LuckyBucky
Make Your Connection.
Family Travel Coaching for exhausted parents who need to reground themselves, reclaim their identity, and rebuild connection through the restorative and healing power of travel.
What might it look like if you approached travel with intention and purpose?
When you work with us, we personalize our approach to your family’s specific needs to help you design a trip that is transformative. We give you the tools to set meaningful intentions, reduce the overwhelm of planning with my signature
6-step LuckyBucky ESCAPE Plan™, and design a trip that brings connection and strengthens relationships, all while making lifelong memories.
Here’s your Jump Start
to Adventure!
Throughout our own adventures, we’ve streamlined processes, devised hacks, and have had giant failures that led to better plans and solutions!
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Our Services
Find Your Solution. Overcome Your Challenge.
A 60 minute solutions-driven coaching call for parents who are ready to eliminate roadblocks so they can finally take that dream vacation.
Make Your Connection. Design Your Adventure.
A 3 or 6 month full-service and personalized coaching package for overwhelmed and burned out parents who are ready to reground themselves, reclaim their identity, and build connection within their families.
Meet the Team
Hi! I’m Kiya, your certified travel coach. My love for travel is a bittersweet story that begins in a place of fear, loneliness, and complete lack of self-worth; a beautiful story marked with apprehension, self-discovery, grief, perseverance, gratitude, and immense joy. Travel has woven an intricate web connecting all of these, greatly contributing to who I am today, my overarching life perspective, and the value I believe travel provides to every individual and the family unit as a whole.
I have traveled extensively in the US and have been to 22 countries in 3 continents. My husband and I started traveling 3 months into dating. (That ‘s a fun story). Our children got their passports almost straight out of the womb, and we have embraced the struggles and rewards of showing our children the world. (Spoiler alert: the rewards far outweigh the struggles).
We’ve seen sites older than Jesus, hiked gorgeous landscapes, and eaten some really good food. (And by food, I mean gelato… lottssss of delicious gelato). While these have made for amazing experiences, the best parts of travel have deeper and lasting impacts. Those are the parts I want to ensure you and your family experience.
Ah, mi amore, my forever travel buddy, and always an unwilling photography participant, though an exceptionally good sport.
What Justin lacks in sentimentality, he makes up for with attention to detail, excellent problem-solving skills, and dad jokes. His background in data science and applied mathematics is an added bonus, lending itself to a plethora of spreadsheets and strategic rewards travel. (All our international flights in the last 5 years have been nearly free).
He excels in developing creative solutions for complex problems, and making well-informed, financially sound travel decisions.
I’m glad he’s on my team, and you’ll be glad he’s on yours, too.
So who is Lucky Bucky? It all began at the airport drop-off zone. I can imagine how worried my dad was that sunny June morning as I was embarking on my first solo international trip. While saying our goodbyes, he reached into his center console and handed me a buckeye, traditionally known to bring good luck. I dropped it in my purse, hugged and kissed him, then took off on my adventure.
Over the next 3 weeks, a series of events occurred that challenged my problem-solving skills, flooded me with loneliness, and threatened the completion of my trip altogether. The buckeye, whom I lovingly named Lucky Bucky, was a tangible piece of home and hope as I endured the process of finding myself and discovering my hidden strengths. In the midst of those experiences were tremendous gratitude, awe, liberation, and empowerment. I came home a changed woman, and every new travel experience adds even more to my skillset and mindset.
Lucky Bucky has accompanied me to 22 different countries, and like me, he now has his own family, too! (I know it’s super corny, but my dad gets a kick out of it so I can’t stop). He met Bella Stella at our wedding in Tuscany when my dad gifted me another buckeye, and in the years following, has added Baby Bucky and Little Bitty Bucky to the Bucky family - a mirror of my sweet family of 4. They go everywhere we go!
Book a Free Discovery Call
Let’s chat for 30 minutes so I can answer any questions you might have about my services, or travel coaching in general. We’ll see if we are a good match, and which of my coaching options will work best for your family!
