Podcasts about luxury retreats

Join us in this illuminating episode as we sit down with the incredible Tamika Carlton, the visionary behind "CouplesExperience.Com" Luxurious Retreats and Date Night Subscription Boxes. Tamika shares her inspiring journey of entrepreneurship and her passion for creating unforgettable experiences that nurture relationships and bring joy into people's lives.Discover the secrets behind Tamika's mission to defy the odds and shatter the statistic that only 14% of people are truly happy. From curated retreats in breathtaking destinations to thoughtfully crafted date night experiences delivered right to your doorstep, Tamika's business ventures are all about fostering connection, love, and happiness.Get ready for an engaging conversation filled with insights on the importance of prioritizing happiness, nurturing relationships, and embracing life's little luxuries. Whether you're seeking inspiration for your next romantic getaway or looking to infuse more joy into your daily routine, this episode with Tamika Carlton is sure to leave you feeling inspired and empowered to live your happiest life.Support the showInstagram:@itsandreaknoche@from.mrs.2.ms@Savvi_andreakTikTok@itsandreaknoche@from.mrs.2.ms@Savvi_andreakWebsite: www.frommrstoms.netEmail: info@frommrstoms.net

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In this episode, we're joined by Franceska McCaughan, an inspiring individual with a remarkable journey to share. From her experiences in the floral industry to her transformative trips to Africa, Franceska's story is a testament to the power of personal growth and resilience.Franceska opens up about her evolution from the floral world to becoming a successful coach. Her determination to support women in creating businesses during challenging times led her to unexpected paths. She delves into the importance of emotional intelligence and personal development in her journey. Franceska also touches on the impact of human design in her life and work.Franceska's latest venture, "Surthriving," is not just about surviving or thriving, but about making choices that empower us to transcend circumstances. Her book, set to release soon, promises to be a source of inspiration for those seeking to navigate life's challenges with grace and purpose.Key Takeaways:1. Embracing Change: Franceska's journey highlights the power of adaptability and the willingness to pivot when faced with new opportunities.2. The Role of Emotional Intelligence: Beyond strategy, Franceska emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence and personal development in building successful businesses.3. Human Design and Self-Discovery: Franceska's exploration of human design opened new doors for self-awareness, guiding her towards a more authentic path.4. The Gift of Giving and Receiving: Franceska shares insights on the art of giving and receiving, and how understanding love languages can enrich relationships.5. "Surthriving": Franceska's upcoming book offers a fresh perspective on navigating life's challenges, encouraging readers to make choices that empower them.Connect with Franceska:For more insights and to connect with Franceska, visit her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/franceska.mccaughan/?hl=en andhttps://www.goddessmillionairess.comRead her book "Surthriving." https://amzn.to/3N4oaIbThank you for joining us on this enriching conversation with Franceska McCaughan. Remember, it's never too late to embark on a journey of personal growth and empowerment. Stay tuned for more inspiring stories and valuable insights in our upcoming episodes! Find out more about Juliette Karaman here: https://feelfullyyou.com/free-resources/ https://www.instagram.com/juliettekaraman/https://www.facebook.com/juliette.karamanvanschaardenburgDon't forget to Rate and Subscribe to stay updated with all of the latest shows and resources. Please leave a review so more people can tune in and the ripple effect spreads further. Take a screenshot of your review and send it to me on https://www.instagram.com/juliettekaraman/ and you will be given access to a free group Spinal Attunement session. These have been life-changing for my clients!

Lauren and Paul talked about what it was like to work at Airbnb when the startup environment had so much money flowing through it. They touched on the short-term effects of Covid, as well as the longer-term ones. It seems like there's more curiosity from the general public. Of course, they had to touch on the “Airbnbust” idea. Some areas are certainly becoming oversaturated. Paul gives great advice on underwriting your deals: think of the bear case and the bull case. In the last few years, it's easy to wonder if people underwrote based on bull cases. Lauren and Paul discussed about tiers of homes: large/luxury homes, “comfort plus,” and “economy.” Paul believes that “comfort plus” place is where you want to be. Some economy-type travelers may treat themselves to a nicer stay. The usual luxury travelers may go to “comfort plus” when tightening belts. Overall, Paul recommends diversification to meet the demand where it is. Whether you're in short- or long-term rentals, look at the annual returns. While none of us can predict the future, Paul believes their will be a culling of short-term rentals over the next few years, but that's healthy. Paul and his company Summer overall are bullish on this industry and are excited to see what the future holds. Sponsored by: https://gosummer.com/ If you liked this episode, you may also like episode 98, about a host turning an actual bank into a short-term rental. About Paul Kromidas: Paul is Co-Founder & CEO of Summer, pioneering a new approach to unlocking second and vacation home ownership. He is an accomplished operator and leader, with over 10 years of experience growing and scaling teams across technology, real estate, finance, and strategy at Airbnb, Deloitte, Alfred, and Moody's. Prior to founding Summer, Paul was a Product and Strategy leader at Airbnb, where he led the integration of Luxury Retreats and the creation of the Airbnb Luxe product. Connect with Summer: www.gosummer.com https://twitter.com/startsummering https://www.instagram.com/startsummering/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/summer-inc/ Connect with Lauren: https://twitter.com/AdultingIsEasy https://www.instagram.com/adultingiseasyreal/ https://www.housemoneymedia.com/

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW Paul Curtman (https://paulcurtman.com/) and Nick Schroer (https://www.nickschroer.com/) are in for Tim and Chris today 0:00 SEG 1 Socialism and communism always fails 14:21 SEG 2 Jim Carafano is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges at Heritage.org https://twitter.com/JJCarafano  30:43 SEG 3 Jennifer Van Laar from RedState on her article EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of RNC Spending Since 2017 Shows Millions Were Spent on Private Jets, Limousines, Luxury Retreats, Broadway Shows https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/12/14/exclusive-analysis-of-rnc-spending-since-2017-shows-millions-were-spent-on-private-jets-limousines-luxury-retreats-broadway-shows-and-more-n673852  https://redstate.com/author/jenvanlaar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW Paul Curtman (https://paulcurtman.com/) and Nick Schroer (https://www.nickschroer.com/) are in for Tim and Chris today 0:00 SEG 1 Socialism and communism always fails 14:21 SEG 2 Jim Carafano is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges at Heritage.org https://twitter.com/JJCarafano  30:43 SEG 3 Jennifer Van Laar from RedState on her article EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of RNC Spending Since 2017 Shows Millions Were Spent on Private Jets, Limousines, Luxury Retreats, Broadway Shows https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/12/14/exclusive-analysis-of-rnc-spending-since-2017-shows-millions-were-spent-on-private-jets-limousines-luxury-retreats-broadway-shows-and-more-n673852  https://redstate.com/author/jenvanlaar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Finding Certainty, in honor of Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday savings, host Patrick Laing shares the mic with CEO and Founder of Five Diamond Club, Michael Del Toro, discussing how to access deep discount wholesale pricing and benefits on your own personal and business travel. A wholesale travel provider that is changing how people travel all over the world, Michael draws back the curtain on how airline employees and travel agents can afford to go on so many exotic vacations. Following a 20-year exclusive contract with U. S.-based legacy airline employees (from 1998 to 2018), Five Diamond Club has now made these exclusive benefits (and secrets) available to the general public worldwide. Since 1998, FDC has been helping people like yourself all over the world enjoy low-cost luxury vacations through their pre-negotiated exclusive wholesale rates with resorts, hotels, cruise lines, and other providers worldwide. Say goodbye to high service fees, commissions, less-than-stellar stays, and excessive profit margins (whenever you book with online travel agencies/sites, timeshares, travel clubs, and similar companies). Join the most affordable subscription travel option available today that is quickly reinventing travel and rapidly disrupting the industry as we know it. If you're a business owner or executive of a company, imagine how you can build both client and employee loyalty by offering such exclusive and desired benefits. Michael Del Toro and his team's commitment is to provide you with the best personalized world-class travel experiences and savings available. Their family brings more than 100 years of travel experience to you and yours. Their main goal? To help you live a more care-free, stress-free, worry-free, and enjoyable life … life (and travel) how they were meant to be. To learn more visit https://fivediamondclub.com/cmgt/

