“Super Nanny’ Shannon Albrecht is the creator and President of President/Nanny-Land®️, LLC, the world’s only company specializing in Nannies at Disney!
Located at most Disney locations worldwide, and available on Disney cruise Lines they provide you with a Magical Nanny for your Family Adventures!
Shannon joined The Debbie Nigro Show to share that most of her clients are simply families who could use an extra set of hands when they take a Disney Adventure.
Typical families who book with her might have 3 or 4 kids, a child with special needs, or kids with a large age gap. Single parents find this service invaluable as do parents with disabilities.
Shannon knows firsthand how helpful her service is because she herself uses a wheelchair and has a son with autism spectrum disorder.
Shannon says, “A lot of parents will ask, what’s the difference between your Disney nannies and me just bringing my nanny from home. Of course, your nanny from home knows you and they know your children personally, but they may also not really know the Disney parks. They also probably do not have, especially if you’re traveling from out of state, a Disney annual pass, so therefore you have to buy their tickets in the park every day. Our nannies that help in parks are called our golden crown nannies. They’re local to Disney. They visit Disney multiple times a week, some of them every single day. They have Disney annual passes so they’re not only childcare professionals, they’re also Disney masters and Disney experts.”
“I should also throw in there that most families that come to us have never even been to Disney. It’s usually their once-in-a-lifetime trip or their first trip I’d say as high as 70 or 80 percent of families. We do get reoccurring
families but a lot of them are new to Disney and when they arrive, parents especially have no idea how exhausting it is and so providing them with a nanny for Disney helps them navigate the parks, it helps keep an eye on the best of both worlds. The family fun time and just adult assistance or adult downtime. I think most parents don’t take that into consideration how physically and emotionally exhausting it is.”
Nanny-Land offers lots of ways to make the trip more fun for everybody traveling, including Nannies for date nights and Nannies to grab the kids early mornings so adults can get a little more sleep. (Which if you’ve ever been on a vacation with kids, you know is desperately needed.)
Shannon says, “That’s a very popular service we call a sleepy session and that’s from our silver crown nannies which are the nannies that help with the resorts and the hotels. Because we operate around the clock we never close so we work any hours and and not for an extra price. We’ll work really early really late throughout the night. A sleepy session is when a silver crown nanny comes to the resort or hotel as early as you want 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m. to wake up with the kids, get them ready for the day, have breakfast with them, and start the morning so that mom and dad can sleep in. And this is really popular after a date night, the night before. That’s huge. Huge. And or after a big park day, the day before, so they can recharge, so they can be there at the parks for their children.”
All Nanny-Land Nannies are CPR certified and background checked, and all Nannies are Disney annual theme park pass holders and locals familiar with the parks. They make great stroller pushers and family photographers too. All Nannies and families are paired before the trip.
Enjoy meeting Founder Shannon Albrecht / President/Nanny-Land®️, LLC in this podcast of our live conversation on The Debbie Nigro Show! ( that’s her above with the red hair lol) I fyou’d rather read than listen the transcript of the audio is below.
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:
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And now, back to the Debbie Nigro Show.
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Okay, air feels great and this show is warm. So welcome to my show, guys. I always try and bring your fascinating people and watch the trends so you know ahead of the curve what’s cooking in the world that you need to know about. So this is the Debbie Nigro Show brought to you by Nationwide Maintenance, in business
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for over 30 years, privately owned, woman owned, serving New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and they are amazing, highly recognized there, started as a small awning company and went on to now become a nationwide services company that does everything from construction services, handyman, pressure washing, you name it. And then there’s Vinnie Groppa and the Gunite Pools of Westchester and beyond in Connecticut and Hamptons and all over the country.
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Went on vacation with my daughters little family and helped take care of two children ages five and two. It took me a week to recover. I couldn’t chase. I just kept going. They don’t stop.
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It’s not that I didn’t love being there, but boy, oh boy, I could have used some help myself and I was the help. So when I read about this company called Nannyland, I was like, wow, how genius is this gal who created this. Now, there’s a company, if you’re hearing about it for the first time, called Nannyland. They are the official nannies of Disney.
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It’s all the brainchild of super nanny Shannon Albrecht, who created this brilliant company she’s now president of, the world’s only company specializing in nannies at Disney. And they’re located at most Disney locations around the world, available too on the Disney Cruise Lines, and they always provide you with a magical nanny for your family adventures. Let me tell you why you should listen to Shannon right now. It’s because this is not just for rich people.
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This is for people who need help with kids while they’re trying to have fun. Hello, Shannon. Welcome.
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Hi, Debbie.
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Thanks for having me.
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Oh, you are something else, girlfriend. I am so impressed that you figured this out and got Disney to go along with it because I’m sure they know you’re doing this, correct?
