“Months of planning,” Austin tells us, talking about her most recent spectacle. “Then at the event it's like this adrenaline is still running... It's crazy.” She takes a breath. “We spend so much time planning these events, and then they're all done in three hours.”
“So the whole events planning thing is really close to my skill set. I was a bar manager for a long time. I was a bartender. I did all of the work. I was a server, and I just love the hospitality aspect of it. So the trade events and the distributor events and all of that stuff is one of my favorite parts of the job.”
“I was speaking to a colleague, Jaime, the ambassador from Milagro Tequila, and I'm like, ‘I can't believe we spent so much time planning this. So many conference calls, so much budget and everything.’ But it's so worth it.” She pauses, and a smile creeps into her voice. “It was so much fun, though. Did you have fun?”
We did. It’s impossible not to have fun at an event if the ambassador has done her job as well as Camille has done hers. We tell her we’re working on the Breakthru marketing team, and that we’re profiling women in the industry, like her.
“Awesome,” she says, and “I love it.” Her positivity isn’t a put-on, or a learned aspect of her professional life. Words like “Fantastic” and “Awesome” fall from her the way “uh” and “um” escape the rest of us.
“Very cool,” she says after we tell her our premise. “I've been on the brand for three and a half years. I actually started on the brand because I used to be a bar manager and a bartender, and I was the go-to person for events with Milagro. I've had a relationship with them for seven years, and very good friends with Jaime and the old ambassador. And I know the founders of Milagro really well, and they are part owners of Montelobos. So the opportunity to start Montelobos came through those relationships. I'm also Mexican American, so it's just a really good fit all around. I've had a blast.”