Welcome to Season 2, episode 3 of Backstage Pass, the podcast by Front Row Ventures taking you behind the scenes into Canada's tech ecosystem and its success stories. Today, we're happy to have Chris Arsenault as our guest. Chris is the co-founder, President & CEO of Inovia Capital, one of Canada's largest Venture Capital firms with now over $2.2 billion dollars under management. Chris currently serves as a director on the boards of AppDirect, Groupe Dynamite, Poka, Snapcommerce, LifeHouse; and, until recently, Lightspeed (which IPOed in 2020), and Luxury Retreats (acquired by Airbnb in 2017) Prior to Inovia, Chris co-founded and launched a number of Software, Mobile and Consumer Internet technology start-up companies, including two spin-offs of telecom giants Microcell and Teleglobe. His work in the mid-90's as co-founder and CEO of SIT provided him with the opportunity to play an important part in the initial growth of the Internet. As one of Netscape's first external partners and integrators, SIT was sold to Ubizen of Belgium in 1999 for €42 million. In this episode, we'll cover all of that and more - We deep dive into Chris' entrepreneurial journey before he became an investor. And how a guy born on the northeastern tip of Quebec, almost 10 hours from Montreal, went on to build one of Canada's largest VC firms. Without further a due, here's, Chris Arsenault.

If you have been trying to scale your consulting and coaching business, but you are out or time, you may be doing too much custom work, charging too low of fees, or trying to do too much in your business yourself. All of these can be problems that can keep you from growing your business. But with the right strategies, you can build a Multiple 6-Figure-7 figure coaching and consulting businesses. In this episode, I discuss how you can create an ultra-high-end masterminds or high-end luxury retreats to scale your coaching and consulting business to add multiple 6-figures or more by only working a few hours a month with your clients. I share my formula to build an ultra-high-end mastermind. Snapshot of the Key Points from the Episode About the Host: Ann Carden is a highly sought-after Expert Business Growth Consultant, Marketing Strategist, three-time published Author, and a #1 Bestselling Author, and Professional Speaker for small businesses and entrepreneurs. With more than forty-one years of business experience and coaching and consulting hundreds of coaches, entrepreneur's and owners in more than forty different industries to more success, Ann knows what it takes to succeed in all areas of business. After spending thirteen years in corporate business management, Ann started her journey as an entrepreneur building businesses for herself for twenty-nine years. Her first business started out of financial hardship and Ann was able to propel that business into the international market (before the internet.) After selling that business, she went on to start and build five more businesses to succeed. She has sold those businesses and today has a passion for helping small business owners and entrepreneurs build their success. She has been featured on the affiliates of ABC, NBC, CW, and FOX, among many other media outlets. Her articles have been published on Small Business Trendsetters and Business Innovators Magazine, and she has been a featured guest on multiple podcast shows such as; “Business Innovators Radio” podcast which can be heard at: BusinessInnovatorsRadio.com/Ann-Carden. She was also chosen as one of the top coaches in the world by Six-Figure Coach Magazine. Through the years Ann has educated thousands of professionals through speaking, workshops, seminars, and online platforms as a Speaker. How to Connect with Ann Carden: Website: https://anncardencoaching.com Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/business-consultant-coach Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/anncarden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ann-Carden-A-Carden-Inc-110882230558068/

Creating connections, especially as a full on adult, can be more difficult than most people realize. However, I've learned over the years that the only way to get the most from my travels abroad is to do just that...create connections, with people I don't know!   So, this week I am sharing the actions you can take that will have you becoming fast-friends with anyone! Including, yes...with French people...even though the French are notorious for being highly guarded and keeping their circles "exclusive!"   Tune in to this episode and walk away knowing: How to avoid social hangovers The exact actions to take that spark authentic connections (even if you are 1000 percent introverted) How to never run out of things to talk about when you stop responding and start doing this 1 thing What TV show to watch so you can get your fix of swoon-worthy real estate in Paris     This episode is a part of our 'Lessons I Learned in France' series. Click below to listen to the others episodes in the series!   061: Embracing Imperfections 065: How Simplicity Can Trigger More Bliss in Your Life 069: What to Do When You Lack Inspiration    Useful Links: Show Notes    Eat the Damn Bread -The Club Our private membership for podcast listeners! Come join us to start living your absolute best life with a flair of French lifestyle to boot!    The Edit is your link to a well-lived life. Get 'The Edit' and give your inbox an instant makeover with the help of our coveted weekly digital magazine.    Luxury Retreats to France Explore the South of France with Colet on our signature luxury retreat.   Let's be friends, oui?! Visit our website  Hang with us on Instagram  Check out our Facebook    Subscribe to the RSS feed (non-iTunes feed) and never miss an episode: https://eatthedamnbread.libsyn.com   Other Links Mentioned:   App to help with name recognition: Elevate    Geraldine's YouTube: Comme une Française: How French Netflix's The Parisian Agency Captures French Culture Perfectly  

Inspiration is one of the keys to living a joy-filled life! The problem is that we don't always feel inspired. But fact is... the reason we aren't able get inspired is because we're not always able to see the inspiration that's lingering in front of us! There is one reason this is the case and it became clearer and clearer to me as I continued my travels to France over the years. Listen to this episode as I share the lesson of tapping into inspiration and what you need in order to find it! Useful Links: Show Notes   Eat the Damn Bread -The Club Our private membership for podcast listeners! Come join us to start living your absolute best life with a flair of French lifestyle to boot!      The Edit is your link to a well-lived life. Get 'The Edit' and give your inbox an instant makeover with the help of our coveted weekly digital magazine.  Luxury Retreats to France Explore the South of France with Colet on our signature luxury retreat.   Let's be friends, oui?! Visit our website Hang with us on Instagram Check out our Facebook Subscribe to the RSS feed (non-iTunes feed) and never miss an episode: https://eatthedamnbread.libsyn.com

