Introducing: Friendors with Shawn Miller
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
Release Date: 10/03/2025
Ep 20 - You Don't Have to Start a Business: Brittany of The Vancouver Club on Hospitality and Rising Through the Ranks | Friendors Podcast
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
Friendors Podcast · Episode Feature The Other Path Into Weddings: Brittany on Hospitality, Heritage, and Rising Through the Ranks at The Vancouver Club What if you could build a whole career in the wedding industry without ever starting a business of your own? In this episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with Brittany, Director of Catering at The Vancouver Club, for an honest conversation about the path almost nobody in this industry talks about. Most guests on the show run their own company. Brittany took a different road entirely, rising through the ranks of one of...
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Ep. 19 Good Enough to Stay Forever: Lenny Palerstein on Escaping the Golden Handcuffs and Why He's Still Terrified | Friendors Podcast
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
Friendors Podcast · Episode Feature Good Enough to Stay Forever: Lenny Palerstein on Burnout, Betting on Himself, and the Leap to Full-Time What does it take to walk away from a job with a full pension, full benefits, and a paycheck for eight hours of work you actually finish in four? In this episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with fingerstyle guitarist Lenny Palerstein for an honest conversation about the long, unglamorous road to going full-time. Lenny now plays weddings, corporate events, and venues all over as a solo performer, but it took him nine years of...
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Ep. 18 The Ceremony Stays a Secret: Stephanie Veri on Burnout, Building Trust, and Planning the Wedding You Actually Want
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
Friendors Podcast · Episode Feature The Ceremony Stays a Secret: Stephanie Veri on Burnout, Building Trust, and Planning the Wedding You Actually Want She showed up as an emergency guest, ready in under an hour. But honestly, that's peak Stephanie Veri, and it tracks with everything she's built over the past 15+ years. Stephanie is the founder of Sweetheart Events Inc., Vancouver's premier wedding planning and officiating company, and Veri Creative Events, her social and corporate division. She's the OG proposal planner of Western Canada, a planner-turned-officiant who spent...
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Ep. 17 The Guy Behind the Camera: Simon on Getting Laid Off, Going Full-Time, and Why Weddings Are the Hardest Gig in Video
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
The Man Behind the Camera: Simon of Capture Media In this candid episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with Simon, the videographer and producer behind the Friendors podcast itself, to pull back the curtain on what it actually takes to build a wedding video business from scratch. Simon opens up about an origin story that started with a GoPro strapped to a helmet on the slopes of Cypress Mountain and slowly grew into a full-time creative business he now shares with his wife Melissa. Along the way there was a business partner, 20 free shoots, a full-time IT career, and a COVID...
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Ep 16 - You Can't Beat the Game: Graham of Grey House Visual on Teaching Yourself, Staying Invisible, and Why the Feeling Always Wins | Friendors Podcast
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
Ep 16 - You Can't Beat the Game: Graham of Grey House Visual on Teaching Yourself, Staying Invisible, and Why the Feeling Always Wins | Friendors Podcast What happens when a guy who learned to film by chasing skateboarders around a park ends up building one of Vancouver's most respected wedding film companies without a single day of formal training? In this episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with Graham of Grey House Visual for a conversation a decade in the making. These two have been shooting weddings side by side since 2014, and this is the first time they've actually sat...
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Ep 15 - He Got Laid Off with a Two-Month-Old at Home: DJ B-Fad on Reading the Room and Betting on Yourself | Friendors Podcast
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
He Got Laid Off with a Two-Month-Old at Home: DJ B-Fad on Reading Rooms, Trusting Your Gut, and Building a Referral Business That Does the Talking For You | Friendors Podcast What happens when you lose your job the same month you become a father — and your wife just says, go DJ for a bit? In this episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with Bret, better known as DJ B-Fad, for a conversation that's been a long time coming. These two have been crossing paths at Vancouver weddings for years — and this is the first time they've actually sat down to unpack all of it. This...
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Ep 14 - She Gave the First One Away: Nicole of Pop-Up Weddings BC on Doing It Afraid and Loving What You Built | Friendors Podcast
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
She Gave the First One Away: Nicole of Pop-Up Weddings BC on Doing It Afraid and Loving What You Built | Friendors Podcast What happens when you give away your very first wedding - and that single act of generosity becomes the foundation for an entire career? In this episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with Nicole, the founder of Pop-Up Weddings BC, for a conversation over a decade in the making. These two have been working weddings side by side since Nicole launched one of Vancouver’s most beloved micro-wedding companies - and this is the first time they’ve actually sat down...
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Ep 13 - Different Is the Superpower: Chris & Sam of Isle + Oak Photography on Partnership, Identity, and the Wedding Work They Were Told Not to Do | Friendors Podcast
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
Different Is the Superpower: Chris & Sam of Isle + Oak Photography on Partnership, Identity, and the Wedding Work They Were Told Not to Do | Friendors Podcast What happens when you build an entire career around the one thing you were told never to do? In this dynamic Season 2 premiere of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with Chris and Sam, the creative duo behind Isle + Oak Photography, to unpack nearly a decade of partnership, creative risk-taking, and building a wedding photography brand that defies convention. This conversation explores what happens when two art school "black...
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Ep 12 - Building Dreams While Raising Kids: Erica Miller on Parenting, Business & Choosing the Long Game
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
What does it really take to build a creative business, raise kids, and protect your marriage—all at the same time? In this deeply honest and insightful episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with returning guest Erica Miller, photographer and co-owner of Young Hip & Married, to unpack over 15 years in the wedding industry, entrepreneurship through parenthood, and the realities of building a life-first business. This conversation explores what happens behind the scenes of running a successful wedding brand while navigating marriage, childcare, burnout, financial uncertainty,...
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Ep 11 - Energy Over Everything: Building a Thriving Wedding Photography Brand with Esther Moerman
Friendors: Friendly Conversations with the Vendors Behind Your City’s Best Weddings
In this episode of Friendors, host Shawn Miller sits down with Esther Moerman to unpack how mindset, energy, and genuine human connection can shape a wildly successful wedding photography brand. Esther shares her journey from shooting weddings for free and learning through “YouTube University” to becoming a sought-after destination wedding photographer. She opens up about building confidence, showing up authentically online, and why making people feel something matters more than chasing perfection behind the camera. This conversation is great for photographers, wedding vendors,...
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