Episode 087 - Five Lies About Business Travel

The Elite Road Warrior Podcast

Welcome to the ERW podcast, I’m your host, BpB, fellow road warrior, husband of one, father of five, (yeah five), and on a mission to help business travelers eliminate burnout and exceed results.
Business travel has many misconceptions. Someone who lives in the 9-to-5 office only world truly does not understand our world. At all.

Two specific groups of people within our inner circle of business travel, need to know the truth:

Future business travelers - whether you’re in a company that is grooming you to travel or you want to switch jobs or even careers to begin to travel for work

Leaders of business travelers - those that oversee and influence the work life of a road warrior

Why these two specific groups?

Lie #1 - Business Travel is a luxurious life

Here’s an Elite Tip: Find something to look forward to “doing or seeing” on every single trip:

• Go to a ballgame
• Visit a cool site in the city
• Eat at a local favorite restaurant

Lie #2 - It’s hard to eat healthy on the road

And this journal is now available and called the Not Forgotten Journal. Go to EliteRoadWarrior.com/Store today to purchase your own copy for your significant other today.

The first two lies about business travel were:

Lie #1 - Business Travel is a luxurious life

Lie #2 - It’s hard to eat healthy on the road

Lie #3- I have no control of my time on the road

Lie #4 - My family is not affected when I’m on the road

For the rest of us, do you know who is really affected?

• Your spouse who is left to take care of everything on their own
• Your kids who now have to rely on just one parent

(Here’s an) Elite Tip: three tangible “change my ways” products to help you stay connected with your family on the road…

• Not Forgotten Journal - learning to take just two minutes to write something to my wife each day in a journal I would one day give to her
• Flat Kiddos - colored characters that I take pictures of them in my world
• Connect Cards - creative cards made by kids for kids that I leave and send to my kids writing words of meaning

You can find all three of these products (and many more) at www.EliteRoadWarrior.com/Store

Lie #5 - There are no temptations with business travel

The phrase came from the teachings of Socrates and popularized by Plato. It was the first of three maxims inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The two maxims that followed "know thyself" were "nothing to excess" and "surety brings ruin”.

You can also find everything reference in this episode in the show notes at www.EliteRoadWarrior.com/087

Along with the free resource: 10 Business Travel Hacks Guide in the show notes at www.EliteRoadWarrior.com/087

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