Yes, this week we are talking all about why you need to be wearing proper pajamas to bed, and it is not just in case you meet someone cute in your dreams, but that is a consideration too! Listen this week to learn: The origin of pajamas (and spoiler...how it is connected to British colonialism)! How pajamas can benefit your health and improve your sleep Considerations for selecting pajamas How pajamas' history is sprinkled with a bit French Riviera goodness How exactly wearing proper pajamas can be a form of luxury and self care Other Episodes You Will Enjoy: 025: Why You Should Get More Sleep and How to Do It Useful Links: Show Notes   Eat the Damn Bread -The Club Our private membership for podcast listeners! Come join us to start living your absolute best life with a flair of French lifestyle to boot!    The Edit is your link to a well-lived life. Get 'The Edit' and give your inbox an instant makeover with the help of our coveted weekly digital magazine.  Luxury Retreats to France Explore the South of France with Colet on our signature luxury retreat.   Let's be friends, oui?! Visit our website Hang with us on Instagram  Check out our Facebook Subscribe to the RSS feed (non-iTunes feed) and never miss an episode: https://eatthedamnbread.libsyn.com

Who wouldn't want to spend time at a place called the "Peninsula of Billionaires?"  We thought as much! That's why we're chatting about the exclusive, once meager, fishing village turned winter getaway for royalty and the financial elite. Tune in as we do a bit of armchair travel and talk all about why Colet thinks you should skip out on Paris and head straight to Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the south of France! Jump into the conversation this week to: Discover what the "Peninsula of Billionaires" has to offer its visitors Learn a bit of history about the famed Rothschild villa and its doted on grounds  Get a glimpse at what your holidays could look and feel like in the south of France (that's if you don't follow the crowd and skip Paris)!       Other Episodes in the series: Episode 63: Skip Paris and Visit Menton, France   Useful Links:   Show Notes    Eat the Damn Bread -The Club Our private membership for podcast listeners! Come join us to start living your absolute best life with a flair of French lifestyle to boot!    The Edit is your link to a well-lived life. Get 'The Edit' and give your inbox an instant makeover with the help of our coveted weekly digital magazine.    Luxury Retreats to France Explore the South of France with Colet on our signature luxury retreat.     Let's be friends, oui?!   Visit our website    Hang with us on Instagram    Check out our Facebook    Subscribe to the RSS feed (non-iTunes feed) and never miss an episode:   https://eatthedamnbread.libsyn.com   #eatthedamnbread

Who doesn't love a snack, right?! So why not lean into a "snackable lifestyle?"  I know one of my favorite ways to do just that...mid workday facials! They are the best pick-me-up! That's why this week we are talking about "snacktivities" and how to lean into micro breaks that offer you a bit more calm, pause and mindfulness into your day! Jump into this episode and we will chat about: - How living a life full of mono activity is whittling away at your "happy" and why creating micro breaks into your day is essential - What "snacktivities" are and how you can fit them into your day Useful Links: Show Notes Eat the Damn Bread -The Club Our private membership for podcast listeners! Come join us to start living your absolute best life with a flair of French lifestyle to boot! The Edit is your link to a well-lived life. Get 'The Edit' and give your inbox an instant makeover with the help of our coveted weekly digital magazine. Luxury Retreats to France Explore the South of France with Colet on our signature luxury retreat. Let's be friends, oui?! Visit our website Hang with us on Instagram Check out our Facebook Subscribe to the RSS feed (non-iTunes feed) and never miss an episode: https://eatthedamnbread.libsyn.com #eatthedamnbread

It's the first Tuesday of a new month, which means that it is time to share one of the many lessons I've learned from spending time in France!   This week I am sharing all about how seeing and doing more with less, in just about every situation, can spark a bit of happy in the most delightful way!     What's inside this episode:   What simplicity truly looks like in action Why you should think of doing more with less What being present should actually look like when you invite simplicity into your life     Useful Links: Show Notes    Episode 61: Lessons I Learned in France (Embracing Imperfections)     Eat the Damn Bread -The Club  Our private membership for podcast listeners! Come join us to start living your absolute best life with a flair of French lifestyle to boot!       The Edit  is your link to a well-lived life. Get 'The Edit' and give your inbox an instant makeover with the help of our coveted weekly digital magazine.     Luxury Retreats to France  Explore the South of France with Colet on our signature luxury retreat.     Let's be friends, oui?! Visit our website Hang with us on Instagram Check out our Facebook Subscribe to the RSS feed (non-iTunes feed) and never miss an episode: https://eatthedamnbread.libsyn.com #eatthedamnbread

