Hosting With Heart

Sailor, stylist and entrepreneur, Sarah Andrews is the owner of Captain's Rest, a once desperately run-down but now fairytale-like, renovated shack located in the north-western Tasmanian town of Strahan.

After the breakdown of her marriage and a couple of serious health crises, Sarah took a gamble and purchased the shack on a whim - sight unseen - in the mid 2010's.

Although originally intended purely as a sanctuary for her, it has since become one of Australia's most in-demand short-term rental properties, commanding a nightly rate and occupancy levels most hosts can only ever dream of.

These days, Sarah runs 'The Hosting Masterclass' both online and in-person around Australia and has exciting plans to take the class to a global audience in 2020.

In this episode, Jen chats with former marketing consultant and one of the founders of Consortium Botanicus, a small collective of passionate flower farmers, Sandy Roy, about her unexpected journey to becoming a critically acclaimed short-term accommodation host and business owner.

In this episode, Jen speaks to Bernadette Janson, successful entrepreneur, career renovator, founder of Sydney’s School of Renovating and multi-property Airbnb host, about making a life and a living out of short term rental management in Australia.

In this launch episode of Hosting With Heart, your host, professional designer and short-term rental business owner Jen Clark, is interviewed by her partner Kirstie Innes-Will about all aspects of her hosting journey to date, recent treechange to country Victoria, goals for the podcast and much more.