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Yes, we are a third-party company. I should state that right away. We’re not owned or operated by Disney or partnered with Disney, but we do have a good relationship
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with them.
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Yes, it’s really important when you have a relationship with a company as large as Disney because they vet everybody. And let’s go to vetting and nannies that work for Nannyland. All the people that come to you who want to be nannies don’t qualify. What percentage of nannies actually get chosen by you
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to be nannies under your umbrella? That’s a great question because we get
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quite literally hundreds of applicants every single week of Nannies all over the country all over the world and I would say on average about 10 to 15 percent or 10 to 15 out of every hundred applicants make it through our kingdom doors per se.
So you do big background checks? What was that?
Big background checks? Yep, we do a very heavy vetting and screening process. So they apply, we not only background check them,
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we drug screen them, they go through a regular employment screening, we double check their background via social media. They also undergo a mental health screening and they also undergo ongoing training at our Nannyland Academy,
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which just helps keep them Disney savvy. It helps remind them what to do with children with behavioral challenges, difficult or hyperactive parents, as we like to call them.
That’s funny. And just kind of the new Disney trend so that they’re very Disney savvy and also child care professional savvy so they can take care of children at Disney.
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I mean this is so needed. It’s crazy. When families finally get enough money to take everybody on vacation, and it’s not cheap to go to Disney, okay, it’s surely not cheap, you get there and you want to try and enjoy it to the best of your ability, but it’s a stressful trip because there’s a lot of stimulation, there’s a lot of things going on, and most people don’t know how it all What I love about what you are doing here is that the nannies who work for you, we’ll talk about how the average person can afford this,
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are already pass holders, annual theme pass park holders at the parks. They are local, so they know the drill.
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Yes. Amazing.
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Yes, and that’s what makes them, in my opinion, better than a travel nanny. A lot of parents will ask, you know, what’s the difference between your Disney nannies and me just bringing my nanny from home. Of course, your nanny from home knows you and they know your children personally, but they may also not really know the Disney parks. They also probably do not have, especially if you’re traveling from out of state, a Disney annual pass, so therefore you have to buy
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their tickets in the park every day. Our nannies that help in parks are called our golden crown nannies. They’re local to Disney. They visit Disney multiple times a week, some of them every single day. They have Disney annual passes so they’re not only child care professionals, they’re also Disney masters and Disney experts. So what
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that does for a family, we like to say that it helps a family and most, I should also throw in there that most families that come to us have never even been to Disney. It’s usually their once-in-a-lifetime trip or their first trip I’d say as high as 70 or 80 percent of families. We do get reoccurring
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families but a lot of them are new to Disney and when they arrive, parents especially have no idea how exhausting it is and so providing them with a nanny for Disney helps them navigate the parks, it helps keep an eye on the best of both worlds. The family fun time and also just adult assistance or adult downtime because like you said in the beginning of the segment that it was exhausting for you to go on your own family vacation
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with your grandkids and I think most parents don’t take that into consideration how physically and emotionally exhausting it is.
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Shannon, do I look like a nanny to you? I am somebody’s grandmother. I am the most loving person. I will jump over hurdles like those girls in the
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Olympics for my grandkids. We have so many grandparents that say that because they’re like my daughter or my son wanted me to come and help you know quote-unquote help with the kids and I want to have fun too. I don’t want to just watch the kids. I want to spend time with the kids but completely taking on the children as their main caregiver, then takes it away, takes the whole experience away from grandma or aunt or uncle or whoever you bring with you when they should be enjoying their time as well. No, they
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told me I wasn’t, I wasn’t coming for babies and they wanted me to come enjoy the trip. I think they lied to me, Shannon. Okay, you can go. They lied, they tried to say, anyway, Shannon Albrecht is who we’re talking about. She’s the super nanny, creator and president of Nannyland, the world’s only company specializing in nannies at Disney. I just want to reiterate something that I know you are passionate about people knowing.
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These nannies are not just for the rich and famous. These are for, as I understand it, typical families who might have like three or four kids, a kid with special needs, kids with a large age gap, single parents find this incredibly invaluable, parents themselves with disabilities. So, I think you really have covered a lot of bases of ways to help people have more fun.
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I just think you’re brilliant. Yeah, I’m very happy you said that too because that’s also a huge, it’s one of two huge misconceptions, probably our main two, is people assume that our services are only for high net worth families. Yes, Disney alone is expensive. We all know that. Right. Even go to Disney is a pricey thing. That’s why a lot of families only go to Disney once in their life. Again, it’s something they save for years and
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it’s their once-in-their-lifetime, you know, family vacation. Some people go more than once. We’re a very affordable service compared to everything at Disney, including just a hamburger. I mean, really. Right. Because everything is very expensive, from the toys to the food to the admission tickets to the hotels and the resorts. So we’re definitely for any family and adding in that cost is worth it to be able to make that vacation more enjoyable.
