Dr. Sodaitis sits down with luxury travel concierge Mikayla for a powerful conversation about identity, energetics, and the emotional side of luxury travel. Instead of focusing on logistics or trends, Mikayla shares how she helps travelers choose experiences that align with who they are becoming—highlighted by a client’s transformational Nile River journey aboard the MS Symphony, a boutique cruise ship that matched her inner shift more deeply than mainstream options. The episode explores visioning, mindset, identity expansion, and the belief that luxury isn’t about status or spending—it’s about alignment, embodiment, and returning home transformed.
In this transformative episode, Dr. Krystal welcomes luxury travel concierge and coach Mikayla for a conversation that expands far beyond itineraries and price points. Instead of talking logistics, cruise perks, or comparison shopping, Mikayla offers a deep look into the identity, emotion, and embodiment behind luxury travel — including the story of a client whose journey onboard the MS Symphony, a boutique Nile River cruise ship, marked the beginning of a personal and emotional pivot.
Listeners will learn how travel — and luxury cruising in particular — can move from vacation to transformation, and how the ships we choose can become mirrors for who we are and who we’re becoming. This episode opens the door to mindset, alignment, inner permission, visioning, identity evolution, and the energetic qualities of choosing the right cruise experience.
✨ The MS Symphony as a transformational, identity-aligned Nile River experience
✨ Why luxury isn’t about status — it’s about who you are becoming
✨ Egypt’s Bent Pyramid as a symbolic mirror for life pivots
✨ Desire, embodiment, and visioning as the foundation of trip planning
✨ Why logistics shouldn’t come first
✨ Luxury travel for women of color and identity expansion
✨ Emotional safety, mindset, and inner permission to dream bigger
✨ Honoring seasons of life — including motherhood and postpartum identity
✨ How curated travel creates emotional breakthroughs
✨ Releasing fear around cost and stepping into alignment
Mikayla Brunson is a leader in Identity-First Luxury Design; a category where travel becomes a portal for personal evolution.
As founder of Merazh, she merges high-end travel curation with intuitive emotional attunement, feminine energetics, and spiritual grounding to create journeys that upgrade identity, not just itineraries.
Her approach is built on lived experience: shedding masculine survival strategies, embracing feminine leadership and learning to move through the world with softness, depth and conviction.
This embodiment now informs her signature philosophy, The Frequency of Luxury: an approach that treats place, pacing and atmosphere as tools for nervous system restoration and identity expansion.
Women come to Mikayla not for logistics but for transformation. Her work serves CEOs, founders, mothers and women who lead big lives and want to travel in a way that mirrors who they are becoming.
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaylabrunson
Dr. Krystal Sodaitis is a pediatrician, executive, and life coach for neurodiverse physicians—and the passionate host behind Luxury Cruising. She brings expert insight and honest excitement to every interview, helping curious travelers elevate their adventures at sea.
📍 Website: luxurycruising.net
📧 Email: luxurycruisingpodcast@gmail.com
🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/krystalsodaitis
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