The Stanza

Nadine (last name not provided in provided data), Erina Pindar

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Booking Overview

The Stanza is an investor-style look at how luxury hospitality is built—through culture, craft, and emotional experience. Episodes feature high-caliber hotel owners and CEOs discussing the real mechanics behind ultra-luxury brands and iconic properties, often with lessons on leadership, ownership strategy, and long-horizon development.

Metrics

Episodes: 12

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 84.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Nadine (last name not provided in provided data) - Host/interviewer for The Stanza. Leads conversations focused on how hospitality operators translate culture and emotional storytelling into ultra-luxury guest experiences and durable business models.

Erina Pindar - COO of SmartFlyer, a luxury travel advisor platform emphasizing curation and highly personalized experiences for high-net-worth travelers. Regularly provides industry framing on luxury travel deman...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Hotel owners/operators, CEOs/founders of luxury hospitality groups, and senior executives/investors with demonstrable assets in ultra-luxury branded or heritage properties (e.g., family-led portfolios, billion-dollar hospitality real estate deals, or C-suite leadership at major investment/operating firms).
Required Achievements:  
Ownership or executive leadership of iconic luxury properties or luxury hotel groups, Led high-value acquisitions, tenders, or development/restoration of heritage hospitality assets, Built recognizable luxury brand experiences with measurable guest/market traction, Oversaw multi-asset portfolios across premier gateway destinations

Recent Guest Discussions

Anne-Laure Ollagnon - Ultra-luxury Hotel Group Operations; Heritage Asset Restoration; Emotional Storytelling; Capital Structure (family Office Vs Institutional); Evaluation Of New Assets; Luxury’s Trajectory

Jonathan Goldstein - Aman Investment Thesis; Risk And Asymmetrical Outcomes; One Beverly Hills Buildout; Trust-building With Sovereign Wealth Funds; Hotel Management Partner Selection; Personalization In Luxury Hospitality

Valentina De Santis - Family Stewardship Vs Exit; Acquiring And Restoring Iconic Properties; Villeggiatura (slow Travel) Philosophy; Operational Details Of True Luxury; Designing For Conviction; Continuity As Success

Recent Topics

Luxury Hospitality, Hotel Ownership, Real Estate, Hospitality Investment, Brand Strategy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Stanza
:

The Art of Emotional Storytelling: How Airelles Builds Ultra-Luxury Around History & Generosity with Anne-Laure Ollagnon

May 06, 2026

Part I: The Travel Advisor as Curator(00:00:27)Erina Pindar, COO of SmartFlyer, argues that the travel advisor’s core product is less about access but more so curation and personalization: the construction of high-emotional-impact moments that exist outside the algorithm and cannot be replicated through self-booking.In Part I of this episode, Erina walks through how SmartFlyer conceptualizes experiences designed to generate genuine surprise for HNW clients, why safari travel has seen a measur...

Early Conviction: Investing in Aman and the Future of Luxury Hospitality with Jonathan Goldstein

April 07, 2026

Part I: AI and the Future of HospitalityEvery hospitality operator is asking the same question right now: what does AI actually mean for my business? Marc Lotenberg, founder of Dorsia, has a clear thesis: the operators who will define the next era of hospitality are not the ones who chase the technology, but the ones who double down on the art, the craft, and the magic that no algorithm can replicate.In Part 1 of this episode, Marc shares why AI will finally deliver the hyper-personalized, fr...

“Dreams Don’t Have a Price”: The Philosophy Behind Lake Como’s Most Iconic Hotels with Valentina De Santis

March 11, 2026

Part I: The Business of Six Figure TravelHow does one quantify the thesis that affluent consumers are prioritizing experiences over possessions? Luxury travel advisory SmartFlyer reports a 75% year over year increase in trips exceeding $500,000, alongside a 41% rise in bookings between $100,000 and $499,000.In this mini segment, SmartFlyer COO Erina Pindar shares what is fueling this growth, from multi-generational safaris in Botswana to Antarctica by private jet and yacht-hopping across the ...

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