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And the second misconception is that people will hire us to kind of take over or take the place of the parents. and a lot of people will get negative comments on social media about, well, why wouldn’t you want to spend time with your children at Disney? So I think people assume that we just take over for the parents and the parents don’t even spend time when really we’re just added to the group to help the parents as well.
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Right, right.
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So that also shouldn’t be farther from the truth.
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Right. I mean, to push some strollers, go on a crazy park ride that says, check your heart first, like send the nanny with the heart. Heart warning. All the nannies and families are paired up before the trip, so there’s a
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simpatico there? Yeah, they’re dropped into an app where they get to even watch a little cartoon movie all about their nanny to get to know them better. They’ll be able to chat with their nanny before their adventure and all the way through their adventure, and that’s a good way of communication. So even if they separate in the park, which is completely up to the family, you don’t have to do that, they’ll be able to contact each other via that chat room in the app that they use.
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Yeah, it’s cool. I love that you also said that you got nannies for date nights. Parents love that, having a minute for themselves on a trip with their kids. And also, the big one, to help in the early morning, so in case the parents who are already exhausted want to get another hour or two of sleep. I mean, I was like, wow, I would hire them just for that.
That’s a very popular service we call a sleepy session and that’s from our silver crown nannies which are the nannies that help with the resorts and the hotels. Because we operate around the clock we never close so we work any hours and and not for an extra price. We’ll work really early really late throughout the night. A sleepy session is when a silver crown nanny comes to the resort or hotel as early as you want 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m. to wake up with the kids, get them ready for the day, have breakfast with them, and start the morning so that mom and dad can sleep in. And this is really popular after a date night, the night before. That’s huge. Huge. And or after a big park day, the day before, so they can recharge, so they can be there at the parks for their children.
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Yeah, because the kids, they don’t get tired. Did you notice this?
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No.
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No. The parents are like paralyzed and the kids just don’t get tired.
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I just think it’s fantastic. I not only work seven days a week, but I’m a mom to an ASD seven-year-old and I’m also almost 50 and I agree with that. I don’t go to Disney without getting one of my nannies because even though I have a background of being a super nanny, I also feel like I need the help.
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So what is a super nanny, Shannon Albrecht, that gave you the right to start this company? What is a super nanny?
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My background is I worked as a high profile nanny for celebrities and high net worth families all over the country, a little bit all over the world, 28 years. And it’s something that I did from the moment I was out of high school all the way through opening Nannyland. And I think that gave me a couple things. It obviously gave me an insight in the child care professional world and how and much this
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service was needed because I was the nanny that would travel with families to Disney or like I said with my own family and I was throughout the years over the last 10 years, we’ve been open only five and a half years, but this idea came to me about 10 years ago when I realized that this is not something that Disney offers. Disney has tour guides, Disney has all these other services and these assistants and whatnot, but they don’t have a nanny service and yes people have their own nannies at home
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and they can hire nannies, but nannies that are specific for Disney is such a different type of travel nanny and that comes from someone who’s traveled all over the world with family. It’s just that Disney specifically is just a whole other world and it’s so helpful for families, any type of family, single parents, disabled parents, grandma and grandpa, rambunctious children, ASD children, different ages of children. It is so busy and so chaotic at Disney. While being fun, it’s just really hard for every single party to enjoy themselves without like
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a little extra help.
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Yeah, that’s great. Wow. I have an idea for you that we’ll have to talk about separately about a division that I want you to consider starting, which is I think a lot of people who’ve never been to Disney in their whole life, who are older, would love to go but don’t know anything about it.
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And I have a friend of mine who’s a Disney nut job, nut job. She’s at the payout, she goes all the time. I go, she wants to take all the older people and show them around. So I have to introduce
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you.
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I love it. We would love to do that.
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Okay. You got it. So joyful meeting you. I’m so proud of your, you know, how you took your life’s work and turned it into some innovative, brilliant company.
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Thank you so much. And thank you so much for having us on.
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Yeah, you’re great. Supernanny Shannon Albrecht, the creator and president of Nannyland, world’s only company specializing in nannies at Disney, at most Disney locations around the world, and on the Disney cruise lines too. You can find out more about them at nannyland.com. And if you have any questions, feel free to send them. She answers very quickly at smile at nanny hyphen land dot com.
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Have a great day, Shannon.
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Thanks, Debbie. Happy Friday.
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Happy Friday. Be well. Happy Friday. Be well. More to come on the Debbie Nigro Show next.
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