Rox Holohan

Rox Holohan Former corporate exec turned travel entrepreneur. I help you create income and independence through the travel industry. Freedom. Flexibility. Fulfilment.

Helping busy mums build freedom, flexibility, and income through travel. I help women create income and independence. No gatekeepers, just opportunity.

09/09/2026

If you’re planning a trip to Disney Shanghai, here are the things that it does better than Anaheim.

We queued over an hour in Anaheim so my girls could meet Rapunzel. 15 years later, in Shanghai, I watched them light up the exact same way during the parade, and it caught me completely off guard.

I’ll be honest, if your teens are chasing adrenaline, Disney Shanghai isn’t going to give it to them. The TRON ride is the only one for thrill seekers, so don’t go in expecting a coaster-heavy day. It didn’t stop mine from having a brilliant time, but go in knowing what you’re actually getting.

Buy the Fast Passes and one day is genuinely plenty, you’ll clear the park without the second-day slog. The food, though, I won’t sugarcoat: it was expensive and not good, so don’t build the day around eating well there.

What actually got me wasn’t a ride at all. It was the parade, watching my girls, 15 years later still light up seeing their favourite princesses go by. Took me straight back to Anaheim, queuing forever for Rapunzel when they were tiny. Some things don’t change, even when the kids do.

Tips for Shanghai:
📲 Download the Disney Shanghai app, it’s how you book everything and how you can monitor queues and get around
🎟️ Fast Passes are non-negotiable, especially in summer. Pre-book them, there are a number of different packages you can buy
🌙 Catch the parade if you can, that’s where the magic actually is

If you’re the kind of mum who notices these small full-circle moments and wants more of them in your life, that’s the whole reason I built Luxe Cinq, helping mums create a life with more travel in it, not less.

Comment DISNEY and I’ll send you the details.

06/09/2026

I spent a month in China with my kids and came home with one uncomfortable realisation. 👇

We did the big loop: Shanghai to Xi’an, Chengdu to Zhangjiajie, then back via Chongqing. Trains, night markets, terracotta warriors, the lot. On paper, it was the trip of a lifetime.

But somewhere between the bullet trains and the hotpot, it stopped being about the sights. It became about watching three teenagers exist in the same space, at the same time, for weeks on end: inside jokes at my expense, translating menus for me, going quiet at the exact same viewpoint for entirely different reasons.

My eldest already lives abroad and is heading into her final year of uni. And halfway through this trip, my middle daughter got her Leaving Cert results and university offers and by the time we landed back in Dublin, she’d made her decision. She’s going abroad too.

So the version of my family that existed at the start of that trip won’t exist anymore.

Somewhere in Zhangjiajie, watching all three of them walk ahead of me up those impossible stone steps, it hit me like a freight train, I wasn’t relaxing on a holiday. I was desperately trying to commit every bit of it to memory, because I could feel exactly how much was about to change.

That’s the bit nobody warns working mums about. You build a life around flexibility so you can BE there and then you get there, fully present, only to watch the room empty out in real time, mid-trip, before you’ve even had a chance to catch your breath.

I didn’t leave corporate to get more time with my kids so I could spend it distracted. I left to be in the room. China reminded me why that trade was worth it.

If your house is emptying faster than you clocked, you’re not losing them. You’re just closer to the next chapter than you thought.

Drop 🏡 EMPTY NEST below and I’ll send you how I’m building a business that lets me be fully present for this bit, before it’s gone.

10/07/2026

Every woman I have ever brought onto my team has underestimated herself. Every single one.

I have thought about this a lot. As a leadership coach and three years building a team of over 200 gives you a particular vantage point on patterns. And the pattern I see most consistently is not a lack of skill, a lack of intelligence, or a lack of resilience. It is a deeply practised habit of discounting.

We discount what we have done because we were just doing our job. We discount what we have survived because other people have it worse. We discount what we are capable of because we have not done this specific thing before, and we confuse unfamiliarity with unreadiness.

Those are not the same thing.

The women who move fastest on my team are not the ones who arrived most confident. They’re the ones who took the first step before they felt ready, and discovered that confidence is not what gets you started. It’s what starting builds.

What you have already done is evidence. Evidence of exactly what you are capable of, so stop discounting it.

If any of this sounds familiar, stop underestimating yourself and give yourself permission to try something new.





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