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by Sam Jacobson with Ideaction
A podcast for wedding professionals who want the knowledge and skills to grow a business with confidence. Industry authority Sam Jacobson hosts solo or with fellow sales and marketing expert, Katy Taylor Jacobson, with bite-sized, 20-minute episodes. Listeners take away one big idea with simple steps to put what you learn into action. Topics focus on sales, pricing, websites, and growing a team.
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- 4 days ago1h 0m
Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Own Business with Josh Spiegel
What does it take to build a business that doesn't need you in every room?In this episode, Sam sits down with Josh Spiegel, founder and CCO of Birch Event Design, a luxury event design and production company he's built over twenty years. Josh talks through growing a one-man operation into a team of forty, the identity crisis that came with hiring a CEO to run the company he started, and what it really took to let go of control without losing what made the business work.You'll learn:Why hiring a CEO felt like an identity crisis for Josh, and how he worked through itHow to scale luxury work without cloning yourself ten times overWhat separates founders who let go of control from those who burn out holding onThe mindset shift from chasing recognition to building real competence
- 1 weeks ago52 min
Connecting with Clients in a Trust Economy with Anja Winikka
Why isn't a beautiful portfolio booking clients the way it used to?In this episode, Sam sits down with Anja Winikka, CEO and founder of the Freeda Network, a company that places established wedding industry business owners into small, confidential peer groups for ongoing support. Anja has spent over twenty years in the wedding industry and has a front row seat to the conversations business owners are having behind closed doors. She and Sam dig into why AI has made polished portfolios table stakes, and what's replaced them as the real reason couples choose who to hire.You'll learn:Why couples are comparing pricing and vendor notes with their friends before they ever call youHow showing your pricing logic builds more trust than a perfect photo galleryWhat separates business owners who thrive from those stuck chasing likes and contentWhy peer community, not more content, is becoming the real competitive edge
- 2 weeks ago1h 42m
State of the Industry: 4th Edition
You could have the best portfolio in your market and still watch your calendar sit half empty this year. It’s no longer about how good your work is, it’s about how good your word is. That’s right: It’s all about trust right now.In this episode, Sam sits down with five wedding pros for the fourth annual State of the Industry panel: a planner, a photographer, a designer, a DJ, and a peer network founder who spends her month inside confidential rooms with established business owners. Unscripted, unrehearsed, and more honest than most conversations in this industry get.You'll learn:Why trust replaced portfolio as the thing that books weddings right nowHow to tell if a couple is pre-sold or pre-skeptical before you say a wordWhy the wedding industry’s lost the plot over the past few yearsThe real reason some businesses are thriving while others slowly struggle
- 3 weeks ago45 min
Ask These Questions on Your Next Discovery Call
Most discovery calls get through the checklist but never reach the truth. In this episode, Sam and Katy break down why a discovery call is where you guide a couple to discover what they want, not where you pitch, and walk through the specific open-ended question to ask for seven different vendor categories.You'll learn:Why couples often don't know what they need until the right question surfaces itThe difference between an open-ended and a closed question, and why it matters on a sales callSpecific questions to ask couples if you're a photographer, planner, florist, or videographerHow to turn a couple's answer into a pitch, without ever sounding like oneTwo quick newsflashes: AI is changing how couples search. A new generation of buyers is changing what they expect. And a flood of new business owners is changing who you're competing against. Shift how you do business, or watch your traction slip away.If you're feeling like you're flying blind — you're not alone. But you can't afford to wait and see what happens next.So here’s the second PSA: If you love this podcast, then push pause on it and go sign up for our annual State of the Industry panel on Monday, September 14th at 12pm ET. Don't worry, I'll wait. Now, seriously — push pause and go to our Instagram @ideactionconsulting and sign up through the link in our profile. Okay, good, now that you're back. I'm sitting down with five of the savviest people in this industry — Anja Winikka, Kate Turner, Jason Rhee, Malike Adigun, and KT Merry — to talk about what's really going on in 2026, and what's coming in 2027.Hard truths. Honest conversation. No sugarcoating.And it's free. It's virtual. So put on your stretchy pants, pour yourself something — coffee, wine, no judgment, depends on the time of day — and sign up now.
