Bring Your Whole Self To Work

This is the very first episode of my new Bring Your Whole Self to Work Podcast. I really wanted to do something special for this first show and was so excited that my friend, the amazing Chip Conley, agreed to join me.    What I Know About Chip Conley Chip is a business leader, a thought leader, and a person I respect and admire a great deal. At 26, he started the Joie de Vivre – which became the second largest boutique hotel company in the world.  He sold the company back in 2010. Chip is the author of four books with a fifth one on the way and for the past 38 months he has worked as a mentor to the founders of Airbnb and a leader within the company as they’ve grown exponentially. He is a true renaissance man of life, business and of personal growth.    The Courage to Walk Down the Entrepreneurial Path Chip remembers the advice from the Whole Earth Catalog, which was to “start cheap, stay small and stay local”. This advice allowed him to make mistakes and modify appropriately. Chip figured that if he had to