HeyJaredHospitality Mavericks Podcast Show
We wanted to show there was another way to build and lead businesses.So Hospitality Mavericks was born.We wanted to gather together the world’s Mavericks who do things differently from the norm.
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#331 Dr Michael Filosi Post-Exit Founder and Dentist - From Dentist to Hospitality-Driven Business Owner (opens the original)
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Michael interviews Australian dentist Michael Filosi about applying counterintuitive, hospitality-centered ideas to dentistry to break industry norms. Filosi bought a rundown dental practice and, after realizing he couldn’t be the best clinician, pivoted—drawing on Good to Great’s hedgehog concept—toward building the best dental practice by focusing on business ownership, high standards, and patient experience. He gradually stepped off clinical work over 2–3 years (from four days a week to zero)
#330 Brandon Hussey VP Hospitality Management at Fathom Companies - How AI Can Strengthen Hospitality Culture (opens the original)
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Michael and Brandon discuss the intersection of AI and culture in hospitality, arguing AI can strengthen culture by removing routine work so teams can focus on human guest experiences. Brandon shares his career path from line-level resort roles to leading Fathom’s hotel management arm within a Maine-based real estate development firm focused on adaptive reuse and “sense of place” upscale soft-brand projects across Marriott, Hilton, and independents. Fathom operates or develops seven hotels, typi
#329 Pete Hurley Founder at Well Seasoned - Fractional Leadership in Hospitality (opens the original)
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Michael and Pete Hurley discuss how hospitality organizations may shift away from large full-time head offices toward fractional and project-based senior talent to improve flexibility, innovation, and profitability amid tight margins and job insecurity. Hurley shares his career from launching a hospitality tech startup in 2004 that evolved into a cultural-venue operator business he ran for nearly 20 years and sold three years ago, before moving into consultancy and noticing the growing “fraction
#328 Ruth Jacobs CEO & Founder of Certified Minds - Mental Health, Burnout, and Resilience in Hospitality and Beyond (opens the original)
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In this episode, Michael introduces Ruth Jacobs, a registered mental health nurse and founder of Certified Minds, to discuss where mental health efforts in industry have landed and how to create behavioral, cultural, and systems change that builds resilience. Ruth shares her background in CAMHS and eating disorder inpatient care, her experience managing during COVID lockdowns, and how gaps in pediatric mental health training led her to train UK medical teams, schools, and workplaces using simula
#327 Yazz Abdulla CEO at Urban Hospitality - Discipline Over Emotion (opens the original)
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In this episdode, Michael welcomes his longtime friend Yazz Abdulla, previously a guest during the pandemic to discuss food delivery and dark kitchens. They reflect on Copenhagen Street Food’s grassroots style, then focus on founder-led hospitality businesses: founders often stay emotionally attached, operate like self-employed workers, lack systems (ops, HR, marketing, supply chain), misunderstand cashflow, and fail to plan an exit; Yazz advises emotional detachment, self-leadership, discipline
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