Do what you love
even during a pandemic ….
I am finally adopting the adage that your “work” should be what you love to do. "Do what you love" seems so simple, yet, so many work/family life complications had to come before for me to entertain the notion. In my last career, I loved, loved, loved how my fashion pop up business was rich with human connections, how I helped customers to feel better in their clothes. However, there was much to pop ups that didn’t love me. I have always loved to travel, to experience something new, see pretty things in person. Can I take what I personally love to do and marry it with how much I love connecting my peeps with something “better?” I think so!! A few weeks ago, after a long covert process to prepare, Jodianne Johnson Travel joined the nation’s oldest travel advisory, Brownell Travel as an independent affiliate.
Will we ever travel again, in the same way? Is it okay to even talk about it? For sure, we may never look at a hand rails, elevator buttons and crowded trains the same way again. But, after this isolation, we all are gonna need, want, c r a v e some new scenery … 14 miles away or 1400 … and sooner or later we will venture out 4000+. There is so much beauty and wonder on this planet to see. I have lots to share about my new company and the wealth of resources I am eager to absorb every day. Not just about the where’s but especially about the how’s. How the luxury travel world is all very interconnected, somewhat hidden from google searches, and very protective of their own peeps. How my previous strategies of researching, booking, executing trips were fraught with risk, and relied too much upon luck. How charmed I had been by some insta-faux and how much time I wasted chasing it. How I did all the work on those .com membership sites ... and … I paid to do so!
Thankfully, launching a travel company amidst C19 has had a few upsides. The afore mentioned visual eye candy has filled my isolated days, for one. But, perhaps the most poignant: I have witnessed firsthand the great lengths gone to protect clients. How one advisor is really a team of hundreds navigating, supporting, managing it all together which gives me some deep reassurance that I mighty lucky to be in the Brownell family. How strong, rich and deep the partnerships Brownell has with the world’s finest hotels and providers. And, personally, I am thoroughly convinced that travel advice will be more valuable post Covid than ever before. The interconnected world of travel is about to become trickier to navigate with fewer left standing. And whatever budgets remain to travel need some fierce protection from risk, deserve to go as far as possible and need smart strategies to avoid relying on luck.
As we isolate and struggle to fill this time apart, maybe you have time to start talking, pondering and plotting how to explore the world of travel again. Time to embrace some hope that we will go somewhere, sometime soon or soon enough? If you’d like to talk about any kind of travel, anywhere, I would be honored to hear from you, eager to listen, to discover more, to fill up the calendar with purpose and promise.
So hope the blue sky is shining on you, you are healthy in mind & body and able to do (from home for now) what you love too ♥️♥️