S2 Ep.9 - Systems That Serve: Choosing the Right Tools for Where You Are in Business with Tanisha Lee - Inside The Wedding Planner's Mind

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Inside the Wedding Planner's Mind with Irene Tyndale,
Chief Event Officer of Irene Tyndale Weddings and Events. All right,
missus Tyndale, let's get to it.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, hey friend, welcome back to Inside the Wedding Planner's Mind.
I'm your host, Irene Tyndale, and today's episode is going
to bless your business a big way, especially if you've
ever felt overwhelmed trying to figure out which systems and
tools you need to run your planning business. My guest
today is none other than Systems and Implement herself to Initially,

(00:35):
if you've ever seen her in action, you already know
that she has a gift for helping business owners not
only pick the right systems, but to use them to
streamline the operations and increase their impact. Today, we're breaking
down how to determine which systems are the best for
your business depending on the season you're in. Because what

(00:56):
we're first startup planner, what a scaling CEO needs, and
let's not forget implementation is everything. The system is only
as good as a person using it. And Tunisia is
I love this and Tunisia is going to help us
unpack how to make it all work for you. So
please grab your notebooks, your pens, because plan our family,

(01:20):
we have a good one, because this one is full
of gems and nuggets and all that stuff that the
young people say. Hey, Tunisia, Hey, how are you today?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Beautiful? I'm doing really good. How about you?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's too bad? Not too bad. We're in that awkward
stage of spring weather here in Georgia that it doesn't
know whether it wants to be cool or warm. I
think it is a little cool this week when we're
recording this, because the pollen is a little less.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, we're up and down over here.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
It's supposed to be hot all the time, at least
that's what I thought here in Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's right, definitely cool.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
So, my love, thank you so much. And what podcast
and I like to start off all of our interviews
asking our guests what is your origin story? So tell
us a little yourself, who you are and honestly, what
led you to become the systems and implementation queen.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh wow, So I got started.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
In this industry about sixteen years ago, almost sixteen years
ago as a little.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Pregnant mommy.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Right, So I was working for one of the large
bridal companies bridal dress stores, and so I was doing
a couple of.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Things in there. One of the managers decided that we.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Should have an event and she's like, but I don't
want to plan it, and she's like, Tanisha, you'd be
greatfu for it, And my eyes booked out of my
head and I was very much so like plan what.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I'm not a planner.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I don't do these things, like no, you're gonna make
me get murk. And then I ended up because I
was an employee, I was told right, and so I
planned an in store event for them. Then she ended
up putting me in charge of all the events for

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the store, whether it was like prom events at the
schools or bridal shows and things like that. And then
I started to to kind of feel it, kind of
like in my spirit, like all this could be really cool,
and a.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Lot of things just kind of transpire.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
That happened, and I ended up being a wedding planner
at the end of the day, right, And in being
a wedding planner with a toddler, I'm doing all the things.
And I'm also one of those who was a creative spirit,
and so I like to try different things.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
I like to try my hand at.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
New creative things and see if I actually can do it.
Not that I want to sell myself as that, but
just that I know that I can. And in doing so,
I realized I don't have enough time to do all this.
I don't have time, not if I also want to
be a present mom, right, And so I ended up

(04:23):
sitting down in December twenty sixteen. The entire month of
December twenty sixteen, Yes, Christmas included figuring out what system
I could use to automate some of the stuff that
I was doing, because I was also the mindset, well,
I'm not hiring an assistant right now, because then that's

(04:44):
more stuff I'm going to have to do and teach
someone how to do this.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I can't system. I probably needed that assistant as.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, Yes with the toddler, Yes, with the toddler y.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
So I convinced myself that that the system could do
it all. I sat down and tried every single system
there was known to man, literally.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
All the trials.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
I called all of the headquarters, I talked to people,
I asked a lot of questions. I settled on what
I loved, and I never looked back. And then I
thought to myself, like, if I had to take thirty
days to try everything in the world, I'm sure someone
else is banging their heads trying to figure it out too. Yes,
I don't want that for people, And so I started

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teaching other people what was out there and how they
could do it, and how they could just narrow it
down in just a few days instead of thirty. And
then somewhere along the line, all my planning friends were like, girl,
you are the systems clean.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Because you explain you have a gifting of how to
explain it. I don't know, and I hit this sound
so bad. But women talk right, like I feel like tech,
there's tech talk, and for the most part, I love
the fact that women have are starting to come into
their own in the tech industry in general on all fronts.
But for the most part, for the longest part, like tech,
our tech support or tech talks come from men, and

(06:09):
sometimes they just explain things like our doctors do. And
you're like, okay, so explain that to me, Like I
didn't go to med school or I didn't go to
technical school, and I'm at an engineer and I don't
know coding explain it to me. But so you have
a gifting for.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Explaining, like, oh, that makes sense, and I will say too,
in twenty sixteen, we didn't have I mean, I'm thinking back,
like in twenty sixteen what I was using, and I'm thinking,
I mean, we could probably count the systems that we
were all using in one hand in twenty sixteen compared
to I mean, you and I before we started recording,

(06:46):
we're talking about something like You're like, there's so many
And sometimes my coaching clients will come to a call
like have you heard of this?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Have you heard them? Like, no, I have not, and
I'm getting too old to try something new, so let
me call Tanisha. That's like, I am like, oh, people
with what I have, my systems that I have and
I use. But I also know that you know, you
have to evolve with everything else too. So but I
love the fact that I think sometimes you're calling your
gifting finds you in general, because you know, as much

