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Travel Agency in a Year
Transform your travel business in 12 short months. Daily, bite-sized episodes with Rachel K breaking down becoming the CEO with easy-to-understand tips & tricks. Listen to her failures to avoid those "lessons" in your own business. Reading recs and so much more.
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Episodes
- Travel Agency in a Year
Day 242: What Travel Advisors can learn from Past Entrepreneurs & Rulers
Leadership styles are easier to understand when you can see them in action. In this episode, Rachel K uses examples from business and history - from Steve Jobs…
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Day 241: Find Your Natural Leadership Style as a Travel Advisors
You do not need to become the loudest, most forceful, or most polished person in the room to lead a successful travel agency. The right leadership style is one…
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Day 240: How Travel Advisors Can Lead Themselves Before They Lead their Business
Before you can consistently lead a growing travel agency, you need the ability to lead yourself... especially when motivation is low, client work is demanding…
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Day 239: The TA's Doer to Leader Shift
If you are booking every flight, responding to every email, managing every detail, and still trying to grow your travel agency, you may not have a workload…
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Day 238: 4 Personal Outreach Rules for Travel Advisors That Get Replies
Reaching out to potential referral partners does not have to feel awkward, pushy, or like you are sending the same generic message to everyone. Personal…
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Day 237: The Trust Economy: Why Travel Advisors Need More Than Followers
Travel advisors do not need a huge follower count to build a profitable business. They need trust—the kind that makes a traveler feel confident handing over an…
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Day 236: Why Human Content Wins for Travel Advisors
Social media trends in 2026 & beyond are moving away from overly polished, generic, AI-sounding content and toward real human connection. For travel advisors…
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Day 235: Your Travel Clients Are Tired of Social Media Feeds
Travelers (just like the rest of us) are overloaded with social media content, travel inspiration, ads, recommendations, and endless posts competing for their…
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Day 234: Build a Travel Advisor Follow-Up & Nurture System That Works
A thoughtful follow-up message cannot grow your travel agency if it only happens when you remember to send it. Travel advisors need an outreach and nurturing…
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DAY 233: The Small Things That Keep Travel Clients Coming Back
Want more repeat travel clients without spending more money on marketing? The small, personal details you remember after a traveler returns home can make the…
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DAY 232: The 2x Rule and Why Past Travel Clients Are Worth Double
Past travel clients may be the most overlooked source of repeat bookings, referrals, and steady revenue in your travel agency. In this episode of Travel Agency…
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Day 231: When it feels like marketing your travel business is doing nothing
Let's be real: all businesses will have their ebbs and flows. Market shifts, ICAs evolve or age out, and sometimes, TAs can end up with weeks or months of…
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Day 230: Understanding Inbound vs. Outbound Outreach for travel advisors
Where do your leads come from? Are they warm, cold, or a mix of both? Understanding inbound vs. outbound along with cold vs. warm leads - then comparing it to…
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Day 229: How a travel advisor can get seen beyond the feed
Social media isn't the only place travel clients find you. This episode covers building visibility through partnerships, community involvement, media features…
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Day 228: General Marketing vs. the "Push": creating a solid travel agency marketing strategy
Yep, we all need a steady brand presence. And we all need sales for specific niches we offer. Posting daily may not be bringing in leads because it's more…
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Day 227: Waiting for 'perfection' costs you more than you think as a travel advisor
Waiting for "perfect" costs more than launching imperfect. This episode covers why the most successful founders, including Airbnb's famously scrappy first…
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Day 226: Why a travel advisor should mind their own business
Chasing every travel trend has a real cost. This episode looks at why focus consistently outperforms trend-chasing, including LEGO's near-bankruptcy and the…
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Day 225: Imitation is the highest form of flattery
Comparing yourself to other advisors is a losing game — and here's something else worth knowing: ideas and strategies generally aren't protectable, only your…
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Day 224: Why should a travel advisor track their specific offer launch?
