Planners on Purpose Podcast: Recent Episodes
Naomi Tucker, CMP, HMCC
The Planners on Purpose podcast is created for ambitious and driven event planners that are looking to scale their productivity, get valuable time back in their day, and focus on their personal goals and aspirations. If you want to stress less to live more, Naomi will take you on a journey of self-discovery. She will help you to uncover your hidden strengths as a leader, become more productive, so you can live the life you desire while balancing your commitments.
Hello there!
I had the opportunity to sit down with Hilary Blair, MFA from Articulate. We had the opportunity to discuss why and how event leaders struggle with communication. Almost every event professional that I converse with about their high levels of stress shed light on how communicating with clients and leaders only elevate their stress.
What I enjoyed about the episode with Hilary, is how she shared some simple frameworks like "sci-fi" to help us all understand how we can be more self-aware, curious, and intentional for impact. Such an easy thing to learn, but you can keep her framework as a tool in almost every situation.
I hope you get a little nugget of goodness that you can apply to your life in this episode! Enjoy.
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Naomi
Links and Resources:
Connect with Articulate
Connect with Hillary Blair via LinkedIn
Book: Communication in the Workplace - by Hillary Blair and Robin A. Miller
Book: Powerful Phrases with Dealing with Workplace Conflict - by David Dye and Karen Hurt
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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.
- Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
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Understanding how to level up in your career can be confusing. Especially when there are so many certifications within the event industry to choose from. This episode will unpack some of the main robust event planning certifications out there to help you make the best choice for your career path.
After listening to this episode, you'll be able to understand which direction you want to go in getting certified, or perhaps realize that you are good right where you are. Whatever the case, let's make your decision process easier.
Links and Resources
CMP Study Group - Planners on Purpose
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Certified Government Meeting Professional (CGMP)
Certified Special Events Professional (CSEP)
Certified in Exhibition Management (CEM)
Certified Destination Management Executive (CDME)
Certified Professional in Catering and Events (CPCE)
Certification in Meetings Management (CMM)
Certified Association Executive (CAE)
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This episode invites you to do something different in your life, especially if you can sense an imbalance happening that is affecting you.
Event planners have no problem understanding burnout and its implications, however, many times when it comes down to making the decisions that are needed to make necessary changes we doubt ourselves.
Doing something different gives you the permission to make those key changes. And it doesn't have to be big changes in your life. You can make very small changes that make a big impact on you.
Naomi discusses how you can give yourself permission so that you can come to work filled with joy, and passion, and ready to do your best work.
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Burnout is not inevitable? However, many event industry professionals think that it is. With so much pressure in the industry, combined with unreasonable expectations, lack of boundaries, and high volumes, burnout is a very common result.
Burnout shouldn't be inevitable in the industry, because it is preventable. If burnout is preventable, then finding ways to proactively address burnout in our lives and in our organizations is a solution worth pursuing.
However, it's not just about learning how to prevent burnout and overwhelm, it's about taking the direction and doing the actions necessary to prevent burnout. Many event professionals struggle with this.
This episode will give some insights into how we can understand burnout better to have the necessary conversations that we need to have to be the change we want to see,
Links and Resources
Purpose Call with Naomi
Banish Burnout Challenge (fall waitlist)
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If you're an event professional that's looking to level up your career, then getting your Certified Meeting Professional Designation, may be the boost that you need.
In this episode, Naomi shares 5 reasons why getting your CMP is important to your career. If you're struggling with deciding what your next step should be in your career, then the reasons given in this podcast may help you make this decision.
One of the main reasons that getting your CMP is so beneficial is that it gives you additional knowledge about the event industry that you can find applicable to your role. Also, no one has to mention the potential salary benefits and leadership opportunities that will come your way.
Jump into this episode, and leave us a message on what makes you most excited on getting your CMP.
Links and Resources
Planners on Purpose CMP Study Group
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In this episode, we delve into the dynamic world of event marketing strategies with the accomplished Ashley Stanford, a seasoned Digital Marketing Consultant and Freelancing Expert. With over 15 years of expertise in the digital marketing realm, Ashley brings a wealth of knowledge and practical insights that are sure to resonate with professionals in the Events & Entertainment sector.
About Ashley StanfordOur guest, Ashley Stanford, is not just a digital marketing maven but also the EVP of Client Strategy at TicketSocket and the Vice President and Co-Founder of Ice Cream Social. Her extensive experience spans across various industries, including Events & Entertainment, Medical Device/Healthcare, and Finance Technology sectors. Ashley's passion lies in crafting strategic marketing plans and optimizing tactics to drive tangible results for her clients.
Episode HighlightsIn this engaging discussion, Ashley sheds light on the intricacies of effective event marketing strategies. She shares her journey of conceptualizing TicketSocket—a unique solution born out of the need to revolutionize traditional marketing channels in the ticketing industry. Ashley emphasizes the importance of word-of-mouth marketing in today's digital landscape and unveils how Ice Cream Social's innovative referral widget gamifies the online referral process, driving substantial results for businesses.
Ashley advocates for a holistic approach to marketing, where word-of-mouth initiatives complement existing channels such as SMS, email, and social media ads. She underscores the significance of incentivizing partners and understanding demographic nuances to maximize the impact of word-of-mouth campaigns.
Furthermore, Ashley offers invaluable insights into effective communication strategies, emphasizing the need for transparency and proactive engagement, especially during challenging situations such as event cancellations or setbacks.
Delving into a personal anecdote, Ashley candidly shares her experiences of overcoming burnout, highlighting the importance of self-care and resilience in navigating professional challenges.
Links and Resources
The Desire Map by Danielle LaporteIce Cream Social and TicketSocket
Ashley Stanford on LinkedIn
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This episode will showcase how to be an effective advocate in the event industry. Advocacy in the meeting and event planning industry plays a very important role, one that everyone can actively participate in.
Showing public support for your industry to family, friends, and your community can garner support in times when the industry needs it most.
This episode shows that you can be an advocate in several different ways. Here are some of the areas that are explained:
- Aligning with partner organizations
- Get involved in advocacy, educate, and share
- Teach or speak in a meeting and event management or hospitality program
- Recruit for the industry, provide direction to connections and education
- Guide others to the appropriate certification within the industry
- Get involved politically
- Participate in Global Meetings Industry Day
It doesn't take a big effort to be an advocate in the meetings industry. All it takes is for each of us to do our parts so that we can see our industry continue to grow by leaps and bounds.
Links and Resources
Global Meetings Industry Day Event Registration
Global Meetings Industry Day Toolkit
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In this episode, let's dive into the highlights from CMP Advance 2024, the go-to conference for Certified Meeting Professionals (CMPs).
Conference Rundown: CMP Advance, hosted by the Event Industry Council in Toronto, offers a packed agenda spanning two to three days, tailored to align with CMP domains. It's a prime opportunity for CMPs to level up their skills and connect with peers.
Key Insights:
- AI Integration: Sean Kanungo's keynote urges CMPs to embrace AI's role in the industry and prepare future professionals for its impact.
- Global Certification Impact: Panels emphasize CMP's global reach, setting industry standards and fostering connections worldwide.
- Focus on Mental Health: Discussions spotlight holistic wellness for both planners and attendees, recognizing the importance of self-care.
- Strategic Planning vs. Project Management: Breakout sessions provide practical guidance on maximizing productivity and effective delegation.
- Human Connection in Events: Sessions highlight the significance of building genuine connections and memorable experiences for attendees.
- Networking and Community: CMP Advance offers a professional yet relaxed environment for CMPs to network, exchange insights, and build lasting relationships within the industry.
- Continuing Education: Naomi encourages CMPs to consider CMP Advance as a valuable resource for ongoing professional development and staying ahead in the ever-evolving world of event planning.
As you navigate your journey in event planning, remember to keep CMP Advance on your radar for invaluable learning opportunities and industry connections. Stay tuned for more episodes, and until next time, keep planning with purpose!
Links and ResourcesWellness Wheel – Simple Tool for Well-Being
Planners on Purpose CMP Study Group
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Goal setting can be stressful. This episode aims to take the stress out of the goal setting that you have to make. As we move into the second quarter of the year, it's important that we look at how we develop our goals without causing ourselves much stress, here are some tips that are mentioned in the episode:
- Set your goals and direction
- Get moving
- Put in place your habits
- Stay about the line
- Review often
- Reward yourself
Many times we fail to start because of fear or because we lack direction. This episode will help you understand how important it is for you to develop a direction and start to get moving so that your goal can be obtained.
You'll also learn some insights on practicing great habits, and why habits are important. Also, your mindset and how you think about your success is very important. When you think debilitating thoughts then you limit yourself and by limiting yourself you can miss the mark in getting to your goal. So it's all about staying above the line, being positive and uplifting to yourself and your team about your goal.
Finally making sure that you review your goals often and reward yourself when you complete your goals are pretty important. And we also talk about tracking your goal too and how that can be increasingly helpful as you look to finish your goals.
Links and Resources
Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work
Atomic Habits
12 Week Year
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As event leaders, we know how to balance our lives perhaps a bit better than that of our teams, but do we model work-life balance? Do we share how we are managing our lives so that those who are coming up behind us have an idea of how to move forward in a high-pressured environment like the event industry?
This episode is going to provide some areas where event leaders can model work-life balance to their event teams. Work-life balance is a word that really just represents how well we balance the ebb and flow of our lives and focus on what really matters at any given time. It can be an art form and many people can struggle with having a sense of balance in their lives.
There are four areas in that we cover in this episode and go into great detail on how event leaders can model work-life balance. Those areas are:
- Communication
- Boundaries
- Being a Wellness Advocate
- Standing Up for Your Team
Modeling is important because your team needs to see how work-life balance is managed, especially in an environment where there are so many moving pieces and client demands.
After listening to this podcast you'll have some great ways to model work-life balance, to support them, and be a wellness advocate in your organization.
Links and Resources
Banish Burnout Challenge
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Kele Belton joins as a guest on this episode of the podcast to talk about how we can communicate to lead. She also provides some great insight for women in leadership.
About Kele Belton
Kele Belton is a Leadership and Communication expert and the founder of The Tailored Approach. She is a former corporate trainer and coach, where she collaborated with notable companies like Bank of America, BioMarin, Facebook, and Netflix, contributing to their leadership and communication growth. Kele now empowers leaders and their intact teams to communicate confidently, navigate feedback, and have difficult conversations. She’s a published author, keynote speaker, and host of the Communicate to Lead podcast. Kele specializes in leadership development, communication skills, conflict management, navigating feedback, Everything DiSC assessments and coaching, personal branding, and more.
Episode Summary
When you communicate, it's important to understand who you are speaking to, and what your message is. Is your message communicating to that person in a way that they need to receive it? Kele speaks about this and how important it is for messaging and your audience to align.
In addition, Kele discusses how women struggle in leadership in many areas. One is having the right amount of flexibility at work which allows them to take care of any home matters. Also, Kele touches on how women can display more confidence in leadership.
Kele shares her proprietary BOLD framework which stands for:
- Breaking Through Barriers
- Owning the Leadership Narrative
- Leading with Authenticity
- Driving Continuous Change
Kele also shares more about the DISC method and how it is an assessment that measures your personality in the following areas: dominance, influence, steadiness and conscientiousness. She also helps the listeners to understand how this method intersects with her BOLD framework and can help you lead stronger.
Finally, in this episode, Kele shares a bit about introversion and how introverts can focus on using their strengths, to listen. When as an introvert, you listen, you can then lean into the relationships because you've built the relationship up front.
Links and Resources
Tailored Approach
Own Your Worth, Free Guide
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In this episode, I explore the neuroscience of kindness with special guest, Janet Sperstad, CMP-Fellow and Faculty Emeritus for Madison College.
Janet Sperstad’s professional history reflects her lifelong vocation: driving excellence in meeting and event management execution and education. She has dedicated her career to defining the competencies and career pathways that articulate meeting planning as a design discipline requiring skills in the social sciences, executive leadership, and the cognitive sciences. Her contributions are global in scope and rooted in over 25 years as a meeting professional and executive leader in the corporate and non-profit sectors.
This is part two in a series where we unlock some more areas of neuroscience and how it can apply to our lives as event professionals. If you missed Part 1, where we discuss the neuroscience of stress and resilience, you can check it out here.
The fine print of this episode comes down to: kindness matters when we are planning events. As we lead our events, it's important to understand how kindness plays a big role in helping you solve problems, deal with stressful situations, and even become more creative on the spot.
In this episode, Janet shares how 90% of the conversations that we have are social in nature. She shares how our brain is a very social organ in which its natural set point is to commune with others. Additionally, kindness is a neurochemical and a culture. It can ignite the reward center in our brain and it is pro-social in nature craving community with other human beings. Thus, our brain cultivates commonalities, it wants to look for belonging and collaboration and is wired to look out for differences.
Furthermore, Janet teaches us that there is a language of kindness, and how every word we use to portray kindness can cascade across people. As event professionals when we get into a period of frustration or stress or just solving a problem, responding in kindness can help to minimize the stress and frustration that is being emitted in the moment.
Lastly, we unpack that great ideas come to us best when we are relaxed. So when we are solving problems onsite ensuring that we are responding in kind ways that will produce more ideas for creative problem-solving can be helpful.
Stay until the end to hear some personal fun tidbits about Janet and her sharing the time when she was shown kindness that shook her to her core.
If you enjoyed the first episode, you'll love this one too.
Links and Resources
Janet Sperstad Linkedin
The Neuroscience of Stress and Resilience - Part 1
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In this episode, I explore the neuroscience of stress and resilience with special guest, Janet Sperstad, CMP-Fellow and Faculty Emeritus for Madison College.
Janet Sperstad’s professional history reflects her lifelong vocation: driving excellence in meeting and event management execution and education. She has dedicated her career to defining the competencies and career pathways that articulate meeting planning as a design discipline requiring skills in the social sciences, executive leadership, and the cognitive sciences. Her contributions are global in scope and rooted in over 25 years as a meeting professional and executive leader in the corporate and non-profit sectors.
As you listen to this episode, you'll learn that Janet grew up with the philosophy of "a rising tide rises all boats.", and that has been how she has lived a life of helping others and in turn, it helps her in some way.
Through curiosity, Janet started finding out clear connections in what we do in our events around education and saw the connection in social science. On this personal journey, Janet was able to go deep and see things about how we work as event professionals.
Two of the main things Janet has learned in all of her studies that she wanted to share in this episode are this:
- With threat, we run from danger. We look for threat and we respond to threat.
- We love happiness. We feel good and love laughter and relaxation.
The brain goes towards threat, and it wants to keep you safe. So, enter the conversation on how stress can have an impact on your brain and how you can lessen the impacts and become more resilient.
Because in essence, we run from threat, and we walk toward reward.
If you're feeling stressed out as an event planner. It doesn't have to control you. Let it go. As soon as you let it go, it loses power.
"We can't handle the externalities that come for us, we can only handle how we react to them." - Janet Sperstad
Janet gives us a brief solution on how you can relieve stress in the moment, whether you are at your desk frustrated at an email or onsite having to deal with a high-stress situation
Wash your hands with warm water, take three big breaths…pull your shoulders back and walk away.
It's as simple as that. This episode is full of lots of hidden gems for you to use to help you not only understand how your brain works, but give you tangible tips on how to combat stress, and tough times in this industry so that you can stay in the game.
Links and Resources
Janet Sperstad LinkedIn
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When you can reduce attendee stress at an event, you can decrease the stress you have too. If an attendee feels comfortable, taken care of, and relaxed, they can be at their best for learning and are happier, which in turn means you can feel a little bit more at ease as you are planning.
This episode covers 6 different areas to reduce attendee stress at your event. As you listen to this episode, it's important that you understand that implementing all of these ideas isn't necessary. However, these ideas may make you aware of some small tweaks you want to make at your event in the direction of stress relief and wellness.
The six areas that we unpack in this podcast episode are:
- Building longer breaks
- Encourage networking
- Create convenience
- Provide rest opportunities
- Give space for physical movement
- Create healthy opportunities
There is a wealth of ideas in each of these areas, and several of them are mentioned in this podcast episode. When we think about our attendees' well-being it can be meaningful to know that you have a unique opportunity to bring wellness to them while they are experiencing your event. It's an honor that we shouldn't take lightly.
However, as much planning as you do for your attendees, make sure to also take care of yourself. Make sure that while you're onsite, you're making healthy choices for yourself and that uplifts your well-being too.
