From corporate marketing to chateau owner & event curator, meet Trish Jasinski

Episode notes

Sometimes a joke turns into a new life. Trish Jasinski had built a fulfilling, decades-long career in corporate marketing—and she really loved it. But during the pandemic, while working remotely from a very tiny Paris apartment, she started joking with friends that châteaux in the countryside were cheaper than her shoebox of a flat. Just for fun—and with zero plans to actually buy—she went château shopping. And then it happened. She stepped into Château de Gère, a 14th-century stone fortress tucked into the Vallée d’Ossau, and something inside her said, “This is it.” So she did the unthinkable: she bought it. With no plan. Just heart. Now, Trish lives in a quiet French village where sheep outnumber people, and she’s turned the château into a beautiful retreat and event space. She’s taken everything she learned from her corporate years and poured it into this new life—this wild, magical, entirely unexpected next chapter.