This week I had the enormous pleasure of speaking with Anese Cavanaugh, CEO of Active Choices.

Active Choices is a firm devoted to performance, leadership, individual and organizational health, culture, collaboration, showing up and whatever it takes to help leaders and organizations navigate change and lead effectively, powerfully and without compromising integrity, relationships or burning themselves out so they can create positive intentional impact in the world.

Anese is a keynote speaker, executive leadership advisor, and 2x best selling author of Contagious Culture and Contagious You.

Anese is also the creator of the IEP method, which is created to transform workplace culture and impact entire organizations, starting with the individual. I stands for Intention, E for Energy and P for Presence. So powerful!

This conversation is packed full of incredible insights, including:

• Conducting a completion session to express gratitude.
• How life can change from one day to the next.
• The thought of “what if?”
• Having the power to set intention.
• The process of going out on your own.
• The power of presence and intention.
• Everybody is naturally creative, resourceful and whole.
• Understanding your limiting beliefs.
• Recognizing your triggers and tending to them.
• Finding an accountability partner.

And so much more!

Anese also highlighted a few great resources, including the work by Dr. Gabor Maté and The Body Keeps the Score.

Thank you, Anese, for your incredible abundance mindset and for sharing your knowledge with all of us. It is wonderful to experience the energy of being intentional and to have data and science to back it all up and help us make sense out of it!

To everyone that is listening - a HUGE THANK YOU as well. Follow the podcast, stay conscious and stay connected!

In this week's episode, David has the opportunity to speak to Tony Martignetti.

Tony is the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Inspired Purpose Partners, an organization that helps tech leaders show up with intention, curiosity and compassion.

Tony spent almost 30 years in the bio-tech industry before shifting his focus onto mentorship, executive coaching and leadership development. Tony is host of The Virtual Campfire Podcast, Guest Lecturer at Harvard University, Creator and Community Member at the House of Beautiful Business, Contributor with Harvard Business Review, a Tedx Speaker, and two times best-selling author with Climbing the Right Mountain and Campfire Lessons for leaders.

The conversation goes into some fantastic topics, including:

• Keeping a consistent gratitude ritual.
• Having a child-like curiosity.
• The power of curiosity versus judgment.
• Fostering your unique talents.
• Recognizing burnout.
• Realizing we have more control than we think.
• Finding the courage to speak up.
• Working with outlier leaders.

And much more!

Thank you, Tony, for the insightful conversation and for sharing your knowledge and expertise with our listeners.

And to all our listeners, thank you for following the podcast and for your continued support week after week. Please FOLLOW the podcast, and stay conscious and connected.

In this week's episode, ⁠David⁠ has the pleasure of speaking to his friend ⁠Larry Spelts⁠.

In this heartfelt conversation, Larry gets vulnerable and shares his life experience, including a traumatic childhood, an out-of-ordinary opportunity to learn from the maestro, ⁠Gian Carlo Menotti⁠, and his rise in leadership within hospitality.

Larry’s journey began in South Carolina, where he managed several boutique properties before moving to New York to lead operations at ⁠The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel⁠, and ⁠The Core Club⁠. He then ventured into consulting, lending his expertise to unique projects, including David Barton Gyms. In 2009, Larry joined ⁠Charlestowne Hotels⁠ as VP of Business Development, which is where I had the privilege of meeting him. His career continued to soar as he took on leadership roles with ⁠Expotel Hospitality⁠, ⁠Lincoln Property Company⁠, and ⁠The Indigo Road Hospitality Group⁠. Today, Larry runs his own company, ⁠The Hotel Alchemist⁠.

This episode has so much great insight, including:

- The importance of gratitude for life and not taking it for granted.

- The influence of transformative mentorship.

- The two sides of the coin of childhood trauma.

- Overcoming low self esteem.

- The power of vulnerability in effective leadership.

- The concept of "terrifying fearlessness".

- The illusion of control.

- The jump from individual contributor to manager.

And much more.

Larry gets raw and real with us, and he embodies the vulnerability he speaks about. We hope you will find this episode as insightful as we did.

Thank you for following Conscious Hospitality and for subscribing to the podcast. See you next week!

What does great Executive Coaching center around?

This week, David has the pleasure of speaking with Cid Rhomberg.

Cid is the Chief Experience Officer at Brick House Blue, a company focused on offering flexible co-working options, private offices and executive suites along with collaborative meeting/event space where teams, individuals and organizations can discover, build and grow.

Cid is also an Executive Coach and Consultant and, through her company Innovere, she has partnered with clients to help them determine where they want to go and how they are going to get there. She is a certified FranklinCovey Senior Consultant, DDI | Development Dimensions International facilitator, EOS Worldwide operator, licensed in Inspire Your People and The Five Disfunctions of a Team from The Table Group. Cid also serves as Co-President of the Global Workspace Association.

With this impressive background, it’s clear that Cid’s story will inspire you. They get into a variety of insightful subjects, including:

• Gratitude for health and family.
• The positive side of bias.
• Working harder instead of smarter, and flipping that later in life.
• The importance of nurturing relationships.
• How great coaching is about mindset rather than skillset.

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And much more!

Thank you, Cid, for your vulnerability and for sharing your wonderful story with us. I am so grateful and honored to call you my friend and mentor.

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Conscious Hospitality Unlimited

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!

Enjoy the episode and hit SUBSCRIBE or FOLLOW in your favorite listening platform.

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.

This episode is now live on your favorite streaming platforms. Thank you for listening and subscribing to the show! 🙏

In this week's episode, David speaks to Holly Phillips, Co-Founder and Strategist of For Digital Sakes, a full-suite digital marketing agency for hospitality businesses. Prior to starting her company, Holly worked on the branding side of Marketing for 15 years, for companies like A+E Networks, L'Oreal and Johnson & Johnson and Nestle. She built a successful career, helping these businesses create successful individual brands around the globe.

We dive deep into her life and career and we learn about her upbringing and her desire to make an impact in the world.

We touch on many different topics, including:

- The power of rituals and listening to your cycles.

- Education in digital marketing.

- The importance of measuring your efforts.

- Discipline when accountability is not there.

- How to revolutionize your brand ecosystem to drive results.

And much more!

Thank you, Holly, for your wonderful energy, and for sharing your life story so openly with us. You are a true inspiration!

Until next week, enjoy!

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