From Family CEO to Luxury Travel: Lucie McLaughlin's First Year in Business

Lucie McLaughlin spent over two decades as what she calls the "family CEO," and when her kids grew up and life took an unexpected turn, she found herself searching for a new sense of purpose. In this episode, Lucie joins host Meredith Calloway to talk about trading the family-planner role for a career as a luxury travel advisor, and how a conversation with her mother-in-law led her to research host agencies and ultimately choose Gifted Travel Network. Lucie opens up about the emotional side of building her brand, Lucie's Luxury Travel, and how the process brought her back to childhood memories of her family's wine business and cross-country road trips. She and Meredith also dig into her Travel MBA cohort's tight-knit support system, her first Collette tour experience in Portugal's Douro Valley, and the unexpected way an Instagram connection turned into a recurring women's group-travel business, taking her from Charleston to Italy to a planned trip to Greece. 📖 Free Chapter: https://tinyurl.com/GTN-Chap7 🎓 Travel Business University: https://tinyurl.com/Learn-More-TBU 🖥️ Lucie's Luxury Travel Website: https://lluxurytravel.com/ 👤 Lucie's LinkedIn:   / lucie-mclaughlin-1698a7340