90: Carmen Sognonvi: Luxury Family Travel Your Can Afford
Shameless Leadership
Sara Dean
4.7 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 90 with Carmen Sanyovi. Show notes for this episode can be found if you go over to shamelessmom.com and then click on episode 90. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools |
| 0:22.0 | you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to |
| 0:26.9 | help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily |
| 0:31.7 | proud of, what kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in. |
| 0:45.4 | Carmen Sanyovi is the founder and publisher of Top Flight Family, the leading online resource for luxury family travel. Her insights on travel have been featured in Travel Pulse, Hotels |
| 0:50.8 | Magazine, Sea Trade Cruise News, Luxury Daily, hotel news now, and Travel Daily News International. |
| 0:58.6 | Carmen firmly believes that you can and should travel with your kids from a young age. |
| 1:02.8 | She offers families practical solutions for travel as well as tips on how to travel in luxury |
| 1:07.5 | without luxurious price tags. Before getting into family travel, Carmen was an online |
| 1:14.6 | blogger. In 2004, she founded Racialicious, an award-winning influential blog about the intersection |
| 1:20.8 | of race and pop culture. After that, she joined her husband in founding martial arts school, and she worked there for four years |
| 1:29.5 | as a general manager. So she's had her hands in a few different fields in the last few years. |
| 1:34.2 | She's definitely multi-talented. Carmen was born and raised mostly in Hong Kong, but she also |
| 1:39.6 | lived in Shanghai and Belgium before making New York her permanent home. Carmen graduated from Columbia |
| 1:45.2 | University with a BA in political science and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and |
| 1:49.4 | her two daughters, Ella and Sean. So today we're going to be talking about lots of amazing travel |
| 1:55.1 | things. This is going to make you want to book trips immediately. So just let me prepare you for that. |
| 1:59.2 | We're going to be talking with Carmen about |
| 2:01.3 | the top myths of family travel and the truths behind them, how to start small with family travel, |
| 2:07.7 | especially if you're a little nervous about getting out there with little ones, or even if |
| 2:11.6 | you're nervous about getting out there with bigger ones. Carmen's going to share the three most |
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