Planners on Purpose Podcast

Casey Davidson from Hello Someday Coaching joins the Planners on Purpose Podcast to discuss the dangers of drinking and how not drinking contributes to the event planner's overall wellness. After Casey spent 20 years climbing the corporate ladder at a Fortune 500 company, she gave up her daily big glasses of red wine after profoundly realizing that the alcohol was not serving her.

Event planners are surrounded by messages that drinking is a part of our lives. From socializing after work to catching up with colleagues during the events and conferences that we attend, all are laced with a heavy drinking culture that can be hard to let go of.

Casey touches your heart with her story and journey to sobriety. She shares about her 3 am wake-ups where she woke up with a racing mind and a racing heart. She unpacks how she mistook these symptoms as stress and overwhelm for a while. The symptoms that she suffered from headaches, and stomach aches, to bloodshot eyes - Casey shares it all.

After a while, being dependent on alcohol can slowly take over your life as it did for Casey. However, after years of attempts of trying to stop, Casey hired a coach to stop drinking which ended up being the opening of the door to healing.

This episode will unlock some understanding of how to differentiate your stress and overwhelm from the pressures that you experience from an evening of drinking. Many of the stats that Casey shares are unbelievable. Knowing how one glass of wine can impact your quality of sleep, and how it contributes to stress and burnout can be life-changing. 

We hope you enjoy this episode and by watching it, that it will help you to be a little more mindful on how alcohol can make an impact on your overall well-being.

Links and Resources
Hello Someday Coaching
Hello Someday Podcast for Sober Curious Women
The Huberman Podcast
Introverts Guide to Socializing Without Alcohol
Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington
Athletic Brewing Company
Gruvi Non-Alcoholic Procescco

Thank you so much for listening, please stay on purpose. 

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Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

When it comes to change, many times we try to make changes happen in our lives, but there are times when change is hard to grasp. When this happens, it can be hard to not take it personal, but the fact that change isn't happening isn't always what it appears to be at the surface.

In this episode, we unpack 5 specific areas of behavior change and try to understand that becoming more aware of these stages it may help us determine if we are actually ready for the changes that we seek.    

The 5 stages that we unpack are:

• Precontemplation
• Contemplation
• Preparation
• Action
• Maintenance

Once we are able to maintain our goals, we may think that we are golden. However, things do happen, and many times unforeseen setbacks to occur. This is known as a relapse phase.  The key to getting out of a relapse phase is to understand the trigger, or the setback in detail and how perhaps the barrier was broken. Then develop a strategy to prevent it from happening again, and continue to move forward in the maintenance phase. 

In working through these phases, we are more apt to meet our goals.

Links and Resources
6 Stages of Behavior Change

Thank you so much for listening, stay on purpose.

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Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

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Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

It's been said that if you do something consistently, you'll tap into a superpower and gain momentum. And with that momentum, you'll start to realize that you are absolutely capable of changing your circumstances and behavior.

Now, this is absolutely true when it comes to your event planning career. The changes that you want to make, the behaviors that you're willing to work on, and the dedication that you want to give, requires making big changes. To make those big changes, it starts with the little things done repeatedly.

And it matters…the consistency that you put in, can do nothing but stack up, one small step at a time, you rise higher….however inconsistency can ruin it all. Being inconsistent in your event career can kill your confidence, and it can mess up your ability to succeed for that matter.

Everyone struggles with the need to be more consistent in some element of their career. Hopefully, this podcast episode will help you  see that the small steps you take are what will eventually make the biggest impact. All you have to do is start.

 Thank you so much for listening, please stay on purpose.

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Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

It's still the top of the year, you've created goals, but have yet to share them with anyone else. Is this you?

Well there are advantages to sharing your event goals with others, and in this episode, I unpack 5 key reasons that you should consider it this year.  

The goals that event planners carry can be pretty heavy to carry on our own. By sharing your event goals it allows you to share this load with others. It's understandable that you may not be ready to share it. However, you'll find that if you keep it to yourself, you also could potentially shoulder most of the work.

I'm a big advocate for sharing your goals and here are my reasons which I unpack in this episode:  

• For accountability
• For encouragement
• To get them done
• For assistance
• For celebration

I hope you consider sharing your event goals this year, to bring others on this amazing journey with you.
  
Thank you so much for listening, until next time, stay on purpose. 

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Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

How do you leverage positivity in your event teams?  Studies have shown that being more positive, more open, with more gratitude, can really help encourage your event team, and perhaps even inspire them to dig deeper to make things happen for you and your events.

 In this episode, Naomi unpacks some of the research of Barbara Fredrickson, professor and author of the book Positivity. We look at the positivity ratio, coined by Barbara Fredrickson, we see that typically many people have a ratio of 2:1. However, the standard ratio is 3:1, which means that for every one negative feeling or remark, it takes 3 positive remarks or feelings to overcome its effect.

This is a big deal because, in the world of meetings and events, stress is an understatement. We are constantly challenged with demanding timelines and high expectations, and if we aren't checking our mindset at every turn, there are bound to be some negative effects happening due to the pressure alone.

Positivity can be the superpower that helps to combat the stress, the overwhelm, and the toxic situations that occur in these deplorable situations. And if we can spread this practice and raise the bar just a little, we could see better retention in our talent and our event professionals and their clients will once more find joy in what they do.  

