- Welcome to Boomer Babes Life,
our global community for women over 50.
I'm Jaynie Morris-Riggs,
founder and creator of fun.
And if you've been watching
what we've been doing
all around everywhere
with Boomer Babes Life,
especially over the last 12 months or so,
we've been creating things just for you.
Yep, that's for you girls over 50.
So if you're not a female
and you're not over 50,
you can watch, you can
look, you can listen,
but please make sure
you share what we've got
at Boomer Babes Life with all of those
beautiful women in your
life, who are over 50.
Today is a very special day.
Today, we are announcing
another division of Boomer Babes Life.
Who doesn't love to travel?
Who doesn't dream about traveling?
I know that most nights,
when I'm having drinks,
probably that's not
the right thing to say,
but let me tell you most of my dreams
are about traveling.
I love to travel.
I didn't actually get to start traveling
until I was over about 30 years of age.
And once I got the bug,
I can tell you that most of my planning,
and for myself and my
family and my friends now,
is all about, where are we going next?
So that's why we created
Boomer Babes Life Travel.
And today, we are
announcing our partnership
with one of the most incredible
travel organizations in the world.
Phil Hoffmann Travel and Boomer Babes Life
are now officially
Boomer Babes Life Travel.
And I have the very
special, very gorgeous,
and I say she runs the
place, she says she doesn't,
but the gorgeous Christa
Kinnear is here to join me today
to talk all about our partnership.
Thank you so much for joining us, Christa.
- Thank you, it is an amazing association
that I think we're gonna be starting.
Like-minded people with same interests.
I too have a love of travel.
In fact, that's what got me into the job.
Because I fell in love with travel
oh 30 years ago when I was in my teens,
and I've been very lucky
to have the association
with Phil Hoffmann Travel.
So we are now, moving forward,
planning some wonderful escapes
to your lovely ladies.
- So for those who are watching right now,
I mean I know all the reasons
why I knocked on the door
at Phil Hoffmann Travel in
the first place and said,
hey, let's join together
for women over 50 worldwide.
But for the people, all of
the girls that are watching
us right now, can you give
us a little bit of background
on Phil Hoffmann Travel
and the reasons, you know,
why we eventually partnered?
- Absolutely.
Phil Hoffmann Travel has been
going almost for 30 years.
It's still a family business, and yes,
Phil Hoffmann does actually
run the company, not me.
But it's a company that's built
on very strong foundations.
Our ethics are really high,
and I think any people
who are looking to travel,
they want safety, they wanna know
that there is somebody behind them
that endorses the best
companies, the best wholesalers.
And when you're traveling,
we will follow your travels
and make sure that everything is covered.
So 30 years in the business,
we've won 13 major awards,
so we've been recognized by
our partners and the public,
which is such an honor
and it makes it a beautiful place to work.
- Now your headquarters
are here in Australia,
as are Boomer Babes Life headquarters,
however, that doesn't preclude
anybody from around the world
actually accessing what we're creating
at Boomer Babes Life
Travel together, does it?
- No, not at all.
We've got 10 branches
around South Australia.
We have a lovely lady that is
working in New South Wales,
and of course with the internet,
we can take care of anyone's arrangements.
Doesn't matter where you
are or what time of the day.
So absolutely we can look after everybody.
- Now when we think travel,
usually we think of,
it just warms our heart
and it gets us excited,
and we just want to start
looking at different places
of where to go and what to do.
But these days, we're finding
that a lot more people,
especially over 50, are traveling.
Why do you think that is?
- I think with all the travel programs
that we're seeing now, on television,
we're surrounded by it,
a lot of our friends are traveling,
and you think, I want a part of that.
I wanna get out there, I
wanna explore destinations,
whether it's eco traveling,
whether it's traveling for business.
Part of our business at the moment is
people are looking for
different experiences.
Let's go to Italy, let's stay in a villa.
Let's have some cooking classes
and do walking tours through areas
that you can't just walk into.
And those experiences are what
we're creating at the moment.
And people hear about it,
hear on the radio and so forth
and they just wanna be
part of those experiences.
Now before we get into experiences,
we can just hear at the moment
the expansion that's happening
here at Phil Hoffmann Travel,
which is fabulous.
Because Boomer Babes Life
is expanding as well.
So it's a great reminder of
what our collaboration is all about.
And when we talk about, when
you mention experiences,
I think that that was one of the things
when I was talking to boomer babes,
and we were talking about setting up
Boomer Babes Life Travel,
one of the things that they
kept coming back to me about was
when it starts, let's make sure
there's always experiences.
And you just touched on it then,
can we just elaborate a little bit more
for what we're going to
be doing in the future?
You and I have already talked about this
but we are gonna create travel experiences
like you've just said, aren't we?
- Absolutely, something a bit different.
So, we might take you
to the Melbourne Cup,
but instead of just flying over,
we might take you on a cruise ship.
Let's go over to Sydney
and cruise down to the Melbourne Cup
and be part of that whole experience.
When we do group travel,
which we do very well,
we'll have a get together for everybody.
So everybody gets to know
each other before they travel.
And that's what's really
exciting about Boomer Babes Life,
is that more people will
join in the experiences
and get to know each
other before we travel.
And some people are really
nervous about traveling,
so we can make them feel
comfortable even before they go.
So if you are traveling on your own,
it's a beautiful way to travel.
Well that's a good segue
because a lot of boomer
babes do travel solo,
for whatever reason.
It might be by choice,
it might be unfortunately
because they no longer have a partner,
or it might just be something
that they've always wanted to do,
they might have seen Eat,
Pray, Love too many times.
