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Behind the Stays

Welcome to Behind the Stays — a podcast that shares the stories behind your favorite boutique hotels, short-term rentals, and hospitality brands and the hosts, operators, and entrepreneurs who’ve brought them to life. Every Tuesday and Friday you’ll meet the military veterans, retired flight attendants, tech entrepreneurs, school teachers, single moms, hoteliers, and real estate investors who are all, in their unique ways, shaping the future of travel and hospitality. Discover how these

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01:08:17

How They're Building the Airbnb for Houseboats: The...

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2024/05/10

Meet Brian Meyer and Selly Butler — the founders of FLOHOM a new hospitality start-up that offers stunning, on-the-water stays in marinas across the mid-Atlantic. Selly is a serial entrepreneur whose latest venture is in the marina business. One day Selly received a call from an enthusiastic entrepreneur who asked to place Oysters in his marina as part of a water purification and protection nonprofit that he was running. This enthusiastic entrepreneur? Well, yes, it was Brian Meyer. And while the

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46:32

He's Transformed 600 Homes into Airbnbs — Here's What...

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2024/05/07

Meet Mark Lumpkin from STR Cribs — the leading one-stop-shop for renovating, designing, and fully-furnishing a short-term rental. Mark is an innovative entrepreneur who has worked on nearly 600 renovations transforming run-of-the-mill homes into bespoke, scroll-stopping stays. In this conversation, Mark and I discuss How thematic short-term rentals can be a great way to compete against unique stays when your STR is a condo or single-family home Why more hospitality entrepreneurs should create

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47:07

Airbnb Gave Her $100,000 to Build a Unique Stay in...

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2024/05/03

Meet Whitney Hansen, the creator of The Flower Pot, a truly spectacular, one-of-a-kind experiential stay in Burley, Idaho.Whitney has always been entrepreneurial — she owns her own consulting business, she hosts a podcast on investing and financial freedom called The Money Nerds, and is now also a hospitality entrepreneur. After building one of Idaho's only geodesic domes and seeing it perform remarkably well on Airbnb, Whitney began dreaming of what her next build might look like — would it be an

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55:05

How He Created the UK's Most Popular Glamping Site —...

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2024/04/30

Meet Derry Green — the creator and visionary behind The Secret Garden Glamping — the UK's most booked, most wished-listed, and most viewed glamping site with a 2+ year waiting list. Derry has always loved the outdoors – growing up, he and his family were avid campers. Some of his childhood memories involved playing in the woods with his brother and sitting around the campfire telling stories. When Covid hit, Derry and his children were, like most of us, stuck inside a lot. On one particular day

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51:55

How They Built a Micro Nature Resort in the White...

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2024/04/26

Meet Boris Mordkovich, who created Lumen Nature Retreat — a luxury waterfront glamping resort nestled in the heart of New Hampshite’s White Mountains — in partnership with his wife Susan. The idea for Lumen was born while Boris and Susan traveled from Boston to Argentina over a 6-month road trip for an extended honeymoon. During this trip, their Toyota Land Cruiser car had a rooftop tent that allowed them to camp at some of the most spectacular places — from bush camping in the middle of the salt

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01:00:26

From Potato Hotels to Hobbit Inns: How She Built the...

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2024/04/23

Meet Kristie Wolfe — the entrepreneur and builder behind some of the world’s most famous Airbnbs including the Big Idaho Potato Hotel, The Big Island Treehouse, The Hobbit Inn, and several others.Growing up, Kristie always wanted to do her own thing – she convinced her parents to let her drop out of high school because she felt like she could learn more about business outside of the classroom. Kristie is a true creative — she gets an idea in her head and just has to execute it…even if, and arguably

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50:54

He's Building a Next Generation Glamping Company That...

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2024/04/19

Meet Nick Purslow, who is both the Co-Founder of Glampitect North America, an incredible educational and consulting resource for setting up a glamping site, and also the co-founder of a new start-up called Posh Outdoors, which supplies owners of iconic properties with high-end glamping units and backend support, at no up-front cost to the landowner, through an attractive revenue share model.Growing up, Nick wanted to be a lawyer — but after graduating from university with a law degree he realized

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51:35

"Hotel Brands Won't Matter in 10 Years" — And Other...

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2024/04/16

Meet Peter Fabor, an entrepreneur building a portfolio of niche hospitality businesses from marketplaces to industry newsletters. Peter is a product designer by trade and has spent his career working in and around hospitality and technology companies. In this conversation, Peter shares hot takes he has on the relevancy (or lack therefor) of hotel brands over the next decade, how he built a marketplace for company off-sites and corporate retreats, why the best hospitality entrepreneurs can run both

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54:07

Building the Extraordinary: How to Design Getaways...

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2024/04/12

Meet Louis Thompson — Founder and CEO of Nomadic Resorts, a consultancy that designs and builds some of the world’s most innovative and unique hotels and homes.Growing up, Louis wanted to be a chef — and while he never pursued his culinary aspirations he did wind up designing some of the world’s most memorable restaurants. In this conversation, Louis and I discuss how he thinks about designing luxury, unique stays, how he predicts short-term rental collections and hotel brands will partner in the

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59:18

Setting the AI Search Bar: How Homes & Villas by...

