RE: The Podcast

Move over, Kevin - we're talking BRAND Designs! This week  Cat, the founder of brilliant branding and web agency Gatto, chats us through all things branding and design. It's a buzzword nowadays, sure, but we dive deep: we ask why brand values are so important, how to go about finding them, what brand design actually means, and how to find your elusive 'branding sweetspot'. We also ask what it...

We chat to Chloe, founder of Vibe and Flow and co-founder of Cone Accounting, about how to improve your money mindset and reframe your attitude towards it. Whether you're on board with manifestation already or need a bit of a nudge to see how it actually works, we talked about treating money with respect, attitudes of abundance, mindfood, and some simple hacks to improve your monetary life general...

Fretting about your finances? Taxed by your taxes? Mindblown by money? This week we chat to Julia from The Independent Girls' Collective about how to feel in control of your finances as a self-employed or freelance worker. Working to help creative women make, manage, and feel good about money, we chatted to her about tracking your money, where to start with tax, pricing, self-worth and why the 'st...

Sometimes figuring out what your ideal couple want is tough - but that’s where Aleisha McCormack comes in. Host of Bridechilla, one of the top wedding planning podcasts in the world - no biggy, guys - she has a unique vantage point as someone who chats to a LOT of couples during their wedding planning. This means that she has some super interesting insights on what they’re looking for, and how we...

Coming to you live from the wormhole this week as we chat about how we stay inspired in our businesses, and avoid falling into a creative rut. We reveal our personal inspirations, candidly discuss what we do when we're not inspired (it happens to everyone!), discuss being inspired vs copying, and learn some surprising and alarming facts about pigeons. If it’s not inspirational, it’s at least...

In this episode we were honoured to chat to Tara, the co-founder of the world's leading wedding resource for lesbian women, Dancing With Her. Tara describes her and her readers' experiences of being LGBTQ+ and planning a wedding, and we discuss what we can and should be doing as suppliers in the industry to be better allies. 

Join us on the best hour and 6 minutes of Rachel's life, at actual PINTEREST HQ. The lovely Meesh and Reena from the Pinterest UK team shared their tips with us on how to leverage the power of Pinterest for your wedding business, to get you more sales, more views and more raving fans.  SCHNOTES:  https://www.thebusinessproposalpodcast.com/episodes INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/busines...

This week we're super excited to be chatting about how to be productive and stay motivated with the founder of the Zelo Journal, Michael Johnston. Instead of promoting one particular method that will never be one-size-fits-all, we explored how to find your own way of working and how to use it effectively. We cover SMART goals (ya clever clogs), prioritising, habit tracking, decision fatigue, and s...

Today we chat with baking royalty... No not Mary Berry, it's Georgia Green from Georgia's Cakes. As a baker to the stars and someone that has her cakes displayed in ACTUAL Harrods, Georgia knows a thing or two about getting people to notice your work. She shared her infinite wisdom with us about getting started with your PR, what it's like to grow a large following online and how to manage it all...

Weddings are somewhat seasonal, but self-employment definitely isn’t; so how can you make use of the quieter months to make business easier, more enjoyable, and more profitable for you? We take you through 18 things you could be doing in the downtime in order to help you dialup the uptime. (Uptime definitely isn’t a word, but we’ve just made it up. If you think that’s bad wordplay, wait til you ge...

If you think SEO is boring, terrifying, or unattainable - hold onto your hats, team! We speak to Maddy from Making Your Business Shine on how to deal with SEOverwhelm, what SEO really means, and how to break it down into achievable chunks to get your small business seen. We also chat donuts and ABBA, because they're the key to most overwhelming situations...

You feel it in your fingers, you feel it in your toes - copy is all around us, and it's how your business grows...if you often find yourself staring at a blank page in a cold sweat wondering what to say, then this episode is for you. Whether it's blogs, social media or emails (it all counts as copy!) Ellie (aka the cool girl of copy) shares her wisdom about how to improve your copywriting skills a...

We chat with the inimitable and super talented wedding photographer Joanna Bongard about branding photography, how to be comfortable in front of the camera, showing your personality online and how to stand out from the crowd.   SHOW NOTES: https://www.thebusinessproposalpodcast.com/episode-3-build-personal-brand-photos-joanna-bongard INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/businessproposalpodcas...

Today we chat with Melissa Woods of The UN-WEDDING blog, on how she organically grew her instagram following to 10K, why we don't need to worry about the algorithm, and how to attract truly engaged fans.  SHOW NOTES: https://www.thebusinessproposalpodcast.com/episode-2-not-worrying-about-the-algorithm-melissa-un-wedding INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/businessproposalpodcast FACEBOOK: ht...

Welcome to The Business Proposal, the podcast for wedding creatives, by wedding creatives. In our inaugural episode, we (Rachel and Ellie) are diving right in with one of the trickiest challenges small business owners face: finding your ideal clients. The reason we decided to kick off the podcast with this conversation is that finding your ideal customers is HARD, but once you do, everything else...