Podcasts by Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host stories
Every day, around the world, millions of people stay in other people's homes using the Airbnb hosting platform. Debi Hertert listens for great stories that come from these social interactions and shares them with you.
Listen in, as we hear the human side of hosting your home.
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Synta Keeling (under-represented host series) from 2021-07-05T01:10:43
Synta Keeling is an Airbnb superhost and lawyer living in Washington DC. Debi interviewed her two days after the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol. Synta was previously interviewed in ... Listen
At Ease Rentals with Anthony Gantt (under-represented hosts series) from 2021-02-07T19:32:02
UPDATE! July, 2021: Anthony just won a $100,000 entrepreneur award!
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At Ease Rentals with Anthony Gantt (under-represented hosts series) from 2021-02-07T19:32:02
UPDATE! July, 2021: Anthony just won a $100,000 entrepreneur award!
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C L Reed (under-represented hosts series) from 2020-12-06T02:31:41
C L Reed is one of the many hosts of color and an entrepreneur who has expanded from her first room rental to now hosting her own 3 properties and co-hosting several other Airbnbs. She shares ... Listen
C L Reed (under-represented hosts series) from 2020-12-06T02:31:41
C L Reed is one of the many hosts of color and an entrepreneur who has expanded from her first room rental to now hosting her own 3 properties and co-hosting several other Airbnbs. She shares ... Listen
Kevin Rhea (under-represented hosts series) from 2020-11-15T22:07:49
Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome interviews Kevin Rhea ("Krhea") of Portland, Oregon, a fellow member of Host2Host. Debi reached out to Krhea because he is one of the few hosts of color in the P... Listen
Kevin Rhea (under-represented hosts series) from 2020-11-15T22:07:49
Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome interviews Kevin Rhea ("Krhea") of Portland, Oregon, a fellow member of Host2Host. Debi reached out to Krhea because he is one of the few hosts of color in the P... Listen
Debi and Rob vs the Pandemic from 2020-06-16T17:31:46
The pandemic and short term rentals in Oregon.
In mid March, 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic began impacting short term rental reservations in Oregon. Airbnb saw its global reservation... Listen
FabStayz and Drag Queen take over Portland! from 2020-03-03T23:13:05
We had an AWESOME photo shoot in Portland, Oregon directed by FabStayz founder Robert Geller, featuring airline flight attendant Danny Lee Cabrero as drag queen “Liquor Mini”, named aft... Listen
HYH-52 “The Airbnb Way” with author Joseph Michelli from 2019-11-01T01:59:59
What company comes to an author’s mind after writing bestsellers about Starbucks, Zappos, Mercedes and Ritz-Carlton? Airbnb! Joseph Michelli became highly interested in the company and... Listen
STR Advocacy Done Well - with Mark Rockwell from 2019-08-26T18:43:52
Short Term Rental (STR) advocacy
Short Term Rental (STR) advocacy is difficult and time-consuming. But if you want STR regulation that is informed and fair, you...
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FabStayz LGBTQ listing site, with Robert Geller from 2019-04-21T19:15:40
Debi Hertert of the Hosting Your Home podcast talks with FabStayz LGBTQ Listing Site founder Robert Geller, about his exciting, new STR platform. Robert has 10 years of experience with his gay ... Listen
HYH-49 Meet Tyann Marcink! from 2019-02-10T17:06:04
Debi Hertert talks with her friend and colleague Tyann Marcink about how Tyann got started in the vacation rental hospitality business, and the many hats that Tyann wears.
HYH-48 Next Door to Mexico from 2019-01-10T20:31:25
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HYH-47 Guests with Guns from 2018-09-10T00:02:13
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HYH-46 “Smart Phone Photography” with Kati&Brian Greene from 2018-08-06T02:07:40
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HYH-45 "Kim Boaz: Back to Basics Bookkeeping" from 2018-07-16T00:25:32
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HYH-44 Meet Matt Landau! from 2018-06-29T18:52:36
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HYH-43 Mark Scheel’s “Colorado Airbnb Host Meetup” from 2018-04-28T20:01:42
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HYH-42 Host2Host is About to be Born! from 2018-01-22T06:45:31
Here is a fun, short talk from just Debi, about the new Host2Host association. It is a natural outgrowth of the Portland, Oregon community of hosts and the result of three years of communi...
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HYH-41 "When Friendship is Your Business" with Bob Garner in Italy from 2017-12-16T21:43:08
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HYH-40 "Sara Anselmi, Airbnb Host in Italy" from 2017-10-24T01:47:04
[0:45] In September, 2017, Debi and Rob visited Italy: Debi wanted to attend the Vacation Rental World Summit conference in Florence, and it was hard to convince R...
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HYH-39 "Hostfully": 4,000 Guidebooks in 80 Countries (vendor series) from 2017-10-22T00:15:34
HYH-38 Sedona: Listing Platform Intuition from 2017-07-23T23:55:50
Join Debi Hertert and Michele Fitzgerald as they talk about Michele’s vacation rental in Sedona (that is not on Airbnb). Debi and Rob traveled to Sedona, Arizona in early 2017 to find some...
