About the Advisor
From salon chair to itinerary
Before she planned trips, Kristen spent years making people feel like themselves again — as a hair stylist and educator for a color brand, she was the person clients trusted with their biggest days. She learned to listen for what people weren't saying, to notice the details that mattered, and to deliver something that felt both personal and polished.
That same instinct now shapes the way she plans travel. A family trip is not a spreadsheet of reservations; it is a story the family will tell for years. Kristen builds it scene by scene: the breakfast where everyone is still sleepy, the park morning when a seven-year-old finally meets the character, the dinner where the parents remember why they like each other. She is less interested in filling every hour than in making the hours that matter feel inevitable.
Roots in a place that knows how to rebuild
Kristen grew up in Mexico Beach, Florida — a quiet stretch of the Gulf Coast where the water is warm, the pace is slow, and the community knows what it means to lose something and begin again. After Hurricane Michael, she watched neighbors clear debris in the morning and serve supper in the evening. That kind of resilience — practical, unshowy, rooted in care for the people around you — stayed with her.
It is the same quality she brings to travel planning. When a storm reroutes a flight, when a reservation falls through, when a child needs a nap instead of a parade, she does not panic. She adjusts. She finds the next right thing. And she keeps the family from having to think about it.
“The trips we remember are not the ones where everything went according to plan. They are the ones where someone quietly made sure the plan still felt like a gift.”
The business grew out of the kitchen table
Kristen's family is a Disney family. Not in the matching-t-shirts sense, but in the deeper one: the way a single trip can become a shared language for years. Her son — seven years old and full of opinions — remembers the hotel where the elevator played music. Her husband remembers the restaurant where the waiter kept the bread warm. Kristen remembers the looks on their faces, and the hundred small decisions that made those looks possible.
Friends started asking for help. Then friends of friends. Eventually, the requests were frequent enough that it became clear this was not a favor anymore — it was a vocation. She built Harmonious Adventures around the trips she already loved planning: Disney parks, Disney Cruise Line, and the smaller, more refined ships families turn to when they are ready for the next chapter.
Travel as a family investment
Kristen believes the most valuable thing a family can buy is not an object, but a memory they all share. A trip is an investment in the family's archive — the stories that will be retold at holidays, the inside jokes that outlast the tan, the proof that time spent together was the best use of it.
Her job is to protect that investment from the friction that usually comes with it. She handles the research, the booking, the backup plans, and the 11 p.m. questions, so the family can arrive and simply be together. That is the real luxury. Everything else is just arrangement.