How many times a week do you feel you wish you could just do x, but feel that you can't just decide that? How often do you crowdsource your decisions, when you know deep down what you want them to say? How often do you look anywhere but inside for an answer?  Giving yourself a permission slip is a phrase that's gaining popularity all the time, and with good reason - it comes from the genius that is Liz Gilbert. When there's something that you want to do to make your life better/easier/more enjoyable/less stressful/more profitable/insert more or less thing here but you feel like you just can't, often all you need is to give yourself a permission slip. We chat through what we're currently giving ourselves permission for, and how you can do it too.

Today's episode is inspired by our brand new products, foiled & personalised permission slip prints, available on the shop now!

This week we're thrilled to have wedding business strategist and author Faye Cornhill on to talk about the lies that she often hears wedding business owners tell themselves, and, crucially, how to move past them. Mindset is a word that's co-opted far too often, so we loved delving a bit deeper with Faye and thinking about the narrative we're actually telling ourselves a lot of the time - and giving ourselves the arsenal to push back and ask "Actually, is that even true?" 

Faye's book, I Do, was launched this week, and is available to buy now. You can also catch her on instagram here & visit her website here! 

It's only taken me 3 seasons to get a One Direction themed episode! I kid, I kid. This week we're discussing 10 little things that we often put off but that can make such a big difference to our daily lives as a business owner. And by we, we really do mean us - this will not be a preachy attack on Living Your Best Life, as we deeeefinitely need to take our own medicine with this one too! 

What's your Little Thing That Makes A Big Diff? We'd love to know! 

Giddy up, friends, because this one is preeeetty giggly. In amongst punishment lasers, our brand new game Bald or Not Bald and other such delights, we get down to the (famously unfunny, some would say) topic of blogs. We've covered blogging before, but this time we zoom in on how to come up with titles for them, so that you're not just sat at your desk, looking at a blank page, thinking..."what now?"

When we tell you we got SHIVERS in today's episode, we mean full, hairs-standing-to-attention-on-the-back-of-our-neck shivers. And that's because we had our lord and saviour Lucy Sheridan on to talk all things using instagram authentically and successfully. We know, we know, instagram is a topic that everyone likes to throw their twopenneth into - but Lucy's Good Gram course is an expert breath of fresh air in how to make instagram really integrate with your business and, most importantly, your life. Lucy's entire presence is an expert breath of fresh air, tbh, and we bask in her glory & wisdom everyday.

You can follow Lucy here @lucysheridan, and sign up for The Good Gram here!

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Rebecca Kimberley is a trained therapist, and psychological Life Coach and - true to form - she basically changed our lives in this episode. We wanted to go deep on goalsetting, which has become such a buzzword now that we wanted to set the record straight - why we fall short on goals sometimes, how to avoid doing that, and crucially how to look after your mental health whilst still going for goals. We touched on self-sabotage, procrastination, and all sorts of things whilst we chatted, and it was incredible.

You can follow Rebecca here @rebecca_kimberley, and head to her website here! 

If we worked in a start-up, we’d probably have this scheduled in the diary as a “post-mortem” - but we don’t, so we haven’t. Rachel recently did a big ol’ launch for her Pinterest group training Ignite, and we thought it might be useful to chat through what she did during the launch process, how the launch itself went and what she learnt from it. If you’re planning a launch in the future, or you’ve seen them happen and wonder about the nitty gritty - or even if you’re just wanting to be a bit more present online - we hope you love this ep!

*In this episode, we also attempted to use the word ‘sprint marketing’ in the right context, so if anyone knows what either of those things actually mean, please do let us know…

We don't say this often because we can't tell you how to live your life, but you might want to get your pens and paper out for today's ep chums, because Vix was on FIRE. We chatted all about creating valuable content for your customers old and new, what the metrics that matter are - spoiler alert, it's shares + saves - and how to balance this all with having a good aesthetic. We also chatted about Reels, because we like to keep it...reel. (We'll show ourselves out.)

You can check Vix out here and Grow + Glow here

And find the episode notes here!

Our first guest of Season 3 is the inimitable Natasha Johnson, Malaga-based wedding celebrant, co-founder of The Celebrants Collective, editor of Engaged and Ready and former BBC journalist and broadcaster! (So you KNOW the info was golden, the soundbites precise, and the audio clarity - dreamy.) We talked all about marketing with authenticity, and how to do it throughout the whole journey - how to educate your audience on what your service actually is, why it's SO important to get yourself into your brand, how to find the right people to work with, and how to get this into your writing and output. It's a total Thursday treat, if we do say so ourselves!

You can find Natasha here, The Celebrants Collective here, and Engaged and Ready here

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Plus, you can see more from the What About Weddings team here.

(Return of the pod) come on / (Return of the pod) oh my God / (You knew that we'd be back) HERE WE ARE!

It's September 2020, it's season 3, and The Business Proposal Podcast is back. We're sliding back into your life with an episode catching up with each other and with ourselves, and we also chat about the new service we introduced this summer - The Content Proposal! We chatted to nearly 20 small business owners this summer and helped them with their content creation blocks, so we thought we'd save you the legwork and tell you 5 of the most common reasons you might have content fatigue. 

You can find the content fatigue instagram post here.

This episode is sponsored by the wonderful Maddy Shine, SEO + Visibility Queen. Find her here and here!