Mick Unplugged - Redefining Island Hospitality: Natajia Miller’s Story of Resilience

Episode Date: December 13, 2025

Natajia Miller is a visionary entrepreneur from the Bahamas who has transformed her family’s dream into reality with Embrace Resort on Staniel Cay. Starting from humble beginnings—where her mother... paved the way through sheer determination and hard work—Natajia traveled the globe, living in places like Dubai and rural China, before returning home to take their boutique island resort to new heights. Her leadership during the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic showcased her commitment to her team and guests, and she’s become known for curating authentic, personalized hospitality experiences that blend Bahamian culture, warmth, and true human connection. Takeaways: Resilience is the heart of success: Natajia’s journey is powered by family legacy, perseverance, and the ability to adapt through hard times like the pandemic. Personalized hospitality stands out: Embrace Resort differentiates itself by offering caring, individualized experiences and fostering genuine relationships—not just luxury amenities. Leadership is about community: Natajia’s approach is grounded in loyalty to her team and the community spirit, proving that small businesses can have a big impact. Sound Bytes: “Service excellence is not just a fake smile. It’s about how that person feels in your presence. Service comes from caring.” “What I used to think was a negative thing—us being so small and not posh—is actually what makes us amazing. Because we have time for your stories.” “When people come to Embrace, they always say, I feel like I visited an aunt… You feel like somebody cares about you at this place.” Connect & Discover Natajia: Instagram: @mindfrotravel LinkedIn: @natajiamillerluxurytravel Website: stanielcayvacations.com Website: embraceresort.com 🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥  Mick Hunt’s BEST SELLING book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers.  👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million    FOLLOW MICK ON: Spotify: MickUnplugged Instagram: @mickunplugged  Facebook: @mickunplugged YouTube:  @MickUnpluggedPodcast  LinkedIn: @mickhunt  Website:  MickHuntOfficial.com Apple: MickUnplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of Mick Unplud, and today I'm honored to be chatting with one of my friends. From the Quiet Bahamian K to Global Travel Dreams, she's turned turquoise tides into a thriving brand. She's preserving heritage, empowering locals, and redefining island luxury. Bold, he's a visionary. She is unstoppable. She is my friend, Natasha Miller.
Starting point is 00:00:28 You're listening to Mick Unplug, hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation. Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable.
Starting point is 00:00:44 I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. Let's get unplugged. Natasha, how are you doing today, dear? Awesome. Happy to be here with you. I am honored to have you on. You know, I love asking all my guests right out of the gate about their because, that
Starting point is 00:01:05 deeper purpose that they have, that fuel that's creating their legacy. So if I were to ask you, what's your because? What is it today? Today, my because is because I can't let my mom have blood, sweat, and tears paved the way for me, for me to drop the ball now. my because is because my team has been so loyal to me. I can only be loyal to them by giving them what they need for their families as well as what they deserve as human beings on the job.
Starting point is 00:01:39 My because is because I have a little cousin who looks up to me and I need to continue to be that role model that she so believes in. So when she believes in me, it makes me believe in myself and that's my because. That's amazing. And I want to start with what you said about your mom and the blood, sweat, and tears. Talk to the viewers about the resort, the history, and just everything that you and your family have been through to make this number one destination in the Bahamas. Yeah, for sure. So it all started with an island girl's dream.
Starting point is 00:02:18 My mom worked her way up from sweeping floors at a local Yacht Club to managing the place. And while she was there, everybody had her as the unofficial concierge. Nikki, I want to get married. Can you help me? Nikki, I need to go fishing. Who can I go with? Nikki, I need a golf car. Can you get one for me?
Starting point is 00:02:35 So that basically birthed three ends, which is the travel concierge arm of our business. Because my grandmother said, Nikki, everybody's asking you for this stuff for free. Do you realize that people get paid for this? So that birth three ends. Three ends is Nellie, my grandmother, Nicole, my mom, and Nina Tasia. And when you're an entrepreneur, when you start getting that fire and that fuel for entrepreneurship, it really makes you start to think big. So she always had a dream to build a resort. And being an island girl with no college degree, of course, family members are like, Nikki, why don't go open one little ice cream store?
Starting point is 00:03:16 You should just do a little, just do a little clothes and start. That ain't for you, you know? Big dreams are not for small ice cream. Island girls, right? So she didn't listen. So she went to the banks. And we have about six banks in the Bahamas. Every single bank echoed exactly what the family said. Miss, I don't know about this, miss. You say a resort and it's not even on the beach? No, no, no, no, no. Let me give you some advice. Go try open one little shack on the beach or something like that and sell hot dog or conk. So she had everybody, and it knows for some people it comes from a really, it comes from a good place.
