The Celebrant Talk Show
A regular talk show on being a marriage celebrant, the Australian marriage laws around celebrancy, and the art of running a celebrant business, hosted by the editors of the Celebrant Institute, Josh Withers and Sarah Aird
Episodes
Josh wrote an article on the Celebrant Institute website which received lots of feedback, and Sarah had some thoughts on it. Here's the link to the edited article, and the archived version from before this podcast episode.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celebrant/messageA terribly poor recording of the Celebrant Talk Show with Josh and Sarah this week, Josh's laptop got drunk.
Topics on this episode include:
- Does ageism exist in celebrancy?
- Being a celebrant with a disability
- Email systems and we're changing them and email is hell
- Changing the Marriage Act of 1961, Josh's 2023 project.
Josh is moving to Mexico, Sarah's still not at rest but she has found a spectacular little trick for funerals using iMovie. Still no movement on the NOIM video witnessing push, and we're meeting with the AGD next month.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celebrant/messageWe know, we know, we've been away for a whole year, but we're back! In this episode we talk about where we're both at in July 2022, and the major things that have happened in celebrancy and at the Celebrant Institute in the last 12 months:
We're tired, and we know you are all tired too. In this episode we catch up on each other's news, and chat about value (and how it's difficult to articulate!) and how OPD is going in 2021.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celebrant/messageAfter a six month break from podcasting because our world's got crazy and busy, we talk about what was keeping us busy. Namely, reschedules and postponements and cancellations of weddings, and how that's affecting the whole industry.
Plus we go over our 2021 OPD - ongoing professional development - program in great depth. You're going to love it! Go to www.celebrant.training to see the whole offering.
--- Send in a voice me...It's time to life up our heads from managing, or surviving, in our wedding celebrancy business, and to actually lead our businesses to a place where they bring us joy and happiness again.
This episode of the podcast is with someone who helps people like us do things like that, Heidi Thompson from Evolve Your Wedding Business. Heidi is hosting the Wedding Business CEO Summit later this month and Josh is speaking at the summit on aut...
After meeting with the Marriage Law and Celebrants Section of the Attorney-General's Department, Josh and Sarah bring you all the updates to marriage forms, OPD in the years ahead, signing NOIMs online, plus we've got some helpful tips on social media content and live streaming wedding ceremonies.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celebrant/messageSarah chats to Tasmanian celebrant Kathleen Pavlic-Ryan about the brand new online registration system available through Births, Deaths, and Marriages Tasmania!x
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celebrant/messageAfter five months of fighting for wedding vendors affected by COVID-19 lockdowns, cancellations, postponements, delays, booking fees, deposits, contracts, and the wasteland that is the wedding industry in August 2020, Kathryn from Hallet Law joins the podcast to talk about it all, and about her new service contract product which you can get from hallettlaw.com.au
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...In today's Celebrant Talk Show podcast episode recorded Saturday August 1, 2020, we talk about how branded face masks should in no way be a thing, giving terrible advice to couples about COVID-19 lockdowns, preparing for the aftertime, how to make a customer journey, our new Celebrant Institute membership software (Memberful), and can celebrants act as a JPs in their community?
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spo...It’s been 7 weeks since marriage equality finally became a thing. Australia has figured out that all people are actually just people…So what is the LGBTTQQIAAP alphabet soup? Today S & J take a detailed look at CRM systems and processes and hash out the customer journey they take their couples on. There are heaps of tips and hints that may add some value for you and your clients. Feel free to steal, and if you have a...
Legal help, cancellations thanks to COVID-19, OPD over Zoom update, how to become a travelling celebrant, and how to get audio to videographers, all in this podcast episode with Sarah and Josh.
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celebrant/messageOn todays episode, we discuss our seat at the big table with MLCS, caping celebrant numbers, and the new survey that was written to coerce celebrants into doing less OPD, the implications for the industry and what you can do about it. We also look at the celebrants obligations in an online environment and we finish the episode discussing the inclusion of children at ceremonies.
1.30 Preshow banter
6.23 MLCS inclusion for Cel...
A wide variety of celebrant chat in this episode! Celebrant Institute turns one (happy birthday!). We recap our first year and what we have accomplished. We discuss Glenn’s feedback from our previous episode plus general discussion on industry updates.
0.40 Sarah’s nicknames
4.00 Global Climate strike
8.50 1st year anniversary for Celebrant Institute!
14.11 Sarah is now training through CI
16.37 Community over competition and raisi...
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