September 24, 2024 ⢠36 mins
n this episode, we sit down with the founders of Bach Boss, Avery Singer and Lauren Jolie Golub. Bach Boss is a thriving bachelorette planning service, and Avery and Lauren join us for an in-depth conversation about the joys and challenges of entrepreneurship. We dive into their personal journey of starting a business, working with friends, and carving out a unique niche in the wedding space.Â
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi guys and welcome back to.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Confessions of a Wannabe.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
It Girl.
Right now I'm probably zoomingaround Europe.
I went to celebrate a weddingand.
I just decided I needed a fewweeks off, but, as you know, I
am deep in my bridal era and Ithought what better than to take
a look back on anotherwedding-centric episode?
So we're diving into theepisode with Avery Singer and
(00:22):
Jolie Lauren Glob from BatchBoss.
We're talking all aboutplanning bachelorettes, giving
the tea on Batch Boss.
This episode is from back whenBatch Boss launched a few years
ago two years ago and this waslike their launch week, so it's
crazy to see how much they'vegrown.
So if you're planning abachelorette for yourself, or
maybe you're the maid of honor,let's dive in.
(00:53):
Welcome to Confessions of aWannabe it Girl.
I'm your host, Marley Fregging,and I'm here to help you filter
out all the bullshit and becomethe next it Girl.
This podcast explores thereality of what it really takes
to make it out there.
As it turns out, it is way lessInstagrammable than I thought
it was going to be.
I'm still very much a work inprogress, but there's simply
nothing else I'd rather be doingthan chasing my dreams.
So let's learn from my mistakesand work together to achieve
(01:15):
our dreams with more confidence,clarity and direction.
Let's get after it.
Welcome, Jolie and Avery, theco-founders of Batch Boss.
Thank you guys so much forbeing here.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm so excited to have you guys on.
But first of all, hugecongratulations.
Amazing launch Both nowfull-time co-bosses of this
business.
That is a huge feat.
How are you guys feeling aboutthat?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah Well, I mean, avery's story is a huge feat.
How are you guys feeling aboutthat?
Yeah Well, I mean, every storyis a little bit different, but
for me personally, I've been inthe corporate world since I
graduated.
I was in tech sales for a longtime and then I recently gave my
two weeks notice because BatchBoss is obviously going to take
off and dominate the space.
So my last day at my corporatejob was this past weekend, on
Friday, and today, waking up ona Monday, not reporting to a
(02:09):
boss and logging on with Averyand figuring out our to-dos for
today, was so different, but inthe best way possible.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Literally boss Goals.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Batch boss, boss yeah .
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Batch boss, boss, I can't even say that.
There you go.
Say it 10 times fast, though,but huge congrats.
And Avery, how are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm so excited, julie and I, how we got the idea.
Actually we're co-maid ofhonors planning our best friends
Bachelorette and we've heardjust crazy stories and I'm sure
you've experienced some Marleyof like going to a bachelorette
trip.
Nothing is organized, budgetingis not taken.
You know, it's amazing.
Everyone wants certain things,but now it's become these three
day long weekends, right Like Ijust got back from Vegas, julie
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and I are going to one in Miamiin two weeks and it's just how
nice would it be.
Like we realized it was kind oflike a full-time job to plan a
bachelorette and we were like wewere kind of good at this,
should we make this ourfull-time thing?
And it's just kind of taken offreally, since, like we had the
idea maybe in November, openedup the LLC at the end of
December, launched end ofJanuary.
(03:17):
Two months later Jolie put inher two weeks and we both are
going full-time.
And it's just amazing becausenot only is it a big deal for
Jolie but it's a big deal for metoo that we're both kind of two
feet in and we've alreadydominated so much in two months.
So I can't wait to see whatwe're going to be doing one year
later.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I want to go back a little bit and like let's talk
about the origin of your guys'friendship.
You two were roommates.
How'd you meet All that jazz?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So it was actually through a mutual friend.
The way that it started is mycollege roommate is Avery's best
friend from growing up.
I grew up in the New Yorksuburbs so my parents ended up,
when I went to college, movingback into the city.
They did like the opposite ofwhat most parents do and they
coincidentally moved intoAvery's mom, ramona Singer's
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building on the Upper East Side.
So when I would come home fromschool you know normal people go
home and do like ThanksgivingEve with their home friends and
like go out.
I wasn't going home to myhometown, I was going home to
Manhattan.
So I would go out with mycollege roommate, who was
friends with Avery from growingup, and that's how Avery and I
met.
And when we graduated, ourfriend group all lived at home
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for a year, like a lot of peopledo.
After graduating.
Our home was the Upper EastSide.
So we all were on the UpperEast Side like going out,
hanging out.
And then when we decided it wastime to move downtown, avery
and I are like okay, we need tobe roommates.
We just vibed so hard.
So we looked for largeapartments and we ended up
moving to the Lower East Sidetogether and that's like Avery's
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favorite part of the story,because I can't even explain to
you how tiny this room was Like.
I'm not exaggerating when Itell you that if you stretched
your hands out, you could feelthe walls.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So Avery and I it was a partitioned room.
Yeah, we shared a room with afake wall because, as we know,
in New York city like apartmentsare so small in general and we
really wanted to be in like afour bedroom apartment because
we were four girls, but someonehad to split the half of a room
and I was like I'm willing to doit to be with you, julie, like
(05:21):
I love you, you love me, and nowwe're kind of business partners
.
But we literally had this roomtogether.
We had a bathroom shuffle.
She would cook lunch for me, Iwould clean.
You know, like we've reallydone it all at this point.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
We also had a roach problem in that apartment.
So I feel like if we canconquer the roaches, we can
conquer anything.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I wasn't scared of the roaches, but you know some
girls are.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And what made you guys want to do this transition
of working from someone else?
Creating your ownentrepreneurial path to becoming
the boss is literally a badboss.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, I think that for me, growing up watching my
mom, is super entrepreneurial,has always worn a lot of hats,
has done a lot of differentbusinesses.
I've always kind of had thatentrepreneurial spirit as a
result of her, and the goal wasalways to be my own boss in some
way.
I didn't think it was going tobe at 27.
But I also never thought Iwould be living in Chicago or
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lived in Austin or like did allthese weird things.
So it's just part of my pathand I couldn't be more excited
to not report to anyone otherthan myself and Jolie.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I would say for me, I honestly never thought
I'd be an entrepreneur.
I never really minded being incorporate, but I think when you
get the taste of somethingthat's better, it's hard to go
backwards.
And when we started working onBatchBoss I really just fell in
love with it.
I realized I was really good atmanaging myself in terms of
just time management, in termsof being efficient, being
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profitable.
I just realized how muchpotential this business had and
I think the final push wasrealizing that if we were doing
this well with me not even beingin it full time, how well are
we going to do?
If I jump in two feet and giveit my all, I just think we're
going to continue to grow andaccelerate.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I love that.
So you guys mentioned that youguys were co-mayor honors doing
all these bachelor.
How did the idea come to youthat the service was really
needed for somebody else, like athird party, to step in and
help these men and women?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, I think that's a we me being from the finance
world.
I was working in finance forfive years and I pivoted to tech
after.
I was like Julie, let's run anExcel spreadsheet of different
pricing for rooms and situations.
And Julie and I we work reallywell together and just like ping
pong off each other.
And I was like, wow, we're sogood at this.
(07:42):
And Julie was like, should wemake this a business?
It was one of those passingcomments.
I just like, wow, we're so goodat this.
And Jolie was like, should wemake this a business?
It was one of those passingcomments.
I just said, yeah, sure, notreally thinking anything of it
at the time.
But then when Jolie like wetalk obviously every day, and
when we were catching up on howour day was going the next day,
she was like so let's talk aboutthe business.
And I just kind of like keptgoing with it.
And then I did some researchmyself and realized that there's
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not that much competition inthis space.
It's a really needed marketright now, especially as we're
talking about these longthree-day weekends.
Before, when my mom had herbachelorette, it was just a
dinner in New York City.
Now you're going to Cabo orTulum, or Austin or wherever.
We're planning one in Lake Comoright now.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I think it's also underrated how much this is
needed.
I mean, you should hear some ofthese calls that we're on with
the brides or with the maid ofhonors, and people are so
grateful to have a service likethis.
So trips are becoming super,super luxe nowadays and budget
tends to be a major concernacross all friend groups that we
speak with.
