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Wedding Pro Academy
by Nicole Salmoiraghi
A Wedding Business Podcast - Tips and tricks to, grow and sustain a amazingly successful wedding business in a way that's is fun and gives you tons of freedom.
Episodes
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Motherhood, Navigating Slow Seasons, Bonus Q+A
🎙 Episode 71: Motherhood, Navigating Slow Seasons, Bonus Q+A Today we cover a bunch of questions around navigating running a business with small babies, how to pivot during a crisis or slow season, what it takes to build a business that lasts the test of time, and mindset shifts to empower and...
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Wedding Biz Q+A Partnerships, Money, and Growth Systems
🎙 Episode 70: Q+A Wedding Business, Money & Partnerships What systems & processes helped grow your wedding business the most? How do you manage cash flow during slow seasons? Top money mistakes wedding planners make? How do you protect yourself legally - when you have a partner? What safeguards...
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Building a Wedding Biz in 2026 & Branding
🎙 Episode 69: Building a Wedding Biz in 2026 & Branding You asked, we're answering - Nicole picked out 12 questions around building a wedding business & branding and has gone deep on these in this weeks episode. Questions like... What did you do in your first year that actually brought in…
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Stop Selling: What to Do When a Couple Hesitates
🎙 Episode 68: Stop Selling: What to Do When a Couple Hesitates If you keep getting ghosted after sales calls, you get "thank you so much, we'll be in touch” but then you never hear from them again - even when they clearly need your help - this episode is for you. I’m walking you through a...
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The Skills No One Talks About That Actually Build a Profitable Wedding Business
🎙 Episode 67: The Skills No One Talks About That Actually Build a Profitable Wedding Business Why does your business feel harder than it “should”.? Why does it feels slow and frustrating - like everyone else has made it and you're still struggling? Today we break down why things feel hard, and...
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21 Wedding Business Mistakes Preventing You From Booking More Weddings
🎙 Episode 66: 21 Wedding Business Mistakes Preventing You From Booking More Weddings Are small mistakes quietly costing you bookings? Why aren’t couples inquiring—even when your work is good? What actually builds trust with couples (and what instantly turns them away)? Are you unintentionally...
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Stop Being Tested: Why Couples Actually Want You to Take the Lead
🎙 Episode 65: Stop Being Tested: Why Couples Actually Want You to Take the Lead Does it feel like couples are testing you on sales calls—or are they looking for guidance? Why does confidence matter more than having all the “right” answers? How does leading a consult turn into more bookings? What...
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Part 2 - Questions New Wedding Biz Owners Are Too Embarrassed to Ask a 6-Figure Owner
🎙 Episode 64: Part 2 -Questions New Wedding Biz Owners Are Too Embarrassed to Ask a 6-Figure Owner How do I confidently talk about my pricing? What should I say on a sales call with a couple? How do I close more bookings without feeling pushy? What mistakes make couples lose confidence in a...
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10 Questions New Wedding Biz Owners Are Too Embarrassed to Ask a 6-Figure Owner
🎙 Episode 63: 10 Questions New Wedding Biz Owners Are Too Embarrassed to Ask a 6-Figure Owner Why am I not getting inquiries even though my work is good? How do I get couples to trust me if I’m still new? How do I stand out in such a saturated wedding market? What should a wedding website…
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5 Things You Need to Get Your Website Ranked on Page 1 of Google in 2026
🎙 Episode 62: 5 Things You Need to Get Your Website Ranked on Page 1 of Google in 2026 If your website isn’t booking… If your rankings dropped… If you feel like you’re doing everything and Google still isn’t rewarding you… You’re not alone. In this episode, I’m sharing the wake-up call that...
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Stop Waiting to Feel Ready — How Fast Decisions Create Fast Growth
🎙 Episode 61: Stop Waiting to Feel Ready — How Fast Decisions Create Fast Growth If you’re waiting for the perfect time, more confidence, or “one more booking” before you make a move in your wedding business… this episode is for you. Most wedding pros don’t fail because they make bad decisions....
