Slick Talk: The Hospitality Podcast

Join me, Wil Slickers, this week as I sit down with Thibault Masson, Founder of Rental Scale Up, and dive into his story as he got started with vacation rentals and eventually joined Booking.com and now is running his business and team full time!Rental Scale Up is known for its great amount of content that dives into data behind big companies like Airbnb, VRBO, Sonder, and many others. At the end of the day, the mission and goal of Rental Scale-Up are that it's an online platform welcoming several short-term rental industry experts ready to share their proven, hands-on experience and to help property managers grow their business, by bringing them actionable tips that they can use in their daily life.This was a fun episode so make sure to check out all the content on Rental Scale-Up and tune in again next week!This episode is sponsored by my friends at Jurny & Safely! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Turk is (in my mind) Mr. Miami! With a very successful career in hotels, food, and beverage, and creating amazing experiences, Steve sits down with me to go into his story of finding his passion in the industry and how that has turned into becoming a founder and industry leader with multiple adventures in the industry.Thank you to our sponsors for bringing these episodes to life! It was a pleasure to meet Steve and over 20 other industry leaders in hospitality at our happy hour event in Miami this last week!This episode is sponsored by Jurny & NoiseAware!Links to find Steve on every platform!Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevelturk/Instagram: @stevelturkTikTok: @steveturkClubhouse: @steveturkFacebook: facebook.com/stevelturk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"If these last two years have taught us anything is hoteliers are eternal optimists, and I love that about them." - Adam Harris, Co-Founder of CloudbedsThis quote was like music to my ears as I was going through the transcript of this episode. To add to it, hospitality as a whole industry is full of eternal optimists and people who truly are in it for the love and passion of people.In this episode, you're going to hear Adam and I talk about the early beginnings of Cloudbeds and the company it's become over the years and how they're helping the industry rethink some old ways of doing things after the last two years of COVID. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every year, I look forward to the Industry Report that Hostfully publishes for all in the vacation rental industry!In the last two years, I have been able to contribute some thoughts to this report through my partnership with Hostfully!In this episode, David Jacoby (Co-Founder of Hostfully) and Fred Bassili (Marketing Manager) join me to cover the finds from 2020 & 2021 and how they will impact our 2022 moving forward!To download the report, use this link: https://reports.hostfully.com/2021-hospitality-report-wil-slickersThank you to this episode's sponsors, Hostfully, Jetstream, and Operto! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andreas and I were supposed to record an episode together back in early 2020 but never got the chance due to the pandemic. Now, we finally got the time to sit down and go into his story and the story behind the brand of Sextant Stays.I also had the pleasure to meet Brandy, COO of Sextant Stays, at the VRMA conference and covered a portion of her story and interaction with the brand from the beginning to help set the scene for this episode as well!Thank you to our sponsors at NoiseAware, Jetstream, and Operto!Learn more about Sextant Stays here and use my code SLICKTALK15 for 15% off of your stay with a Sextant property! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wellengood President & CEO Glenn Malone co-founded the hotel management and development firm in 2002. As Executive, Malone plays an integral role in expanding the company’s long-term hotel development, operations, and ownership portfolio. He is one of the founding partners in AAA 4-Diamond hotel The Westin Memphis, which is one of Wellengood’s clients.Glenn grew up in humble beginnings and started his hotel career as a busboy and worked his way up to being a founder and hotel executive. Links:Website: https://www.wellengood.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellengood/Thank you to our Podcast Partners, Jurny & Safely for supporting episodes like this one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The final bonus episode from the VRMA International Conference and this one is much needed for hosts and professional property managers! We all know that furniture and purchasing furniture for one property or multiple properties can be a real pain and Host GPO is helping operators standardize that process and save a few dollars along the way!Learn more about Host GPO and Jeff on LinkedIn and on their website!Shoutout to our show sponsors Jurny & NoiseAware for letting us bring these in-person episodes to life and on the airwaves! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Moeller is the CEO and Co-Founder of Overnight Success with Jasper Ribbers and they focus on putting together Mastermind events and have other educational offerings within their company, one of which I attended! I was involved in their 90-day accelerator program called Legends X and it was a great program for me and my vacation rental business and would highly recommend checking it out if you're trying to scale a profitable and systemized vacation rental company!In this episode, you will hear Eric's story about getting into the industry, his challenges with the arbitrage management model, and shifting it to a traditional management model, launching their experiential hospitality brand called Freewyld which is a property with some tiny cabins in the destination and with big goals to set a new standard for their guests.Links/mentions in this episode:https://www.overnightsuccess.io/Get Paid For Your Pad PodcastHostfully: Use Code SLICKTALK20Our Podcast is really proud to showcase our show sponsors and partners and as you'll hear in this episode, we love working with Jurny and we think you will too! Also, if you have a vacation rental, you need to check out Safely.com to make sure you're staying protected during guest stays in your home! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Adams and his international luxury hospitality consulting firm EAG are currently opening 100 hotels during Q3 and Q4 of this year, partnering with Marriott International to transform locations for The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, W, Westin, and Renaissance among others all over the world. He has worked on everything from the acclaimed Italian steakhouse Davio's in Atlanta to the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and is heavily involved in the continued evolution of Marriott's beverage program. Chris is a disruptor of the hospitality industry and has climbed the ladder from pool attendant at The Ritz-Carlton to transforming Ritz-Carltons. He also has a spirit in the works with rapper, G-Eazy.In our episode together, despite all of the amazing and fancy things listed above, it was never always like this for Chris. When he joined me on this episode, we uncovered the journey of his biggest failures, the pain and humility of starting all over again, and how he learned from everything to then accomplish real success that was greater than himself.Links:https://www.instagram.com/chrisadams_eag/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-adams-07aa7b57/https://www.ellisadamsgroup.com/https://www.instagram.com/ellisadamsofficial/Thank you Jurny & NoiseAware for supporting amazing episodes like this one with Chris Adams! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John is a short-term rental industry expert, with particular expertise in optimizing and customizing the technology stack, driving up revenue, and continually streamlining operations. Leveraging his experience in building, growing, and operating a successful short-term rental brand from the ground up, John constantly utilizes his own short-term rental business as a fertile testing ground to roll up his sleeves and dig in to experiment with new systems, technologies, and approaches.John is an architect by training. With a Doctorate in Building Physics from Harvard University, John was previously was an expert consultant in the environmental sustainability industry. The short-term rental industry is John’s second career and he is passionate about and is dedicated to helping professionalize the industry.In this episode of Slick Talk, we dive into his personal story of becoming an entrepreneur, his "why" behind it all, the challenges on regulations in Hawaii, and his new venture with AJL.Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-an-0762b8a/www.gettechtape.comwww.ohanastay.comhttps://ajlatelier.com/team/As always, a huge thank you to our Podcast Partners, Jurny for headlining the show and for Safely being a long-time committed partner with us as well! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices