Have you ever sacrificed a deep passion for career advancement?

Are you able to govern yourself effectively?

In this week’s episode of The Conscious Hospitality Podcast, David has the pleasure of speaking to Mano SOLER, Director of the Les Roches Marbella Global Hospitality Education School.

In this thoughtful and inspirational conversation, Mano shares his life story, including early lessons growing up as a third culture child in Morocco, falling in love with hospitality and then eventually taking a step back to continue following his musical passion, leading him to join Les Roches Marbella, where he has made a beautiful career for himself.

Mano grew his career in hospitality operations, including roles in Food & Beverage and then eventually going into General Management. Then, in 2008, he joined Les Roches in Career Development, Industry Placement and Alumni Relations. From that point on, he continued growing and expanding his role at the school, until eventually becoming the Director in 2022.

This episode is full of valuable insight, including:

• Gratitude for your upbringing.
• The intricacies of growing up as a Third Culture child. - Friendship is friendship, and people are people.
• Finding your way towards what you want.
• Not sacrificing your passions for anything.
• The energy of musical performance and its parallels in life.
• The importance of self governance and what tools we have at our disposal to optimize our lives.

And much more!

Here is a link to Mano's music as well, enjoy it!

Mano, thank you for your deep self reflection, vulnerability and for sharing your beautiful story with us. I appreciated how much presence you gave to the process. Gracias!

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Thank you!

Do you love your kids but dislike parenting?

In this week’s episode, David speaks to his friend Scott Jeffrey Miller, a world renowned author and thought leader. Scott is the former Executive Vice President of Thought Leadership for FranklinCovey, and he still hosts the world’s most popular leadership podcast, “FranklinCovey’s On Leadership”. He is the author of nine books, including “Management Mess to Leadership Success”, and “Everyone Deserves a Great Manager”.

In this episode, they hone in on Scott's latest book, “Parenting Mess to Launch Success: 30 Challenges to build lifelong influence and relationships with your children”, which he co-authored with his 14 year-old son, Thatcher Ford Miller.

The episode is full of valuable insight on parenting and learning from our mistakes as adults, including:

- Never taking life for granted.

- Valuing different types of intelligence.

- Owning your mess and going from mess to success.

- Keep going, keep going, keep going.

- How leadership instructs parenting.

- Being deliberately evangelizing to your children.

And much more!

Scott is an exceptional communicator and this conversation on parenting was very entertaining and enlightening. Learning from his mistakes will certainly make you a better parent, better partner and better leader.

Thank you, Scott, for owning your parenting mess and for sharing how it can help make our children’s “launch” into the world a complete success!

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Do you lead by providing all the answers, or asking the right questions? 🤔

In this week's episode of The Conscious Hospitality Podcast, David has the pleasure of speaking to Isabel Porzecanski, President of People Traction LLC and official EOS Implementer for The Profit Recipe.

Isabel created a beautiful career of 25 years, working for some outstanding companies: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, 50 Eggs Hospitality Group and Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, before decided to make a change into solopreneurship last year. Since then, she started People Traction, and she is now fully dedicated to focus on her passions for people strategy and business coaching for entrepreneurs.

In this conversation, we get some exceptional insights from Isabel, including:

- Gratitude for health.

- The exposure to a big city early in your career.

- The importance of intuition in decision-making.

- How every team member is responsible for culture.

- Driving self responsibility from your teams members.

- How to have people learn through mistakes while maintaining excellence.

And much more!

Thank you, Isabel, for your time and generosity, but also for sharing the experiences of your beautiful life with us.

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