The Celebrant Survival Podcast
Even the best job in the world has its fair shares of struggles, so don't struggle alone! Let's dig deep together and shoulder the daily challenges of celebrant life together. Hosted by, Claire Bradford and Natasha Johnson, the co-directors of awesomeness at the Celebrants Collective, each episode is bursting at the seams with useful tips and advice on everything from running your celebrant business to growing in confidence as a professional celebrant. Subscribe, listen, enjoy and review!
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79: The Tying The Knot Marriage Law Consultation: What next for celebrants in England and Wales?
08/05/2026
79: The Tying The Knot Marriage Law Consultation: What next for celebrants in England and Wales?
In this latest episode, Natasha and Claire chat about the latest Tying the Knot Marriage Law consultation period and what it means for wedding celebrants in England and Wales. They discuss what celebrants (and anyone else) can be doing right now to help with the consultation and also what (if anything) we can do as celebrants to future proof our businesses and to be as ready as possible for future changes. They also discuss what the reforms could mean for individual celebrants and celebrant training organisations why wedding celebrants shouldn't panic or make any rash decisions right now the possible time frames of the next steps for the legal process The Celebrant Survival Podcast is hosted by experienced celebrants, Natasha Johnson and Claire Bradford of The Celebrants Collective, supporting celebrants worldwide with professional training, mentoring and community. A safe space for celebrants to share, ask for help and ultimately to grow. Come and grow with us! Episode links APOLOGIES: We had some dodgy mic settings on this recording and throughout the episode you'll hear background noises, rustling, mouse tappings and varying audio levels but we decided the episode was too important to delay publishing it. _____________ Want to hear more from us? ✨ Join our awesome membership for celebrants Want us to help you grow and nurture your celebrant business? Come and join Claire and Natasha for monthly group coaching and webinars and oodles of resources to help you as a celebrant. Plus our own private community. For ongoing support for celebrants who don’t want to do this alone! 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 🎓 Train as a celebrant Come and train with Claire and Natasha and learn and understand how to be a celebant in your own unique way. Join our community of global trainees and graduates now working in their respective funeral and wedding industries. 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 🎁 Free resources for celebrants and wannabe celebrants Thinking about training as a celebrant? Come and join our free FREE 'So You Want To Be a Celebrant' two day workshop and find out EVERYTHING you need to know about celebrancy 👉🏾👉🏻 Plus you can download our 'So You Want To Be A Celebrant' bumper guide filled with top tips and loads of useful information about how to be a celebrant. 👉🏾👉🏻 Already a celebrant? Need a bit of a business and confidence boost? Check out our free course here. 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 💛 Do us a favour, please! Please rate, review and follow the podcast, it really helps us reach more celebrants and build a bigger and better community for us all. Thank you! And feel free to follow and connect with us via our socials below. Instagram: We look forward to connecting with you one way or another! Tags: celebrant podcast, wedding celebrant business, how to become a celebrant, celebrant training, celebrant marketing, celebrant confidence, self employed celebrant, celebrant burnout, building a celebrant business
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78: The Work We Love and the Cost No One Talks About (Hint: Burnout!)
02/03/2026
78: The Work We Love and the Cost No One Talks About (Hint: Burnout!)
