Truman explained that the \u201cextremely traumatic event\u201d on a solo backpacking trip when she was 21 prompted her to explore group travel \u201cas a solution for my safety\u201d.<\/p>\n
After finding a lack of affordable and sustainable group travel options, she launched Plotpackers in September 2023, turning \u00a33000 of personal savings into \u201cover \u00a31.5 million in sales, \u00a31.36 million turnover\u201d in the following year.<\/p>\n
Jones said Louise\u2019s business \u201csounds great\u201d, and then asked why she did not \u201cexplain\u201d the event that prompted her to launch Plotpackers.<\/p>\n
Truman said: \u201cI\u2019m happy to address it. It is obviously a very traumatic thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sexually assaulted very violently and consider myself very lucky to be alive. But as much as I don\u2019t enjoy talking about the topic, it is a big reason why I did this.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeventy per cent of the people who travel with us are women, and if you look at studies, women\u2019s primary concern when it comes to solo travelling is safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, obviously, group travel, I\u2019m never going to pretend that this eliminates all risk, but it does give you an additional layer of safeguarding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could have made me never travel again, but I\u2019m glad it led to this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones said: \u201cI\u2019m so dreadfully sorry. Thank you for sharing, it\u2019s inspiring of what you\u2019ve done and turning that into this now. Well done, incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bartlett offered Truman \u00a360,000 for a 6% stake, while Ma made the same offer and Meaden offered \u00a360,000 for 5%.<\/p>\n
Truman sought Meek\u2019s advice before she chose Meaden and Bartlett, accepting their \u00a360,000 for a 5% stake in her business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Truman explained that the \u201cextremely traumatic event\u201d on a solo backpacking trip when she was 21 prompted her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,5831,32034,5195,682,132456,41721,156,2036,185,16507,111,139,69,312,15386,2737,61,14344,303,119120,6123],"class_list":["post-576440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-alive","tag-assaulted","tag-be","tag-being","tag-den","tag-dragons","tag-entertainment","tag-entrepreneur","tag-is","tag-lucky","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-says","tag-sexually","tag-star","tag-to","tag-travelling","tag-very","tag-violently","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}