Meet Joanie Veage
Private Service Professional, Founder of Bespoke Homes and Estates
I am Joanie Veage, and it’s my genuine pleasure to offer you a thoughtful, nourishing experience through Bespoke Homes and Estates. Whether you’re seeking estate support managing your household’s rhythms, or curated meal prep, retreat catering, kitchen gardening, you’re in the right hands.
My philosophy is rooted in care, customization, and consistency. I believe food is medicine, memories, and connection all at once, and that your home should be your sanctuary. With a background in longevity and estate management, my goal is to simplify your life while elevating your everyday.
Favorite task at work?
Bespoke services tailored to the unique needs, requests, and preferences of my principal or guests.
A tool you swear by?
Handheld, cordless blower
Most memorable project?
Being part of my principal’s dream home—from the ground up, an 18-month journey from new build to move-in, creating the most spectacular intercoastal home and sanctuary.
If I wasn’t in the private service industry, I’d be…
In the hospitality industry. “Inn Keeper.”
Preferred way to stay organized?
Google Drive, coupled with my color-coded weekly/monthly journal, and a few digital display boards across multiple departments, teams, and dwellings.
Career advice in 5 words or less?
Team Work Is Dream Work
First job?
Multiple roles within a fine hotel.
How do you start your day?
Review of my estate’s calendar of events in their entirety.
Most-used app at work?
Chrome
A skill you’re improving?
AI
Ideal day?
All is well.
Most challenging aspect of your job?
Natural disaster and wildlife management.
Best part of the private service community?
Camaraderie and continued education.
What’s your biggest time-saver?
Create practical, meaningful solutions that fit into your principal’s life and estate effortlessly.
Best advice you’ve received?
The Four Agreements: Show up, pay attention, do your best work, don’t take anything personally.
Paper or digital?
Digital
Early bird or night owl?
Early bird
A skill every estate management professional needs?
Heightened sense of awareness and intuition
Favorite place?
Green landscape, water everywhere.
What’s your focus this year?
A successful, sustainable career for years to come—and the higher good of all I support.
