Founder and CEO

     Amy Brummit has long held a passion for travel, adventure and helping others. As an avid explorer filled with curiosity, an intrepid traveler, an outdoor guiding enthusiast and naturalist, an educator and a Science support logistics specialist in Antarctica, Amy is now on a mission to use her knowledge and experience to help others on their traveling journey.

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     Amy founded What a Trip Travel Coaching & Consulting with the goal of advising, empowering and supporting those who feel compelled to leap into the world of travel, to experience and discover all the learning that can only be found when exploring. She has extensive travel experience to all 50 states, and to over 100 different countries on all seven continents, including solo travel to many remote places of the world.

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     From summiting Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, to exploring the Amazon Rain Forest seeking the elusive Jaguar, to working in Antarctica, to boarding a dilapidated skiff on the Niger River to journey to Timbuktu, to giving up her passport and cell phone to visit North Korea, to kayaking with hippos on a multi-day expedition on the Zambezi River, to unexpectedly sharing tea with a Sheik in the Western Desert, to hiking up to see Gorillas in Uganda, to managing a restaurant in the Turks and Caicos, to spending 10 days at a silent meditation retreat in Sri Lanka, these are just a handful in a life of endless explorations, adventures, and expeditions. 

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     Amy is a Naturalist and Guide with National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions and a National Geographic certified educator, a licensed Sea Kayaking guide, a 50-ton Merchant Marine boat captain, a white water rafting guide, and a Whale Naturalist. She served on the Ocean Search & Rescue and Firefighting teams in Antarctica and is a NOLS licensed Wilderness First Responder and Leave No Trace certified Educator. She has traveled to several National Parks in the United States and has guided in Acadia National Park on hikes, whale watching, sea kayaking and lobster boats and in Teton National Park as a boat captain on Jenny Lake. She has also worked in several areas of the airline industry, including Flight Attendant, ground crew, customer service and as an administrative assistant for an FBO. She knows how to organize, plan, execute and problem solve anything that has to do with travel.          ​

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     She spent several years living abroad and teaching in international private schools in Ghana, Shanghai and Paraguay. She has a Master’s degree in Education with an additional two more years of graduate school to be a licensed Library Media Specialist. She will happily include book recommendations in her consultations.

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     Amy has been a theatrical director and actress both domestically and internationally and had the honor to study theatre in London at the esteemed Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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     She has also been very active in environmental conservation projects as well as social service initiatives throughout her life. Intermittently, since 2002, she has worked as a certified Protected Species Observer, living aboard dredge ships and tug boats where she mitigates for endangered species. While living in Ghana, West Africa, she was the head advisor of the Habitat for Humanity program at Lincoln Community School. This role took her and students to several Ghanaian villages across the country where they helped build homes.​

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     Through all this experience, Amy has built a coaching and consulting company that will work individually with you and your specific needs, in a compassionate and down-to-earth fashion. If you’re ready to embark on a new and exciting journey, book with Amy today!