(07:15):
as you've loved you know, planning weddings and officiating and
designing and things like that, like you have come into
your own when it comes to the systems and implantation,
like you understand them. And even you are shocked. When
there's a new system, You're like, you know what, I'm
going to go investigate that. I'll be back.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Absolutely, I'm always on the hunt for something.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Or What's funny is I find that my close circle
of friends in the industry, all times of the night,
they're up sending out emails and doing all the things,
and some system will pop on their news feed and
they'll sit.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
So I'll wake up in the morning with a bunch
of new stuff. Hey, SMS, what do you think about this?
And I'm like, I didn't even know if that existed,
but going down a rabbit hole.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, and I'll report back, which is our very personal,
our personal tech tech reviewer, because it's a lot, it's
a lot, and I feel like you get overwhelmed. It's
so overwhelming, which leads me, let's get right into it.
Let's get it right into it. When planners come to
you overwhelmed by the tools, the tech and all of

(08:17):
them must have software where you know, where do you
tell them to start? Because it's kind of like, you know,
we're having this conversation, I'm doing this interview, and I'm
pretty Sometimes between today and tomorrow, you and I are
going to have some kind of ad about some kind
of wedding planning system or or whatever kind of system

(08:38):
pop up somewhere on our on our feeds, because these
things are always listening to us, right, So where do
you tell them where to start?

Speaker 4 (08:46):
I always say to make a list. We are planners at.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Heart, so we are the people who are doing the
checklist every single day, right, So make a list.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Make a list of all the things that you don't
want to do, and make a list of all the
things you don't want to do.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
For me, that's accounting. I don't want to do it.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I got a bookkeeper two years ago because I was like,
this is no, I don't want.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
To do that.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't want to do it.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
I didn't want to do it, And for now people
that I come across, it's I don't want to do
the admin.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't want to do the follow up emails. I
don't want to that. And I tell them, once you're finished,
look at your list.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
You literally have the features of a system that's out there.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Right.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
You got to do from there is just make sure
that whatever you're trying.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Out matches the list that you just made. I know
what you need to use to move forward.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, and I'd love that you say make a list,
because you know, I think anytime I tell this are
that I coach, they all silently roll their eyes because
everything starts off with the brains up, y'all like waste on,
Grab a hot cup of coffee or tea, grab a
glass of wine. No one's judging you. It's yourn personal business.
That's what Auntie Tad says, right, But such as your business,

(10:08):
and do what you want to do and sit down
and do the list. But it's funny that you say that.
So last year my coach was like, you know, there's
levels of every stage in business, but there's even levels
of what kind of CEO you want to be, and
you know, with the kids getting older and you know,

(10:29):
senior year coming up in another year and all that
kind of good stuff and just the team growing a
little bit, she was like, what don't you want to do?
And I'm a firm believer of the thing that's constantly
on your to do list, on your quote unquote goals lists,
or every year, every month, every quarter, every year. It's
the thing that you either ate, don't like doing, or

(10:51):
b don't know how to do. Yeah, it's like, oh,
well that might be it. But I love how you
said too. It's like, write down all the things that
you don't want to do. It's either a system that
does a lot of that stuff for you, or multiple
systems that you could use to do both of those things,
or if it's not a physical system, it's a person
that you could outsource that again will free up your

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time to do other things like network and sales and
plan things for your clients or whatever else like that.
But it starts off with the list of the things
that you, like she said, don't want to do, don't
know how to do, or honestly don't have time to do. Tanisha,
because I as part of our job in this stage

(11:33):
of the world that we're in right now, that is
my biggest job is managing vendors. And some of these
vendors like, well I'm busy. I'm busy. They posting all
over the Internet and Instagram. Please give us great If
you're so busy servicing clients, that's a blessing. It's a

(11:53):
good thing. I'm so happy for you. But that means
that you that means you should have a little extra cash.
You either get a system or person just saying correct,
I just let it.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's just like you have to be able to take
off one of the hats hand it to somebody else.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
You can't do all the things all the time, physically can't.
You mentally can't, actually can't.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
You just can't.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
And if you're going to pour into one thing, then
you need something.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Else pouring into the others.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
While you're working on this, you got to separate some
things out and really just hone in on, like you said,
what you don't want to do you don't have time
to do anymore, and then realize that the list evolves.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yes, And just because.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
I feel like, yeah, just because you have a list
right now, these are the things I don't want.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
To do, but I have time to do X, Y and.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Z doesn't mean that in two quarters from now you're
going to.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Have time to continue to do X, Y and Z.
Maybe it's time to reevaluate that list.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, And he's constantly re evaluating it and seeing what
stage and business you are, what stage in life you are.
And I think sometimes too, when I posted this on
threads just this week to Nisa about like, I am
really grace grateful right now for the white space that
the team and I have. Right So we're not physically
to have a ton of events this season, this quarter,

(13:21):
the spring that we're in, but we're busy planning things
for our clients for late summer fall twenty twenty six.
We're busy doing all those things. But it has given
the team and I time to strategize, come up with
better you know, social media plans, and then like okay, Ireen,
you know, so peas need to be updated. So I'm

(13:43):
working on alongside Maria looking over those things like the
marketing for the retreat. So like it's given me that
white space to do the things that I need to
do as the CEO of the company on a daily basis,
and also being an intentional about the business versus the
time I work in the business. So yeah, it's a

(14:04):
lot and systems, your systems will change. I mean we're
looking at that now, like and you know, talking to
all our confidants about like okay, well what best works
for us and that kind of thing, and some based
on budget, and sometimes it's not based on budget. Sometimes
it's basic like what's the you know, this might be
a little bit more expensive, but overall, is it going
to be better for our clients and our team, and
you know, on and on and on. So how can

(14:27):
a wedding planner determine which systems they actually need based
on where they are in business? Right, So, whether they're
just starting out or they're in the growth phase or
scaling with the team, how do they determine what systems
are best for them?

