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The Hotel Daddy Podcast

by T. Blake Danner

Hotel Daddy is a podcast featuring in-depth interviews with hospitality movers and shakers, offering candid conversations that reveal how the best in the business became the leaders they are today. Listen in for inspiration and behind-the-scenes stories from the best in the industry.  Hosted by T. Blake Danner, Executive Producer, Stephanie T. Bryant, Production and Engineering by David Jewell. Associate Producer, Nelson Luis Ortiz, with original theme music composed and produced by Evan Jewell.

Latest episodes

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London 90s Nightlife Royalty to Chief Brand Officer in Global Hospitality - Ben Pundole

A hotel brand can’t live on nostalgia, but it also can’t pretend its history never happened. I sit down with hospitality innovator and brand strategist Ben Pundole to tra

Sep 26
30 min

Brad Wilson, Chairman ACE Hotel Group - Great Hotels Win When Creativity Meets Operations Discipline

A motel becomes a resort, a brand becomes a destination, and suddenly the whole industry gets permission to think bigger. We’re joined by Brad Wilson, chairman of Ace Gro

Sep 11
32 min

Hotels as Hosts, and Airbnb Hotels, Rethinking Travel Platforms with Lou Zameryka

Hotels once treated online travel as a threat, but then it became the engine room of modern distribution. Now the next shift is here: Airbnb and hotel brands are learning

Aug 28
35 min

Bashar Wali Longing for Belonging

A robot can drop a towel at your door, but it can’t make you feel welcome. That’s the line we keep coming back to as I sit down with hotel founder Bashar Wali to talk abo

Aug 15
38 min

Outside, On Purpose

What if the most valuable amenity isn’t a butler or a points upgrade, but time you can feel? We sit down with AutoCamp’s Chief Commercial Officer, Bryan Terzi, to trace a

Dec 12 2025
33 min

Small Town, Big Hospitality Vision: Kat Bangs on Designing Emotion In Hotels

Emotion is the real currency of hospitality, and Kat Bangs knows how to design for it. Blake sits down with the creative mind turned small-town hotelier to explore the ch

Dec 5 2025
30 min

From Pirate Kitchens To Radical Candor: A Chef's Journey into Fine Dining at Scale and Life as an Out Trans Man

What if a single bite could send you home again? Chef Ollie Walleck joins us to explore how memory, empathy, and rigor can reinvent what a kitchen feels like—and what gue

Nov 28 2025
29 min

Building Salt Hotels With Heart, Design, And Community

What does it really take to walk away from a marquee role and build a brand that feels personal, principled, and wildly creative? We sit down with David Bowd, co-founder

Nov 14 2025
35 min

How A Michelin Star Chef Builds A Life Around Food, Travel, And Wellness

The best restaurants don’t just serve plates; they build worlds. Chef David Myers joins us to unpack how a driveway farm stand, a passport full of stamps, and a Michelin

Nov 7 2025
37 min

Building People Culture Balanced with Compliance

Step into the lobby with us and meet Victoria Fabio, a people and culture leader who grew up roaming the Gramercy Park Hotel and went on to transform workplaces across So

Oct 31 2025
37 min

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