Brandi Carroll smiling on beach at sunset during solo travel journey

This Isn’t a Highlight Reel. It’s a Reset.

Brandi Carroll, travel advisor and founder of The Runaway Reset

Who I Am

Travel advisor. Content creator. Woman in the middle of her own reset.

I’m Brandi — travel advisor, content creator, and the woman behind The Runaway Reset.

After walking away from corporate life, I expected to feel free — but six months later, I was still burnt out. That’s when I realized it wasn’t just work. I was burnt out on life.

I booked a solo trip to Seattle, and that decision became a turning point.

What started as burnout became a real-time reset. Through travel, wellness, and intentional lifestyle changes, I began rebuilding a life rooted in freedom, alignment, and choice.

The Runaway Reset documents that journey as it’s happening — while also showing how I fund it through travel advising and creative income. My content gives women a clear, honest look at what it takes to start over and build a life on their own terms.

Who I Reach

An audience that isn’t scrolling — she’s planning.

The woman who follows The Runaway Reset is:

  • 40 or older and in some form of life transition — divorce, empty nest, career pivot, burnout, perimenopause, or simply waking up to the fact that she wants more.
  • Considering or actively planning solo travel, often for the first time.
  • Honest about where she is. She’s not looking for a filtered feed — she’s looking for someone a few steps ahead who will tell her the truth.
  • Ready to invest in herself: trips, wellness, experiences, tools that help her design the next chapter.

Audience Snapshot

  • Primary audience: Women, age 40+
  • Top locations: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, The Bahamas
  • Gender split: Women 62% Men 37%
  • Top interests: solo travel, wellness, perimenopause, personal finance for women, lifestyle design

Content Pillars

Three Through-lines shape everything I create.

01

Reset

The Transformation

The internal work and the outer life redesign, told together. Burnout recovery, perimenopause real talk, mindset shifts, leaving corporate life, daily habits of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms. This is the emotional center of the brand.

02

Funding

The Real Money Story

How I’m actually paying for this life — creative income streams like delivery driving and flexible work, plus the smart-spending side: points, deals, cruise hacks, and honest talk about what a reset costs. No gatekeeping, no “just manifest it.”

03

Planning

Travel, Designed on Purpose

Intentional trip design through a travel-advisor lens, with a specific focus on solo travel for women 40+. Destination research, safety, home-base scouting, and trips built around clarity, confidence, and alignment — not just bucket lists.

Credibility

Story + consistency + alignment — not raw numbers.

What I bring to a partnership is a real-time story and an audience rooted in intent.

YouTube

Daily video series documenting a real-time life reset. Consistent uploads since March 2026. Currently running 100 Days to 50 — a countdown series to my 50th birthday told in public, in real time.

Instagram

Short-form storytelling and audience connection through Reels and lifestyle content from the road. Daily reset reminders, travel moments, and the decisions most creators leave out.

TikTok

Short-form travel and reset content for women asking, “Could I actually do that?” Quick hits from the road, real-time reset moments, and the kind of honest takes that make women 40+ hit save.

The Blog — therunawayreset.com

Long-form reflections, trip recaps, and reset resources. Destination guides written through a women-40+ lens you can’t find anywhere else.

The Newsletter — Stay Connected to the Reset

Real-time updates, travel inspiration, and behind-the-scenes moments straight to inbox.

What sets this audience apart

  • Growing audience across platforms
  • Daily content series (100 Days to 50)
  • Strong audience alignment: women 40+ / life reset / solo travel
  • High intent — they’re not scrolling, they’re planning

Brand Alignment

The brands I partner with all pass one test.

The Runaway Reset partners with brands that genuinely serve women in transition. That means:

  • Travel: tourism boards, hotels, cruise lines, tour operators, booking platforms, travel insurance, luggage and gear
  • Wellness & perimenopause: supplements, hormone health, fitness, sleep, mental health platforms, wellness retreats
  • Lifestyle & personal finance: banking, points/credit, apps that support flexible income, tools for solopreneurs and creators
  • Fashion & beauty: travel-friendly, size-inclusive, built for real women over 40
  • Products & services that pass one test: Would I recommend this to my best friend?

I don’t partner with: fad diets, anti-aging fear-based marketing, or anything that sells women a smaller version of themselves.

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Ways to Work Together

Three ways to partner with The Runaway Reset.

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Sponsored Content + Ambassadorships

Paid brand integrations for one-off campaigns or ongoing multi-month or annual relationships. Campaign strategy, concept development, and delivery across my channels.

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Hosted Trips & Press Trips

I travel with tourism boards, hotels, cruises, and tour operators to create authentic documentation of the destination or experience — from a woman 40+ solo-travel perspective that’s underrepresented in travel media.

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Affiliate Partnerships & Product Gifting

Ongoing affiliate relationships with brands I naturally use and recommend, plus product gifting in exchange for honest review content.

What I Create

Deliverables built for the way your audience actually watches.

Video

  • YouTube long-form (dedicated videos or integrations)
  • YouTube Shorts
  • Instagram Reels
  • TikTok

Written

  • Blog posts on therunawayreset.com
  • Newsletter features

Stories & Social

  • Instagram Stories (with link stickers)

For Your Brand

  • UGC (unbranded) content licensed for brands to use across their own marketing
Brandi Carroll smiling at restaurant table, travel advisor and content creator

Let’s Work Together

If you’re a brand that serves women in transition, I’d love to hear from you.

Partnerships & press inquiries:

[email protected]