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Honestly, it's a couple of things. One, it's your budget
and it's being honest in your budgets.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
If you are a newer planner, there's no reason for
you to be paying every single month one hundred plus
dollars a month for CRM.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
You don't have the clients to suppor everything.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
You do you want to get a return on, right,
and so considering the budget, that's one of the factors,
considering your list of things that you don't want to do,
so you know what features you're looking for, and then
asking questions were love that part.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
We see the system.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
As just a computer bought trying to fix all of
our worries.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
There are people behind those systems.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Absolutely, and most of the systems we use, most of
the systems the waiting industry we use are have been
created by our colleagues. I mean that's the reality.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah right, And I say reach out to them, ask them.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
They love it.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
As they do, they get feedback, they understand better. They're
not just stuck into this is what my problem was.
So I made a system to solve my problem. But
now they're opened up to or what other problems can
I solve with this system? And maybe something you're struggling
with that they can add or fix or tweak for
you to make it work better for you. So ask

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all the questions. And then the other thing is just
remember you're not going to break it by trying it.
I think people get hungry.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
We all think that. We all think that I felt
like I've broken upside or before I like use the
era and now I was banned by one that like
she went on vacation. We got to live wedding that
we had to plan in two weeks. We called the
Miracle on Fourteenth Street because it was at the four
Seasons and child, I don't know what I did trying
to create the Zip Boys or whatever else. And she

(16:41):
came back, she's like, what did you do? I'm like,
I don't know. She's like, don't I had to get retrained.
Sometimes she went on vacation. She was like, this is
where you live, this is where you live. But it
didn't break it. I was using ever like it didn't
break in that function and everything. She was just like,
you unclicked something that completely through something and off and
now she knows she was able to reset it because

(17:02):
she knows what she's doing. But you're not gonna break it.
And the funny thing about is if you feel like
you break it, they fix.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
It, like it could be fixed single system I've ever tried.
There's low chat bubble in the bottom of my hand corner.
Talk to the p and be honest, I think I
broke something and this is what I did and this
is what happened. And they'll be like, you didn't break anything,
while o't magic done.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
It's back right like oh there it goes. And not
only that though, it's like there's so many times that
people kind of talk themselves out of they talk themselves
out of like I can't afford that, I won't be
able to understand that, or my friend said this, and
realizing that everybody has it's going to have their own
experience with the systems where like some people love you know,

(17:44):
Honeybook versus the PSADO, and some people love you know,
Our Planet versus Heartson, and some people love Planning Pod
and some you know. The list goes on and on,
and now there's a new one that just popped up
to somebody told me about and I'm just like, just
do your research because a what works not necessarily Okay, yes,
affordability is always a good thing for everybody, but also

(18:04):
what's going to work best for you, what's going to
work best for your clients? And what I don't want
to see is, and I've seen this happen Tanisha, is
that you've been using a system for a really long
long time. Something you pops up and you're jumping over there,
and then something else you jumps up and you're jumping
over there, like you got to stick with it. Yeah,
so it was shiny, what's that? And it's like no,
and everyone's guilty, and I'm like, oh, I should know.

(18:26):
I'm going to stay right where I'm at because the
idea of having to read take all this and put
it over there gives me hives.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
And I'm the same, I'm the queen of ooh shiny.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
If there's something new, I want to see it, I
want to touch it, I want to try it, I
want to know all the things.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
And sometimes there's times where I'm like, oh, maybe we
should try all of these things.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
But then I sit back and I go back and
I think to.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Myself, no, it's working. There isn't anything that's broken. It's
not time to scale up, it's not time to do anything.
But I'll put this on my list, but later, just
be honest with yourself, with yourself when it comes to
these things.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
And then I hear a lot of people say I'm
not tech savvy, and I just want to say that's
not true. We all have a cell phone, and.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
If you can call somebody, or are tech savvy enough
for twenty.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Twenty, if you could check your if you could text somebody,
call somebody, check your email, play on what do you
call it? Play candy crush, watch your Instagram and your tiktoks.
I mean our phones. It's like it's like it's a
smartphone for a reason. It's like in our hands. And
most of these CRMs do have apps, and if they don't,

(19:41):
you can still ask them on your phone. You know
that kind of stuff. So we are all tech savvy
I think it's just finding the you know, finding the
system that works best for you number one and one
that you actually have direct access or easy access to
be able to ask questions to the creators or the team,
on the other hand, is always a good thing, you know,

(20:02):
it's always a really good thing.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
I think for people.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
My trick is the trick I used to figure out
which one is like gonna work the best. For people
who think I'm not textavy enough, ask them if they
use an Apple or an Android.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, if you're.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Using Apple, that means you prefer things to be set
up right out of the box.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
You just want to open it up, you want to
sign up, and you want to be able to movement
absolutely Android, then you will take the time to customize things.
You want your screen to be laid out a certain way.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
You want the.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Apps to be not in alphabetical order, but by color.
You can move things around and do a little bit
extra tweaking to it.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
So that's kind of the difference between trying to figure
out what system's going to work best for you and
to give you a systems example. My Apple people are
almost always Honeybook users or harps and users.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Because right out of the gate.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
It's set up, you can go my Android people are
almost always Dipsoddle users or tave users, something that has
a little bit more complexity to it, So that's how
you can kind of figure it out a little bit too.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
That's so funny that you would say that because I'm
an Apple user. I mean, you know, doing work for
Apple for years, so everything that I own is app
is so. But it was like I was when I
first started my first rms. My two first yrms was
fifteen hats because somebody told me to do it, and
I was like, I don't know what the heck I

(21:31):
was doing, but I did it, and then my then
I got out Planner and again I remember like echoing
my head trying to figure this out. And I went
to the Outplanner Facebook group and it was like who
sets them up? And then Wanda was like I I've
known Wanda when she owned the Bridle Salon here in Atlanta,
so I was like, okay, girl, and I paid her