And I think that it's reallyimportant to have a third party
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who's not necessarily in thefriend group, because budget
conversations are so awkward,like no one wants to be that
person, no one wants to do it,no.
So I think it's so importantthat we can step in and we can
assess, like, what are the mostimportant parts of this trip?
Is it getting a table at a club?
Is it doing a yacht day?
Is it staying in a five-starhotel or getting a villa, like?
We can really help distinguishwhat's going to be most
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important and then help dividethat budget.
And then the other reallyimportant part is, by using our
services, it really ends uppaying for itself.
Because of these partnershipswe've established, we're able to
give our clients steepdiscounts on like clubs and
bottle service and yachts, so weend up saving them a lot of
money and the swag.
Yeah, and the swag you know wehave great swag partners, so I
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think there's just a huge needand there was a gap in the
market.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Right, well, and like also, I think about you know,
the first one is so fun and thenthe third and fourth are kind
of like burnt out and like beinglike oh no, I have to deal with
all these factors again of blah, blah, blah, not wanting to do
this and blah, blah, blah budget.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's a full time job, like we joke, like basically
what we say is it's a full timejob, planning this a
bachelorette.
We're making it our full-timejob.
So don't worry, we're your bestfriends that you didn't know,
that you needed, that are goingto avoid fights for you in
advance.
We've had brides joke beinglike can you be in my
bachelorette party or can you beone of my bridesmaids?
(10:11):
Because I'm sick of mybridesmaids now.
So I think it's just one ofthose things where we know and
have been to a lot of places andwe're using our superpower,
which is networking, knowingwhere to travel, where to stay
and these are like our favoritethings to do, that it doesn't
feel like work.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh, I love that because I think the best quote
about entrepreneurship is dosomething you love and you'll
never work a day in your lifeand it's like, yes, we go
through ups and downs of it, butwhen you're passionate about it
and you're into the things thatyou're doing, I think that's so
inspiring for other women tohear you can find work that
makes you feel that way.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I 100% agree with that.
I relate to that so muchbecause there were points where
I'd wake up in the morning and Iwould think, like it's just
like another day of reporting tothe man.
We're like now, when youactually run your own business,
you care about it so much morebecause it's your money on the
line, it's your time on the line, like it's not the company's,
it's yours, so you care way moreabout it.
(11:10):
So obviously you're going towork 10 times harder to make
sure that it succeeds, becausefailure just isn't an option
when it's your own company.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
We literally have like a sticky note of like,
different, like phrases andfailure is not an option, is
like huge in caps.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Love that, because failure is just like to me.
A doesn't really exist and youhave to just keep pushing past
it, Because if you keep pushingpast, it's just teaching you
lessons.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
We're really big on mindset, so totally agree with
that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's a very it girl mindset, I think is like
believing like you're just goingto keep going until you get
there.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So Jolie and I we have written in our, we have a
shared sticky notes and we havea bunch of quotes, and one of
the quotes is failure is not anoption, and I think that it's
really important for people thatwant to start a business or
want to do something.
People will always message andask the right time to move or
switch careers.
There is no right time.
If there was a right time,everyone would be doing it, and
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I like feel so passionate aboutthis.
As you can tell, I'm getting alittle like worked up and pumped
, but it's one of those thingswhere it's just like go for it
two feet in if you can.
And the one thing like I'm justthinking of like an abundance
mindset, right, like I alwaysthink that you know, I got laid
off from my tech job.
We had this idea, and sometimesthe highest highs will come
(12:29):
from low moments, right, and soit's like you got to hit the
bottom and you can only go upfrom there, and I think that
most of my like the best ideasor the best decisions I've done
have been from having likereally lows.
I love that because I thinkpeople can get really stuck when
they hit a low or you knowsomething that I write and like
I truly believe is like nothingis more fearful than being
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stagnant, like that's like youalways got to keep it moving in
different ways, because thenwhat's the point of life?
There's so much to do and liveand experience that it becomes
mundane and like a hamster wheelif you're not doing something
different.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh yeah, I couldn't agree more.
When I feel like I'm in thoseplaces, I feel restless because
it's like what's happening.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You always got to put yourself to be uncomfortable,
because that's how you grow.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Right, and if you're not uncomfortable like like
that's why you don't, but I dothink about that, like you don't
want to mess it up you getliterally one chance to have
your bachelorette.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I mean hopefully we'll see Very true, Very true.
Yeah, I mean, like, for a lotof these brides, like it's, it's
such a special experience.
I mean really for every singlebride.
But the whole wedding process,when you think about your shower
, your engagement, your proposal, the actual wedding, the
honeymoon, like these are allevents that I'd say a lot of
like little girls dream aboutforever.
So when they're thinking aboutwhen it actually becomes time
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for your bachelorette, sometimesit can be a bit underwhelming
when you actually start to planit and there's fighting over a
budget and there's people notpicking up the slack and there's
nothing good available and itbecomes kind of sad.
I, admittingly, am like one ofthose girls that cries every
year on my birthday.
I don't know why.
I always just want it to bebetter than it is and I
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definitely cried like everynight on my bachelorette.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I'm pretty sure, Like even though it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I just think people have like ideas of what they
want it to be, and I think wehad a service, like even when we
were doing mine.
I think it would have beeninsane.
You know, avery and I areliterally making these
experiences insane for thesegirls, like handling absolutely
everything where they don't evenhave to think about it, even
like the transportation orderingice for the boat, like just
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literally everything magic isthere.
Exactly it just makes it so easyand like you're guaranteed to
have incredible time because,especially even if your friends
are stressed out, you're goingto read off that energy.
If you're a maid of honor isstressed out dropping a bunch of
cash or super busy texting ontheir phone the whole time
trying to coordinate like it'snot as fun, like you want a
third party to come in and makeit amazing for the group.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So let's talk about that.
How does this process start?
I know you guys start with anintro call and then what happens
for those who want to work withyou guys.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, the process is really seamless.
So basically you can either DMus, shoot us an email at info at
batchbosscom or submit aninquiry on our website, which is
just batchbosscom.
After we receive that inquiry,we'll kind of field the
information to assess if thatperson's a good fit.
Regardless if they're a goodfit or not, we're going to reach
out and respond, but it justhelps us categorize who's most
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important in terms of ourfollow-ups and things like that
In terms of the clientexperience.
They will submit an inquiryemail or DM, receive an email
from the girls at Batch Boss.
I'm explaining the process andgiving them a link to our
information kit which basicallyhas everything they would need
to know as well as our pricingFrom there.
If they're interested in nextsteps, we send them our calendar
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link to book a call andtypically we'll do maybe like a
15 minute discovery call, justbasically asking about like
their dream bachelorette.
We ask them to kind of walk usthrough what their dream weekend
would look like, what are themost important parts to them and
, most importantly, do they havean idea of bud?
From there we have a sevenbusiness day turnaround time for
the initial draft of theiritinerary and then we plug and
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play with it.
From there, you know, we'll donumerous edits, we'll talk about
what makes sense, we'll add onactivities, we'll start talking
about decor.
Finally, the final process is,if they're in one of our higher
tiers, we handle all of thebookings, all of the
reservations, everything'slocked in, and we finalize it
with a super aestheticallypleasing, cute itinerary that
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they can distribute to theirfriends.
And that is how the processgoes down.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I love that.
Tell me all the things that youoffer of offer.
I know that there's merch, aswe mentioned.
We love merch and, like thetransport on-call concierge,
give us a rundown of the options.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, so there's three different tiers of service
because our goal is we cancater to really any budget.
We like to think of our servicefee as a baked in cost to your
experience.
So if that's with the flightand the Airbnb, whatever, that
is just our service fees kind ofincluded.
So it could be anywhere fromlike $50 a person to 125 plus.
(17:06):
If you're dividing that serviceamongst the group, which I
think overall is pretty fair,especially because it shouldn't
fall on one person to planeverything and like, if people
just share and split the mealsand all of that, what's the big
deal to just throw in $50 or$100 extra if you're spending
anywhere between?
We see people spending from$1,200 to $2,000 plus, right,
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per person, obviously.
Per person In terms of the tier.
So the first tier is theitinerary proposal.
So that essentially is we get alot of people where they want
to go to Cabo or Tulum or Austinand they've never been.
So it's just really helpful tojust get that like basic
itinerary information.