Caren Carrasco is Senior Partner at Benjamin David Group, a 4-year-old marketing consultancy that excels at digital marketing – in particular, website creation, branding, content strategy, social media, email marketing, and paid media. Benjamin David group works with a wide range of clients, from startups focused on getting their Series A, others with their first infusion of venture capital, to larger, more mature corporations like Cirque du Soleil. The objective? To help their clients get fast, profitable growth.  Many clients are B2B. Benjamin David Group provides strategy, with a focus on figuring out how to get traction fast, and supplies the team to make it happen – either by handing off the strategic plan to the client's team or by facilitating the hiring of an appropriate team. “It doesn't make sense to pay a consultant to execute,” Caren says, except maybe at the very beginning when the marketing structure is not yet established. To maintain close contact, at least one member of Caren's agency will work in-office at the client's site. Except COVID-19 has changed things up. Caren explains how BDG is handling the imposed transition to virtual, the continued importance of weekly contact with their clients, the impact of an established and clear cut workflow, and why detailed meeting documentation is especially critical at this time.  Caren started her career in loyalty and email marketing, and worked in a variety of industries. At Luxury Retreats, a villa rental company headquartered in Montreal, she drove customer journeys, learned “fast and agile” marketing, and worked closely with Salesforce. Salesforce invited her and her Luxury Retreat co-worker, Benjamin David, to speak at Connections 2014 on building effective client life-cycle programs, engagement strategies, and campaign automation. Realizing the depth of their knowledge, Ben and Caren decided to form a marketing consultancy, and set up their first office . . . in a local Starbucks. (This year, Salesforce Connections 2020, originally scheduled in Chicago for May 4 through May 6, will be a virtual experience.) In this interview, Caren introduces a powerful market targeting tool, RFM database segmentation. RFM identifies different buyer groups so that marketers can apply group-specific strategies and optimize repeat business. RFM is an acronym for recency, frequency, and monetary – where recency is how recently the buyer made a purchase; frequency is the number of times the buyer has purchased; and monetary is the dollar value of the purchase. Each category of buyer type needs to be approached in a way congruent with their buying history. Caren admits that BDG does not provide all the services a client might need. Instead, they work with a network of trusted partners, many of them curated through networking at industry events. Over the past 4 years, the agency has actually invested in 8 of its clients, through either sweat equity or capital investment. This type of partnering is something BDG would like to further explore since a client's success then becomes BDG's success.  Caren and Ben can be reached on the company website at: www.benjamin-david.com or on LinkedIn. Transcript Follows: ROB: Welcome to the Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Kischuk, and I am joined today by Caren Carrasco, Senior Partner at Benjamin David Group based in Montreal, Canada. Welcome to the podcast, Caren. CAREN: Thank you, Rob. ROB: Fantastic to have you here. Why don't you kick us off by telling us about Benjamin David Group and where your firm excels? CAREN: Sure. Benjamin David Group, we're a marketing consultancy based in Montreal. We do everything that has to do with digital marketing, from website creation, branding, content strategy, social media, email marketing, paid media. We excel at those verticals. Our clientele can go from bigger corporations like Cirque du Soleil, which is a very well-known brand, or we also work with startups. The startup scene in Montreal and Toronto is very big right now, so we find a niche to work with funded startups – startups that are either chasing a Series A or that just got funded and they need a marketing arm to execute and start having traction. So, we help them with their marketing efforts. We have been in business for about 4 years now, and we're a team of marketing consultants. Our main goal is to help our clients with fast, profitable growth – not only to help them grow, but do it as fast as we can. That's a little bit of the nature of the startup clients that we have. They need to show results fast. ROB: Now more than ever, startups are asked to actually prove that their economics are good, and it sounds like you have this sweet spot where you're coming in in that in-between time where there is something there, there is something worth marketing and something to prove, still. They're not at the point maybe past a Series B, C, D, E, whatever, where they would bring in a CMO and a bigtime team. When they're looking to get to that Series A, what are some of the key metrics that you're driving and some of the key channels that are working for them to get there? CAREN: We work with quite a few B2B clients. What we focus on at the very beginning is to really set up a model where we can track what is the recipe to start growing. The recipe will have a mix between paid media, of course content will be present everywhere, but our first approach is to try to understand the formula to start driving traction, either through account-based marketing or gaining leads through gated content on different platforms. We actually act as their de facto CMO. We not only bring the strategy, but we also bring the muscle, the team to execute. Once we find that formula, we have two approaches. Either we hand the strategy to our client so that they can execute with their team, or we can take the executive with us and help them through the hiring process so that at some point, once they have their marketing team, we can hand that execution to them because it doesn't make sense to pay a consultant to execute. It makes sense at the very beginning when you're creating the pillars and having the foundation of your marketing practice, but after that, our goal is to really make our client autonomous, and they can use us for direction and strategy. That's a little bit of our approach. ROB: You mentioned the CMO. Probably not typically a full-time CMO, but probably a lot of times actually a fractional marketing team. So, I'd imagine there's a point where you are incrementally replacing yourselves, and sometimes you're able probably to bring – do you have one super marketer that's assigned to a client? Or are you giving them a thin slice of a full-on marketing team? Maybe two, three, five people, where they couldn't imagine having five full-timers on staff, but with you, they get a piece of five different expertises that they wouldn't have. CAREN: Exactly. We have a few clients on that model, and it's very effective for them because, to your point, they're not getting only one person. They're getting a fraction of our team. Another thing that we do with our clients is that we have an office presence with them. We make sure that we have a seat in their office so that we can be with them, and it's not a remote collaboration; we're actually there to be part of the key decisions, to also train their future team if they're at the point of hiring. It's a very, very effective model, and it helps fast-track things and make sure that we're aligned with our business objectives. ROB: The in-person model is definitely a differentiator, and I think it probably distinguishes you from people who might even outsource a lot of their execution to maybe somewhere far away. It's often so beneficial to have someone who understands intrinsically the context of the company, the context of the location, and relationships with the team. Originally, you and I were scheduled to meet up in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, and as everyone is probably well aware by now, that was cancelled. That in-person conversation for us was cancelled. I'd imagine some of your in-person conversations – perhaps all of them – have also been cancelled and that seat at the office is empty along with the rest of them. How have you thought about adapting that personal integration into the team operating in this coronavirus, social distancing, remote working environment? CAREN: Specifically, for South by Southwest – and this is a small collaboration that I did with another company through a webinar – there's still so many things that we can do even if events have been cancelled. We still have access to the attendee list for, for example, South by Southwest or any event. So, I think companies can still try to make those meetings happen, just not personally, but virtually. So that's one way you can still get the advantage of the whole event. With our clients, we're keeping the communications fluid through the tools that we have. We're making sure that every week, we're in touch with them. Because it's a situation that is not only on our side, but on their side as well, it has been very positive, the transition of not being in office, but making sure that we are online and available through different platforms and making sure that we have touchpoints with them. Actually, one of the things that we have at BDG is that we work with Jira and Confluence and we make sure that every single thing that happens for an internal meeting/external meeting, it's documented in meeting notes. That way, even if you're not physically there or if there's a meeting that was held between certain people, we make sure everyone is in the loop by giving access to those meeting notes. So far, with this whole crisis, I think we have managed well with our clients. ROB: That's really interesting. Jira and Confluence are pretty sophisticated and capable tools. Kind of a Basecamp on steroids sometimes. CAREN: Yeah. Thanks to us being very diligent on having our setup with those tools, it's actually how and why we are well-positioned to work remotely with our clients because we have a very clear workflow and process and methodology. So, I'm happy that we put that in place so that now we can actually work efficiently remotely. ROB: Excellent. You mentioned that you started BDG around 4 years ago. Tell me about that origin story. How did you come to start a business that you've now been glad to grow and work with some really excellent clients? CAREN: My expertise as a marketer was with loyalty and email marketing specifically. I worked in different industries, from luxury travel to loyalty. I worked at Aeroplan, which is the loyalty program of Air Canada. Here in Montreal, I worked at Luxury Retreats, which is a villa rental company that got acquired by Airbnb a couple of years ago. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to work at a startup at Luxury Retreats and go through what it means to work fast and agile and where speed is everything. That's where I met my co-founder, Benjamin. We were very knowledgeable in everything that has to do with the customer journey and lifecycle. We worked closely with Salesforce. At the time it was ExactTarget. The people at Salesforce were very impressed with the way we were driving customer lifecycles with Luxury Retreats, to the point that they invited us to Connections and to give speaking sessions in Indianapolis and to basically speak to their clients about everything that they can do from a marketing automation standpoint. At that point, I think it was the very beginning of thinking that we could actually have a practice out of consulting, because we were very knowledgeable in everything that has to do with customer journeys. At that point, Ben had been at Luxury Retreats for 16 years, and I was working by that time at Aeroplan. At some point we got together and he was the one approaching me to say, “Caren, let's create a consultancy on marketing. We're very knowledgeable.” At the time I was like, “How are we going to find clients? How do we grow this?” So, we started together. I quit my job. We started working at a Starbucks, no office. Fast forward 4 years, we're a team of 20 consultants and we have big clients such as Cirque du Soleil and a very healthy pipeline. It was an interesting decision, but it was very rewarding to see how based on the knowledge you have and the expertise, you can actually build a business out of it and grow it. ROB: Congratulations on all of that. It seems like a lot of your success is rooted in some very – I see with Jira and Confluence, and then also with ExactTarget, there's this deep technical competency that seems to resonate throughout and elevates the work to a level of consultancy and not just some sort of lightweight content shop. Now, what I'd like to dig into that goes even deeper to that technical capability is you have prepared presentations on something called RFM segmentation. Tell us what RFM segmentation is, what we need to know, and how we should be deploying it. CAREN: When we worked at Luxury Retreats and the reason why Salesforce was very impressed about what we were doing in marketing automation and lifecycle journeys was the segmentation that we put behind it. Basically, RFM segmentation is a way for you to segment your database and monetize it and get the most out of repeat business. This is a model that is very easy to implement for businesses for retail and travel. Basically, what you're trying to do is have a very specific strategy for people that have purchased with you one time or more than one time and have a different approach for each one, because you shouldn't be targeting in the same way a first-time buyer as a three-time buyer. That will help you with your incentive strategy, how you give up promotions, how you incentivize your database to keep buying more. RFM stands for recency, frequency, and monetary – recency, how recently the purchase was; frequency, how many times