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This is an invitation to attend the Banish Burnout Challenge. This challenge will be held at the end of the month and it will focus on tips and tools for you to prevent burnout.
Burnout is costly. Costing over 190 billion in healthcare costs, with the event profession is one of the top industries that suffer from burnout. Paying attention to prevention strategies that you can leverage to reduce burnout's impacts is crucial.
In this episode, Naomi gives you more information about the Banish Burnout Challenge, what it will cover, and how you can join.
Links and Resources
Banish Burnout Challenge
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If you are in the event profession, there are aspects of your job that you love. This episode is all about what we love about doing the great work that we do in planning events.
Our work touches more than just the attendees of a meeting. Our impacts of what we do touch companies and the experiences that we plan for them can change the world. Listen as I share with you 10 areas of event planning that I love and compare them with your top 10 list to see what we have in common with loving events.
Here is what I love about events:
- Expressing Creativity
- Travel and Culture
- Meeting New People
- Solving Problems
- Sense of Accomplishment
- Inside Scoops
- Variety of Duties
- Personal Growth
- Personalized Experiences
- Collaborative
Do you see a few areas that you love? I would love to hear from you what you love about events. Let me know in the comments as you give this podcast a high 5 rating!
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There is a hidden cost of burnout that affects the events industry. With over 76% of American workers experiencing burnout, it isn't surprising that this is an area where organizations now need to take the helm.
Helping to decrease the effects of burnout in the event industry starts first with organizations implementing a burnout strategy. This strategy could cover how burnout will be prevented within their organization. It is a crucial piece of burnout prevention and can keep organizations in front of their competition.
Managing burnout can retain top talent, create a happy workforce, and will eliminate costs associated with employees taking time away, or leaving the organization.
This episode unpacks some of the areas that aren't necessarily looked at for causes of burnout, in an effort to bring awareness. Here are some of the areas that we cover:
- Communication
- Community
- Skillset Alignment
- Company Mission/Goals Alignment
- Career Pathing/Growth
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Banish Burnout Challenge
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Many of us don't realize that we are in toxic jobs until it is too late. So this episode will provide you with 5 signs that you should be aware of to check and see if you are in a toxic job that may be headed downhill fast.
This episode comes with the understanding that we are in the event industry, an industry that has an immense amount of pressure, high-touch clients, and high amounts of stress. It is meant to highlight situations that go beyond what's acceptable. However, maybe if we find that this is a standard, then what is 'acceptable' may have to be adjusted to save many of our treasured talent people from burning out and leaving the industry.
The 5 signs that are discussed on this podcast episode are:
- Being sick and fatigued to the point of exhaustion
- High amount of turnover at an organization
- Stagnancy within the organization - no growth
- A clear and consistent lack of the respect of boundaries
- Harrassment and bullying by co-workers and event clients
One thing is for sure. These situations in their most potent form are not okay and do not support overall well-being and mental health of the person impacted. If these signs are experienced, then bringing awareness through conversation is a good first step, allowing for resolution. However, if these situations persist, then moving away could be the best outcome.
Links and ResourcesBanish Burnout Challenge
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There is a segment of burnout that isn't typically discussed. It has to do with how diversity impacts the burnout experience, and in this episode, we dig deeper into the black experience with burnout.
Black people have a different experience than many others when it comes to burnout. Much of the reason why they experience more burdensome impacts of burnout is due to the marginalization, along with other systemic challenges in the world.
More specifically, black women experience burnout more than any other group due to these same challenges. Additionally, black women experience things like black maternal mortality, weathering, glass ceilings, and tokenism that all contribute to the continued battle that they face daily.
This episode uncovers many of these insights and also offers to the reader what they can do to not only support this community but also to elevate the conversations in their department and in their organizations so that we help make changes that impact us all.
Links and Resources
Fast Company Article
Banish Burnout Challenge
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In this episode, Bill Hansen, an industry celebrity and veteran joins us to share his knowledge on building a caring culture, one that is built on and for its people.
Over the last four decades, Bill Hansen has hosted four U.S. presidents, championship Super Bowl teams, and countless celebrities and athletes. He has catered events for everyone from Pope John Paul II, to The Bush family, The Reagan family, Michael Jordan, Usher, Kim Kardashian and the list goes on.
During our conversation, Bill talked about his roots in entrepreneurship from selling door-to-door and operating concessions, and how the spirit of entrepreneurship is engrained in him and fueled how his company got started.
For Bill, culture is the number one goal, and is an ever-evolving situation as his company aims to build the ultimate family culture. Building this culture is important and one of the key elements that are needed is engaged workers because engaged workers are happy workers, Bill says.
Bill also discusses trends he is currently seeing in the catering space. How highly customized menus are a trend that will stay. He says that more people are using social media to fuel their vision for their events, and how food may now be the last thing that people tend to think of when planning their event experience.
We hope you enjoy this chat with Bill Hansen.
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Bill Hansen Catering Company
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As we are planning events, we can experience overwhelm and burnout from all different directions. Many times, we triage this ourselves, but when the going gets tough it can be helpful to take our situations to an event leader to get feedback and perhaps collaborate on the best way forward in our work.
So how do you talk to your event leaders about burnout? One of the first steps before talking to your event leader is to reflect on your situation. Think through all different areas of your situation, specifics on what the true challenge is, and work out any recommendations for resolutions so that your event leader knows that you've thought things through.
After reflecting on your situation, create a few opportunities for enhancement that you can present during your conversation with the event leader. This will open up the conversation in the direction in which you see an effective resolve, but then also allow the leader to collaborate on the solution alongside you.
This episode shares ideas on how to approach your leader and gives key questions that you can ask to really analyze your challenges in a way that is supportive of you and the business.
At the end of the day, put yourself first, don't suffer from burnout in silence. Do the big thing, and talk to your leader to get the help you need.
Links and ResourcesBanish Burnout Challenge - coming soon!
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Client relationships are very important to businesses Yet, what happens when those relationships struggle? How can you maintain a healthy client relationship, one that thrives, not just survives?
Our clients have a stake in the success of the work that we do for them. It's understandable that they oversee, critique, and even hover over the process, however, it doesn't have to feel so tough to navigate.
In this episode, I unpack 4 tips that will support you in having healthy relationships with your clients. Relationships that are founded on communication, transparency, follow-through, and care. Implement even one of these four tips and watch your relationships grow.
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Planners on Purpose Newsletter
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With all of the AI tools popping up on the scene, it should encourage professionals to action to learn and utilize these tools to make the job of planning an event easier than it was before.
We are living in some exhilarating times where we can essentially work virtually, use artificial intelligence to help us brainstorm content for our attendee emails, and help us with a site search for an event.
This episode will open you up to just the simplest application of adding AI to your work. It's important for event planners to explore and see what options are available to them. If these tools are applied and can make our jobs easier, then we are able to utilize our time to really finesse the skills in which AI isn't useful.
The inspiration for this episode came from a really great article that I had some help in contributing to. To learn more about AI, and grab some recommended AI tools, please visit the article by Wisconsin Meetings on AI tools below.
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Wisconsin Meetings Article - AI Tools for Event Planning
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Event planners are talented individuals who can put some pizzazz on events, however, to make it all come together it also takes some soft skills.
If you're a new event planner or an event planner wanting to brush up on a few soft skills to enhance your career, this is a great episode, as we'll be diving into 7 soft skills that every event planner should have.
Soft skills are those skills have have to do with personality, or skills that aren't necessarily tangible or able to be measured like knowing Microsoft Excel. The soft skills that we will dive into in this episode are:
- Ability to work long hours (when necessary)
- Communication
- Patience
- Initiative
- Service Mindset
- React under pressure
Because of the nature of the nature of the industry, these are important to have, and in having them can ensure that their event or event career will have a level of polish that can guarantee its success.
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Workplace stress can be tough to work through because there can be many causes of it. The key is to understand some key areas to look out for that cause much stress and to work diligently to reduce it.
In this podcast episode, I share 4 ways for you to reduce stress in the workplace. No matter if it is at the beginning of your planning process or at the end, we all experience stress. Although the stress is inevitable at times, this episode talks through these four areas to reduce it:
- Great Vision
- Good Communication
- Taking Breaks
- Create Laughter
There are plenty more areas to help you to reduce stress, but if you really pay attention to these four, you'll find your stress significantly reduced from where it was before. Let us know how these have helped you in reducing your stress in the workplace by commenting below!
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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 ResourcesHello 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Barbara Fredrickson's Work on Positivity
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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.
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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.
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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.
- Be proactive
- Talk and educate about safety and wellness
- 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.
- If your work is costing you yourself, then you should find other work
- At the end of your work day or a challenge, have a celebration
- Have an accountability buddy (at home, and in the industry)
- Communicate with clients and team
- 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 ResourcesMelva LaJoy Linkedin
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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.
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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
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If you are an event planner, this year you may be wondering if getting your Certified Meeting Professional Designation is for you. The CMP is a designation that many meeting and event industry professionals consider when wanting to boost their careers to the next level.
This designation is one of the most popular in the industry and was one of the first established, as it's been in circulation for more than 30 years. This CMP designation has been tried, tested, pruned, updated, and is always relevant to the meeting and event industry experience as it is reviewed for event professionals by event professionals.
This episode unpacks some of the benefits of getting your CMP and also shares some brief steps on how to obtain yours. Some of the benefits that we cover in this episode are knowledge enhancement, and also salary, promotion, and visibility benefits.
Once you make the commitment to getting your CMP, it doesn't come lightly, but Planners on Purpose does have support to help you via our CMP Study Group. The link is below but can offer you amazing support in learning the material, giving you test-taking tips, and memorization exercises so that you can pass the exam.
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The whole world is making resolutions for the New Year. As an event professional, it may be advantageous to take a look at an event planning career goal for this year,
Creating goals can be inundating, but when made well, you can have a higher goal that really drives all of your intentional steps. When you're working towards your goal, every step that you take aligns with that goal in mind, and before you know it, you'll be reaching your goals in no time.
In this episode, we discuss SMART goals and review what they are, and how they can help event planners filter through the goals that they set for themselves.
Goals have to be Specific, Measurable, Actionable or Attainable, Relevant, and Timely. Having a SMART goal really works, but don't get too hung up on having a SMART goal that ts prevents you from making progress on what you want to do in your life.
The areas of event planning career goals that are unpacked in this episode are:
- Salary & Promotions
- New job or venture
- Inspirational goals
- Learning & Development
Don't wait to start your goals for this year. Get them in and start a plan of action before other goals from your work, and other areas are placed on your plate. Put you first this year!
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Happy New Year and welcome to Season 6 of the Planners on Purpose Podcast!
Can you believe there is such a thing as resolution burnout? Well, there is, and before you overwhelm yourself with the lofty goals that you have for this year, it is best that you consider the tips that we unpack in this episode to help you avoid resolution burnout.
As an event planner, coming up with the goals that we want to establish for ourselves in the new year can be challenging. Especially when we know we are already looking forward to a busy season for ourselves. Making sure that we approach our goal-setting in a way that puts us in a positive mindset, and focusing on the progress that we want to make can be of the utmost importance.
This episode focuses on three tips that will help you avoid resolution burnout. Naomi discusses these tips and also provides you with some personal examples for you to better understand how these tips can work for you.
The New Year provides us with a fresh start, but although we set goals for ourselves it's a fact that over 60% of people abandon their New Year's Goals within the first month. Even more so, a fraction of folks actually stick to their goals throughout the year.
Let's be the event professionals that can make those small steps that matter, just focus on progress, so much that it makes the bigger goal so much easier to complete.
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This is a throwback to the very first interview that I did here on the podcast. Interviewing Aryn Chapman was an intriguing experience. Aryn took us on a journey to how she started in the events industry to today where she is the CEO of Ax3 Studios (pronounced Triple A Studios). Aryn gave us some delightful leadership tips as well as gave us an inside look at how she balances her work and her life.
Here's a bit about Aryn: Named one of the Top 50 Smart Women in Meetings, Aryn Chapman is an accomplished event designer and producer. Her career began in theatre and film production where she honed her eye for detail and grace under pressure. Since then, Aryn has made a name for herself with her imaginative event concepts, innovative themes and her ability to create unforgettable experiences.
In this episode, Aryn discusses how creative solutions don't come in the middle of progress. It's important for you to take time for yourself so that you can be more creative. We also discussed how Aryn navigates the high-pressure, high-emotional moments that she had and how she moves through those situations in a way that makes it a win-win situation for everyone.
You'll learn this and more from digging into this juicy throwback episode.
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As you wrap up your end-of-year, it's important to reflect on how you will show up in the new year. Sure, on one hand, we might not care about setting goals for ourselves, but on the other hand by setting goals and setting intentions, you can really transform your life.
Every event planner that walks on this planet has a uniqueness to them. Understanding what your particular uniqueness is, what attracts clients to you, and how you best work with them, can be helpful in how you show up bigger and better for them.
This episode unpacks what your strengths are. Naomi explores key questions to help you understand and identify what you're naturally good at, and what your strengths could be. Naomi also provides a resource, the CliftonStrengths finder, that can also help you assess your streaks so that you can create more intention around your strengths in the new year.
We are excited to see how you will show up in the new year and leverage your strengths!
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One of the biggest areas of focus and intentionality in the new year will be sustainability. It's already a topic of conversation in the event, planning world. And if you're an event planner, and not embracing this yet in your events, then now is the time to pay attention.
Being sustainable in our event is all about ensuring that we are not negatively, impacting our earth, and in our communities, and events can contribute immensely towards that effort. There are several ways that event planners are able to manage their events in a way that supports these areas.
In this episode, we unpack realm of areas starting with taking personal responsibility and being aware, as a planner of the practices that are available to us, and the opportunities that exist within our events for sustainability. Additionally, we discussed how location is important to having an event that cares about being sustainable. We also discuss how food and beverage, transportation, recycling practices, and more - can all contribute to having a positive impact on your events, and the community involved.
If this is your first time hearing of sustainable practices, it is my hope that this encourages you that your planning is purposeful, that it does matter, and can make an impact on the world.
Links and ResourcesU.S. Green Building Council
Events Industry Council - Principles of Sustainability
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Nothing can be more disappointing than having things pop up with clients, and customers while you're out of the office. That's why it's important to prepare adequately before you leave.
This episode will help you to prepare for being out of the office. From ensuring that your vacation time is on the calendar in the first place, to making sure that any backup that you may have has everything that they need to support you, Naomi unpacks what preparedness actually looks like so that you have no questions.
One of the hardest things is letting go when you go on vacation, and that's the reason why having specific meetings with people who are there to support you can be so powerful in establishing your trust in them, and trust between them and your clients too.
Get ready to be out of the office and not have to look back!
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As the year comes to an end, there's an opportunity for us to do some digital decluttering in order to help us feel more free, more clear, and purposeful about welcoming in a new new season.
Digital decluttering is a healthy practice for anyone in a fast-paced, environment to evaluate what is currently working for them, and what is not in terms of the digital footprint that they are making. Evaluating the platforms, you use, the notifications you receive, and even how much time you're spending on social media can all impact, your levels of stress, and your overwhelmed with well-being.
In this episode, we unpack five specific decluttering tips for you. These are tips that Naomi has personally use you after year in order to set herself up for success, and she is sharing those tips with you so that you can do the same!
Learn how to take a digital detox, delete the apps that you rarely use, set your notifications up, so that they work for you, clean and clear your inbox, and the power of unsubscribing. You'll leave no stone unturned as you take the time you need in order to Declutter, your digital life this season.
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The year is wrapping up and as we go into next year, there are five books that can help you to start the year off on the right foot and prevent you from being subject to burnout in 2024.
All of these books have helped me to not only understand burnout, but provide me with tools and resources to make quicker decisions, focus on what's most important, build, effective habits, and finish my work quickly and easily. On top of it all to have the grit needed to persevere while pursuing my passion.
You love all of these books, and find that they are handy guides to helping you to pursue a life without burnout, and get things done, in less time, and making more time for the things that you enjoy.
Links and ResourcesBurnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Finish by Jon Acuff
Grit by Angela Duckworth
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We all experience situations that might throw off our work-life balance. This episode talks about some of those common disruptions that may send event planners into a tailspin, bring on excessive belts of overwhelm, fear, and give you a key to conquering these disruptions in your future.
