Star of the Show!!

A few months ago, Matt was asked to be a speaker at the Best Practice Seminar, a Sales and Marketing Summit for Assisted Living.  

The invite alone is quite a big deal.  This is a National Seminar where people pay $1000 to attend.  Everyone else presenting (as you can see from the program), are all widely well known as the tops in their fields of expertise.  So, as I'm sure you can imagine, Matt was quite intimidated but decided it was a great opportunity, so he gladly accepted the invitation.

Today was the big day and let's just say, as the title says, he was the "Star of the show!"  He was blown away and humbled by the rush of people who came up to him after he presented.  "You were by far the best presenter," "You are the reason I came to this conference," "Phenomenal" are just some of the comments others made to him.  They had to ask Matt to step out in the hall afterward because there were so many people who wanted to talk to him and they needed to get on with the rest of the conference!  They even invited Matt to present at next years conference in Florida as well (with an hour time block instead of 20 minutes).

I am so proud of you Matt!  You deserve every bit of praise.  I have been watching you for almost 6 years now develop into the incredibly talented V.P of Marketing for Courtyard Senior Living.  It has been a long, not always easy, road and today I hope you felt a small amount of why we keep telling ourselves, "This will all be worth it in the end."   Congratulations sweetie! I love you!