How to Actually Enjoy Your Next Work Trip

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There are plenty of perks that come with frequent business travel. For one, you can rack up a ton of points and mile just by doing your job. Plus, you get to check out new cities, get to know locals, and explore—even if it's simply during a morning run or coffee break—somewhere new. But traveling for work can also take its toll, squashing your attempts at a routine and leaving you stuck in hotel rooms when you'd rather be in your own bed. To find the ideal balance, we asked two road warriors—Instagram's Kristie Dash and Gimlet Media's Christine Amorose Merrill—to talk through their strategies for fitting in a solo meal and making the most of their limited free time.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and thanks for listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler.
0:08.7	I'm Meredith Carey, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Laliarokoglu.
0:12.5	Before we get started today, a little housekeeping note.
0:15.1	You can now find transcriptions of new episodes at the cntraveller.com link listed in the show notes,
0:20.5	along with links to mentioned
0:21.6	articles, guest social media accounts, destination guides, and more. Now let's kick off today's
0:26.1	episode. Lale and I, as travel editors, have a bit of a weird relationship with business travel,
0:31.0	since the act of traveling is actually the business part as well. But for most people, work trips
0:36.1	mean relocating to a new office, grabbing
0:38.2	meetings, staying in some less than luxurious hotels, and maybe finding time to explore
0:43.3	in your precious free time. But it doesn't have to be a total loss. We've brought in two experts
0:47.9	and frequent business travelers who have honed in on how to maximize time on the ground.
0:52.2	Joining us in studio, we have Christy Dash on the fashion partnerships team at Instagram,
0:56.5	focusing on beauty and lifestyle, who jets between the social media giants worldwide offices
1:01.2	and beauty conferences.
1:02.9	And calling in from San Diego is returning women who travel guest Christine Ameros-Marrell,
1:07.3	a West Coast account director for Gimlet Media who traverses California drumming up podcast
1:11.7	ad sales. Thank you both for joining us. Thank you for having us. We're pumped. Yeah. Lolly, do you
1:18.6	want to kick off the first question? Yeah, so I have a question that I'm sort of desperate to
1:23.9	find out because you are such pros at the business travel life. After doing it so much,
1:30.8	have you got any rituals or routines that you do when you get to a new place? Yes. So I'm one of
1:38.5	those psycho people who as soon as I check into a hotel, I unpack everything. I think maybe because I have worked in beauty
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