Identifying when your work-life balance is disrupted can feel like a scientific experiment. The reason being, is life can happen rather quickly and it can be tough to decipher when and where things went awry. Because of this, if you aren't careful, your response to the situation can be the difference between moving through the challenges with awareness and grace or becoming more susceptible to more damaging factors.
Areas that can cause upheaval in our lives are finances, relationships, the unexpected, moral conflicts, and mortality.
We unpack each of these areas on this podcast episode with the hopes that you understand how they can occur, and gain ways on how you can conquer the fear that resides at the foundation of it all.
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Becoming a lifelong learner is all about leveraging your growth mindset versus fix mindset. In this episode, we talk about the differences between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, and also unpack five tips that helped Naomi to be an effective, lifelong learner and shared those tips with you.
The tips that we talk about on this particular episode are:
- Have a growth mindset
- Have a mentor, be a mentor
- Read 3 books a year
- Be actively involved in an industry organization
- Obtain a meeting industry designation or certification, complete a course or be a speaker.
After listening to this episode, you will have more of a idea for how you can leverage your current position for becoming a lifelong learner, and perhaps gain some more goals that you can make for yourself as you go into the new year.
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When we come to the end of the week, event planners can typically wonder how much work they have completed that week. However, the question should be how well did they work this week?
The answer to this question will lead us to some profound solutions that can allow us to get even more work done because we are focusing on what matters. We are focusing on our systems, our processes, and how well we manage the tasks that are being requested of us.
In this episode, Naomi unpacks four key questions that will allow you to look at the work on your desk a little bit differently. These questions will allow you to focus on the how, and not the tasks that you did not get done.
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If there was any way for you to eliminate just a little bit of stress that you have to work through on a day-to-day basis, would you do it?
That is the question that highlights and goes through this episode. And if you said yes, to that question, then how you reduce your stress will be to systemize. When we talk about systemizing we mean to put in place basic systems that will allow you to create more freedom, through elimination, automation, and delegation.
In this episode, we unpack all three of these areas, and I share tips on how to eliminate all of the work does not, that does not fall into your priority buckets. you will also learn four different areas of automation which are self automation template automation process automation, and technological automation. And you'll learn how to delegate and who to delegate to in a way that keeps them coming back for more!
After listening to this episode, you will have tangible ways on how to eliminate the stress out of your life through executing the tips that I've shared through these three major pillars.
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We have all been on the edge, nearing burnout, not seeing a way out of the mess that we are currently in. If you're an event planner and are in a place like that, then it may be time that you embrace a burnout prevention strategy, so that you can put yourself in a position to thrive when planning events.
In this episode, you'll learn about four different burnout prevention strategies to help you. Especially, if you see that you are experiencing some of the risk factors that could lead you into burnout.
The risk factors that we discuss in this episode are our excessive workload, scarce resources, lack of recognition, excessive work engagement, and perfectionism to name a few. However, when implementing one of these four burnout prevention strategies, you will be able to minimize the impact that all of those things have on your planning.
The burnout prevention strategies that are discussed in this episode are prioritizing, implementing boundaries, paying attention to yourself, and creating space. just to learn about the strategies and how you can start to live life on purpose.
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Gor Gyulkhasyan joins the Planners on Purpose podcast to discuss social event trends insights from Permeet. Permeet is a digital planning tool that can be used when planning social events like birthdays, anniversaries, and even weddings.
Social event trends can be here today, and gone tomorrow, however, Gor highlights key trends that he's currently seeing when it comes to those planning and using the Permeet App to include:
- Personalized and unique experiences are still leading as a trend, everyone wants to find out how to infuse personality into their events.
- Sustainability is making a comeback, and with social events, many like to see how they can incorporate sustainable gifts.
- Digitalization is on the rise. No longer are planners using paper binders. There is an embracing of the use of digital tools, like Permeet for notetaking, planning, and sending invitations.
- The impression of having an event in-person is back, and there is a focus on having heartfelt meaningful connections.
- Many planners are stepping away from the luxurious and extravagant events to have a unique experience.
- Hybrid celebrations are becoming more of a unique option that people are using to connect with their guests in different ways.
Gor and I had a discussion regarding AI, and how the use of different solutions are rarely being implemented especially with personal events.
When asked about the struggles that people have when planning personal events, Gor had many, but mainly, people struggle with managing expectations. Aligning expectations so that there can be a universal enjoyable experience.
Gor says there is a fine line between tailoring individual preferences yet still ensuring that the event has a broad appeal for all the guests is a continuous struggle in personal events.
Another challenge that Gor commented on was regarding the event budget. He mentioned that ensuring a memorable experience while adhering to the budget and making choices that optimize cost and quality can be a continuous challenge.
Finally, Gor gave us some insight into the Permeet app and how it is a holistic tool to plan smaller personal events. This tool can give the planners some ease when it comes to "life plans" making things just a bit easier on the personal front. From the planning of the event, and note-taking, to communicating with vendors, and even sending event invitations, Permeet seems to have it all in one place for small personal event planners.
Links and ResourcesPermeet Website - Linkedin - Instagram
Special Promo Code - POP30 for 30 day trial subscription
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Has curiosity or necessity driven your event career success? That's the question that is being asked in this podcast episode and what we will dig into deeper.
When it comes to having curiosity, this soft skill can bring a lot of expansion in your life. It allows you to explore, figure things out, learn new things, and think outside of the box. When you don't have curiosity, you aren't as curious and when you aren't as curious, it leaves you stagnant, staying in the same situation, prevent you from learning and taking risks. The point is we should be more curious in our careers.
So curiosity is something that is a good trait for you to have, and it can really be useful when it comes to your event planning career. On the other hand, there is a little thing called necessity. We find that necessity can be a big driver within our careers too. It's important to know, however, that necessity is a word that's rooted in need, and if you move jobs based off of needs without adding in curiosity, it can definitely put you in a bind.
This episode explores curiosity versus necessity, how they interrelate, and how you can feel better about working with these two outlooks, for you to have a successful event career.
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Event managers are in an industry that is built on supreme service. Due to our service standards, we aim to please our clients, customers, and attendees. Although serving and exceeding expectations of the people that we work with may seem like a good thing, it could actually have its opposite effect if we aren't checking ourselves appropriately.
This episode unpacks how to say no and thrive as an event manager. Saying no, as an event manager in an industry that is built on servicing the client can be definitely tough. There can be a lot of guilt, a lot of shame behind us, saying no. Yet, the truth is, saying no it can actually help the person that's requesting something of you. There are strategies to say no and a time and a place for you to be able to say no in which this episode walks through.
For instance, if you absolutely know that you can do a particular task, then saying no isn't the best option. Perhaps you want to lean on helping out your clients and customers you want to go the extra mile in support and help them if you do have the time, and the bandwidth, and the capability to do so.
However, if none of those areas, fit your situation. If you perhaps are out of time, energy, and bandwidth to be able to support any type of request. You might be the prime candidate for saying no as a strategy for self-care. This episode unpacks, three specific strategies, to say no, do it in a way that removes ambiguity, put the onus back on the requester, and even show you ways to say no, without even saying the word "no". I hope you enjoy this episode.
Links and ResourcesBanish Burnout Challenge
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Many of the experiences that we have can be used for inspiration for event marketing. In this episode, I share a little bit of my holiday tradition and help share some insights from my experience and it can apply to events.
In marketing events, it's important that we focus on experience. Our attendees should be excited for our events, and have an enjoyable experience, along with an incentive to come back again for a great time.
A few of the areas that I cover in this episode that can enhance marketing are having a warm welcome, being consistent, and having a great sendoff. These are very simple but can make a powerful impact. Inspiration can come from anywhere and it doesn't have to be complex. Simple things that make us think differently and bring creative opportunities for our events.
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Have you ever felt your brain drain after a long day? This can happen when you go through much stress and have to recall and lean on your short-term memory. In this episode, we will talk about brain drain and stress, and how it interacts together and can make it difficult for you to recall such things as remembering your keys in the car or remembering names, or faces.
We can overwork our brains often; it is how we use our brains throughout the day. Doing simple exercises can help you to decrease stress, but also stimulate your brain to recall things that you want much faster.
When we can recall more easily, we can combat stress better and help innovate and find different solutions for our clients, customers, and organizations.
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It can be such a struggle to cope with life changes. You struggle with understanding that changes happening, and you may also struggle on understanding what the next step for you might be. In this episode, we unpack some insights on how to cope with life changes, so that you find yourself moving through them with more ease.
When you are coping with the changes that are going on in your life, it's important to create space for the journey. This means clearing out things in your life so that you are able to walk through a difficult time. That could mean removing some work off your plate, which comes down to putting less-priority tasks off to the side for a little while. Creating space for you to emotionally move through the changes that are going on will be helpful to you
Other areas that we discussed on this podcast episode is ensuring that you have someone to talk to. This means your family, friends, or someone you trust to talk to and hear you out, and listen to what you're struggling with. We also chat about the importance to go at your own pace. Everyone goes through life changes differently, and it is OK for you to go through it the way you can.
Finally, just know that there is a silver lining in the changes that you're going through. It can be hard to recognize it, but even if the silver lining is that you can get through it, that can be within itself comforting.
When so many in our industry, struggle with stress and overwhelm, it's important to know that it's not always the work that we are dealing with that causes the overwhelm it can just be purely that we're going through some type of additional change in our lives that makes us not be able to handle our capacities in the same way that we have done in the past. And it's okay.
As always if you need additional support for your mental health, check out these resources for help.
Links and ResourcesNational Association of Mental Health Resources
National Council for Mental Well-Being
Suicide and Crisis Hotline
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Employee wellness trends have changed their trajectory in the last year. Many companies have been adjusting their current offerings, and even adding new offerings and benefits to their employees in an effort to support well-being efforts.
With approximately 60% of the workplace saying they work in toxic environments and are on the verge of quitting, employers are doing what they can to ensure that their workplace cares. This includes being bold and upfront with their benefits offerings and building out elaborate websites that highlight their workplace culture. Organizations also present job postings with an immense amount of transparency into the well-being benefits so that they attract talent that wants to work in their organization.
In this episode, I highlight 7 workplace wellness trends that you should watch as we head into the new year. This topic is meant to motivate and inspire you to bring ideas back to your organizations, leaders, and HR leaders so that they can see how these trends may be something they want to consider.
As a brief overview, here are the key areas in that we discuss as trends in this podcast episode:
- Enhanced wellness programming
- Remote Well-Being Community
- Leadership Training
- Flexibility
- More Time Off
- Caregivers and Coaching
- Technology
Listen in to hear how all of these areas are being supported or even enhanced in the workplace, and keep your eyes peeled for more trends in the future.
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There are many efforts out in the workforce being done to help support employees overall well-being. In order for you to know what matters we are unpacking the five essentials of well-being in the workplace in this episode.
You're well-being, matters and recognizing what these workplace essentials are will also help you to understand if you can champion for change in an effort to help support everyone's work well-being in your workplace.
If you are a business, owner, or human resource, professional, this episode would help you become aware of what some of the fundamentals are, and perhaps spearhead ideas for you to make sure your culture thrives.
The 5 areas of wellness workplace essentials are:
- protection from harm
- connection and community
- work-life harmony
- mattering at work
- opportunity for growth
It's important to be reminded that our health matters, our mental health matters, and well-being matters.
Links and ResourcesAmerican Psychological Association Study
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Did you know that burnout can affect introverts more than it can affect extroverts? There is a such thing as introvert burnout. And if you are an introvert, it is important that you are aware of how you best thrive in working with others, and how your energy can be managed to support your overall success.
This episode puts introvert burnout on the table and showcases the symptoms to look out for if you are an introvert. Although many of those symptoms are similar to burnout, it's important to recognize that those symptoms have a source of the lack of social bandwidth for an introvert.
In this episode we also lay out how those symptoms can show up in the event, space, as you're planning event, and as you are on-site for events. And then finally, this episode is jampacked with mini helpful tips on how to manage your burnout if you are an introverted event planner.
In the end, it's important that if you are an introvert that you are that you know that you can show up authentically and be exactly what you are—making sure that you manage your energy in all different facets and that you put rules, plans, and boundaries in place to be able to help you to thrive.
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Note: Naomi is not a doctor, nor claims to be. If you are struggling with your mental health and need emergent medical attention please reach out to your medical provider,
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If you want to have an amazing year, then you have to have a big vision for what is going to drive your success. This episode explores the big questions that you should ask yourselves in order for you to be able to have that perfect vision for your new year.
An area that can help you put your vision together easily is reflection. Reflection is the pathway to progress and understanding and reflecting on last year's success can help you to develop this year's vision.
This means you must look back in order for you to look ahead. Then you will be able to define your vision for the next year. The challenge is that if you continue to keep things status quo then you're not growing, you're not taking risk and you are staying stagnant. And the whole goal of creating a vision and having defined actions in place to meet your goals is for you to push yourself forward, always be learning, always be growing, always be expanding.
I hope that this podcast helps you to develop your vision quickly and start to think of the goals that are going to be creating that pathway for your success in the new year.
Links and ResourcesPlan Your Year Workshop
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When comparison strikes, it can be tough for us to move forward. Comparison fosters stress, anxiety, and depression and if you're not careful, it can take over our lives.
This episode unpacks comparison, and talks about some of the consequences of comparing ourselves to each other. Naomi motivates you to take your own path, follow your own dreams, and guide your life in the only way that you can. She reminds you, that you have a unique path, and we all should be grateful for our gifts, and talents and how we show up in the world
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Why work harder when you can work smarter? This episode talks about automation hacks that event professionals can use in order to make their lives a little bit easier so that they can handle more important tasks.
From email automation tools, to technological integrations, all of these have the potential, for being so helpful to us, personally, and to our businesses. And although many different professionals know these tools exist, due to the high volume of what we're producing, many times, we are unable to implement the very thing that is going to be providing us ease.
As you're listening to this episode, consider, what can you implement in your personal or business world? Consider implementing a few of these areas, or adjusting what you currently have, and making it better. Because with every step that you take, you are one step closer to a little bit of wiggle room, and that can make all of the difference!
Links and ResourcesCalendly
Acuity
Microsoft Booking
Interview with Allfly (GroupAir)
Interview with Group360 (Group Hotel)
Zapier Integration Tool
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When it comes to navigating stress and being overwhelmed, it's important to get our hands up, stress down, and get the support that we need. It's ironic that if we have challenges in our health, we will call the doctor, and if we need our car fixed, we will call the maintenance technician. However, when it comes to our mental health, we can allow it to faster and sit without raising our hand or getting any kind of support.
This episode discusses the importance of getting the support that you need through your organization, through your leaders, through a coach, or through accountability partners. It also talks through some of the reasons why vulnerability is a superpower, and that it's not a weakness, and it can be used as a pathway to changing your environment, changing your situation. It can also be used for being creative about solutions that are going to be able to support you.
If you are experiencing stress and overwhelm, this episode will encourage you to raise your hand, seek support, work with someone to help you to make your situation better. And if you are someone that is a witness to others, that may be experiencing some challenges, help them to help themselves. Because the event industry needs more awareness and more support if we want to see long lasting change.
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When we're planning events and doing this great work of event planning, we can fall into creating bad habits for ourselves especially when we are in busy environments. This episode will help you to develop good habits through some simple tips. By fostering good habits in your life, you can show up better for yourself, for your business, and for your clients.
In this episode, Naomi shares how conducting distraction audits can help you to understand what is preventing you from doing what you ultimately want to do. Understanding your distractions can unlock areas that you can change.
Many times are good habits that we want to foster don't get enough credit or enough attention for them to actually take root in our lives. So, having a habit tracker helps track those good habits and hold you accountable. Naomi discusses the habit tracker and how you can make the habit tracker work for you.
This episode also unpack the two minute rule, and how just doing a good habit for two minutes can really create massive amount of change in your life. The episode also talks about how making your habits that you create feel good and being kind to yourself can also help you to instill good habits.
Links and ResourcesAtomic Habits, James Clear
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Event planning is one of the most stressful jobs in the world. However, many people may argue - why? This episode will unpack a few reasons why event planning is stressful and give some tips on how to overcome this stress in your work.
Some of the areas of stress that the podcast touches are:
- Expectations
- Increased Global Demands
- Pricing Struggles
- Lack of Concern
- Long Hours or Overwork
Although these stressors can increase the pressure event planners may feel, there is a way to minimize the stress that one may feel in an effort to have a more calm planning experience.