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Wedding Business Homepage — 5 Tips to Book More Couples
🎙 Episode 60: Wedding Business Homepage — 5 Tips to Book More Couples You can be incredibly talented, experienced, and have a professionally designed website… and still struggle with inconsistent inquiries. In today’s episode, we’re breaking down what’s actually happening when an engaged couple...
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What To Do When You Feel Behind
🎙 Episode 59: What To Do When You Feel Behind Today we're having a real, honest conversation about the belief almost every entrepreneur struggles with at some point — “I’m behind. I should be doing more.” If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like life has gotten in the way of your...
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One Thing You Can Do Today to Become the Obvious Choice
🎙 Episode 58: The One Thing You Can Do Today to Become the Obvious Choice In this episode, I’m breaking down the one insanely simple thing you can do in under an hour that instantly increases trust, legitimacy, and bookings — without selling, posting more content, or chasing leads. This isn’t...
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From Inquiry to "We're In": How I Book Weddings in a Single Call Without Being Salesy
🎙 Episode 57: From Inquiry to "We're In": How I Book Weddings in a Single Call Without Being Salesy 💍 How to Book Couples in a Single Call Without Being Salesy Ever hang up an inquiry call thinking “that went well”… and then never hear back? 😩 You’re not bad at sales — you just haven’t been...
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The Truth About Competition in the Wedding Industry
🎙 Episode 56: The Truth About Competition in the Wedding Industry There are just too many insanely good wedding photographers, planners, and florists 😰 “How will I ever fit in?” You will. You deserve to. Your people are waiting for you—and in this episode, we’re exploring exactly why. If...
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3 Reasons Brides Are Ignoring You (even after you've catered to their every need and discounted your price)
🎙️ Episode 55: “3 Reasons Brides Are Ignoring You (Even after you've catered to their every need and discounted your price)” Why are brides ghosting you—even when your prices are great and you’ve bent over backward to please them? In this episode, we break down the 3 real reasons brides are...
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Ingredients Successful Wedding Businesses Have in Common
🎙️ Episode 54: “Ingredients Successful Wedding Businesses Have in Common” Wondering why it's taking so long to get over that hump of "nothings working, this is taking so long, everyone else seems to be booking but not me, IDK what I'm doing, my inbox is empty - again" stuck place that so many...
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Why Brides Aren’t Finding You Online (And How to Fix It Fast)
🎙️ Episode 52: “Why Brides Aren’t Finding You Online (And How to Fix It Fast)” If your inbox is quiet, it’s easy to wonder what you’re doing wrong. But the truth is—you’re probably far more talented than your bookings show. Brides just aren’t finding you yet. 💛 In this episode, we pull back the...
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When it Feels Like Nothing is Working
🎙️ Episode 52: When it Feels Like Nothing is Working 😩 In this episode, we get real about the season of business that feels slow, messy, confusing, and like nothing is working. You’ll learn why people give up, what building a business actually feels like, and the one decision that changes...
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Why Cold Pitching Established Wedding Planners is the Worst Way to Book Your First Wedding
🎙️ Episode 51: Why Cold Pitching Established Wedding Planners Is the Worst Way to Book Your First Wedding🚫📩 If you’ve been told to “email 50 planners and offer to work for free,” this episode is your wake-up call. Cold pitching rarely works — and I’m breaking down exactly why established...
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50 Things I’d Do if I Was Starting a Wedding Biz from Scratch
🎙️ Episode: 50 Things I’d Do if I Was Starting a Wedding Biz from Scratch Starting a wedding business can feel overwhelming — but it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, I’m breaking down 50 practical, simple steps I would take if I were building a wedding business from the very beginning. We...
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5 Mistakes That Are Keeping You from Booking More Weddings
🎙️ 5 Mistakes That Are Keeping You from Booking More Weddings If your inbox has been a little too quiet lately, this episode is for you. Whether you’re a planner, photographer, florist, or any kind of wedding pro — there are a few simple but powerful shifts that can completely change how many...
