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The podcast by Travefy designed for travel advisors who want to grow their business with real stories, strategies, and actionable tips.
Whether you’re a Travel Advisor, Tour Operator, or other travel professional, growing your travel business can be difficult! At Travefy, we recognize this, but also see the incredible experiences and transferable knowledge that exists among members of our industry.
As a part of Travefy’s commitment to power the success of travel professionals, we launched The Lounge to provide educational resources to expand your understanding of the travel industry, share best practices, and ultimately grow your business.
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We're celebrating our 100th podcast episode! In this episode, we're joined by Sahara Rose De Vore, founder of the The Travel Coach Network for a full-circle conversation five years after her first appearance on The Lounge. Sahara breaks down the exercise she uses to help advisors find their real "why" beyond surface-level answers, then shows how to translate that into marketing that actually stands out, plus where AI fits in without losing the human touch that makes advisors valuable in the f...
Roslyn Ranse has spent 17 years building her travel business in Australia and now coaches advisors through Travel Agent Achievers. In this episode, she and Stephanie dig into what actually separates a forgettable trip from an unforgettable one, starting with her case against client intake forms: the details that matter, like a client's drink of choice or the real reason they're booking a trip, only come out in conversation, not a checkbox. She also shares how she uses technology to handle the...
Ali Raymer spent nine years building her business at Picture This Travel before launching her own agency, Peace & Pearl Travel Co. In this episode, she breaks down what it actually takes to find, hire, and train the right people, starting with her very first hire (a former student) and the unconventional paths several of her other advisors took to get there. She also shares the harder lessons: the traits she actually looks for before bringing someone on, why giving away the leads she wasn...
Every advisor remembers that first inquiry. The excitement, then the quiet panic of realizing you have a customer now and no system for what comes next. Jonathan Morris spent years as a retail agent before building Legato, a host agency built around an agent-first philosophy. In this conversation he shares what he's learned coaching hundreds of agents through the foundation stage, including a story about an advisor who sold out cruise groups within days and still nearly burned out because the...
Your agency's financial story is already written. The question is whether you're reading it. Most travel advisors got into this business because they love travel, not because they love spreadsheets. But ignoring the financial side of your agency isn't just stressful. It's costing you money you've already earned. In this episode, we sit down with Stephanie Cannon, a licensed CPA, small business accountant, and 20-year travel advisor, for a candid conversation about the financial blind spot...
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