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HYH-37 Evan Ross of Cycle Portland (Host2Host 2017 vendor series) from 2017-07-09T03:41:58
Debi Hertert interviews Portland Superhost Evan Ross, owner of Cycle Portland. She visited Evan at his Cycle Portland business in downtown Portland. They first met at the 2017 Host2Host conferenc...
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HYH-36 "Meet our Distinguished Guest" (Host2Host 2017 vendor series) from 2017-06-14T19:25:15
In this episode, Debi Hertert talks with Alanna Schroeder of “The Distinguished Guest”, a vendor at the Host2Host 2017 conference in Portland, Oregon. Alanna started as a commerc...
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HYH-35 “Is the Price Right?” Andrew Kitchell, Wheelhouse (Host2Host 2017 vendor series) from 2017-05-26T03:48:24
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HYH-34 “No key IS the key” Nolan Mondrow, LockState (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series) from 2017-05-13T01:11:34
Listen in as Nolan Mondrow, founder and CEO of LockState is interviewed by Debi Hertert of Hosting Your Home. LockState offers electronic locks for Airbnb hosts, and in a beautiful illustr...
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HYH-33 "We're Better, Working Together" Rod Fitts, AVROA (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series) from 2017-04-16T19:10:51
Debi Hertert interviews Rod Fitts from AVROA, in her series of Host2Host 2017 Vendor interviews. AVROA stands for "Association of Vacation Rental Operators and Affiliates". Rod began this...
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HYH-32 "Keeping your Airbnb Clean" Becky Knecht, TBH Clean (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series) from 2017-04-16T18:22:34
Join Debi Hertert for her interview with Portland's Becky Knecht (pronouned "connect"), owner of TBH Clean, specializing in Airbnb-style homes. Becky's company slogan is "Your Mess is Our ...
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HYH-31 "Picture Perfect" - Carlos Rafael Photography (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series) from 2017-04-10T02:06:59
Airbnb host Debi Hertert of the HostingYourHome podcast interviews Carlos Rafael Camarena, a Portland, Oregon photographer who specializes in architectural photography and is expanding to a...
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HYH-30 "Are you inSUREd?" Geoff Dorn, Country Financial (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series) from 2017-04-08T18:04:12
Join Debi from HostingYourHome.com as she interviews many of the vendors who will attend the upcoming Host2Host 2017 conference in Portland, Oregon. Vendor support is critical for Airbnb h...
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HYH-29 "Host2Host 2017" A dream turned into a conference! from 2017-03-10T01:32:06
No interview! In this episode, Debi explains her dream of having a local Portland conference to support Airbnb and other hosts, and how it's come true: Host2Host 2017. If you don't see th...
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HYH-28 Airbnb Guests' Ultimate Guide to Portland from 2017-02-24T22:06:12
Please join Debi Hertert of the podcast HostingYourHome and Portland's Airbnb Superhost Shannon Hiller-Webb. Debi discovers Shannon’s amazing involvement in hosting and curating guest exp...
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HYH-27 "Airbnb Open 2016" Part 2 from 2017-01-29T01:20:40
This episode is part 2 of our podcast about the 2016 Airbnb Open in Los Angeles. Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviewed several hosts there, and there is the same happy background ...
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HYH-26 “Airbnb Open 2016” Part 1 from 2017-01-14T22:53:36
Join Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com as she interviews three people at the 2016 Airbnb Open conference in Los Angeles. For each of the past three years, Airbnb has held an annual confe...
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HYH-25 Airbnb Can Mean Whole Houses, too from 2016-12-28T22:41:55
Debi Hertert of Hosting Your Home talks with Todd Brandewie, owner of a whole-house rental near Dayton, Ohio. At the time, Debi and her family were renting Todd’s house for a family reunio...
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HYH-24 We are all People and we are Connected from 2016-11-12T08:06:39
Portland, Oregon Airbnb host Nina Liebow talks with Debi Hertert of the Hosting Your Home podcast about Nina's life and how she came to hosting with Airbnb. Listen in as Nina shares her won...
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HYH-22 They Started It! (Public Policy series) from 2016-11-03T02:13:33
Join Debi Hertert of the podcast HostingYourHome.com as she talks with Bob and Sue Low, the Portland citizens and now Airbnb Superhosts who prompted the City to change their ordinance prohi...
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HYH-21 When You Need Airbnb's Help.... from 2016-10-26T22:29:43
Debi Hertert of the podcast HostingYourHome.com talks with Portland Airbnb host Nancy Stevens. Debi hears a great story of Airbnb support when Nancy needed it most. 0-02:15
HYH-20 Is it Done Properly? (Nuts&Bolts series) from 2016-10-18T02:59:21
In this interview, get to know Airbnb Superhosts Alex Nigg and Tammi Sims as they talk with Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com. Alex is the creator of “Properly”, a suite of tools that all...