- Sep 7, 202649 min
What My Clients Asked Me This Week
Every wedding business owner wonders if they're the only one struggling with something. They're not. In this episode, Sam pulls ten real, fully anonymized questions from client calls over the last two weeks, and he and Katy talk through each one live, tying it back to a New York Times piece on why the most successful people ask for help instead of grinding through alone.You'll learn:Why the same handful of problems show up across almost every wedding businessWhat to do when you're ready to level up but not sure a rebrand is the answerHow to know if a rate increase backfired because of unclear signals, not priceWhat business owners wish someone had told them before a big life or market changeTwo quick newsflashes:AI is changing how couples search. A new generation of buyers is changing what they expect. And a flood of new business owners is changing who you're competing against. Shift how you do business, or watch your traction slip away.If you're feeling like you're flying blind — you're not alone. But you can't afford to wait and see what happens next.So here’s the second PSA: If you love this podcast, then push pause on it and go sign up for our annual State of the Industry panel on Monday, September 14th at 12pm ET. Don't worry, I'll wait. Now, seriously — push pause and go to our Instagram @ideactionconsulting and sign up through the link in our profile. Okay, good, now that you're back. I'm sitting down with five of the savviest people in this industry — Anja Winikka, Kate Turner, Jason Rhee, Malike Adigun, and KT Merry — to talk about what's really going on in 2026, and what's coming in 2027.Hard truths. Honest conversation. No sugarcoating.And it's free. It's virtual. So put on your stretchy pants, pour yourself something — coffee, wine, no judgment, depends on the time of day — and sign up now.
- Aug 31, 202644 min
How AI Is Misleading Your Couples
Sam set a trap for an AI chatbot: a series of wedding questions he already knew it would get wrong, just to see how wrong. The answers were bad enough to bring straight to the show. In this episode, Sam and Katy break down real AI responses couples are getting right now, and what that misinformation does before a couple ever picks up the phone.You'll learn:Why couples are asking AI instead of Googling, and what changedThe real dollar figures AI gave for a Napa wedding, and how far off they wereHow AI's overconfident answers set couples up for a bad first conversationTwo places vendors can leverage to correct the misinformationTwo quick newsflashes: AI is changing how couples search. A new generation of buyers is changing what they expect. And a flood of new business owners is changing who you're competing against. Shift how you do business, or watch your traction slip away.If you're feeling like you're flying blind — you're not alone. But you can't afford to wait and see what happens next.So here’s the second PSA: If you love this podcast, then push pause on it and go sign up for our annual State of the Industry panel on Monday, September 14th at 12pm ET. Don't worry, I'll wait. Now, seriously — push pause and go to our Instagram @ideactionconsulting and sign up through the link in our profile. Okay, good, now that you're back. I'm sitting down with five of the savviest people in this industry — Anja Winikka, Kate Turner, Jason Rhee, Malike Adigun, and KT Merry — to talk about what's really going on in 2026, and what's coming in 2027.Hard truths. Honest conversation. No sugarcoating.And it's free. It's virtual. So put on your stretchy pants, pour yourself something — coffee, wine, no judgment, depends on the time of day — and sign up now.
- Aug 24, 202626 min
5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your AI Output
Most people using AI regularly have no idea they're making these mistakes, because none of them come with a warning.In this episode, Sam and Katy break down five habits that quietly sabotage AI output: an AI that agrees too easily, copy-pasted output that doesn't sound like you, chats that run too long, bloated files, and prompts too vague to work with.You'll learn:Why AI agreeing with you almost every time isn't confirmation, it's a design choiceWhy copying AI's first draft costs you more than it savesWhat a chat's memory loses the longer a conversation runsWhat a bloated file in your project folder costs you without you noticing
- Aug 17, 202629 min
You're Talking to AI the Wrong Way
Most people ask AI to solve the problem they think they have, without ever stopping to check if it's the right problem in the first place.In this episode, Sam and Katy explain what makes a question work well with AI, and why the four words they use more than any other change the entire quality of the answer.You'll learn:Why narrow, one-shot questions produce flat, forgettable answersHow to use AI as a brainstorm partner instead of an order takerWhat asking for a sample first changes about the final resultThe two words that turn a first-response into something worth using
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A podcast for wedding professionals who want the knowledge and skills to grow a business with confidence. Industry authority Sam Jacobson hosts solo or with fellow sales and marketing expert, Katy Taylor Jacobson, with bite-sized, 20-minute episodes. Listeners take away one big idea with simple steps to put what you learn into action. Topics focus on sales, pricing, websites, and growing a team.
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