15 M.o.F. - Kim Wysocki (Event Specialist) - a podcast by Brian Goldrich

Welcome back. My name is goldy. You're on, what I would call, 15 minutes of fame. My podcast. I'm having fun with this. I get to meet great people.  One of them is to the left of me. Or right of you are. However, this thing works. Joining me today is kim wysocki. A human being I met along the way in the world of events and was like, wow, this person's awesome.  I thought, maybe let's have a conversation with this ms. Wysocki and find out what is happening in her world and what this is all about on planet earth right now.  Kim wysocki - welcome to 15 minutes of fame. Your name is kim wysocki. What do you do for a living? I would call myself an event specialist, event management professional.  That's what linkedin profile says. Most recently, I was an operations manager. Sure. Which is all part of it. Anyone in events knows that they've either been the executive producer or the janitor.  Both jobs are equally as important. Some are now known as essential. You and I both live in the world of events. You and I are both living in the world of not events, due to the current world status. Obviously, jobs have "poof".  How has the current world status affected you with having a job title, having something to wake up to do in the morning? And if it's not the same as it was before? What are you doing to do something about it?  It is not the same as it was before. Most recently, my full time gig was corporate incentive travel. That is over. Corporate incentive travel, meaning you would book trips for business groups. They come to colorado and they want to go snowmobiling or ride horses. Things like this? Exactly. We partner with local hotels.  When they decided to bring groups in, most of our business, here in this market of vail, was incentives. It was fun. It was build parties and these experiences and thank our clients and our guests and our employees for doing such a great job.  Take them places, show them things. It was really fun. We were destination experts here. With the closure of hotels, as well as the travel restrictions, we have become "non-essential".  Obsolete in a sense. Especially on the operation side of things. I worked closely with sales managers. They would sell the program. They would hand it to me.  I would then put it together and deliver it. That is definitely back seat. Our sales teams are still, keeping up relationships and continuing to set us up for a successful rebound.  My side hustle was anything in events. I would always consider myself a bit of a chameleon. I have a closet full of event hats. Anything from ticket management to volunteer management to athlete management to actual operations and building -  Construction management. All that kind of jazz. I did everything. Anytime somebody had an event and they said, "we have a hole to fill", they'd call me. I'd say, "sure no problem. I can do that".  That was my side hustle. Still doing everything from - I was supposed to be doing artists relations this week, for a concert. That's not happening. Instead, I am refocusing on researching.  Do other things or help bring events back to different communities in the future? You and I both know none of the ending of this, currently.

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