Links and Resources
Barbara Fredrickson's Work on Positivity

Thank you so much for listening, please stay on purpose!

Support the show

Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

If you're looking to get your CMP, then you have come across the need to gather continuing education for you to submit your application. Even those that are looking to recertify their CMP, have the struggle of getting their continuing education credits completed

This episode will discuss some tips on how to track your continuing education, plus provide some really great tips for attending industry-related webinars and conferences. 

Thank you for listening, stay on purpose!

Support the show

Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Are you prepared enough to pass the CMP exam? 
If not, then this episode will provide you with some tips and tricks to pass the exam with ease. 

Taking the Certified Meeting Professional Examination isn't easy by all means.  You have to be eligible to apply to take the examination. After being accepted, you have to take the examination within a year. 

In your wait to take your examination the best possible thing you should do is study for your exam.   Now there is a lot of information in the texts of the EIC Manual and the PMM Manual, but taking the information in small doses can prove to be useful to you. This means planning on studying one skill at a time, or perhaps one domain a week.

Reading the texts provided is certainly very helpful. These manuals do not come into existence easily. It takes a lot of hard work. So you can rest assured that you have everything you need in both of the texts for you to be able to pass your examination. 

Finally, understanding that there are aspects of event planning that are always at the forefront. Understanding what those are and knowing that perhaps you may have to know things like gamification, sustainability, or even virtual events can be useful.

We hope this episode was useful to you in helping you pass the examination to get your CMP.   

Thank you so much for listening, please stay on purpose.

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Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

In this episode, we welcome a special guest Melva LaJoy as she discusses emergency preparedness for event planners. 

Before you jump in, here is a little bit about Melva:  
As an award-winning event producer, Melva LaJoy Legrand is the CEO and founder of DC-based event planning firm, LaJoy Plans. She is also a nationally recognized public speaker, creative director, writer, and community leader dedicated to missions rooted in race and gender equality, as well as higher education.

In this episode, Melva and Naomi discuss many areas starting with unpacking your purpose and passion as an event planner. Melva shares how she unlocked her passion as she started her business. 

Melva's advice for event planners who are starting out and trying to find out what their passions are: do everything. She presses that the only way that you know what you like or don't like, is to do everything and figure it out.

Event planners will know when they are in the right assignment, when the challenge is equally rewarding, and the stress non-existent because you're delighted by the work instead of resenting it. 

As we get into event preparedness discussions in this episode, Melva shares three steps to help triage the challenges and conflicts that show up at events.

1. Be proactive
2. Talk and educate about safety and wellness
3. Get CPR Certified 

As we deepen our conversations about emergency preparedness, Melva shares how collaboration with other security professionals can be an advantage to event planners when challenged with emergency situations.  Paying attention to cultural cues, and developing relationships with others who may know more about specific concerns may be the best way to ensure your attendees are safe.

Finally, Melva discusses the challenges with stress and overwhelm in the event industry.  She shared many tips, however, offered these five tips for those who struggle with maintaining their sanity when planning events. 

1. If your work is costing you yourself, then you should find other work
2. At the end of your work day or a challenge, have a celebration
3. Have an accountability buddy (at home, and in the industry)
4. Communicate with clients and team
5. Laugh, because laughter puts things in perspective

Melva also shared some insights on her life in France at the end of the episode. It was so great to get to know her and we are thankful she was able to be our guest on the podcast!

Links and Resources
Melva LaJoy Linkedin

Thank you for listening, please stay on purpose!

Support the show

Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Why is it that we can create plans for other people, our clients, our groups however when it comes to making plans for ourselves, it can seem so far-fetched.

Event planners can lead, and guide people to do amazing things in their events and get amazing outcomes for businesses however, their own personal goals fail because of the lack of attention.

This year will be different. This year we can tell the year what to do for us, rather than us doing for it. We can create a plan for the vision that we want to see for ourselves. And if that means creating a plan for spending more time with our families, and the things we enjoy, and enhancing our relationships, we can do just that. 

This means that we need to be intentional. That the big visions that we have for ourselves, and our businesses will take some intentional steps to make them a reality. If as an event professional, you feel an urge to create a bigger vision for your life, or you feel inspired to take action on a goal, then the time is now to make the impact you want to make. 

The year is still young, you have more than enough time to make an impact on this year, and your life, it only takes one small step.  

Thank you so much for listening, please stay on purpose!

Support the show

Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

If you're looking to get your certified meeting professional designation, then you'll need to know how to study for the CMP.

The Certified Meeting Designation is a prominent designation for event professionals. In order to obtain this designation, you have to be eligible and successfully submit your application, and then succesfully pass the CMP exam.

Passing the exam doesn't come lightly. There are several recommended texts and many tips to study well for the exam. This episode will unpack how you should study for the CMP Exam. Naomi uncovers the 3 recommended texts that you should have in your CMP toolkit, and also provides some study tips too.

Another aspect of studying for the CMP exam is to have a study partners. These partners can hold you accountable for the test. You can also have a study group or be apart of one. Planners on Purpose does host a study group that you can be apart of. Check out the link in the description to learn more.   

The CMP designation can provide you with networking, salary, visibility and status in the events industry. If you're event professional, and haven't received your CMP, you may want to consider it.       

Links and Resources
Is the Certified Meeting Professional Designation for You?
Events Industry Council

Thank you for listening, until next time, stay on purpose!

Support the show

Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose

Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com

Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.