The Money Guy Show hosts Brian Preston and Bo Hanson interview a travel security expert who explains how firms protect clients abroad with health coordination, cash advances, and emergency evacuations.
Host: "What's the job? What is the thing you do?"
Melissa: "I work in travel security."
Host: "Is that you... like packing heat? You're Jason Bourne is what he's asking."
Melissa: "No. It's if you work for usually bigger corporations, study abroad, and then NGOs are our main clientele. And we do their health and security abroad."
"On my side, I work in security assistance. So if you're going somewhere maybe more high risk, what areas of town you should avoid, where you should stay."
Host: "Is it education or like y'all are evacuation too?"
Melissa: "All the way. So on the health side, if you break a leg, they'll do all the coordination for getting you help. On the security side, if your passport was stolen and you don't have credit cards and cash anymore, we can do like cash advance."
"And then all the way up to emergency evacuation. So in times of war started in like Israel or Ukraine. And natural disasters too. Sometimes that's a bit more like supply drops. And then sometimes the answer is just to stand fast and wait it out."