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2024/04/09

Meet Nitin Sood, Vice President of Innovation at Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy. Nitin and his team launched the first AI-powered search experience of any travel site so I invited him to come on the show to talk about how they built the tool, how folks are engaging with the experience post-launch, and what they’ve got cooking up behind the scenes to improve the product. Tune in to hear Nitin and I discuss: How Marriott built their Search with AI tool What they’ve learned since allowing

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49:28

How a Former Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Built a $1.5...

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2024/04/05

Meet Cameron Weeks — a former coast guard rescue swimmer turned hospitality entrepreneur.From a young age, Cameron dreamed of owning his own business — he used to listen to audio books like Rich Dad, Poor Dad with his father in the car when he was in elementary school. After high school, Cameron enlisted in the coast guard and became a rescue swimmer — yes, like one of those guys who jump out of helicopters to save people stranded in the middle of the ocean. In this conversation, Cameron shares

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44:10

He Dropped Out of School to Build a Short-Term Rental...

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2024/04/02

In just a moment you’ll meet Antonio Bafia, a 23-year-old entrepreneur who dropped out of college to pursue his dream of building hospitality businesses. Growing up, Antonio was a competitive hockey player — he dreamed of one day playing in the NHL. And while that dream never came to fruition, the discipline he learned playing hockey equipped him wonderfully for the exciting and taxing journey of being an entrepreneur. In this episode, Antonio and I discuss: how he built a portfolio of short-term

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46:11

Meet the Muralist Who Transforms Ordinary Airbnbs...

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2024/03/29

Meet Bella Linchenko, a muralist, STR investor, and creative finance community builder.Growing up, Bella wanted to be a dog groomer…or an olympic gymnast…or both. And while neither of those dreams panned out, she does get to apply her love of art, form, and problem solving to the work she gets to do each day. In this conversation Bella and I discuss: How murals can elevate the value of your STR Why Bella started a creative financing community for women real estate investors What she’s learned from

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39:25

He's Building a Next-Generation Landscape Hotel in...

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2024/03/26

Howdy friends! In this episode Zach sits down with Ben Wolff, Co-Founder of Onera and Oasi — two of the most innovative brands in the experiential hospitality space. Ben Wolff is an incredible entrepreneur who has built some of the world's most unique and social-media-famous Airbnbs — if you haven't checked at his work, it's time to change that. In this episode, Ben announces his latest project, Oasi Hill Country, a $39 million luxury landscape resort that he's building in the Texas Hill

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56:54

So, Was the Level Up Your Listing Summit Actually...

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2024/03/22

One of the newest and hottest industry events, Level Up Your Listing, host by Natalie Palmer and Tatiana Taylor-Tait, just wrapped last week — and we wanted to know what people thought about the event!In this episode, Zach sits down with Sage Nathan (Head of Partnerships at Minoan and a sponsor of the event), Tyann Marcink, an industry veteran and one of the most respected voices in vacation rental management, and Bella Linchenko, a designer and muralist who is new to short-term rental investing

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30:07

Here's Where Google Says You Should Buy Your Next Airbnb

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2024/03/19

In this episode, Zach explores what Google Trends says about where to buy or build your next unique Airbnb. Zach shares fascinating insight into how search behavior for unique stays like treehouses, container homes, yurts, and A-frames has changed over time and where these searches for unique stays are most and least popular. You're not going to want to miss this one folks! This episode is brought to you by our friends at AirDNA Want to see if a Treehouse resort in Dubai pencils? You can do so in

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55:04

How Growing Up in the Amish Community Helped Him...

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2024/03/15

Meet Elam King — founder and CEO of Kingly Vacation Renta;s, a collection of short-term rentals and soon to be motels located across Pennsylvania and Maryland.Elam grew up in the Amish community and it was here that he learned the importance of discipline, hard work and craftsmanship. After leaving the Amish community as a young adult, Elam began to learn everything he could about real estate investing. Elam has a knack for dilapidated homes that others have looked over and being able to see how

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48:13

He Left Banking to Become a Hospitality Entrepreneur...

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2024/03/13

Meet Fred Boothby, Founder of Enjoy Unique Stays, a collection of 100 short-term rentals across Chattanooga, Michigan, North Carolina, and North Georgia.Fred was a banker — it seemed like a safe and stable way to build a nice life for his family. But there was something about the “safe way” that never felt quite right to Fred. One day he got a call from a friend who was looking for someone to help scale a landscaping business in Central Florida. And while he didn’t know it at the time, that call

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41:08

From CIA Aspirant to Travel Entrepreneur: Why He's...

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2024/03/08

Meet Landon Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Hostshare — a new platform that enables short-term rental hosts to trade unbooked nights in exchange for free travel.Growing up Landon wanted to be a spy — he went so far as to write a letter to the CIA asking them to recruit him …he even had a code name which you’ll hear about shortly! And while Landon never wound up pursuing a career in espionage, the boldness he had as a child has followed him along his journey of becoming an entrepreneur. In this episode,

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31:21

Hans Lorei on Building an Instagram Audience from 0...

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2024/03/05

What’s up friends got a special episode for y’all today featuring my friend Hans Lorei one of the best if not THE BEST designer in the short-term rental space. While I am a real sucker for the traditional, interview syle pod, I also know that sometimes you need content that is short, sweet, and super practical. So, once or twice a month, I’ll be dropping episodes on the pod that are slightly more tactical. Each of these episodes will featuring an industry expert andbe just 10-20 minutes in

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