I did not plan to become a travel advisor.
I planned to be an educator. I spent years in that world, earning two master's degrees, building deeply personalized learning experiences for students who needed more than a standard approach. I loved that work. I still do. But something happened on my honeymoon that quietly changed the direction of everything.
Let me tell you about it.
We Were Patient. Intentionally So.
Connor and I started planning our honeymoon about two years before we actually took it. We knew what we wanted in the broadest sense: somewhere tropical, somewhere luxurious, somewhere that would make us feel completely taken care of. We were not in a rush. We had a rough budget and a flexible timeline, and we were willing to wait for the right thing to come along.
So we told our travel advisor exactly that. She was someone we already trusted — the mom of one of Connor's old baseball teammates. We said: when you find the deal that makes you think "this is the one," give us a call. We are ready.
And then we went about our lives and waited.
The 6am Phone Call
One morning my phone chimed before I was fully awake. It was our advisor. She had found it. A Butler Suite at Sandals Negril, a trip valued at over $20,000, available for a fraction of that cost, with only two rooms left. She was not calling to pitch us or pressure us. She was calling because she had been paying attention for two years, and this was the one.
I nudged Connor. We talked for about thirty seconds. I picked up my phone and texted her back two words.
Book it.
What Happened Next Is the Part I Cannot Stop Thinking About
I have traveled a lot in my life. I studied abroad in Italy. I have explored Greece, Spain, France, England, and Malta. I have cruised Alaska and sailed the Mediterranean. I have spent meaningful time across the Caribbean and Hawai'i. I have had genuinely wonderful travel experiences.
None of them prepared me for what a Butler Suite at Sandals Negril actually felt like.
Every evening at dinner, our butler had already secured the best table in the restaurant before we even asked. One afternoon he walked into the ocean — fully suited — because he noticed from across the beach that our drinks were empty. Every single morning our exact chairs were already reserved and waiting for us. He brought us food simply because, in his words, he thought we might be hungry.
I remember lying on that beach thinking: this is how I imagine kings lived. I am living inside a movie right now. I have never felt so completely taken care of in my entire life.
And none of it happened because we were lucky. It happened because someone who knew what she was doing made one phone call at 6am, and we trusted her.
"Everyone deserves to feel this way on their honeymoon. Not just the people who happen to know the right person. Everyone."
The Moment Everything Shifted
Somewhere in the middle of that trip I had a thought that would not leave me alone.
Everyone deserves to feel this way on their honeymoon. Not just the people who happen to know the right person. Everyone.
The couple who has been saving for years. The couple who does not know what they do not know about travel. The couple who would never think to ask about a Butler Suite because they did not know it existed. The couple who books the first thing they find online because they do not have a guide.
I became a travel advisor because I wanted to be that guide. I wanted to be the 6am phone call for someone else. I wanted to sit across from a couple who just returned from the trip of their lives and know that I had something to do with that.
That is still why I do this.
What I Want for You
I am not promising every trip will feel like a Butler Suite at Sandals Negril. Different clients want different things, and my job is to build the right version of extraordinary for you specifically, not a copy of my honeymoon.
But I am promising this: if you work with me, someone will be paying attention. Someone will be waiting for the right thing to come along. Someone will make the call when it is time. And when you are on that trip, in that place, having that moment where you think I cannot believe this is my life right now, I will have played some small part in making it happen.
That is the magic I experienced. And sharing it is the whole point.
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