Here are some tips that are provided in the podcast episode:
- Learn how to manage your stress levels
- Prioritize your work tasks and minimize random distractions
- Say no to say yes to you
- Walk in confidence
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Systems, process, and people are three pillars that we want to look through when doing problem-solving for our events, and for our businesses. In this episode, Naomi shares how you can filter problems that are brought to you through this filter to avoid drama and to have ease when solving problems.
When unpacking systems, Naomi speaks about how systems are the framework for which your work is done. It is the interconnected way in which all things are connected for areas of the business or events. When challenges do occur, ensuring that all systems are operating correctly can be helpful as a first check.
Next Naomi discusses processes and how ensuring that there are standard operating procedures in place so that there isn't a question on process is important. Also, the importance of understanding when challenges happen, that training or alignment may need to be leveraged.
Finally, people can make mistakes. And they can make mistakes more often than we would like. Naomi gives some ways of approaching situations when people are the problem to navigate.
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When it comes to getting things done, how you use your calendar has a lot to do with ensuring your success. This episode focuses on quick and easy tips that you can use to wield the power of your calendar effectively.
In this episode, Naomi shares how having a holistic view of your calendar can work to your benefit, allowing you to have all of your calendars (both work and personal) in one place. Additionally, ensuring that all of the events that matter the most, like your personal holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries, are placed in your calendar intentionally is key so that you aren't caught forgetting to remember someone important to you - or yourself.
This episode focuses a lot on sharing how task switching effectively can help you save time, and also save you lots of stress during your work day. Making sure that you clutter tasks together so that items that are similar can be worked on together, can give you more ease in your day.
This episode is jam-packed full of ideas to master your calendar, master your days, and master your life!
Links and ResourcesPlan Your Year Workshop
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This is a celebratory milestone for the Planners on Purpose podcast at which they are celebrating 100 episodes. This episode features the top 5 highest listened-to episodes on the podcast. Naomi shares what impacted her on those episodes and shares her outlook on the podcast moving forward.
Links and ResourcesThe Power of Moments, Deanna Nwosu
Turning Positivity into Criticism, Jordan Kentris
3 Keys to Successful Teams
How to Stay Focused on Your Goals
The Emotional Side of a Planner's Job, Leah Weinberg
Plan Your Year, Annual Workshop
Planners on Purpose Newsletter
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High-performing teams need a sense of safety, be dependable, and be connected to a higher purpose to be impactful.
In this episode, Naomi unpacks what it means to have a high-performance team. Whether you are an event planner, leading an event planning team or an industry level, knowing what makes up an impactul team can be helpful. And not focusing on these aspects can lead to mistrust, and slowly but surely teams can fall apart.
Links and Resources
Plan Your Year, Annual Planning Workshop
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The holidays can be very exciting, but they can also cause a lot of stress. Many times, we struggle with our familial relationships, the demand of buying gifts, and the responsibilities that are bestowed on us. All of this can lead to holiday burnout.
In this episode, we discuss what holiday burnout is, what are the symptoms of holiday burnout and how it can manifest in your life. We also talk about tips on how you can avoid holiday burnout. Many of these tips include creating boundaries, watching what we say when it comes to our friends and family to really avoid additional stress, and having clear communication can help.
We all want to enjoy the holidays, and also enjoy the best of what the holidays brings to our lives. With these tips, you'll find yourself receiving a bit more ease in your life and less stress and hopefully prevent holiday burnout once and for all.
Links and Resources
Holiday Stress Study
Banish Burnout Challenge
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Living a life on purpose means a daily commitment to living in a way that reflects your ultimate life goals. This episode will unpack what that means for you and will challenge you to contemplate if how you spend your days, in fact, is how you'll spend your life.
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Have you ever gone on vacation hoping to cure your distress from the workplace and from life, and the time you take just isn't enough? Even better, have you ever come back from vacation a week later you are back to the same feeling of helplessness that you had before you ever left?
When your vacation isn't working, and your burnout is still a real thing in your life you might want to consider a few of the reasons mentioned in this episode as to why things aren't working in your favor.
There's hope for you and your situation, but hope starts with change. And some subtle tweaks on how you vacation can help you break free of the stress that can burden you on your return, and help you to prevent future burnout in your life.
Links and Resources
Banish Burnout Challenge
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There is a whole other game that is being played that goes beyond the finality of the events that we plan. Do you know if you're in that game?
The game is called the Infinite Game, and it is a game that is aligned with our larger purpose and the big causes that we are here to progress forward. In the event industry, it can be easy to get tied up into the finite game of planning events, and if we lose our larger purpose we could end up bowing out of the game sooner than we thought.
This episode explores the thoughts of Simon Sinek's Infinite Game and layers on the event industry. Naomi taps into how event planners can play a longer game that goes beyond our events and It begs the answer to the question - are you in this for the long haul? And if so, are you willing to make the changes now that you need to make to ensure you are here for the Infinite Game?
Links and Resources
Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
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Being busy isn't a badge of honor. In fact, sometimes our busy-ness can be habits that we have unconsciously set up that prevent us from being as productive as we would like to be.
In this episode, we discuss how some of the bad habits that we do throughout our day can set us up for missing out on the necessary time that we need to complete certain tasks. We explore the types of habits that could get in your way and how to build better habits for you to be more productive and free.
We all know that it takes lots of hard work to sustain in this industry, however, it can be the little unnecessary habits that stack up over time that need to be knocked down. Tune into this episode for more tips on how to realign your life, and eliminate stress.
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Ever been stuck in a rut with too much to do? Well, many times a little simplification goes a long way.
This episode will take you through Naomi's 5-step process to simplify your life. When life gets so full, it's important to prune away to ensure that your life and work are aligned to what lights you up.
The 5-step process is linked below as a guide. You can walk through each area while Naomi reviews it on this episode.
Links and ResourcesSimplify Your Life Guide
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The holidays can be very tricky. The best thing about the holidays is getting some well-deserved time off. And usually, these times are times when you have some time off to enjoy yourself, but if you aren't too careful, you can go into the holiday season with lots of frustration.
This episode will help you embrace gratitude in the season, and show up to your gathering with a level of preparedness so that you fully enjoy the experience.
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Have you ever ended your day in a complete brain fog, not able to make another decision? When you are in this position, who cares what you eat for dinner, you just need a little bit of rest.
In this episode, Naomi will discuss the challenges of decision fatigue and how event planners can master making decisions all day every day. The key to making decisions that help save your mental faculty are easy to tell, but can be tough to commit and put to practice. However, when you make a commitment to yourself to do it, you'll see the effects and the freedom that you ultimately gain as a result.
Tune in and discover tips that you'll be able to use for your event teams, and even as an event leader for you to master your decision-making skills. We hope you enjoy this episode.
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This episode uncovers 8 things that event planners should avoid when they find themselves knee-deep in stress and are overwhelmed heading towards burnout.
When event professionals are stressed their relationships can be stressed too, as well as they are at a limit for taking on more capacity. So finding ways to adjust their workloads, and lives to usher in more balance is going to be key. No change = no change. To get out of burnout and turn your life around so that you can lead a sustainable life of planning at your best, you'll have to avoid these areas and tweak your lifestyle to support you.
This is a great episode for you if you can feel yourself heading into burnout, and you need some tips on how to prevent your situation from getting worse as you go through this tough period.
If you would like support and accountability as you make key changes to impact your life positively, please schedule a purpose call (link below), and let's get started in getting you on the road to freedom!
Links and ResourcesSchedule a free Purpose Call
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To prevent and survive burnout, you first have to understand how burnout affects you. This episode shares what burnout is, and discusses the elements of burnout and how it impacts you and your work. Additionally, it unlocks the secret to managing burnout.
Burnout has two main areas, stress and stressors. And as event planners, we need to understand how to allow our stress to go through its natural cycle, and then effectively deal with the stressors.
As event professionals, our mental health matters too, and it's important to protect and prevent our mental health before stress, exhaustion, and depletion have their way. In listening to this episode, you'll also take away some tips on how to better manage stressors as they arise no matter where they strike in the planning process.
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When you show and receive more kindness, a whole wealth of areas in your life can improve. From an overall sense of joy to many overall health benefits, showing kindness is something that we cannot overlook as we set out to plan successful events.
On Global World Kindness Day, Naomi shares a personal story of kindness and other insights on kindness that will motivate and inspire you to seek out more kindness in your life.
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Building trust is a fundamental characteristic of a phenomenal event team. Trust isn't something that is ordered by a leader, but something gained by providing an environment in which teams can be comfortable with expressing themselves in a way that will promote team building and event success.
In this episode, we discuss why building trust in your event team is important, and will provide several ways in which you can establish trustworthiness with your team. This episode also covers some of the consequences that can occur when trust isn't strong on a team.
Would love to hear from you! What is a way that you establish trust with your event teams? Rate this podcast, and share your answer in your review!
Links and ResourcesThe Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
Banish Burnout Challenge
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In order to change our outside circumstances, taking a look at ourselves inside can make all the difference. In this episode, you'll learn about your inner executive suite adapted from Erica Ariel Fox's book Winning from Within.
Naomi walks you through the four executives in your suite, the dreamer, the thinker, the lover, and the warrior, and helps you to understand their functions and how they can help you become a better you.
Links and ResourcesWinning from Within Book
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In this episode, you'll be shown a simple tool in which you can measure your well-being. This tool is called the Wheel of Life and Naomi unpacks all of its facets and shares with you how you can evaluate your life and make a simple plan to grow in the new year.
This is a perfect exercise to do as you are trying to determine what your New Year Goals should be.
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Did you know that you are more at risk for burnout if you work virtually? Yes, it is true. Without the right tools, boundaries, and buffers in your workplace, you can be leading yourself into dangerous territory as it relates to your mental health.
This episode explores the misconceptions about the virtual workplace and the impact that it can have on an event professional's mental health. This episode will also provide some tangible ways to manage our virtual workplaces so that we can help avoid burnout.
Event professionals are one of the most stressful jobs in the world and are at risk for having a low state of mental well-being as a result. However, instead of talking about the challenges that we have with maintaining our mental health, some solutions can help impact and improve our mental health. Tune in!
Links and ResourcesZippa Survey
Banish Burnout Challenge
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Many times we get "stuck" in taking the action that we need to take in our businesses and in our lives. This podcast episode explores the opportunity to take imperfect action and how this type of action can move us past our frustrations, overwhelm, and self-doubt to create the flow that we need to move things forward.
What makes us stop taking action on our goals or our tasks? There are so many things like procrastination, fear, overwhelm, and even perfectionism. This episode discusses perfectionism and although we want to create an amazing experience for our clients, doing it from a perspective of perfectionism can do you a disservice.
How we shift into action after we are stalled makes all the difference. Naomi discusses some tips on how to make subtle shifts that will allow you to take imperfect action. Release your frustration and overwhelm and stop being a clog in the wheel in your business or at your company.
Links and ResourcesMel Robbins, 5 Second Rule Book
Seth Godin Ship It
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Maintaining a positive mindset in a high-stress industry like the events industry is a great skill to have. This episode highlights how a positive outlook can lead to increased productivity, innovation, and the creation of a better working atmosphere. We explore tips on staying positive that include expressing gratitude, embracing creativity, providing mentorship, and setting and respecting boundaries.
The episode underscores the value of reframing negative thoughts into positive ones to sustain a constructive perspective during challenging situations. If you're taking notes, a key takeaway is how implementing these strategies can enable event professionals to establish a more positive work environment, enhance team dynamics, and ultimately achieve better outcomes.
Maintaining positivity during busy times is a critical factor in achieving success in event planning. And paired with self-awareness and empathy, your event can be successful inside and out.
Links and ResourcesBanish Burnout Challenge
Sara Gorlick Episode (Lucky Boxcutter)
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In this episode, we explore ways that you can unleash your creativity as an event professional. We are all on a journey to become prolific and brilliant while maintaining our creative health, and this podcast episode will share ways in which our creative expression works best.
We will delve into the importance of balancing productivity, brilliance, and health to avoid burnout. Additionally, you'll find some brief tips on how to structure your day to harness focus and maximize your time effectively.
Staying inspired and bringing ideas into your world can be a challenge when you are so incredibly busy, so Naomi shares some tips on how you can stay in the know and spark your creativity.
We hope you enjoy this episode, until next time stay on purpose!
Links and ResourcesThe Accidental Creative by Todd Henry
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This thought-provoking episode delves deep into the world of event professionals and mental health.
Mental health is a topic that's crucial for all of us, but it takes on a unique significance for event professionals. The demands of the industry can lead to burnout, stress, and overwhelming pressures. Naomi aims to shed light on the importance of mental well-being and how it plays a central role in our lives.
In this episode, you'll discover what mental health truly means and how it impacts your ability to cope with life's stresses, realize your potential, and contribute to your community. Moreover, you'll explore the common challenges that event professionals face, such as anxiety, burnout, and exhaustion.
You'll learn how to enforce boundaries in your workspace, refine your mental health plan, and explore resources available for support.
If you're ready to prioritize your mental health as an event professional, this episode is a must-listen. Join Naomi Tucker as she empowers you to navigate the event industry while maintaining your well-being. Your mental health is a basic human right, and this podcast will guide you toward achieving a sense of balance and purpose in your life. Don't miss this insightful journey – tune in now!
Links and ResourcesWorld Health Organization on Mental Health
Center for Disease Control on Mental Health
Skift and Cvent - Worklife Balance for Event Planners
PCMA Mental Health and the Business Events Industry
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Banish Burnout Challenge
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In this episode, Naomi shares valuable tips and strategies for effectively managing household responsibilities, finding motivation, and alleviating the burdens of maintaining your home, even on days when you're physically and emotionally drained. She understands the struggle of missing family events and special occasions due to work commitments and offers solutions to help you feel more in control and fulfilled in all areas of life.
Whether you're listening on a busy Saturday as you catch up on personal tasks or any other day, this episode is here to guide you through practical solutions that make home life management more manageable. Join us and discover ways to achieve a balance that ensures your personal life is just as successful as your professional one.
Links mentioned in this episode:How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
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In the midst of the pandemic, Lauralee Whyte had a major revelation when it comes to her work. She wanted to be intentional about creating diversity and representation with her work. Feeling that there wasn't any representation, belonging, or connection in her industry, Lauralee set out on a quest to create the environment in the speaker industry that she wanted to see through her company Spectrum Speakers.
In this episode we chat about how the awareness of the necessity of diversity that surfaced in 2020 has long since fizzled out, replaced by a cookie-cutter embrace to get instant public satisfaction. However, the real intentional work that needs to be done in the event industry still has a way to go.
Lauralee suggests that while sustainability is a safe topic, with less controversy or less room or need to do or say the wrong thing - diversity and inclusion can be a heavy subject with a lot to tackle. Hence, the event industry tends to avoid the deeper conversations that can move the needle.
The big takeaway from our conversation is that there is still a lot of work to get done. And because many people walk on eggshells in an effort to not do or say anything wrong we unfortunately turn our backs on making real change.
Lauralee was a pleasure to have on the podcast and will give some tangible tips in this podcast for you to have awareness with action when it comes to diversity and inclusion.
Links and Resources:
Planners on Purpose
Spectrum Speakers Website
Spectrum Speakers LinkedIn
Spectrum Speakers Instagram
Diversify by June Sarpong
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With only 60 days left in the year, it's time to finish strong and turn your year-end goals into reality. In this episode, we'll provide you with an action plan to make it happen.
Naomi will review how you can get clear about your goals, break them into small steps that serve your purpose, establish a reasonable timeline for you to complete your goals, and of course, celebrate.
The end of the year comes with a tremendous opportunity for us to finish strong, and do those things that we have been wanting to complete all year. Perhaps work has gotten in the way, or perhaps your home life is overwhelming, but the good news is that there is still time.
So, let's make these last 60 days count and finish the year strong. Stay on purpose, and share your journey with us on Instagram at @plannersonpurpose.
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Finding true balance in your life can be quite a journey. Especially if you're in a high-touch, high-performing role like event management.
In this episode, Naomi discusses how the concept of work-life balance can be looked at differently to show that it is very rare for a person can achieve balance in all areas of their life all at once. Naomi shares how putting focus on different areas of our lives, in different seasons might be just what you need for you to have your idea of balance.
Tune in and listen in on this episode. Do you believe that you can obtain true balance in all areas of your life? We would love to hear your feedback on social! Use #plannersonpurpose or tag us on social and let us know!
