Alle Pierce is an Emmy award-winning host, travel influencer, river cruise ship Godmother and founder of Gals Abroad Getaways, a travel company that designs group trips for like-minded women.

Before diving into the travel industry, Pierce built a successful career in broadcast journalism as a local news reporter. During this time, she honed her storytelling and public speaking skills, which would later become the foundation for her next venture — helping companies and tourism boards craft compelling brand stories.

On this episode of Humans of Travel, Pierce reflects on her journey from television host to entrepreneur, shares insights from her favorite projects (including a recent role covering the 2024 Paris Olympics), and opens up about how she stays authentic in the fast-paced world of social media. She also delves into the inspiration behind Gals Abroad Getaways, the lessons learned from her travel advisor mother and her vision for the future of her company.

This episode was sponsored by AmaWaterways.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Alle Pierce's website and Instagram

Gals Abroad Getaways

Gals Abroad Getaways on Instagram

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly. 

TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 

ABOUT THE SHOW

TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

<a href="https://www.alleabroad.com/about">Alle Pierce</a> is an Emmy award-winning host, travel influencer, <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/riverside-luxury-cruises-names-emmy-award-winning-host-producer-and-travel-expert-alle-pierce-as-godmother-of-new-riverside-debussy-302067507.html">river cruise ship Godmother</a> and founder of <a href="https://www.alleabroad.com/gals-abroad-getaways">Gals Abroad Getaways</a>, a travel company that designs group trips for like-minded women.
Before diving into the travel industry, Pierce built a successful career in broadcast journalism as a local news reporter. During this time, she honed her storytelling and public speaking skills, which would later become the foundation for her next venture — helping companies and tourism boards craft compelling brand stories.
On this episode of Humans of Travel, Pierce reflects on her journey from television host to entrepreneur, shares insights from her favorite projects (including a recent role covering the 2024 Paris Olympics), and opens up about how she stays authentic in the fast-paced world of social media. She also delves into the inspiration behind Gals Abroad Getaways, the lessons learned from her travel advisor mother and her vision for the future of her company.
This episode was sponsored by <a href="http://www.amawaterways.com">AmaWaterways</a>.
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RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Alle Pierce's <a href="https://www.alleabroad.com/about">website </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/AllePierce/">Instagram</a>
<a href="https://www.alleabroad.com/gals-abroad-getaways">Gals Abroad Getaways</a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/galsabroadgetaways/">Gals Abroad Getaways on Instagram</a>
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ABOUT YOUR HOST 
Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly.  TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 
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ABOUT THE SHOW 
TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the experiences — the highs and the lows — that make them human.

TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the experiences — the highs and the lows — that make them human.

Humans of Travel

TravelAge West&rsquo;s podcast, &ldquo;Humans of Travel,&rdquo; features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry&rsquo;s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the experiences &mdash; the highs and the lows &mdash; that make them human.

Entrepreneur Alle Pierce on Storytelling, Authenticity and Creating Community Through Travel

“I have never been lonely when alone in the wilderness.”

So says J.R. Harris, a worldwide adventure trekker and a member of the prestigious Explorers Club, a global professional society of leaders that have ventured to the farthest reaches of the world, and beyond. (Other notable members include Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, filmmaker James Cameron, former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and oceanographer Sylvia Earle.)

Now in his seventies, Harris has no plans to slow down. In this episode of Humans of Travel, listeners will hear all about his love of solo travel, and his propensity to venture alone to some of the most remote, far-flung locales on the planet. They’ll also hear about Harris’ work as the DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) chair of the Explorers Club, and his role as the founder of the oldest African American-owned research and consulting firm in the country, JRH Marketing Services.

Harris will also share some of his best advice for curious travelers who, like him, were “born restless.”

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Explorers Club 50

The Explorers Club: Society of Forgotten Explorers

Way Out there: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker

"Born Curious" Documentary

Connect With Harris on Social Media:

www.jrinthewilderness.com

Instagram: @JRintheWilderness

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Emma Weissmann is the Managing Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly. 

TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 

ABOUT THE SHOW

TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

“I have never been lonely when alone in the wilderness.”
So says J.R. Harris, a worldwide adventure trekker and a member of the prestigious <a href="https://www.explorers.org/">Explorers Club</a>, a global professional society of leaders that have ventured to the farthest reaches of the world, and beyond. (Other notable members include Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, filmmaker James Cameron, former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and oceanographer Sylvia Earle.)
Now in his seventies, Harris has no plans to slow down. In this episode of Humans of Travel, listeners will hear all about his love of solo travel, and his propensity to venture alone to some of the most remote, far-flung locales on the planet. They’ll also hear about Harris’ work as the DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) chair of the Explorers Club, and his role as the founder of the oldest African American-owned research and consulting firm in the country, <a href="http://www.jrhmarketingservices.com">JRH Marketing Services</a>.<a href="http://www.jrhmarketingservices.com/"></a>
Harris will also share some of his best advice for curious travelers who, like him, were “born restless.”
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RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
<a href="https://www.explorers.org/the-explorers-club-50/">The Explorers Club 50</a>
The Explorers Club: <a href="https://www.explorers.org/the-society-of-forgotten-explorers/">Society of Forgotten Explorers</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-There-Adventures-Wilderness/dp/1680511203">Way Out there: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vm5cU3etEs&amp;ab_channel=WhaleboneMagazine">"Born Curious" Documentary</a>
Connect With Harris on Social Media:
<a href="http://www.jrinthewilderness.com">www.jrinthewilderness.com</a>
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jrinthewilderness/">@JRintheWilderness</a>
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ABOUT YOUR HOST 
Emma Weissmann is the Managing Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly.  TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 
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ABOUT THE SHOW 
TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

Encore: Explorers Club Member J.R. Harris on Living Life as a Curious Trekker

Welcome to Humans in the Hot Seat, a spinoff series of Humans of Travel. This is Emma Weissmann, Executive Editor at TravelAge West, and your host.

