This week on Trade Secrets, we go inside Epperly Travel’s 2021 acquisition of Jetset World Travel, and subsequent rebranding to Jetset, with founder and CEO Lindsey Epperly.
Epperly recounts lessons learned — for instance, her business partner and husband Jeremy Sulek’s mantra, “silence breeds insecurity” — and we hear the proof in the pudding about good communication from one of her affiliates, Emma Major, founder of Major Traveler.
Then, we open the Trade Secrets mailbag to answer a potpourri of questions from listeners with Epperly and Major, ranging from transitioning to travel from a previous career, to converting ocean cruisers to river cruisers and beyond.
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/Lindsey-Epperly-left--CEO-of-Jetset-World-Travel-a.jpg?tr=w-768%2Ch-432%2Cfo-auto "Lindsey Epperly (left), CEO of Jetset World Travel, and Emma Major of Major Travel (an affiliate of Jetset)")
Lindsey Epperly (left), CEO of Jetset World Travel, and Emma Major of Major Travel (an affiliate of Jetset)
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Emma Weissmann is the Managing Editor of TravelAge West, a print and online magazine for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Humans of Travel podcast, where she interviews notable individuals in the travel industry about their lives — the highs and lows that make them human.
Jamie Biesiada is a Senior Editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors’ 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine.
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