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The Wellness in Hospitality Podcast — 160 episodes

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160. The Guest That Nobody Remembered

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159. The Filter You Cannot Turn Off

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158. The Investment That Made Sense And Changed Nothing

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157. Wellness is Hospitality. Hospitality is Wellness

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156. Felt. Not Forgotten

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155. Well Built - Why Some Hotels Perform And Others Don’t

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154. How Annie Signed Her First 3 Clients in 3 Months Using One Superpower

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153. The 6 Languages Of Wellbeing In Hospitality

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152. The Gap Between Vision And Capacity

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151. Wellness: Tool Or Instrument?

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150. If You Removed Every Physical Element of Your Wellness Offering, What Would Remain?

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149. Is Your Wellness Offering’s Success Because Of You Or In Spite Of You?

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148. Who Comes Before What In Wellness

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147. Stop Decorating Wellness Concepts That Were Never Designed

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146. From Hero To Steward – Why Wellness Breaks Without Governance

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145. Why Before What How And What: The Wellness Value Iceberg

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144. From Borrowed Playbooks To Authored Ones

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143. From Amenities to Ecosystems: Inside the Future of Hotels, Wellness & Travel with Emma Sleight

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142. The Path That Does Work When Transitioning Into Consulting

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141. The Fatal Mistakes Wellness Leaders Make When Transitioning Into Consulting

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140. 3 Reasons Why Pricing by Time Is the Worst Business Strategy for Wellness Consultants

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139. 5 Myths Wellness Leaders Believe About Consulting

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138. The Safety Net Every Wellness Consultant Needs

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137. What Exactly Does A Wellness Consultant Do?

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136. The Sunken Cost Trap

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135. From Spa Director To General Manager With Dr. Rajesh Bail

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134. Why Pain Pays Bills And Aspiration Builds The Business

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133. Meet the Deep Traveller: The Guest Every Boutique Hotel Wants With Richard Lindberg

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132. The Model Behind Every Lasting Wellness Legacy

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131. Inside the Wellness Consultant Blueprint

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130. Why Consulting Won’t Save You

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129. There Are Already Too Many Spa Consultants Out There

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128. The Wellness Consultant Blueprint

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127. Exit Route 3 - The Strategic Consultant - High Stakes, Unlimited Impact

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126. Exit Route 2 – The Project-Based Consultant – Higher Income, More Adventure

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125. Exit Route 1 - The Internal Consultant - The Soft Landing

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124. The Trap - Why Talented Wellness Directors Don't Progress

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123. How Wellness Architecture Shapes Human Connection With Rachael Grochowski

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122. Mark Kohoot on Making Wellness Credible in Hospitality

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121. You Can't Have 40% Wellness Revenue from 10% Wellness Facilities with Vickum Nawagamuwage

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120. From Real Estate Developer To Boutique Wellness Resort Owner

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119. The Valley Between The Dream And The Doing

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118. From Land To Legacy - What It Really Takes To Create A Purpose-Led Retreat

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117. More Consultants Don't Solve Confusion. They Magnify It

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116. You Know What You Want To Build, So Why Haven't You Started?

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115. Designing with Direction - How Land and Energy Shape Wellness

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114. The Broken Model - Why Boutique Hoteliers Miss The Mark

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113. From Spa Director to GM of Cruise Boats with Hylton Lipkin

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112. Why Brilliant Boutique Hotel Owners Stall with their Wellness Offering

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111. Why Design Alone Won’t Save Your Wellness Project with Alberto Apostoli

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110. What’s In The Bottle? Rethinking Water, Wellness & Waste With Saawan Logan

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109. Speak, Build, And Lead Like The Leader You’re Meant To Be

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108. A Behind-The-Scenes Look Inside The Wellness Asset Academy

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107. The One Win Rule – What Every Wellness Director Needs to Prove First

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106. Leading From the Middle – The Hardest Job in Hospitality

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105. You Need To Embody Wellness To Lead Wellness With Ram Chatterjee

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104. You Don’t Have A Wellness Problem. You Have A Wellness Director Problem

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103. “I Don’t Have Time, Sonal”

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102. Why It Feels Like You Have No Control Over Your Wellness Department

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101. “It’s My Company’s Job To Invest In My Training”

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100. “What’s The Point? They’ll Never Take Wellness Seriously.”