the buyer has purchased; and monetary, the value. In a nutshell, you assign scores from let's say 1 to 5 to one of those dimensions, and you will have different clusters of segments that you can target differently. Think about having a big grid of different segments where you are going to have your VIPs, which are the 5-5-5s. Let's say someone that made a purchase yesterday over $1,000 and they have purchased more than three times. The way you target a 5-5-5 is very different than the way you target a 1-1-1, someone that maybe had purchased over a year ago for a very low amount of money and they just purchased once. This really helps you focus your efforts and understand how you should be moving your low-engaged segments through your high-engaged segments. It's a very, very strategic and detailed approach, and it's a methodology that we have put in practice with different clients, as I was saying, in the retail and travel industry with very good results in terms of repeat business. ROB: I think that makes sense, and it makes even more sense with your background in loyalty because as I think about you talking about a 5-5-5, I think about the different airline status programs, even some credit card programs. It seems like there are entire programs, your Delta Platinums and Diamonds and I don't know how high it goes, that are all about capturing the brain of a 5-5-5. CAREN: Exactly. Also, because you don't have infinite budget to give incentives to everyone, that's why the RFM segmentation helps to put exactly where you should be putting your efforts. And at the same time, not everything is going to be a monetary incentive. Sometimes recency, like the time where you're targeting someone, is the variable that will make you move the needle. Through analysis, you can understand when is the right time to send a communication – for example, an email – to a customer that just made a purchase for the first time so that you can convince them at the right time to make the second purchase. It's not about maybe the incentive, but to understand that, for example, on Day 72, that's where your database is the perfect timing to trigger a second purchase. ROB: Very interesting. Does this have any applications then into something like a Cirque du Soleil or even into some of the startups that you work with? CAREN: Yeah, absolutely. We implement it on different clients. Any type of business that has a repeat behavior that it's a product or a service that you can buy over and over again can use RFM segmentation. ROB: So if you're in something like Cirque du Soleil, you might know that someone's going to buy every time you come to town or they're going to buy – I don't even know if there are higher packages available that you can get them into. But you could actually design marketing around the knowledge that someone's definitely going to go and what they're going to buy, versus they might come let's say every couple of years. CAREN: Exactly. It's the same thing as in travel, for the travel industry. Depending on your niche, you know when is the right time for someone to start thinking of their next travel. Because you know that information, which is your recency factor, you know exactly the right time to push for the next trip. At the same time, for most of the businesses that I have been working with, there is a truth in the data, which is once you convert a first-time buyer into a second-time buyer, you basically have them for life. If you make sure that you convert a one-time to a two-time, to get them to repeat to three times, four times, depending on your industry, is not that difficult. The big step that you have to focus on at the beginning of the program is how you make a first-time buyer buy a second time. After that, if you give good service and the product is good, they're going to be happy and they're going to keep buying from you. So that's what I usually recommend to our clients and where we usually focus at the beginning, to transform the first-time buyers into second-time buyers. ROB: Suppose you've solved the initial part of getting somebody to be a repeat buyer. Are there industries where you can actually impact the recency, frequency, or monetization of the customers? It seems like in some cases, particularly in travel, moving someone up from a one, a two, to three, to four, to five on the monetization scale, for instance, would be a real game-changer for a business. CAREN: Exactly. For example, if you master the recency and frequency and now you are close in the window for them to book faster and you're making them book with you multiple times, then you're viable to start to tackle monetary, how you can get them to spend more money with you. And there's different marketing strategies that you can do around that. ROB: What's an example of a way you might be able to move somebody up the monetization or frequency scale, for that matter? CAREN: We did a very interesting promotion once at Luxury Retreats. We were giving free flights to anyone that would be booking for a certain period of time for certain locations. It was a very interesting way to move people, first of all from first-time buyers to repeat buyers, and also to increase their monetary value because we needed to lock them for a certain number of nights. That promotion turned out to be one of the most successful promotions in this particular niche. This is luxury travel. So, you're getting a free flight, and the gain for the company is right away because you're not putting money upfront. You're only giving away the incentive once they book with you. That's a promotion that is still alive, and it was very, very successful from an RFM perspective because we were tackling the three variables at a time. ROB: That's fascinating. It seems like in the case of luxury travel, in particular, one of the things you may be able to do is actually change someone's concept of themselves as being the sort of person who does this sort of travel. If you can get them to think of themselves that way, it probably becomes something that feeds itself a little bit. CAREN: Yeah. In particular with luxury travel, incentives have a different take because those are brands that don't get discounted. It's a luxury item, so you don't offer discounts. Everything that you're offering them, either to book faster or to increase the basket size, is actually on giving them a better experience, to upgrade their experience, to give them something more. So it's a different way to see the incentive and how you can make them increase their monetary value. ROB: Fantastic. Caren, when you think about your 4-year journey so far building Benjamin David Group, what are some things that you might do differently if you were starting over? Some lessons learned, if you will. CAREN: I think as we positioned ourselves as a growth partner of our clients, one of the things that we have been doing – it's not something that I would do differently, but I think it's knowledge that I wish I'd had since Day 1: to build a network of trusted partners that I can always go to, to enhance the service that I provide to my clients. Just to give you an example, we don't provide PR services. We're very focused on digital marketing. But we have a lot of clients that at some point, because of the different marketing strategies that we have with them, there's a right time for them, for example, to engage with a PR agency. Sometimes we don't have the right partner to send to our clients. So I think to have a very strong network of different service providers that don't necessarily have to do with my core business, but that I can always give to my clients so that they can continue with that execution is something that I would like to have curated faster during this journey. ROB: What have you found to be some of the keys to establishing those connections? It sounds like you have a lot of that in place now. CAREN: A lot of these connections and partnerships that we have developed right now have been based off networking, to be honest. In every event and every opportunity that we attend, there are other players attending there. Just to give you an example, at South by Southwest, there are multiple agencies going there. Myself, I was booked pretty much the whole week with other agencies where my services are complementary to them or where they actually complement my services. So the best way we have curated those relationships has been through networking. ROB: I think another question that comes into play with that sort of partnership is: how do you think about, when you're working with a client, whether that relationship is an introduction and a referral or whether it's a white label service or just generally provided under the scope of BDG? CAREN: The way that we have managed, it depends on the needs of the client. Also, it depends on our direction on the overall service. Sometimes we just connect the client with the service provider and they can work with them directly and do whatever they need to do. But there are other instances where it makes sense for us to be involved, just to give direction to this third party, and then they will be working with us behind the scenes and we will be assisting them with the direction and getting all the information from the client, and then we're able to brief the third party. So it really depends on the mandate and also where the client sits, where they want to move forward. But both angles have worked with us. ROB: I can imagine some startup where you are the entire marketing arm of the organization, they probably just want you there to solve any marketing problem possible and to bring solutions to the table. Is that part of the mix? CAREN: Exactly, and that's a big difference. For example, I'm just thinking from a startup. That's the difference between hiring for example five different freelancers – let's say that a startup goes, "I'm going to hire someone for social media, someone for SEO, someone for email marketing,” and so on; the client will still have to have someone to manage those five professionals and make sure that people are not working in silos and bring them all together with the direction. The difference with us is that we are that connection. We have the team and we have the specialists. The client just needs to make individual connections with the specialist because everything is centralized through our service. I think that's a big advantage for us to work in that way, mostly with our startup clients. ROB: Caren, what do you think is coming up next for BDG that we should be looking forward to, or maybe some lines of service that you're doing where you see some trends emerging? CAREN: Other things I would do at BDG – we do digital marketing, but we also have a small venture arm. Whenever it makes sense for us, we do invest in some of our clients in a mix between sweat equity and capital. That's something that we would like to explore even more. We have made eight investments during these past 4 years. Moving forward in 2020-2021, we really want to keep developing that ability to invest in companies where we provide the marketing services, but because we're also investors of the company, the dots are aligned, so our clients' success will be also our success. We want to keep exploring and get deeper into our investment arm. ROB: Very good. Any of those companies that we should be looking out for that you'd like to plug while we're chatting? CAREN: Absolutely. One of the companies that we're very, very proud of how they have success – it's a marketplace. They're called GoMaterials. Basically it's a marketplace between landscapers and vendors. We have been helping them since Day 1. It's a very, very interesting concept. They are disrupting an industry that is very old-fashioned, where everything is done through paper, and they're bringing technology to the industry, which is where they are succeeding in the space. So that's one of our investments that we're very, very proud of. ROB: Very, very interesting. That is probably a hot one right now, at least where we are in Atlanta. Landscaping is considered one of those necessary services where business is going to keep on humming except for maybe some people would pull back. But at the same time, probably having an online service to handle some of the logistics is better than going in person for a lot of people. CAREN: Absolutely. They have a platform where everything is centralized, so it's going to be a big, big change for the industry. The way that we provide and we support them is we have very good experience with marketplaces. Back at Luxury Retreats, it was basically a marketplace between the hosts and the guests. They're basically doing the same thing, but for landscapers. All industries that have been managed in an old-fashioned way, whoever can disrupt that and bring technology and make that marketplace unified has a winning angle to gain that market, and that's what they're doing. ROB: Fantastic. Caren, when people want to find you and want to find Benjamin David Group, where should they look? CAREN: Our website, www.benjamin-david.com. Also, we're very, very active on LinkedIn. I would say that our main focus in terms of content is through LinkedIn. So either our website or our LinkedIn page. That's where they can find us. ROB: Fantastic. Caren, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, and best wishes to you and BDG, and hopefully we can connect up in person at your first South by Southwest in 2021. Hopefully we can make that happen. CAREN: Absolutely. Thank you, Rob, for the invite. ROB: Thank you so much. Thank you for listening. The Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast is presented by Converge. Converge helps digital marketing agencies and brands automate their reporting so they can be more profitable, accurate, and responsive. To learn more about how Converge can automate your marketing reporting, email info@convergehq.com, or visit us on the web at convergehq.com.

