Frédéric Sola - Founder and Owner of Fez's Riad Laaroussa and Fez Real Estate
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Frédéric Sola shares his journey to mental health stability and his love for Fez, where he established Riad Laaroussa.
On this episode of the podcast, we're joined by Frédéric Sola, the founder and owner of Fez's Riad Laaroussa and Fez Real Estate. In our conversation, Fred shares his one way ticket journey to mental health stability which manifested in Fez. He opens up about his own experience suffering from depression -- which began in his mid 30s amidst a successful career in finance in London and Paris – and how he has worked to live with and manage it all these years later. He went on to describe how he fell in love with Fez on his first visit in 2003, so much so, that he bought Riad Laaroussa in 2005. After 18 months of intensive renovations on the 17 th century structure whose past life included serving as a koranic school, he opened the riad as a hotel-spa-restaurant in October 2006. It is, what I describe as, "Morocco meets minimalist chic". For Fred, the allure of Fez is not only visceral, but therapeutic. He offers that in Fez "you can feel this medieval atmosphere, a feeling of being surrounded by a cocoon. Or being in a cocoon. Or let's say a riad can create the feeling of a cocoon." After settling into his new surroundings, in 2007, Fred met his future wife, Cathy Bellafronto, an…
People in this episode
Host: Steven Shalowitz
Guest: Frédéric Sola
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Riad Laaroussa, Fez Real Estate
Places: Fez, Morocco
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