Cindy Utterback
Cindy Utterback is a travel advisor, entrepreneur, and community leader based in Fresno who is passionate about helping families create meaningful travel experiences while encouraging women to prioritize themselves and their personal growth. Her journey into the travel industry began after taking her first family cruise in 2024, an experience that sparked both a love for travel planning and an unexpected business opportunity. Known for being an organized and detail-oriented planner, Cindy began sharing photos and experiences from her vacation online, which quickly led friends and followers to seek her advice on booking cruises and family trips. Inspired by the encouragement she received, she pursued certification as a travel agent and launched her own business, Dream Destinations by Cindy Utterback, where she now helps clients plan cruises, Disneyland vacations, and all-inclusive getaways tailored to their needs and budgets.
As a bilingual travel advisor who speaks both English and Spanish, Cindy works to make travel more accessible for diverse families and first-time travelers who may feel overwhelmed by the planning process. She creates personalized itineraries, offers financing options, and guides clients through every stage of their trip so they can travel with confidence and peace of mind. In addition to running her travel business, Cindy serves as president of the Fresno chapter of The Posh Mama Club, where she hosts weekly curated events designed to help mothers focus on self-care, connection, and empowerment. Through these gatherings, she encourages women not just to survive the demands of motherhood and daily life, but to truly thrive while building supportive relationships within their communities.
Cindy’s commitment to service extends beyond business and networking into hands-on community leadership. Since taking over operations at her church’s thrift store in 2025, she has transformed the environment by leading with compassion, respect, and faith. Rather than responding to challenges with fear or frustration, she chose to treat struggling individuals with kindness and dignity, creating unexpected trust and stronger community relationships. Cindy believes many of the leadership opportunities in her life appeared before she fully believed in herself, but through faith, perseverance, and dedication to others, she has grown into those roles with confidence and purpose. A homeschooling mother of four, she continues to balance family life, entrepreneurship, ministry, and mentorship while inspiring other women to pursue their goals with organization, passion, and heart.
• UCLA
• Fresno City College
• Posh Mama Club
• Church Thrift Store Ministry Leadership
What do you attribute your success to?
I feel like God's been trying to put me in a leadership position, and I kept not believing in myself, so I was kind of forced to do it. Leadership opportunities just kept coming to me. Even back in 2011 at different jobs, they always wanted to make me supervisor, but I would turn things down because I thought it sounded hard. But these recent things that happened, I did not ask for them. They told me I didn't have a choice, and now I'm killing it. I've changed everything about our thrift store. I run things differently, with love and respect. I treat people personally, I pray for them, and things are just different now. I didn't always believe I could do it, but I'm doing wonderful at it.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I think is just to keep going and don't give up. Keep posting, keep being passionate about what you believe in, and put all your love into it and put all your work into it. It's not going to come in a year, it's not going to come in two years. You have to have a mindset of at least 5 years. For me, it was my second year when everything just started getting crazy. All the sales for my travel agency came up on me, they made me the lead of the church, and then they made me the posh president. It all just came, but I had to keep going and not give up.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Stay organized, work with love, and make it where you want to help people. Just dedicate yourself and don't give up. You have to be organized when you're juggling so many things, but if you work with love and focus on helping people, that's what matters. Don't give up, even when it gets hard.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge is having a little one that is with me all the time. When I have my Posh Mom events, I have to make sure my husband is off. There are times when the girls want to have a brunch or coffee event, so I have to find childcare. I take my son to a daycare center because I don't have anybody but my husband - he's my support for everything I do. If I don't have my husband, then I have to pay for childcare. So I'm doing everything while I'm in the middle of homeschooling, or doing an activity, or a park, or playdate with my kids, and I have a business to take care of. I have clients that are traveling that I need to take care of, and I have vendors messaging me, sponsors that want to sponsor the club, charity events, non-profits inviting us to their events and galas. I have to do all that while I'm a mom.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Working with love and helping people is everything to me. I want moms to not just survive, but to take care of themselves and put themselves first, because when you're happy, when you're healthy, when you're thriving, everything falls into place after that. At the church thrift store, I make things personal. I pray for people, I treat the homeless with respect and kindness. I run things differently because I believe in treating people with love. I'm very humble about everything I do, and I want to make sure everything I do is accessible for others so they can have the same opportunities to thrive.