Lynan Saperstein is a luxury marketing strategist who guides boutique hotels and resorts to consistently get more bookings and revenue. As the CEO of her digital marketing agency, Experience Experts, Lynan and her team offer a comprehensive, full-service approach for all your digital marketing needs, including: high-converting websites, driving traffic social media, big-picture business growth strategies, and sales domination in your marketplace. The end result is your property and brand transformed from being virtually unknown to a highly-coveted and booked-solid destination. She is living her digital nomad dream, by sharing her online marketing wisdom, and adventuring around the planet with her tribe while running this location-independent business. Through her marketing passions, she also hosts entrepreneur immersion retreats, the next Trailblazer’s Retreat is in Belize 2020.

for more information visit: https://www.voschoolpodcast.com This week on the VO School Podcast we are doing something a little different. I’ve invited four successful voice talent to share with us how they find work. In part one of a two part series, we cover five areas: telephony/IVR, radio imaging, Spanish language in the US, promo and commercial voiceover. Radio Imaging / Spanish Language Issa Lopez is a bilingual voiceover talent, actress, singer and spokesperson with global, national, regional and local on and off-camera credits. As one of the most in-demand Spanish-English and radio imaging voices in the freelance world, she has been recognized among the TOP BILINGUAL voiceover artists available. Telephony/IVR Liz de Nesnera brings years of experience working at the French Embassy Trade Office, then as a radio station Copywriter/Production Director, and ultimately corporate recording studio Producer/Casting Director up to the mic. She records phone system prompts, medical and technical narrations, eLearning modules, explainer videos, as well as TV and radio commercials – in both English and French. Clients such as La-Z-Boy, Pier 1 Imports and Porsche have hired her for her sound and experience. Promo Rider is an in demand voice by the Promo industry currently being used as the signature voice of Nascar on NBC, CW Network’s hit shows Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl as well as the MLB on FS1 & Fox Sports, Spike TV, the American Heroes Channel, Epix, the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, the San Antonio Spurs NBA team and was the commercial voice of the San Diego Chargers for 7 seasons. Commercial Carin Gilfry is an experienced voice actor who has narrated and produced over 100 audiobooks, and voiced thousands of commercials, instructional videos, IVR systems, documentaries, and video games. She works primarily from her professional home studio in New York City. Her past clients include Duncan Hines, Quaker, Clairol, Zulily.com, Neutrogena, Benjamin Moore, GrubHub, Jakks Pacific Toys, Little Tikes, Play Doh, Luxury Retreats, Audible.com, Quell, and many more.

