BLOGGERS INTERVIEW: WITH VOURNEEN OF THE PLAIN SIMPLE LIFE



Eiyo Fadneiras,

Welcome back to Fadima Mooneira. The Fadima Mooneira Bloggers Interview is back with an awesome and amazing blogger in the house. For the August/September bloggers interview episode, I interviewed an Irish blogger named Vourneen.  She's the blogger behind The Plain Simple Life. The Plain Simple Life is a blog about minimalism and decluttering. The Plain Simple Life is a very excellent blog. Vourneen's contents are awesome and unique. You guys can learn a lot of things and tips on living a minimalist lifestyle and decluttering from The Plain Simple Life.  But besides The Plain Simple Life, Vourneen is also the blogger behind Snap Happy Spoonie and The Passive Plan.

Ok, now let's get to know Vourneen...


ABOUT VOURNEEN

Vourneen ~ the minimalist guru ^_^


NAME: Vourneen


ZODIAC: Capricorn


COUNTRY ORIGIN: Ireland


HOBBIES: Travel, musical theatre, playing guitar/ukulele


FAVORITE FOOD & DRINK: Pasta and a coke zero (super healthy haha!)


FAVORITE COLOR: These days I lean towards very neutral colors


FAVORITE MUSIC: A bit of everything, but mostly rock


FAVORITE MOVIE: Ooh this is a tough one. I love feel-good movies and one of my favorites is The Blind Side. I also love Christmas and The Holiday is my favorite Christmas movie


ROLE MODEL: My mum for sure, she’s so strong and still travels all over the world even though she’s close to 80!

 

BLOG NAME & LINK: 


I actually have 3 blogs! They are:


Snap Happy Spoonie


The Plain Simple Life


The Passive Plan


 

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS:


Twitter:  @VourneenMcE


Pinterest:  SnapHappySpoonie, ThePlainSimpleLife, ThePassivePlan

 

 

 

THE INTERVIEW


#1 Eiyo Vourneen, welcome to Fadima Mooneira. First, please tell me about yourself and your blog.

 

Hi, I’m Vourneen and I currently have 3 blogs (I know, crazy!). My travel blog, the original of the three, is Snap Happy Spoonie and is all about travel with a chronic illness (a Spoonie is someone with a chronic illness). My second blog is all about my minimalism and decluttering journey. And my third is teaching others about the different streams of passive income I use.



#2  Wow! Three blogs? That's awesome ^_^ So how long have you been blogging?

 

I’ve been blogging for almost 3 years now. But have really only taken it seriously in the last year.



#3 What makes you want to become a blogger?

 

Initially, it was to write about my travels and share them with friends and family. But when I saw I was gaining other types of traffic and that it could potentially be a business, I began looking into launching more blogs.



#4 What makes your blog unique compared to other blogs?


My travel blog, Snap Happy Spoonie, deals a lot with travel with a chronic illness. As I have several chronic illnesses and it sometimes hinders my travels, I felt it might be helpful for others.

 

The Plain Simple Life is all about my minimalism journey. This is my most successful blog. It seems a lot of people want to declutter and live a simpler life but aren’t sure where to start.

 

The Passive Plan may not be particularly unique but it’s where I love to teach what I’ve learned about blogging so far and the different passive income streams I use.



#5 Does your blog have a corporate color, logo, mascot, or banner?

 

Funnily enough, all my blogs center around a blue or green color scheme. They’re mostly pretty plain, with no mascot.



The Plain Simple Life logo ^_^




#6 How often do you publish a new post? And how do you keep yourself motivated?

 

I try to do at least one post on each of my blogs every week. Some weeks where I’m not as busy I’ll be able to get two done.


I’m not always motivated to do it, far from it! But what keeps me motivated to continue posting is manifesting the life of freedom I want in the future.



#7 Do you have any strategy to boost your blog traffic? Please share some tips.

 

I’m all about learning SEO and doing proper keyword research. I don’t rely on gaining traffic from social media anymore as these platforms can change all of a sudden. I created an SEO ebook on the strategies I used to get to 10,000 pageviews in 6 months, which you can find here.




#8 What are your top 3 most successful posts? 

 

I’ll list one from each of my blogs!


#1 What to do when you feel like you have too many clothes


#2 Ultimate Thailand bucket list: 28 fun things to do in Thailand


#3 How I grew my blog to 10,000 page views within 6 months of launching




#9 Where do you wish your blog to be in 5 years?

