Welcome back to the Boostley Podcast. This is a podcast that gives you the tools, the tactics, the training, and most importantly the confidence so you can go out there and get yourself some direct bookings.

Talking of direct bookings, I must bring your attention to the wonderful books that Mark Simpson has written.

These are bestsellers and if you don't know about the books, you can go check them out at

Boostley.co. UK forward slash books. Those you'll be able to look at. There's

lots of great information and actually if you're on Kindle you can get them as

little as about 99 cents, 99p, something like that. This is as cheap as we could make the book. So you could go and find out about all things direct book and as cheap as possible, but if you're on audible or if you like to just buy a hard back book, there's all those cool options out there.

So go and check them out. Today we are shining the host spotlight onto an interesting, successful host based in the Smoky Mountains in the USA.

We've got Madeline Blum, the founder of Humble Roots Rest, and I'm really excited to get to

know her story, understand how she's gone from a humble teacher to an amazing kick-ass realtor

and host over there in the USA.

So let's get started.

Welcome along, Madeline.

Thank you, thank you, welcome.

And would you mind, Sharon, where you are in the world and what your business currently looks like at the moment?

Yes. So I live in Knoxville, Tennessee, originally from New York, been here seven years.

I was a teacher for 14 years.

I served the special education population, which I loved.

And when I decided to move to Tennessee,

I wanted to really focus my attention on raising my kids.

So I did that for a few years

and then decided that I really wanted to dive into real estate.

So I am an investor of short-term rentals and I also sell real estate and my market, my specific

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