Wedding Pro Academy

🎙 Episode 46: How to Work Less and Earn More (Yes, Really) Think you have to hustle harder to grow your business? Think again. In this episode, I share how to design your wedding business for profit and freedom — using time blocking, batching, and smarter systems. Learn how to work fewer hours, avoid burnout, and finally make more by doing less. Standout Quotes: 💬 “Are you building a badass busin...

🎙 Episode 45: How Much Do Wedding Pros Really Make? Starting a wedding business can feel like jumping off a cliff into the unknown. Unlike a traditional 9–5, there’s no set salary, no clear path—and no one tells you what to charge. So... how much do wedding pros really make? And is this even a profitable industry? In this episode, we dig deep into the real numbers behind wedding businesses—from pl...

💫 How to Book Your First Wedding Just getting started in the wedding industry and struggling to book that first client? You’re not alone. In this episode, we break down why it’s so hard to land your first wedding—and what actually works. From styled shoots and social media to networking and Craigslist (yes, Craigslist!), I’m sharing what worked for me, what didn’t, and where you should focus your...

"7 Beliefs Keeping Your Wedding Business from 6-Figures" 🎧 Podcast Episode Summary: Are your beliefs secretly blocking your business growth? In today’s episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the seven mindset traps that hold so many wedding pros back from building the business — and income — they truly want. Whether you're a planner, florist, photographer, or creative in the wedding industry, t...

Episode Overview:   What does it take to be considered the best wedding photographer, the best wedding planner, the best hair and makeup artist?  What do these wedding business owners do differently or have that the others don't?  What makes them more successful?  Is there a simple way to break down a list so that you can clearly see what you're missing and how to adjust?  Actually - yes, there is...

Episode Overview:  When it comes to wedding businesses specifically, there are very specific traits that all the successful wedding business owners share.  Having built relationships with so many wedding business owners over the last decade and worked with so many newbie wedding business owners who are still trying to find their way and “make it” - I can see now right away who is going to be succe...

Episode Overview:  Common mistake - thinking that you need to include more extras to book more weddings.  Extras could look like - more hours, more edits, more add-ons.  It makes sense why you would think that because most people equate more with better.  But,  the truth is that offering more is the worst way to be seen as the best.  And being seen as the best is what needs to happen to book weddi...

Episode Overview:  Is booking more weddings the best way to make more money in your wedding business?  More weddings = more success, more money, feeling like you "made it".  But is it true? What if its this very belief that is holding you back?  What if the most successful, top wedding planners, wedding photographers, wedding businesses - aren't the busiest? What if they're just running things sma...

Episode Overview:  Targeting established wedding vendors to build connections is the worst way to grow your business.  This could look like cold pitch emails introducing yourself and offering to help them.  It could look like pitching them on your business, why they should use or recommend you you.  Or it could look like asking veteran wedding photographers or planners out to coffee to "pick their...

Episode Overview:  How do you build a business when you feel like you have no time? Maybe you just had a baby.  Or maybe you have another job but really want to make this new wedding business work so you can quit the other job.  If you're in the phase of trying to make it work but feeling stuck, lost or overwhelmed with the idea of not enough time, this episode is for you. Notable Quotes: "It's im...

Episode Overview:    Feeling like you suck at sales? Hitting a plateau with bookings?  Feeling like your business is never quite at the level that it should be, not making what you should be by now?   It's not a sales problem, it's a belief problem. Notable Quotes:  "If you're business feels like it's at a plateau and you're having trouble closing sales or booking weddings ... ---> It's not a s...

Episode Overview:    In todays episode we talk about how wedding business owners hold themselves back with perfectionism and safe action steps rather than following their gut and taking messy action.  Nicole shares her experience with messy action and how it led her to her dream business and gives you insight on how you can do the same. Notable Quotes: "You’re a perfectionist.  Most of us in the w...