 

I hope they’re still going strong. I’m really interested in flipping websites – you know like houses, when you buy a house, do it up and sell it on? I’d love that to be my business in the future. 

 

 

 

THIS OR THAT


She's one inspirational woman ^_^

 

#1 VIDEO GAMES OR BOARD GAMES

Board Games



#2 ROCK OR POP MUSIC

Rock



#3 PIZZA OR PASTA

Pasta



#4 STEAK OR BURGER

Burger (but only chicken and it has to be gluten-free!)



#5 PINK OR BLACK

I like both. Probably black if I had to choose.



#6 SAILING OR SURFING

Sailing



#7 SPICY OR SWEET

Sweet



#8 DRAGON BALL OR SAILOR MOON

I’m afraid I don’t know either of these!




Ok, these are all the questions I have for this bloggers interview. Thank you so much, Vourneen for being a guest star on my blog. It was a pleasure having you here. I hope we can collaborate and work together again one day.


Last but not least, I wish you the best of luck in your career. I hope you will continue this awesome work and become successful with what you're doing now. You're awesome babe ^_^


For those interested in becoming a guest star on my Fadima Mooneira, please feel free to email me at garnet.earthtiger@gmail.com or fadimamooneira@yahoo.com. I will email you the instructions and questions for this interview. I am looking for participants who share unique, creative, imaginative, and extraordinary content with their readers. Besides this bloggers interview, I'm also accepting guest posts on this blog. Please email me if you're interested in contributing articles to my blog.


Ok, this is all for now. Thank you for reading. I hope you guys enjoyed this interview. I'll see you guys again in my next post.


XoXo,


Fadima Mooneira ^_^



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Comments

  1. It was great reading Voureen's answers and learning more about her blogs. That's impressive she has 3 blogs that she posts on every week! Also, I'll have to read her SEO ebook and check out her successful posts.

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    1. Yes, that's amazing, right? I admire Vourneen's enthusiasm.

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  2. This is interesting, great to know about her. I check her content and she is amazing. What a lovely interview!

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  3. Wow! A really detailed and insightful interview. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Thanks so much for having me, Fadima, and for your lovely kind words. Yours was one of the first blogs I started reading so it was an honour to be featured :)

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    1. Glad to hear that. And it's a pleasure having you as a guest star on my blog. You're one amazing blogger and I admire you a lot.

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  5. She sounds so fascinating and I can’t imagine running 3 blogs, while having the experiences necessary to write posts about lol. That’s awesome!

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  6. I love The Plain Simple Life! Such an amazing blogger. I didn’t realise there were 3 blogs though, I’ll defiantly be checking this out asap! This is such a lovely interview lovely, so interesting to learn so much about her. Thank you so much for sharing! Xo

    Elle - ellegracedeveson.com

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    1. The Plain Simple Life is one of my favorite blogs to read too. I learned a lot about minimalism and decluttering from Vourneen. She gave great tips.

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  7. I really enjoy reading Vourneen's blogs so it was lovely to see her answers to your fab questions and get to know a bit more about her!

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  8. I love Voureen's blogs, they are all so well put together and she shares amazing content! x

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    1. I second everything you said.Vourneen is just awesome!!!!!!!!!!

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  9. This was a very interesting and enlightening, I'm also someone who would choose pasta over pizza. It must be so much work to run three blogs and have a new post for each once a week, I'm happy with two blog post a month on one blog tbh. Thanks for sharing this interview!

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    1. When it comes to pasta and pizza, I can't n choose which one I like more. I just love both. Hehehe 🍝🍕 two posts a month? Wow... That's so relaxing. I post twice or once a week. I sometimes get overwhelm of it.

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  10. It's pretty interesting topic of the blog, sounds so inviting to read more about her..

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  11. Such a great interview. I also have three blogs, and it is hard work.

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    1. Wow... I admire you and Vorneen’s enthusiasm. I have two blogs (this one and an author’s website). Managing two blogs sometimes makes me overwhelm.

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  12. Great interview! I love those movies too.

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  13. What an interesting interview - some really great question choices there, well done. Vourneen produces some great posts, that's for sure. 3 blogs sounds like hard work :-)

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    1. Yeah, i second everything you mentioned. Vourneen's contents are awesome. And managing three blogs takes a lot of hard work and commitment and enthusiasm.

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  14. It was great to read Vourneen’s answers to these questions! I always love your blogger interviews.

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    1. Hey... My readers aren’t interested in what you’re selling.

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  16. So great to learn more about Vourneen! I've read her minimalism blog but didn't know about the other two. I'll have to check them out :)

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