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Why You’re Not Being Seen as an Expert (and What to Do About It)
🎙️ Why You’re Not Being Seen as an Expert (and What to Do About It) You’re amazing at what you do — your weddings run smoothly, your couples love you, and you give everything to every event. So why aren’t you being seen (and paid) like the expert you actually are? In this episode, we’re diving...
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8 Wedding Pro Secrets to Nailing Phone Consults
🎙 Episode 47: 8 Wedding Pro Secrets to Nailing Phone Consults Are your phone consults feeling like pressure, stressful, awkward, insecure, hit-or-miss? In this episode, I’m breaking down the 8 secrets to booking brides over the phone — the same ones that transformed my consults from "please pick...
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How to Work Less and Earn More (Yes, Really)
🎙 Episode 46: How to Work Less and Earn More (Yes, Really) Think you have to hustle harder to grow your business? Think again. In this episode, I share how to design your wedding business for profit and freedom — using time blocking, batching, and smarter systems. Learn how to work fewer hours,...
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How Much Do Wedding Pros Really Make?
🎙 Episode 45: How Much Do Wedding Pros Really Make? Starting a wedding business can feel like jumping off a cliff into the unknown. Unlike a traditional 9–5, there’s no set salary, no clear path—and no one tells you what to charge. So... how much do wedding pros really make? And is this even a...
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How to Book Your First Wedding
💫 How to Book Your First Wedding Just getting started in the wedding industry and struggling to book that first client? You’re not alone. In this episode, we break down why it’s so hard to land your first wedding—and what actually works. From styled shoots and social media to networking and...
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7 Beliefs Keeping Your Wedding Business from 6-Figures
"7 Beliefs Keeping Your Wedding Business from 6-Figures" 🎧 Podcast Episode Summary: Are your beliefs secretly blocking your business growth? In today’s episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the seven mindset traps that hold so many wedding pros back from building the business — and income —...
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Why Some Wedding Businesses Are More Successful Than Others
Episode Overview: What does it take to be considered the best wedding photographer, the best wedding planner, the best hair and makeup artist? What do these wedding business owners do differently or have that the others don't? What makes them more successful? Is there a simple way to break down a...
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5 Traits Successful Wedding Business Owners Have in Common
Episode Overview: When it comes to wedding businesses specifically, there are very specific traits that all the successful wedding business owners share. Having built relationships with so many wedding business owners over the last decade and worked with so many newbie wedding business owners who...
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Why Offering More Is the Worst Way to be Seen as the Best
Episode Overview: Common mistake - thinking that you need to include more extras to book more weddings. Extras could look like - more hours, more edits, more add-ons. It makes sense why you would think that because most people equate more with better. But, the truth is that offering more is the...
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Is booking more weddings the best way to make more money in your wedding business?
Episode Overview: Is booking more weddings the best way to make more money in your wedding business? More weddings = more success, more money, feeling like you "made it". But is it true? What if its this very belief that is holding you back? What if the most successful, top wedding planners,...
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Targeting Established Wedding Vendors to Build Connections is the Worst Way to Grow Your Wedding Business.
Episode Overview: Targeting established wedding vendors to build connections is the worst way to grow your business. This could look like cold pitch emails introducing yourself and offering to help them. It could look like pitching them on your business, why they should use or recommend you you.…
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How I Built 2 Six-Figure Businesses with 3 Kids Under 3 Years Old
Episode Overview: How do you build a business when you feel like you have no time? Maybe you just had a baby. Or maybe you have another job but really want to make this new wedding business work so you can quit the other job. If you're in the phase of trying to make it work but feeling stuck…
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Four Beliefs that Create Consistent Sales in my Six-Figure Wedding Business
Episode Overview: Feeling like you suck at sales? Hitting a plateau with bookings? Feeling like your business is never quite at the level that it should be, not making what you should be by now? It's not a sales problem, it's a belief problem. Notable Quotes: "If you're business feels like it's…
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Following your Gut & Taking Messy Action is the Path to your Dream Wedding Business
Episode Overview: In todays episode we talk about how wedding business owners hold themselves back with perfectionism and safe action steps rather than following their gut and taking messy action. Nicole shares her experience with messy action and how it led her to her dream business and gives…
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Is being a kickass wedding photographer enough to sustain a successful wedding business?