Until next time, stay on purpose.
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Get ready to dive into the world of event planning with industry pace-setter, Sara Gorlick! In an unexpected twist of fate, Sara Gorlick kicked off her corporate career with a 1,500-person Health Care Summit. After being thrown into the fire of logistics, floor plans, programming, and solving on-site crises she was hooked.
In this episode, Sara unravels the mystery of assembling a high-performing team. Sara loves it when a team functions in at its peak, anticipating challenges before they arise. Join us as we uncover the profound impact a well-oiled team can have on the success or downfall of an event.
Sara's journey takes a personal twist as she opens up about the invaluable role of mentorship in her life. Discover how a great mentor can be your guiding light, helping you to grow, and providing the wisdom that you need for your next steps. Mentorship is a delicate dance where support outweighs judgment, and Sara shares her story of how this unfolds for her.
Our conversation doesn't stop there, because we expand to discuss the extraordinary power of kindness and how it can magnify the success of your events, especially when overcoming challenges. Sara's passion shines as she shows us about showing how planners can lean on kindness when it comes to interacting with clients, partners, and suppliers. Even when an event goes wrong, handling challenges with kindness can give you a much bigger outcome.
Get ready for another episode that is bound to leave you inspired and motivated. Sara has had a remarkable journey, you'll get some remarkable takeaways from this podcast episode. To learn more about Sara's story, and her book, "The Lucky Boxcutter" visit www.luckyboxcutter.com or connect with Sara on Instagram.
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In this episode, I connect with Shanondoah Nicholson about many subjects, mainly event planning and how you can embellish your career as an event professional. Shanondoah shares her story of how she came into the event industry and gives some suggestions and advice for aspiring event professionals.
Episode Highlights:
- Shanondoan shares the most important part of where you are in your career.
- How a great team can help you see your ideas differently for the best perspective.
- Getting her CMP impacted Shanondoah's career, learn how important she thinks that the designation is.
- How to rest and recharge during the off-season and how it is important for you to maintain your sense of well-being thus decreasing stress and overwhelm.
- Importance of letting your network know when you are in a season of higher stress can help you put a boundary around what is currently important.
- The importance of saying no, and saying yes respectfully.
- How doing the unexpected can light up the worlds of our customers.
- Shanondoah shares the reason for her starting her very own podcast, and how she loves to talk about corporate events and how they have made an impact on her career.
- How keeping track of your commendations and accomplishments in your role can help you as you advance your career.
- Also learn about Shanondoah's go-to travel accessories, favorite self-help book, and what she loves to do in her free time.
Links and Resources
Beyond the BEO - Instagram
Shanondoah Nicholson - Linkedin
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From entrepreneurship to self-care, Virginia Frischkorn shares with us insights, tips, and personal stories that aided in her success as Founder & CEO of Partytrick. Find out key tips to help you support yourself as you grow as an entrepreneur or how to spark joy in the eyes of your attendees at your events. This episode has a little bit of everything for you, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Episode Highlights
- Find out why it's important to have a personal network supporting you. Whether it be your team at work, or your team at home, having support is important.
- How entrepreneurs should be curious, always push, be engaged, and be intentional about making their businesses better.
- Learn Virginia's routine for keeping her network authentic, strong, and engaging.
- Uncover tips on how to conquer self-promotion and find untapped areas of networking, like LinkedIn.
- Virginia shared how to embrace transitions and lean into the uncomfortable.
- Learn three things you can ask yourself if you are getting overwhelmed. They worked for Virginia!
- Discover how important breathing deeply really is, and learn tips on how to incorporate it into your day.
- Find out what really made Virginia pivot and change in her career and why she moved forward.
- Perfectionism is a struggle, and progress is a much better goal. Learn how communication can set the bar so that you can hold others to the same standard.
- Virginia shares about her company, Partytrick, and how it enables everyone to design, plan, and host their personal or private events by simply making a quick selection online.
- How diversifying your assets as much as possible is valuable for event professionals to grow passive revenue streams.
- Virginia discusses her most memorable event and what made it so special to her.
- How having intention and humor when planning events can spark joy and make events so special.
- Also, learn about Virginia's favorite travel destination, which celebs she keeps tabs on, and her favorite books.
Links and Resources
Partytrick Website
Get two months free of Partytrick using code POP23
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In this episode, I sit down with Marsha Acker with Team Catapult. Marsha shares her leadership tips and expertise with me as we dig through some event industry challenges.
Episode Highlights:
- It doesn't matter what strategies you have or the tools you buy. If you can't come together for a conversation and create change, then these things won't matter- it’s the relationship that we are able to build and the effective conversation that we have that makes the difference.
- Leadership is the art of engaging with others in a way that helps us all be the best version of ourselves - Marsha Acker
- Just because we lead differently, it doesn't mean that we can't be impactful in our own way.
- It is important as leaders for us to be clear on how we behave, how we lead, and what is our model for leadership.
- Do you make space in our companies to think and talk as a team? We are excellent at communication, but we may see things differently than others.
- Marsha talks about the key thing she does with her team to encourage relationship-building and open communication.
- Discussing your team's individual values and then collective values can be a useful tool for leaders of thriving teams.
- Choosing not to maintain relationships in your business, can be detrimental for companies and teams.
- In change management, we can resist change that is happening, or we can consider what we might create from it.
- If you feel like you are efforting more than others, it may be time to do a self-check to see if you have to let go of the perspective that it has to be a specific way.
Links and ResourcesTeam Catapult
Marsha on LinkedIn
Defining Moments of Leadership Podcast
Build Your Model for Leading Change Book
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This episode features Kenny Totten, Co-Founder and COO of Allyfly which makes group airfare booking easier for event planners.
Episode Highlights
- The internet is designed to disrupt all middle-men and agencies need to find ways to support themselves online.
- Kenny talks about how he and his business partner Eric took a risk in building a group travel tool in the midst of a pandemic and how they went from $0 to $1 million in revenue within the first year after.
- Allfly Quest is a product specifically for the event industry which partners with meeting planners, incentive houses, and event companies to be trusted airfare partners.
- Allfly Quest's function is a booking platform in which groups can book flights easily and planners and companies get referral fees for booking their groups.
- Companies can save approximately 15% discount by booking through Allfly.
- We discussed differences with Allfly in comparison to other booking tools, and the benefits of working with Allfly.
- Allfly currently integrates with tools like Cvent and Swoogo, and has more integrations on the way to make it even easier to work with other platforms that event planners commonly use.
- Reports are looking much different with Allfly as reports that are provided are given in the form of graphs and charts so that event planners can see the pattern of travel with their groups.
- Discussed how the nature of white glove service is changing and how technology is providing the best options. Quick booking is better service, and where exactly "hands-on" support is integrated within a program matters more.
- You don't have to sacrifice white glove service for speed." - Kenny Totten
- "White glove service is about giving people the opportunity be serviced in a way that they want to be serviced." - Kenny Totten
- Discussed the changes in technology and how fast they are occurring. Kenny suggests that it is important to know and learn about these technologies because they will shape our future.
- It is important with new technologies like Chat GPT that you review what's given to you and put your professional eyes and understanding/filter on it.
- Talked about how AI tools such as ChatGPT can change our roles in society and how can we still show up and provide value.
- If you are looking for tips on how to grow and scale a business, Kenny talks about the struggles that Allfly had as they were rapidly growing and the characteristics of a driven team.
- "If you want to change something, you have to track it first." - Kenny Totten
- How working out, doggie walks, and sleeping well, helped Kenny Totten in taking more healthy steps in his life.
Links and ResourcesAllyfly
Kenny Totten Linkedin
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Getting your Certified Meeting Professional certification and designation is a big decision, and I want you to know all about the requirements. This episode will focus on providing you with why you should move forward with getting your cmp, the benefits, and the requirements.
- To learn more about the specific requirements to apply for the Certified Meeting Professional Designation, go to eventscouncil.org.
- The CMP aims to set the standard of experience for event professionals in the industry.
- The structure, process, and certification have maintained their designation for over 30+ years.
- 98% of Certified Event Professionals maintain their CMP's after initial certification.
- In order to get your CMP you have to have applicable education and experience in the event profession and pass the Certified Meeting Professional exam.
- The application process requires a fee and a brief waiting period for acceptance.
- All of the experience and education on your application is checked thoroughly to ensure the integrity of the program.
- Once approved, you can move forward to schedule your appointment for the exam within 1-year.
Links and ResourcesEvents Industry Council
Planners on Purpose CMP Study Group
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In this episode, I discuss my journey from being in overwhelm with many good things happening in my life to earning my CMP designation. If you're on a journey to advance professionally, then this episode not only goes through my journey but identifies key areas of support that you'll need to make it to your next level.
Episode Highlights
- When you are on a journey with significant changes in your life, make sure you have important structures set up to help and support you.
- In my journey, the importance of a good team, along with good tools ultimately got me through a time of overwhelm.
- The people that you surround yourself with can either support you or hurt you. When you are going through a challenging time, check the people that you are with and ensure they are there to support you.
- The Certified Meetings Designation is an industry badge of excellence, and if you are a meeting professional, earning this globally recognized designation can set you apart from others.
- A great way to set yourself up for success when taking the CMP exam is to join a CMP Study Group. Planners on Purpose has a study group that will support you in this endeavor.
Links and Resources
- Planners on Purpose CMP Study Group
- Event Industry Council
Thank you so much for listening, until next time stay on purpose!
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In seasons of growth and expansion, there is always an opportunity to move to the next level. Are you positioned to get to your next-level as an event professional? How do you stand out so that you can advance in your career? This episode highlights how you can stand out amongst everyone and get to your next.
Episode Highlights
- Be an event planner that stands by your word. Say what you mean, and mean what you say. Do the things you set out to do.
- Offer your input and suggestions when they are being asked. You never know how your insight can help others with what they do.
- Refrain from giving unsolicited advice, always ask so that your suggestions are received well by others.
- Focus on managing your time well. It's important to find unique ways to handle your responsibilities so that you are able to take on more.
- Tie up all your loose ends well. This is helpful in times of transition. Make sure that you are transparent, and getting others what they need to be successful..
- Communicate often, and communicate clearly. So many challenges happen because direction or a particular situation isn't made clear.
- Lean into opporuntity when it arises. If there is a need for help, be the person that raises their hand to help and do it well.
- Earn a certificate or designation. Consider the CMP certficate for meeting planners.
Links and Resources
CMP Study Group by Planners on Purpose
Thank you so much for listening to this episode, and until next time stay on purpose!
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Event planners have many skills that they lean on in order to plan amazing meetings and events. If you are new to the event planning space this episode will provide you with 5 basic essential skills that event planners can lean on when developing yourself as an event planner.
Episode Highlights
- Customer service is an essential skill that allows you to service your client effectively.
- With customer service, it's important to be pleasant and easy to work with. This will bring customers back to you again and again.
- Put yourself in a position where you can level up your customer service skill set by solving customers' requests often.
- Hospitality is another essential skill as an event planner that you need to show your clients that you can go over and above to surprise and delight as a means of adding to their experience at your event.
- Event planners should learn to build their creativity and problem-solving skills as coming up with new and exciting experiences and solving problems are common in our space.
- Although event planning platforms are numerous, it is very frequent to see spreadsheets or Excel for numerous functions.
- It is such a powerful skill to be influential. When you use influence as a strength you can help your clients see solutions in the way that you see them so that they can make the best decisions for their event.
- Be aware of the opportunities for influence that you have around you in order to start flexing this essential skill.
Thank you for listening to this episode of the Planners on Purpose podcast. Until next time, stay on purpose.
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Do you struggle to maintain your work-life balance as an event professional? Do you feel like you are constantly overwhelmed? This May, for Mental Health Awareness Month, we are reading How to Keep House While Drowning. And, in this episode of the podcast, we will talk about tips to help you embrace more ease in your work and at home while planning those amazing events. Here are some takeaways from this episode:
Episode Highlights
- The next book club selection is How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis. It's a great book for anyone struggling with overwhelm, burnout, and could use a little uplifting in a time of struggle.
- What often happens in the homes of event planners are typically hidden and not often disclosed, but it is important that we are supportive of each others boundaries and the transitions that they might be having in their home lives as well.
- What I've learned over the years when it comes to balancing all the things:
- Focus on what is most important in the season you are in.
- Create boundaries for anything that may be sneaking over the fence.
- Say yes to the things that excite you - however, you'll have to ensure you have the space to manage them.
- What people say "out loud" about a person or directly to you can be damaging. Event professionals should be mindful of judgements of others, especially if they are going through a tough time and are struggling with work tasks. Find ways to support if at all possible.
- Many times we are overwhelmed by the amount of tasks we have to do at home and at work. Remind yourself that it's okay and you will get through it.
- "You don't exist to serve your space, your space exists to serve you" - KC Davis. We need to change how our spaces work for us, instead of us working for them.
- "Human beings can only exert high effort for short periods of time.' - KC Davis. This is a reminder that we need to balance our days with high and low periods so that we have time when we come home to support those that matter the most.
- People struggle differently - privilege isn't the only difference. We all come from many different backgrounds, jobs, we also plan different events - so we all struggle differently. And if we are all struggling differently, we will resolve challenges differently as well.
- How one measures work-life balance will vary for each person. The key is being aware of your needs and seeking out a supportive community to help you get to where you need to be.
Links and Resources:Planners on Purpose Book Club
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In this episode, we explore the power of focus that is needed while planning meetings and events. With so many distractions, tasks, and to-do's event planners face the challenge of staying focused so that they can get all of the things done. If you are struggling with focusing while you're planning events, then this episode is for you.
Episode Highlights
- It's so easy to procrastinate when you are planning your events, which makes the power of focus even more powerful to put into practice.
- Your focus determines the direction in which you want your work to go. If you have a goal of an amazing event, then your focus needs to be on ensuring your work is amazing.
- If an event planner struggles in starting a task, it is potentially because the outcome may not be going the way we want it to go. The struggle comes in the uncertainty of our expectations.
- It can be easy to procrastinate on our problems because our problems require us to concentrate. Concentration is a key component of being focused.
- Where your focus goes your energy flows, so make sure your mind is set on focusing on your task to completion.
- Just like any athlete, make sure that you are doing your warmups before getting on the field of your workplace. Set your stage, create the optimal environment, give yourself a pep talk, bring your positive energy, and set up boundaries so that you can be the best you can be while you are completing your best work.
- So many distractions are thrown at us while we are trying to complete a task, set boundaries and evaluate each request to ensure its priority matches your own before you agree to complete it.
- Remember to avoid distractions smokescreens, false alarms, and emotionally draining distractions that may come your way. Find those unique ways of approach to protect your time, space, and energy.
- There is power in where you focus, because the more you focus, the more you can get things done.
Links and Resources:Planners on Purpose Community
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Tim Flors has been a hotelier at heart for most of his career. From the Baymont Inn and Suites as Director of Sales to National Sales Manager and Director of National of Sales at Gaylord Palms Resort - he has meetings and events in his blood. Tim joined Groups360 to see how they make it easier for event professionals.
“The process is broken,” he explains. “It’s inefficient and ineffective. It’s biased. It’s adversarial. And no one is transparent. It’s the way things have always been done, but we’re changing all that. Our solutions empower planners to make more precise decisions.”
Episode Highlights
- Groups360 makes it better and easier for event professionals to book groups online.
- Groups360 is able to give better information on hotels and better user experience to the event professional when it comes to their online search.
- This tool offers event professionals the ease of booking hotel sleeping rooms and meeting space including catering and equipment in the meeting space which is a plus.
- Groups360 has future plans for separate bookings to be made (hotel with separate meeting venue) which will help with unique situations where meeting and sleeping rooms aren't able to be in the same location.
- Currently, event planners have access to send RFP's to over 200,000 properties globally in 225 territories and countries, and you can see live space inventory at about 10,000 hotels globally.
- There are integrations, partnerships with registration tools, and SSO capabilities coming down the way for Groups360 which makes the way for very exciting enhancements are on the horizon.
- Groups360 has a simple search which is unique to the industry and their wide selection of inventory is also an advantage over other tools.
- Whenever a booking is made, a notification is made to your specific Global Sales Teams, so event planners can have ease in knowing that everyone is aware of their meeting.
