Slick Talk: The Hospitality Podcast

Tejal Patel is a 3rd generation hotelier by choice and a strong leader in the hospitality industry! It was a breath of fresh air to talk to her about her journey as she has grown through many challenges, victories, and struggles a like! Tejal and I both discuss our mental health and how to avoid burn out but then also dive into the qualities of an affective leader.   Tejal also went from hotel employee to hotel owner! You will hear her talk about how she plans on bridging that gap of the employees and ownership!   Mentioned in this episode:   Hotel.School Course Giveaway! First 50 people to redeem the code "GMH2020" with get their course for FREE from Hotel.School Tejals Website Tejals LinkedIn Tejals Blog Slick Talk Website & Socials Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Juliana Hahn is a content creator and copywriter specialized in writing for the hospitality and tourism industry. Before diving into the world of copywriting several years ago, she studied hotel management and worked in hotels around the globe. Today she leverages her industry experience to craft engaging content for hospitality tech companies, hotels and online publications. You can find her at  www.hospitality-copywriting.com   This episode is sponsored by Hostfully, a digital guidebook and property management platform that was created to help short term rental property managers optimize their operations and profits! Use my code SLICKTALK20 for 20% off their digital guidebooks! Mentioned in this episode:   Slick Talk Website & Socials: https://linktr.ee/Slicktalk  Julianas Website: www.hospitality-copywriting.com   Julianas LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianahahn/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis is the Head of Business Development for US & Canada regions for Marriotts Homes & Villas program and we discuss some of the outcomes during 2020 with COVID19 in the Vacation Rental market and what we both "hope" for in the future to come in this next year!   Mentioned in this episode:   Marriott Homes & Villas (https://homes-and-villas.marriott.com/)  Slick Talk Website & Socials (www.slicktalkthepodcast.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Lund has been helping hotels understand their financials for a while now and in this exclusive interview on the podcast, he gives the top insights on how to interview a hotel GM in order to make sure they will not only be good leaders for the hotel but they will be financial leaders and lead the charge by making sure all departments understand the importance of proper budgeting, forecasting, and operations! Mentioned in this episode: Financial Coach Website Slick Talk Website & Socials Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's one thing to have a seat at the table but it's completely another thing to always be dragging your chair around with you to put at the table when the time comes. Do you have your chair? You should because you don't want to miss this episode as Dana Lubner, Head of Advocacy at Rent Responsibly, sits down to talk with me about the importance of advocacy in the short term rental industry and what it looks like to be actively living it out! I also want to give a big thank you and shoutout to the shows sponsor, Hostfully! Thank you for helping make all of this possible! I love you guys! Mentioned in this episode: Rent Responsibly NoiseAware Return on Rentals Virtual Event Effortless Rentals Group How To Save Your Vacation Rental Business Podcast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man that needs no introduction to the show, Jeremy Gall has joined me to talk about trends from the year and not only that but the rise of quality control when it comes to property standards, maintenance, and upkeep as it will be something that leads us into 2021 and the forever rise of professionalism in the short term rental industry. This episode is sponsored by Hostfully and they have nothing but amazing things to say about Breezeway as well! Thank you Hostfully for supporting the podcast and everything Slick Talk! Mentioned in this episode: Breezeway Website Slick Talk Website & Socials Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I chat with Patricia from Hotel.School! We talk about the importance of brain-based micro learning and hospitality re-skills & up-skills! Make sure to listen because there is also something going on for both of my hotel and vacation rental audience! Patricia has an extensive background in hospitality and brings her amazing experience and management skills to light when we discussed the creation and overall impact Hotel.School has had during the times of national lockdowns and stay at home. Mentioned in this episode: Hotel.School Website Hotel.School Instagram Hotel.School LinkedIn Slick Talk Websites & Socials  Patricia's email for anyone wanting to find out more: patricia@hotel.school Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hannah Smith is a Senior Consultant at STR (I am a huge geek/fan of STR from my hotel management days) and she was able to join me to discuss all the data and findings they are discovering over at STR! In this episode, you will hear us talk about what the road to recovery looks like, key things hotels are doing in order to get occupancy, short term and long term trends and the newest Q3 Updated Forecast! Go to the Slick Talk blog to see the PDF Data Deck that Hannah put together for all of you to see while you listen! Mentioned in this episode: STR Website STR Twitter Slick Talk Website & Socials Slick Talk Blog with Data Deck Provided by Hannah! Slick Talk Audience Survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I wanted to put this on Slick Talk because I love including you all in what else is going on with me and other things that I am involved in! I don't know how many of you know this yet but, I have a 2nd show/podcast called Good Morning Hospitality! It goes live every Monday morning with my two co-hosts, Michael Goldin from NoiseAware & Michael Ros from Bidroom.com! I would love your support (thank you all for those who already follow everything going on!) by liking the socials and subscribing on YouTube! I put together an audience survey as well! It only takes two minutes to answer these six questions and it means the world to me to be able to update and enhance the content for you all! Good Morning Hospitality Slick Talk Audience Survey Slick Talk Website & Socials NoiseAware Bidroom.com Guardhog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cindy has been a serial entrepreneur since she was 19! A true go-getter! She was the first to develop a new kind of residential hospitality and co-founded Niido and Natiivo residential communities designed for homesharing which resulted in a first-ever partnership with Airbnb, Brookfield Property Partners & Citibank.  Now Co-Founder of Orion Haus, Cindy and her team are changing the landscape of how we look at the housing & vacation rental market by providing a solution that encourages their renters to list their unit on marketing sites like Airbnb, VRBO, and others!  Mentioned in this episode: Orion Haus Website Orion Haus Instagram Slick Talk Website & Socials  Slick Talk Audience Survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices