Hi and welcome to the new episode of the Bootsley podcast. This is the podcast that gives hosts

the tools, the tactics, the trainings, and most importantly the confidence for you to go out there

and get more direct bookings. So my name is Liam Carolyn and I'm the co-host of the Bootsley podcast.

Today we're going behind the host of an interesting and successful short-term rental host

and learning about their business, particularly some of the more fun aspects of hospitality. So

stick around for the next sort of 20 or 30 minutes where we learn about Lauren Madewell and she is

from Aunt Belem's cabin rentals. You can go and check them out if you go to www.antibelem's with an S.

.com and you'll be able to go and see their awesome awesome website. So welcome along Lauren,

thank you for joining us. And thank you so much for having me. So let's get started by you just

explaining where you're based in the world, what kind of hospitality business, you know, who do

you host? Is it leisure? Is it workers? And also how many units you've got? I know we talked briefly

before. We kicked off with this and I was pleasantly surprised. So yeah, go ahead, fill us in.

Sure. So we are in a Gatlinburg, Tennessee. That's the Smoky Mountain National Park. So just

outside of the Smoky Mountain National Park and there are two main towns here. This Gatlinburg

Tennessee and Pigeon Ports, Tennessee, same county. And this has been a popular vacation spot

for going on 100 years. So we're a well-established short-term rental, vacation rental market.

So where we're located, we're within a day's drive of 70% of the United States population.

So we're a big drive to destination. So it's honeymooners, it's anniversaries, it's

weekend getaways, it's youth groups and families and family reunions and sports teams,

we have all sorts of sports complexes in town. And there's always events going on whether in the

convention centers or just car shows. And so we service vacationers. That's cool. That's really

cool. And tell me about yourself then. So how did you specifically get into hospitality and what

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