Links and Resources:Groups360
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Brittny Drye is the founder and editor of Love Inc., a wedding blog and digital publication centered on equality. She has been celebrated by the New York Times, The Advocate, Cosmopolitan and more. Brittny champions inclusivity and is an anchor for advocacy in the equality and inclusion space. In this episode, Brittny will unpack inclusivity and how you can be more inclusive for your clients.
Episode Highlights
- Being truly inclusive is a mindset. It's the language you use, the imagery you show, and the relationships you have. Inclusivity means including everyone all the time.
- Inclusivity is about educating yourself so that you are equipped to do it in a more authentic manner.
- If you are looking to ensure that you are being inclusive, take a look at your marketing, your forms, and adjust them so that they are representative of what your authentically represents.
- As a planner, it is important not to assume a traditional wedding, and ask your couple what they are looking for in their wedding as couples nowadays are doing weddings how they want to do them.
- If you are in a position where you have made a mistake when it comes to inclusivity, apologize, and move on.
- Planners are the gatekeeper between their clients and the rest of the vendor team. You want to make sure you are doing your homework to ensure that the venue and vendors are inclusive and will be able to represent your client well for their event.
- If you are in a position where you have to speak up for your client, ensure that you have written documentation so that you have what you need to protect your client.
Links and Resources:
Love Inc. Mag
Love Inc. Instagram
Love Inc. Facebook
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As a successful wedding photographer, Lynne Reznick captures each couple’s unique love story through her images. Lynne's start in the photography space began with mentorship, so in this episode, she will share her passion for mentorships with us.
Episode Highlights
- As a mentee don't put pressure on yourself to know everything immediately. Give yourself space to learn and grow under someone's guidance.
- Mentorship is a long-term relationship you build with someone in the industry. It's about building a relationship over time between mentor and mentee.
- Mentors need to show passion for what they are mentoring and have a passion for being a teacher in leading and nurturing the mentee over a long period of time.
- It's important to serve the new generation of event pros in this industry. Mentorship is an integral piece that can help support.
- To get started in mentorship, put a structure in place, learn how much time you can commit to it, and what the advising will be like - then put it out on social media.
Links and Resources:
Lynne Reznick Photography
Lynne's Instagram
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Nora Sheils is a wealth of knowledge in the events industry and knows exactly what creating an impressive team can do for a business. Her talent for project management, operational efficiency, business expansion, and team dynamics support and propel event professionals to do their best. In this episode, Nora talks all about creating an impressive team and what that means for those that plan events.
Episode Highlights
- In operating Bridal Bliss, Nora shared a takeaway that she never takes more weddings than she or her team are able to do comfortably.
- Creating an impressive team can be stressful. Nora took time to train her employees at the beginning of her business and it grew from there.
- The best training strategy for Nora to bring on new planners is having them start as assistants to shadow the process and then add on more responsibility as they grow.
- What makes an amazing team player is possibly different for different companies. However, Nora's top three are:
- Planners have to be open to all genders and all races
- Planners should be open to learning new ways, and not set in their ways.
- Ideal planners fit easily into the team culture.
- It's common that planners will work with a client that isn't easy to work with. Ideally, if they aren't a good fit, it is much better to part ways with that client than move forward in a toxic environment.
- There are ways to ensure a client is a good fit. A great one is asking the right questions during the inquiry and onboarding process.
- Setting expectations early with your clients can ensure that planners are leading the process and are consultative.
- Going above and beyond can lead to burnout. Be upfront about expectations and lead the process to ensure the client isn't asking you for status, and that you are showing them frequent updates.
- Send a surprise and delight package as well to say welcome! They are inexpensive but make a huge difference.
- Tips from Nora on building your company brand:
- Jump into social media. It is an easy free way to build back the branding of your team and company
- Planners get so much business from vendor referrals - send cards to your vendors so that you are at top of your mind.
- Make sure to give reviews to others and keep your site updated when you get referrals and reviews from others as well. Show off the support you get from others
- Be authentic.
- Give your planners the space to grow as a planner, and make sure they are valued, and a true team player.
Links and Resources:
Rock Paper Coin
Facebook
Instagram
Use code RPCNORA to receive White glove onboarding + Free Year on Application from Rock Paper Coin - Thank you Nora!
Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. I hope this helps you in your quest on creating an impressive team. Until next time, stay on purpose!
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Leah Weinberg is a perfect blend of support for event professionals being an author, a recovering event planner, and an attorney. In this episode, we'll discuss the feelings and emotions that come with an event planner's job and how to walk through them.
Episode Highlights
- When you can think through some of the big things that go wrong then you are prepared for the small things that come up.
- Leah's book, The Wedding Rollercoaster, is all about keeping your relationship intact through the ups and downs.
- What something seems to be like on the surface, isn't what it is always about. There is always something beneath the surface that underlines someone's behavior.
- We should be proactive about bringing up any challenges in the planning process first.
- Asking questions and having a conversation while planning builds trust with customers.
- What people say as well as what people do not say can help you when identifying how to respond to your clients.
- Your branding messaging and voice should portray the type of planner you are so that customers are aware of who you are as a planning professional.
- Everyone is truly different and meant to be working with different people.
- In situations that are high-touch many times, practice makes perfect. Practice how you respond to customers so that it becomes easier for you to respond to requests.
- Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy by not having the right systems and processes in place. If you aren't strong in an area, find someone or a tool that is so that you can have a strong front.
- Leah's 3-step process for handling the stress or emotional responses at an event. 1) Take the emotional response in nicely. 2) Think through it logically. 3) Check in with yourself emotionally to see how you are feeling.
- Lastly, after moving through this process, we have to either take responsibility or let it go and move forward.
- Don't isolate yourself when dealing with difficult customers. Have a team, community, or accountability partner to help you get yourself through trying times.
Links and Resources:
- Color Pop Events
- Oduberg
- The Wedding Rollercoaster (Leah's book)
- Setting the Table (by Danny Meyer - Leah's other favorite personal development book
- Quiet (Leah's favorite personal development book)
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Today's interview feature is with special guest Mark Herschberg. Mark is the creator of the Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success that No One Taught You and the creator of the Brain Dump App.
Mark has also been recognized on many podcasts, and shows, and has received a plethora of awards for his Career Toolkit book. In this episode, we talk about communication and how if you use communication effectively, it can help boost your career and enhance your leadership.
Episode Highlights
- Having the relevant experience for a position before you express interest, can help you to get the role you need.
- There are many career transitions happening within event planning. Thus, it is important for companies to be transparent and intentional in hiring and have discussions beyond the requirements of the job.
- If you're looking for some great questions to ask during the interview process, check out Mark's great resource from The Career Toolkit.
- One mistake we often make when we are onboarding employees into new role is placing them into a box, and telling them to do the job. However, you want someone to understand the full picture of the company, and the larger context off their role.
- Communication starts with clear guidelines on how to communicate and where resources are within a role.
- Understand the root "why" of conversations so that you can communicate in a way that relates to their direct "why". When you drill down to the root, there might be different assumptions and goals.
- The BrainBump App is an app that helps you better retain what you read and what you hear. Download and check out this app and see how it can help you in your professional life.
- Leadership is changing, we have to be more intentional about our leadership, and be more communicative than before. We have to be more explicit with our leadership and intentional about getting feedback from our employees. More complex and more time-consuming as a leader these days.
- Events are changing, there is nothing that is changed at an event today that is something that you can't pull up online and get it. So events, need to be more engaging and go beyond what you can get next door.
- Networking and making meaningful connections is key and needs to be fostered at events.
- Extending the in-person experience to online before and after an event, can help to leverage the online experiences.
- Mark recommends the following professional development books: PeopleWare and The Charisma Myth
Links and Resources:
The Career Toolkit Websites
The Career Toolkit Twitter
The Career Toolkit Instagram
The Career Toolkit Facebook
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Today's interview feature is with special guest Jordan Kentris. Jordan is the owner of A Good Day, a boutique design firm, born to serve planners and their eclectic tastes and styles within events. Jordan has also been recognized as the Most Innovative People in 2020 for his creative, holistic approach to virtual events. In this episode, we talk about how you can turn criticism to positivity as a planner as Jordan shares more about himself and helpful tips.
Episode Highlights
- Jordan talks about how the pandemic affected his business and how he was able to merge two parts of his business to create a unique brand.
- Listen to the voice of the customer to get insight into service offerings and how things may need to be repackaged or unique solutions that need to be provided to meet the customer's need.
- Don't be afraid to ask and be vocal in your aspirations so that you can be supported in the goals and visions that you have for your business.
- When it comes to communicating with clients, it is important to be honest and transparent so that they are aware of how industry changes (staffing, resources) are impacting their event.
- We discuss the demands of the client in a world in which the event industry is ramping up.
- Jordan shares that sometimes communicating with clients in tough times is about being human, letting them know what you are working through, and what you are doing in the background.
- Jordan offered a great tip that we should go through and explain the work so that the client can see what you can do, and everything that you've done to complete their request.
- Having weekly status meetings with your client to help keep them in the loop is beneficial so they aren't in the dark about the progress that is happening on their project.
- When taking criticism from clients it is important to remove the emotion from the situation so that you can see the facts of the situation.
- Criticism is often not you but it is because of the person giving the criticism is going through a situation that might need to be unpacked to find the real root of the feedback.
- Know when it is healthy to remove toxic relationships between planner and client. Realizing this can save lots of time and wasted efforts in the future.
- Done is better than perfect.
Links and Resources:A Good Day Website
A Good Day Instagram
Jordan's Fav Book Suggestion
Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. Until next time, stay on purpose!
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Today's interview feature is with special guest Deanna Nwosu. Deanna is a leader in the meeting and event industry as well as an event emcee, moderator, and speaker that believes that the power of memories is overlooked. We will talk a bit about the power of memories and how important they are, especially with the events that we plan.
Episode Highlights
- Don't allow fear to prevent you from going after what you want.
- You can't be your barrier to reaching the things you want to get.
- There will be plenty of external barriers that get in your way, but don't let yourself get in your own way of doing the things you want.
- Be okay with letting business go that isn't for you.
- Embrace what's for you and don't be stressed about what's not.
- The great reshuffling was a once and a lifetime moment to switch up how and in most cases where you work.
- Gig work and contract work can be seen as an up-and-coming trend in the industry.
- Diverse income streams are seemingly an aspiring trend too for many post-pandemic.
- We have to do better with taking care of our physical bodies, our sleep, our eating, and our exercise.
- You have to protect your boundaries and stand up for yourself. When you do this, you can reduce your stress.
- Moments and planning events can be so powerful if we just take the time to pay attention.
- Pay attention to the present moment when planning, and ask yourself a key question: What do we want our attendees to feel or know when they walk away from our event?
Links and Resources:Deanna Camille Website
Deanna Instagram
Deanna LinkedIn
Deanna Twitter
Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Banish Burnout Challenge
Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. Until next time, stay on purpose!
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plannersonpurp)
Have you ever struggled to meet the goals that you've set? In this episode, I will share six strategies that I've used to stay focused on my goals. Hopefully, these strategies will help you succeed in all that you are looking to accomplish for this year.
Episode HighlightsI've had opportunities in my lifetime to take on big projects, and lead teams, and although the journey seemed overwhelming at first, the strategies have always helped me to succeed.
Find your DriveI talked about the importance of finding what drives you so that you have the fuel that you need in order to accomplish your goals.
Seek Out AccountabilityAccountability is something I frequently discuss. It is very important for you to have a measure of accountability with someone in your life checking in and making sure that you are staying true to what you said out to do.
Write it OutIt's always helpful to write down your goals. I find that when I write things down it opens up additional opportunities to get detailed how my goals will be met.
Measure It with Deadlines/MilestonesTaking account of the deadlines and milestones that you will meet as you complete your goals is key to staying on point throughout the year.
Do Goal SprintsSometimes you can find quick and easy tasks to complete to give you a little bit of a Headstart towards your goal. I called these goal sprints. Identify where they are and go for it!
Midpoint checks (July/Aug)I'm sure you had many goals that you were tracking towards. Setting aside some time to reflect on how you've done and where are you still have yet to go is very helpful for you to do in the middle of the year. Set some time in your calendar to do a midpoint check.
Links and ResourcesVision Board Email Challenge
Planner Power-Up Kit
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plannersonpurp)
In this episode, I sit down with Jodi Goldbeck, CMP, a full-time instructor at Madison College since 2009. Jodi has been studying mindset, grit, and well-being since 2015 after experiencing a series of unexpected challenges in her life.
Based on Jodi's studies and the unwavering belief that individuals can change the trajectory of their lives, she developed a curriculum called Mastering Mindfulness, which is a series of one-credit courses that focus on topics such as gratitude, resilience, habit building, listening and many other topics related to living a happier life.
Episode Highlights
- Madison College is one of the first in the country to have a degree in Meeting Management.
- Madison College teaches students to graduate and get into the real world and really start working.
- If you are looking to get into the industry, Madison College gives an option of an online global student body.
- Industry colleagues ensure that the curriculum is updated to the standards of what is happening in the industry.
- Jodi shares a personal story of hardship how it led to her developing a curriculum called Mastering Mindfulness.
- If you are struggling, paying attention to your body, and practicing self-care is key.
- Savoring is one of the best things that you can do to appreciate your present moment.
- "If we can savor more, we live a more abundant like, we become more present and more aware and more appreciative of life in general." - Jodi Goldbeck
Links and Resources
Handshake App (For employers and students)
Madison College (For Meetings & Event Management and Mastering Mindfulness Course)
Jodi Goldbeck LinkedIn
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plannersonpurp)
This episode explores 4 different areas of intentional planning as you prepare for a new year.
- Be realistic of your time.
- Be mindful of your space.
- Be intentional about your results.
- Be purposeful about your self-care.
As you head into the new year, reflect on your challenges and successes of the last year. Be super intentional so that you can make this year the best one yet!
Links and Resources
EIC CMP Today Newsletter
Join the Vision Board Challenge
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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There are many shifts that are happening as we are phasing into another era of the pandemic. We have lost team members, gained others, and face the challenge of building amazing teams we had once before.
Episode Highlights
- Many people are exhausted from all the hard work in this season, yet many are excited to get back to work.
- We are currently planning events differently, there isn’t an event that is absolutely similar to what it was pre-pandemic.
- Listening to your team and being attentive to their personal needs is very crucial at a time where people are sensitive to global events.
- When you are learning and taking risks at the same time, so encouraging vulnerability can allow teams to make mistakes gracefully.
- The difference between a successful team and a team that isn’t as successful is that they use crisis as a way to crystalize their purpose.
Thank you for listening to the podcast. Rebuilding those amazing teams is so important as we grow our organizations again. Join me for our next book club on September 8th as we discuss The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, and chat about the secrets of highly successful groups. Sign up at www.plannersonpurpose.com/bookclub.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plannersonpurp)
In this episode, I invite you to tune into a discussion that I was honored to have with John Chen. John was a guest at this past book club and taught us quite a bit about engaging in virtual meetings.
Episode Highlights:
- If you want to learn about how to engage in virtual meetings, then you will need to learn the ENGAGE method.
- Engage with every attendee.
- Never lead a meeting alone.
- Good looks.
- Air traffic control.
- Get productive with virtual tools.
- End your meeting on a high note.
- Your attendees need to be comfortable in order to engage. Precisely, they need to have psychological safety to get even the quiet attendee to engage.
- Attendees need to feel safe, take risks, and be vulnerable towards each other.
- Get things done on time and meet a high level of excellence.
- Attendees have clear roles, plans, and goals.
- Make sure that the work is meaningful to the attendees.
- Attendees need to think their work matters and will initiate change.
Thank you so much for listening! To find out more about Planners on Purpose, go to www.plannersonpurpose.com.
To get more information about Engaging Virtual Meetings and John Chen, check out his website at www.engagingvirtualmeetings.com
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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I'm delighted to have Nyna Caputi, Founder of The Expat Woman and Digital Event Academy as a guest on the podcast. Nyna has an inspiring story of purpose that starts as she settles into her first years in America.
Nyna imagined a world in which she would bring together a network of women, that are also experiencing this country for the first time. This network became The Expat Woman. Nyna is also the creator of The Digital Event Academy, Start Yours Bootcamp, Empowered Women’s Leadership Conference, Survive and Thrive Abroad Summit and All-Women Hackathon. We had a great discussion, check below for some highlights.
Episode Highlights
- Learn about Nyna and how she found her voice, her courage, and a new country.
- Discover how passion can fuel your dreams.
- Uncover how Nyna got out of her comfort zone to pursue her vision.