We're able to kind of plug andplay and help you in a lot of
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ways with the accommodations andstuff as well, but we do not
physically book anything for you.
Yeah, tier two we're seeing alot of tier twos and a lot of
tier threes.
So the tier two essentially,that's when we start booking
everything for you.
We get access to our batch bossdiscount vendors and we're able
to like, text our certainpartners or email for discounted
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you know people like those likeswag bags, those welcome bags
and all of those things, andthen really like tier three is a
big experience where we'regoing to help you with decor,
with our balloon people, withdecorating everything, with
making sure we can help stockthe Airbnb, help you with the
cars.
Literally, whatever you canimagine that you don't know you
need, we will be able to helpyou, and that's then.
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We're also on call as well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Wow, I love the range because, like, especially if
you're traveling so far you'venever been there.
How are you supposed to findwhere you could get somebody to
do decor?
That question has run throughmy mind a million times.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Exactly, and that's totally something that we handle
because we have partners in allof the major match cities.
So, basically, if you're a tierthree client, you're going to
Scottsdale.
You're like how the hell do Iorganize this?
How do I make my Airbnb lookcute?
We have partners in all thesedestinations.
So we'll go in stock the fridge, make the house or the hotel
room look adorable and handleall that for you.
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Because, again, that is anotherstress Having to get there in
the same group, if you're in thefriend group of the bride,
having to get there early, makethe bride wait outside while you
decorate the room.
It's so much better to show upand everything be done for you.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It seems very TikTok and Instagram perfect.
Something that is kind of maybecontradictory or we hear
conflicting advice about isworking with friends.
How do you guys manage workingtogether in this business?
I know you guys shared thatsticky note, you shared a wall,
but sometimes people say don'twork with friends.
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How do you guys manage it?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, definitely a fair question and it's something
that we really took a step backand I think it's really
important to have these painfulGo through, these questions that
no one really wants to answerand they're uncomfortable.
So we did this whole differentproposal of various questions.
What's the biggest fear withworking with me and what's the
worst case scenario if thisfails?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It was basically a co-founder questionnaire that
really every co-founder shouldgo through with their other
founder to get information about.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
We've kind of dealt with all of the uncomfortable
questions and conversations.
Of course we butt headssometimes but it's very
important, even with ourfriendship of like.
We have our work hats and thenwe have our friendship hats and
if we disagree on something it'slike okay, I love you, I see
you, I hear you, let's moveforward, because we got to keep
it moving, because we'redominating and we don't have
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time to drag things out.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I love that it's so important to note, especially
being female entrepreneurs inthis space.
There's not enough femaleentrepreneurs and business
owners out there.
Since starting Batch Boss, haveyou guys run into any bumps in
the road as women in business?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You know that's a great question and the truth is
it's hard to say becausetruthfully I wouldn't say we've
dealt with any like realsetbacks up to this point.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
We've had some tough conversations, though, with
people in the industry, in thenightlife, that are maybe in
their 50s or things like that,where they're not speaking to us
in a very kind way when we'retrying to help each other and
that's really the goal for allof us is to help small
businesses.
If that's with you know thefloral arrangements, if that's a
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chef, if that's a yogainstructor, if I can help you
and bring you business and ifyou could promote us in
different ways.
We all want to win together andI think that's our mindset.
And you know, the weddingindustry and some people are a
little bit more antiquated andthey don't fully get what we're
doing, and that's okay becauseJolie and I we have volume of
inbound of people that areapplying to work with us, major
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brands that are emailing to workwith us.
And if you don't see our visionand I say this to Jolie all the
time if they don't see ourvision, we can keep it moving
because we have plenty of peoplethat will want to work with us.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Agree, yes, I do think we're fortunate.
It's not like we've had, youknow, like major setbacks to
this point, like I'm sure therewill be bumps in the road, there
will be things that happen.
Avery's like right in that,like, yes, we've had some more
difficult conversations, but Iwould say we've been pretty
fortunate up to this point andlet's hope that it stays this
way.
But you know what, even if itdoesn't, I think that there's no
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two better people to help, likeconquer the tough times and
move past them.
You know, avery and I are bothwe're super dedicated.
I'd say we're both veryprofessional and capable and we
just know we're going to getthrough it all.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You both strike me as very professional and very
organized and you know, beingfemales like that in this
wedding space, you know it'spretty much a female dominated
thing.
I mean, the men need some helpwith the bachelor.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh yeah, we're fully trying to lean into the bachelor
parties.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's terrifying what they don't know.
But I mean it is veryinteresting that you know
weddings doesn't have somethinglike this, especially females
helping other females do it.
So it's just lovely to see youguys doing that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What females helping other females do it, so it's
just lovely to see you guysdoing that.
What we're also trying to doand achieve is and someone that
I was connecting with you knowjust how it's so important to
get that perfect your dressright.
People put in a lot of effortin that.
People should also view yourbachelorette or bachelor party,
but focusing with theconversation of her
bachelorettes is this is yourlast time and celebration for
you to be single with yourgirlfriends and really just
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honor all of that.
So why not put that much effortinto that?
As you are spending likethousands of dollars on a dress,
like they should go hand inhand.
And we also think that weshould be part of a checklist,
and that's how we hope toconnect with more wedding
planners and event planners.
Where it's like okay, you getyour event planner, you get your
venue, you're getting yourdress.
Bachelorette plan, contactbatch boss Okay, you need a band
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, like just part of a checklist.
Where it's we're just likethere, does that make?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
sense.
Yes, you know, and Avery, yourmom, has been in a public eye
for a very long time, as haveyou, and you know some people
would say maybe that's given youa platform, but you're really
out here forging your own path.
How do you navigate that as a?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
businesswoman.
Yeah, everyone knows I grew upon reality TV since I was 12 and
I'm now 27, which is kind ofcrazy.
I feel like I've never fullyleaned into the platform that I
could have and I think that inlife if you want to like use
something or ask people for help, you really only get one shot.
And I feel like this is my onechance to fully just like
(24:26):
connect with the people that Iknow and leverage the platform
that I have for good.
And I've never been one to rideoff my mom's coattails.
I've done the finance thing forfive years.
I was in tech for two years.
I did everything as like anormal person should, and I'm
two feet in fully acknowledgeI'm very lucky.
If you were in my shoes, youwould have probably taken, you
(24:47):
know, done something sooner orwritten the Instagram coattail,
dm life, I don't know.
We're going on Andy Cohen,which is an amazing opportunity,
and we just have a lot of thebrands and the events and things
that I'm able to do.
I fully recognize it's becauseof the platform that I've been
given, but I also think that weare, as you said, helping a lot
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of people and I'm fully here ofsupporting other women,
supporting other smallbusinesses.
So if I can give to them, I'mhappy to.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right, and I also think you can have the platform.
But if you're not professional,not put together, nobody's
going to want to work with youanyways, totally.
But you guys are very much notthat.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Thank you.
No, I was just going to say youknow, everyone kind of has
connections in life in differentways and it's really all about
building your network.
I got my job offers when I wasat Cameo from cold DMing people
on Den and things like that.
You know there's for the girlor the guy out there.
That's like I don't know whereto start.
Linkedin and networking is areally, really powerful thing.
(25:49):
What's the worst that canhappen?
They don't respond.
That's fine, you didn't messagethem anyways.
So it's just kind of I believein like mass volume of looking
at your alumni on LinkedIn,where you have connections,
asking people for intros,because all you need is one
person to kind of build your web.
And it's really shown here toowith the contacts that we've
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created.
Like we've partnered with 11 inMiami, which is like a really
great nightclub, and it allstemmed from like three degrees
backwards where it's just oneperson intro to us, to another.
And that's why I always say yesto every opportunity, any
invitation.
I will show up alone, I don'tcare.
I moved to Chicago and Austinnot knowing anyone and it's
(26:32):
really amazing to just kind ofbe open minded and everyone kind
of starts life in differentplaces, but you can be, you know
, one of the wealthiest families.
That's the most connected andyou could have issues or
whatever it is we all you know.
It's really, how do you handlesituations?
Right, if I get laid off, I'mgoing to make this positive and
I'm going to come up from it andsomeone else is like poor me,
(26:55):
woe is me.
I don't know what to do, butlike we're both going through
the same situation, so it's allabout your mindset.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Very it girl Jolie, you were married in 2022.
First of all, congrats, Bigthing.
So many of my friends arecurrently engaged and you know
it's just like the season ofwedding and bachelor and
bachelorettes.