(21:51):
two hundred and twenty five dollars and she had done
in like two seconds, I swear she did, versus me
trying to figure it out, trying to figure it out,
trying to figure it out. So yeah, you're that is
actually right, Like you want stuff, it's done for you
and it's you know, I don't even talk about it
like that. I love that. I love that. So let's
see what's hard. Let's let's keep moving on. So what

(22:12):
are some of the biggest mistakes you see planners make
when they're choosing systems? Like, what are some of the
mistakes that you see that we're making.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
They try to look for an all inclusive option. They're
scared of trying to set up multiple different systems and
a tech stack, right. They want one solution for every
possible scenario that could happen when you're planning a wedding

(22:43):
in an event, And honestly, while there's maybe a handful
that get really close, there isn't right.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
There's not oneone that's going to give you every single thing.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Because everybody plans differently, everybody is their business differently. Looking
for in all in one system, you're going to be
looking forever and you're never going to settle on one thing.
You're never going to just get the thing moving. And
then also, I think one of the other things where

(23:16):
people mess up is that they just get stuck in
the trial phase and.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
They never move past that. They may have done.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
One test client, and then afterwards they never fully set
up the workflow, right, maybe there's just a piece of
it done, or they.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Never uploaded all of their branding in there, or they're
afraid to push buttons, so they don't fully set up
the schedule.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
So they're still trying to do that. And then last
thing I think that they mess up on is they
try to be in control of everything. Our systems that
will do the things for you, and you can automate
all of.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
These tasks and you can even tell it to remind
you to do all of these things.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
You want to be so in control of every little
detail that you.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Never let it autom me, and now you're still manually
doing everything, and you're feeling like, well.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
This is not saving me anytime, right, so you got
to let it do its job in order for to
save you the time.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah. Another thing that I've seen planners do is pay
somebody to set up their system, but don't ever use
the system themselves. And like I've had people and I'm
just like, you've done what and you're paying what everyone
and you paid what? Tip this up? And well, I
don't know how to use it. So listen, I'm just saying, fine,

(24:40):
if you're going to find somebody to help you, I'll
help you set up your systems. Make sure that they're
teaching you how to use the systems. Like that's just
that's a huge, huge thing that I've seen happen or whatever.
Or just sticking your head like sticking your head in
the sand. It's not going to make it go away.
Because twenty twenty five and beyond, especially the majority are you.

(25:00):
The weddings that we're seeing right now is gen Z.
So I have millennials getting married. We have some experts
like having second weddings and all that kind of stuff,
but for the bulk of it, it is gen Z.
And we just had a post of retreat webinar and
you should with the not And then we're talking about
like they are still using technology to the fullest searching

(25:23):
and looking and all that kind of stuff. And then
the other thing is it's like, especially if you are
a planner who is starting growing scaling your business while
you're still working your investor job, you better get on
these systems because that means you're going to be tathered
like you're going to be tathered to your phone into
the email for every lead that comes in instead of

(25:45):
letting it go through your system, you know, Like that's
one of the biggest questions people ask me all the time, like,
you know, what, how what's your workflow? Like I'm like
getting quiry to this, to this, to this to that
boom on a call, and then you know, people like, oh,
I'm spending two hours on a proposal, Like you're not.
If it's only a planning a proposal, not planning, you're

(26:05):
not putting a design proposal. It should not take you
two hours put a propose together, my loves like, it
should be like fifteen twenty minutes, right, And that's if
you're you know, if you're taking a template and your customer,
you're jushing it up a little bit. I like to
do that, Like if they're getting married at a venue
we've worked at, if they're a biracial couple, if they're whatever,
I switch the pictures around. But for the most part,
they're all getting the same thing, with a couple of

(26:27):
tweaks here and there. Of course, pricing, you know, invoices different,
but you actually have to use the systems. That's a
huge mistakes like that they you know, pick something, to
pick something because somebody tells them to do it, or
they watch something on a on a summit or gone
to a conference and they had a special deal and
they sign up for it and it sits there for months,

(26:48):
and it's kind of like those commercials they come up
with those commercials. They're like, oh, I'm paying for subscriptions
and don't even know. Yes, that had I've literally have
had a coaching sessions with people who like, yeah, I
don't know where my money's going. And I'm like, well,
let's look through your you know, let's look let's review everything,
like oh god, that I'm paying five dollars here, ten
dollars here, fifty dollars here. They're adds up like I
know somebody that when all said and done, they were

(27:10):
like two hundred bucks worth of memberships and subscriptions they
weren't even using a month, because again, we forget.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Too much for that. If I want to pay for it, it.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
Needs to be you need to be helping you, right,
it needs to be helping you and asking questions like
don't be afraid, like Toise just said, to ask the
bot or most of these systems.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Have us have a Facebook group talk to you other
planner friends. You know, people are a little threads having
conversations about systems and all that kind of stuff, just
like you know, and and I also think, like you
said earlier, like you review it and you need to
review it every year like everything else is a business
owner be like, how did this work for us? Like
literally one of our CRMs that we only use, you know,

(27:56):
we use our planner to serve as our clients. We
don't use it for anything else but to work with
our clients. We've had to like last year it was like,
oh fifty to fifty some of them did never even
opened it. We did all the work for them. This year.
My girls are just they're like our twenty twenty five,
twenty six brides because because of what their jobs are too.
I'm like, I go in there and I'm like, oh, well,

(28:16):
how am I going to move these six seven eight
people when they are fully using this system to the fullest,
even my full service clients, they're updating stuff. I'm like,
that's okay, you okay cause you cause your type A,
you wanted to fill it out yourself because you're up
at one in the morning, fine, full guest, listen there
budgets in there. Update. I was like, this is awesome,
And so I'm thinking the day like how am I

(28:36):
going to convert to something else when it's being used?
You know? So that's a that's a big thing. Use
what you get, Ladies use and gentlemen use what you get. Okay,
now let's let's talk about implementation. Right. It's one thing
to have all the right systems, but what does it take, really,
what does it really take to make them work for

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your business?