Starting point is 00:04:01 It comes from a place of, I want to protect you. I want to protect your finances. And I'm just so proud of her because she persevered in that. She was using the money from three ends. She'd take $50, go buy some wood. Take another $50, go buy some nails. Take another $50 and pay somebody to put the nails in the wood. So the resort was built one by one by one.
Starting point is 00:04:24 And even until now, so thank God he has given us the grace to be able to finish seven billas, completely bootstrapped, completed our cafe just about three years ago, finally put in a pool five years ago. So it has been a work in progress. And I had been watching her from afar because I lived in Dubai for a while. I lived in China for a while. And actually while I was in China, she called me and she's like, Tasia, I'm so tired. I need you to come home. I can't do this by myself anymore.
Starting point is 00:04:56 So I'm in China, you know, and they're telling me Natasia, we want to do your offer letter again. You want to extend your contract. You write the terms. I'm like, Natasia writes terms for contract or goes to Tired Mom. And I chose Tired Mom. And six months later, six months later. Six months later, COVID broke out.
Starting point is 00:05:17 So I would have been stuck in China in COVID if I had been greedy, you know, with my room upgrade to a sweet and double salary and everything. So that's the history in the nutshell. And that's why my because it's so strong because it's not like this was handed to her and she handed it to me. No, she worked for this. She ate, she had me eaten noodles in college for this. She skipped meals for this.
Starting point is 00:05:40 She spent her last for this, you know? Her friends went out. She couldn't go because she had to use that $25 to buy the nails that she needed. So I have to make sure that that is preserved because she did too much for me to just let the ball fall out of my hands now. No, that's beautiful. So I got the history of the resort, but let's talk about you. So I know how you got there, but let's talk about you before you were there, one of the most brilliant minds that I know. Let's talk about, you know, some of the things that you.
Starting point is 00:06:14 you were doing before you decided to say, okay, mom, here I come. So I have always been a person that's like, I always want more. So even while I was in college, I'm in college. I'm getting two bachelors. I'm getting, you know, I'm the president of the Caribbean Student Association. I'm the vice president of the model United Nations. So always go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And that led me to becoming an international student mentor in college, which opened my eyes to the world outside of my one-by-two-mile island in Stanielke. You know what I mean? So I got to experience so many different cultures. I had one of my students was from Greece and had another from Iran, another from Germany, another from Saudi Arabia, a lot of from Sri Lanka. So meeting and interacting
Starting point is 00:07:03 and finding out about all of their cultures just gave me this culture itch that could not be scratched. So went to university, got my NBA, stayed in the U.S. for a year because fun fact audience, when you're an international student, you get one year to work in the U.S. And most of us have an American dream. So we pray to God that we get that visa extended. But in my case, I was working in the front office. So immigration was like, you mean to tell me that in the 50 states of the United States of America, you can't find a front office agent. And no. So I had to come back home and I came back home and I literally Googled Mick places where Bahamians can get a working visa.
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Starting point is 00:08:13 community and a 2026 holiday caravan stop. Learn more at canadaswunderland.com. And every, Australia, Europe, Asia, all over. And then I get an email to go from Dubai. I thought it was spam. I deleted it like, ha ha, you thought you were going to get me. You didn't. Long story short, It was Dubai and I went to Dubai and I stayed there for three years and I always say that that is the most transformational experience ever. And it's not because of the glitz, the glamour, the gold in your coffee, the, you know, the tallest building, the biggest mall. It's because culturally, it's like, it's as cosmopolitan as it gets. The hotel that I worked at has 67 different nationalities. So I would have like a German on my right, the Philippines.
Starting point is 00:09:07 on my left. I'm checking in a Russian. I go down to have lunch with a Sri Lankan and then I go home to my roommate who's from Kenya. So it just really opened my eyes and even made me more grateful because I remember speaking to somebody from Iran. And I was just so excited. It was my first time going back home since I went there. And I was just like, oh, I'm so excited to go home. I'm dancing around the office. I'm so excited. And he's like, well, at least you have a home to go to. You know, and it makes you grateful. because, you know, there are some things that people take for granted. And one of those things was having a home to go to.