In this longer than usual but much-needed episode, Celebrant Survival hosts Claire and Natasha talk openly about celebrant burnout: how it really shows up, why it’s so often misunderstood, and the emotional cost of doing deeply meaningful work on repeat. Drawing on their own experiences, they explore the signs they ignored, the myths that kept them pushing through, and why burnout is as much about depletion, as it is about workload. This is an honest, compassionate conversation for celebrants who love their work but feel tired, flat or quietly overwhelmed and who need permission to change how they work, not abandon it. They also look at the quiet ways that burnout can drain joy, creativity and confidence from even the most etsbalished and successful celebrants. The Celebrant Survival Podcast is hosted by experienced celebrants, Natasha Johnson and Claire Bradford of The Celebrants Collective, supporting celebrants worldwide with professional training, mentoring and community. A safe space for celebrants to share, ask for help and ultimately to grow. Come and grow with us! _____________ The Creative Celebrant Workshop 2026 is here! Earlybird tickets are still on sale for our upcoming Creative Celebrant Workshop (March 16–18). This three-day workshop is for celebrants who feel creatively tired, stuck in familiar patterns, or ready to rethink how they work — not to push harder, but to reconnect with their creative voice in a supported, practical and inspiring way. We’ll be exploring: – creative burnout and how it shows up – fresh approaches to ceremony writing – breaking out of autopilot – and finding ways of working that feel more sustainable and more you ✨ _____________ Want to hear more from us? ✨ Join our awesome membership for celebrants Want us to help you grow and nurture your celebrant business? Come and join Claire and Natasha for monthly group coaching and webinars and oodles of resources to help you as a celebrant. Plus our own private community. For ongoing support for celebrants who don’t want to do this alone! 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 🎓 Train as a celebrant Come and train with Claire and Natasha and learn and understand how to be a celebant in your own unique way. Join our community of global trainees and graduates now working in their respective funeral and wedding industries. 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 🎁 Free resources for celebrants and wannabe celebrants Thinking about training as a celebrant? Come and join our free FREE 'So You Want To Be a Celebrant' two day workshop and find out EVERYTHING you need to know about celebrancy 👉🏾👉🏻 Plus you can download our 'So You Want To Be A Celebrant' bumper guide filled with top tips and loads of useful information about how to be a celebrant. 👉🏾👉🏻 Already a celebrant? Need a bit of a business and confidence boost? Check out our free course here. 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 💛 Do us a favour, please! Please rate, review and follow the podcast, it really helps us reach more celebrants and build a bigger and better community for us all. Thank you! And feel free to follow and connect with us via our socials below. Instagram: We look forward to connecting with you one way or another! Tags: celebrant podcast, wedding celebrant business, how to become a celebrant, celebrant training, celebrant marketing, celebrant confidence, self employed celebrant, celebrant burnout, building a celebrant business
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77. Claire's highs and lows of 2025
01/05/2026
77. Claire's highs and lows of 2025
In this episode of the Celebrant Survival Podcast, Claire shares the highlights of her celebrant year and looks at the things which ticked all the boxes and the things that ticked none at all. She talks about how the highs and lows have made her feel and what she's learnt from it all. This episode is for wedding and funeral celebrants, whether you’re newly trained, fully booked, or feeling stuck, overwhelmed or burnt out. The Celebrant Survival Podcast is hosted by experienced celebrants, Natasha Johnson and Claire Bradford of The Celebrants Collective, supporting celebrants worldwide with professional training, mentoring and community. A safe space for celebrants to share, ask for help and ultimately to grow. Come and grow with us! Want to hear more from us? ✨ Join our awesome membership for celebrants Want us to help you grow and nurture your celebrant business? Come and join Claire and Natasha for monthly group coaching and webinars and oodles of resources to help you as a celebrant. Plus our own private community. For ongoing support for celebrants who don’t want to do this alone! 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 🎓 Train as a celebrant Come and train with Claire and Natasha and learn and understand how to be a celebant in your own unique way. Join our community of global trainees and graduates now working in their respective funeral and wedding industries. 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 🎁 Free resources for celebrants and wannabe celebrants Thinking about training as a celebrant? Come and join our free FREE 'So You Want To Be a Celebrant' two day workshop and find out EVERYTHING you need to know about celebrancy 👉🏾👉🏻 Plus you can download our 'So You Want To Be A Celebrant' bumper guide filled with top tips and loads of useful information about how to be a celebrant. 👉🏾👉🏻 Already a celebrant? Need a bit of a business and confidence boost? Check out our free course here. 👉🏾👉🏻 _____________ 💛 Do us a favour, please! Please rate, review and follow the podcast, it really helps us reach more celebrants and build a bigger and better community for us all. Thank you! And feel free to follow and connect with us via our socials below. Instagram: We look forward to connecting with you one way or another! Tags: celebrant podcast, wedding celebrant business, how to become a celebrant, celebrant training, celebrant marketing, celebrant confidence, self employed celebrant, celebrant burnout, building a celebrant business
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76: Natasha's highs and lows of 2025
12/01/2025
76: Natasha's highs and lows of 2025
In this reflective and honest episode, Natasha opens up about her three biggest highs and three standout lows from her 2025 wedding year. From unforgettable ceremony moments and personal wins, to the challenges that tested her resilience, she shares it all with warmth, humour, and the real-talk celebrants love. Packed with warmth, honesty and a touch of celebrant humour, this episode is a comforting reminder that every year brings growth, lessons and plenty to smile about, whether you're a seasoned pro or new celebrant? Tune in for stories, takeaways, and a little behind-the-scenes peek into life as a working celebrant.