Speaker 4 (29:00):
It is writing the vision and making it incredibly plain.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
And not just playing y'all.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Then and A with a little dot, B with a
little dot too.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
You have to write out the workflow and write out
the process. You have to get it out of your
head and get it on the paper or get it
onto a screen so that you can actually do those
steps that up whatever system that you're using, or to
actually use it on a regular basis.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
They say it takes like thirty days to make a habit.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Then you need to be doing something each day for
a month to get it where you need it to go.
And then making sure that making sure that you understand
that if you're in this as a.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Business and not as a hobby.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Then that means you're wanting to scale at some point,
which means other people are going to have to use
this too. Writing out the process, you're implementing the process
into the actual system.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Now when it comes time to actually scale, you now
don't have to do that work either.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
You simply just have to go to the system. The
workforce is already there for them. Right, you're just setting
everybody else up for success. But you if you don't
take the time to actually write it out, get out
of your head and see where, see where you can
tweak things. You might write something down and say, our
incurry process is they come to our website and then

(30:31):
we send a follow up email, and then we send a.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Pricing guide and then we send a scheduling link. And
you might look at that on paper.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
And like, wow, that's a lot of steps, right, How
can I consolidate.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
This mm hm? Because people have because people better.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Process something more efficient if you go ahead and write
it down and actually look at it.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
We say all the time in this industry that our
clients are super visual.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
We have to show them everything. What are our visual too? Yeah,
we treat our business as a client. Then we'll be
able to properly implement things that I love that.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Mm hmmm, you're right, because it's kind of like and
honestly now with Chad GPT, like there is times like
I literally brain dump and my brain dumb looks like
one big old run on paragraph, like there are dots
and commas and all the other stuff and periods and
all that stuff. But I'm like, I literally just brain
dumb what I'm thinking the process of the flow, and

(31:29):
I'm like, okay, make this make my mumbo jumbo into
a cohesive brief step by step right, and they and
and and you know, CC Monika calls her CZ said,
here you go. And then I go in and I
tweak it some more and I change it and I
make it our our more and more. You know, the

(31:49):
I twe language. But it does definitely doing that. You
have to write it out, and I will say, and
an Autenisha will agree to this. The growth in the
scale will not come, my friend, until that's done. Yeah,
And so you word it out, because how if you want,
if you can say you have the funds to pay
somebody to build the system for you, well they're going

(32:10):
to ask you all these questions to flow you on
what to workflow you want, and you gotta look at
them like what do you mean, great, you want to
hire a team, Well, what's is there? Team manual? Is
there SOPs? Like how do you do the things that
you do? It's one of those things that we're working
that I'm beta testing now Tanisia. Within the two groups
that I have that we're doing a whole SOP manual

(32:33):
like template manual that I created for everybody, like pop
it in here, and then I then again told my
because this is not my business, so I can show
you my SOPs. But there's a piece for everything like SOPs.
I mean, you know we for commissionable sleeping rooms, there's
SOPs on how to run and you know the list
goes on and on. I mean I just did a

(32:55):
SOP or a guy for open houses, like you know
when we do what open house? Also? Right, I shared
that with the coaching coaching clients. I've done one for
like style shoots, like anything you could think of, you
create it, like my team labs, like are Google talks
are a mess because there's so many of them in there,
but there's something's it becomes a resource, but again it

(33:17):
helps you set up your systems and know what systems
work best for you too.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
It's then, even.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
With having all of those selfpiees, it might sound like
an overwhelming task to figure out what are all the
processes that I do?

Speaker 3 (33:32):
What are all the workples I do?

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Use AI to help you, like I mean, say little
whose chat GPT, use Claude. Claud will even make you
a visual flow chart so you can see it in
little boxes right, or use your your note taker app
to just like get it all down and get it
or right. Or you can just record yourself doing your
process loom. You can make a zoom record yourself actually

(33:58):
doing the step. There's other systems and tools that will
even take those videos and turn them into the step
by step guide for you, so you don't have to
feel like you're doing everything all alone. I think that's
the biggest thing I want people to understand. Like you
are the CEO of your company, You're not also the
employee and department head and director of every single department

(34:22):
with your company.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
You've got even a yeah, even if you're entrepreneur like
since these systems that are out here and the people
outsourcing are part of your team executive executive assistants. Also
our social media. Now she's just started a few months
back eight so like right now, administratively, there's not a
ton doing because things are you know, pretty quiet on

(34:48):
that front. So she is really focused on the social
media partner and the strategy and you know, we use
ERNG behind the scenes and we you know, we have conversations.
We're using zoom, and we're using where we're all iPhone users,
so we're using our iPhone for stuff. So it's like,
you know, to be able to share videos and when
she's you know done with postings all that stuff, like

(35:08):
using everything that we have at our disposable to your
advantage to grow and listen, if you feel like like
she said earlier, like I'm not tech savvy, you better
get tech savvy because the list because because if you're
a planner in these streets and nowadays, you're servicing couples
that are tech savvy right thousand percent, because more Zers
are getting married than any other generation right now. And

(35:32):
they were born with they were boro Android and Android
and iPhone in their blood.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
And I think the easiest way to think about any
of this is just when you're when you're trying to
write out the vision, or you're trying to make the list,
or you're trying to do all these things. I think
people also get caught up in that it has to
be this big, fluffy document, has to be all these things.
Simplify it, make it feel that teen year old can
understand what the process is.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
I do that every single time.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
I take everything right down and I hand it over
to my son and I'm like, do this, And if
he can do it without having a vast understanding of
what the end goal is, if he can get to
that end goal was what I felt, then I know
I'm good to go. And I can take that easily

