December 26, 2025

Alignment = Profit: Fix Your Calendar, Systems, and Client Boundaries

43 minutes

Marcie Muensterman

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Feeling “busy” but still not making the money you want? In this episode, Marcie, your No BS Travel Advisor Coach, calls out the real reason your travel business feels chaotic: mismanaged time, weak workflows, and boundaries that don’t stick.

We’re talking about the habits that quietly drain your revenue—quoting in DMs, instant replies, random trainings, pointless events, overthinking content, and saying yes to things with zero ROI—and the CEO-level shifts that actually create freedom: calendar control, alignment, automation, and repeatable systems.

This is the episode for travel advisors who want to grow faster in 2026 without burnout, and who are ready to stop treating their time like it’s optional.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

Why “busy” is not a personality trait… it’s usually a profit problem

The biggest daily time-wasters travel advisors normalize (and why it keeps you broke)

How to stop training clients to expect you 24/7 (and still deliver great service)

What “alignment” really means (hint: not fonts and brand colors)

Why you don’t need more trainings, events, or FAM trips—you need a plan

How workflows + systems create consistency, confidence, and better clients

Why your business can’t run on “random tasks” and vibes (sorry, it just can’t)

The CEO move that changes everything: audit your time and protect your best hours

Connect with Mary Beth Lynn: https://www.assistantsthatwork.com/

Join her Travel Advisor Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifechangingassistants

Real Talk: The Biggest Time Wasters for Travel Advisors

If you’re doing these regularly, you’re not “busy”… you’re bleeding time:

Answering texts, DMs, calls, and emails at all hours

Checking email nonstop instead of batching

Rewriting the same replies instead of using templates

Quoting trips in DMs for unqualified leads

Saying yes to last-minute “quick checks” (nothing is quick)

Overthinking content, Canva-ing everything to death, and posting inconsistently

Going to conferences, supplier lunches, and trainings with no ROI plan

Multi-tasking constantly and finishing nothing

Action Step (Do This This Week)

Audit your time for 2 weeks:

Write down what you do each day

Label each activity as: Revenue / Reputation / Relationships / or Bullshit

Then choose one change to implement (and yes—turn on an out-of-office if needed)

Mentioned in This Episode

Mary Beth Lynn’s “Gold Couch Series” (alignment + CEO foundations) coming in Q1 2026.

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