Hosting With Heart

Tiffany Falzon has worn her fair share of hats in her almost 37 years. With a professional background in accounting, Tiff was in Sydney when she first donned her hosting crown, opening a glamping tent...

Louise Warren is a great believer in common sense, thoughtfulness and empathy. It's these driving forces that have closely informed the way she and her partner Anthony have for the past 10 years manag...

As a former marketer for the likes of Kip&Co, Milligram, Flexicar and wishlist.com.au, Kimberly Palmer has a toolbox of skills that most hosts could only dream of. Having set up Harper's Cottage in 20...

Behind every great host, there's often an even greater back-room support team and Monica Orrego and her team at Thriving Tasmania are just that. Following her bold, brave move from Colombia to Austral...

With her background as a travel writer and having consulted in PR, Sheriden Rhodes, my first return guest on Hosting With Heart, was more than well-equipped to embark on her hosting journey three and ...

As someone who has spent a great deal of time travelling across Australia in recent years, Charlie Douty knows first-hand what it's like to experience discrimination as a member of the LGBTIQ+ communi...

In this short mid-season episode, Jen Clark talks all things Heartful, the new short-term accommodation booking platform she founded and launched in October, 2024. Some of the incredibly exciting happ...

Kirstie-Lee Smith always knew she wanted to be a photographer, she just had to unearth what kind. Starting off, as many photographers do, shooting weddings, she soon moved into real estate photography...

While many hosts focus on the material details of the stays they manage, Sal Bellanger's approach to running her accommodation business, Sanctuary South Stays, is refreshingly unpretentious. Having ta...

Like many of us, Benj Bailey-Webb has had his fair share of trials and tribulations over the past 5 or so years. The owner-builder of the now widely lauded permanent tiny house in Victoria's majestic ...

Seeking to indulge their mutual love of renovating and holidaying on Tasmania's beautiful east coast, couple Joel Challis and Nick Graham in 2022 were routinely scrolling realestate.com.au when they s...

With a background in graphic design and a childhood penchant for garage sales, Alison Kenna, now the parent to three young boys, is one busy woman. When not working part-time in the marketing departme...

My guest on today's episode of Hosting With Heart, architect Shae Parker McCashen, has long been what she refers to as an 'architectural green sheep'. With an upbringing that instilled in her a respec...

When she's not busy managing Milton Beef, her family's successful ethical beef farm, or helping support the local refugee community, you'll find my guest on today's episode of Hosting With Heart, Jane...

With a background in psychology and outdoor education, my guest on today's episode of Hosting With Heart, Clare Reilly, now works as a disability advocate, blogger, podcaster, social media influencer ...

In today's episode of Hosting With Heart, I chat with Phil Janson who, along with wife Lyndel, are the owners and hosts of Willow's Retreat, a sustainable property located on 50 acres of pristine bush...

In this short launch episode for Season 9 of Hosting With Heart, Jen Clark covers off on what she's been up to for the last 9 months (namely, building new accommodation marketplace, Heartful) and what...

My guest today on Hosting With Heart is Jodie McQueen, owner and operator of Paradise Road Farm, a two-cabin farm stay in Sheffield, the gateway to Tasmania's Cradle Mountain world heritage area. With...

Vince Hunt and partner Angela Brickwell truly do personify what it means to be a heartful host. After purchasing a 120 acre block of land in the idyllic town of Billinudgel on the northern New South W...

In this first episode of Hosting With Heart for 2024, host Jen Clark provides an update on the recent equity crowdfunding campaign for Heartful, a new short-term accommodation booking platform focusin...

It's the FINAL DAY of the Heartful equity crowdfunding campaign, with our public investment offer closing at 10pm AEDT on Thursday 2nd November, 2023. As of 8pm AEDT on Wednesday 1st November, Heartfu...

Well, it's CRUNCH time in the Heartful equity crowdfunding campaign, with EOIs closing on Monday October 16th at 10pm AEDT and Jen needing to raise $50K during the private offer period (that's just 48...

This third instalment in our equity crowdfunding campaign mini-series is a re-recording of Jen's recent presentation at the Heartful Investor Webinar held on October 4th, 2023. It contains a wealth of...

This second short and sweet episode of our Heartful crowdfunding campaign mini-series sees Jen talk about some recent wins in the press, reaching over 115 Expressions of Interest from potential invest...