What are some of the things youloved about your experience?
What are some of the things youloved about your experience?
What are some of the things youdo differently?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I was like totally previously mentioned, like was
the girl that like dreamt aboutall of the wedding things.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So I have to interrupt.
So Jolie's dad said that youknow exactly what I'm going to
say.
Jolie Jolie, growing up she hadtwo folders like what was the
most important to her, and herdad said this in his speech it
was prom and wedding.
And like she's that girl andthat's why we're a perfect match
for this, because in ways thatI don't have as many strengths,
(27:51):
she fully, is like, dominatesand gets the full vision.
So sorry, julie, but I have tojust add that color because it's
a great great, so accurate yeahyou were Pinterest before
Pinterest.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
A hundred percent.
I literally had like a folderwith like cutouts from magazines
, like for my wedding, and thenwhen I got a little older and I
saw the movie Wedding Crashers.
That like quickly became myfavorite movie of all time.
Like anyone who doesn't likethat movie?
Like wake up, what's wrong withyou?
So that movie I became obsessedwith and I loved the wedding
and wedding crashers what is it?
(28:22):
Like the governor's daughter orwhatever it is Like it.
Just I wanted that wedding andthat's like the wedding I had.
Like we rented this like 80foot sailboat and did that night
one and then did like a tent onthe lawn at Castle Hill, which
is where JFK got married inNewport.
It was very New England and itwas just perfect.
Yeah, Like I think I loved alot of the planning.
I was totally someone that likehad my hand in everything.
(28:44):
You know.
I would definitely say like Iwould have given more grace to
like some of the people thathelped.
Like I definitely think I wassuper harsh at times with like
some of the people in theindustry that were just trying
to help and like that's just mypersonality and like now, being
on the other side of it, I'mrealizing like it's so important
just to like give peoplepatience and grace and I was not
(29:04):
good at that In terms of mybachelorette.
Luckily, my sister reallyhandled everything, which was
super helpful.
But in hindsight it's funnybecause I talked to her about it
now and she's like, oh, itwould have been so great, Like
if I could have used you guys,like I think it was really
stressful for her.
My sister is older than myfriends and she kind of felt
responsibility to like handle,you know, all the goodie bags
and the reservations and she dideverything from the
(29:27):
accommodation.
My sister has a full-time job.
It was a lot of work and shewas up late nights and there
were some tearful phone calls,you know, and it would have been
so nice if, like, we would havehad a service like this just to
be able to lean on and takethat stress away from the
wedding planning process,because there's already so much
to do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You touched on it a little bit.
You know, being a person, apatron of weddings and
bachelorettes, and now being inthe wedding service, how has
your guys' perspective changed?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean, like for me personally again, like
being a bride, to now like beinga bachelorette planner, like
it's crazy how much myperspective has changed, like I
think it's so easy to getwrapped up in like your own.
You know, planning be reallylike impatient, like I said with
some people, but you have toremember like these are people's
jobs.
When you look at weddingplanners, you look at florists,
(30:14):
right.
When you look at cake designers, like this is how they make
their income and this is likewhat they choose to do with
their lives.
And it's important to like givepeople grace and it's always
important to be clear with yourexpectations and what you want.
But I think like it's the moralof the story is like be nice to
everyone, be respectful.
That's always the right thingto do.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Well, you're sounding like you were a total bitch to
all these people.
I was definitely not a totalbitch.
But like I wouldn't say I waslike a ray of sunshine, like I
was like very like harsh withlike what I wanted it's one of
those things where Jolie and Iwere definitely like an acquired
taste, just like how my motheris, and we mean well, have
visions and we like to move fast.
(30:52):
So I think it's definitely likethat's kind of where you're
coming from, and Jolie'sdefinitely not like a bi or
kosher word I have no idea it's.
Oh, that's what my mom would say.
She's like don't be a bi.
But like you know, my mom justlike makes everything up, so
maybe that's actually not it's athing now.
Yeah, you know I say thingswrong because of her and like
(31:16):
acronyms are wrong, so like shemaybe made it up and she just
said it to me sometimes and Ijust thought it was a thing.
Clearly not, I don't know.
But yeah, I think that we'vejust learned a lot.
We also learned that there's alot of space to grow, just like
in the industry.
It's a little bit antiquated insome ways and there's so many
like great partnershipopportunities of again all just
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helping each other and who weknow and ways we can partner.
That is just the whole bridalindustry and I think that
because of social media now,everything is Instagrammable and
TikTok.
There's all lots of eyeballs oneverything, where it's become a
beast versus when our parentsgot married.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
That is so true.
When I talked to my mom aboutit she's like that didn't exist.
That wasn't a thing From whatyou said very at the beginning.
Going out to dinner to like athree-day weekend it's a massive
difference.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I don't know who allowed for this to happen and
like also, it's just kind ofcrazy like thinking about it,
because we are in the first waveof engagements.
Jolie married her collegeboyfriend, who's now her husband
, and he's amazing.
And one of my girlfriends ismarrying her high school
sweetheart, you know it's so.
This is like the first wave,right, but then there's going to
be another wave of, like, thepeople who met in their later
(32:27):
20s and it really does all addup and I don't know how this is
happening or really, like I'mconcerned, like how I can afford
going to all these things andbachelorettes and weddings and
picking and choosing, and Ithink that like that's like a
real conversation that, as Joliesaid, people get really caught
up in their mind and theirvision and where they lose track
(32:48):
of.
You're not the only bride.
There's a lot of things thatare happening and that's why
it's really important to havethat third party where it's like
I am attending yourbachelorette, I want to do
everything as much as I can, butI'm not going to break the bank
or break my savings or not makerent to make you happy and
please know it's because I loveyou and love doesn't mean money
(33:08):
and I think like that needs tobecome a bit more talked about,
as I'm experiencing it and theseconversations, as we said, are
really, really tough.
So I think again, being thatthird party of, like bride, you
want that boat amazing, then youhave to spend the money, or
like ask your family or ask yourfiance, because like it's not
fair.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yes, I couldn't agree more, because nothing's worse
than that bill to damper themood of a situation.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, when you get like that large Venmo request.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Terrifying.
So let's wrap it out with a fewor like favorite tips location,
activity, what something peopleare doing that you guys are
just really into right now.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'd say like my probably favorite trend that's
happening is steering away fromthe hotels and groups doing
Airbnbs, and whatever locationthey're in Avery, and I have
noticed that their experiencecan be so special while saving
money by doing an Airbnb.
It gives them the flexibilityfor us to send in yoga
instructors, chefs, bartendersto the house directly and it
(34:08):
just makes it so much fun doingpool parties at the house or
wherever you are.
Anyone that has the opportunityto like do an Airbnb somewhere.
That's definitely the move for100%.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
And we're really big too on balancing the weekend
where it's not just go, go, go,go go and have too many
activities.
The favorite moments are justsitting on that couch and
telling stories and laughing,and if it's just ordering pizza
or having a chef night orwhatever that looks like, our
brides who are doing the Airbnbswe always recommend, like that,
(34:40):
saturday night chef night orordering in pizza, Because after
going out Thursday, friday,whatever that looks like, and
you're leaving really early onSunday, probably to catch a
flight back, it's just likelet's make it easy on everyone
and just chill.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Absolutely.
That's a great tip becausepeople burn out.
Guys, please tell everybodywhere we can find you Everything
about BatchBots Instagram.
Give us the details.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, so our website is batchbotscom.
To submit an inquiry, you justhave to go to book now in the
inquiry form on our website.
You can follow us on Instagramat batchbots, underscore.
We also recently just created aTikTok that we will actively be
posting on more, which is thebatch bosses.
(35:25):
And am I missing anything?
We're going to update ourhandle.
Yeah, give us yours.
At Jolie Lauren underscore.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
At Jolie Lauren is my personal.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I post some cute things.
Underscore oh yeah, at Jolie,Lauren.
Underscore I'm learning helpand I am at.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Avery Singer no underscore, no underscore on
yours, guys.
Thank you so much for takingthe time to be here.
Congrats again on the business.
I cannot wait to see this justpop off.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Thank you so much.
Yeah, anyone who's gettingmarried, any friends hit us up,
and especially you, marley, likewe're happy to help in any way
we can Thank.
And especially you, marley,like we're happy to help in any
way we can.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Thank you, guys.
