Design Your Wedding Business

About Design Your Wedding Business

Are you an entrepreneur who feels burnt out? Do you want your business to work for you instead of the other way around? Does the stress and frustration you’re feeling ever make you want to throw in the towel, give up on your dream, and start working on your resumé? Stop right there! Host Jen Taylor understands how you feel and has answers for you. When she started out over 20 years ago as a successful destination wedding planner in Washington and Maui, it wasn’t long before she recognized a need within the wedding industry for more organized systems and streamlined strategies. After all, smart workflows and processes are the key to a thriving wedding business and a happier life, both in terms of work and personal time. Since then, she has received her certification as Director of Operations and has made it her mission to help wedding professionals and creative entrepreneurs design scalable systems, grow their businesses with confidence, and spend their time on what they love most—their craft, their couples, and their lives. If you’re ready to stop reinventing the wheel and start building a business that works for you, join Jen each week on the Design Your Business podcast, where she shares the resources, strategies, and support you need to succeed in today’s wedding industry. To find out more, visit jentaylorconsulting.com (http://jentaylorconsulting.com)

Publisher

Jen Taylor | Certified Director of Operations, Business Strategist, and Coach

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 May 2022

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

16 of 150 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Designing the Business (and Life) You Actually Want

   Host Ashley Jane shares how creative women business owners design their businesses around their ideal lives, not the other way around.

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   What Got You Here Won’t Get You There — Evolving Beyond Your Current Business Model

   In this episode, I’m talking about what it looks like to outgrow your current business model and the signs that it may be time to evolve. If you’re fully booked but not seeing the profit you want, feeling stretched thin, creatively bored, or realizing everything still depends on you, it may not be a motivation problem. It may be your business model. I’ll break down the common ceilings wedding professionals face and explore ways to grow differently, from raising your prices and building a team...

3. 

   7 Sept 2026

   Rest Is a Revenue Strategy

   What if the thing you think is slowing your business down is actually the thing that could help it grow? In this episode, I’m reframing rest as a business strategy, not a reward you earn after you’ve worked yourself into the ground. I’m sharing my own experience with the hustle mentality, constant networking, packed schedules, and the pressure to always be doing more, and why I eventually realized that busy does not automatically mean more profitable, more weddings, or a better client experie...

Inside a recent episode

CEO Time: What You Really Should Be Doing Each Week

Published 18 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I like the term technician because that's what we're at. We are the technicians of what we're doing our business, whether you're a photographer, a florist, a caterer, a plumber, a HVAC guy, whatever. This is the time you need. So technician time is you are working on the business. Client meetings, client going out to see clients, emails for wedding professionals, timelines, doing the work, being there for the wedding. CEO time is planning, forecasting, reviewing numbers, refining systems. Most business owners are 90% technician and 10% CEO, if that. So what does CEO time actually include? They're like, Jen, what does it include? […]

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