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Summer Storms.
National Director @blindbarber
📍CHICAGO

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NSITCFG Dinner. Also, if you ever go to Carmines ask for Danny.

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Best boating/charter season of my life.
See ya’ll next season. 🤝🛥️

Rippers.

#thingstodoinchicago #chicagoboating #yachtcharter #chicagoboats #chicago

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aperol era.

#girlstrip #italiansummer #eurosummer #bestfriends #italia

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Actually will mostly always say yes - (unless it’s illegal) 🤝

#thingstodoinchicago #chicagoboatrental #chicagoboating #yachtcharter #chicagoyachts

See you on the tube @katestration

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Labor was Day’in.

Friday: Influencer yacht/dinner @jsotos1 @naiaontheriver
Saturday: @thedeliboat @signature_yacht_co end of season fireworks @navypiermarina
Sunday: Yacht Hopping @playpenchicago @citywineryriverwalk
Monday: Maxed it out with @signature_yacht_co and @agithchicago (dingy cameo)

Laughed it up with 96 of ya all weekend. Solid showing. (Exhausted)

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& this is what happens when you surround yourself with yes friends ✨

#girlstrip #italy #eurosummer #bestfriends #travel

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Can’t say we didn’t have fun this summer 🌞

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There’s a Japanese phrase I recently learned: mono no aware (物の哀れ).
It’s the feeling of realizing something is beautiful while knowing it won’t last forever. That little ache when you can actually feel a season of your life becoming a memory.

And that’s exactly how I feel right now.

My first season as a yacht broker is coming to an end, and I don’t think I was prepared for how much this summer would mean to me.

I started this season hoping I could build something. I knew boats. I knew Chicago. I knew I loved being on the water. And I believed I could create a better, more personal way for people to experience it.

But I had no idea if it would actually work.
Well…it worked.

People trusted me. They booked with me. They came back. They referred their friends.
Owners trusted me with their boats.
Captains became friends.
Clients became friends.
And something that started as an idea became a real business that I’m incredibly proud of.

But weirdly, when I look back on this summer, the bookings aren’t what I think about first.

I think about the people.

I think about friendships I’ve had for years that somehow became even stronger this summer.
I think about bringing old friends into new circles and watching those friendships form without me.
I think about people I met because of this business who I now know are going to be in my life long after the boats are put away.

Somewhere along the way, I stopped feeling like I was just building a client list. I was building relationships. Real ones.

The kind where you realize certain people you met through boating and work are probably going to be sitting at your table 10 or 20 years from now.
That might be the biggest success of this entire season.

I also got to be a tiny part of so many other people’s memories. Birthdays. Families. Old friends reuniting. New friendships starting. People celebrating huge moments and people celebrating absolutely nothing other than a beautiful Saturday in Chicago.

There’s something really special about realizing that your job helped create a day someone else might remember for the rest of their life.

And this summer taught me a lot.

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Yacht Dopamine.

#thingstodoinchicago #chicagoboatrental #chicagoboating #chicagoyachts #yachtcharter

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There’s only one redhead in the Playpen 👩🏻‍🦰

Let’s fix that 🔥

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