Thank you so much for listeningto this special episode of
Confessions of a Wannabe it Girlwith Batch Boss.
Thank you so much, jolie andAvery, for coming on the podcast
, and thank you, guys, so muchfor listening and subscribing to
the show.
We'll see you next Tuesday.
Hi guys and welcome back to.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Confessions of a Wannabe.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
It Girl.
Right now I'm probably zoomingaround Europe.
I went to celebrate a weddingand.
I just decided I needed a fewweeks off, but, as you know, I
am deep in my bridal era and Ithought what better than to take
a look back on anotherwedding-centric episode?
So we're diving into theepisode with Avery Singer and
(00:22):
Jolie Lauren Glob from BatchBoss.
We're talking all aboutplanning bachelorettes, giving
the tea on Batch Boss.
This episode is from back whenBatch Boss launched a few years
ago two years ago and this waslike their launch week, so it's
crazy to see how much they'vegrown.
So if you're planning abachelorette for yourself, or
maybe you're the maid of honor,let's dive in.
(00:53):
Welcome to Confessions of aWannabe it Girl.
I'm your host, Marley Fregging,and I'm here to help you filter
out all the bullshit and becomethe next it Girl.
This podcast explores thereality of what it really takes
to make it out there.
As it turns out, it is way lessInstagrammable than I thought
it was going to be.
I'm still very much a work inprogress, but there's simply
nothing else I'd rather be doingthan chasing my dreams.
So let's learn from my mistakesand work together to achieve
(01:15):
our dreams with more confidence,clarity and direction.
Let's get after it.
Welcome, Jolie and Avery, theco-founders of Batch Boss.
Thank you guys so much forbeing here.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm so excited to have you guys on.
But first of all, hugecongratulations.
Amazing launch Both nowfull-time co-bosses of this
business.
That is a huge feat.
How are you guys feeling aboutthat?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah Well, I mean, avery's story is a huge feat.
How are you guys feeling aboutthat?
Yeah Well, I mean, every storyis a little bit different, but
for me personally, I've been inthe corporate world since I
graduated.
I was in tech sales for a longtime and then I recently gave my
two weeks notice because BatchBoss is obviously going to take
off and dominate the space.
So my last day at my corporatejob was this past weekend, on
Friday, and today, waking up ona Monday, not reporting to a
(02:09):
boss and logging on with Averyand figuring out our to-dos for
today, was so different, but inthe best way possible.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Literally boss Goals.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Batch boss, boss yeah .
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Batch boss, boss, I can't even say that.
There you go.
Say it 10 times fast, though,but huge congrats.
And Avery, how are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm so excited, julie and I, how we got the idea.
Actually we're co-maid ofhonors planning our best friends
Bachelorette and we've heardjust crazy stories and I'm sure
you've experienced some Marleyof like going to a bachelorette
trip.
Nothing is organized, budgetingis not taken.
You know, it's amazing.
Everyone wants certain things,but now it's become these three
day long weekends, right Like Ijust got back from Vegas, julie
(02:56):
and I are going to one in Miamiin two weeks and it's just how
nice would it be.
Like we realized it was kind oflike a full-time job to plan a
bachelorette and we were like wewere kind of good at this,
should we make this ourfull-time thing?
And it's just kind of taken offreally, since, like we had the
idea maybe in November, openedup the LLC at the end of
December, launched end ofJanuary.
(03:17):
Two months later Jolie put inher two weeks and we both are
going full-time.
And it's just amazing becausenot only is it a big deal for
Jolie but it's a big deal for metoo that we're both kind of two
feet in and we've alreadydominated so much in two months.
So I can't wait to see whatwe're going to be doing one year
later.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I want to go back a little bit and like let's talk
about the origin of your guys'friendship.
You two were roommates.
How'd you meet All that jazz?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So it was actually through a mutual friend.
The way that it started is mycollege roommate is Avery's best
friend from growing up.
I grew up in the New Yorksuburbs so my parents ended up,
when I went to college, movingback into the city.
They did like the opposite ofwhat most parents do and they
coincidentally moved intoAvery's mom, ramona Singer's
(04:05):
building on the Upper East Side.
So when I would come home fromschool you know normal people go
home and do like ThanksgivingEve with their home friends and
like go out.
I wasn't going home to myhometown, I was going home to
Manhattan.
So I would go out with mycollege roommate, who was
friends with Avery from growingup, and that's how Avery and I
met.
And when we graduated, ourfriend group all lived at home
(04:27):
for a year, like a lot of peopledo.
After graduating.
Our home was the Upper EastSide.
So we all were on the UpperEast Side like going out,
hanging out.
And then when we decided it wastime to move downtown, avery
and I are like okay, we need tobe roommates.
We just vibed so hard.
So we looked for largeapartments and we ended up
moving to the Lower East Sidetogether and that's like Avery's
(04:48):
favorite part of the story,because I can't even explain to
you how tiny this room was Like.
I'm not exaggerating when Itell you that if you stretched
your hands out, you could feelthe walls.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So Avery and I it was a partitioned room.
Yeah, we shared a room with afake wall because, as we know,
in New York city like apartmentsare so small in general and we
really wanted to be in like afour bedroom apartment because
we were four girls, but someonehad to split the half of a room
and I was like I'm willing to doit to be with you, julie, like
(05:21):
I love you, you love me, and nowwe're kind of business partners
.
But we literally had this roomtogether.
We had a bathroom shuffle.
She would cook lunch for me, Iwould clean.
You know, like we've reallydone it all at this point.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
We also had a roach problem in that apartment.
So I feel like if we canconquer the roaches, we can
conquer anything.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I wasn't scared of the roaches, but you know some
girls are.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And what made you guys want to do this transition
of working from someone else?
Creating your ownentrepreneurial path to becoming
the boss is literally a badboss.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, I think that for me, growing up watching my
mom, is super entrepreneurial,has always worn a lot of hats,
has done a lot of differentbusinesses.
I've always kind of had thatentrepreneurial spirit as a
result of her, and the goal wasalways to be my own boss in some
way.
I didn't think it was going tobe at 27.
But I also never thought Iwould be living in Chicago or
(06:17):
lived in Austin or like did allthese weird things.
So it's just part of my pathand I couldn't be more excited
to not report to anyone otherthan myself and Jolie.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I would say for me, I honestly never thought
I'd be an entrepreneur.
I never really minded being incorporate, but I think when you
get the taste of somethingthat's better, it's hard to go
backwards.
And when we started working onBatchBoss I really just fell in
love with it.
I realized I was really good atmanaging myself in terms of
just time management, in termsof being efficient, being
(06:49):
profitable.
I just realized how muchpotential this business had and
I think the final push wasrealizing that if we were doing
this well with me not even beingin it full time, how well are
we going to do?
If I jump in two feet and giveit my all, I just think we're
going to continue to grow andaccelerate.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I love that.
So you guys mentioned that youguys were co-mayor honors doing
all these bachelor.
How did the idea come to youthat the service was really
needed for somebody else, like athird party, to step in and
help these men and women?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, I think that's a we me being from the finance
world.
I was working in finance forfive years and I pivoted to tech
after.
I was like Julie, let's run anExcel spreadsheet of different
pricing for rooms and situations.
And Julie and I we work reallywell together and just like ping
pong off each other.
And I was like, wow, we're sogood at this.
(07:42):
And Julie was like, should wemake this a business?
It was one of those passingcomments.
I just like, wow, we're so goodat this.
And Jolie was like, should wemake this a business?
It was one of those passingcomments.
I just said, yeah, sure, notreally thinking anything of it
at the time.
But then when Jolie like wetalk obviously every day, and
when we were catching up on howour day was going the next day,
she was like so let's talk aboutthe business.
And I just kind of like keptgoing with it.
And then I did some researchmyself and realized that there's
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not that much competition inthis space.
It's a really needed marketright now, especially as we're
talking about these longthree-day weekends.
Before, when my mom had herbachelorette, it was just a
dinner in New York City.
Now you're going to Cabo orTulum, or Austin or wherever.
We're planning one in Lake Comoright now.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I think it's also underrated how much this is
needed.
I mean, you should hear some ofthese calls that we're on with
the brides or with the maid ofhonors, and people are so
grateful to have a service likethis.
So trips are becoming super,super luxe nowadays and budget
tends to be a major concernacross all friend groups that we
speak with.