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99. “My GM and Owners Only Care About Profits”.

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98. The “They don’t ‘get’ it” Syndrome

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97. The “I Want To Be Like…” Syndrome

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96. Why Your Wellness Offering Doesn’t Match Your Vision

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95. Greenwashing or Game-Changer? The Real Impact of Plant-Based Wellness with Jimm Harrison

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94. Why Wellness Feels So Expensive And What You Can Do About It

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93. Who is the Wellness Asset Academy designed for

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92. Why ‘No Budget’ Kills Hotel Wellness (And The 3 Steps To Revive It)

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91. Why your wellness vision needs the right team

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90. Why wellness feels so intangible and how to fix it

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89. Why wellness feels so hard to get right

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88. Do you really need a wellness manager?

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87. The Power of Gratitude with Brian Proctor

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86. How To Choose The Right Partner For Your Hotel’s Wellness Offering with Nick Irani

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85. What does it cost to build a comprehensive wellness facility?

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84. Tokenisation, Investment, and Legacy Projects in Wellness with Kevin Beutler

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83. Are we selling time?

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82. Who are you to do this? Mindset mastery with Jerome Hopkins

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81. Going from bad busy to good busy with Kate Sotsenko

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80. We aren't in the business of selling massages, facials and yoga sessions!

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79. Enhancing Guest Experiences through Landscape Design with Scott LaMont

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78. A look inside the Wellness Asset Academy

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77. When to Fail Fast & Pivot vs Hang In & Iterate your Wellness Concept

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76. 3 Wellness Service Myths Holding Your Team Back

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75. 4 Things You Must Avoid If Wellness Isn’t Going The Way You Hoped

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74. 3 Steps To Find The Right Team To Do Wellness The Way You Want To

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73. How to Design Wellness Concepts That Can't Be Replicated

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72. How to Monetise Wellness Services in Hotels

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71. Getting Your Wellness Concept Past The Start Line

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70. How to Master Creating Impactful Wellness Concepts - Part 3

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69. How to Master Creating Impactful Wellness Concepts - Part 2

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68. How to Master Creating Impactful Wellness Concepts - Part 1

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67. Integrating Building Biology for Enhanced Guest Wellbeing with Valentina Cereda

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66. Integrating Total Human Hospitality Experience into Modern Wellness Practices with Yasemin Oruc

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65. 8 Lessons from 15+ Years Coaching Social Entrepreneurs

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64. How to Turn your Boutique Hotel into a Lucrative & Responsible Wellness Destination

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63. The Wellness in Hospitality Spotlight

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62. The Myth that Wellness Takes Too Long to Yield ROI

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61. The Danger Of Designing Your Wellness Concept Around An Individual Service

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60. How to Create Wellness Concepts that Resonate & Endure

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59. The Difference Between The Right Wellness Concept & A Wellness Asset

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58. How Can We Tackle The Talent Shortage In Wellness With Bobby Griffiths

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57. We Aren’t In The Business Of Selling Massages, Treatments And Products

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56. Masterclass Preview - My Top 3 Secrets to Profitable Wellness Assets

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55. The Problem With Knowing It All

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54. How Useful Are Feasibility Studies?

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53. The Invisible Crystal Ceiling That Looms Over Wellness Leaders

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52. What Does It Mean To Be A 'Good' Wellness Leader

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51. Do We Really Need To Make Our Wellness Businesses So Complicated?

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50. Sense Of Entitlement - Does It Really Serve Us?

