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Liz Lambert

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first: 2018-06-14
most recent: 2018-06-14
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“No, no, like Nolan's a business that makes that probably started in mid-century. It was known for Florence Nol and issued a lot of classic”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For me. But I always was interested in design. It's something that I had always enjoyed. And one of my brothers was at work for ICF International Contract Furnishings, kind of like Noel. I wish I knew.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But there were a lot of people. That's right. But there were a lot of people hustling. And whether that be a good hustle or a bad hustle. And I'm a big believer in hustling. But there were some pretty good grifters in there as well. So it wasn't unfamiliar.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if you think about it, it had come from the DA's office, and a lot of the work I did was with a lot of the same, I don't know exactly where that concentric circle is, but a lot of the people I dealt with in New York and in the criminal justice system, whether it was from a police ride-along or just looking at the stories of people every day, Down and out or in trouble or when things get cross in one way or the other in their lives was not something new for me in that way. And I wasn't scared of the junkies and hookers and like I said again there were a lot of really good people there. But were at a moment in their life.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did, indeed. So I went straight from law school to the DA's office in Manhattan and work there for three and a half years or so, and then moved back to Austin and worked at the Attorney General's office. So it was a trial lawyer. And again, something I'll never be sorry about. I made amazing friends that I'm still in touch with on a regular basis. From a text thread to occasional reunions, but it also taught me how to think in a way that has served me really well in business and in just in the world. It teaches you a former rigor, I think, to be a trial lawyer, to understand all the facts of any situation, and again, to put it together.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do actually. You know, I was afraid at the time that it would kill every bit of creativity in me that it would somehow learning to think logically would dampen my ability to be creative. And I don't think that's true at all.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And applied to one program at Sarah Lawrence and didn't get in, and I was like, okay, what now? I knew that I was going to need a little further education or some other direction. So actually the first thing I did is I got an internship at Texas Monthly and worked there for, I then went on to work as a paid, I don't even know what it was, paid employee, I guess, at Texas Monthly for about a year and applied to law school during that time. My father always argued that law school education was something I'd never be sorry about and it was actually the best liberal education you could get.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, so as I said, I was humanities major, which I'm forever thankful for. And then I doubled down with the concentration and poetry, which is, you know, they're not looking for poets out there, I don't think so much. So I applied to go to, I could go get my MFA was really the path I was on.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. And that comes with a good and bad, but for me, mostly it's a good thing. A friend of mine asked me when I was young, I am traveling. He said when people, if people were to ask you if you were in Europe, where are you from? I would say West Texas. It's like, that's early on most people wouldn't say that. They would say, not only you say Texas, you give the region of Texas you're from. I'm like, well, West Texas is so different than East Texas, you know?”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Would be one of those people. Right in the middle of West Texas. It's a good place to launch a rocket ship from. And so I'm, I think, sixth or seventh generation in the ranching business. My family still ranches, cow and calf operation. And so there was a certain way Texas is like another country for some people. It really is. I mean, I have friends.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm from West Texas, and there are a lot of people that grew up in Texas and never even make it to West Texas. It's a big state for you guys who don't know.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And, you know, Austin, it was the state capital. The university was huge. It was this liberal place and a more conservative state.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just into sickness. Divorce. My parents. Yeah. And I was really close to my mom. And so I felt like I needed to be closer and I defer to semester and then I ended up just going to UT. I always loved Austin. In the long run, I'm really happy I did. I mean, when I arrived in Austin in the early 80s, it felt like the place was made for me. You know, it just felt like home. What about it? You know, I'm a Texan through and through, but there were a lot of reasons that I didn't really fit comfortably into other parts of Texas. I was gay. At the time, I wasn't even out. And I was a little more creative maybe. I haven't found my place in Texas, except for West Texas.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I went there for summer school, and then I was accepted as a regular student at Stanford, and I deferred. There were things going on with my family that I needed to come back to Texas. And once I came back, I just”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I went to three places because my family were, I'm from West Texas, my parents met at TCU. My grandfather played football for TCU. My dad played football for TCU. My oldest brother played football for TCU. Everybody in the kind of cousin group, everybody went, started at TCU. I got there, and Fort Worth is a lovely place. I'm crazy about Fort Worth these days, but I always knew it wasn't really going to be a fit for me. And once I'd kind of got interested in creative writing, the program there wasn't that strong. So my tour of colleges”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Works in the business still today. I hired her to edit, but I didn't have her edit until about four or five years into the San Jose being open. And so it was hilarious because she would see people that might have It was also about my story and about me living there as part of a community and the struggle I was having. Everybody had a struggle, different struggles, but one of the remarkable things is that they're all behind me, the folks that live there generally.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm so happy about that. If you just want it to be available to people, I just want it to be available. So, what happened was right when it was done, you'll see the dock ends as I close the door when we close the San Jose. During the footage, during the documentary, we follow five or six people that are permanent residents at the San Jose. Again, I was just shooting on the fly, kind of keeping a video diary. And so I would turn the camera on myself every once in a while. Even when I began editing and realized I couldn't edit it, I had 90 hours of footage. I mean, there's so much good stuff in there, but there was no way I was going to be able to tell a story. So another friend of my friend Jen's from AFI, Tina Gazzaro, who's a”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I will help you put this thing out. Let's do that. I would love that. The last three years it's been at the top of my list. And I keep having people that say they'll help. And then everybody's busy. And so it becomes...”