670: $1000/mo Helping People Plan Trips: Inside the Travel Advising Side Hustle

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What if you could turn your love of travel into an extra income stream and build a travel advising side hustle that fits your life? Bailey Richert is back on the show to pull back the curtain on how you can do it too. You might remember Bailey from one of our early episodes, where we talked about building an online course business. Today, we’re switching gears to talk about her newest side hustle: helping people plan epic trips as a travel advisor. Bailey runs UnlistedTravel.com and MakeTravelYourJob.com, and she's managed to create a flexible, low-overhead business doing something she’s genuinely passionate about. Listen to Episode 670 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: how travel advisors actually get paid what it takes to set yourself up for success in this field creative ways to find clients Full Show Notes: $1000/mo Helping People Plan Trips: Inside the Travel Advising Side Hustle New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	A thousand bucks a month helping people plan epic trips.
0:05.2	What's up?
0:05.7	What's up?
0:06.0	Nick Loper here, welcome to The Science Hustle Show because your 9 to 5 may make you a living,
0:10.3	but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.
0:12.4	Another thing that certainly makes you alive is travel and adventure and exploring and
0:16.7	experiencing new places.
0:18.3	And today, I want to share how you can actually turn your interest
0:22.2	in travel into an extra income stream. Today's guest has done just that on top of some other
0:28.2	online businesses from unlisted travel.com and make travel your job.com after a nine year gap,
0:36.0	Bailey Richard. Welcome back to the side hustle show. Thanks so much
0:39.0	for having me back, Nick. It's a pleasure to be here again. I can't believe it's been that long.
0:43.4	I know. Of course, like Bailey's original episode. We're talking about building an online course
0:47.3	business at that point. But stick around in this one to learn how travel advisors make money,
0:52.6	how to set yourself up for success in this field,
0:55.3	maybe some scams to avoid, and creative ways to market your services to go out there and
1:00.2	get some business. And I want to start with the, you know, what is possible, what one trip
1:05.4	can make you? Because you mentioned, I recently planned a trip for two people going to London and between advisor fees and commissions
1:14.0	we'll get into all this. It was over $600 to you for something that I take, you enjoy doing
1:20.1	anyways. Absolutely. This is a particular trip I planned for two individuals, man and wife,
1:25.5	traveling six days, five nights to London on a romantic getaway.
1:29.9	So to start off, we have the planning fee. So the planning fee is an upfront fee that travel
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