The New World Of Wealth In Experiential Hospitality - Josh McCallen
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison
4.8 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have a great guest, Josh McCallen who shares advice and wisdom on the secret to making money in hospitality, how it creates own demand, how to mitigate risks, how to be a great operator, why hospitality is a better inflation hedge versus multi-family, the secret to making money in hospitality, and a ton of cool stuff that you can apply in your own journey!
Josh McCallen is an entrepreneur, investor, business owner, and expert in real estate projects. He is the Co-Founder of Accountable Equity, and CEO of VIVÂMEE Hospitality Group, a company that specializes in the redevelopment of distressed hospitality assets. It ranked as one of the top companies in the world.
This is a fun conversation that talks about some clues and cues that people could extract around experiential hospitality. Likewise, he explains the importance of location and people in this field of delivering love to the public. Josh believes that hospitality is hard work, but he feels in love with it. It has the power that cleans and revives his soul.
Josh’s recession-resistance method has made them a stable revenue stream even during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also emphasizes the importance of not just only taking care of the customers but also the team, and employees to be accelerated in this type of industry. He always makes sure everybody knows what is going on in the business. Everyone must know their WHY, while enjoying their work. Thus, seminars, and masterminds are regularly being taken to promote a genuine love of service.
Some Questions I Ask:
Tell us a little bit about your journey into hospitality? (05:10)
Why have you stayed in your lane and only focused on this particular vertical of hospitality? (08:53)
How did you guys narrow down on what the most important critical one was to make the core focus and build around that? (16:22)
Where do you think hospitality is going? (21:35)
What makes a hospitality investment bad? (28:42)
Talk about some of the pitfalls that you see in operators failing, and the things that make you guys a world-class operator? (35:26)
What the heck are you guys doing next? What’s the 5- and 10-year vision? (41:52)
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Technique to get rid the bleeps in hospitality business, and grow the Average Daily Rate (ADR) regardless of the economy status (12:00)
Why Josh chose weddings hospitality (18:18)
Why experiential hospitality is growing in popularity right now (22:09)
The method of Viva,Mee Hospitality (25:25)
Hospitality versus Multi-family: A better inflation hedge (30:19)
The three core values of hospitality (37:35)
Quotes:
“A resort is a hotel-based asset that has many other revenue streams.”
“Hospitality is a ministry and not everybody is called to do it.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Millionaire Mindcast, where we broadcast weekly interviews with millionaire |
| 0:10.3 | minds from across the globe to empower you on your journey of unlocking a rich and fulfilling life. |
| 0:17.0 | It's time to unleash your millionaire within. Now, here's your host, Maddie A. |
| 0:23.7 | What's going on, Millionaire Mindcast, fan? |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome into today's show. |
| 0:26.9 | We got a great guest in my man, Josh McCallin. |
| 0:30.3 | Josh is the owner and founder of Viva Mae Hospitality Group |
| 0:35.4 | and his somebody that has taught me a ton about resorts, hotels, |
| 0:40.4 | hospitality in general. They have been ranked as one of the top hospitality companies in the |
| 0:45.3 | world. They are boutique. And as you guys know, many of you who have been following my hospitality |
| 0:50.4 | journey, wealth-building journey of investing in real estate that is tied to hospitality. |
| 0:55.9 | This is a science. And there are so many cool things that you can unlock in terms of income, |
| 1:01.7 | in terms of wealth-building, in terms of lifestyle, impact, fun, travel through this world of |
| 1:07.6 | hospitality. That's why Airbnb has become such a craze over the last few years, |
| 1:13.0 | and why more and more people are not only getting into Airbnbs. |
| 1:16.1 | Now we're seeing this renaissance of boutique hotels, |
| 1:18.4 | which is something that I've been doing, |
| 1:20.3 | and really this just changing of the guard in hotels in general |
| 1:24.6 | and how mom and pop investors, people like you, people like me, can get into |
| 1:29.2 | this space and not only build wealth through it, but who can also enjoy in the asset and the |
| 1:33.9 | experience that it can create. So today was a really fun episode that I know you guys are |
| 1:38.8 | going to absolutely love. And Josh is one of these people that, I mean, wealth of knowledge. So you're going to hear |
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