LIVE! From SXSW With Liz Lambert: Bunkhouse Group Hotelier

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How does one go from a job in the district attorney's office to a career as a hotelier running some of the coolest hotels in the U.S. and Mexico? Austin-based hotelier Liz Lambert, who runs the impossibly Instagram-worthy Hotel San Cristóbal in Todos Santos, among other properties, sits down with Hillary Kerr to share her journey from Manhattan to Texas and beyond.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone! Today we have a very special episode for you from our first ever live podcast.
0:08.4	We recorded it in Austin during South by Southwest and I hope you all enjoy.
0:18.9	I'm Hillary Kerr and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring
0:26.0	careers. We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of
0:30.9	setting aside their doubts or fears and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.
0:36.8	Today I am honored to have one of Austin's own and someone I've wanted to sit down with for ages.
0:44.2	The hotelier behind the amazing company bunkhouse, the one and only Liz Lambert.
0:50.8	Liz bought the hotel San Jose over 15 years ago, which she has renovated and turned into the
0:56.5	beloved institution it is today. Since then she has created a variety of amazing places in Austin,
1:04.7	like Joe's Coffee, the Hotel Saints Cecilia and the Austin Motel, plus hotels in San Antonio,
1:11.6	Marfa Texas, Toto Santo's Mexico and San Francisco. She also has a new project in the works,
1:18.1	the Magdalena, which opens this fall on her South Congress stomping grounds in Austin and will be
1:24.5	her largest hotel to date. But as I'm sure you guessed, because this podcast is called Second Life
1:31.3	after all, Liz has not always been a hotelier, far, far from it. In her first life she worked in
1:39.6	Manhattan for the District Attorney's Office prosecuting street crime. How about that? It is quite
1:46.4	the journey from the DA's office to her current career and I am so thrilled she's going to tell us
1:52.3	all about it. Now, on our first ever live episode of Second Life, it's Liz Lambert.
2:02.3	Okay Liz, so let's take it back to the beginning. What did you study in school and what did you think
2:07.5	you were going to be when you grew up? We got a degree in humanities which was creative writing
2:14.1	with a concentration in poetry. It's helpful every day. Poetry every day. There's a lot of jobs lined
2:20.1	up for poets here. And then when I couldn't get a job, I interned for Texas Monthly actually. And
2:28.6	trying to figure out what to do, I ended up going to law school. And so I went here to University of
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