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Behind the Stays

Behind the Stays

Business:Entrepreneurship

She Left Her Law Career to Become a Hospitality Entrepreneur — Meet the Creator of Field and Lake

She Left Her Law Career to Become a Hospitality Entrepreneur — Meet the Creator of Field and Lake

2022-11-22
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Meet Sara Roitman,  the creator of Field and Lake, a new collective of boutique vacation rentals on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Sara is an attorney by trade and lives in Chicago with her beautiful family.  A few years back, Sara and her husband had purchased a vacation home on Lake Michigan so that they could escape from the city with the kids for long weekends and a couple of weeks each summer.

When COVID hit, the home next door to their lake house became available…and, upon hearing this news, a bold idea began to form, and ultimately take residence, in Sara’s mind.

And that idea?  Well, it was to buy this home, launch a hospitality brand, build a portfolio of beautiful yet casual escapes, oh — and leave her job!

Tune into the fun and inspiring story of how Sara ideated, planned out, and ultimately launched Field and Lake.

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This episode of Behind the Stays is brought to you by our friends at Touch Stay. 

Touch Stay enables hosts to build beautiful, digital guidebooks in a matter of minutes…
 
And enhances the guest experience by packaging your recommendations for coffee, wine bars, artisan bakeries, and Michelin star restaurants in a single online location. 
 
Guests can access everything through a simple link — and yes, it works WITHOUT a wifi connection. 
 
Touch Stay allows you to customize your guidebook to match your brand — pick the colors, fonts, and images that best align with your STR. 
 
Learn more about a plethora of other features they have, and start your free trail at touchstay.com/bts (as in, Behind the Stays).
 

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Behind the Stays is brought to you twice a week by Sponstayneous — a free, biweekly newsletter that brings subscribers the best last-minute deals and upcoming steals on Airbnb.  
 
You can subscribe, for free, at www.sponstayneous.com. 

Behind the Stays is hosted by Zach Busekrus, co-founder of Sponstayneous, you can connect with him on Twitter at @zboozee.

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