Sep 21, 2026 · 51 min · 9 segments
Julie and Alex Ott are the mother-son team behind Triple Play Vacations. In this episode, they join Meredith Calloway to talk about what it looks like to build a business together while specializing…
Julie OttGuest
Alex OttGuestThat is such a big decision to leave the comfort and security of a paycheck.
There's a level of comfort to it, but then it was a real clock in, clock out kind of job.
So I think that freedom of being able to work my own schedule and you know, where I want to, when I want to kind of a thing was a big appeal to me.
I mean, I just had a little bit of a look of what each of you have been booking this year.
And Julie, you do more cruise, river cruise, you know, typical leisure travel, whereas Alex, you're definitely more focused on the events, sporting events, worldwide sporting events.
Interesting that it worked that way, but he's got clients that he's, that he's picked up through his contacts from school, his fraternity brothers and things like that.
work experience or work life, right? All of our clients have been referral-based so far, and we spend a lot of time with adventure-type travel.
There's always some level of adventure included in everything that our clients have done.
And I guess we started really last year trying to get the sports part up and running, and we're focusing on that.
That is such a big decision to leave the comfort and security of a paycheck.
There's a level of comfort to it, but then it was a real clock in, clock out kind of job.
So I think that freedom of being able to work my own schedule and you know, where I want to, when I want to kind of a thing was a big appeal to me.
I mean, I just had a little bit of a look of what each of you have been booking this year.
And Julie, you do more cruise, river cruise, you know, typical leisure travel, whereas Alex, you're definitely more focused on the events, sporting events, worldwide sporting events.
Interesting that it worked that way, but he's got clients that he's, that he's picked up through his contacts from school, his fraternity brothers and things like that.
work experience or work life, right? All of our clients have been referral-based so far, and we spend a lot of time with adventure-type travel.
There's always some level of adventure included in everything that our clients have done.
And I guess we started really last year trying to get the sports part up and running, and we're focusing on that.
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