And I think that it's reallyimportant to have a third party
(08:45):
who's not necessarily in thefriend group, because budget
conversations are so awkward,like no one wants to be that
person, no one wants to do it,no.
So I think it's so importantthat we can step in and we can
assess, like, what are the mostimportant parts of this trip?
Is it getting a table at a club?
Is it doing a yacht day?
Is it staying in a five-starhotel or getting a villa, like?
We can really help distinguishwhat's going to be most
(09:08):
important and then help dividethat budget.
And then the other reallyimportant part is, by using our
services, it really ends uppaying for itself.
Because of these partnershipswe've established, we're able to
give our clients steepdiscounts on like clubs and
bottle service and yachts, so weend up saving them a lot of
money and the swag.
Yeah, and the swag you know wehave great swag partners, so I
(09:30):
think there's just a huge needand there was a gap in the
market.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Right, well, and like also, I think about you know,
the first one is so fun and thenthe third and fourth are kind
of like burnt out and like beinglike oh no, I have to deal with
all these factors again of blah, blah, blah, not wanting to do
this and blah, blah, blah budget.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's a full time job, like we joke, like basically
what we say is it's a full timejob, planning this a
bachelorette.
We're making it our full-timejob.
So don't worry, we're your bestfriends that you didn't know,
that you needed, that are goingto avoid fights for you in
advance.
We've had brides joke beinglike can you be in my
bachelorette party or can you beone of my bridesmaids?
(10:11):
Because I'm sick of mybridesmaids now.
So I think it's just one ofthose things where we know and
have been to a lot of places andwe're using our superpower,
which is networking, knowingwhere to travel, where to stay
and these are like our favoritethings to do, that it doesn't
feel like work.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh, I love that because I think the best quote
about entrepreneurship is dosomething you love and you'll
never work a day in your lifeand it's like, yes, we go
through ups and downs of it, butwhen you're passionate about it
and you're into the things thatyou're doing, I think that's so
inspiring for other women tohear you can find work that
makes you feel that way.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I 100% agree with that.
I relate to that so muchbecause there were points where
I'd wake up in the morning and Iwould think, like it's just
like another day of reporting tothe man.
We're like now, when youactually run your own business,
you care about it so much morebecause it's your money on the
line, it's your time on the line, like it's not the company's,
it's yours, so you care way moreabout it.
(11:10):
So obviously you're going towork 10 times harder to make
sure that it succeeds, becausefailure just isn't an option
when it's your own company.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
We literally have like a sticky note of like,
different, like phrases andfailure is not an option, is
like huge in caps.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Love that, because failure is just like to me.
A doesn't really exist and youhave to just keep pushing past
it, Because if you keep pushingpast, it's just teaching you
lessons.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
We're really big on mindset, so totally agree with
that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's a very it girl mindset, I think is like
believing like you're just goingto keep going until you get
there.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So Jolie and I we have written in our, we have a
shared sticky notes and we havea bunch of quotes, and one of
the quotes is failure is not anoption, and I think that it's
really important for people thatwant to start a business or
want to do something.
People will always message andask the right time to move or
switch careers.
There is no right time.
If there was a right time,everyone would be doing it, and
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I like feel so passionate aboutthis.
As you can tell, I'm getting alittle like worked up and pumped
, but it's one of those thingswhere it's just like go for it
two feet in if you can.
And the one thing like I'm justthinking of like an abundance
mindset, right, like I alwaysthink that you know, I got laid
off from my tech job.
We had this idea, and sometimesthe highest highs will come
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from low moments, right, and soit's like you got to hit the
bottom and you can only go upfrom there, and I think that
most of my like the best ideasor the best decisions I've done
have been from having likereally lows.
I love that because I thinkpeople can get really stuck when
they hit a low or you knowsomething that I write and like
I truly believe is like nothingis more fearful than being
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stagnant, like that's like youalways got to keep it moving in
different ways, because thenwhat's the point of life?
There's so much to do and liveand experience that it becomes
mundane and like a hamster wheelif you're not doing something
different.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh yeah, I couldn't agree more.
When I feel like I'm in thoseplaces, I feel restless because
it's like what's happening.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You always got to put yourself to be uncomfortable,
because that's how you grow.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Right, and if you're not uncomfortable like like
that's why you don't, but I dothink about that, like you don't
want to mess it up you getliterally one chance to have
your bachelorette.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I mean hopefully we'll see Very true, Very true.
Yeah, I mean, like, for a lotof these brides, like it's, it's
such a special experience.
I mean really for every singlebride.
But the whole wedding process,when you think about your shower
, your engagement, your proposal, the actual wedding, the
honeymoon, like these are allevents that I'd say a lot of
like little girls dream aboutforever.
So when they're thinking aboutwhen it actually becomes time
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for your bachelorette, sometimesit can be a bit underwhelming
when you actually start to planit and there's fighting over a
budget and there's people notpicking up the slack and there's
nothing good available and itbecomes kind of sad.
I, admittingly, am like one ofthose girls that cries every
year on my birthday.
I don't know why.
I always just want it to bebetter than it is and I
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definitely cried like everynight on my bachelorette.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I'm pretty sure, Like even though it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I just think people have like ideas of what they
want it to be, and I think wehad a service, like even when we
were doing mine.
I think it would have beeninsane.
You know, avery and I areliterally making these
experiences insane for thesegirls, like handling absolutely
everything where they don't evenhave to think about it, even
like the transportation orderingice for the boat, like just
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literally everything magic isthere.
Exactly it just makes it so easyand like you're guaranteed to
have incredible time because,especially even if your friends
are stressed out, you're goingto read off that energy.
If you're a maid of honor isstressed out dropping a bunch of
cash or super busy texting ontheir phone the whole time
trying to coordinate like it'snot as fun, like you want a
third party to come in and makeit amazing for the group.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So let's talk about that.
How does this process start?
I know you guys start with anintro call and then what happens
for those who want to work withyou guys.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, the process is really seamless.
So basically you can either DMus, shoot us an email at info at
batchbosscom or submit aninquiry on our website, which is
just batchbosscom.
After we receive that inquiry,we'll kind of field the
information to assess if thatperson's a good fit.
Regardless if they're a goodfit or not, we're going to reach
out and respond, but it justhelps us categorize who's most
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important in terms of ourfollow-ups and things like that
In terms of the clientexperience.
They will submit an inquiryemail or DM, receive an email
from the girls at Batch Boss.
I'm explaining the process andgiving them a link to our
information kit which basicallyhas everything they would need
to know as well as our pricingFrom there.
If they're interested in nextsteps, we send them our calendar
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link to book a call andtypically we'll do maybe like a
15 minute discovery call, justbasically asking about like
their dream bachelorette.
We ask them to kind of walk usthrough what their dream weekend
would look like, what are themost important parts to them and
, most importantly, do they havean idea of bud?
From there we have a sevenbusiness day turnaround time for
the initial draft of theiritinerary and then we plug and
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play with it.
From there, you know, we'll donumerous edits, we'll talk about
what makes sense, we'll add onactivities, we'll start talking
about decor.
Finally, the final process is,if they're in one of our higher
tiers, we handle all of thebookings, all of the
reservations, everything'slocked in, and we finalize it
with a super aestheticallypleasing, cute itinerary that
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they can distribute to theirfriends.
And that is how the processgoes down.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I love that.
Tell me all the things that youoffer of offer.
I know that there's merch, aswe mentioned.
We love merch and, like thetransport on-call concierge,
give us a rundown of the options.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, so there's three different tiers of service
because our goal is we cancater to really any budget.
We like to think of our servicefee as a baked in cost to your
experience.
So if that's with the flightand the Airbnb, whatever, that
is just our service fees kind ofincluded.
So it could be anywhere fromlike $50 a person to 125 plus.
(17:06):
If you're dividing that serviceamongst the group, which I
think overall is pretty fair,especially because it shouldn't
fall on one person to planeverything and like, if people
just share and split the mealsand all of that, what's the big
deal to just throw in $50 or$100 extra if you're spending
anywhere between?
We see people spending from$1,200 to $2,000 plus, right,
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per person, obviously.
Per person In terms of the tier.
So the first tier is theitinerary proposal.
So that essentially is we get alot of people where they want
to go to Cabo or Tulum or Austinand they've never been.
So it's just really helpful tojust get that like basic
itinerary information.
We're able to kind of plug andplay and help you in a lot of
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ways with the accommodations andstuff as well, but we do not
physically book anything for you.