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HYH-19 Hosting with Heart from 2016-09-13T14:47:14
Debi Hertert of podcast HostingYourHome.com visits with Steve Niebrand, owner of the "Hoffman Woods" Airbnb in West Linn, Oregon, a whole-house listing where large families can celebrate sp...
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HYH-18 The Hobbit Hole (Getting Started series) from 2016-09-02T22:19:10
This week's podcast is a special treat as Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com tours the brand-new “Hobbit Hole”, Greg Raisman’s...
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HYH-17 Reaching Out (Meet Airbnb series) from 2016-08-29T21:52:37
Soon after Taylor Scheftstrom began working for Airbnb she recognized a need for reaching out to Airbnb hosts in the Portland area. Debi Hertert of hostingyourhome.com talks with her about...
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HYH-16 Slater House from 2016-08-14T02:09:58
Please join Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com, as she visits with Airbnb Superhost Kym Cumbo and tours the "Slater House" in Portland, Oregon. Listen
HYH-15 Uber Meets Airbnb (Getting Started series) from 2016-08-05T23:03:55
This week, Debi Hertert of hostingyourhome.com coaches Ann Sigler, a Portland area Uber driver and imminent Airbnb host. Ann has lived in her house for 36 years, just retired from Intel, a...
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HYH-14 Above a Recording Studio from 2016-07-26T23:01:58
Join Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com as she talks with Airbnb host Kaila Thomson. Kaila and her husband Matt have a house just five minutes from the Portland, Oregon airport in the up-a...
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HYH-13 No Hope No Fear (Getting Started series) from 2016-07-15T14:43:22
This week, Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with soon-to-be Airbnb Host Ashley Kern, as they go over Ashley’s plans and final touches. Be sure to see the pix at the end of these n...
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HYH-12 An Engaging Followup from 2016-07-08T14:00:41
Debi Hertert from HostingYourHome.com talks with Michael Burke and Caitlin White, as a follow up to last week’s episode “Hear the Wind Give Voice to the Trees”. Michael and Caitlin have tw...
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HYH-11 Hear the Wind Give Voice to the Trees from 2016-07-02T05:20:50
Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with Airbnb superhosts Alan Colley and Dabney Tompkins, self-described “City Slickers” who none the less, live on a very remote 160 acres. In a ho...
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HYH-10 Keep it Clean! (Nuts&Bolts series) from 2016-06-25T00:20:36
Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews two veteran housekeepers who take care of Debi’s three Airbnb vacation rentals on the Oregon coast. Bonnie (left) and Billie (right, with Makenzie) ...
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HYH-9 Money Matters (Nuts&Bolts series) from 2016-06-17T01:57:31
Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com leads a panel discussion about money matters with Airbnb hosts from Portland. This episode was requested by Marcus, one of Debi’s listeners, who wanted t...
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HYH-8 Apples to Applesauce! from 2016-06-11T03:02:54
Apples to Applesauce! You may THINK you’re busy, but there is busy, then there is really busy! This week, Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with Katrina Ea...
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HYH-7 Making Life-Long Friends from 2016-06-04T05:25:25
Making Life-Long Friends Join Debi Hertert from HostingYourHome.com as she interviews Jill Palamountain and Michael McCarron about their Portland Airbnb. Jill and Michael have hos...
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HYH-6 From Camino to Airbnb from 2016-05-28T02:18:23
Walk Your Airbnb Talk! Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews Portland Airbnb Superhost Kathy Peterman, who has amazingly compressed 5 months of trash into this tiny bottle! Listen as Kath...
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HYH-5 A Tiny Bit of Country from 2016-05-21T04:06:28
No, it’s not a new song! Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com and Airbnb Superhost Nancy Scott visit at Nancy’s home on a tree farm in West Linn, Oregon. When families stay there with kids, the ki...
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HYH-0 Meet Your Host Debi and her Faithful Editor Rob! from 2016-05-06T21:15:23
HYH-4 A Superhost duo supporting other hosts from 2016-04-28T16:20:37
Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews Portland Airbnb Superhosts Charity and Maylene Kuahiwinui (koo-ah-hee-vee-new-ee) and learns how they have built a smal...
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HYH-3 Josh's House in the Trees from 2016-04-27T16:28:31
In this heartwarming interview, Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with April Brenneman, mother of five and Airbnb host with a tree house! April tells Debi about her youngest son becoming il...
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HYH-2 Youngest Airbnb Guest in the World? from 2016-04-26T20:29:48
Join Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com as she talks with Emily Andrews, a photographer in Beaverton, Oregon. Emily has hosted some fascinating guests in her unusual Airbnb accommodations, includ...
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HYH-1 It's Not All About the Money from 2016-04-23T22:12:55
Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews Airbnb Superhost Carole Wiles in Portland, Oregon. Carole tells about her move from California and her search for a home in Portland that would be ...
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