36 min
Resilience & Growth As An Entrepreneur With Margaux Fraise The Union Podcast - hosted by Jamie Wolfer
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- Entrepreneurship
In this episode Jamie and Heather talk to Margaux Fraise about how the transition from being an event planner to a small business coach. She talks about strategies for creating and maintaining boundaries with your clients and how to setup clear expectations from the start. Margaux also talks about how a life-changing event caused her to re-evaluate her life and business goals to support the life she wanted to live.
About Margaux Fraise: She is the owner + creative director of Harmony Creative Studio, an award-winning boutique wedding firm in Los Angeles, CA. A Stage IV breast cancer survivor, she has a unique perspective on what is truly valuable in love, life and weddings – and brings that viewpoint to help her clients hone in on what matters to them. As a result, her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Style Me Pretty, Brides, and Green Wedding Shoes, among others. Margaux serves as a wedding business educator, frequent podcast guest and motivational speaker. Her meticulous onboarding, planning, design and execution procedures have also caught the attention of her peers, and she shares insight regularly on efficient systems for creatives.In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Margaux discuss:
Covering your bases in regards to harassment
Diving into your community
Keep repeating yourself
Key Takeaways:
Don’t endure harassment from clients. Include abuse and safe environment clauses in your contract where you’re able to leave if you feel uncomfortable or are unsafe since a lot of people get drunk on wedding events and that often brings out bad behavior in people.
Open yourself up to connecting with people that are in the same industry as you because doing otherwise wouldn’t be sustainable. Find a community, meet people, and start relationships.
Don’t get tired of repeating yourself. You’ve got a message to put out there and it won’t reach the right people in just one or two tries. Somebody new will always see your message as something new.
"I was one of those people that was like, 'I can't be friends with other wedding planners, I don't want them to know what I'm doing - what I'm charging', it was that kind of mentality which sounds okay until you realize that the wedding industry is small and life is long and that's not sustainable." — Margaux Fraise
In this episode Jamie and Heather talk to Margaux Fraise about how the transition from being an event planner to a small business coach. She talks about strategies for creating and maintaining boundaries with your clients and how to setup clear expectations from the start. Margaux also talks about how a life-changing event caused her to re-evaluate her life and business goals to support the life she wanted to live.
About Margaux Fraise: She is the owner + creative director of Harmony Creative Studio, an award-winning boutique wedding firm in Los Angeles, CA. A Stage IV breast cancer survivor, she has a unique perspective on what is truly valuable in love, life and weddings – and brings that viewpoint to help her clients hone in on what matters to them. As a result, her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Style Me Pretty, Brides, and Green Wedding Shoes, among others. Margaux serves as a wedding business educator, frequent podcast guest and motivational speaker. Her meticulous onboarding, planning, design and execution procedures have also caught the attention of her peers, and she shares insight regularly on efficient systems for creatives.In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Margaux discuss:
Covering your bases in regards to harassment
Diving into your community
Keep repeating yourself
Key Takeaways:
Don’t endure harassment from clients. Include abuse and safe environment clauses in your contract where you’re able to leave if you feel uncomfortable or are unsafe since a lot of people get drunk on wedding events and that often brings out bad behavior in people.
Open yourself up to connecting with people that are in the same industry as you because doing otherwise wouldn’t be sustainable. Find a community, meet people, and start relationships.
Don’t get tired of repeating yourself. You’ve got a message to put out there and it won’t reach the right people in just one or two tries. Somebody new will always see your message as something new.
"I was one of those people that was like, 'I can't be friends with other wedding planners, I don't want them to know what I'm doing - what I'm charging', it was that kind of mentality which sounds okay until you realize that the wedding industry is small and life is long and that's not sustainable." — Margaux Fraise
36 min