You used to be the person who would book the flight without thinking twice. Then you had kids, and the part of you that loved to go somewhere got packed away with everything else, and you started to wonder if it was gone for good.
Amanda Kellner Klein decided it wasn't. She's a brand partnerships exec, she writes about traveling after kids on her Substack, and her almost-four-year-old already has more than 50 flights to her name. She came on to talk about how you hold onto the parts of yourself that matter once the kids arrive, with all the real logistics, the trade-offs, and one airplane story you have to hear to believe.
What You'll Learn
→ The travel muscle that makes a trip with a four-year-old feel easy, and why the only way to build it is to go when it's still hard
→ The comeback to "they won't even remember it" that ends the argument for good
→ The filter Amanda uses to decide whether a trip is worth it, and the step most people skip so "someday" never comes
→ The packing system that means nobody ever asks "who has the diapers" mid-flight
→ Why lowering your expectations is the real secret to a good trip with kids, not a consolation prize
→ The night-flight advice everyone repeats that Amanda says is mostly wrong
→ The airplane bathroom story that made everyone in this episode swear off something for life
Heard Yourself In This Episode?
The things that matter most are almost never the urgent ones, so they're the ones that keep getting pushed for years. Alex's free guide walks you through the filter that decides what you own, what you delegate, what you delete, and what you PROTECT, because the trip only happens once it lands in that last column. Grab the PDF here → go.alexpayetta.com/timeback
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Connect With Us
Lorissa Violet
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Alex Payetta
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Amanda Kellner Klein
carryon.substack.com | @amandakellnerklein