In this first episode of our 6-week podcast mini series documenting the equity crowdfunding campaign for the new ethical accommodation booking platform Jen is proudly launching in 2024, she talks abou...

In this milestone 100th episode of Hosting With Heart, Jen Clark and partner Kirstie Innes-Will reflect on almost four years of what has become a dearly-loved, phenomenally successful podcast and all ...

My guest on today's penultimate episode of season 7 of Hosting With Heart is author, travel writer and environmentalist Nina Karnikowski. Having worked as a travel writer for the past decade, Nina now...

Having finished a journalism degree and set off on a post-graduation gap year abroad, Simone Williams eventually indulged her Mum's call to come back home to Australia and secure herself a job. And th...

 It was the acceptance that she had chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) that led Sarah Williams to seek out a lifestyle and career that was more compatible with her health and values. After many years work...

As our recent conversation progressed, I came to the realisation that Bel du Bois, co-owner of Queensland's Grain Shed Retreat, could almost be deemed the perfect heartful host. Having a few years bac...

Sunny South in so many ways epitomises what heartful hosting is all about. A former teacher, she and husband Brett have forged a deeply enriching life for themselves in the Hawkesbury River region abo...

Back in 2018, the town of Tanunda, located in the heart of South Australia's beautiful Barossa Valley, had no idea that two passionate Melburnians, Max Niggl and Neale Gerlach, were about to make it a...

Much like many others who have embraced and excelled at the practice of hosting, Madeleine Lawler wore many different hats prior to opening the doors to the completely captivating Tasmanian property n...

When at its very best, hosting is an endeavour underpinned and driven by one core thing - empathy. And that's something my guest today, James Hudson, had in droves when it came to establishing his hug...

What do you get when you pair a talented illustrator and designer with an experienced and resourceful carpenter? The answer is simple - Mill Cabin, an understated yet wildly appealing bush retreat bas...

 If there's one word that sums up husband and wife team Michelle and Murray Prior's hosting ethos, it's respect. Respect for the environment, for history and for knowledge. Having relocated to the Gun...

Kristy Plumridge and her husband Neil are a complementary match in more ways than one. With Kristy's background in marketing and event management and Neil's background in finance and management consul...

Whether it's running one of Sydney's most famed pie shops or managing an award-winning, self-built cabin for guests in the stunning Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, Nicole Landgrebe is a woma...

Edwina Bartholomew is no stranger to the art of juggling. Along with her successful career as a journalist and newsreader with Channel Seven's Sunrise program, she also has a flourishing side-gig as a...

To me, there's a single word that immediately comes to mind when describing Clare Hillier's approach to hosting - 'artful'. With a professional background working for various media platforms, along wi...

In life, there are two kinds of people - the sayers and the doers - and architect and leading climate adaptation specialist Digby Hall falls firmly in the latter camp. Having spent 30 years in the Aus...

Like many before them, it was the discovery of and love for a particular oceanside plot of land in Brooms Head, New South Wales, that ultimately led to the realisation of a dream future forever-home f...

When it comes to running short-term accommodation, outdoor spaces are almost always lower on the priority list than a property's interior, but award-winning, Victorian-based landscape designer and sea...

The Wiradjuri word Girragirra means to 'be well, happy and merry' and it was with this spirit in mind that fourth generation regenerative farmers Wendy Muffet and her husband Kim built their luxury ec...

By the time I'd finished chatting with Tess Astbury and Ben Slore, the incredibly resourceful and consciously-minded couple responsible for establishing Huntingdon Tier Forest Retreat in Dysart, Tasma...

We all know the saying 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going', however in Kerry Williams case, when the going got tough for her travel-loving Mum, who has Mutliple Sclerosis, she got busy st...

Like many before her, it was being a Mum that ultimately led to Tania Walker's foray into hosting. Originally from Perth, she eventually moved to Melbourne where she met and married her husband Matt. ...

Steph King knows a thing or two about Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula. After all, she's lived there for most of her life and is part of a fourth-generation family known for cultivating consciously-mind...

Renee Thurston epitomises, lives and breathes the term creative entrepreneur. This is a woman as industrious and hardworking as they come. Having over her life run many businesses of varying scales an...

It's fitting in more ways than one that my guest on today's episode of Hosting With Heart, Rachel Walters, named her property as a welcome gesture towards those she shares a kinship with, because foll...