Emotionally Booked Out

About Emotionally Booked Out

Emotionally Booked Out is where business strategy meets the "what the hell am I doing?" phase. Hosted by McKenzie Bigliazzi, this podcast is for photographers, creatives, and small business owners who want more than cookie-cutter advice. Expect honest conversations about branding, marketing, booking dream clients, self-trust, burnout, and building a business that actually feels like you. No hustle culture. No pretending to have it all figured out. Just real talk about growing a business you're proud of.

Publisher

McKenzie Bigliazzi

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 Apr 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   E20: The Weirdest Shit I Did to Become Successful

   My career wasn't built out of a 5 year plan. In this episode, I'm getting very honest about the weird, chaotic, occasionally stupid shit that somehow built my career: going to school because I had no idea what else to do, working at Olive Garden, becoming a professor, moving across the country in the middle of a pandemic, saying yes to opportunities that made absolutely no business sense, networking when I hate networking, getting burned by collaborations, getting copied, completely losing myself in the "luxury" wedding world, and eventually figuring out what actually matters to me. Defining my own idea of what successful is changed my entire life. But here's the part nobody talks about: the chaos only worked because I had systems underneath it. I can be creatively chaotic because I'm operationally structured. My systems protect my time, my clients, my sanity, and my actual life. They let me take weird opportunities, make art, go to therapy, see my friends, watch Saltburn for the 50th time, and still run a business that doesn't fall apart when I'm not sitting at my laptop pressing "send." This is not a "10 steps to success" episode. It's more like: here's everything I did that probably shouldn't have worked, here's what I learned from the things that absolutely did not work, and here's why I think stubbornness, curiosity, experimentation, and knowing when to stop doing dumb shit matter way more than having your entire life mapped out. You don't need to know exactly where you're going. You just need to keep moving, stay curious, and leave a little room for weird shit. Click here for Mentorships (https://mckenziebigliazzi.com/education) Find a Therapist on OpenPath (https://openpathcollective.org/)

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   E19: Being Palatable Is Bad For Business with Meaghan of Rhode Tripper Photography

   My favorite kind of podcast episode: two photographers accidentally solve everyone's branding problems while talking about being queer, being visible, and why the word “luxury” needs to be put in time-out. I’m joined by Rhode Island wedding photographer Meaghan of Rhode Tripper Photography (https://rhodetripperphotography.com/) for a wildly honest conversation about showing up online as your full-ass self, the fear of scaring clients away, queer identity, representation, performative allyship, inclusive language, and why watering yourself down might actually be attracting the wrong people. Plus: we absolutely drag the wedding industry's obsession with “luxury,” blurry photos, Dutch angles, and “wildly in love.” Come for the hot takes. Stay for the reminder that you don't need to be palatable to everyone - you need to be recognizable to the right people. Follow Meaghan on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/rhodetripperphotography)

3. 

   7 Sept 2026

   E18: Narrative Enables My Overshooting: Inside Narrative with Founder James Broadbent

   What if the goal of your photography business wasn't to work harder but to get your life back? In this episode, I'm joined by James, the creator of Narrative (https://narrative.so/select?referral=mckenzie7638), to talk about something photographers have VERY complicated feelings about: AI. We get into why photographers feel guilty when a tool makes their workflow easier, why we've somehow turned editing until 3AM into a badge of honor, and why being an overshooter doesn't mean you need to punish yourself with thousands of images afterward. James breaks down exactly how Narrative works, including scene sorting, image ranking, face and focus detection, and AI-assisted editing. And yes, we even recorded a full demo so you can actually see it in action. This isn't about AI making your art for you. It's about using technology to remove the tedious parts of your workflow so you have more energy for the parts that actually require YOU. Because you didn't start a photography business so you could live inside Lightroom. And I'm officially done romanticizing the editing cave. Try Narrative for Free by Clicking Here (https://narrative.so/select?referral=mckenzie7638)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

38 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

47

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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