A slow first two weeks doesn't mean a launch failed. This episode of the Travel Agency in a Year covers exactly what to track after a rollout, and why you need…
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Day 223: Announcing your new travel niche is more than just posting once
On day 2223 of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast, Rachel K walks travel advisors through a full rollout arc: the tease, the announcement and the…
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Day 222: The Travel Advisor's Guide to A Soft Launch
Why do you wanna soft launch your new niche, service or brand partnership as a travel advisor? You know it already fits your current business model and overall…
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Day 221: Shiny Object Syndrome isn't just falling for the latest travel CRM
Getting excited about a new niche or offer at 11pm doesn't always mean it's the right move. On Day 221 of the Travel Agency in a year podcast, Rachel K offers…
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Day 220: Leadership lessons for TAs from championship coaches
What does your dream team actually look like? This episode borrows from championship sports coaches who built cultures bigger than any one star player, and…
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Day 219: Why a travel advisor should create a 5-year plan
This episode lays the foundation for a simple five-year vision AND the research behind why long-term thinking consistently outperforms short-term hustling…
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Day 218: What to expect if someone offers to sell you their travel agency
If a sale is part of your long-term plan, this episode is required listening: why agencies are notoriously hard to sell, red flags to watch for from eager…
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Day 217: Which business model works for your travel agency?
Boutique, mid-sized, or scaled - there's no wrong answer, but drifting into one by accident is a mistake. This episode breaks down the three models so you can…
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Day 216 - Building the Travel Agent's Story Bank
Never stare at a blank page again. This episode covers how to build a running "story bank" - your founder's story plus client stories (good, bad, and ugly) to…
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Day 215: Discipline is a Skill, not a Genetic Trait
You're not missing some gene other advisors have. This episode breaks down the research on discipline as a trainable skill, with practical steps to start…
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Day 214: The ONE question to ask yourself when you're feeling stuck your travel business.
"I don't have time" is rarely really about time. This episode of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast offers a simple reframe to figure out what's actually…
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Day 213: Why Travel Advisors need to repeat their message in marketing
Worried you're repeating yourself? Rachel K explains why you're probably not repeating it enough, backed by the Rule of Seven and the psychology of the…
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Day 212: Transcript to written content workflow for travel advisors
One twenty-minute video can become an entire week of content — even if you never post the video itself. Day 211 of the Travel Agency in a year podcast walks…
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Day 211: Batching the backend tasks in a travel agency
Reactive admin work is quietly exhausting, especially at higher volume or with group travel. Rachel K covers how to (and the why) batch payments, client…
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Day 210: Batch it or Burn Out
Stop starting from scratch with every single post. This episode of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast breaks down a simple batching system for travel…
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Day 209: Marketing the Mission of your travel agency, Not Yourself
A lot of marketing anxiety comes down to one thing: feeling like you're the one being evaluated. This episode covers how showing up as a steward (sharing a…
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Day 208: Carrying Less
Travel Agency ownership (or just being an IC with an agency) can quietly turn every slow month and hard client into a referendum on your worth. This episode…
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Day 207:Are you the Owner of the Steward of your Travel Agency?
Is your business an extension of your identity, or something you've been entrusted to tend? Rachel K introduces the idea of stewardship versus ownership to…
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Day 206: What "Premium" Actually Means for Travel Advisors
Not sure what to charge for a course, a download, or a strategy session, or any additional offering? This episode breaks down a simple pricing hierarchy for…
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Day 205: Someone Else Will Do What You Do... How to Be Okay With That.