Yeah, tier two we're seeing alot of tier twos and a lot of
tier threes.
So the tier two essentially,that's when we start booking
everything for you.
We get access to our batch bossdiscount vendors and we're able
to like, text our certainpartners or email for discounted
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you know people like those likeswag bags, those welcome bags
and all of those things, andthen really like tier three is a
big experience where we'regoing to help you with decor,
with our balloon people, withdecorating everything, with
making sure we can help stockthe Airbnb, help you with the
cars.
Literally, whatever you canimagine that you don't know you
need, we will be able to helpyou, and that's then.
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We're also on call as well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Wow, I love the range because, like, especially if
you're traveling so far you'venever been there.
How are you supposed to findwhere you could get somebody to
do decor?
That question has run throughmy mind a million times.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Exactly, and that's totally something that we handle
because we have partners in allof the major match cities.
So, basically, if you're a tierthree client, you're going to
Scottsdale.
You're like how the hell do Iorganize this?
How do I make my Airbnb lookcute?
We have partners in all thesedestinations.
So we'll go in stock the fridge, make the house or the hotel
room look adorable and handleall that for you.
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Because, again, that is anotherstress Having to get there in
the same group, if you're in thefriend group of the bride,
having to get there early, makethe bride wait outside while you
decorate the room.
It's so much better to show upand everything be done for you.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It seems very TikTok and Instagram perfect.
Something that is kind of maybecontradictory or we hear
conflicting advice about isworking with friends.
How do you guys manage workingtogether in this business?
I know you guys shared thatsticky note, you shared a wall,
but sometimes people say don'twork with friends.
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How do you guys manage it?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, definitely a fair question and it's something
that we really took a step backand I think it's really
important to have these painfulGo through, these questions that
no one really wants to answerand they're uncomfortable.
So we did this whole differentproposal of various questions.
What's the biggest fear withworking with me and what's the
worst case scenario if thisfails?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It was basically a co-founder questionnaire that
really every co-founder shouldgo through with their other
founder to get information about.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
We've kind of dealt with all of the uncomfortable
questions and conversations.
Of course we butt headssometimes but it's very
important, even with ourfriendship of like.
We have our work hats and thenwe have our friendship hats and
if we disagree on something it'slike okay, I love you, I see
you, I hear you, let's moveforward, because we got to keep
it moving, because we'redominating and we don't have
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time to drag things out.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I love that it's so important to note, especially
being female entrepreneurs inthis space.
There's not enough femaleentrepreneurs and business
owners out there.
Since starting Batch Boss, haveyou guys run into any bumps in
the road as women in business?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You know that's a great question and the truth is
it's hard to say becausetruthfully I wouldn't say we've
dealt with any like realsetbacks up to this point.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
We've had some tough conversations, though, with
people in the industry, in thenightlife, that are maybe in
their 50s or things like that,where they're not speaking to us
in a very kind way when we'retrying to help each other and
that's really the goal for allof us is to help small
businesses.
If that's with you know thefloral arrangements, if that's a
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chef, if that's a yogainstructor, if I can help you
and bring you business and ifyou could promote us in
different ways.
We all want to win together andI think that's our mindset.
And you know, the weddingindustry and some people are a
little bit more antiquated andthey don't fully get what we're
doing, and that's okay becauseJolie and I we have volume of
inbound of people that areapplying to work with us, major
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brands that are emailing to workwith us.
And if you don't see our visionand I say this to Jolie all the
time if they don't see ourvision, we can keep it moving
because we have plenty of peoplethat will want to work with us.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Agree, yes, I do think we're fortunate.
It's not like we've had, youknow, like major setbacks to
this point, like I'm sure therewill be bumps in the road, there
will be things that happen.
Avery's like right in that,like, yes, we've had some more
difficult conversations, but Iwould say we've been pretty
fortunate up to this point andlet's hope that it stays this
way.
But you know what, even if itdoesn't, I think that there's no
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two better people to help, likeconquer the tough times and
move past them.
You know, avery and I are bothwe're super dedicated.
I'd say we're both veryprofessional and capable and we
just know we're going to getthrough it all.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You both strike me as very professional and very
organized and you know, beingfemales like that in this
wedding space, you know it'spretty much a female dominated
thing.
I mean, the men need some helpwith the bachelor.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh yeah, we're fully trying to lean into the bachelor
parties.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's terrifying what they don't know.
But I mean it is veryinteresting that you know
weddings doesn't have somethinglike this, especially females
helping other females do it.
So it's just lovely to see youguys doing that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What females helping other females do it, so it's
just lovely to see you guysdoing that.
What we're also trying to doand achieve is and someone that
I was connecting with you knowjust how it's so important to
get that perfect your dressright.
People put in a lot of effortin that.
People should also view yourbachelorette or bachelor party,
but focusing with theconversation of her
bachelorettes is this is yourlast time and celebration for
you to be single with yourgirlfriends and really just
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honor all of that.
So why not put that much effortinto that?
As you are spending likethousands of dollars on a dress,
like they should go hand inhand.
And we also think that weshould be part of a checklist,
and that's how we hope toconnect with more wedding
planners and event planners.
Where it's like okay, you getyour event planner, you get your
venue, you're getting yourdress.
Bachelorette plan, contactbatch boss Okay, you need a band
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, like just part of a checklist.
Where it's we're just likethere, does that make?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
sense.
Yes, you know, and Avery, yourmom, has been in a public eye
for a very long time, as haveyou, and you know some people
would say maybe that's given youa platform, but you're really
out here forging your own path.
How do you navigate that as a?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
businesswoman.
Yeah, everyone knows I grew upon reality TV since I was 12 and
I'm now 27, which is kind ofcrazy.
I feel like I've never fullyleaned into the platform that I
could have and I think that inlife if you want to like use
something or ask people for help, you really only get one shot.
And I feel like this is my onechance to fully just like
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connect with the people that Iknow and leverage the platform
that I have for good.
And I've never been one to rideoff my mom's coattails.
I've done the finance thing forfive years.
I was in tech for two years.
I did everything as like anormal person should, and I'm
two feet in fully acknowledgeI'm very lucky.
If you were in my shoes, youwould have probably taken, you
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know, done something sooner orwritten the Instagram coattail,
dm life, I don't know.
We're going on Andy Cohen,which is an amazing opportunity,
and we just have a lot of thebrands and the events and things
that I'm able to do.
I fully recognize it's becauseof the platform that I've been
given, but I also think that weare, as you said, helping a lot
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of people and I'm fully here ofsupporting other women,
supporting other smallbusinesses.
So if I can give to them, I'mhappy to.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right, and I also think you can have the platform.
But if you're not professional,not put together, nobody's
going to want to work with youanyways, totally.
But you guys are very much notthat.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Thank you.
No, I was just going to say youknow, everyone kind of has
connections in life in differentways and it's really all about
building your network.
I got my job offers when I wasat Cameo from cold DMing people
on Den and things like that.
You know there's for the girlor the guy out there.
That's like I don't know whereto start.
Linkedin and networking is areally, really powerful thing.
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What's the worst that canhappen?
They don't respond.
That's fine, you didn't messagethem anyways.
So it's just kind of I believein like mass volume of looking
at your alumni on LinkedIn,where you have connections,
asking people for intros,because all you need is one
person to kind of build your web.
And it's really shown here toowith the contacts that we've
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created.
Like we've partnered with 11 inMiami, which is like a really
great nightclub, and it allstemmed from like three degrees
backwards where it's just oneperson intro to us, to another.
And that's why I always say yesto every opportunity, any
invitation.
I will show up alone, I don'tcare.
I moved to Chicago and Austinnot knowing anyone and it's
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really amazing to just kind ofbe open minded and everyone kind
of starts life in differentplaces, but you can be, you know
, one of the wealthiest families.
That's the most connected andyou could have issues or
whatever it is we all you know.
It's really, how do you handlesituations?
Right, if I get laid off, I'mgoing to make this positive and
I'm going to come up from it andsomeone else is like poor me,
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woe is me.
I don't know what to do, butlike we're both going through
the same situation, so it's allabout your mindset.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Very it girl Jolie, you were married in 2022.
First of all, congrats, Bigthing.
So many of my friends arecurrently engaged and you know
it's just like the season ofwedding and bachelor and
bachelorettes.
What are some of the things youloved about your experience?
What are some of the things youloved about your experience?