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they came down and I said, You guys come help me shoot because they were both directors of photography, what we're studying. And they were awesome because not only did they shoot some B-roll, and then when I was ready to shut the motel down, they shot the last three weeks. But Utah also encouraged me. You said audio verit ⁇. That's exactly what she told me. I was really worried about a big microphone and stuff, but nobody would have talked to me. You know, like she was like, and don't worry about your film style, just talk to people. And the story is compelling enough. And those were words of wisdom. And as long as you could hear it, It was going to be okay. You didn't need a huge microphone to stick in somebody's face. Just make sure it was audible enough.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“American film institute. Her name is Jin Lane, and she just now is a producer of the new queri. It's been really super popular, yeah. And she was one of my good friends, and then she had a friend named Uta Brieswitz, who is a producer now as well, but a very well-known cinematographer before she became a producer. She shot the first three seasons of the wire, and that's why the wire looks like it does. Wow. So they were both in film school.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was so busy that I wasn't writing things down. There was no journaling. There was no that kind of thing. But I did find a camera. It was right when those little pocket cameras came out. There was little Sony PC7. And I got one of those. So I just started talking to people. People knew the camera was there. I put it up. The front desk had a little glass thing that you slid money through and I just duct taped it to the front for a while. And then when I would go out to knock on doors or kick people out or collect money because it wasn't like you came and paid on a daily basis. I had to chase down money. And so I would just take it with me. And when I was done, I was really lucky at the time that I had a friend who was at AFI as in cinematography. What is...”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whatever homeless pet you might have. I mean, it was just like that housekeeper that had been at the motel before I bought it, there was a husband and wife, the Suez, who were awesome people, but they were the only employees besides Mr. Wu, who I swear to God was like two years older than God and almost blind, and he was a housekeeper. So the state of the rooms when we got there were just, I mean, a thing to behold. And I cleaned rooms for quite a while.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't have time to write it down because I was literally like, you know, the place had been redone in the 70s, I think was the last time. So it had shag carpet still. So you can imagine as you tried to vacuum that shag carpet, what it was like. I mean, there were definitely people, it was definitely a place where you did drugs. It was definitely a place where you had.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People kept encouraging me to write down things that happened during the day because I would tell stories at dinner and I'd go to dinner with friends and it would be absolutely absurd or crazy. Yeah, within the first time.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And humanities and creativities. So I had a lot with the concentration of poetry. So I had a lot of friends who were writers or who I wrote a lot at the time, even back then, whether it was journaling or poetry or whatever it was. And friends would encourage me to write down. I stopped my law job at some point when I knew I was over my head or in a good way over my head at the San Jose, but I needed to do something with the motel. I couldn't continue on at $30 a night with people stealing sheets and bleeding on sheets and burning sheets. You name it.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I grew up in West Texas, and I did my undergrad. I started at TCU in Fort Worth. I had a brief stand at Stanford, and then I finished at UT. It's a way of seeing the world there.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Teeming with life, and it was, you know, there was chunkies and Prostitutes, but a lot of good people too that were just down on the luck for one reason or another couldn't pay a deposit first in last month's deposit or somehow”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, no, no, no. It was dicey. I mean, people didn't go down there at night. There were no businesses on the street. The Continental Club was there and had been there since 1957. And it remained. But really, there was no place to eat. The first Schlotzkis was actually on South Congress, really tiny place. But there was nothing down there. And I had moved back into the neighborhood, but I would go to the Continental Club a lot. So sit on a bar still there. And I've watched the San Jose across the street, which was an old motor court built in the 30s, a Spanish colonial revival style, painted seafoam green at the time. And it looked like it was empty, but it was really because there were people, it was full all the time, but it was $30, $25 to $30 a night, and nobody really had luggage or cars, and nobody really came out during the day. So it looked very quiet, but at night it was.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it wasn't a car on the street back then. I mean, honestly. And they were about to put the motel on the market. And I sort of, you know, I told them, don't do that yet. Let me see if I can do something about it. I ended up buying the San Jose, not knowing anything about what I was doing for $500,000. My mother co-signed a note and suddenly they handed me the keys and I was on my way. And I knew nothing about running a hotel or a motel or anything. Knew nothing about business, really.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Truthfully, I in the mid-90s, I bought an old motel down in South Congress. I was a lawyer at the time, and I'd basically just walked up to the door, knocked on the door, and there was a Taiwanese couple there that owned the motel. And at the time, there was nothing on South Congress, which is, as you know, a very popular area in Australia. Super hot spot.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, it's terrible. Every year, this is one of those things every year it's on my list to do, and I can never quite, so this is a documentary, and I'll tell you why I never did. This is a documentary that I did when I first bought the San Jose, which I used to be a lawyer. It was sort of a change of career inadvertently. And I bought an old motel down on South Congress I have terrible today, so sorry about that.”
2018-06-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #320: The Art of Hospitality: An Interview With Entrepreneur and Hotelier Liz Lambert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That wasn't me, by the way. Okay. I didn't edit, and I never could have edited that, and I never would have been in the doc had it been my choice.”
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