Before travel, there was the stage. Christina trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York — two years inside the Meisner Technique — then spent years auditioning and booking gigs across New York and Los Angeles. She was living the dream she'd chased. And slowly, it stopped being enough.
The waiting on set. The jumping from audition to audition. Chasing the next role started to feel hollow — because what she actually wanted was to make her life about impacting other people. She gets bored easily. She needs a challenge that keeps her compelled. Acting, for all its beauty, had become about her. She wanted it to be about them.
Her father saw it before she did.
TravelBrokers Inc. has been her family's company since 1988. One day her dad said the thing that changed her life: "I think you'd be a great travel designer." And boom — he was right.
It had everything she'd been missing. A challenge that never ends, because the world is enormous and there's always another island, another country, another corner to learn. And on the other side of all that learning: people, transformed. She wasn't booking roles anymore. She was creating life-changing trips for real human beings.
She had to learn the dance alone.
When she first started, the agency was simply too busy to teach her. Her dad and the other agents tried — but they needed help, so she jumped straight into the deep end. She had a lot to learn about what she was selling before she could sell it.
What carried her was the one thing the Playhouse gave her: the ability to trust herself. She learned the truth that the industry rarely says out loud — you don't have to have been everywhere to be a great travel advisor. You need the tenacity and the confidence to learn the next destination, sell it, and book it. You learn as you go.
But it took grit to develop the rhythm — the dance. And once she found it, she was off. She'll tell you it's like the softball she played for years, or like acting: sales is a dance too. You read the moment. You move with it. And because travel itself is always changing, she's always learning, always on her toes, always alive in it.
Repetition. Getting your instrument in tune.
Here's what makes the Frankly method different from anything else in the industry. In Meisner, repetition is everything — it's how an actor gets their instrument in tune. Most travel advisors never get that chance at the start of their career. They're handed a desk and told to figure it out.
Frankly flips that. Through high repetition, we tune your instrument — you, the advisor — and get you into shape before you ever step onto the playing field. Yes, you learn a lot as you go. But first you practice. You drill. You prepare. Because preparation is everything: you don't walk out to play the game cold. You walk out ready.
Travel that changes a life.
She sent a client to Malaysia for forty days of diving excursions — a trip he could never have pieced together without the connection and the confidence she brought to it. She books weddings. And she helped a young woman with autism, who had never been on a plane and was terrified to fly, take a solo trip to Thailand with a wonderful group — making sure she was cared for, that everything was in place, that she'd be okay. It was the trip of a lifetime.
That's the work. Not selling flights — opening up the world to people who never thought it was theirs to have.
The Meisner edgeBeing fully present.
This is what no course teaches and most agents miss. Meisner taught Christina to be completely present with a client — to listen so carefully that she hears what they expect, and what they don't, and meets the need underneath. People have to feel understood. The moment they don't, trust evaporates and they feel the disconnect instantly. It lives in the little nuances, the small moments you catch and respond to.
It's why she believes in the phone, not endless email — so much connection is lost in a thread. From the first call to the close, you stay in real communication, with a sense of urgency and genuine compassion. These people are trusting you with thousands of dollars and their precious time. You have to be there for them. They have to trust you.
Why womenPermission to find your fun.
So many women were taught to be mothers, or to go work for someone else, and to believe the job they picked is the job they're stuck with. Christina doesn't buy it. Women today have more opportunity than ever — and they need to believe in themselves enough to use it.
Mom or not, the career you chose at twenty-two is not a life sentence. If you're bored, you're allowed to change. There is so much opportunity in the world to find your fun — and travel is exciting, inspiring, and fun. Frankly is Christina pulling the next woman up behind her, and handing her the onboarding she never got.
— Christina