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Episode 40: Christine La Vonna; How A Cruise Ship Creator Built Her Global Travel Community

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A cruise ship can be a vacation, a workplace, and sometimes a lifeline. From a room next to an aeroponics grow at Skagway Brewing Company, we talk with Christine Kessler, a former cruise director turned full-time travel creator, about the real story behind “getting paid to travel” and what it costs to build a life that never sits still.

Christine takes us from Iowa to pageants, Oprah, and VH1, then into the cruise industry where she’s expected to move serious luxury sales in port. We dig into the moments that shaped her values: surviving HELLP syndrome and a premature birth…

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