The Hotel Daddy Podcast
Hotel Daddy is a podcast featuring in-depth interviews with hospitality movers and shakers, offering candid conversations that reveal how the best in the business became the leaders they are today. Listen in for inspiration and behind-the-scenes stories from the best in the industry.
Hosted by T. Blake Danner, Executive Producer, Stephanie T. Bryant, Production and Engineering by David Jewell. Associate Producer, Nelson Luis Ortiz, with original theme music composed and produced by Evan Jewell.
The Hotel Daddy Podcast
Latest Episodes
Brad Wilson, Chairman ACE Hotel Group - Great Hotels Win When Creativity Meets Operations Discipline
A motel becomes a resort, a brand becomes a destination, and suddenly the whole industry gets permission to think bigger. We’re joined by Brad Wilson, chairman of Ace Group International, a leader who’s helped shape modern lifestyle hospitality...
Hotels as Hosts, and Airbnb Hotels, Rethinking Travel Platforms with Lou Zameryka
Hotels once treated online travel as a threat, but then it became the engine room of modern distribution. Now the next shift is here: Airbnb and hotel brands are learning how to work together, and the real competitive edge is no longer just inv...
Bashar Wali Longing for Belonging
A robot can drop a towel at your door, but it can’t make you feel welcome. That’s the line we keep coming back to as I sit down with hotel founder Bashar Wali to talk about what the hospitality industry gets right, what it gets dangerously wron...
Outside, On Purpose
What if the most valuable amenity isn’t a butler or a points upgrade, but time you can feel? We sit down with AutoCamp’s Chief Commercial Officer, Bryan Terzi, to trace a career that moves from Starwood and W Hotels to SBE’s celebrity-fueled ni...
Small Town, Big Hospitality Vision: Kat Bangs on Designing Emotion In Hotels
Emotion is the real currency of hospitality, and Kat Bangs knows how to design for it. Blake sits down with the creative mind turned small-town hotelier to explore the choices that turn spaces into feelings, lobbies into communities, and career...
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