🎙️EXPITALITY TIME ☕️Embracing the Warmth: The Role of Fire in Creating Community and Connection in Outdoor Hospitality

Welcome to Talk About TV and Podcast Weekly Show Expatiality Time. I'm your host, michelle Oliver, and today's episode is sponsored by Expatiality. Expatiality creates exceptional experiential outdoor hospitality businesses because the experience of hospitality transforms the world. Please make sure you subscribe with the notification button so you can hear from Talk About TV and Podcasts every week. Hello everyone, this is Michelle Oliver. It is Expatiality Time.

That just means that it's Friday and I'm the founder of a company called Expatiality and we create extraordinary experiential outdoor hospitality businesses because hospitality transforms the world, and that is a fact, and today it's really kind of a rare you got to bring your own sunshine day. In Colorado, we hardly ever have these cloudy, kind of gloomy days, but today is one, and so here's what's on my mind today that I want to find out from you all what you think. One of the things when we're working with people like with the lodging side of things and my focus is on the FF&E right, so I'm always looking at what's going on inside these unique accommodations One thing I think is really missing at a lot of places is fireplaces, which are essential on a day like today, especially when you're really used to the sunshine and you live off solar energy, and then it's gone and you're seeking, like that, warm hub. So, in all seriousness, though, one of the most valuable things you can do with outdoor hospitality is to provide a connection for your guests with the elements, and one of those elements is fire, and in a climate where it can be chilly, snowy, freezing, cold, wet, damp, and even if you're just on the beach and it gets chilly at night, fire is the gathering place, it's the hearth. So I'm curious how many of you are incorporating the element of fire into your outdoor, experiential outdoor hospitality space?

Of course, the campfire is the golden standard, but the way we can incorporate fire pits now, even on the outdoor portion of these smaller units that we have, is extraordinary. There's so many creative things you can do and bringing heat and warmth. So we've discovered these extraordinary heated outdoor chairs and lounge chairs and kind of like love seats, I guess you would call it, and a huge variation on outdoor fireplaces, fire pits, actually even the stone fireplaces, and these are gathering spots. So even if you have I know you've all been to the coffee shops and the breweries where we've got the you know the outdoor heaters Well, now there are little miniature fire pits, and it's just a beautiful way to bring warmth and a sense of community, a place for people to gather.

So tell me, tell me, where have you seen this? Show me some really cool fire everything fire pits, fireplaces, some creative ways that you've seen this done. I would be most delighted to see. And today I'm always seeking warmth if it's through running, sprinting, hiking up a freezing hill or gathering around a fire when there's no sun. So we all seek that community and that warmth. All right, those are my observations of the day. From Colorado, on a Friday, I hope you all have a beautiful, extraordinary weekend. Go out there and be hospitable, do something for someone else, bring some grace, some light, some inspiration, some kindness to someone else, and that will uplift you as well. Lots of love, ciao, for now.