Starting point is 00:09:45 So, yeah, Dubai was amazing. And I didn't stop there. I went to China. And I was thinking that just like my Dubai experienced, everybody would speak English. It would be super easy. But I didn't read the fine friend because I did not go to Beijing or Hong Kong. I went to Yinsuan, Ning Sha, which is like very rural. So it took me out of my, like I said, I was go get her.
Starting point is 00:10:10 Yeah, Natasia can do it all. And that humbled me because I'm like, can you help me get lunch? Can you help me get a cell phone? Can you help me go to the doctor? Can you help me buy this online? So it really took that independent, I can do whatever I want and put it back into the box of Humble Island Girl, remembering that, you know, you can't do it all. You need a community of people to help you to support you.
Starting point is 00:10:34 and I think that has also influenced my leadership into today. So that is a journey of the life of Natajah, I'm making a nutshell. I love it, Tasia. I love it. I love it. So now you're back at the family business. And it's a lot of vision, right? And it's starting to become reality. But mom needs you.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Mom needs you to not get it over the hump, but to say, I got it. I can do it. Let me run with it. let me make things happen. So when you get back home and the resort business is real, what are the first couple of things that you did to put your stamp, to put Tasia on the resort? Oh, great question.
Starting point is 00:11:21 So before I could even think about putting Tasia on the resort, I had to get COVID out of it because when I came back, when I came back, Mick, It was like, I literally came back, end of 2019, and, you know, COVID started 2020. So, you know, I'm getting, I just arrived, just started leading, and I'm getting these calls. Hi, I'm going to have to cancel. Hi, I'm sorry, I won't be able to come in December anymore. And I'm watching the bank account drift downward, you know, for all of the refunds that we're giving. Until it reached, you know, like about 10,000 and I still had about 15,000 in refunds.
Starting point is 00:12:02 to give back. So that was my introduction to embrace resort. And so I'm talking to mom and I'm like, okay, mom, what's the occupancy average? I don't know. Okay, that's fine. I get it. So, mom, tell me what is like the ADR? What's the average daily rate? So I can figure, I don't know. Okay, mom, can you log into your quick book? So I can see she was like, quick books? Quick, what? The books aren't quick. They're on the shelf. What are you talking about, right? So I'm like, mom, how do you, how do you know what expenses you have? How do you know your, you know, your accounts payable, your receivable? She said, there's a box in the corner that I keep all of my receipts and my stuff in.
Starting point is 00:12:45 And I'm like, great, pandemic refunds requested a box of receipts. So, Mick, I literally, there is nothing that my master's degree could teach me in cash flow management. that could help me in this moment. But I went online. I learned about cash projections, cash flow because at that time, there was a lot of online free resources. I sucked it all up.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I was in class four hours a day. And, you know, in addition to that, so there is the business aspect of, you know, having, I have to give my guests their money back. So we had to take out a small loan to do that because at the end of the day,
Starting point is 00:13:27 you trusted me with your money. I have to make sure that in situations like this, I returned that. So that was first priority. Second priority was, Natasia does not work alone. Meeter there's her mom. I have, you know, a housekeeper that has a family to feed on another island. I have a maintenance person that has to send money to Haiti.
Starting point is 00:13:48 You know, I have all of these people that are also depending on me. So in that time, that was a crash course in leadership that I didn't even know that I needed. So when the pandemic happened, of course, like I said, no money. no money coming in because the country is closed down. But I still have these. I think at the time it was probably like 10 people that are looking to me to guide them and to help them and to figure out what we're going to do from here. So we started off, you know, paying them half salary.
