An avid Olympic Games attendee and fan, my guest in this episode – Tiffany Assman Pope – identified a need while on sabbatical from her job in 2023 and began the process of doing her, her Olympic travelmate Kalyn, and Olympic attendees the world over, a huge solid.
Prior to her launch of the House Party Blog leading up to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, there was no single website fans traveling to the Games could turn to that attempted to collect, curate, and provide the inside scoop in a single language (in this case English) of the myriad Hospitality Houses that have become such a major part of the Games recently.
During my Conversation with Tiffany she explains how the idea just sort of came to her that day back in 2023 and how she proceeded to create something from nothing that’s led to thousands of connections worldwide.
And, as noted previously, Tiffany is a major Olympics’ fan. The 2026 Milano-Cortina Games will be her seventh attending in person, but the first for her 10-week-old daughter who’s making the trip from Vancouver to Milan with mom and dad.
We learn about her favorite Olympic memories which, unsurprisingly, include a few Hospitality House moments, and her sports fan bonafides in general (her mom was the impetus for her passionate fandom).
My Conversation with Tiffany is a wonderful way to kick off no fewer than a half dozen Olympics-centric episodes over the coming 17 days.