How lucky are we here at the Chaplin School and at the 2 Barstools and a Knife podcast? We teach our students daily to surround themselves with the best and brightest. Today, we helped them in that effort with our guest speaker Heidi Hinkle Vargas who is one of the best and brightest on Pete Carr's team over at Bacardi North America, who just happens to be the Chaplin School's partner in all things spirits. Heidi discusses her role as VP and Managing Director of On-Premise for Bacardi and her career path in getting to that position. Heidi shares stories overcoming the challenges of a huge hotel opening in Vegas and now working through the current challenges with Covid. Heidi discusses some "hot off the presses" news and stats with our students that really give us all cause for optimism in the Hospitality world. Heidi also shares the thoughtful philanthropic work Bacardi has done to give back to our community. Heidi closes our show with some great student advice and reminds us of Bacardi's vision for this year: Outsmart, Outwork, Outperform. It is a vision we share here at 2 Barstools and a Knife and at the Chaplin School...enjoy this episode!