Starting point is 00:14:18 When that ran out, we went to one week's worth of salary. When that went out, we went to here's a bag of chicken, here's a bag of rice, here's, you know, some cereal milk. eggs. And we did that for as long as we could. And that has, having done that, because there are so many hotels that just closed, right? And that was another thing. In the Bahamas, I think there were two to three other boutique resorts that they just couldn't handle it anymore. And I'm watching that and seeing that on the news. And I'm there like, dun, dun, dun. But at the same time, the people that watched us as we, you know, gave them our last, as we had meetings every week, even if we just met to play Domino's or Uno, just to try to keep the spirits up.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Hey, guys, I can't give you your full salary, but I can invite you over and cook barbecue chicken and peas and rice and macaroni. So you have dinner tonight. So out of the everything, I don't even know what word to use for the chaos of COVID, the bond with the team not only between like leadership and team but between each other because we came through that experience together it built a resilience and built a loyalty that I could not pay for I could not you know give incentives enough for I could not give enough bonuses to get the level of loyalty and we're in this together and do what it takes attitude that I have now for those people who have come through COVID with us and remained and after that then I put my
Starting point is 00:15:56 stamp of Dubai on it. That's what my resort operation supervisor tells me. She's like, Natasha, you just brought Dubai to the property because I've always had like a high service. I'm a service fanatic, like, fanatic. So I've always had that in Dubai just, you know, tripled whatever I thought that I had before. So I am very meticulous.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Even if I walk into a restaurant, I'm like, let me see how long they take. if you are, you know, giving me a coffee and you smile and you remember my order and you repeat it to me and you know, you have that interaction, I will tip you $20 for a $7 coffee, you know? So I think that what I brought to it is an understanding that service, excellence is not just a fake smile. It's about how that person feels in your presence. It's about caring. Service comes from caring. When we had a guest that came, she was a divorce seek she let us know you know because we're you know on arrival we want to get to know you hey you're here you're solo traveling girl power but what are you doing here oh i just got
Starting point is 00:17:04 divorced you know i just wanted to get away so every day the team without natasia saying guys please check on her you know she's divorced the team is going to her room knocking on the door hey how are you doing hey i'm going for i'm going to the to this thing tonight do you want to come hey did you grab da da da et cetera just checking in with her taking care of her. Hey, you should definitely try this. Hey, you should do this tour. Hey, have you seen the swimming pigs? And by the time she left, she admitted to us that she was actually clinically depressed after the divorce. And she came here basically like on her last string. And after those interactions and seeing that people care, she said that it was better than the therapy that
Starting point is 00:17:48 she had had. So this is service. Of course, you know, we can give you a cold towel and all the but caring. When people come in for their anniversaries, we're excited like it's our aunt's anniversary, you know, because marriage is beautiful because some of us know what it's like to be married. When people come and their kid is celebrating a birthday, some of us have kids. So it's like it's a due unto others on steroids because if I am at a resort, and I'm either going through something negative like a divorce or going through something beautiful like a 10 year anniversary, I want to be, I want to feel like I'm seen, feel like I'm hurt, feel like I'm cared for, feel like you're in it with me. And I think that that's what makes,
Starting point is 00:18:33 that's the touch that my experience as well as the team's experience, I can't take full credit for it, but that's what makes us different. And that's what I'm most proud of is at the end of the day, when people come to embrace, they always say, I feel like I visited an aunt. And it's Not because, you know, the pots and pans are out. It's because you feel like somebody cares about you at this place. So oftentimes when guests are leaving, they're hugging us. They're, you know, hey, I'll send you back. Because we create relationships.
Starting point is 00:19:05 And that's something that I also think that the world is losing out on as the years go by. It's true relationship, true human connection. So we are definitely going to continue to be the catalyst for that, for sure. This episode is brought to you by Square. You're not just running a restaurant, you're building something big. And Square's there for all of it. Giving your customers more ways to order, whether that's in-person with Square kiosk or online.
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Starting point is 00:20:04 Like, like, we truly feel you. And when, when people are spending money and time for a resort, like, a lot of times that might be the one vacation that they do in three, four, four. five years, right? And I think a lot of establishments and hospitality missed that, right? Everybody doesn't go on a big vacation every year, right? Some people, it's a once in a lifetime thing to leave the country, to fly somewhere to a destination and to spend a week, you know, doing something. Like, people save for that. People, you know, put their their life, their hopes and dreams into that. lot of times. And I think that Embrace Resorts does an amazing job of making people, one, be seen like you said, but two, making sure that they're felt and that embrace fills them back. So
Starting point is 00:20:59 talk to us about how many repeat visitors that you get, because to me, that says a lot about any establishment, right? Everybody can go somewhere one time. When you have people coming two, three, four, and five times, and that tells me who you are. So talk to us about how many repeat visitors you get to the resort. Oh, yeah. So our repeat numbers are between 40 to 50%. And again, it's a beautiful resort and the area is beautiful, the clearest water you've ever seen. But when the guests come back, they come back to see Dexie. They come back to visit Gabby. They come back to see Tasia. Like we have one guest that has been coming to embrace since we had one villa. one villa and sand i'm talking no pool no cafe a barely in office there was one villa and she has been
Starting point is 00:21:54 coming amy her name is amy she has been coming from one villa up until now she brings her kids she brings her husband his husband brings his family and it's just a beautiful thing to see and i was talking to Amy about, you know, the next level of embrace and asking her like, you know, you've, if nobody knows embrace like you do. So you've seen us go from one villa to seven villas, 10 rooms, cafe, everything. Why do you keep coming back here? Because when we had one villa, you didn't come back for the pool. And we had two villas you didn't come back for the cafe because it didn't exist. So what keeps you coming back here instead of going somewhere else? And she helped me to coin what is now our, I guess, tag lines, which is peace, privacy, and personalized service.
