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It's Personal Stories, A Hospitality Podcast
It's Personal Stories is a podcast series highlighting the inspiring career journeys of prominent leaders in the hospitality industry. The series features over 200 interviews, with new ones added weekly. Each interview presents the unique personal story and insights of C-suite executives, educators, and other industry professionals. Guests share their experiences, including overcoming self-doubt, achieving work-life balance, facing challenges, public speaking, taking risks, networking authentically, developing leadership skills, and more. Through these deeply personal stories, you are encouraged to dream big and confidently pursue your personal and professional goals.
Founded in 2022 by industry veterans David Kong, Dorothy Dowling, Rachel Humphrey, Lan Elliott, and Huilian Duan, It’s Personal Stories has been recognized by the International Hospitality Institute as a top hospitality podcast each year since it launched. To watch or listen now, visit www.deiadvisors.org.
It's Personal Stories, A Hospitality Podcast
Chip Rogers, President & CEO AHLA, Interviewed by Rachel Humphrey, DEI Advisors
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David Kong
Chip Rogers shares his path from entrepreneur to senator to hospitality industry executive. He shares his strategies for managing his love of and commitments to his career and his family, how he identifies talent and builds great teams, and how he has formed deep relationships across the industry. Chip also discusses, among other great advice, which skills he relied on in leading through the pandemic, how he tackles challenges generally, and what lessons he learned from his parents which helped shape who he is as a leader today.