(laughing)
- I can agree with that.
- And decided they wanna travel solo.
It's one of your specialties, isn't it?
- It absolutely is,
and I think it's something really nice
to introduce to Boomer Babes Life.
We've got a Solo Traveler
Club which was an idea,
a group of people that
started traveling together,
and I think we're up to 1,500 members,
both male and female,
predominantly over 50, I have to say.
There are some younger ladies in there.
But they may, as you said,
they may have lost a partner,
or the partner doesn't want to travel.
And so we can match people up
but we have special events.
So we have dinners,
a dinner series,
we're doing a walk in Murray Outer,
and people get to know each other.
So even if they don't want
to go on group travel,
they may form a little friendship
and four of them might go
away on a trip together.
And that's been so successful.
So that's something I'm
really looking forward
to sharing with the members.
Well as far as we're concerned
at Boomer Babes Life Travel,
this partnership is just
gonna grow bigger and bigger
and more internationally,
which we're very excited about.
So some of the things that
you and I've talked about,
that we're gonna start
bringing to the boomer babes,
through Boomer Babes Life Travel are
we're gonna start weekly
podcasts, aren't we?
- Yes, yes, and I'm about to travel,
I'm taking the grandchildren
up to the Gold Coast,
so I'll probably be talking to you
from the Gold Coast as well.
So maybe at Movie World or somewhere on
hear all the background noises.
- Well that would be
exciting because that'll be
one of the things that
we'll be touching on
as we move forward with our podcast.
Where to go, what to do,
if you're taking the children,
grandchildren with you.
All that sort of thing as well.
So we're looking forward to that.
So the Boomer Babes Life Travel podcast.
Also of course our Bubbles,
Brunch and Business.
Our touchy feely events
that we have every month.
The small ones of 25 to 30
boomer babes getting together
around Australia and overseas.
Now we're partnering
with you on that as well,
so you're involved in that, aren't you?
- I'm really waiting
for my last little bit
of our exciting news
for one of the brunches.
We certainly have Renato, he's
our Italian chef in-house,
and he is really looking forward to doing
an amazing Bubbles Brunch
and Business celebration
of Italian fare right
here in our kitchens.
- I know how exciting is that?
- It is, and he's lovely.
He's really lovely.
That leads into his Italian classes
and his Italian cooking classes,
and our escapes as well.
So, so many different
little aspects of that.
It's a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
- I know, and we're also gonna be creating
and bringing all of the things like,
as you mentioned before,
like the cruises, the specialty cruises.
As all of our boomer babes already know,
we are in partnership in our
Boomer Babes Life Wellness
with the queen of clean
living, Therese Kerr.
- Oh absolutely, she's beautiful.
- We're working on that, aren't we?
We're working on special cruises with her
and of course our new partnership
which we've just announced
with the Spreading the
Love with Samuel Johnson,
here in Australia and Love Your Sister.
We're sort of negotiating some things
there as well, aren't we?
- I think I've got some really
good news to share with
you after the filming
that will really put a mark
on his wonderful charity.
- Oh look, this is so exciting
and there's so much more.
So today, as I mentioned before,
today's really special because
it is our official kick-off.
- It is, now Jaynie, where
are people gonna find this?
Because I've got a special offer already
for the Solo Traveler Club.
- Oh okay. (laughing)
- This is the Solo Traveler
Club enticing people to join,
ladies or gentlemen; but ladies today.
So if you are part of Boomer Babes Life,
it normally costs $25,
it's going to be free.
- No.
- So we'll have all that
information on the website, yes.
Absolutely, that's a kick-in.
- Wow, fabulous, well
thank you so much for that.
If you're a boomer babe,
if you're a woman over 50,
and you haven't joined our membership yet,
it's really simple.
All you need to do is go to
BoomerBabesLife.com/membership,
go there, you'll see that
there's two levels there
that you can join on.
Both levels will have all of the benefits,
all of the discounts,
all of the first ofs,
as far as Boomer Babes
Life Travel is concerned.
And now, which I didn't realize,
so you really surprised me.
- Free Solo Traveler Club.
- Yeah, this another benefit.
- And then we'll roll out
all the other little goodies
that you'll get if you're traveling.
That's for the ladies that are traveling.
And, as I said, we'd like to make
a special contribution to the foundation.
- Yeah, fantastic.
Well look, thank you so much Christa.
I'm so excited, obviously.
I know I use that word all the time
but I do it for a reason
because I'm genuinely excited
about our partnership.
- I am too.
So is Phil Hoffmann.
- Working with you.
- And thank you for that opportunity.
- Oh, look you're more than welcome.
And Phil is an absolute character.
We're gonna have to get
him on some podcasts.
- We will, and he would love to.
- He's gonna have to dress up though.
He'll have to be an honorary boomer babe.
- We might have to give him
a little wig or something.
You've had a couple of
honorary people there.
We can do this.
- Yeah, I think we can do that.
No, look it's fabulous, I'm excited.
Today's our official launch
for Boomer Babes Life Travel.
You can get all the
information as from now,
just go to BoomerBabesLife.com/travel,
it's all there.
Check out everything else
that we have on the website,
but most importantly, have a look at that,
look at our social media links,
and don't forget to sign up and join.
Because we want you to
be traveling with us,
around the world with
Boomer Babes Life Travel.
It's a very exciting time.
Christa, thank you so much again.
- Thank you.
- We better go into the other office
and start this plan.
- I always got them ready,
it's on my paper, let's go.
- Let's go.
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