The Boca Raton
What happens when your retirement dream job turns out to be a nightmare?
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What is this True Crime Podcast about?
In 2021, an author and hairdresser moved from Chicago, Illinois, to Boca Raton, Florida, aiming to work at The Boca Raton in their salon. The new owners, The Northview Hotel Group and MSD Partners, invested over 200 million dollars to renovate this 5-star hotel, golf, and luxury spa property. However, they made a billion-dollar mistake!
Subsequently, that mistake, along with the lies and decisions made by The Northview Hotel Group and its managers, cost Jon-David his career, his livelihood, and his home.
This podcast is available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts. It is Season 3 of The Mafia Hairdresser Chronicles podcast.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Final Episode 5
This Non-Violent True Crime Podcast is part of The Mafia Hairdresser Chronicles and is available on most podcast apps.
The Non-Fiction Podcast that dares to take on Big-Business!
Furthermore, this Non-Fiction Podcast dares to challenge Big-Business! It was created to ensure that the company is held accountable not only for what they did to the author but also for the hundreds of other workers who were misled about their employment at this property.
Consequently, this podcast presents a non-fiction account of how The Boca Raton managers and the Northview Hotel Group deceitfully committed fraud against their members and employees. The author and narrator shares, in his own words, how the irresponsible decisions of one company, The Boca Raton LLC Northview Hotel Group, devastated many people’s lives.
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UPDATE: Why I Made Jon-David & Goliath
I spent my savings hiring lawyers to pursue my case against MSD Partners and The Boca Raton. But after taking my money, the lawyers began warning me about what I was really up against: litigation could require a great deal more money, and MSD Partners had vastly greater resources to keep a legal battle going until I was broke, broken and worn down.
So I walked away from the lawsuit.
But I didn’t walk away from the story.
Instead, I produced Jon-David & Goliath. In many ways, making the podcast became my therapy. If I couldn’t afford to spend years fighting this battle in court, I could document what happened to me and tell my story publicly.
I also knew that the ownership group was in the business of real-estate investment, and I believed The Boca Raton would eventually be put on the market. When the property was later offered for sale, I released the podcast.
In Jon-David & Goliath, I discuss issues I believe any prospective buyer should investigate carefully—including what I describe as rot and mold at the property, as well as my concerns about the land beneath portions of the resort and the potential costs associated with maintaining and improving such a massive historic property.
Years later, The Boca Raton remains under the same ownership.
Do I believe my podcast had something to do with the property not being sold?
Yes, I do.
Can I prove that?
No.
But there is an enormous difference between saying “I know my podcast stopped the sale” and saying “I told my story publicly, I raised questions I believed prospective buyers deserved to hear, and the property didn’t sell.”
And I have no intention of taking the podcast down.
Now, as the ownership explores residential and condominium development connected with The Boca Raton, my story remains online for employees, members, prospective residents, investors—and anyone else who wants to hear what one former employee says happened behind the gates of one of America’s most famous luxury resorts.
That is why I made Jon-David & Goliath.
Listen to the podcast. Hear the evidence and the story. Then make up your own mind.
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This original, humorous podcast gained popularity organically, primarily through word of mouth!
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Episode 00: Trailer
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How I Killed My Mother is about mothers and sons, complicated family relationships, guilt, grief, forgiveness, and what happens when we finally confront the stories we’ve spent a lifetime telling ourselves.
Start here. Then listen to Episode 01 of How I Killed My Mother.
