{"podcast":{"title":"APNow","slug":"apnow-1047497","podcast_index_feed_id":1047497,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/apnow/feed.xml","website_url":"https://apnow.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4711704/podcastlogo_-square.jpg","author":"Mary Schaeffer","episode_count":100,"summary":"Worried about keeping up with changing best practices, fraud, technology, regulatory concerns, and new processes impacting your accounts payable function? The AP Now podcast, hosted by Mary Schaeffer, one of the leading accounts payable experts, is for you. Mary will be joined by other thought leaders and practitioners for some episodes. In others, she’ll examine a prevailing issue or trend by herself. This weekly broadcast is especially designed to provide the needed business intelligence related to the payment and accounts payable functions. It’s for those who work in, manage, have responsibility for, or provide services to the accounts payable function. Find the AP Now podcast wherever you listen to podcasts or head over to www.ap-now.com, and sign up for our ezine to be alerted to new issues.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T04:19:04.327151+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/apnow-1047497"},"episode":{"title":"Travel Dos, Don’ts & Weird Taboos You Never Knew","slug":"travel-dos-don-ts-weird-taboos-you-never-knew","published_at":"2026-09-15T12:36:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/apnow-1047497/travel-dos-don-ts-weird-taboos-you-never-knew","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/apnow-1047497","url":"https://apnow.podbean.com/e/travel-dos-don-ts-weird-taboos-you-never-knew/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ngdjmcnwsv6hdheq/travei.mp3","summary":"Business travel seems straightforward… until you realize there are unspoken rules, cultural taboos, and everyday habits that quietly create problems for travelers. In today’s episode, Mary sits down with Deborah Thomas-Nininger, author of Travel Etiquette: Dos, Taboos, and Who Does That?, to uncover the surprising behaviors smart travelers still get wrong. From airport etiquette to global cultural expectations, Deborah shares practical insights that make every trip smoother — and reveals the one mistake business travelers make without even realizing it. Stay until the end for that one. It’s simple, universal, and easy to fix. What We Cover in This Episode: The weirdest travel taboo most people have never heard of Who gets the armrests The travel taboo that applies to planes, trains, cars, subways, and buses The “travel rule” people obsess over… that doesn’t matter at all One thing travelers should start doing today to improve every trip The dos and taboos of retrieving luggage at the carousel Why people jump up the second the plane lands — and whether row‑by‑row exiting is still the norm The travel behavior people think is normal… but actually causes the most problems. #TravelEtiquette #BusinessTravel #TravelMistakes #TravelTaboos link to Seven Deadly Interview Mistakes – And How to Avoid Them https://youtu.be/S47q_YcixKM Link to all Deborah’s books https://www.amazon.com/stores/Deborah-Thomas-Nininger/author/B0GYDW8FD9?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=99e7aeea-f212-47f9-b135-524a680a006e Link to Travel Etiquette Dos, Taboos & \"Who Does That?!\" (MiniManners Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/Travel-Etiquette-Taboos-Does-MiniManners-ebook/dp/B0D3FFKH4T/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=VKuYO&content-id=amzn1.sym.171c1bd3-e559-4de5-8b1c-2e86c02e2e84&amp…","meta_description":"Business travel seems straightforward… until you realize there are unspoken rules, cultural taboos, and everyday habits that quietly create problems for t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":662,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/apnow-1047497/episodes/travel-dos-don-ts-weird-taboos-you-never-knew/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/apnow-1047497/travel-dos-don-ts-weird-taboos-you-never-knew.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}