Starting point is 00:22:44 She works in marketing, fun fact. So, peace, like she said that when she comes to embrace, it feels like an oasis. It feels like, you know, on the island, there's a yacht club, there's local bars, et cetera. But when you're here, your home is how she described it. So embrace is all about creating peace for people, number one, because you don't have to think, let us do the thinking for you you know you want all your meals plant out we got you oh but i'm vegan we still got you it sucks for you because you won't be able to try the conk but otherwise we've got you you know and then the privacy because a lot of people gave us flat for not being beachfront a lot of people oh how could you you're in the bahamas da da da
Starting point is 00:23:28 but not being beachfront the place that we're at staniel key is a one by two mile island you can jog around the entire island in less than two hours getting to the beach is like nothing it's a it's a couple of steps away but with that what that does is it creates privacy because now if i'm a beachfront property everybody wants to be at the beach and everybody wants to da-da-da-da-da but because we are tucked away when you're i've had guests say is there anybody else on property and i'm like yeah we're at 80% occupancy just like it just feels like i'm here by myself you You know? So it's that privacy, especially since it's not like hotel rooms. It's villas, individual villas. So peace and privacy are the number one things. And that personalized service, like I said, and you mentioned something as well about people like this being their only opportunity to come last story. We had a German mother's son. They came. And then, you know, we treat them like everybody else, right? Hi. And then the son was about 16, about 15, about 15. 16. So, you know, he's, he's a young man. Maybe he doesn't want to be with his mom all the time. So we would like, come, let's take you on an island tour. Oh, did you see the nurse sharks at the yacht club? So we were just interacting with them. It's something that we normally do. At the end of their trip, you know, I always ask, you came here all the way from Germany. You know, we appreciate you choosing embrace because I understand that she could have stayed anywhere. To come from Germany to Staniel Key and stay with us, it's an honor. And she explained,
Starting point is 00:25:04 to me that she had to save money for three years to do this for her son because her son was dying and this was his dying wish. I can't make these stories up, Mick. I literally like I started watering. I've been interacting with this young man all week long, not knowing. She said that he had to have, there was no doctor in Germany that could perform the surgery that needed to be performed. So he had to go to another place. Anyway, long story short, is dying wish because the doctors gave him like an X amount of months to live. His dying wish was to come to the exhumas. And she said, when she saw the story about my mom and, you know, her resilience,
Starting point is 00:25:46 she understood because she grew up on farmland in Germany. So this is not like, you know, a person that lives in the downtown Munich. She came from a farm. And she said she just wanted to bring her son. And our story stuck with her, which is why she chose embrace. And she said, this vacation, she thought she did it for her son. did it for herself, you know, and how amazing the time as I'm getting chills thinking about it, but this is what I live for. All of my becuses, put this at the top. Those stories, because,
Starting point is 00:26:17 you know, I used to, honestly, I used to always compare myself, ourself, to the big hotels, right? The Atlantis, the Ritzes, the Hyattes, and I used to look down on us. Like, oh, nobody wants to come at our little resort. Oh, we don't have a lap pool. Oh, we don't have chandeliers and marble floors oh we don't have a louis faton store woe is me you know just really really looking down on us like who do you think you are people don't want to stay here you know then you have that negative self-talk that's telling you like everything that it could possibly say and one like after just sitting with myself and listening to the guest feedback in my head instead of listening to what we're not because we're not marble floors and we're not chandeliers
Starting point is 00:27:03 but we are barefoot luxury, the luxury of self that you can't buy. I can put a chandelier in all my rooms and they would be super cute, I'm sure. But would I prefer to have a chandelier in every room or to have stories of divorces that are on the verge of, you know, suicide? And people that are on the verge of death, people that have came to spread their parents' ashes, that they choose this is their safe place to come. and keep the chandeliers and the marble floors. I will take that every day at a week and every month at a week. So I am honored and humbled that we have the time to hear stories
Starting point is 00:27:43 because you can't imagine how many people pass through the 500 room hotels that may have similar stories. But because I know I worked in Dubai, I was doing 120 check-ins a day, I don't have time to find out who's on their dying bed and who's divorced. I just need to get to the next person. So what I used to think was a negative thing, us being so small and not posh, is actually what makes us amazing. Because we have time for your stories. We only have seven rooms.
