The Metro Women’s Leadership Summit was a day to celebrate our diversity, teaching us how to unify our message and empower all that attends. The full-day program enlightened attendees on the most current challenges we face as women, highlighting real solutions to put into action steps.
DID YOU KNOW? If you take your vacation time, you are more likely to have been promoted within the last year and to have received a raise or bonus in the last three years! (From US Travel Association!)
Taking time off is associated with higher productivity, performance, more positive attitude toward work, increased happiness, improved mental and physical health, better relationships and social life.
IN 2017, 705 MILLION VACATION DAYS WENT UNUSED.
What do Americans want to do with their vacation? Nearly all Americans (88%) are in search of a warm climate for their vacations.
Thank you to Joanne Vero for also including me in her conference, Travel Media Showcase. I first went in 2016 and in 2017 I won the grand prize for Travel Writing!
Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel.
On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times.
Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.