Hunter Mountain

And so really why it really just hammered home to my foundation was from a very young age.

My parents were taking me to the Catskills into these like Hunter Mountain.

uh german beer festivals and polish beer festivals none of that's our heritage either we were just going yeah and there's all this polka music and i was just like it was there it was never anything i liked but i was like oh wait this kind of like modern sound is coming together with this accordion and this polka sound and i was like that resonates and the other thing about the catskills was those small town grocery stores had that weekly world news so we just buy it on a goof but like i'm looking at and so when midnight star comes out i'm like wait, he can actually write brilliant original music, but I would bring it to my brothers and other people.

And they were like, this is stupid.

to make this so personal? Because it's a very personal experience.

Yeah and and the beauty of it is like Jackie's house isn't just the Hamptons it's not just you know like if I start if I you know get a place in the city I mean I have a place in the city but if I get like a special place just for this or you know like getting a house in Aspen or Hunter Mountain you know like it's a traveling thing like it's just like it's just gonna be Jackie's house and no matter where it is all you need to know is that there's going to be amazing food cooked by yours truly there's going to be a curated guest list chosen by yours truly and there's going to be an amazing like scenery and vibe that will just make it impossible for you to not have a good time

for people listening to this that say wow this sounds like such a cool career and idea how did you get started as a personal concierge, and then an experiential concierge.

How was the evolution of your career with this?

It was me and a big group, 12 of us total, including myself.

But we were on Westkill Mountain and Hunter Mountain.

And highlight of the weekend was seven out of the 12 of us on Sunday morning decided to do the sunrise hike.

So we were up Departed camp at 4.45 in the morning, had our headlamps on, and we did a pretty challenging two-mile stretch of Devil's Path.

and you know so they always try to make it like dallas on snow you know like rich people on snow i think that's this show is going to be a failure because this show is doing the same thing

it's not like the real thing now i want them to bring back winter break hunter mountain did you watch the i watched that

of course i watched that what are you talking about my god this is a

disaster that show was so good that is everything i ever wanted and they're all terrible skiers by the way There was, like, one guy.

This is my life now.

As a young mother, the overwhelm, not in a heavy or bad way, just the overwhelm of all of that change made me think, I'm not going to be putting skins on and trying to ascent the backside of Hunter Mountain in the tell me ski down the other side.

You know, I think being a mother reminds me constantly how dynamic we are and how change is happening all the time.

And you have to be here now and be here in the present and appreciate what is right in front of you at that moment, because Pretty soon those waters are going to flow on and you can't dip back into that stream.

It's viewpoint, the far, the far North part of, of bear pen.

Jim Boughton has been contacting me and then just tell me so many viewpoints have been lost that it's, it's actually Geiger point over on Hunter mountain, the marked point of, not even Geiger Point, the marked spot off of the spur trail, one of the spur trails for a viewpoint is gone on Hunter Mountain.

So these are marked places that they have specifically put a yellow trail to, a marked viewpoint that are gone.

So

We

got to do our... live outdoor show on a Saturday afternoon at some Community Park up in the Catskills you're gonna have them all

there we'll just do it at Hunter Mountain we'll take over Hunter Mountain

or Bel Air like a cool venue

So the Slutskys became donors, and then I met many others who became donors to the organization.

And the Slutskys are the family behind Hunter Mountain.

Yeah.

They created Hunter Mountain, ran it for years, and are still members of the Slutsky family, are still involved in Hunter Mountain operations.

All of this is in a new book, and it's called Driven to Build, Guided by Values, Leading for Long-Term Success in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Worlds.

And it bridges those two worlds.