Facebook se está preparando para dar a Francia acceso sin precedentes a datos sobre sospechosos de discursos de odio, informa Reuters. El ministro de asuntos digitales, Cédric O, dice que el gigante de internet acordó entregar los datos de identificación a los tribunales franceses en un primer acuerdo mundial. La medida, que sigue a las reuniones entre el fundador de Facebook Mark Zuckerberg y el presidente francés Emmanuel Macron, es una extensión de la disposición del sitio para cooperar con Francia en los datos relacionados con el terrorismo y la violencia.  Se produce en medio de crecientes llamados a una mejor regulación de las empresas de tecnología. Ver más https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-give-data-on-hate-speech-suspects-to-french-courts-minister-idUSKCN1TQ1TJ   Airbnb está entrando en el mercado de gama alta, ofreciendo un nuevo nivel de alquiler llamado Airbnb Luxe, informa The New York Times.  El CEO Brian Chesky dice que los clientes de los nuevos listados de lujo son los mismos que alquilaron sofás y cuartos de repuesto cuando la empresa se lanzó por primera vez como proveedor de alojamiento asequible en 2008: ahora tienen trabajos mejor pagados y gustos más sofisticados.  Las 2,000 propiedades fueron seleccionadas de Luxury Retreats, que Airbnb adquirió en 2017 en una transacción en efectivo y acciones por un valor de alrededor de $ 300 millones. Ver más https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18758490/airbnb-luxe-luxury-home-rentals-announcement   San Francisco se convertirá en la primera ciudad de EE. UU. En prohibir las ventas de cigarrillos electrónicos. La junta de supervisores de la ciudad votó esta semana para prohibir la venta y distribución de cigarrillos electrónicos que no hayan sido aprobados por la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos. Hasta ahora, ninguno de los dispositivos ha sufrido ese proceso, dice CNN. El alcalde de la ciudad señaló que firmará la ordenanza, que entrará en vigencia en unos siete meses. Juul Labs, una potencia de cigarrillos electrónicos, está detrás de una iniciativa de votación que podría anular la ordenanza. Ver más https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Francisco-has-moved-to-ban-e-cigarettes-Juul-14016011.php   Inmediatamente después del anuncio de Google de que está invirtiendo $ 1 mil millones en viviendas asequibles, la cercana Universidad de Stanford dice que colocará alrededor de $ 4,700 millones en transporte y alojamiento en el Área de la Bahía. La medida es probablemente un esfuerzo por apaciguar a los funcionarios locales que han estado en desacuerdo con la universidad sobre un plan de expansión propuesto, dice Bloomberg. Sin embargo, algunos en el gobierno local creen que la expansión perjudicaría aún más un mercado de viviendas asequibles que ya era limitado. Ver más https://news.stanford.edu/press/view/28790   FedEx está demandando al gobierno federal para evitar que requiera que la empresa de entrega se asegure de que la tecnología estadounidense no se envíe a la empresa de tecnología china Huawei. El mes pasado, el Departamento de Comercio puso en una lista negra a Huawei por cuestiones de seguridad nacional. FedEx, que dice que no está calificado para evaluar si el contenido está sujeto a las restricciones, se ha disculpado con Huawei por reencaminar artículos en un intento por cumplir. Ver más https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-25/u-s-consumer-confidence-falls-to-lowest-since-september-2017   https://twitter.com/ChrisBecerraSoy https://www.instagram.com/ChrisBecerraSoy Síguenos en https://www.instagram.com/graninvento https://twitter.com/graninvento 

Dans cet épisode j’ai le grand plaisir d’accueillir Laurent Fort. Laurent est un peu le designer d’expériences incroyables et exceptionnelles chez Luxury Retreats, devenue Airbnb luxe 2017. Dans ce podcast vous découvrirez l’importance de l’expérientiel dans l’univers du luxe. Vous comprendrez pourquoi, au-delà du prix, une expérience peut être considérée comme luxueuse. Vous découvrirez également comment des maisons comme LV remercie leurs meilleurs clients de manière assez particulière !Pour suivre les actualités du podcast : @luxeetartisanat sur instagram. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Nous discutons avec Alain Vézina du métier, du quotidien et des défis du spécialiste en DevOps.  Alain Vézina is a senior Microsoft .Net developer and an Azure specialist who loves to automate things. DIY enthusiast and a guitar hero wannabe, Alain have collaborated for the past decade with businesses such as nventive, Neomedia / Caractera, Sid Lee, Hue Web Studio, DMR (Fujitsu), Hospital Saint-Justine, Luxury Retreats and Whatsnexx. He is now a DevOps architect at FlexPay, where he build, package, automate and release like never before. Liens: Académie Azure 20% de rabais sur les ateliers d'avril 2019 avec le code BIENTOT20 Livre: The Phoenix Project

The desire for more and exceptional accommodation is something that many tourists long for and expect when planning their next holiday. Luxury villas and condos have long been an expense that many travellers are happy to splash out on in order to avoid the confinement of a typical 5 star hotel suite in order to have a more unique, Instagram-worthy experience. Even Airbnb has taken steps to play in this area with Beyond by Airbnb, following the acquisition of Luxury Retreats just over a year ago offering the platform's highest-end homes as well as Airbnb Plus, which includes 2,000 design-forward homes in several cities all over the world.One of the most sought after destinations for luxury travel is Palm Springs, a city in southern California best known for its hot springs, stylish hotels, golf courses and spas and of course the world famous music and arts festival Coachella.In today's episode I chat with David Crosta, the co-owner of 5 Palm Estates and Palms at Park, luxury villas that cater to the most discerning clientele and providing private pool, spa and fire pit plus luxury toiletries and a Chef-ready kitchen with service for 10 (just to name a few of the amenities provided).Topics we discuss include:* how do you go about building short term rental villas from the ground up* Most important challenges he faced* Factors that contributed to his success* Why David thinks it is essential to have your own websiteIf you would like to explore David's properties, you can learn more by following the links below:5 Palm EstatesPalms at ParkConnect with JasperEmail: jasper@getpaidforyourpad.comTwitter: @GetPaidForUrPadInstagram: @GetPaidForYourPad Facebook: www.facebook.com/getpaidforyourpadAirbnb News Facebook GroupTo subscribe to the podcast, please use the links belowClick Here to Subscribe via iTunesClick here to Subscribe via Stitcher (Android users)If you like the show, please consider leaving the show a review in iTunes or Stitcher. A couple minutes of your time can help the show immensely! Thanks! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A typical day in the life of an entrepreneur and freelancer moves by pretty quickly, don't you agree? We sometimes put so much energy into our work and we get so deep in our zone of genius that time flies and we forget to take care of the most important element of the job - YOU! The creator!   My mission, for this episode Using Visualization to Design Your Dream Life, is to inspire you to take action and start building a wellness practice that nurtures your mind, body and spirit. When we start to get carried away in our work, then we start to neglect ourselves. This can be the exact monster that sets you back from being your best, most productive, self. My guest today, Martine Fink is a Holistic Wellness Coach who hosts Luxury Retreats around the world. She helps entrepreneurs find their balance by creating tailored holistic wellness programs for them to insert into their daily routines. This episode is for anyone who needs help building a wellness practice from the yoga mat up. In This Episode You Will Learn: Ideas to kick start a stellar morning routine The benefits of slowing down to speed up How to practice visualization and manifest with emotion The power of your unique vibrations and how they affect your environment and the opportunities around you   Resources: Free Glow Guide Connect with Martina! Website: martinafink.com Instagram: @martinaglows Podcast: The Glow Life GLOW upcoming retreats: Costa Rica Retreat Greece Retreat   Related Beyond the Status Quo Podcast Episodes: Stepping Into Your Magic with Liz White Create, Establish, and Maintain Boundaries in Your Biz + Life Secrets to Strategizing the Hustle to Make Your Best Life a Reality with Richelle Ouellette How to Create Balance in Your Life While Still Chasing Your Dreams with Khrystle Rea How to Fuel Your Body and Stay Healthy Without Spending Hours in the Gym/Kitchen Web Page: http://www.avanimiriyala.com/july2018-income-report   Check out my website at http://avanimiriyala.com. Follow me on social media @AvaniMiriyala – can't wait to hang out with you there!  

