Renato Paiva

My guest and I worked together in Club Med Paradise Island in the 2002/2003 season, but his first season was in Club Med Itaparica, Brazil in Winter of 2000, where he was a Tennis G.O. Prior to joining Club Med, he had never played tennis before in his life (huh?!). Everyone, please help me welcome from Brazil and now living in California, Renato! You see, Renato was a ranked professional Squash player in Brazil. He started playing at 9 years old and by the time he was a teenager, he was the South American and PanAmerican champion and was #10 in the world. Renato lived close to the resort of Itaparica and would visit many times a year as a G.M. The manager of the resort at the time thought tennis and squash were the same as it involved a ball and racquet, and offered Renato a job as a Tennis G.O. Renato left college to join Club Med, but after he stopped working for Club Med, he went back to finish his degree in Business Administration and is now two months away from obtaining his MBA. Below is the link to the “I Want it That Way” Backstreet Boys number we did in Paradise Island that I mentioned during this episode. And again, apologies for the SD quality. The video was HD when I uploaded it 14 years ago (Renato is in the middle in the Kangol hat and Peter Anthony is immediately to his right in the yellow shirt). Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S07ZddsXQY8