Episode Overview:    Your wedding work speaks for itself, your past weddings have been incredible, your website is beautiful, you're showing up consistently on social media - but couples aren't reaching out and your inbox is filled with crickets.  You're having $0 months and you feel defeated.  What TF are you doing wrong? What are you missing?  If you can relate even a little, this episode is for...

Episode Overview:    What to do when your wedding business has hit a plateau for 6 or more months?  Today we dive into one of the reasons you're stuck and what to do to shift this.  Notable Quotes: " Your business isn’t going to become successful (make money) from booking more weddings.  You need to realize that the value is YOU.  You are the magic piece that makes what your company extraordinary....

Episode Overview:    Your website isn't converting.  Your spending hours, days, months re-designing your website, your packages, trying and you feel like it's getting there, but you still aren't making enough money in your wedding business.  It's because you have the belief "I need the perfect website to book weddings" and it's that belief that is keeping you stuck.  Notable Quotes: "In the weddin...

A wedding business can be a direct route to financial success and provide the opportunity for a dream life with lots of time and freedom - but, it building a business can also feel difficult, overwhelming, exhausting and impossible.  Entrepreneurship is never an easy path, but as Nicole dives into her personal experience going fro $20k/yr to $120k/yr - it is 100% worth it.  Today we discuss what i...

Episode Overview:    In today's episode we talk about why giving away too much is the worst thing for your wedding business and how it pushes away quality brides.  Even if you have the most incredible offer or service, if you're giving away too much (more services, more hours, more edits) you devalue yourself, creating burn out, an inability to scale or raise your prices, and you become unattracti...

Episode Overview:    What is the biggest mistake newbie wedding businesses make, preventing them from booking weddings?  It isn't not having a Niche down, or having a crappy website.  It's a wasting time on the wrong things.  In this episode Nicole breaks down exactly what these "wrong things" are that you could be focusing, and how they're keeping you stuck.  Plus she gives you a better path to g...

Episode Overview:    Are you ending your emails with "Let me know if you have any questions?" This is a rookie mistake and something that makes it more difficult to book new weddings.  There's a better way.  Listen in to this quick episode to learn what you should be saying instead. Notable Quotes: "Asking them if they have any questions encourages them to question your pricing, your package, your...

Episode Overview:    You feel like theres a million things to do and you can't catch up.  You feel lost, like you're not sure you're doing the right thing or on the right path.  You're questioning yourself and your decisions constantly.  You're feeling behind.  Like you should be better at this by now, you should be making more money by now. If any of this sounds like you - you're not alone.  In t...

Episode Overview:   In this episode I teach you exactly how I book weddings.  A step by step from start to finish.  Learn tricks and tips that have helped me to book weddings from couples without having to do any in person or phone consults.  There is a specific strategy to booking this way but once you have it down it is a game changer.  Get The Exact Process to Book Weddings: Scripts & Examp...

Episode Overview:    Getting doubts from family? Comments from friends like "why don't you just get a REAL job"?  If you are building a business, this is comes with the territory.  Today we talk about the most common crappy comments I've gotten and how I've learned to have my own back, and believe anyway.  If you've been doubting or questioning if your business is worth the effort, if it's gonna m...

Episode Overview:    Having trouble booking new weddings?  If this feels true for you, it's probably because you haven't established TRUST with your potential Brides and Grooms.  This episode dives into strategies to establish trust quickly.  Things you can actually work on right now to establish trust and book more weddings.  Some of the strategies may surprise you.  It's a good one, listen in! N...

Episode Overview:    Wondering how a wedding business who makes over $100k a year thinks about time, money, freedom, rest and more?  This episode is for you.   In today's episode we talk about 7 mindset shifts that changed the trajectory of my business.  I go deep on these and dissect why I believed the old thought and what it took to shift into the new belief.  Grounding in any of these beliefs w...

Episode Overview:    What if it's all happening for you?  This is such a shift in perspective.  One that every entrepreneur should have when building a business.  Your business challenges are there for a purpose.  To grow and expand you in the biggest, quickest ways possible so that you get your biggest soul desires.   This is what you wanted.  This is an opportunity for you.  Listen in on this ep...