My First Season

Welcome everybody, my name is Greg and this is the first episode of the podcast, “My First Season”. In this podcast, I will be interviewing people who worked for resorts, hotels, cruise ship and airlines and we’ll talk uniquely about their first season in the travel and tourism industry.

My first guest is James "Joker" Cradle from Boston. Joker and I worked together before in Club Med Lindeman Island in 2000/2001, briefly in Club Med Punta Cana in 2003 and then in Club Med Cancun in 2004/2005. In this episode we talk about James's first season in 1997 in Club Med Cancun as an au pair Village/Village G.O. Listen as Joker shares a story about trying to exit a gated community one early morning in downtown Cancun. Sit back and enjoy! Listen here or where ever you get your podcasts. **My First Season podcast has always been free to listen to. My First Season is available on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podbean App, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, TuneIn + Alexa, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Pandora and Listen Notes.

**There may be some terms you are hearing for the first time, so if the letters, "G.O." come up during the podcast, that stands for "Gentil Organisateur". This is a French term referring to Club Med employees who work in the resort. The guests who stay there are called G.M.'s or "Gentil Membres".