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Staying Well on the Road

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As we approach cold and flu season, I get a lot of questions from people about how to avoid getting sick while traveling. A lot of what I do is normal preventative stuff: wash your hands often and thoroughly, cover your mouth (with your arm) when you sneeze, take your vitamins, and don’t over do…

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Eating Healthy While On the Road

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Eating healthy while traveling all the time is something that many road warriors struggle with. The long hours, few choices, and temptations can leave even the best-intentioned eating badly. We can all use a little help!!  Here are a few strategies you can use to make it easier to make good choices. (Pictured: Grilled Salmon…

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4 tips for managing busy periods

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Over the past year I’ve had some insanely busy work periods. I’ve planned conferences, organized client events, held fundraisers, and managed company-wide programs, sometimes all in the same week. Add frequent travel on top of this, plus, like, three small humans, and things have been nuts.  Sometimes it feels like I go-go-go until I fall…

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How to sleep during business travel

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Ever since the school year started–and my oldest started kindergarten–I’ve been obsessed with sleep. This is most certainly caused by the necessary shift our household has taken due to the required 6am wakeup time. See, the Home Warrior and I are generally night-owls. If it were up to us, we would go to bed after…

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Tips for looking good after a flight

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Travel is part of the job for many of us, and heading to the office directly from the airport is often an unfortunate necessity. Even though you may feel exhausted and travel-weary, it is possible to avoid the travel-worn look that is the hallmark of many road warriors. No one has to know you woke…

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Tips for managing a long business trip

The most common length of time for a business trip is three to four days. But what happens when you are gone for longer periods of time? It requires a lot more planning and strategy, that’s for sure! One or even two month business trips are becoming more and more common. Here are a few…

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Posts from the past

What was going on this time in years past? 2014 Global Entry users, make sure you don’t fall victim to this rule. Another round of news stories has come out reporting that airlines are continuing their enforcement of policies regarding carry-on size. See my post on this along with three more carry-on bags within airline…

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Dealing with the business travel “squeeze”

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Squeeze.  It’s a common theme in business travel.  Ever since the economy tanked in 2008 I’ve really seen an uptick in businesses trying to squeeze as much as they can out of everything they can possibly think of.  Air carriers are moving seats as close as they possibly can get together to add more rows…

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Road Warriorette Weekend Express

Hey readers! Got a question or something you want to discuss this weekend?  Here’s the perfect opportunity!  Whether you want to share an interesting travel story, a packing tip, an etiquette tip, or anything else going on in the business travel world, comment here and we’ll have a discussion. Travel tip of the week: Summer time…

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In between trips

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One of the toughest things about business travel is getting ready for a trip right after you just got home from one. There are just so many things to do in between trips, and it feels like there’s never enough time to get them done. Typically when I’m traveling week after week I’ll have three…

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