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49. The Difference Between Your Wellness Offering's Brand and Concept

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48. Wellbeing Unveiled - The Total Human Hospitality Experience

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47. How To Get Your GM To Get You

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46. Are You Failing Ahead Of Time With Your Wellness Offering?

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45. The All Or Nothing Approach To Our Wellness Offerings

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44. Is Doing Wellness Mutually Exclusive From Making Money?

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43. Crafting Irresistible Offerings - Why Market Studies Fall Short

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42. Wellness Business Mastery – Rethinking Success, Moving Beyond The GM

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41. Why Wellness Leaders Are Hospitality's Lowest Paid Specialist Leader

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40. Mastering The Essential Skill - A Must for Wellness Leaders in Hospitality

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39. Beyond Quick Fixes - Why Tackling Wellness Business Symptoms Falls Short

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38. Why Do Less Than 1% of Wellness Leaders Actually Make It To GM?

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37. Why Are Wellness Leaders The Lowest Paid Specialist Leader in Hotels?

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36. The Gamechanging KPI that Few Wellness Leaders Measure

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35. The Wellness Director's Pitfall - Settling for Good Enough

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34. 5 Must Avoid Pitfalls for Wellness Leaders

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33. The Key Thing Only 3% of Wellness Directors Do - Stay the Course

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32. Mastering the Descent: Navigating the Slope to the Valley of Despair

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31. The Number 1 Mistake Wellness Leaders Make? They Bet on the Wrong Horse

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30. The Role of Wellness in Low Season Travel with Ged Brown

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29. The Wellness Director’s Achilles Heel - Selling

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28. The Power of a One Percentage Point Increase

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27. The Four Types of Wellness Leaders in Hospitality

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26. Engagement: How to Create a Committed and Loyal Client Base that Actively Engages with your Brand

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25. Consistency - How to Ensure Your Team Consistently Delivers Remarkable Wellness Experiences

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24. Decoding ESG - Navigating Sustainability Goals, Budgets, and Priorities for Business Success with Xenia zu Hohenloe

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23. The Hotelier's Lens - Where Hospitality Meets Wellness with Riaan Drever

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22. Insider Perspectives - Navigating Trends, Challenges, and PR in the Hospitality Industry with Maria Pajares

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21. Hospitality Fitness Offerings: From Dead Space to Revenue Generating Business Units with Matt Morley

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20. The Responsibility & Caution Behind Regenerative Tourism with Noelle Homsy

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19. Navigation - How to Ensure You Stay the Course with Your Wellness Concept

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18. Execution - How to Put Together your Lean & Ideal Team

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17. System – How to Create your Special Way of Doing Wellness

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16. The Talent Shortage/Surplus Paradox - The Disconnect between Supply and Demand with Kathryn Moore

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15. Story – Your Concept from Your Ideal Guest’s Perspective

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14. Expectation - The Right Wellness Concept For Your Hotel

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13. Unveiling Realities - Exploring the Intersection of Wellness, Hospitality & Real Estate with Horacio Alcala

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12. Trend Watching: The Independent Hotel Perspective with Lauren Alba

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11. Brave Leaders – Vulnerable, Human and Empathetic with Michael Vaz

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10. The Events’ Lens: Wellness and Hospitality’s Creative Painpoints with Heleri Rande

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9. The Wellness/Hospitality Paradox That No-one Seems To Do Anything About with Andrea Quagliata

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8. The Investor’s Lens – How Investible is Wellness in Hospitality with James Church

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7. The Real Estate Lens – Where the Money in Wellness is with Leekyung Han

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6. Sink or Swim – The Importance of Staying Relevant with Sean Murphy

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5. The 5 Ways You Could Do Wellness In Your Hotel

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4. The ESSENCE Model for Bold Hoteliers

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3. The Harsh Truths About Wellness in Hospitality

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2. The Three Fallacies of Wellness in Hospitality

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1. The Wellness Opportunity