What are some of the things youdo differently?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I was like totally previously mentioned, like was
the girl that like dreamt aboutall of the wedding things.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So I have to interrupt.
So Jolie's dad said that youknow exactly what I'm going to
say.
Jolie Jolie, growing up she hadtwo folders like what was the
most important to her, and herdad said this in his speech it
was prom and wedding.
And like she's that girl andthat's why we're a perfect match
for this, because in ways thatI don't have as many strengths,
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she fully, is like, dominatesand gets the full vision.
So sorry, julie, but I have tojust add that color because it's
a great great, so accurate yeahyou were Pinterest before
Pinterest.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
A hundred percent.
I literally had like a folderwith like cutouts from magazines
, like for my wedding, and thenwhen I got a little older and I
saw the movie Wedding Crashers.
That like quickly became myfavorite movie of all time.
Like anyone who doesn't likethat movie?
Like wake up, what's wrong withyou?
So that movie I became obsessedwith and I loved the wedding
and wedding crashers what is it?
(28:22):
Like the governor's daughter orwhatever it is Like it.
Just I wanted that wedding andthat's like the wedding I had.
Like we rented this like 80foot sailboat and did that night
one and then did like a tent onthe lawn at Castle Hill, which
is where JFK got married inNewport.
It was very New England and itwas just perfect.
Yeah, Like I think I loved alot of the planning.
I was totally someone that likehad my hand in everything.
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You know.
I would definitely say like Iwould have given more grace to
like some of the people thathelped.
Like I definitely think I wassuper harsh at times with like
some of the people in theindustry that were just trying
to help and like that's just mypersonality and like now, being
on the other side of it, I'mrealizing like it's so important
just to like give peoplepatience and grace and I was not
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good at that In terms of mybachelorette.
Luckily, my sister reallyhandled everything, which was
super helpful.
But in hindsight it's funnybecause I talked to her about it
now and she's like, oh, itwould have been so great, Like
if I could have used you guys,like I think it was really
stressful for her.
My sister is older than myfriends and she kind of felt
responsibility to like handle,you know, all the goodie bags
and the reservations and she dideverything from the
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accommodation.
My sister has a full-time job.
It was a lot of work and shewas up late nights and there
were some tearful phone calls,you know, and it would have been
so nice if, like, we would havehad a service like this just to
be able to lean on and takethat stress away from the
wedding planning process,because there's already so much
to do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You touched on it a little bit.
You know, being a person, apatron of weddings and
bachelorettes, and now being inthe wedding service, how has
your guys' perspective changed?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean, like for me personally again, like
being a bride, to now like beinga bachelorette planner, like
it's crazy how much myperspective has changed, like I
think it's so easy to getwrapped up in like your own.
You know, planning be reallylike impatient, like I said with
some people, but you have toremember like these are people's
jobs.
When you look at weddingplanners, you look at florists,
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right.
When you look at cake designers, like this is how they make
their income and this is likewhat they choose to do with
their lives.
And it's important to like givepeople grace and it's always
important to be clear with yourexpectations and what you want.
But I think like it's the moralof the story is like be nice to
everyone, be respectful.
That's always the right thingto do.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Well, you're sounding like you were a total bitch to
all these people.
I was definitely not a totalbitch.
But like I wouldn't say I waslike a ray of sunshine, like I
was like very like harsh withlike what I wanted it's one of
those things where Jolie and Iwere definitely like an acquired
taste, just like how my motheris, and we mean well, have
visions and we like to move fast.
(30:52):
So I think it's definitely likethat's kind of where you're
coming from, and Jolie'sdefinitely not like a bi or
kosher word I have no idea it's.
Oh, that's what my mom would say.
She's like don't be a bi.
But like you know, my mom justlike makes everything up, so
maybe that's actually not it's athing now.
Yeah, you know I say thingswrong because of her and like
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acronyms are wrong, so like shemaybe made it up and she just
said it to me sometimes and Ijust thought it was a thing.
Clearly not, I don't know.
But yeah, I think that we'vejust learned a lot.
We also learned that there's alot of space to grow, just like
in the industry.
It's a little bit antiquated insome ways and there's so many
like great partnershipopportunities of again all just
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helping each other and who weknow and ways we can partner.
That is just the whole bridalindustry and I think that
because of social media now,everything is Instagrammable and
TikTok.
There's all lots of eyeballs oneverything, where it's become a
beast versus when our parentsgot married.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
That is so true.
When I talked to my mom aboutit she's like that didn't exist.
That wasn't a thing From whatyou said very at the beginning.
Going out to dinner to like athree-day weekend it's a massive
difference.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I don't know who allowed for this to happen and
like also, it's just kind ofcrazy like thinking about it,
because we are in the first waveof engagements.
Jolie married her collegeboyfriend, who's now her husband
, and he's amazing.
And one of my girlfriends ismarrying her high school
sweetheart, you know it's so.
This is like the first wave,right, but then there's going to
be another wave of, like, thepeople who met in their later
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20s and it really does all addup and I don't know how this is
happening or really, like I'mconcerned, like how I can afford
going to all these things andbachelorettes and weddings and
picking and choosing, and Ithink that like that's like a
real conversation that, as Joliesaid, people get really caught
up in their mind and theirvision and where they lose track
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of.
You're not the only bride.
There's a lot of things thatare happening and that's why
it's really important to havethat third party where it's like
I am attending yourbachelorette, I want to do
everything as much as I can, butI'm not going to break the bank
or break my savings or not makerent to make you happy and
please know it's because I loveyou and love doesn't mean money
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and I think like that needs tobecome a bit more talked about,
as I'm experiencing it and theseconversations, as we said, are
really, really tough.
So I think again, being thatthird party of, like bride, you
want that boat amazing, then youhave to spend the money, or
like ask your family or ask yourfiance, because like it's not
fair.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yes, I couldn't agree more, because nothing's worse
than that bill to damper themood of a situation.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, when you get like that large Venmo request.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Terrifying.
So let's wrap it out with a fewor like favorite tips location,
activity, what something peopleare doing that you guys are
just really into right now.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'd say like my probably favorite trend that's
happening is steering away fromthe hotels and groups doing
Airbnbs, and whatever locationthey're in Avery, and I have
noticed that their experiencecan be so special while saving
money by doing an Airbnb.
It gives them the flexibilityfor us to send in yoga
instructors, chefs, bartendersto the house directly and it
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just makes it so much fun doingpool parties at the house or
wherever you are.
Anyone that has the opportunityto like do an Airbnb somewhere.
That's definitely the move for100%.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
And we're really big too on balancing the weekend
where it's not just go, go, go,go go and have too many
activities.
The favorite moments are justsitting on that couch and
telling stories and laughing,and if it's just ordering pizza
or having a chef night orwhatever that looks like, our
brides who are doing the Airbnbswe always recommend, like that,
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saturday night chef night orordering in pizza, Because after
going out Thursday, friday,whatever that looks like, and
you're leaving really early onSunday, probably to catch a
flight back, it's just likelet's make it easy on everyone
and just chill.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Absolutely.
That's a great tip becausepeople burn out.
Guys, please tell everybodywhere we can find you Everything
about BatchBots Instagram.
Give us the details.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, so our website is batchbotscom.
To submit an inquiry, you justhave to go to book now in the
inquiry form on our website.
You can follow us on Instagramat batchbots, underscore.
We also recently just created aTikTok that we will actively be
posting on more, which is thebatch bosses.
(35:25):
And am I missing anything?
We're going to update ourhandle.
Yeah, give us yours.
At Jolie Lauren underscore.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
At Jolie Lauren is my personal.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I post some cute things.
Underscore oh yeah, at Jolie,Lauren.
Underscore I'm learning helpand I am at.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Avery Singer no underscore, no underscore on
yours, guys.
Thank you so much for takingthe time to be here.
Congrats again on the business.
I cannot wait to see this justpop off.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Thank you so much.
Yeah, anyone who's gettingmarried, any friends hit us up,
and especially you, marley, likewe're happy to help in any way
we can Thank.
And especially you, marley,like we're happy to help in any
way we can.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Thank you, guys.
Thank you so much for listeningto this special episode of
Confessions of a Wannabe it Girlwith Batch Boss.
Thank you so much, jolie andAvery, for coming on the podcast
, and thank you, guys, so muchfor listening and subscribing to
the show.
We'll see you next Tuesday.
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