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by Whitney Shindelar and Brianna Glenn
Join Whitney & Brianna as they explore how successful travel advisors grow travel businesses and what advice they have for other travel entrepreneurs. Tune in each week for conversations about all things growing and scaling a successful travel business, hearing stories from various industry professionals, unfiltered conversations about business fails and successes, and more. Masters in Travel is for travel advisors who are ready to accelerate their success.
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- 1 weeks ago38 min
Ep 299 Shoptalk: Why Simplify to Scale Beats 10x for Travel Advisors
This month’s Shop Talk starts with an AI bootcamp neither host fully loved and ends with both of them rethinking how their businesses are built. Brianna and Whitney trade notes on “simplify to scale,” why profit matters more than revenue, and what happened when Claude mined years of emails to build client profiles and map 23 past Africa trips. Brianna also walks us through her self-funded team fam to Tokyo, Hakone, and Kyoto. Whitney is off to Sicily.
- 2 weeks ago38 min
Ep 298 The Problem With an AI That Always Agrees With You
An AI that agrees with everything you say isn't a thinking partner, it's autocomplete. Brianna walks through her recent switch from ChatGPT to Claude, not as a platform comparison, but as a case study in what happens when pricing and property suggestions sound polished but don't hold up against real numbers. She breaks down the five-part skill structure her team now runs on, from call prep to quality assurance, and why the standard has to live in a document instead of her head. The framework matters more than the tool.
- 3 weeks ago17 min
Ep 297 The Next Great Advisor Won’t Keep It All in Her Head
Thousands of travel advisors research the same facts every day, and Whitney Shindelar sees that as a structural problem. The owner of Undiscovered Sunsets and creator of The Hive separates fact research from execution and explains why the judgment behind every hotel and routing choice has never had a home. Three habits change that. If your brain feels too full to show up fully, this one is for you.
- 4 weeks ago57 min
Ep 296 The Twelve Types of Intel You’re Not Capturing
You can hand someone a task, but you can’t hand them an instinct. In the second of a three-part series, Whitney breaks down the three layers of knowledge in a travel advisor’s head (facts, experiences, and reasoning) across destination, supplier, business, and client intel. The reasoning layer is why you stay the bottleneck. She closes with three habits she’s building herself: record everything, voice-note your thoughts right after, and explain your reasoning out loud after every proposal.
- 4 weeks ago21 min
Ep 295 Organized, Efficient, and Still the Bottleneck
A better CRM won’t fix a full head. Whitney opens a three-part solo series with the day she spent in the Atlas Mountains outside Marrakech, laptop braced on her knees, building a last-minute Japan invoice instead of enjoying the view she’d requested. She explains the two ceilings in a travel business, chaos and fullness, and why organized, efficient travel advisors still end up as the bottleneck. Start noticing where your own business follows you.
- Oct 6, 202648 min
Ep 294 Shop Talk: Teaching Your Team to Think Like You
Handing off tasks is easy. Handing off judgment is where most travel advisors get stuck. In this Shop Talk, Whitney and Brianna debrief their first PURE Life Experiences in Marrakech, from wrangling appointment requests to the hotel meetings that actually stuck. Then they get into the harder part: Brianna's biweekly meetings to transfer her thinking to her team member, and Whitney's $2,000-a-night Milan hotel quote that nobody stopped to question.
- Sep 29, 202626 min
Ep 293 The Baton Pass
The restructure fails when judgment never transfers. In part two of this two-part series, Brianna introduces what she calls the baton pass: organizing a team around the phases of the client journey instead of around who's on the roster. She walks through her own four-person structure, from intake to concierge execution, and uses a Michelin-star dining mishap to show why transferring judgment, not just tasks, is what actually lets travel advisors step back.
- Sep 22, 202621 min
Ep 292 The Quality Control Trap
Hiring help doesn't get you out of the middle of your business. Brianna breaks down the quality control trap, where a team member does the work, you check it, and the standard never leaves your head. She shares how she stopped double-checking final itinerary reviews and gave her client experience manager full ownership of arrival amenities. Then she asks three questions to find out whether your team owns outcomes or just completes tasks, with the fix coming in part two.
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Join Whitney & Brianna as they explore how successful travel advisors grow travel businesses and what advice they have for other travel entrepreneurs. Tune in each week for conversations about all things growing and scaling a successful travel business, hearing stories from various industry professionals, unfiltered conversations about business fails and successes, and more. Masters in Travel is for travel advisors who are ready to accelerate their success.
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