- Learn how Nyna got the courage to be the face of her brand
- Listen in on how Nyna has been able to look at social media platforms in a refreshing new way.
Links and Resources
Nyna Caputi website
Get Nyna's 4 Key Tips to Host Wildly Successful Digital Events Guide + Workbook
Digital Events Dreamers and Doers
Planners on Purpose website
Perfection is Defection by Joseph Norie
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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This is a new yet special episode of the podcast. We're celebrating the BIG 50! Annnnd, I'm introducing you to my accountability partners! Yes, as you know I've talked many times about the importance of having someone in your life to help uplift and empower you to meet your goals. That may be a coach for you, or a team like this, but it is so important and necessary. I want you to meet Cathy VandenHeuval of Caregiver Cup and Amy Linsmeyer with Roots Change. We'll talk about how we met, what has been the most important takeaway from the times we share together. We'll also talk about the journey of entrepreneurship.
Links and Resources
Cathy Vandenheuval - Caregiver Cup
Amy Linsmeyer - Roots Change
Naomi Tucker - Planners on Purpose
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode, I pull up with Katherine Frost, returning guest on the Planners on Purpose Podcast. We discuss what is happening at ORO Planner, and also discuss how the event industry is returning post-pandemic. We also discuss some key event trends to keep an eye out for. I hope you enjoy this episode!
Episode Highlights
- Katherine discusses the new design board that has launched within the Oro Planner.
- Indoor/Outdoor events are now happening to ensure that people are safe and included.
- Staff shortages are happening in hospitality. Planners can help to encourage patience as the hospitality industry rebuilds to meet demand.
- It is important to always have a plan and a plan for the plan! Be optimistic and have backup contingencies in the event that things fall back.
- Planners should consider brushing up on their planning skills since meetings are returning.
- There is still a debate on hybrid meetings and how they will integrate within the landscape of events.
- The event industry is an amazing community that even when we're not together, we're together.
Links and ResourcesKatherine Frost Interview on ORO Planner
Oro Planner
Event Manager Blog - Event Tech Companies
CDC Mask Guidelines - Planners React
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The conversation around mental health should be elevated and discussed. In this episode, you will hear about 3 myths that you should know about mental health, and what to do about them. Understanding some myths around mental health will be able to help us continue to bring important conversations forward.
Episode Highlights
- It is important to talk about mental health.
- Talking and being supportive to loved ones is a way that we can support.
- Everyone can help to support mental health, and point to resources if needed.
- If you know someone that needs support, refer them to resources available help.
- The signs of mental health are not easy to see.
- "Pay careful attention to anything you try to hide" - Gretchen Rubin
Links and Resources
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Mental Health First Aid Website
Managing Burnout FREE Mini-Course
Planners on Purpose Book Club
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Procrastination can get the best of us, especially when we are trying to reach our goals. In this episode of the Planners on Purpose Podcast, we discuss how to overcome procrastination through 5 easy tips.
Episode Highlights
- When you are dealing with procrastination, take a deeper look at the core issue of why you keep pushing things aside.
- Place tasks on your calendar so that they can alert you to take time to complete them.
- Consider using techniques to help you focus on each task when it is ready to be worked on.
- Encouragement can come from tying healthy habits to the tasks that you are looking to complete.
- Beware of how much information you consume. Your consumption can be preventing your creativity.
- Having an accountability partner or coach can help provide you with the encouragement you need to avoid procrastination and to meet your goals.
Links and Mentions
Pomodoro Technique
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Planners on Purpose Facebook Group
Thank you so much for listening to this episode. Do you struggle with procrastination? Or perhaps you have a great story to share on how you overcame your struggle? Well, I would love to hear all of your stories in the comments below. Until the next episode!
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plannersonpurp)
Have you ever been busy working, but not necessarily being productive? In this episode, I'll share with you three ways to be productive rather than spending your time being busy for the sake of being busy.
Episode Highlights:
- Being busy is all about being occupied, but with what? You can be busy doing many things but are you moving the needle forward.
- Being productive means that you are producing an effective result for you and your business.
- Stop doing all the busy things in your life. One of the main productivity killers is social media. Make sure to give yourself time limits on social media so that your time can be better spent in other places.
- Make sure that you are scheduling smart when it comes to your calendar. Remember there is a time and place for everything.
- Focus on a specific task instead of having your hands in too many things at one time. Focusing is more effective than multi-tasking.
- Always stick to your script. If you have a planner or have time allotted or certain tasks, make sure that you stick to your plans. Don't falter.
Thank you for listening to this episode!
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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As event planners we should know about what burnout is and how it actually can affect our performance in our careers. This episode walks through what burnout is, the effects of burnout, and discuss how you can make adjustments to be more aware of stress in your life doing forward.
Episode highlights:
- Burnout is a syndrome that results from occupational stress.
- In event planning, there are many contributions to stress and overwhelm that lead to burnout.
- It is important to be aware of if you are in a burnout situation so that you can make adequate adjustments.
- Many times burnout can be self-inflicted, so ensure you are aware of what you are saying "yes" to and manage your personal energy tank.
- As managers, be aware of our employees ability to take on additional projects, and ask key questions to ensure that they are able and ready to take on the task you want them to proceed with.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Managing Your Burnout FREE Mini-Course
Planners on Purpose Book Club
Planners on Purpose Facebook Community
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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This week’s episode we are digging deeper into Opposition Factors that affect us and may prevent us from reaching our goals. In episode 43 we discussed the common internal oppositions that appear for us, and this week, we are discussing several external oppositions.
Episode Highlights
- Seeking the validation from others can help in some cases, however if validation isn’t favorable, it is important to know how to respond.
- Use any validation responses whether positive or negative to refine and to reshape your goal.
- When you get your first critic, it could be an opportunity to get deeper into refining or validating your goal or idea.
- Think of criticism as a dialogue and use it as fuel to get to where you need to go.
- Accountability partners are there to help keep us on our path. Although when we are being held accountable we may not see it that way.
- While on this journey to meet your goals, make sure that you use your accountability team to support you.
- See accountability as an opportunity to be vulnerable in where you are at, and allow your partners or coach guide you through.
Links and Resources
Managing Your Burnout Mini-Course
Thank you for listening to the podcast. If you have met opposition when meeting your goals, I encourage you to share with us in the comments below.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Opposition is what happens when you start to move to completing your goals. This week's podcast discusses three common areas of opposition and what you can do to overcome them.
Have you created a life plan yet? Well, creating a plan for where you want to go, only helps you as you journey to your destination. Consider listening to Episode 41 How to Create a Life Plan to Meet Your Goals to get started.
Episode Highlights
- Almost always when we set out to create our goals, opposition will be a factor.
- The key is becoming aware of the areas of opposition so that you can easily move through it.
- Imposter syndrome is a common opposition that everyone suffers from.
- Imposter syndrome is when you feel you aren't worthy or enough to do this new thing you are looking to do.
- If you are dealing with imposter syndrome, the key thing is now you can create a new story for yourself instead of believing one that is made up.
- Comparing is another common opposition that most suffer from.
- Comparing is like imposter syndrome in that you look externally and use your perception against progress.
- The key with comparing to not let it get you into shame, but rather use your quest to gather inspiration from external examples, as inspiration only.
- The last common example is deflecting. This occurs when others share something positive about what they see about your change, but you humbly push their comments away.
- Deflecting can be conquered by a simple thank you. Let the positivity flow if you are making great traction on your goals.
- Finally be cautious of burnout when you are ramping up something new. There are ways to get traction in a healthy way versus it hurting you.
- If you feel you are in a burnout situation, consider registering for my free mini-course on preventing burnout created just for you.
Links and Resources
Brené Brown - Daring Greatly Book
Amy Cuddy - Presence Book
Episode 42: Why Accountability Matters
Planners on Purpose Book Club
FREE Managing Your Burnout Mini-Course
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode we discuss why having accountability is crucial to you meeting your goals. I discuss 3 unique reasons why accountability matters. I also share some updates on our book club and that we have a new book club selection that we'll be discussing on March 3rd.
Links and Resources
Register for the Upcoming Book Club on March 3rd
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode, we will discuss how to create a life plan to meet your goals. Because, life plans are important just as much as plans for your events are. So to be purposeful, to be intentional, you will need to create a plan of action for your life.
Episode Highlights (bullets below)
- Life plans are important for keeping track of where you are, and where you want to go.
- Securing a tool for you that helps you to create a life plan.
- Make sure you are considering the 8 Pillars of Wellness when drafting your plan.
- Re-Assess your values by asking yourself key questions on what you should change and why. (more prompts in the episode)
- Make sure that your life plans are tangible and can be completed in a certain timeframe. Make them heartfelt so you are encouraged to complete them.
- Accountability is key. Ask a couple of friends to be your accountability partners, or book a personal coach like me to help. Link below for a free discovery call with yours truly.
- Prepare for setbacks, because there will be some. Always been willing to adjust your plan and make the next best step.
- Your plan should always be in a location that you can see it constantly. This inspires you to move forward every day!
- Check in often to ensure you are on the right track. Always review your big picture plan to make sure you on going in the same direction that you were meant to.
- If you want a community, consider Joining the Planners on Purpose Community on Facebook. Link below!
Links and Resources
Full Focus Planner by Michael Hyatt
Planners on Purpose Facebook Community
Book a Discovery Call with Naomi
7 Tools to Create a Life Plan (Blog Post)
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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It's a New Year, and many of us are thinking that resolutions are not exciting given where we've been. However, in this episode, I talk about how focusing on action in the New Year is important to your success.
Episode Highlights
- How reflecting on your past, can help you understand what you don't want to continue, and where you want to go.
- How visualizing your success will help you to determine the steps you will need to complete while moving towards your ideal life.
- Suggestion of the new 5-day Vision Board Email Challenge can help you with getting into action this New Year.
- Having a planner can help with ensuring that all your steps and checkpoints are written down to refer back to later.
- A mastermind group or accountability team can help you with holding you accountable.
- Consistency will destroy complacency. Ensuring you stay consistent in moving towards your ideal life is key.
- Celebrate along the way, always.
Links and Resources
5-Day Vision Board Email Challenge
Full Focus Planner - Michael Hyatt - Click for $10 off Your Order of the Planner
Planners on Purpose Book Club and Facebook Group
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
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This episode is all about how to be intentional about the New Year. You may despise New Years Resolutions, but you don't want to be caught out there without a plan. Times are tough, and many times we aren't able to get through it without a plan of action on how we will endure. So when you listen this this podcast, you'll be able to walk through these five ways to be intentional about your world.
- Reflect
- Re-Evaluate
- Reset
- Make a Plan
- Revisit
I have a wonderful worksheet that walks you through all of these 5 steps. Download FREE worksheet.
When you follow this plan you'll be able to walk with purpose into 2021. I hope you enjoy this episode, thank you for listening!
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Ada Ketchie and Nathan Getzin are alchemists of the human heart, helping people cultivate greater mindfulness, healing, and self-actualization through the ineffable power of music. As co-founders of Wakes they use their expertise as musicians, storytellers, yoga teachers, healers, and coaches to create experiences that offer radical transformation of mind, body and spirit. Their mission is to help people heal what hurts, grow thriving relationships, and awaken to true and lasting presence, purpose, and resilience. They do this by creating immersive sound healing experiences, meditations, intimate concerts, retreats, individual and group coaching, and providing online resources and support.
Episode Highlights
- Music gives us the opportunity to experience repressed emotions and to heal through those experiences.
- Music helps us to connect to who we are so that we can be more authentic.
- Music has so much power to shift or state and to attune ourselves.
- Music can illuminate so much that is going on inside of us and help us release it.
- If you listen to music, it takes 9 minutes to make us feel happier, and 13 minutes to help us release sadness.
- With intention, we can completely shift our emotional states through music.
Links and Resources
Wakes Website
Wakes Facebook
Wakes Instagram
Wakes YouTube
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Katherine Frost is the Founder of ORO, a new all-in-one digital planning solution that is designed to help event planners plan their event effortlessly with less stress and more productivity. In this interview Katherine and I explore how she started her career, the journey of entrepreneurship and get a sneak peak of her new tool ORO.
Episode Highlights
- Oro was created to help event planners relieve the stress with the communication that goes back and forth between the planner and the client.
- The main highlights of the tool are the program of events, the timeline, and space planning which accommodates for social distancing.
- There is also a concierge service for this product if you need some additional support.
- If you are an entrepreneur the best advice is to go all in!
- A team approach for planning encourages the team to dream big, exert their own opinions and thoughts.
Links and Resources
Make Your Bed - Admiral William McRaven
Oro Planner Website
Planners on Purpose - Book Club
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The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
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This episode features Ashley Jackson Thompson. Ashley is the Owner of Timeless Dreams Events who her mission is to provide terminally ill people and their family members with a timeless dream event on how they celebrate life and love. Her company plans various events at minimal notice due to each unique and sensitive situation. Ashley has been able to turn her own personal pain into purpose, and a blessing to others.
Links Mentioned
Timeless Dream Events Website
Timeless Dream Events Facebook and Instagram
Planners on Purpose Book Club
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
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My guest Tracey Fuller has learned how to thrive as an entrepreneur after starting her first company, Happy Occasions, 32 years ago in response to a personal tragedy.
Nearly three decades later, she leads the team at InnovativEvents, providing event décor, backstage management, and overall coordination and management of all production aspects. She has produced dozens of corporate events – sometimes for an intimate group of corporate board members, other times for crowds as large as 3,000.
Episode Highlights
· How it is important to make a decision to thrive and not just survive in times of hardship.
· Find what you love, and work with passion towards it.
· How Tracy is helping young event professionals by equipping them with turnkey themed events.
· How a fashion show made of all Bubble Wrap fashions is all the rave.
· Challenges of keeping her business alive during the pandemic.
· Tracy encourages planners to rest now so that they have the energy in spring and summer of 2021.
· Thoughts on trends to come as we start to plan on meeting face-to-face again.
· Tracy’s food for thought for planners: Wherever you are, stay calm, so that you can solve problems with a clear head.
· Tracy’s advice for planners: Always bring a second pair of shoes.
· Tracy’s final words: Take a breath, and live your joy.
Links and Resources
Friend Factor – Alan Loy McGuinnis
InnovativEvents
Event Heroes
The Bubble Ball Affair
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Sharee Cammon has a story of purpose and perseverance. Sharee's mission is to help the Black community break free from the debilitating chains of economic inequality and oppression. She's the owner of Creative Call Marketing and the creator of the B.A.M. Business Academy.
This academy is a community based membership platform with a built-in learning and mentorship platform that serves Black entrepreneurs. Sharee manages a few key events each year that helps support black entrepreneurs and proceeds from both events, are donated to help support the creation and expansion of black owned businesses, spurring the growth of Black entrepreneurship.
Episode Highlights
- How important having positive black business role models are
- How having black business highlighted is important to a community that needs to be uplifted
- Learn a bit about Sharee's life and struggle and how many times she's attempted her dream
- Learn about how Sharee came through her worst fear
- How to ensure that whatever event you plan on circumstances you are in, to always look out for those that aren't included
Links and Resources
Creative Call Marketing
B.A.M. Business Market
Calendly
Jane Sincero - You are a Badass
Joe Beam - Seeing the Unseen
Planners on Purpose Facebook Group
Planners on Purpose BookClub
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In this episode, I'll be giving you some quick tips for planning a stress-free Thanksgiving holiday. Planning events is one thing, but planning for family is another. Here are some quick tips to ensure that not only you but everyone that attends your gathering has a wonderful time.
Links of Note
Planners on Purpose Book Club
Zoom Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving!
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In this episode I welcome Tom Pick, a digital marketing consultant who helps B2B clients improve their online visibility, increase brand awareness, and generate leads through SEO, social media, and content marketing. He's the editor of the Webbiquity b2b marketing blog and author of "The Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing Software."
Tom is committed to guiding his customers to have a bigger presence on social media. He loves the variety that comes with the challenges of solving problems for his clients.
Episode Highlights
- Marketing is all about helping people solve a problem that they have.
- If you want to be marketable, ensure that you are educating the market in which you want to serve.
- Make sure that your content that you are putting out is useful and relevant.
- Always have a strategy when it comes to your marketing approach. The first step of any strategy should be the question of "what do you want to accomplish on social media?"
- You should also ask yourself the questions:
- Who do you want to engage with?
- How do you want to go about getting their attention?
