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Branded & Booked — 212 episodes
EP 253: How to Get More Full-Property Buyouts with Tony Stancato
EP 252: I Was Completely Wrong About the Campground I Want to Buy
EP 251: From 3 Million Views to 80% Direct Bookings with Debra Getts
EP 250: How Our Micro-Resort Grew Revenue 76% (And What It Really Took)
EP 249: The Difference Between a Nice Hotel and a Booked-Out One with Courtney Petrovich
EP 248: Our First Weeks Living in an RV + A New Way to Bring Your Brand to Life
EP 247: How They Reached 70% Direct Bookings (And Why Most Hosts Are Asking the Wrong Question) with Rose Tipka
EP 246: How 29% of Our Bookings Generated 43% of Our Revenue
EP 245: The Hospitality Industry Is About to Split in Two (And Most Hosts Aren't Ready) with Gil Chan
EP 244: Building Businesses, Raising Kids & Going on the Road for a Year
EP 243: The Legal Mistakes STR Owners Keep Making with Katie Johnson
EP 242: What Virgin Voyages & Coachella Understand About Influencer Marketing That Most Brands Don't
EP 141: What No One Is Telling You About AI in Hospitality
EP 240: How to Build a Team So You're Not "On" 24/7 Anymore
EP 239: The Shift You Need Before Peak Season Hits
EP 238: How to Increase Your ADR Without Adding More Amenities
EP 237: The Fastest Way to Drive Direct Bookings in the Next 30 Days
EP 236: Designing for Experience (and ROI): How Altitude 22 Hit $100K in 60 Days with Yash Bhatt
EP 235: The Marketing Strategy That Generated 3.7x ROI and 45% Direct Bookings
EP 234: The 90-Day Hotel Transformation (And How It's Already Driving 30% Direct Bookings) with Andrés Pérez
EP 233: The Strategy Behind Branding and Marketing That Actually Drives Direct Bookings
EP 232: What My Stay at Bolt Farm Treehouse Taught Me About Guest Experience
EP 231: Your Name Is Your First Marketing Asset (And Most STR Owners Get It Wrong)
EP 230: The Parts of Boutique Hospitality No One Talks About with Beata Lornic
EP 229: 5-Star Hotel Principles Every STR & Boutique Hotel Owner Should Know with Katie Cline
EP 228: What Actually Built Our Wealth (And What Didn't)
EP 227: $300K Revenue Increase Breakdown: How Marketing Assets Impact Revenue and Valuation
EP 226: How Personal Branding Drives Trust, Bookings, and Growth in Hospitality
EP 225: Camper Life in 2026: Our 1-Year RV Plan
EP 224: What I Outgrew in 2025: Business Growth, Family-First Decisions, and Redefining Success as an Entrepreneur
EP 223: We Built a 12-Cabin Micro Resort: Here's What It Really Took
EP 222: Short-Term Rental Investing: What I'd Do Differently Now
EP 221: 2026 Predictions: Branding, Direct Booking & Personal Brands
EP 220: 2025 Wrapped: Explosive Growth, Hard Truths, and Our Wild Plan for 2026
EP 219: How We Drove $40K in Direct Bookings for Tremont Lodge Using an Integrated Marketing Strategy
EP 218: How Strategy-Driven Interiors Are Winning in Today's STR Market with Jordan from Somerled Designs
Ep 217: What 5 STR Owners Changed in Their Marketing—And the Direct Booking Results They Saw
EP 216: Are direct bookings just a trend?
EP 215: The 3 C's of Social Media Strategy for Short-Term Rentals
EP 214: Mistakes STR Owners make with marketing
EP 213: How to Not Lose Money with Airbnb's New Host Fee
EP 212: How We Got 1,100 Subscribers + $5K in Bookings with ONE Email Funnel
EP 211: Personal Update: Proof You Don't Need It All to Keep Going
EP 210: Why Your Instagram Isn't Converting (and How to Fix It)
EP 209: Behind the Scenes of Our Co-Hosting Business (and lessons I've learned)
EP 208: How to Train Your Team to Think Like You (and Trust Their Gut) with Punith Upadhya
EP 207: Why I Sold My First Short-Term Rental and What We're Doing Next
EP 206: Systems + Ops That Give You Your Time Back with Marisa Grover
EP 205: Cabins on the Cumberland Update: Financing, Partnerships, and Lessons Learned
EP 204: Why Influencer Marketing Still Works—But Only If You Do It Right
EP 203: 50% Direct Bookings with Zero Paid Ads? Here's the Strategy
EP 202: Is Airbnb Trying to Prevent Direct Bookings?
EP 201: Don't Take My Word for It: STR Marketing Bootcamp Success Stories
EP 200: STR Marketing Simplified All About Your Brand Strategy
199: BTS of The Asheville Affair
EP 198: Stop selling your amenities. Do THIS instead!
EP 197: Social Media Marketing for STRs
EP 196: Direct Booking Secrets: Breadcrumbs for Your Airbnb Listing
EP 195: Strategies to Increase Your Bookings During Slow Periods
EP 194: Welcome to Branded & Booked!
