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I want to talk about the dark side of private service that no one talks about. Since there are so many nondisclosure agreements out there that it’s hard to discuss much of what goes on behind the scenes and someone’s home, as it should be. But reports came out last week about Kobe Bryant‘s widow Vanessa Bryant winning another lawsuit against the photographers who took those pictures of the crash site. All I can say about that is that it is got to be a horrific nightmare to live through you and your children revisiting those images in the news. I send my most heartfelt condolences to everyone involved is tragic story.
But I can’t stop thinking about the other tragic story no one talks about. That is the story of the pilot’s family. The pilot who flew the helicopter with those people and children to that basketball game that Saturday morning in Calabasas. I can’t help but think how tragic it is to be a survivor of someone directly involved in that type of tragedy. I’m disturbed about the fact that as private service professionals know, I’m including the private pilot in this category; there’s absolutely no one that would have said "No" to flying Kobe Bryant that morning - aside from the weather reports, aside from any sort of knowledge that that person gained over his flying career, we know as PSPs, that if he had said “Hey, it’s not a good idea to fly this morning,” that not only would someone have stepped in a heartbeat to fly them to the basketball game in that helicopter, the pilot probably would have lost his job and maybe his career that had taken years to reach a point where he could fly an A-Listers like Kobe anywhere he wanted to go, any time he wanted to get there.
So, the dark side of private service is that we live in a say-yes culture, and I think the rest of the world doesn’t know is that logic, common knowledge, and boundaries do not apply when you work for people of that level of wealth. And it’s not likely that Kobe asked him to ignore the weather or common logic. It’s just that the end goal was to get them to the basketball game in whatever way possible, which was the helicopter.
So I would say to wealthy homeowners who live in the real world (I’m assuming that is why you’re listening to this podcast), be human. Be smart. And realize that in the bigger picture of life, private service professionals should be more highly valued, understood, and acknowledged as the professionals they are. They didn’t reach your doorstep by being a subpar candidate. They just didn’t. Many private service professionals have years and years of experience in what we call the say-yes culture and some very surreal circumstances, and there’s nothing more surreal than understanding that when you’re hired to do a job for an A-list, ultra-high-net-worth individual, that is the task at hand. And if you aren’t willing to do that tasks, someone else will step in and do it for you.
That’s what I have today. I wanted to highlight something that probably no one else is talking about. An awareness of the fact that even if you think you are low-need or a low-touch principle, or homeowner, and that your needs don’t in any way, shape, or form compare to the needs of Kobe Bryant or any other millionaire or billionaire, there a cost to be paid in a say-yes culture.
So I’ll just end on this note. Let’s all be human and value each other for the worth we bring to the table, regardless of our finances. Everyone’s lives matter.
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