Okay, so we're back with another episode of the Boosley Spotlight series. This is the Spotlight

series on the Boosley podcast and it's a mini series where we look at individuals and businesses

who offer products and services who can help your hospitality business. Today we are joined by

Valerie Malone and I'm so excited to have her on. She's from Quill Decor. You definitely

go and check them out, quilldecker.com and she focuses on interior design. Now interior design

is something which is important to host and to guests alike. At the end of the day we're looking at

how important is interior design and what difference can it make to both your nightly income

but also to a guest's experience because this is what it's all about at the end of the day. So

without further ado, let's say hi to Valerie. Valerie, welcome along. Hi Liam, so lovely to see you.

Thanks for having me. Awesome to see you. So just so people listening can get an idea. Valerie,

she's actually a host herself or has been a host. She's an interior designer. She's a coach and also

she's a co-author of Hospital host. So we've got a lot to dive into today. So for the next sort of

20 or 30 minutes please pay attention if you're listening to the podcast and yeah let's see if we

can learn some tips and what services Valerie can offer today. So Valerie, let's get started by

how did you get into short-term rental and interior design because there's quite a niche sort of

aspect. Yeah, so I have a four-year bachelor's degree in interior design. So I've been doing this

for a long time and when I had a residential design business we lived in Indiana actually at the time

and we opened our own short-term rental and it was this was a number of years ago before

before the industry has rapidly changed to where it is now but there was just nobody really focused

on the art of this particular type of hospitality design. And so it just grew from there. It grew

from there being a need to have someone paying attention to the short-term rental space which at

the time was named called short-term rental right but it's the coupling of hospitality design

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