Why Moriya Rockman loves Chess

Welcome everybody to the audio version of the Boostly podcast. So today I am going into the vault and I am finding some of the best clips from a 24 hour clubhouse room that we ran this year. It was an, it was an amazing experience to be part of, to host it, to admin it, and to grab friends and peers from the industry into one room on the the leading audio app and help hosts all over the world. We had a lot of fun. We touched every single corner of the globe and what I wanted to do is be able to put it together, find the best bits and put it into the daily Boost podcast. So I hope you enjoy. The section is not going more than 10 minutes, but it's going to feature a part of the 24 hour room that resonated the most with me. So thank you for tuning in and I will be back tomorrow with another podcast again episode. Right now though, let's jump into that clubhouse room now. The reason why I wanted to move Swift on to Mariah is that she has got a fantastic giveaway. One thing I love about these rooms is that we give away some amazing things and Mariah is going to announce a potential giveaway. So have a little think about how people can enter Mariah, have a think about what, what they can do and then please just announce what you're going to give away. But also as well, before you do that, let us know, what do you like doing when you're not doing hospitality? Doing work? What are your passions?

Okay, so, well, I love to do and I, and I am doing a lot of things. First of all, I really enjoy to hear there's a lot of chess players in the, in the crowd and among the speakers. I'm a chess player myself, and I'm not only a chess player, I'm a collector of chess boards from all over the world. So as you know, probably I like traveling not only to be busy with vacation rentals, but also actually to go and to see them and to check them, but also to stay there. And we are. I see myself and my family as digital nomads. So we traveling as a lifestyle and we love it. I love to discover new places from Africa till, you know, Australia and Kenya, etc. And Europe of course, and just even just little beautiful places in nature not far from home. So traveling is definitely one of my, of my passions. I like to meet the locals, to eat the local food, to have like this kind of hidden experiences and to knit it all together to just an unforgettable moment with my family. I don't have 15 kids, but I do have seven, which is already a lot.

That is already a lot.

Especially that they are mostly all traveling with us, going with us with all these experiences and imagine what it is in 2020, Christmas time to spend like one and a half months with seven kids in the Seychelles. It's like, it's. It's crazy, crazy experiences. They also. The range of the ages is somewhere between 7 and 19. So different with some of them you're playing in the pool and some of them you going out for a drink at night. And it's, it's a big, it's a big organization but, but I love it. Beside that, another thing that I mentioned yesterday. I'm. I'm a diver. Like open water, deep, going to 30, 40 meters underwater. Love diving. Wherever I am in the world, it's like a different dimension. The closest different dimension that I know. And I like all kind of extreme sports which is in the contrary of the chess playing. But that's it, that's. That's what it is. And I'm playing the flute since I was a child and music is a big part of my world. Jam sessions with friends around the world, dancing. So actually live life in all forms and talking about that. One of my other passions and things that I like to do. I like to renovate old places and turn them to, to tell their new stories. And one of the most special properties that we have in our collection of smiling house is actually a very old 350 years old farmhouse. Beautiful in the Swiss Alps. No neighbors like the closest neighbor is like 3km away. Fascinating views of the Swiss Alps and can host up to, to 25 people in 11 or 12 bedrooms. And we just launched spa, a sauna that can fit 12 at once with visibility to the apps while you're staying there.