Born and raised in New York City, Pamela Schein Murphy didn’t travel much until she was in her thirties, but once she started, discovering new places became an essential part of her being.

Drawn to the excitement and fast pace of the media world, Murphy pursued literature, psychology and women’s studies at the University of Rhode Island and later earned her Master’s Degree in Magazine Journalism from New York University. Working her way through the ranks of print media, she worked at some of the publishing world’s biggest women’s magazines, such as Fitness, Mirabella, Elle, and Glamour.

After successfully climbing the masthead, Murphy created her first independent venture, a national lifestyle magazine called Madison. For readers with an appreciation of the arts, culture, photography, and architecture, the magazine covered book reviews, travel, food, fashion, commerce, and entertainment. She went on to add Film Producer (with actor Ed Burns) and Marketing Director (of her husband, Chef Marc Murphy’s restaurant group) to her resume, and also ran The R.E.S.T. Initiative, a non-profit organization that brought massage therapies directly into chemotherapy treatment rooms, which she started after completing her own battle with breast cancer. Today, the program runs at the NYU Clinical Cancer Center as part of the alternative medicine practice. Most recently, she was the Founder and Editorial Director of the online magazine, The Select 7, a platform imagined from years of travel, research, recommendations, and list-keeping.

But once the pandemic dust settled, Murphy realized that she needed to find a new path for herself, and that path led directly to her new role as Travel Advisor. Designing and curating trips for friends and family has long been a passion, and now she’s able to turn that passion into a career.

Murphy lives in New York City with her husband, Marc and their two children, Campbell and Callen.