How a woman who's visited over 50 countries built a luxury travel business from scratch

In 2009, Jennifer Dombrowski moved to Italy.

She had been living and working in Arizona when her husband got transferred through his military job to a small town in Northern Italy. She asked her employer if she could continue her work as a social media strategist for a university for a six-month trial period from her new home near Venice.

"That six-month trial period turned into six years," she told Business Insider.

Today, Dombrowski, 36, and Tim Davis, 35, are living in Bordeaux, France, building their own luxury travel business, Luxe Adventure Traveler. They've visited more than 50 countries on four continents.

Below, Dombrowski told Business Insider how she came to start her own business, what it's like living and working thousands of miles from home, and what everyone gets wrong about luxury travel.