Trina Chaney- Hoo

In this episode, we sit down with Trina Chaney-Hoo. She shares how a long career in event planning grew into something bigger when her team kept outgrowing its space, eventually leading to the creation of Studio 1016 in West Palm Beach.

Trina describes herself as an event planner of 25 years, and the conversation makes clear that she still sees herself as a builder and conductor more than someone simply renting offices. Her event business, The Planning Company, continues to handle both local and destination work, while Studio 1016 has become a membership-driven creative space shaped by movement, flexibility, and community rather than a traditional quiet office model.

She also talks about the harder chapter during Covid, when the studio sat empty for a year and she had to reinvent how she worked and earned. That season pushed her to create virtual services, start a mobile notary concierge service, and begin developing a future retreat concept centered on stepping away, resetting, and realigning.

A big part of the episode explores her vision for retreats in Guatemala, especially around Lake Atitlan, and why she believes people need longer stretches of time away to truly disconnect. The conversation also covers partnership, planning, travel, phone dependence, and how meaningful experiences are often built by creating the right structure and then letting people discover things for themselves.