Stay for a Summit in Greece
With an October 31 deadline, subscribers only have about 6 days to apply after Sunday's send. Heads up: there is a small application fee. 🔵✈️ $35,000 Grant for Months of Arts & Culture Travel
There's no fixed award amount. It's set per applicant based on your proposed budget, travel plan, and project, up to the $35,000 cap. These 3 opportunities alone are worth checking out, and they're a fraction of what's in today's full Drop. Upgrade to get every link, every week.
P.S. If you've ever sent something messy that led somewhere good, hit reply and tell me about it. I read every one. – Gabby + The SeekPTO Team 🔵✈️ |
The Exit Row
A monthly newsletter for women chasing a big, bold life. Every issue leads with one story, one lesson, and curated resources across travel, lifestyle, career, and every other corner of your dream life.