Pillow Talk Sessions

About Pillow Talk Sessions

Pillow Talk Sessions is a podcast about modern hospitality operations and how guest experience is operationally delivered in a tech-enabled world. Hosted by Jessica Gillingham, author of Tech-Enabled Hospitality, and produced by Abode Worldwide, the show features in-depth conversations with leaders building, operating, and scaling modern hospitality across hotels, short-term rentals, serviced living, and flexible living models. Each episode explores how hospitality is evolving beyond traditional hotels. From the hotelization of real estate to the rise of platform-driven and automated operations, we unpack how technology, systems, and organizational design are reshaping how stays are designed, delivered, and experienced. Pillow Talk Sessions goes deep on hospitality operations, technology, and strategy. Topics include new operating models, guest experience delivery, AI and automation, platform ecosystems, and the convergence of hotels, short-term rentals, and serviced living. This podcast is for hospitality operators, founders, owners, and technology leaders who want to understand the future of hospitality beyond trends, and how modern hospitality actually works on the ground. About your host Jessica Gillingham is the author of “Tech-Enabled Hospitality – Strategies to Elevate Guest Experience and Operational Efficiency (https://techenabledhospitality.com/),” and is also an industry speaker, adviser, and the CEO of Abode Worldwide, a global strategic communications and PR agency for the tech transforming hospitality. The podcast is brought to you by the team at Abode Worldwide (https://abodeworldwide.com/).

Publisher

Jessica Gillingham

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Sept 2024

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Building on Water: The Next Frontier of Hospitality with Brian Meyer (FLOHOM)

   A houseboat that no bank would finance and no insurer would cover might seem an unlikely starting point for a hospitality brand. For Brian Meyer, it was the beginning of FLOHOM. Brian Meyer grew up on the water. He paddled competitively, built a paddleboard company in downtown Annapolis, and spent years living at the marina where his business was docked. When it came time to move, he couldn't afford a waterfront home, but he walked into a refurbished 1970s houseboat and couldn't get the idea ...

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Scaling Hospitality: From Short Term Rentals to Modern Hospitality with Reuben Doetsch (AvantStay)

   AvantStay started with a simple proposition: create a consistent guest experience in a fragmented market. Eight years later, Reuben Doetsch has scaled it to more than 3,000 homes across 100-plus US markets. In today's episode, I ask Reuben a deceptively simple question. What exactly is a short-term rental operator in today's market? AvantStay spans large group homes, aparthotels,, and branded residences, with technology and data at the center of how it operates. Reuben makes a case that the b...

3. 

   18 Jun 2026

   From short lets to branded living with Maxine Leufroy-Murat (Sejour Living)

   Like many entrepreneurs entering the short-term rental space, Maxime Leufroy-Murat started out believing growth was a function of acquiring more properties and scaling operations. After more than a decade in the industry, he has reached very different conclusions. Maxime Leufroy-Murat has spent over a decade inside the short-term rental industry — building City Relay, one of London's most established lettings management platforms, and Opago, a tech-enabled operations business now managing aro...

Who has been a guest on Pillow Talk Sessions

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Suraiya Comunello
• Mayank Pokharna
• Freya Richard
• Philippa Wagner
• Mitch Hammond

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

32

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