(36:24):
put it into a system, or I can hire a
VA or someone on a fiber.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
To take what I wrote down and say, go put
this in the system and they can set it up
for you.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
But try to ease some of the overwhelm of getting
some of these things done. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Share an example of a planner who went from overwhelmed
to organize. It's fifting their systems or streamlining their operations.
So like any good example of somebody that was like, ah,
did they it? Kind of incrudsees control.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Now, yeah, my one of my event besties is what
I call her.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
She self diagnosed herself with and she's like, I'm all
over replace Tenisha. I got all these things I need
to do. I got all these goals I want to accomplish.
There's other businesses that I.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Want to try.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
She's a part of all of these organizations. She sits
on some boards and things like that, and so she's like,
I got all these things and she's running a mile
minute right. And so for me, it was a matter
of sitting her down and saying, first of all.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Breathe or some foremost right.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
And then we sat down and we came up with
a plan.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
And the plan was simply to start by one we
made our list, and then two make schedule. We time
blocked things into our schedule. We turned her business into
her number one client.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
That's the mindset, that shift that we had made.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
And so instead of on the calendar, it's saying I
need to work.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
On accounting, I need to set up this system, I
need to try this new system. I need to migrate everything.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
From dep Psatto into honeybook or Honeybook into Delcatto. We
said on Wednesday, from four pm to six pm meeting
with and.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
We put her business name there because to her, if
it's her, if it's on her calendar as a client,
she's going to do it no matter what it is.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
But if it's on her calendar as something she needs
to take care of herself or something she needs attached
she needs to do, she's just going to be like, oh,
I can do that later. Let me get to something
for a client. To her, clients are the most important thing.
So then we're going to schedule your business as a client.
And then she was able to get stuff actually done
and so now she has everything migrated over into a

(38:51):
system she actually will love because she felt victim to
the fact that I was using.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Dep sooto at the time, so she was like, if
Tenise's using it, I'm gonna use it too.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Like sweetee, your brain does not like upsido. Your brain
functions better with honeybook.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Your spirit is like what's going on a fun no? No, no.
And as a planner, you think you think as a planner,
I'm I'm logical I should be able to do this,
And it doesn't necessarily work that way, right, And it
also didn't.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Work for the way that she thinks the way that
she likes to plan her events, because it's totally different
than how I like to plan my events. So once
she was able to schedule things as if her business
was the client, she was actually able to actually do
the task. And then she got organized, and now things
are running where she's able to now start her coaching business.

(39:44):
Because you know, things are running on the back end,
she to take breaks and vacations with her family.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
During that party.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
She can even call me and say, like, something came up,
my kids are sick at school, but I need to
make sure that the follow ups went through with such
and such client.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
And I can go in her.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
System and say like, oh, yeah, everything's still working properly,
everything's still good to go.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
But you got a new email. But I see in
your workflow and your task list it says send this email.
I can send it for you because it's already written
out there. Right. Just taking that time to schedule it out,
to time block it out is what helped her go
from little chaotic.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Right the organized to organize it in her planning business.
And I think that's important. I think it's important to.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Not just sit with a bunch of notebooks and a
bunch of lists and all things. But then also take
that and create the plan. We're planners at the end
of the day.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yes, treat business as Yeah, treat your business as a client.
I mean that is that's huge, Like treat your business
as a client. Put yourself on the books, like put
yourself like, you know, I go to the gym a
few times a week, and I'm and i'm you know,
if I post something on the way out to the
gym on my car chats, I go these ways, like
I need to figure out the time to implement them.

(41:04):
Like listen, I don't really have time, and it's easy
to just stay up in this bed or just stay
in the house at this computer, but I make I
put myself on the schedule, like I'm on the schedule
on the on the Google calendar. It's on this big
old schedule in the kitchen if I for some reason
have to change it and didn't change in the kitchen.
My my accountability partners here that they've dubbed themselves accountability partners,

(41:25):
and the whet to ask them to in this house
that you're not going to the gym and I'm like, no,
I have an appartment. Oh okay, well, you know, they'll
have something to say. You have to put yourself on
the schedule, like set CEO time and set times and
it's like, okay, from this time to this time, I
think she said, I am only going to work on
my workflows. Like that's it, like the workflows so that

(41:46):
we could I could work on implementation. And that's what
implementation is, y'all, Like it's actually taking time out. Stop
thinking about it, Stop making lists about it, Stop comparing
yourself to other people. Stop asking a thousand I want
questions in these Facebook groups and not doing anything. Stu've
scrolled it through all these systems, all these things and
doing it. Stop going to all these free summits that

(42:07):
are out there, because lord, every time you go to one,
I got tell people to time like I will I
invest in some of those If the topic for two reasons.
One if one of my one of my speaker friends,
one of my friends are selling tickets and I want
to support. Two if it's a topic that I know
is going to benefit the team in the future, and

(42:28):
it's a resource center, Like you know what, I don't
have time to watch this live, but all these topics
are really good and for fifty bucks. I get to
keep it and be a part of be a part
of the system for a little bit. And in somebody
in the system, and somebody in the team wants to
take it on. They have their information there. But yeah,
taking the time out, taking the time out to do it,

(42:49):
because that's the only wal There's no magic bullets, and
none of us have an unlimited amount of money to
have somebody do it all for us.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Agree, And I think people need to remember, you already
have all the notes. I guarantee you you.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Have all the list already, You have all the resources.
You have educators that like I Ring that want to
pour into you. You have the connections. You just need
to actually do the thing.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah, you have to do it. Yeah, And even if
you're gonna even if you're gonna work with somebody implement
it for you or set it up for you, they
still need your input because at the end of the day,
this is still your business, not their business. It's your business. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
I do implementation for some people, and I always tell them, like, now,
I'm not setting up a copycat Suarez by Leaf for you.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
I'm setting up whatever businesses you have created in your mind.
What you've manifested. So I need you in this process
to make sure that it's going to work how you
like to work, not how to make you likes to
work how you like to work, right.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Because again we have different minds and different way of
doing things.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
So for planners who has a tent or scared to
let go and to delegate to systems and or people,
because I see that all the time, what encouragement would
you give them?

