We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Marquita Wright. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Marquita below.

Hi Marquita, thanks for joining us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

Pre-pregnancy with our twins, my husband and I would travel rather frequently. In addition, my job required that I travel monthly domestically and about 3-4 times internationally.

Thus, when I became pregnant with my twins, I was consistently told that I would have to stop traveling, including getting a different job, after the arrival of my twins.

Being one not to back down from a challenge, I was determined to figure out how to incorporate travel into my life after kids.

My twins took their first trip at the tender age of 4 months. At 5 months they were in Puerto Rico and at 6 months they took their first international flight across the pond to Europe.

Now at 4 years old, they are about to embark on their 6th country, despite the pandemic. All in all, they have been on about 50 trips and are little expert travelers.

Through our experiences, we provide tips and inspiration to help women and families travel the world with confidence. Because they world is our oyster; let’s explore it!

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

The Traveling Twin Mama was born out of necessity.

After I started to travel with my twins, a lot of friends and family started to ask me for tips and suggestions on traveling with kids and travel in general.

That’s when I realized that there is a lack of representation in many areas:
-women who travel with twins
-women who travel for work
-Black families that travel

Through our work I want to debunk the myth that travel ends after kids. Women can travel however they choose- with or without their kids in tow, including baecations, girl’s trips, and mamacations (solo trips). Just because you’re a mom doesn’t mean that your desire to explore the world has to end. Yes, you may have to tweak how you go about it, but it’s still feasible.

I am most proud of the messages I receive from other women saying they have taken their first trip with their kids, or their first trip without their kids. It’s an amazing feeling to help women feel whole again and reignite their love for travel after becoming a mom.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

In January 2020, I decided that I was going to finally launch my travel blog and take my social media presence seriously. Then hit March 2020, the pandemic. I had to decide if all of the work I had put in creating my website and writing the blog posts was worth it. I mean who launches a travel blog smack dab in the middle of a global pandemic where literally NOBODY can travel?

After reaching out to a few travel bloggers I learned that indeed it’s worth it! The pandemic was the perfect time to get my feet wet and begin my journey. Now that people are ready to travel again, I already have a foundation for both my website and social media presence.

Although neither my blog nor social media is where I desire it to be, it does show that my late nights of working on my blog and social media after working a full-time job and managing a household with twins, is worth it. I have grown both my website’s domain authority and social media presence as well as have worked on paid partnerships and media trips.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

It’s a lot of work.

It seems pretty simple. I mean you’re just taking pictures and creating videos.

But the amount of time and energy it takes not only to perfect the content but attract and engage your audience is a lot. Initially, I aimed for perfection- to have every single thing I post to be curated and absolutely gorgeous, but I realized that’s not what my audience expected from me and not necessarily what received the most engagement. Therefore, I had to learn my audience- who she is and what she really wants to get out of my page. As well as taking a good look at if the amount of time I’m taking to curate content equates to the amount of engagement I receive.

Same thing with a blog. It seems pretty simple. You’re just writing.
But SEO. I wish I would’ve taken a course to learn SEO the real way from the beginning.
I knew what SEO is. I used a keyword search tool. I received the green checkmarks on my blog posts from Yoast, but yet and still I was doing it all wrong. Wondering why I wasn’t getting the traffic I wanted. Now, 2.5 years later I’m learning the tried and true techniques and have to go back and update all of my blog posts using my newly learned strategies.

Lastly- I would say it’s hard to do it all create content for Instagram, Tik Tok, Pinterest, and write a blog, especially if you’re working full time. My suggestion is to pick one or maybe two to do really well. Once you’re comfortable with where you’re at with those. you can expand.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://marquitastravels.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetravelingtwinmama/

Image Credits
Hannah McFall Photography (the one with family and ocean in back- Kauai) Travelitephoto- kid’s Machu Picchu Couple in fort- Rod Cliffe Hume Photography