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Wedding Industry Insider Podcast

WII 189 – Dana Kadwell Has Wedding Planning Down to a Science

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Dana Kadwell on the inspiration for her company Hustle & Gather, which helps wedding and event pros better run their businesses

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What happens when a scientist becomes a wedding planner? They operate with strong SOPs and make decisions based on data. Today on Wedding Industry Insider, we’re talking about how you can run your business like a scientist.

Our guest Dana Kadwell has a degree in chemistry and physics, and a background in education. Still, when she changed careers to wedding planning, she had problems finding balance. Her son’s early life is a blur because she was so busy. She got burnt out as her business grew. And in Dana’s words, her business became her god. 

But it didn’t stay that way.

During this heartfelt interview, Dana is walking us through her journey as a wedding planner and the changes she made to find balance and joy in her business. And a lot of it comes down to science. 

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[The Wedding Planner Edit] 6 Ways to Level Up During Booking Season

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Booking season tips for wedding planners

 

Hey wedding planners, the Timeline Genius team is here to give our hot takes and expert-driven opinions on the issues facing today’s wedding pros. This month, we’re getting into the trenches of booking season and helping you level up during this wild time of year. 

Booking Season for Wedding Planners

During January and February, most of you wedding planners are falling into one of two camps:

You’re really busy and just trying to plow through booking season, and you can’t imagine doing anything during this time except just getting through it. 

OR

You’re twiddling your thumbs, wondering where the bookings are. Sure, leveling up sounds good, but you’re too caught up in the worry of a slow season. 

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WII 172 – Tracey Jazmin on Mindset Habits That Pay Off

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Tracey Jazmin talks about mindset for wedding pros

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High stakes, perfectionism, packed schedules – it’s all part of owning a wedding planning business, but it’s also unsustainable. So how do you handle the pressures of wedding entrepreneurship without facing burnout and stress?

The answer from this week’s Wedding Industry Insider Podcast: mindset. 

If you’ve listened for a while, you know this is one of Eddie’s favorite topics. You’ll hear Eddie mention mindset repeatedly, but we rarely get to dig deep into this essential concept. But today, we’re dedicating our entire episode to mindset so you can harness its power for your wedding planning business. 

And to help guide us through this valuable conversation, we’ve got Tracey Jazmin with us. Tracey is a holistic business and mindset coach who specializes in helping women business owners, including wedding pros and creative entrepreneurs.

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WII 161 – Amber Anderson on the Cost of Busyness

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Amber Anderson and Eddie Babbage on the Wedding Industry Insider Podcast

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What commitments did you make during Covid? 

Maybe you vowed to change the way you ran your wedding planning business. Or, maybe the pandemic inspired you to start your business. 

Now, 5 years after shutdowns began, have you lost sight of the lessons you learned during that difficult time? 

This week on Wedding Industry Insider, Amber Anderson and Eddie Babbage are talking about busyness, overwork, and what it means for our success. Amber is the owner of Refine for Wedding Planners, an educational resource and community for planners, and she’s urging us all to “break up with busy” and create a business that works for you. 

As Amber says, many of us made a commitment in 2020: “As I re-enter the world, I’m going to re-enter it intentionally and with balance.”

But, also as Amber says: did we really do that? Or are you living in overwhelm?

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WII 156- Balancing Family & Ambition with Venue Coach Tirzah Caffee

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Can you really have it all? A thriving business and fulfilling family life? Today on Wedding Industry Insider, we’re talking about the challenges AND solutions for anyone trying to strike that work-life balance. 

And to get the best advice for you, we’re digging deep with venue coach Tirzah Caffee. During her 30 years managing venues, she’s seen the good, bad, and beautiful about working in the industry. 

Tirzah grew up living in a wedding venue and saw how misbalancing a family business caused her parents’ marriage to break down and caused Tirzah to miss out on some normal childhood experiences. But she also developed an incredible work ethic and became a legacy venue manager with a knack for entrepreneurship. 

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WII 131: Kate Murtaugh Embraces Community & Motherhood as a Wedding Planner

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Kate Murtaugh Interview

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Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of competition in your wedding market? If so, you’re not alone, but you’re also not stuck. 

Expert wedding planner Kate Murtaugh found success by viewing fellow planners as her community, not her “competition.”

Kate Murtaugh is the CEO and Creative Director of Kate Murtaugh Events & Design, an award-winning studio based in New England. Today on the Wedding Industry Insider Podcast, Kate shares her unique insight on how you can strengthen your business and your wedding market by embracing community over competition.

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WII 128 – Andrea Liebross on the ‘Messy Middle’ of Entrepreneurship

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You’re making strides in your wedding planning business, and it’s starting to look how you envisioned. But how does it feel?

Are you finding joy and balance in all aspects of your business?

Oftentimes, creative entrepreneurs see the profits they hoped for, get the bookings they wanted, and see growth in their business. But it feels off.

Maybe you’re burdened by the many roles you have to play as a business owner, or maybe there’s a feeling of guilt over the time you put into your work, or you simply feel stuck.

This is what Andrea Liebross calls the messy middle of entrepreneurship. Andrea is a life and business coach and author of “She Thinks Big: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide to Moving Past the Messy Middle and Into the Extraordinary.” She was kind enough to join us on this week’s episode to talk about this tough time that happens to most entrepreneurs.

The good news? It’s totally possible to move through this time and find the growth and freedom you envision for yourself (and your business!).

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WII 029: Heather Vickery Gives You Seven Steps to Achieve Work-Life Balance

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For the 29th episode of our Wedding Industry Insider podcast, I had the privilege of interviewing Heather Vickery, owner and success coach at Vickery & Co., based in Chicago.

Heather has been an entrepreneur for nearly 20 years. She began her career as a wedding and event planner, and she’s been formally coaching other creative entrepreneurs for four years. Heather is also an industry educator who teaches at the QC Event School and who leads workshops all over the United States.
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