EP 193: 2024 The Good The Hard and What's Coming Next
EP 192: 2025 Predictions for STR
EP 191: Long-Term vs Short-Term Rental with Ryan Rominger
EP 190: You're missing THIS in your STR design & guest experience - Interview with Harshad and Ishita Lalan
EP 189: Simplifying Direct Bookings with Gil Chan of Crafted Stays
EP 188: How I Built the brand for Cabins on the Cumberland
EP 187: From STR Owner to Treehouse Resort: Interview with Hanan Kim
EP 186: Steal Our Marketing Strategy: 15% Direct Bookings in 2 Months
EP 185: STR Install in just 7 days with Kim Fitzpatrick
EP 184: What Every Short-Term Rental Owner Needs to Know About Influencer Marketing
EP 183: The shift that led to multiple 6-figure businesses
EP 182: How to Create Successful Influencer Partnerships for Your Short-Term Rental with Jordan Kahana
EP 181: How to Boost Repeat Bookings Through Email Marketing
180: How to Increase Your Visibility Online for Your Short-Term Rental with Emily Lethgo
EP 179: What the Hell Happened to Hospitality
EP 178: I am so tired of this
EP 177: Finding profitable properties in today's market with STRIQ
Ep 176: From 5 arbitrage units in March 2020 to their STR mentorship program: Interview with The KarWells
175: Behind the scenes of one year with our first STR property
Ep 174: Email marketing with StayFi Founder Arthur Colker
Ep 173: 3 factors to consider aside from the numbers when selecting a short-term rental property
EP 172: What no one tells you about building a short-term rental business
EP 171: How branding impacts your bottom line
EP 170: Social media marketing for your short-term rental
EP 169: Our Partnership for Cabins On The Cumberland
EP 168: Traveling full time while designing STRs with Paige Hayes
EP 167: What to consider BEFORE you design your Airbnb property
Ep 166: Co-Hosting Lessons and Mishaps
EP 165: Creating unique stay properties with Zoey Berghoff
Ep 164: THIS will increase direct bookings
EP 163: Our next BIG STR investment
Ep 162: What we're focusing on in 2024
EP 161: The Highs and Lows of Starting a Business Together
EP 160: What Actually Happened This Year
EP 159: Influencer Marketing Do's and Don'ts
EP 158: Co-Hosting Chronicles - Our journey with co-hosting clients and STR management
EP 157: Should you use social media marketing for your STR
Ep 156: The number one marketing strategy to implement ASAP
EP 155: Co-Hosting and Ownership in Ellijay, GA with Nick and Niki
Ep 154: Answers to FAQs about The Weber Co Rebrand
EP 153: Welcome To Hosted By The Webers
EP 152: Why I'm hitting pause on this podcast and what you can expect next from The Weber Co.
EP 151: How to sell the transformation by story-telling with Kris Jones
EP 150: Marketing hot topic: DM strategy in 2023
EP 149: Noah's Birth Story + an update on how our family is handling the transition
EP 148: From Surviving to Thriving with Brandi Linn
EP 147: 5 signs live launching will work for your business
EP 146: Fertility, Cycle Syncing, and Women's Health with Caitlin Sullivan
EP 145: Personal brand vs. business brand
144: Here's what's making me cringe in the online space right now
EP 143: "Your backup plan is f***ing you." Advice my mentor shared with me that will help you too.
EP 142: The most lucrative marketing strategy you could execute to scale past 6-figures
Ep 141: The best (and worst) ways to grow your email list in 2023
Ep 140: How to close Hell yes, I'm in clients, and what you need to know about the market TODAY
EP 139: CELEBRATING 30! Here's what my 20s taught me and what I'm excited about in this next decade
EP 138: The secret to organic marketing
EP 137: The shifts I've made as we scale to $1M in sales
EP 136: Marketing myth busting: live launch edition
EP 135: How launching has worked for these three service-based businesses
Ep 134: The biggest shifts to launch with ease vs. overwhelm
Ep 133: 5 reasons why you should be leveraging live launching to scale past 6-figures
Ep 132: How AI is impacting businesses this year
Ep 131: Is fear sabotaging your success?
Ep 130: The era of possibility marketing
EP 129: How 2022 really ended and what's next for my business
EP 128: Make social media fun again with Marion Wagner
EP 127: Defining your avatars needs and deepest desires with Ericka Anderson
EP 126: 3 ways to get unstuck
EP 125: An "aha" moment for your business
EP 124: Marketing doesn't matter if you don't have this...
EP 123: My honest thought about "quiet quitting"
EP 122: Your new Instagram Strategy
Ep 121: Is influencer marketing dead?
