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Welcome to the season three finale of Trade Secrets! In this episode, hosts Jamie Biesiada and Emma Weissmann are flipping the tables and interviewing each other. Find out if they’ve always envisioned being writers, how they found the travel industry, who’s a Swiftie, who believes in ghosts and more.
This is the season finale, but we’ll share some favorite episodes and moments from Trade Secrets every other week until season four premieres this May.
This episode is sponsored by G Adventures.
Theme song: Sock Hop by Kevin MacLeod (License) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode and Related Reading
Emma on Instagram
Jamie on Instagram
From TravelAge West:
TravelAge West’s 50th anniversary story: Travel Milestones From the Last 50 Years
Emma’s story about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: Up for the Challenge: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for a Cause
From Travel Weekly:
ASTA names TW’s Jamie Biesiada journalist of the year
Ask a Question on the Podcast
If you're a travel advisor with a question about the latest travel news, trends, best business practices or more, please call our hotline and leave a message at 201-902-2098 or send an email to tradesecrets@travelweekly.com.
About Your Hosts
Emma Weissmann is the Managing Editor of TravelAge West, a print and online magazine for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the host of the Humans of Travel podcast, where she interviews notable individuals in the travel industry about their lives — the highs and lows that make them human.
Jamie Biesiada is a Senior Editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors’ 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine.
About the Show
Trade Secrets, a podcast from the editors of Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, is where travel advisors ask — and answer — questions. On each podcast, our editors will ask a veteran travel industry insider to join them and field listeners’ questions. Topics will range from business advice to industry trends, history and more — as long as it’s travel-related, we want to address it! Find Trade Secrets wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.travelagewest.com/podcasts/trade-secrets.