The One About The June Motel with April Brown and Sarah Sklash
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In this engaging conversation, Sarah hosts April Brown and Sarah Sklash from the June Motel, who share their inspiring journey from corporate careers to becoming successful motel owners. They discuss the challenges and triumphs of renovating motels, the importance of community, and the lessons learned along the way. The conversation also touches on the empowerment of women in business and maintaining friendships while navigating the complexities of entrepreneurship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole, |
| 0:10.4 | and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:17.8 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital |
| 0:23.3 | space together. Our guests today, I have actually known four years in real life, but I'm very |
| 0:31.0 | excited to have them on today and talk about their entire journey of what they've been doing, |
| 0:36.0 | which I can only explain as coming into the motel business, |
| 0:40.1 | which is pretty incredible and stellar. We have Sarah and April from the June Motel. You might |
| 0:44.9 | have seen them on Motel Makeover. You might have also seen me on Motel Makeover because I was there |
| 0:49.6 | on Launch Weekend and very, very pregnant with Lemmy. I still get messages all the time, people |
| 0:54.9 | being like, I saw you on Motel Makeover. And I'm like, that's so cool. But I have been to, you have three locations now. I've been to two of them. I can, I had my bachelorette there. I've gone for like family trips. We've done a family vacation at your Saobo one. I love the June Motel, and I'm excited to have this |
| 1:12.5 | conversation with you both. So welcome to the show. Thanks so much. I still remember the first |
| 1:18.8 | time meeting you, and I can't remember for Bachelor. It was, was it fall or spring? It was, oh my |
| 1:25.0 | gosh, it was spring, and there was an ice storm. Yes. And so we were so excited to |
| 1:31.4 | have you at the motel. And to this day, you are the only guest that has seen like our back |
| 1:38.0 | of house, where our laundry and restoring things because the ice storm meant that you couldn't |
| 1:42.9 | like walk down anything outside. It was so |
| 1:45.8 | slippery. You know what was so fun about that weekend though is when you're up in Prince Edward |
| 1:50.9 | County, it's like wine country and bachelorets you like do the whole little tour and all that |
| 1:54.8 | stuff. But along the way we found a couple who was like having their weekend away and he wanted to watch the Leafs game that |
| 2:02.7 | night. So we were like, come be a part of our Bachelorette and she came into our room |
| 2:06.9 | and joined us for our Bachelorette and we're still friends online to this day. But that's |
| 2:12.4 | kind of the vibe. Like there is something uniquely special about your locations, I would say. |
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