Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Konday Nas Traveler.

I'm Lale Aricogli and with me.

As always, is my lovely co-host Meredith Carey.

Hello.

And in this week's episode, we're honoring International Women's Day on Sunday by chatting

with advisory board member and history maker, Lisa Lott of Perlow,

who in 2014 became the first woman to run a major cruise line when she was appointed as president

and CEO of celebrity cruisers. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us in the studio.

Oh, my pleasure. It's wonderful to be here. I really appreciated that little chuckle at

history maker. Yes. Well, you know, it's funny because, and I chuckled because it's a headline that

we recently used for international women's days. Yeah, we'll talk about that. Fantastic. Well, to kick

things off, I would love you to tell us a little bit about how you first got into the cruise

industry and what that first job was, because you've been in the industry for most of your

life. Most of my life. I've been in this company for 35 years, and I was in the travel business

for one year before I came to the cruise industry. And that's how my

career in travel started. And it was born of my introspection about what was the rest of my

life going to be and what career did I want. I was floundering. I was in the hotel business,

where I'm from, which is Massachusetts. And it just

wasn't fulfilling me. The properties got pretty small pretty quickly. There were some other things

going on. And I just said, you know what, it's time for a big change. What am I going to do?

I was reading the, I'm going to date myself now, although saying 35 and 36 years is pretty much doing that for me, but I was actually reading the help wanted sections of the Boston Globe and this job, I found this job that seemed interesting and it was a cruise travel specialist for a company called Crimson Travel. That's how it started.

And what was that first job like? What

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