Katie Cline

Katie Cline is an award-winning public relations professional who has led global communications for world-renowned hotel brands such as Ritz-Carlton, W Hotels, St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, and more in both New York City and London. She’s the host of the Hospitality.FM original podcast, Suite Success, where she interviews hotel executives, hospitality leaders and industry innovators weekly to uncover the strategies and secrets behind the world’s best brands and entrepreneurs. An obsessive traveler, Katie is a dual-citizen of the US and Ireland who applies her love of hospitality to her two short-term rentals in upstate NY: Trout Landing (near Lake George) and Gallant Fox (in Saratoga Springs).

Katie champions a lifestyle-driven approach to personal finance, helping others flip the script to use vacation home ownership to build wealth for the future, without sacrificing enjoyment today — check out her free weekly newsletter at BuyYourSecondHomeFirst.com. When she’s not boarding a plane, Katie can be found trying a new restaurant in Astoria (NYC) with her husband; schooling her British-born toddler on the magnificence of New York bagels; or researching her next investment property while snuggling her newborn son.