Today's episode focuses on getting you to think about your "WHY". Why do you do what you do? As simple as this question sounds, the answer, which will differ for everyone of us, can be truly enlightening. This answer can also be the catalyst to profound change.     You can find me online here: Website: http://www.luxe-elixir.com  Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/the_luxe_elixir/  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/336601143462098/  Luxury Retreats: https://luxebaberetreats.com/marrakech/ 

In today’s episode, I discuss recent Airbnb news updates with Nicole Prentice Williams, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Hostfully. We recorded this podcast live on Instagram and Facebook, you can watch the video of the recording here. You can join and watch future episodes live, every Monday at 10.30am PST (1.30pm EST). See below for the different topics that we discuss. Airbnb friendly regulations in SwitzerlandThe Swiss government is proposing Airbnb friendly regulation that states that tenants need to obtain permission from their landlords to rent on Airbnb. However, the landlord can only refuse for good reasons, for example, if renting out would compromise the neighbor’s security.Airbnb cancels co-host split payment optionAn unpopular move by Airbnb, the co-host payment split option will no longer be available starting August 1st, 2018. Hosts will have to find an alternative way to divide their Airbnb income between themselves and their cleaners and managers. New York city councilmen getting paid by hotel industryAccording to the NY Post, councilmen who’ve been in favor of stricter regulation of short-term rentals have been paid by the hotel industry. The newspaper reports that “the hotel industry made hefty investments — about $460,000, in total — in council races during the 2013 and 2017 election cycles.”The newspaper states that a total of fifteen councilmembers have received a payment, with on councilman taking home a massive $33,800. Peek raised USD 23 millionAirbnb’s competitor in the experience and tours niche, Peek, raised 23 million dollars in a recent series B round, led by Cathay Innovation. As opposed to Airbnb, the San Francisco-based startup sells software to activities providers instead of marketing tours directly to consumers. Could this be a potential Airbnb take-over target in the future or will Airbnb continue to grow its experience business organically? Airbnb goes public before 2020, ready by June 2019CEO Brian Chesky reportedly announced that Airbnb will IPO before 2020 when some employee stock grants expire. He also promised to pay cash bonuses to employees, some of whom are frustrated about the IPO that’s been delayed multiple times. Classic car rental available through “Book a classic”Airbnb’s high-end property rental arm, Luxury Retreats, has partnered with BookAClassic, an online peer-to-peer classic car rental platform, to offer car rentals to its customers. Guests who book a property can have their preferred car waiting for them at check-in. Over 20,000 cars in 36 countries are currently available. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For the past 20 years, Maribel has excelled in Business Development and Marketing, including writing successful marketing campaigns, curriculum and training programs for multimillion dollar organizations. She’s won numerous awards including the prestigious President’s Award through Toyota.She left her 6-figure marketing job to pursue her dream of starting her own business online so she could be home with her kids. After figuring out the fastest path to replace her 6-figure income - without sacrificing her life to do it, she began teaching others how they can too!Important TopicsHow Maribel teaches her clients to balance their livesThe reason she left her 6-figure marketing job and pursued her dream to start her own businessHer top three tips for entrepreneurs on designing their businessThe power of "Pause"The things that give her the most impact in her dayHer biggest takeaway from the Girl Boss retreatHer entrepreneurial journeyWhat she recommends to othersHer favorite space in her home and why Quotes"It feels like you're wasting time for somebody that likes to maximize every minute of the day.""There is no perfect time to go out there and live your dream."Connect with Maribel:Your Dream LaunchThe Superwoman Entrepreneur Gift Pack!Maribel's email: maribel@yourdreamlaunch.com

On this week’s show, we spoke with Chris Arsenault, Managing Partner @ iNovia Capital. Chris is a senior executive with over 20 years of general management experience in high technology industries, with extensive experience in business development, strategic planning, sales, marketing and communications. Chris is the cofounder, President & CEO of iNovia Capital, a Venture Capital firm launched in 2007 with now over a half a billion under management. Chris currently serves as a director on the boards of AppDirect, LightSpeed Retail, Poka, SnapTravel, Well.ca, and until recently Luxury Retreats (acquired by Airbnb). Chris is an active board member of Réseau Capital, and a proud Charter Member of Silicon Valley based C100.   On the show, we spoke about: How he launched iNovia more than 10 years The role of mentorship in his career The most important characteristic in an entrepreneur What it takes to build a successful VC firm (brand, team and vision) How crypto fits into the larger trend of decentralization If you have time, check out Chris’ thesis on optionality.   Chris is a legend in the Canadian venture capital landscape. I always walk away inspired after talking with him. I hope that you enjoy the conversation!   Let us know what you think. What types of guests would like to see on the show? What topics interest you the most? Send me your thoughts at nectar@thepnr.com   Subscribe to iTunes here | Subscribe to Google Play here

Today we are interviewing Martina Fink, she is a holistic health and beauty guru, she hosts life changing Luxury Retreats all around the world, including one coming up in Bali- showing women how to have a glowing life- which sounds amazing! + Living a glowing life on your own terms (and even getting clear on what that means to you!) + Building Confidence to overcome bullying or emotional trauma + Making yourself a priority Martina is also giving you an exciting offer, so make sure to listen to the end!