Starting point is 00:28:13 How many check-ins can we do in the day, right? We have time to sit with you by the pool. We have time to remember that you like your coffee with almond milk and a splash of vanilla. There you go. Yeah. So I'm proud now. I love it. I love it.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Well, Tasia, I know how busy you are. I'm going to get you out of here on my quick five, my rapid fire. Go get them. You ready? Ready. All right. Number one, your favorite Bahamian dish to serve your guest on their first night. Ooh, it has to be kunk.
Starting point is 00:28:50 It starts with kunk. Everything revolves around kunk. So if it's dinner, let's put some crack kunk on there, you know, lightly. fried, that's what we call crack, but it tastes like crack, so that's also the reason. Lightly fried, crack, cunk. I would do conk and rice because I just love cunk, but let's not. Let's do peas and rice because it's traditional. Baked macaroni and cheese because, you know what?
Starting point is 00:29:15 Why not two starches, right? You're in the Bahamas and it's one of my favorite things. And then we'd, of course, add a salad, coleslaw, coleslaw with nice sugar and honey and everything in there. It's just as close to salads we're going to get. And then for dessert, guavadouf, the most delicious, succulent, saucy. Sorry, I think I'm dribbling a little bit here, Mick. Why did you do this to me?
Starting point is 00:29:39 But yeah, guavid up for dessert, and then conch fritters is the appetizer. I love it. I love it. When you tell people that they're going to swim with pigs, what's their first initial reaction? Oh my God, yay, which day? We have people that come here just for them. yeah swimming with the pigs it's a tradition it's a tradition what's the most surprising thing that tourists find out about island life when they get i think recently the most surprising thing
Starting point is 00:30:15 is that island life has so much um beauty in peace there's a there's a beautiful piece because we don't have traffic there's no there's no there's no police cars, I don't think there's ever been a stabbing on this island since I was born. So sometimes we tell the guest, like, if we're walking, I'm like, oh, no, I have to lock my door, we're like, this I, you know, leave it open. They're like, what do you mean? It's eye. I'm like, lady, my house has been open for the past six years.
Starting point is 00:30:44 You know, so I think that really surprises them that, what? Is it really that safe? There you go. When it's time to get hype, when it's time to get energized, what's the song that Natia is going to listen to to get ready. Oh, oh my gosh. And we think, I really like, like, Caribbean songs. So it depends on what's the latest Caribbean song at the time.
Starting point is 00:31:09 Like, it could be Soka. It could be reggae. I used to do dance home when I was in college, but I got saved. Hallelujah, you know. Amen. Amen. Yes. But I love me.
Starting point is 00:31:20 Amen. Okay. Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. All right. And then last question.
Starting point is 00:31:26 And what's one travel destination that is on your bucket list? Australia. People want to come to the Bahamas for the pigs. I want to go to Australia for the kangaroos, you know, the little joys. And then also they have, I love that they have like the Great Barrier Reef, but they also have the city life. So I would want to do like four to six weeks there. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:51 I dig it. I dig it. Well, Tasia, again, I appreciate you more than you know. where can people find and follow you and embrace resorts? Sure. So I'm on LinkedIn, so definitely feel free to hit me up there. If you need any travel advice as well, even if it's not Embrace Resort, but you're thinking about coming to the Bahamas, but you want a more peaceful route. I can definitely help you out with that.
Starting point is 00:32:13 I'm also on Facebook, Natasia Miller, as well as LinkedIn, Natasha Miller. And if you want to check out the beautiful photos on our Instagram, it's Embrace Staniel Key, also on Facebook. I love it. Well, dear, I appreciate you more than you know, dear friend of mine. It's just so proud of you, so proud of everything you have going on. You are amazing. I can't wait to come down and see you soon. Okay. Let me give you your flowers too. You are amazing. You are wonderful. You are everything. You are such, you are such a beautiful person in the space that you're in and the heart that you have,
Starting point is 00:32:55 things that you do, the opportunities that you provide for people, you are, you are the epitome of amazing leadership. And I am very proud of you and proud to be called your friend. That means the world to me. I appreciate you. And to all the viewers and listeners, remember, your because is your superpower. Go unleash it. That's another powerful conversation on Mick Unplugged. If this episode moved you, and I'm sure it did, follow the show wherever you listen. it with someone who needs that spark, and leave a review so more people can find there because. I'm Rudy Rush, and until next time, stay driven, stay focused, and stay
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