By: Rebecca Thomas

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

A quote by Author Anthony J. D'Angelo that sums up my sabbatical experience
perfectly!

Travel has been a love of mine since my early twenties, but life sometimes takes us
on a different path. At 22 years old, after my degree in Travel and Tourism and a rite
of passage backpacking through Asia and Australia I fell into recruitment! Twenty
years later I’ve come full circle and am ecstatic to marry together my passion,
profession and purpose.

I believe it’s all possible once we find balance. Which, hand on heart I can honestly
say I’ve finally found. But it hasn’t always been this way. Rewind 7 years, I was
living in Sydney working consistent 60-70 hour weeks in a highly target driven
environment. Living for the weekend and seeing my family once a year for two
weeks if I was lucky, it certainly wasn’t a life of design.

Life on Manly Beach, Australia; Image credit...

As we near the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, it's important to recognize the powerful impact that travel can have on our mental wellbeing. As travel coaches, we have a unique opportunity to help our clients tap into the transformative power of travel and use it to support their mental health.

It's no secret that travel can be a great way to escape the stressors of everyday life and experience new things. When we travel, we are exposed to new cultures, foods, and ways of life, which can help us expand our perspective and challenge our assumptions. This can be incredibly empowering, especially for those who may be feeling stuck or trapped in their daily routine.

As travel coaches, our role is to help our clients make the most of their travel experience. This means not only helping them plan their itinerary but also helping them embrace the mental health benefits that travel can offer. Here are a few ways we can do this:

1. Encourage mindfulness: Traveling can be a great...

Starting a travel coaching business can be both exciting and daunting. You have a passion for travel, and you want to share it with others. However, you may be dealing with various roadblocks that can prevent you from taking the first step. Let’s talk about five major barriers you might be facing when it comes to developing your travel coaching business and how the Travel Coach Certification Program (TCCP) can help you overcome them.

Lack of Motivation

It's natural to feel unmotivated at times, especially when you're starting something new. However, in the TCCP, you'll be surrounded by a community of like-minded travel business owners who understand what you're going through. At the Travel Coach Network, we encourage our program members to work with accountability buddies and interact with each other in our exclusive Travel Coach Entrepreneurs Facebook group.

Intimidation

Perhaps you've never owned a business or worked in travel before. It can feel scary to start something...

By: Sahara Rose De Vore, Founder & CEO of The Travel Coach Network

Have you ever had a natural urge to want to just book a flight and get away?

Have you ever envied those people that you see while you’re strolling on Instagram and wished you had their life traveling the globe aimlessly and having those exciting experiences?

Have you asked yourself why you never booked that flight though?

What about those limiting beliefs that fill your head, have you figured out where those are coming from?

Are you finding it difficult to take the leap on whatever it is that you wish to happen in your life?

On a simple level, that is what travel coaches can help with. But, there’s far more too.

Just like you turn to a therapist to help you identify where your underlying feelings stem from or why you make the decisions in life that you do, travel coaches are there to help you use travel as that tool in your life that helps your reach your personal goals, shape your dream lifestyle,...

By Jessica Grace Coleman

We all want to make sure our time on this planet isn’t wasted; we all want to spread our
message, help people, and make a lasting difference in the world. But how can we actually
do this through travel coaching? What are the steps we need to take? And how can we
design our legacy to make sure we continue helping people even after we’re gone?

What Is A Legacy?

“What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see” – Lin-Manuel
Miranda, Hamilton.

First of all, let’s look at what a legacy actually is.

Legacy can mean a hundred different things but, simply put, your legacy is the impact you
make – on other people and on the planet in general – even long after you’re gone. It’s the
thing you’re remembered for. It’s the positive effect you have on those who come after you.
It’s planting the seeds that will one day turn into a beautiful garden – a garden that future...

By: Sahara Rose De Vore, Founder & CEO of The Travel Coach Network

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard someone say “I didn’t know that was a thing” when I talk about travel coaching and guess what? That’s okay with me.

The reason being is that travel coaching is a newer concept. I remember when I started figuring out my own wellness travel coaching business in back in 2018, I had never heard of it either. Eventually, I went to Google and saw that the majority of what popped up in the search results were travel coach buses. There was an article that I did see from 2010 (the year that I began my solo global journey) on the potential of travel coaching.

Fast forward to today, the travel coaching industry is booming.

I say that not only because of the tremendous organic growth that The Travel Coach Network (TCN) has had, especially during and post 2020, but because of the amount of travel coaches that exist beyond the TCN.

...

By: Sahara Rose De Vore, Founder & CEO of The Travel Coach Network

Think travel as a form of therapy.

We as humans have always traveled for deeper and more personal reasons. Whether that’s for healing, self-discovery, a sense of fulfillment, inspiration, coping, feeling something new, or finding our purpose and happiness.

Think about a time when you found yourself up late at night scrolling on Instagram looking at photos of travelers in stunning destinations. What about the time that you found yourself just randomly searching for flight prices. Think about where your mind truly was at when you booked your last trip or a trip that truly made an impact on you. How were you feeling before going on that trip? What was going on in your life, mind, relationship, or work-life then? What would you contribute as the motivation for that trip to be?

Travel is a powerful vessel for transformation, change, healing, new feelings, and results. But
oftentimes, we travel in a way that...

Being an affiliate with The Travel Coach Network means you are part of a team working towards helping travelers have the transformative and meaningful experiences that their souls are yearning for. 

Now you might be asking yourself, but what is an affiliate and how does it work?

Let’s start with the basics. Affiliate marketing is promoting other people’s products in return for a commission for each sale. 

And how does that work?

As an affiliate, you get a link that is specific to you, so when someone uses it to sign up for the Travel Coach Certification Program our system will see that and you’ll get paid a 20% commission! That could be up to $250 per sign up! How great is that??

Our exciting Women Thrive Through Travel MasterFind event is the perfect way to warm your audience up with The Travel Coach Network and what we’re all about. Then, you can follow up with your audience and share your affiliate link.

You can promote the WTTT event and the...

International Women's Day may have passed, but the importance of celebrating and supporting female entrepreneurs in the travel industry will never fade. Here at the Travel Coach Network, we make it our mission to highlight and honor the amazing ladies in our community as often as we can. 

For the third year in a row, we are thrilled to announce our Women Thrive Through Travel MasterFind happening on May 28th (save your FREE spot here!), where we gather some of the most inspiring and trailblazing women in the industry. This event is jam-packed with information and inspiration, drawing in 350+ attendees worldwide each year. 

From retreat planners to travel coaches, podcast strategists to travel media specialists, our speakers have shattered glass ceilings and are paving the way for future generations of female entrepreneurs. If that doesn’t convince you, here are five reasons you should join us as we celebrate their achievements and learn from their experiences.

1. You...

As travel coaches, we ask strategic questions so we can help our clients pull the answers from within, but what do we do with the answers we get? 

Open-ended, purposeful questions are important, but our ability to decipher and utilize the answers they provoke is just as crucial. 

As a business owner, you have likely given thought to your “why” more than once. 

Why did you start this business? 

Why do you do what you do? 

Why do you serve who you serve? 

And perhaps most importantly, why travel? 

This last question is one you probably ask your own clients. The answer they give you dictates how you are able to assist them.

The key to analyzing this lies in understanding the difference between surface-level and deep responses.

What is a surface-level response? 

A surface-level response sounds general or vague and tends to exclusively focus on the travel experience. Some examples might include: 

• I want to meet new people. 
...