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Hospitality Folks is a weekly video podcast hosted by Alicia Dick Wahlberg, CEO & Founder of Folksnest. We explore the future of upscale and luxury hotels where service quality, hiring strategy, and team culture define success. Through honest conversations with hotel leaders, workers, and industry innovators, we challenge outdated recruitment models and rethink management, belonging, and meaning in modern hospitality.
Folksnest hosts Hospitality Folks, a business show with 15 episodes published.
Day two of a five-day event. 150,000 visitors. 200 of your 600 staff are no-shows. Wolfgang Schürmann has been there. He restructured the menu, reassigned every manager, got on the radio, and delivered anyway — because h
Show notesWhat does it actually mean to slow down and why are the most intentional hospitality experiences being built not in hotel lobbies, but in forests? Katarina Alič Čretnik spent more than 15 years in digital marketing befor
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What would you do if you applied for a job you knew nothing about and told them exactly that? For Annemarie, that moment changed everything. She moved from the Netherlands to Sweden for love, stumbled into revenue manage
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What separates a truly great kitchen from a toxic one? According to internationally experienced culinary leader Adam Mali, it comes down to one choice every leader has to make: do you lead with fear, or do you lead with
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What does a national swimmer, a bouncer in Zurich, and a personal trainer in Singapore have in common? A masterclass in people, performance, and showing up under pressure. In this episode, Alicia sits down with Lali Joch
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Julius Anders has done it the hard way and the smart way. From hotel management school to Mandarin Oriental and Corinthia, through the lifestyle world of Mondrian London, and then six years at Numa scaling a digital-firs
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From sleeping in a lobby chair as a night porter to managing luxury five-star hotel openings in Stockholm—Kim Spolén's hospitality journey is the masterclass in customer relationships and authentic selling. Now Regional
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S1E09: From Self-Taught to Confident—How Teams Master French Pastry in Remote African Lodges When self-taught chefs in remote safari lodges discover they can master French pastry techniques—pâte sucrée, choux, ganache, m
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What does it take to leave a decade in finance and technology behind — and build something entirely new in one of the world's most challenging markets? In this episode, Alicia Dick Wahlberg (CEO & Founder of Folksnest) s
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What if venture capital is the wrong model for hospitality? In this episode, we sit down with Magnus, co-founder of Nook Society, to unpack a bold idea: 👉 Hospitality isn’t software — and shouldn’t be funded like it. In
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What does it really take to build a workplace where people feel heard, supported, and motivated to grow? In this episode, we sit down with Nicki Boone, Talent Development Manager/Executive Navigator at Marriott Tulsa Sou
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What does mentorship really look like in luxury hospitality, and why has it quietly disappeared for the next generation? In this episode, Alicia Dick Wahlberg speaks with Daryl Kornelsen, a Canadian-born senior hospitali
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Analice Martinsson speaks with Folksnest's Alicia Dick Wahlberg about the intersection of diplomacy, international relations, and luxury hospitality. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Analice shares her journey from dre
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In this episode of Hospitality Folks, Alicia speaks with Alexander Kanonovich, Front Office Team Leader, about the global experiences that shaped his hospitality career and leadership style.Alexander shares insights from
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What does effective leadership look like in high-pressure hotel environments? In this episode, Julia Silvia Brost shares practical insights on hotel leadership, quality assurance, and hospitality training. Drawing from f
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In the first episode of Hospitality Folks, Alicia Dick Wahlberg speaks with Magnus Busch, Co-Founder of nook society, about redefining upscale and luxury hospitality through human-centric experience, community building,
Show notesWelcome to Hospitality Folks, a video podcast hosted by Alicia Dick Wahlberg, CEO and Founder of Folksnest. We explore the future of upscale and luxury hospitality, hiring strategy, leadership, service quality, and team
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