Your Legal Fairy Godmother 

If you have a contract you need to listen if you don't have a contract you definitely need to listen.

Heather Stanford Gould has been dubbed the Legal Fairy Godmother to the wedding industry. She has two businesses - Stanford Gould and Stanford Gould Online – and she helps you lovely creative geniuses with all the legal contractual and compliance advice that you don’t know where to start with.

Client co...

After a year of no weddings, or highly restricted weddings there is light at the end of the tunnel. And although there are still issues and restrictions that will affect a majority of 2021 weddings we need to now focus on what we do best.

Work the present while planning the future.

2022-23 Brides are here and they want to book their suppliers, that's you, so it's time to switch on the marketing engines, show up in a positive ...

We started the show with a look into the workings of a partnership in business between a husband and wife. Chris and Jude have worked alongside each other as equal partners in their business since 2010 so if you are working with your partner I'm sure you'll find some common ground with these two and if you are considering starting that partnership listen in for some tips from the pros.

So what are your top tips for honing ou...

We are responding to Bojo’s announcement on Monday we have a roadmap are we any better off let's chat.

Starting off let’s look at the positives we have a map and a structure to work with.

Clubhouse are you suffering FOMO?

It’s an exclusive app and everyone is talking about it but what is all the hype about. I’m going to talk you through my experience on today’s episode so listen in above or click your favourite podcast app or read on.

Clubhouse Basics

Currently the app is:

 
It launched last year in the US but has only really got loud in the UK in the last few months. It is l...

Valentine's day is one of the biggest days of the year for the Wedding Industry. Nearly 40% of all engagements happen between November and February starting with Thanksgiving in the USA and ending with Valentine's day. So wedding off-season is engagement marketing season and if you are going to stand out from the crowd you need to be different in some way.

In today's episode, I'm going to walk you through a way of au...

Lynnette is such a ray of sunshine in what has been a truly awful 11 months for us all. I discovered Lynnette on Instagram and from the first LIVE, I caught I was hooked. Her personality was just so apparent and the ability to smile through has been a pleasure to have on my feed. So if you don't follow Lynnette then head over to her Instagram and follow her.

As a bridal hairstylist, she knows how difficult it has been for the we...

Grab your 5 Ways to increase your income brainstorm guide here

Have a clear-out and get making money

Physical clutter can really build up mental clutter so clearing out your home will have a positive effect on your mind and your wallet.

Here are the company links I mentioned on the show

If you are in the wedding industry you would have heard about the #whataboutweddings campaign. On today's episode, I was lucky enough to interview one of the initiators of the movement Tamryn Settle.

Tamryn has been part of the wedding industry for 18 years starting as a wedding planning, only leaving to spend more quality time with her young son. The call of the wedding industry was too strong to resist though and Tamryn came b...

This week we talk with the Music Maestro himself Lincoln Noel, that's Noel as in the first, not Noel as in Gallagher.
Lincoln has had a 42-year career in the wedding industry and if you look at his photo you may think how is that possible he doesn't look old enough. Well my friends to us regular folk he isn't but this guy started working weddings at the ripe ol'age of 13 years old! That's right not even out of s...

Happy New Year

Welcome back to the podcast everyone body, and welcome to a brand new year. I’m your host Donna Eade founder of the society of professional wedding vendors and Today we are going to talk about some new year changes goal setting for 2021. If you aren’t already then subscribe where you listen and please leave a review it really helps the podcast get in front of more of the right people like you and I will be muchly grat...

In the final episode of 2020, I shout out some accounts and people who have brightened my days throughout the year with their positivity and perseverance. 2020 has seen the industry I love knocked off its feet unceremoniously yet you have all acted with dignity and grace. There has been hurt, anger and frustration to say the least, yet outwardly I have seen collaborations abound that there wouldn't have been time for in a norma...

After a year that has seen Dj's in our industry unable to work in the job they love we talk to SPWV member and award-winning DJ Alan Marshall about how 2020 has affected him, why he has seen this year as a blessing and why he values self-development, the wedding and DJ communities and the society of professional wedding vendors.
Find out what he feels couples are looking for moving forward and how he feels our industry has done ...

Firstly, two corrections to clear up from the Automation podcast 

This episode is a storytime episode grab a tea or coffee sit back and listen. I always say your why is important to know so this might spark some thoughts for you on your why. I also have 3 guests on giving their stories about why they wished there had been something like the society when they got married. 
It's true to say you don't know what you don't know. and for young new brides to be or grooms to be they don't ...

This week Baiju Solanki Performance Psychologist talks us through attitude, Not Attaching To Outcome (NATO) and taking control remembering it only influences results it doesn't guarantee them.
This episode contains some tough love and some high praise. As an industry, I have seen both ends of the spectrum those who seem stuck in the victim mentality and then those who have given, shared and remained positive.
I know that this pan...