162: Professional Development in the Wedding Industry with Megan Gillikin and a VERY Special Announcement!

The Planner's Vault is Coming! If you're a Wedding Planner who has been in business between 0-5 years and you're ready to scale and grow, The Planner's Vault is FOR YOU.  Megan created The Planner's Vault for wedding planners ONLY as a place to grow, scale, learn and be held accountable. This is the type of membership that will take your planning business to the next level.  On February 27th, 2020 Megan is hosting a FREE webinar so you can learn more about The Planner's Vault and ALL the goodies that come with it! Click Here to Register for the FREE Webinar BONUS FOR SCB LISTENERS: For those of you who join the Planner's Vault at the annual level, you'll receive a totally FREE AND FAST Marketing Audit from me! I'll take a peek at your digital assets and give you 3-5 tips for improvement!  **I'm a very proud partner of The Planner's Vault. If you join through any links I share, I will be compensated at no additional cost to you! ON THE PODCAST:  I'm honored to welcome back to the podcast, my friend, Megan Gillikin from A Southern Soiree and the Weddings for Real Podcast. In this episode, Megan and I share our experiences (both good and bad) with professional development and education in the wedding industry. We talk about what we looked for when we first got started in our businesses vs. what we look for now and what we're trying to learn to continue to grow and evolve as pros. ABOUT MEGAN: Gillikin is a successful Wedding and Event Planning business owner at A Southern Soiree, Consultant to fellow industry workers, Podcaster, and Mom to 3 girls under 7. Her two favorite meals are breakfast and dessert, and she loves dance parties in the living room with her husband and those 3 daughters!   Megan graduated with her hospitality degree and her MBA. After graduation, she earned her stripes in the hotel industry by working for Marriott for almost 5 years on the event operations/planning side in roles that lead her to her love of events. In 2010, Megan left the hotel world and took over ownership of an existing wedding planning company in need of re-branding to remain relevant within the industry!   After 9 years of growing A Southern Soiree, Megan has established it as one of the most sought after, highly regarded event planning companies in the Southeastern United States. She loves getting to know the inner workings of people's personalities…so much so that she started a wedding industry podcast called Weddings For Real in 2018! That led to another passion, which is consulting with other industry vendors on growing their businesses purposefully!   Megan has a love for providing real, insightful and tangible advice and wisdom on growing and sustaining a successful event business! If you're Myers-Briggs fans she's an ENFJ, and a solid 3 on the Enneagram. She's ambitious, adaptable and enthusiastic and her love for this industry is contagious!