Ep 120: Understanding your unconscious, subconscious, and conscious mind with Heather Georgell
Ep 119: Why we decided to launch a low ticket membership now
Ep 118 - How to leverage brand story with Whitney Carmichael
Ep 117 - Preparing for the rest of 2022 as an entrepreneur
Ep 116 - When to hire team members
Ep 115 - Building a 7-figure future is possible for you with Alysse Godino
Ep 114 - How imposter syndrome manifests itself and what to do about it with Larisa Makuch
Ep 113 - Here's how they did it: Six figure year, 5-figure month, standing in their authority
Ep 112 - Redefining success and allowing your vision to evolve
Ep 111 - Breaking through your upper limit blocks with Kyra Yang
Ep 111 - Breaking through your upper limit blocks with Kyra Yang
Ep 110 - The shifts we made to scale to a profitable multi-six figure company
Ep 109 - Planning maternity leave as a CEO with Kylie Kelly
Ep 108 - The biggest thing your marketing is missing right now
Ep 107 - Elevating your brand strategy with Brie Southward
Ep 106 - LIVE coaching session: how to increase sales & visibility
Ep 105 - How your brand can help you become an employer of choice and a better boss with Kira La Forgia
Ep 104 - Permission to allow your brand to evolve
Ep 103 - A real behind the scenes look at a profitable launch
Ep 102 - Brand positioning strategies
Ep 101 - The balance of human self and spirituality with Ellie Bell and Erin Hodgson
Ep 100 - A most epic celebration - Motherhood, entrepreneurship, and 100 episodes
Ep 99 - A 5-figure client in 30 days - here's how Lyndsey Woods did it
Ep 98 - The breakthrough you need to handle objections when selling
Ep 97 - Revamping your brand strategy to connect with champagne clients
Ep 96 - Embodiment and energetics within your brand with Ashley Vives Williams
Ep 95 - The Mid-January Pep Talk You Need to Hear
Ep 94 - Putting your relationship back on the priority list with Rachel Elder
Ep 93 - A Year in Review - 5 Takeaways from 2021
Ep 92 - Ditching Societal Expectations
Ep 91 - What does it mean to be an authority brand?
Ep 90 - How to clean up muddled messaging
Ep 89 - How much of YOU should be in your brand?
Ep 88 - Six-figures in 9 months, client feature with Whitney Carmichael
Ep 87 - Leveraging your online presence to advocate with Lys Villelli
Ep 86 - Setting your 2022 intentions
Ep 85 - Creating an Elevated Brand Presence
Ep 84 - Leveraging authentic connections to scale with Jake Kelfer
Ep 83 - The unexpected challenges of business growth
Ep 82 - Nearly $500K in sales organically - here's what we did.
Ep 81 - 5 brand mistakes preventing your quantum leap
Ep 80 - How to move forward in a season of challenge
Ep 79 - Converge Summit for course creators with Megan Smith
Ep 78 - what it's like to be married to an entrepreneur with Collin Weber
Ep 77 - Branding vs. Marketing
Ep 76 - Life update from The Weber's 6 months into parenthood
Ep 75 - The biggest sales mistakes I made at the beginning
Ep 74 - One Year Later: Niki Jackson hitting every goal as a client inside BTC Academy
Ep 73 - Three core elements for brand disruption and sustainability
Ep 72 - "Sales" doesn't have to be a dirty word
Ep 71 - Your next level social media strategy with Kaylee Sutherin
Ep 70 - The difference between a brand and a business
Ep 69 - Human Design with Courtney Rousseau
Ep 68 - Using email marketing to grow a 6-figure business with Kirsten Roldan
Ep 67 - The reality of living holistically with Stacey Heiny
Ep 66 - The power of hiring a coach - here's what they're doing
Ep 65 - Vision Casting and Strategic Planning with Khaïry Varre
Ep 64 - How to take one piece of content and multiply it
Ep 63 - On Camera Presence and Confidence with Kaylan from Unstoppable Entrepreneurs
Ep 62 - What does success mindset look like? And how to make this shift.
Ep 61 - Are one of these fears keeping you stuck? Unpacking 4 fears entrepreneurs face
Ep 60 - Organic growth with Instagram Reels with Natasha Samuel
Ep 59 - Creating Your Digital Course Curriculum with Emily Walker
Ep 58 - What it took to scale to 6 figures
Ep 57 - Money mindset shifts you need to make now with Lattice Hudson
Ep 56 - Perseverance through Expansion, Celebrating My 28th Birthday
Ep 55 - Cultivating an Epic Customer Experience
Ep 54 - Content Strategy and High Level Marketing with Danielle Cevallos
Ep 53 - Baby Weber's Birth Story
Ep 52 - 5 Characteristics of Brands That Dominate Their Industry
Ep 51 - Why SEO needs to be part of your marketing plan with Clem Coleman
Ep 50 - Planning for a baby as an entrepreneur
EP 49 - Leadership in Network Marketing with Whitney Carmichael
Ep 48 - Social proof in your brand and how these clients are scaling in massive ways
Ep 47 - Leveraging Story in Your Brand with Sierra Holmes
Ep 46 - Welcome to BRANDED! My marketing predictions for 2021
EP 45 - 5 lessons I learned in 2020 from my wins and losses
EP 44 - Planting Seeds 365 with Megan Smith
EP 43 - Experiential Marketing: Ignite Your Impact Retreat