Happy Monday, happy year of the wood dragon.
I’m writing to you this morning from the charming town of Vevey, Switzerland along the shores of Lake Geneva. I traveled to Switzerland to graduate from my Executive MBA in Global Hospitality at Les Roches Crans-Montana. I did this to help kickstart that sustainable guesthouse hotel brand that I told you about.
If you’re going to pursue an MBA and do all that work, you might as well learn from the best in the industry, who are based in a gorgeous country like Switzerland, alongside 17 colleagues, who happen to already run some of the top hotels and businesses around the world, with a requirement that you all travel to Switzerland and Dubai together.
We had so much fun.
Here’s what I’m thinking about this week:
Now that I’m officially done with the MBA, I have my usual bandwidth back. I’m currently taking bookings for new projects over the next three months. Do you want to work together? Have something that you could use my help with? Reply to this email or feel free to go ahead and schedule a meeting with me here. :)
Art is inextricably linked to what the artist has lived, as well as the era that they lived in. Yesterday I toured the Charlie Chaplin museum here in Vivey, which included his old home. I didn’t know that he was pressured into doing political commentary - some of his best work - that he originally just wanted to make people laugh, inspired by a very dark and tough childhood. I also didn’t realize that he acted in, directed, composed the music for, founded a film production company for, and secured all the rights to, almost every movie he made. Complete legend.
I finished Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters a few months ago and so many of the points she made have been bouncing around my head these days. Most notably: how every gathering, event, meeting, moment, or occasion needs an intentional ending. We tend to let gatherings fizzle, especially if we enjoyed them. But we as humans psychologically really need a marked ending - the closing ceremony, the scheduled and very intentional goodbye.
So, with that -
Welcome to the end of this newsletter. If you’d like to connect with me and each other jump into our discord group and say hello, and/or join one of the conversations that’s bubbling in there about a topic you’re interested in.
Love,
Jenna