{"id":465228,"date":"2026-06-07T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:26:09","slug":"ultrawealthy-clients-pay-me-150000-a-year-to-manage-their-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465228\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultrawealthy Clients Pay Me $150,000 a Year to Manage Their Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Erica Jackowitz, who runs the New York and Aspen-based lifestyle management company Roman &amp; Erica alongside her husband, Roman Chiporukha. This story has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>As a <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hamptons-rush-staffing-summer-homes-nannies-chefs-estate-managers-2026-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lifestyle management<\/a> company, we handle all facets of our clients&#8217; leisure, including their travels, homes, yachts, planes, cars, and social events.<\/p>\n<p>If it relates to their leisure at all, we handle it, whether it&#8217;s traveling for their kids&#8217; hockey tournament, throwing a dinner party at home, or a <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/expedition-cruise-arctic-circle-full-daylight-polar-bears-2024-9\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vacation to the Arctic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re essentially a personal assistant to all things leisure. Our clients pay upward of $150,000 a year and have access to Roman and me directly, 24\/7. We represent about 10-12 families at a time. We have to keep it super exclusive and limited so I can make sure I can answer a client&#8217;s call at 8 p.m. on a Saturday night. Our ethos is always so that clients feel like they&#8217;re the only one.<\/p>\n<p>We have really deep connections with our clients and really try to understand who they are and what their needs are. I know what they want for their children&#8217;s birthday party, how they want to have dinner, and what they should order. I know who will deliver the best flowers and how to send unique, customized gifts to their friends and family, and how to manage their miles.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"lazy-image \" encoding=\"UTF-8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs=\"{&quot;https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a2354c72ab5f9757add9ce0&quot;:{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;aspectRatioW&quot;:1200,&quot;aspectRatioH&quot;:1600}}\" alt=\"Erica on a trip with her clients in the Arctic\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Erica Jackowitz with her clients on a trip she organized to the Arctic, using Starlink internet to rebook their flights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Roman &amp; Erica<\/p>\n<p>What we offer is better allocation of resources. Instead of a client spending seven hours trying to figure out what they should do and where they should <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chez-janou-paris-restaurant-review-2024-9\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eat in Paris<\/a>, we do it for them. They&#8217;re running major companies, and they&#8217;re busy people. We also advocate for them. Unlike a traditional travel agent whose bottom line is based on commission, we&#8217;re salary-based.<\/p>\n<p>We are there to help people style their own lives and make it seamless, so at the end of the day, they can show up to the lives they&#8217;ve built and not have to spend the time planning.<\/p>\n<p>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image topic-image\" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/655d472622cf74a5739b4aff.jpeg\" alt=\"Kelsey Vlamis's face on gray background.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-sm-subtle body\">\n                                    Every time Kelsey publishes a story, you&#8217;ll get an alert straight to your inbox!\n                                <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-sm-subtle body-sm\">\n                                    Stay connected to Kelsey and get more of their work as it publishes.\n                                <\/p>\n<p>                  Everyday is different<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have a list of all the things I need to achieve the next day, and by the time I open my eyes in the morning, that list is usually not what transpires. That&#8217;s what I love about what I do.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/new-york-knicks-nba-finals-tickets-citi-corporate-hospitality-2026-6\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Knicks<\/a> have really taken over our phone, with people calling to adjust their travel itineraries to be here in New York for this moment. Last week, a client had a four-hour delay at JFK, which meant he was going to miss the private plane that was meeting him in <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/travel-southeast-asia-worst-best-cities-thailand-laos-vietnam-malaysia-2025-10\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Southeast Asia<\/a>. Reallocating all those logistics kept me up all night. This morning, I got a call from a client who wants me to plan a &#8220;Back to New York&#8221; party in September for their friends and family when everyone returns from their summers away from the city.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most unique requests I got was last year. I was at a party in Capri, and I got a phone call from a client whose friends were stuck in the middle of the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/went-on-trip-date-cruise-stranger-brought-us-closer-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mediterranean Sea<\/a> on a yacht with a group of people they were not comfortable with. The client called and said, &#8220;Save my friends. Get them off this boat.&#8221; We sent a helicopter out there and got them off the boat. It was bananas. We actually refer to it today with the client as the rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of requests are more related to daily life, like a last-minute <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-to-land-restaurant-reservations-tips-for-dining-out-2022-9\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dinner reservation<\/a> at a hot restaurant in another city. I&#8217;ve rented full carnivals for clients just for &#8220;Sunday fun day,&#8221; with water slides, slip-and-slides, bouncy houses, as well as pizza, taco, and candy trucks.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"lazy-image \" encoding=\"UTF-8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs=\"{&quot;https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a235408b4fb977f35985128&quot;:{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;aspectRatioW&quot;:600,&quot;aspectRatioH&quot;:800}}\" alt=\"Roman &amp; Erica founders at a cabana overlooking the sea\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Erica Jackowitz, pictured here with her husband, said she spends her summers in Europe because that&#8217;s where most of her clients spend the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Roman &amp; Erica<\/p>\n<p>You need to have the resources to make all that happen, and we do. Our clients are used to on-demand services whenever they want and however they want.<\/p>\n<p>I love solving hard problems<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually a lawyer by education, but as a child I was one of those people that if someone told me something was impossible, doing it was my adrenaline rush. It was my high. I&#8217;d be like, &#8216;Well, I&#8217;m going to make that happen.&#8221; If someone told me something was sold out, I would find a way to source it even if I didn&#8217;t need it.<\/p>\n<p>What I do for a living is an extension of my own lifestyle and my passion for travel, restaurants, and good food. I don&#8217;t have a boundary between what is my lifestyle and what is my work because they blend with everything I do.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family say to me all the time, &#8220;Erica, you&#8217;re never not working.&#8221; I say, &#8220;Well, this is my lifestyle, so there&#8217;s no separation between my work and my actual life.&#8221; I was just smart enough to turn my passion in this lifetime into my career.<\/p>\n<p>We spend the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/europe-summer-travel-americans-economic-uncertainty-2025-6\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">summer in Europe<\/a> because that&#8217;s where the bulk of our clients spend their summers, so it&#8217;s easier for us to be onsite in the time zone. I just turn a hotel cabana into my office.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, I dreamed about that being the case, but in the past couple of years it&#8217;s been actualized. It&#8217;s incredible to be able to actually say, &#8220;I live in Europe over the summers, and that&#8217;s part of my job.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Erica Jackowitz, who runs the New York and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-465228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}