Episode Overview: Your wedding work speaks for itself, your past weddings have been incredible, your website is beautiful, you're showing up consistently on social media - but couples aren't reaching out and your inbox is filled with crickets. You're having $0 months and you feel defeated. What…
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Your Wedding Biz has Plateaued for 6 or More Months - Now What?
Episode Overview: What to do when your wedding business has hit a plateau for 6 or more months? Today we dive into one of the reasons you're stuck and what to do to shift this. Notable Quotes: " Your business isn’t going to become successful (make money) from booking more weddings. You need to...
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A Perfect Website Doesn't Book You Weddings
Episode Overview: Your website isn't converting. Your spending hours, days, months re-designing your website, your packages, trying and you feel like it's getting there, but you still aren't making enough money in your wedding business. It's because you have the belief "I need the perfect website...
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What Six Figure Wedding Businesses Have in Common
A wedding business can be a direct route to financial success and provide the opportunity for a dream life with lots of time and freedom - but, it building a business can also feel difficult, overwhelming, exhausting and impossible. Entrepreneurship is never an easy path, but as Nicole dives into...
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Why Giving Away Too Much is the Worst Way to Grow your Wedding Biz & Attract Quality Brides
Episode Overview: In today's episode we talk about why giving away too much is the worst thing for your wedding business and how it pushes away quality brides. Even if you have the most incredible offer or service, if you're giving away too much (more services, more hours, more edits) you devalue...
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The Biggest Mistake Preventing You from Booking Weddings
Episode Overview: What is the biggest mistake newbie wedding businesses make, preventing them from booking weddings? It isn't not having a Niche down, or having a crappy website. It's a wasting time on the wrong things. In this episode Nicole breaks down exactly what these "wrong things" are that...
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Stop Saying "Let Me Know if You Have Any Questions" - Say this Instead
Episode Overview: Are you ending your emails with "Let me know if you have any questions?" This is a rookie mistake and something that makes it more difficult to book new weddings. There's a better way. Listen in to this quick episode to learn what you should be saying instead. Notable Quotes:...
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What to Do When You Feel Behind
Episode Overview: You feel like theres a million things to do and you can't catch up. You feel lost, like you're not sure you're doing the right thing or on the right path. You're questioning yourself and your decisions constantly. You're feeling behind. Like you should be better at this by now,...
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My Exact Process for Booking Weddings
Episode Overview: In this episode I teach you exactly how I book weddings. A step by step from start to finish. Learn tricks and tips that have helped me to book weddings from couples without having to do any in person or phone consults. There is a specific strategy to booking this way but once…
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Shitty Comments People Will Say When You Start Your Own Business & How to Interpret Them
Episode Overview: Getting doubts from family? Comments from friends like "why don't you just get a REAL job"? If you are building a business, this is comes with the territory. Today we talk about the most common crappy comments I've gotten and how I've learned to have my own back, and believe...
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The Fastest Way to Build Trust When You’re a New Wedding Business
Episode Overview: Having trouble booking new weddings? If this feels true for you, it's probably because you haven't established TRUST with your potential Brides and Grooms. This episode dives into strategies to establish trust quickly. Things you can actually work on right now to establish trust...
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7 Mindset Shifts that Changed the Trajectory of my Business
Episode Overview: Wondering how a wedding business who makes over $100k a year thinks about time, money, freedom, rest and more? This episode is for you. In today's episode we talk about 7 mindset shifts that changed the trajectory of my business. I go deep on these and dissect why I believed the...
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What if it's all Happening for You?
Episode Overview: What if it's all happening for you? This is such a shift in perspective. One that every entrepreneur should have when building a business. Your business challenges are there for a purpose. To grow and expand you in the biggest, quickest ways possible so that you get your biggest...
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A Wedding Business Podcast - Tips and tricks to, grow and sustain a amazingly successful wedding business in a way that's is fun and gives you tons of freedom.
HOSTED BY
Nicole Salmoiraghi
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