We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Danielle Fattizzi a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Danielle, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
As a kid from New York with Italian parents living in a fast-paced household, developing resilience must have started the day I was born. As I grew up, my parents were supportive in the ways they knew how to be, and continue to be even more so to this day, but when reflecting back I realize that I was left alone a lot as a child to figure things out on my own. That’s kind of always been a theme in my life.
As a die-hard people pleaser in my teens and twenties, I became the most adaptable, fast learning, spatially aware person in the room. If I hit the floor training at a new job, I became so good at the role that I would be on the level of senior staff within months. If I didn’t have a task to keep me busy at all times, I was in trouble for finding a way to be productive doing someone else’s job role instead of patiently waiting at my post for something to happen. Jobs working for others never satisfied me. The sum of my formative experiences had made me highly independent, to a fault even.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Euphoria Vacation Homes is a brand built from the ground up by my team. I am the brain and a lot of times the muscle, but they are the beauty and the passion and the joy. They have infused their love of branding, arts, communication, love of people (the list goes on) to create something with me that I really could never have imagined. The best way to describe it is a lot of Type A personalities in one room trying to perfect something together at all times with the addition of a few laid-back artists that have invaluable opinions.
Together, we make a dedicated team of property managers, focused entirely on vacation rental homes and all that comes with them: hospitality, design, special events, DIY projects, renovations, revenue management, branding, etc. Our locale is mostly based in the coastal NE Florida region but we have properties in the NC and GA mountains and beyond.
As we continue to grow, our goal is to continue to align with clients that have a vision of curating a next-level experience for our guests, and allowing us to execute that vision alongside them.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
1. Getting to know people outside of my circle (networking) opened the doors that made it possible for me to start my business and grow it.
2. Adaptability sped up the pace of my success 10x. Being acutely aware of what was going on around me, listening, learning quickly and then learning to do it even more efficiently.
3. Time Management, when I finally figured it out. Not eating or sleeping so that you can get more work done can only go on for so long before your body revolts. Get to bed at 10 and get nutrients into your body, because there is an expiration date on being able to “keep going” at your normal productivity/pace without these things.
Awesome, really appreciate you opening up with us today and before we close maybe you can share a book recommendation with us. Has there been a book that’s been impactful in your growth and development?
Atomic Habits by James Clear was a hugely impactful book I read in early 2023 that helped me out of a burnout phase I was in. It helped me identify the building blocks of routine that led me back to feeling back in touch with myself again, after many years of abusing my body (not sleeping, not eating to fuel myself or getting in regular workouts) for the sake of growing my business. If you’re experiencing burnout from anything and feel disconnected from how you felt at your happiest, this book could help you like it helped me.
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