From Mission to Movement with Stacey Ray: How Sisterhood Became Her Superpower

December 1, 2025

Lorie Jones

Today, host Lorie Jones welcomes the inspiring Stacey Ray, founder and CEO of Sisterhood Travels, a vibrant community dedicated to creating meaningful travel experiences for women. Stacey looks back on how she reconstructed her life after personal loss, building a business—and a movement—centered on connection, sisterhood, and empowering women to find joy and adventure at any age.

From overcoming naysayers and industry obstacles to prioritizing kindness, compassion, and authentic connection, Stacey shares her journey from a 30-year career in healthcare to launching a thriving travel business in her 60s. Lorie and Stacey also discuss the power of self-belief and community, learning from financial lessons, and how women can lift up women to become truly fearless and invincible.

Whether you’re dreaming of your next adventure or looking for inspiration to believe in your own ideas, this episode is rich with candid stories, actionable wisdom, and the reminder that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself.

Show Highlights:

How Stacey Ray built the 46,000-member Sisterhood Travels. [05:10]
What does roommate matching involve for solo women travelers? [10:12]
The trip vs. experience differentiator for mature women. [11:48]
Banning “mean girl” syndrome to foster a culture of kindness. [14:10]
Rising above self-sabotage and finding life after bereavement. [16:55]
Saving for life’s inevitable late season without reckless debt. [25:22]
Navigating scaling anxiety in business growth obligations. [32:05]
How to answer ageism and female rivalry in shared industries. [35:55]
Advice for young women on self-belief and true value. [43:16]
Creating invincible—not invisible—women later in life. [47:58]

Connect with Stacey Ray at https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyrayceo/ on LinkedIn.

To learn more about Sisterhood Travels, visit https://sisterhoodtravels.com/.

Find Stacey’s podcast, Life. Reimagined. with Stacey Ray at https://sisterhoodtravels.com/lifereimagined/.

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