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Redrop: Carrie - From Doing It All to Saying HELL NO

Season #3

Marcie Muensterman

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While I’m taking a little break from recording new podcast episodes, I wanted to bring back a conversation that’s absolutely worth another listen.

In this episode, I sit down with Carrie Blackwell, a full-time nurse turned travel advisor who built her business while juggling a demanding career in healthcare.

Carrie didn’t grow up traveling the world. In fact, travel wasn’t really part of her life until later on. But once she started exploring more of the U.S. with her husband, everything changed, and eventually led her to build her own travel business.

Her journey is proof that you don’t need decades of travel experience to get started. What you do need is curiosity, confidence, and the willingness to figure things out as you go.

Inside this episode we talk about:

  • How Carrie went from limited travel experience to becoming a travel advisor
  • Balancing a full-time nursing career while building a travel business
  • The mistakes she made with her first host agency and why support and training matter
  • How traveling more opened her eyes to the world beyond what she grew up with
  • Working through imposter syndrome and building confidence as an advisor
  • Why finding your niche makes your business easier and more enjoyable
  • The power of networking, referrals, and relationship-building in this industry
  • Why Carrie believes in ditching the intake form and having real conversations with clients
  • The importance of being transparent with clients about availability and expectations
  • Why travel advisors are more needed than ever, even with online booking tools and AI

Carrie also shares what it looks like to build a business around the parts of travel you actually enjoy, and why you don’t have to take every client or every trip that comes your way.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you can build a travel business while still working another job, or if you’ve struggled with confidence as a newer advisor, this episode is a great one to revisit.

🎧 Give it another listen.