- Make sure that you are monitoring and understanding and being aware of talking about topics or your brand.
- Use caution when using automation, and ensure you are aware of what is happening in the world when your social is being released.
- Make sure that you are also monitoring conversations about what your interests are and engage with your audience in a timely manner.
- Some fun facts:
- Tom's Leadership Lesson - Lead your team by encouraging and helping your team come with their own solutions instead of dominating their actions.
- Tom's Key to Balance - His kids, and also going outside, hiking, and listening to podcasts.
- Tom's Advice to Event Planners - It is important to maintain a fresh online presence and social activity even though we are in difficult times.
Links and Resources
Candide - Voltaire
The Logic of Life - Tim Hartford
Perfection of Marketing - James Connor
Tom Pick - Linkedin
Tom Pick - Twitter
Tom Pick - Instagram
Website - Webbiquity.com or Tompick.com
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Today we welcome Gillian Behnke, creator of Mom Camp Life to the podcast. Her and I have a wonderful conversation about being a mom, having the juggle all of the things. As a busy mom of two, Gillian cares deeply about helping other moms feel better both mentally and physically. She believes that motherhood does not equal with exhaustion, and that is possible to thrive mentally, emotionally, physically and professionally.
Episode Highlights
- High performing moms hate to say no. However it is best to be comfortable with saving no and understand what to say yes to and what you cannot.
- If you want something done, you as an event planner end up knowing how to figure it out. However, If it is something that you absolutely don't have to do, you absolutely can say no.
- Resilience comes from taking care of your own health, both physical and mental. If you are more resilient you'll have more strength for the tough moments that do come up.
- Sometimes you just take the next best step in order to keep moving forward.
- If you are overwhelmed, don't fear or panic.
- Do as much as you can, when you can.
- As a leader, Gillian shares that she encourages everyone to be authentic leader.
- Gillian encourages event planners to make recommendations on a solution, versus questioning the problem. Practicing the muscle of problem solving really develops you in a more useful way as leader.
- Quote of the day: If it isn't a hell yes, then it is a hell no.
- Gillian's words of advice to event planners: Be kind to yourself. Prioritize your Health. Especially now where we are seeing all these changes, your mental and physical health are number one.
Links and Resources
Mom Camp Life
Around the Fire Podcast
Stress Less At Your Best Course
The Big Leap, Gary Hendricks (Gillian's Favorite Book)
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In this episode of the Planners on Purpose podcast, I speak with Jillian Lama certified life and fitness coach, and the creator of The Body You Crave Method. Jillian was able to bring forth some tangible tips on how event planners can manage their physical, and mental health.
Episode Highlights
- Give yourself compassion and grace and recognize that your brain can create unhealthy habits, but you have the power to change them.
- When overwhelmed, try Jillian's Think, Feel, Act method 1) Think about the situation 2) Assess what your feelings are 3) Act appropriately.
- There are many things that we can't control, but we can only think about the things that we can control
- To combat stress, you should recognize where the stress is really coming from in your life.
- It not about things needing to be perfect, but how can I setup my exception on something is always going to go wrong and be ready to adapt when things go wrong.
- Our thoughts are ultimately the silent killer of our health. Get your thoughts right, to get your health right.
- People make mistakes, it's all about how we can work through them and troubleshoot them when they come up is what matters.
- To manage overwhelm, come into the awareness that change is inevitable.
- To build healthy habits, make small steps to get the best success.
- Recognize what works best for your body and ensure to put yourself first by making sure your cup is filled first.
- When burnout happens, it's okay and perhaps time to take a step backward and refill your cup.
- Start looking for all of the ways that you are shaming yourself and shift into neutral or something positive
- You are going to serve others the best when you feel that you are at your best.
Links and Resources
Jillian Lama Website
Stress Less, Plan at Your Best Course
Atomic Habits - James Clear
The Compond Effect - Darren Hardy
Planners on Purpose Book Club
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In this interview we catch up with brilliant mind Ashanti Bentil-Dhue, co-founder of Black in Events and Diversity Ally, and Founder & Director of EventMind. Ashanti takes us through the importance of having an inclusive workplace in the events industry. Episode HighlightsMany event organizations aren't quite there yet with being diverse and more inclusive. There is usually a set time and place when an organization is at the level of being aware of diversity needs within their company and events.Diversity Ally provides consultancy in terms of organizations to help them become more diverse.Most of the diversity work that is needed in the industry is a mindset approach vs solutions oriented. This work is more about changing the attitudes, believes, ideas and ways of doing things.Companies should be ethically diverse and inclusive in the way that they get their results.To have a conversation with your organization consider doing a blind survey or hire a hire a diversity and inclusion specialist to facilitate.If you are appointing a diversity committee, ensure that its members build trust and respect with others outside of the committee. Also ensure they have the necessary skillset to have important discussions needed.After you listen and learn, consider your next steps in your organization and make a plan to move forward for change.Links and ResourcesBook Club - More Than EnoughEventMind Diversity AllyBlack in Events Thank you for listeningIf you enjoy this episode, I invite you to subscribe to this podcast so that we can deliver you more insightful conversations with leaders in our industry. If you have had success in managing diversity and inclusion with your events organization, I would love to hear about it in the comments below.
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In this episode I speak with Kera Wasserbach all about virtual events. Kera is the co-founder of On The Edge Events and Virtual Events Experts and has a wealth of knowledge with managing and engaging with audiences virtually. Episodes Highlights Virtual events needs to be an experience just as the live events is an experience. Embrace the live virtual experience and the need to really engage with your audience. Virtual events have a larger audience than in-person events, so having a strategy around how you manage this wider audience is key. Having a breakout component within your virtual event, is so crucial for engagement. Try adding games, prizes, or virtual swag to increase engagement. Having a virtual event producer is key in ensuring that a virtual event runs smoothly. Use the technologies that your clients are approved to use and operate it to your advantage. Learn the opportunities that are out there, even if you are feeling stuck right now. The way to get unstuck is to embrace what's moving forward. Make sure you are in the game.Links and ResourcesOn The Edge EventsVirtual Events ExpertsZoom MeetingsThank you for listening!Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed the podcast, please ensure that you subscribe to be updated for the next episode. Also, if you would like to leave a message on how this episode impacted you or any virtual event tips to share, click the links below.
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In this episode of the podcast, I was able to sit down and have a talk with journaling expert, Mai Oliphant from Shape Mai Life. Mai helps people to use journaling to heal and flourish. We live in uncertain times, and aren't sure of how the end of the year will turn out, much less how 2021 will run. Many event planners have lost jobs, or are working feverishly to protect theirs. Journaling and the unique way that Mai delivers her story can give us a tool to get through some of these tough times.Episode highlights Sometimes we wait until when everything is bottled up to journal, but being consistent and making it a habit, makes it more effective. You do not need to be a writer in order to journal. Journaling is your conversation with yourself, and has nothing to do with your writing skills. It has everything to do with you being open and honest with yourself. You can do journaling anywhere, take a quick note on your phone if you need to. Journal prompts can help prompt your thoughts and is an easy way to start journaling. Make the habit of journaling attractive by having a nice journal to write in. Schedule your journaling around something that you already have a habit of doing to ensure you can start. Journal what you will say "yes" or "no" to in order to confirm clear boundaries. Idea: Make an intention list on what you will or won't accept when dealing with situations or clients. It isn't too late to start journaling. Start wherever you're at.Links & ResourcesShape Mai Life Mai's Journaling PromptsMai's Journaling WorkshopAtomic Habits, James ClearPlanners on Purpose Book ClubThank you for Listening!Appreciate all of you that joined by listening to this episode. After listening to this podcast, will you take a try at journaling? Perhaps you already journal and would like to share a few insights that you've had. Let's continue the conversation below.
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In this episode we discuss how to use Atomic Habits to achieve your goals. Recently in our book club, we discussed the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. It was an immensely transformational read that helped us understand not only what habits are, but how to craft good habits, and dismantle old ones. Enjoy the listen.Episode Highlights A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed frequently. Each habit can be broken down into four components: Cue, Craving, Response, and Reward Four laws of behavior change can help your form good habits, those laws are: Make It obvious, Make it attractive, Make it easy, and Make it satisfying In order to break a bad habit, here are the four elements: Make it invisible, Make it Unattractive, Make it difficult, Make it unsatisfying If you really want to form a good habit in a very easy way, downscale your desirable habit into 2 minutes or less Habit stacking can be pretty beneficial when you want to really make a big impact with all of those good habits that you are creating.Links & ResourcesPlanners on Purpose Book ClubAtomic Habits Thank you for listening!I would love to hear how you are using Atomic Habits to reach your goals. If you would like to leave a message regarding this episode, please click on the message link below.
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In this episode, I talk with Amy Branger. Amy is an executive coach and management consultant and has had many positions including working with Presidents and Governors. This episode we discuss leadership and well being and the challenges that both of those affect women, specifically those in midlife. I encourage you to listen and let me know what you think of our discussion by clicking the voice message button or link below.Episode Highlights When managing up you have to anticipate what that person is afraid of, and help them feel better about it. This will help you with credibility and relationship in the long run. Amy's four step process on change management: Acceptance - Accept what has happened to you. Empowerment - Come up with a new story that is more empowering. Learn the Lessons - Find the lessons from what has happened. Explore - Take the opportunity to explore the other endings you can write, think of the new opportunities that are available. Individuals and organizations can take advantage of this four step process. When in doubt, go back to this process to help empower yourself within your struggle with change. There is always a story that has been running your life. You have to find out what that story is and why you believe it to be true. Work smarter and work within your strengths and not your weaknesses. If you are a manager, consider hiring people to do things that you cannot do, but ensure to let them do it. When working with any high level client, it is important to ensure everyone has a role, and trust them to do just that. As a leader, you need to model work-life balance for your employees and hold them to it as well. Links and ResourcesAmy Branger - WebsitePerfect Avocado - WebsiteCoupon code for virtual retreats: Planners (one day in-person retreat - $50 off), Planners1 (virtual superpowers retreat)Book Club for Planners on PurposeThank you for ListeningThank you for listening to this episode. If you like what you hear consider giving a 5star rating! If you would like to leave a message or have a question, click the voice message button below. Would you love to be able to share your leadership story so that others can learn and become better people, click here to submit your story.
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In this episode, we will be digging deeper into the concept of perfectionism. If you struggle with being perfect all the time, or have suffered from being held under the microscope of perfect, then this episode is for you. Episode Highlights"It is the belief that when we do things perfectly, and look perfect we can minimize and avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. Perfectionism is a 20 ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us, when in fact it's the thing that prevents us from being seen." - Brené Brown, Daring Greatly Perfectionism is about perception, and there is no way that you can control perception no matter how much energy you put into it. Know the difference between Daring Leadership vs Armored Leadership. Have conversations about perfectionism with your teams and clients. Teams that are willing to have a conversation about perfectionism will move very far in the effort to combat it Practice mindfulness everyday to diminish the hold that perfection has on you. Practice characteristics like trust, innovation, creativity, accountability.Links & ResourcesBrené Brown - Daring GreatlyMarie ForleoSelf-Compassion Test - Dr. Kristin NeffEpisode 15 - Dropping Perfectionism in Pursuit of ProgressCheck out the Book Club Page for the latest book!Thank you for listening!It was a pleasure having you listen to this episode. I would love to hear your stories of how you overcome perfectionism. Continue the conversation in the comments! P.S. Check out the lesson that I re-learned about perfection in this blog post.
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Planitonapostit has leveled up and is now Planners on Purpose! I want to share some exciting changes with you and where we are headed.
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Do you struggle with being perfect? So much so that you failed to make progress? Perfectionism can be very destructive if we let it, so this episode is just what you need to get it in check.
Tips to Manage Your Perfectionism
- Planning the perfect experience includes allowing for imperfections along the way.
- Perfectionism is like a dirty word wrapped up in a beautiful package. Because no one is truly perfect.
- If you aren't careful, perfectionism can hurt you, it can destroy your events, and even harm your life and relationships.
- Although recognition is important, opt to plan events from a service mindset instead of choosing to gain specific praise.
- Each time you plan your events or projects, make sure to do it as yourself, and not in the image of what you may think others want you to be.
- Be careful to not allow fear from yourself or anyone else to be placed on you. It is okay to not be perfect, to gain experience, learn and grow.
Links and Resources
Brene Brown - Daring Greatly
Book Club - Atomic Habits!
A Lesson on Perfection - Blog Post
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In this episode, you'll be given 4 quick and simple tips on being intentional about diversity and inclusion. These tips you will be able to take to your personal life, your events, and your organizations. Diversity and inclusion isn't a checkbox that you need to tick, it is a state of the heart to ensure that everyone is treated equally and fairly in your world of influence. Episode highlights are:Episode Tips Learning more, only helps advance your awareness of situations that have been neglected. Once you are aware, you are able to act and those actions help make our world a better place. Discover the 4 tips of Awareness, Analysis, Action, and Accountability/AllyshipLinks and ResourcesEricka Hinds - Every Level LeadsBook Club for Event Planners (Atomic Habits - Next book August 5th)
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There’s been much discussion about when and if the event industry will return. In this episode we will explore these conversations will follow it up with some tips on how you can take care of yourself and others in the meantime! Quick show links and references:Planitonapost It Book ClubArticle: Our Industry isn't coming back like your's is.As always, visit me at planitonapostit.com to stay updated on the lastest!
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Sharing my top 5 tips and takeaways from Marie Forleo’s book, Everything is Figureoutable. Have a book club suggestion? Leave me a voicemail to share your pick!
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Giving you some random thoughts on coping during this crisis. Share your story or words of encouragement for event professionals at https://bit.ly/2UpmIUn.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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There isn’t a more important time than now to ensure that you are rooted while in a crisis. This podcast episode you will gain some healthy tips to stay rooted and how to move forward.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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With all that’s going on in our global community right now, here are some helpful tips to leading your event team in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Are you a burned out event professional? Naomi shares some tips to help you get rid of burnout.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode, find out six ways you can lead a high-performance team!
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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It is not our differences that divide us but our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Join me as we discuss the importance of different perspectives.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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As leaders, having difficult conversations can be uncomfortable. Check out these 11 tips to help you have difficult conversations as a leader.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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As a leader, your team needs direction and parameters around how to operate together. By placing boundaries on your team, success is sure to head your way. In this episode you will hear about 5 key boundaries to put in place for your team.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Are you sticking to your goals so far? This episode will give you the motivation that you need to set yourself up for succeeding your goals.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Need some tips on working virtually? In this episode I’ll share with you 10 tips that I’ve learned for working in a virtual workplace.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this podcast I’ll share the importance on setting boundaries for yourself and your teams. This is a supplemental episode that can go along with our book club selection for the new year, Boundaries for Leaders by Henry Cloud.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode we will discuss some tips on getting prepared for the New Year. Don’t forget to ‘like’ and ‘share’ this podcast to help us build the Planitonapostit community.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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It is important to bring our children into our workplace to see what we do. Join me as I speak with my daughter about bringing your children into the workplace and learn what is important to them about your work.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode we will discuss seven steps to defining goals and objectives for your event. Check out my website for your free Goals and Objectives Worksheet.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode I will give you 10 tips to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success as inspired by the book Spark by Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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In this episode we are sitting down with Kari Witthuhn-Henning, who has some amazing and insightful thoughts around bringing seed-to-table to events. You can find Kari at the Appleton Seed Guild’s Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/seedguildwi/.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Increase Your Productivity with These Tips! In this episode we will discuss productivity at tips derived from our book club selection for June, Michael Hyatt’s Free to Focus.
Join us on August 7th for another book club discussion on Spark - How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success. Sign up here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1064584677080632/
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Interview with Lindsay Anvik, Business Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Workshop Leader at See Endless. Join me as we chat with Lindsay on the topics leadership, productivity, and work-life balance.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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Interview with Aryn Chapman, CEO OF Ax3 Studios. Join me as we chat with Aryn on the topics leadership and work-life balance.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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The Planitonapostit podcast is dedicated to enhancing the lives of leaders by delivering leadership and productivity tips.
The Banish Burnout Challenge is a 5-Day Challenge designed for event planners and professionals to help minimize stress and overwhelm, plus avoid burnout.
This challenge will take place April 4th - 8th and will include daily challenge videos, a challenge workbook, and Iive Q&A sessions in a private Facebook group.
To sign up for this challenge or to learn more, visit www.plannersonpurpose.com/banishburnout.
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