Watching another advisor replicate your work stings, though not everyone doing it has the same motive, and it's rarely as threatening as it feels. This episode…
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Day 204: Steal Like an Artist? Protecting Your Original Work as a Travel Advisor
Once you start creating original content, someone else copying it is almost inevitable, especially on social media. Day 204 of the Travel Agency in a Year…
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Day 203: Knowledge-Based Services & other Revenue Streams
Courses, digital downloads, paid strategy sessions... knowledge-based services can be a meaningful additional income stream (and sometimes a lead magnet), if…
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Day 202: Small Touches, Big Feeling: Building Luxury Into Your Travel Client Process This Week
Practical, no-budget-required touchpoints you can add to your client process starting today as a travel advisor. PLUS,how to actually train yourself to…
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Day 201: Luxury travel isn't the Resort, it's how your travel clients feel working with you
A five-star label doesn't guarantee a five-star feeling. Day 201 of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast reframes what "luxury service" actually means for a…
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Day 200: Getting your packages in front of the right travel clients
Great packages don't help anyone if they're buried in a PDF. This episode covers where your tiers should show up: your website, your social content, your email…
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Day 199: The Travel advisor's guide to building service packages
On Day 199 of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast, Rachel K walks through how to build (or refine) your Essential, Signature, and Elevated-style packages. What…
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Day 198: Do you have real travel service packages, or just making up numbers on the spot?
It's 198 days in to the Travel Agency in a Year podcast. If your pricing changes lead to lead based on gut feeling, your clients feel it too. In this episode…
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Day 197: Connecting with your travel clients via storytelling
Storytelling doesn't stop once someone books. In the final episode of this mini-series of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast, Rachel K looks at how story…
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Day 196: The travel advisor's framework for building a brand
Turn your travel agency's point of view into something usable. This episode of the Travel Agency in a year podcast offers a simple framework for writing your…
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Day 195: The difference between the Brand Story & your Founder's Story
Your founder's story is about you. Your brand story is about what your travel agency stands for. Day 195 of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast unpacks the…
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Day 194: Turning your story into content
A story that lives in your notes app doesn't build trust with anyone. Here's how to take your founder's story and weave it into your bio, your content, and…
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Day 193: The Travel Advisor's Guide to finding your Founder's Story
Why did you actually start your travel agency? Not the polished version we've all said, "I loved planning trips for my family and wanted to share that with…
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Day 192: Storytelling in Action: how big brand use is (& how you can steal it as a travel advisor)
Patagonia, Dove, and Airbnb didn't win with bigger budgets. They won with better stories. Rachel K breaks down what makes their campaigns work and gives you a…
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Day 191 - Why Storytelling works for travel advisors
Facts get scrolled past. Stories get remembered. In this episode of the Travel Agency in a Year podcast, Rachel K digs into the psychology of why storytelling…
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Day 190: Mindset & Momentum
Strategy only works if you actually use it. Rachel K closes out the week with a reframe on the mid-year wall, why momentum beats motivation, and one exercise…
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Day 189: The Unglamorous Numbers... Operations Analytics
Response times, hours per booking, repeat client rate, these are the numbers that quietly determine whether your travel business can scale. Today's episode of…
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Day 188: The Numbers That Matter - Marketing & Financial Tracking
You can't improve what you don't measure. Day 188 of the Travel Agency in a Year Podcast covers the handful of marketing and finance metrics every travel…
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Day 187: From Maybe to Booked: A travel advisor's booking strategy
The proposal isn't the finish line. Today's episode of the Travel Agency in a Year covers how to reduce decision friction, handle the dreaded "let me think…
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Day 186 - Where Leads go to die: Building a pipeline that actually works
Most advisors don't have a marketing problem, they have a follow-through problem. This episode of travel Agency in a Year lays out a simple five-stage pipeline…
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Day 185 - The travel advisor & outreach: cold, warm & everything in-between
Outreach doesn't have to feel scary or salesy. Learn the difference between warm and cold outreach for travel advisors, why the follow-up matters more than the…
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Day 184 - Showing up on Camera: Short-form, Long-Form & Written Content hacks for travel advisors
No more forty-five minutes rehearsing a fifteen-second video. Today's episode of travel Agency in a Year covers how to use short-form, long-form, and written…
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Day 183: Building the Travel Advisor's Marketing Gameplan
Six months in, and it's time to stop marketing on vibes. This episode breaks down how to build a realistic quarterly marketing plan — including why your email…