Speaker 3 (44:12):
I see that all the time.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
We all did that at one point another.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
It's all there's a little bit of do I trust
somebody with my baby?

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Right?

Speaker 4 (44:26):
And my thing is that baby is going to grow
when you allow it, when you allow it.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
To meet and co mingle with other people, right. And
so the same with our businesses.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
We have to let other people come in with their
zones of genius. Like I said earlier, I don't like accounting.
It's not my thing. I can add, but I don't
want to. And so if I'm connecting with that, I
like to add.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
I don't mind where on somebody else's budget. I just
want to reconcile my own budget.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Yeah, I don't want to do it. Don't ask me
about profit and laws. Go ask the accountant. I don't
I don't care, but that person can also give me
input into my business that I didn't think of. That
goes with assistance as well. We're asking them what's their process?
Is this actually working for you?

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Right?

Speaker 3 (45:26):
What happened when we did X, Y and Z.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Do you feel like there's a different way that we
could do this so that you'll actually get the job done?

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Right?

Speaker 4 (45:34):
I think that's important too, is to you got to
learn to trust. You got to learn to trust the process,
especially especially because you're saying that this is a business
and not a hobby.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
If it's a hobby, do it all yourself.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Listen, we candy, we can craft, we can use the
cricket all day long, right, all by ourselves. Well, we
as much as we are hesitant to to do full
planning services for a DIY client, we shouldn't want to
dy our businesses either.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
That's the pot calling the kettle, and so we need
we need other people.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
It takes almost like fifteen vendors to pull off a
successful wedding or a.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Successful event, right.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Think about how that plays off in your in your business.
You want to be the person at the wedding who
is taking the pictures and stern up the macaroni and
cheese at the same time.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
And we've seen that. We talk about those people.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Good lord, right, you just can't. I cringe when some
of my planning clients ask me, okay, you also appreciate
the wedding. Let me tell you how that's going to
be terrible, but okay. And so.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
I think we have to think about that on our
business and with our systems as well.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Our system are our employees, treat.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
Them as such, trust them to do what they say
they're going to do, and if they don't do exactly.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
What you need them to do, that's what the little
chat button in the corner is for correction.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Yeah, it's a part of.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Just trusting yourself that you know what you're doing, so
then you can trust others and you can trust systems
to help you to continue to do what it is
you love to do, because if you don't, I'm gonna
tell you this, you're not gonna be in business very.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Long, no, ma'am, No, ma'am. And to add to that,
because I know I don't know if you were thinking
of it, but to add to that too is I
don't know who said it. I've been always looking for this.
I don't know who said this, but it takes money
to make money.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Oh good lord.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Yes, And you have to invest in yourself and in
your business if you're expecting somebody to invest in you,
if you're asking these clients to invest personal money with
you to plan their weddings, and you have, you know,

(48:10):
systems you Google doc in it for this, or a
doc you signed for here, and a PayPal for this,
and spreadsheets for this that are not on Google because
you're you're not using Google docs or Google spreadsheets or
you know whatever, Like it is all a part of
your branding. I'm here to tell you that our systems,
from inquiry to offboarding and everywhere in between have gotten

(48:32):
just as high compliments from our couples as our service
has been. Like I've had our extremely professional couples. I've said, girl,
from your inquiry page to booking a call to the
discovery call. I mean, I've had brides and grooms like
literally go through my workflow and like from this point
to this point to this point to the end, nothing perfection.

(48:56):
And then someone of the brides even said, like your
process onboarding and all that stuff she's like that go
so goes with your branding like she's like, it's so
warm and friendly, because that's I think it's also too
when you automate things, people think that I'm like, no,
you could still make it sound like Tanisha and lose
AQ like, you can still make it sound like yourself.
But you have to invest in yourself, and especially if

(49:21):
you're working your investor jobs. If full time job, you
have enough money to pay all of your bills and
then either a you have a little money from your
investor job to put into your business, or every time
you're making something from a wedding, your booking, it goes
right back into your business. And I'm here to tell
you that it takes it takes a good three to
five years to really turn of hard earned profit like

(49:44):
a really good profit, because if you're doing it correctly,
you're taking your money and reinvest it in your your systems.
You're outsourcing your branding, your website, your SEO. All of
that is it's it takes money to make it. It
takes money to make And again, most of these systems
have free trials. You know, you could ask a ton

(50:06):
of questions. Many of them will get on a call
with you and do a life demo where you could
ask questions. You could test it out for a couple
of weeks, two a month. You have you know, if
you're you know there's coaches out there and educators out
there that we use it stems ask questions like, don't
be afraid to ask questions. Really, don't be afraid to
ask questions?

Speaker 3 (50:24):
What are you afraid to ask questions? And then just
remember that it is.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
The investment that you're making is not always in the
big conference, right. I think when that turns you around,
invest in your business, invest yourself, know your worth.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
All those things was because people were trying to get
you to go to these huge conferences two thousand dollars,
five thousand.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Dollars tickets to sell you something bigger, just giving you
some right to the big part.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
But investing in your business, like I mean said, also
involved in investing in the system.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
That you're going to use.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
And you have to remember invest in the system that's
right for you at the time. So if at the
beginning you don't have a huge lump sum of money
to spend on all of these different systems, get one
one tear and you can scale up later because.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Things are going to change, You're going to learn new things,
you're going to want to implement new things, and you
can scale up to something.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
You can go to another tier in that same system,
or go to a whole another system altogether if you
need to. Like for us, when we started, we weren't
doing design and flowers, and so the side.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Was enough for us. When we started to add on.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Design, we started to add on florals, we started to
add on efficient services. We needed more out of a
system than we were looking at things like True Client
Pro or we were looking at our planner.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
We were looking at things that we can use to
actually get flower recipes done, like all of those. So
take the time to invest in your.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Business, your systems, your software, your tech, all of the
little things.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
In addition whatever it is that you're investing in for
your education.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Right, I love it. So what is some of your
go to Some sort of tools recommend planners look up?