Over the coming weeks, we will be interviewing the finalists of the TravelAge West Trendsetter Awards, which were created to acknowledge the work of exceptional travel advisors. This year, TravelAge West honored travel advisors in five categories, and named a winner and a runner-up and each category.

Today, you’ll hear from the ninth and tenth travel advisor in this series: Jessica Malerman and Nicole Rivera who, along with their colleague Shelby Reyes, organized a Taylor Swift Affinity Cruise setting sail in a couple weeks onboard Allure of the Seas. The Marvelous Mouse Travels' advisors won in the category of Best Group Booking Effort.

 This episode was sponsored by AmaWaterways.

Jessica and Nicole's Trendsetter award was sponsored by the Globus Family of Brands.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Marvelous Mouse Travels

In My Cruise Era

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly. 

TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 

ABOUT THE SHOW

TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

Welcome to Humans in the Hot Seat, a spinoff series of Humans of Travel. This is Emma Weissmann, Executive Editor at TravelAge West, and your host.
Over the coming weeks, we will be interviewing the finalists of the <a href="https://www.travelagewest.com/wave-awards/trendsetters">TravelAge West Trendsetter Awards</a>, which were created to acknowledge the work of exceptional travel advisors. This year, TravelAge West honored travel advisors in five categories, and named a winner and a runner-up and each category.
Today, you’ll hear from the ninth and tenth travel advisor in this series: Jessica Malerman and Nicole Rivera who, along with their colleague Shelby Reyes, organized a Taylor Swift Affinity Cruise setting sail in a couple weeks onboard Allure of the Seas. The Marvelous Mouse Travels' advisors won in the category of Best Group Booking Effort.
 This episode was sponsored by <a href="http://www.amawaterways.com">AmaWaterways</a>.
Jessica and Nicole's Trendsetter award was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.globusjourneys.com">Globus Family of Brands</a>.
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RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
<a href="https://marvelousmousetravels.com/">Marvelous Mouse Travels</a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/inmycruiseera/">In My Cruise Era</a>
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ABOUT YOUR HOST 
Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly.  TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 
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ABOUT THE SHOW 
TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

Humans in the Hot Seat: The Women Behind the Taylor Swift Affinity Cruise That Took the World By Storm

Rose Gray, the business relationship director at Fox World Travel, got her start in the travel industry by walking into the agency her family used for their own personal vacations, and convincing them to hire her. At the time, she says that travel advisors were more “order-takers” and less “consultative,” and Gray would spend her days handwriting airline tickets and typing itineraries on a typewriter. She then spent the next 35-plus years in the industry, adapting to various technologies as the profession evolved, all while exploring and embracing new ideas.

Now, as the business relationship director and tour manager at Fox World Travel (the 25th Largest Travel Agency on Travel Weekly’s Power List), Gray still works with other advisors and traveling clients, albeit in a different way. She leads groups of clients all over the world as a tour manager for the agency, and is often found broadcasting her own radio show and podcast from the road.

In this episode of Humans of Travel, listeners will hear Gray reflect on her decades in travel; how her female role models helped shape her; how she has embraced new technologies (hello, artificial intelligence!); and her best advice for new-to-industry travel advisors on how to be successful and have a fruitful, long-lasting career.

This episode was sponsored by AmaWaterways.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Fox World Travel

Gray's Radio Show and Podcast

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly. 

TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 

ABOUT THE SHOW

TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

Rose Gray, the business relationship director at <a href="https://www.foxworldtravel.com/">Fox World Travel</a>, got her start in the travel industry by walking into the agency her family used for their own personal vacations, and convincing them to hire her. At the time, she says that travel advisors were more “order-takers” and less “consultative,” and Gray would spend her days handwriting airline tickets and typing itineraries on a typewriter. She then spent the next 35-plus years in the industry, adapting to various technologies as the profession evolved, all while exploring and embracing new ideas.
Now, as the business relationship director and tour manager at Fox World Travel (the 25th Largest Travel Agency on <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Power-List-2023">Travel Weekly’s Power List</a>), Gray still works with other advisors and traveling clients, albeit in a different way. She leads groups of clients all over the world as a tour manager for the agency, and is often found broadcasting her own <a href="https://www.foxworldtravel.com/fox-world-travel-show-rose-gray/">radio show and podcast</a> from the road.
In this episode of Humans of Travel, listeners will hear Gray reflect on her decades in travel; how her female role models helped shape her; how she has embraced new technologies (hello, artificial intelligence!); and her best advice for new-to-industry travel advisors on how to be successful and have a fruitful, long-lasting career.
This episode was sponsored by <a href="http://www.amawaterways.com">AmaWaterways</a>.
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RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
<a href="https://www.foxworldtravel.com/">Fox World Travel</a>
<a href="https://www.foxworldtravel.com/fox-world-travel-show-rose-gray/">Gray's Radio Show and Podcast</a>
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ABOUT YOUR HOST 
Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print magazine and website for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the co-host of Trade Secrets, a podcast created with sister publication Travel Weekly.  TravelAge West also produces national trade publications Explorer and Family Getaways, as well as events including the Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, Global Travel Marketplace West, the WAVE Awards gala and the Napa Valley Leadership Forum. 
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ABOUT THE SHOW 
TravelAge West’s podcast, “Humans of Travel,” features conversations with exceptional people who have compelling stories to tell. Listeners will hear from the travel industry’s notable authorities, high-profile executives, travel advisors and rising stars as they share the highs and lows that make them human.

Entrepreneur Alle Pierce on Storytelling, Authenticity and Creating Community Through Travel

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