Powerhouse 2023 Year in Review
New Powerhouse Team Member
Taylor is excited to serve on the Powerhouse team! At her core, Taylor is a creative and a champion for small businesses, with a well-rounded background in human services and marketing. With more than six years in the hospitality industry as a highly awarded host, she believes in a white-glove, human-first approach to short-term rental management. She has a passion for creating exceptional guest experiences and a proven track record in property design and management. She is exuberantly dedicated to helping owners maximize the potential of their investments.
Taylor is an adventure seeker who loves traveling and exploring in her RV with her partner and her dog. She is a foodie with an insatiable curiosity for new experiences. When she’s not working, Taylor is traveling or practicing skills like woodworking, gardening, farming, scuba diving, and rock climbing.
New Powerhouse Team Member
Hannah is thrilled to join the Powerhouse Planning team as a guest services manager. With a five-year background in different marketing roles, mostly in cybersecurity and B2B networking, she is excited to pivot her skill set to be more customer oriented. Along with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and cognitive science, Hannah also holds a master’s degree in marketing and management from the University of Virginia.
Hannah is based out of the Charlottesville, Virginia area, although she has spent the last year traveling with her husband and cat in their self-converted school bus RV! After visiting 20 states and 25 national parks, she is excited to be back on the East Coast.
Coming from a military family herself, Hannah has always had a love of travel and hopes to continue to explore new places, both in her bus and via plane.
When she’s not hiking or checking out new landmarks, Hannah likes to read, pick up any and every craft, and try new foods and drinks.
New Powerhouse Team Member
Janice is very excited to join the Powerhouse team as a guest service manager. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer science as well as digital media and web technology. Additionally, she holds an associate degree in chemistry. Janice has many years of experience in customer service as well as data and property management. She feels she can contribute her great skills in assisting the team. Janice is a military spouse with three beautiful children. Over the past 12 years, she has lived with her family in four different countries around the world. During free time, she loves to travel and bake.
New Powerhouse Team Member
Melissa is overjoyed to join the Powerhouse team as an office administrator. Having found success in team sports, she feels like she can contribute her energetic, loyal, and organized self in assisting with all the needs of the admin team. With over 15 years of customer service-based roles, she has found that leading with a positive attitude, being willing to take on any task, and always giving your best will lead to success! Raised in Oregon, she earned a B.S. in sociology while playing for the University of Oregon Division I women’s soccer team. Shortly after graduating, she married her husband, a newly commissioned Marine Corps pilot. After stops in San Diego and Corpus Christi, they landed in New England, where they currently reside with three active children. Melissa has over 20 years of milspouse experience with several different branches—the Marine Corps, Navy, Marine Corps Reserve, and currently Air National Guard. If Melissa had free time, she would love to be hiking outside or enjoying a freshly squeezed margarita.
Powerhouse Planning Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Powerhouse Planning Celebrates 10th Anniversary
If you have followed Powerhouse Planning for any length of time, chances are you know two things about us: We are a totally remote team solution, meeting our clients at their point of need, and we love to celebrate our clients’ successes, big and small. So, naturally, we wanted to celebrate our own 10-year anniversary—and in a spectacularly atypical way for us. For the first time ever, we met in person!
Yes, you read that right. Over our anniversary weekend, we met in Tampa, Florida for a whirlwind of in-person activities and fun, from our kickoff on Friday evening with a Zoom-attire-themed cocktail hour and a team photo in support of R.E.D. (more…)
New Powerhouse Team Member
Ashleigh Messmer is delighted to join the Powerhouse team as a client care manager. With six years of experience in the hospitality industry, she is looking forward to using her customer service skills in a remote setting.
Ashleigh currently resides in central Maryland. She graduated with a B.S. in communication studies and a minor in business administration from Frostburg State University. She has since worked as an executive assistant and manager in a variety of small business settings including a bakery, wedding venue, and property management company. As a five-year military spouse, she knows the importance of multitasking, problem-solving, and developing true, authentic connections with those she interacts with. Ashleigh strives to apply these skills to her professional work and is excited to bring these qualities to her work with Powerhouse Planning.
When Ashleigh isn’t running around with her toddler, she loves to work out, watch Marvel movies with her husband, take day trips to Washington, D.C., and drink far too much coffee.
New Powerhouse Team Member
We are thrilled to welcome Randi Cairns back to Powerhouse Planning! Randi is a former (20+-year) military spouse and a national advocate for military families. She’s a nonprofit professional who has dedicated over three decades to advocating for vulnerable populations. She’s also the owner of Randi Cairns Consulting, where she provides nonprofit and small business consulting and freelance writing and editing services. Her favorite title? Proud mama of four of the world’s greatest military kids who she hopes will always have a passion for learning and a heart for changing the world for the better.
New Powerhouse Team Member
Kate is incredibly excited to join the Powerhouse team as a graphic designer. She has six years of experience working in fast-paced agency settings and is looking forward to bringing her skills to this remote creative team. Along with her bachelor’s degree in graphic design, Kate holds a master’s degree in project management. She has a creative eye for detail as well as efficiency and process improvement.
Kate was born and raised in South Florida and then moved to Alaska after graduating college. She quickly fell in love with the mountains. Kate enjoys anything that will get her outside—hiking, camping, gardening, photography, and archery. On any given night, you can find her watching the sun set over the farmer’s field behind her house in Oklahoma. Kate’s husband, Noah, is an active-duty Air Force pilot. They have two huskies that bring much joy, and fur, into their lives.