Speaker 3 (52:12):
And why ooh my favorite. Okay, I get.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
Excited when I get to talk about the tools and
stuff I like to use. One of the ones I
just mentioned True Client Pro. That one is a really
good one for planners. It actually started out as for florists,
but they've since redone.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Some things where there's a planner.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
Version and so there's some tools in there specifics to planners.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
So I love that.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
And something in compareson to that in terms of like
a CRM, there's a new one called plan.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Page that we are actually transitioning number too for a
plan a plan page.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Plan page, yes.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Yeah if that one has a lot of actual plan
tools for the logistics side of things, which is something
that loves.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah, I love it. It's got all.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Of your RSVPs and guest lists and ways to send
out announcements to guests during the event, and it has
all of these vendor contacts that you can store, and
it just has a lot of good logistic minded planning
tools in it.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
So I really like that.

Speaker 4 (53:24):
I want to tell all planners so also look at
things that are not just your CRM. Right, that's your baby,
that's your hub, that's where all the clients and things
will live. But what are those extra systems that will
help make the process a little bit easier for you.
So we use one called Whimsy, and Whimsy is just

(53:44):
for our email.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
It lives next to our Gmail email.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Box and What it does is it reads our email
and organizes them into projects automatically, like we.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Like a what do they call that? Is it a
add on or an extension?

Speaker 3 (54:05):
And so all that we have to do is.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
It will read who the email is from, it'll organize
it into an extension.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
It's actually made for the event industry, so it also.

Speaker 4 (54:14):
Does things like if a caterer is sent over a
bo it'll read the contract and pull out the payment
schedule out of there so you can have that in
the little in the project in your email.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
It'll read the email and say these are the tasks
you need to work on from this email.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
So like when I wake up, I'm not just having
to go through every email, I can just go to rap.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
And see and be like okay, dun dun, dun, dun dun.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
And if you let it, which is say, if you
let it, it can draft the response email for you.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
So I'm loving Whimsy because that helps cut down on
my email inbox for sure.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
One other always timelinching you al ladies.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
I can't tell you how invaluable.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
That tool is from going from spending like two three
hours trying to build a production schedule because mine are
pretty long and detailed to being able to do it
in like thirty to forty five minutes because of the
genius feature that I'm never going.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Back absolutely, and now they have checklist in there too.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
It's just so wonderful.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I know, he just keeps adding to it, which you know,
shout out to Eddie because we love him. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
And then a bonus one for those planners who also
do a little bit of design, there's a new software
called June. The website is try June dot AI. Oh
I love that one. You can actually up you can.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Prompt what it is that you're thinking design wise, and
not only can it pull together a mood board for you,
it can pull together and AI generated image of what
that place setting would look like, what the table scape
might look like. But the pieces that are in there
are linked to actual rental companies. So then it goes
a step further and it says like, okay, you like this,

(56:14):
It's going to.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Create a list of all of the pieces. You can
you know, change out stuff if you wanted to, but.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
Now you have a list of all the pieces for
the rental company, so that all you can just say,
I want this, I want this, I want this.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
They're working on a way to link it where you
can just place the order right there, right. But it's
a time saver for sure because you can.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
Yeah, up, go to inspiration image or say I'm looking
for these colors, but I want it to be I'm
here in Texas, so everybody wants everything to be country lavish,
So it can be country lavish, I don't know, blush
and beige, and it'll come up with an AI generated
mood board inspiration image and then itemize all of the

(57:03):
rentals with pricing, so then you can make out door. Yeah,
you can make your design presentation that much faster. H
those are my favorites right now.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I love that. I'll definitely make sure put those in
the show notes for everybody to see. I'm like, oh,
I just wroted some down. I've just like, I learned
a couple that I've never heard of. Okay, ladies, So
before we wrap up, where can our listeners connect with you,
work with you, or learn more about what you offer?

Speaker 4 (57:32):
So you guys can always find me on all platforms
at collectively wed.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Or you can go to collectivelyweed dot com.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
I've got all my resources and things right there and
if you're wanting to work with me live, we are
hosting a retreat in Dallas's summer called the Implement Experience,
and you can find that on our website at collectivelyweed
dot com.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Too. Yay, so excited for you for that. So Tanisha,
thank you so much for dropping all this wisdom today.
I know our listener away with real clarity and how
to choose the right systems and more importantly, how to
actually implement them in their business in a way that
brings peace, profit and purpose. All right, Tanisa, thank you

(58:20):
so much for dropping all this wisdom today. I know
our listeners were walking away with real clarity on how
to choose the right systems and more importantly, how to
actually implement them in their businesses in a way that
brings peace, profit and purpose. And Planners, by the time
this episode airs, registration is officially open for the Becoming

(58:44):
the Business Retreat for Wedding Planners twenty twenty six, We're
back in Atlanta. We never really left Atlanta for three
powerful days to help you build a business that honors
your vision and your values. From mindset to marketing systems
to CEO strategies. This retreat is where clarity meets action,
So head over to irenetendale dot com forward slash Retreat

(59:07):
or check the link in the show notes to grab
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becoming the CEO you were called to be. I love
you all and I'll catch you next week.

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