Carrie Tolman is the Associate Principal at KTGY Simeone Deary Design Group. She has a keen eye for interior design and uses her roots in southern hospitality to help influence the style she uses today. She joins host Dan Ryan to share her #hospitality journey and how she got to where she is now.

Takeaways: 

• Hospitality by definition is temporary lodging. You want to make it feel like more than that though, you want to make it a home away from home.
• Architecture is sculpture in motion.
• Design can be part of a beautiful experience. It can help create a beautiful view and it is a work of art.
• Southern hospitality is world renowned and it’s an expectation when you go there. It’s an art of how you entertain and host. 
• Interior design and hospitality are both about the service level and how you can create an experience for your guests.
• Reconnecting with those around you is important. It’s a nice idea to get away and really focus on those you love and share personal experiences.
• Right now we are experiencing the great American migration. They are leaving urban environments and moving out to spaces that don’t cost as much.

Quote of the Show:

7:45 “If you look at hospitality, what it is by definition is a temporary lodging, a domicile away from your own home.  Whether it's an extended stay or, or not. And so those skills that I learned how to make people feel welcome and good within those spaces at a home applied, just in a much larger scale for hospitality.”

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-tolman-9a775a5/
• Website: https://www.simeonedeary.com/

Shout Outs:

5:47 Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel

6:25 House Beautiful

6:27 Alessandra Bronca

8:19 Hirsch Bedner

8:21 Regent Beverly Wilshire

8:59 President Reagan

9:16 Warren Beatty

14:14 Whitney Museum

19:14 White Lodging

19:19 Brush Creek Ranch

38:49 Meyer Davis

41:44 The Naked Gun

45:44 Gibson’s

47:03 Nat King Cole Bar

49:00 Vincent Van Gogh

Ways to Tune In: 

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A2XOJvb6mGqEPYJ5bilPX
• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-hospitality-podcast/id1573596386
• Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmaW5pbmdob3NwaXRhbGl0eS5saXZlL2ZlZWQueG1s
• Amazon Music: ​​https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8c904932-90fa-41c3-813e-1cb8f3c42419
• Podbean: https://www.defininghospitality.live/
• Youtube : https://youtu.be/2Ef_4g_w9q8