Episode Description
A hundred cancellations hit my tour business like a punch to the chest and the weirdest part is I didn’t explode. I used to. If you’ve ever felt your nervous system slam into panic when money, reputation, or a platform algorithm turns against you, this conversation is for you.
I’m Heidi, and I’m talking through the mindset shift that’s been saving me lately: life gets calmer when I stop fighting what’s happening and start listening for the next step. I share how I try to hear God’s guidance (call it faith, intuition, or your inner voice) and why most of us miss it. Not because we’re broken, but because we stay too loud to notice what we already asked for.
Then I get specific with a real small business problem: Viator, TripAdvisor, Expedia, and connected travel networks changed insurance requirements, my reminders went to an old email, and my tours went inactive. The result was brutal: mass cancellations and lost “pre-money” I count on. I break down what happened, what I did to fix it, and how the “problem” forced a full review that actually put more of my tour products back online and set me up for better offers and visibility.
To close, I tell a story from Seattle after Irma, driving DoorDash in a dangerous storm, getting furious about a detour, and later realizing that delay may have kept me away from a tree that killed someone. Sometimes the block is the protection.
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