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75: Should funeral celebrants be worried about direct cremations?
02/17/2025
75: Should funeral celebrants be worried about direct cremations?
In this very topical episode, Claire puts her funeral celebrant hat on as she tackles the subject of direct cremations. With the increase in direct cremations and the appeal to some people of having a 'no frills', easy disposal of their remains after death, it's a topic that affects the funeral industry as a whole. As worrisome as it might seem on the face of it, Claire looks at how funeral celebrants can embrace this 'new' addition to the funeral landscape and how celebrants can use it to their advantage. She looks at how celebrants can create new opportunities for ceremonies for people who have chosen the direct cremations route, and in particular their families who are left behind and still want a way of closure. Listen now for some great tips and ideas around direct cremations and why Claire thinks this can be an opportunity for real positive change in the funeral sector. Statistical sources cited by Claire: https://www.goldencharter.co.uk/news-and-info/2024/direct-cremations-popular/ If you love our episodes please do consider leaving us a review. It really makes our day and helps other celebrants to find us. Thank you! Other ways to engage with us; Our , where we run monthly celebrant webinars covering a whole range of useful and interesting topics which will raise the level of your celebrant practice and business. Our , for those of you who would love to train with us as a celebrant. Our amazing of over 3K celebrants worldwide or our for people interested in becoming a celebrant.
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74: Ceremony sound: Why having your own PA system and mic is so important as a celebrant
02/03/2025
74: Ceremony sound: Why having your own PA system and mic is so important as a celebrant
In this episode, Natasha talks about the importance of ceremony sound and why as celebrants sometimes it's not enough to solo rely on our naked voices to deliver our ceremonies. Natasha shares the story of a ceremony incident which not only left her devestated but which made her vow to never have repeated again. In this episode she also talks about what voice projection actually is, as opposed to what most people think it is and why as celebrants we need to take more respoinsibility for our voice delivery, if we don't already. If you love our episodes please do consider leaving us a review. It really makes our day and helps other celebrants to find us. Thank you! Other ways to engage with us; Our , where we run monthly celebrant webinars covering a whole range of useful and interesting topics which will raise the level of your celebrant practice and business. Our , for those of you who would love to train with us as a celebrant. Our amazing of over 3K celebrants worldwide or our for people interested in becoming a celebrant.
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73: Claire's Camino - what Claire learnt from her 7 week sabbatical
01/20/2025
73: Claire's Camino - what Claire learnt from her 7 week sabbatical
Back in March 2024, Claire set off on a dream of a lifetime as she walked the whole length of the Camino de Santiago from France to Spain. As well as wanting to know what it was like, how she did it and how she found it, lots of people wanted to now how she managed to leave her celebrant work behind and pick up where she left of on her return. Well, in this episode Claire shares all of her insights from her break, her experiences on the Camino and also what it was like to take on such a massive undertaking, physically and mentally! It's fair to say that the Camino taught Claire a lot about life and celebrancy than she realised it would! If you love our episodes please do consider leaving us a review. It really makes our day and helps other celebrants to find us. Thank you! Other ways to engage with us; Our , where we run monthly celebrant webinars covering a whole range of useful and interesting topics which will raise the level of your celebrant practice and business. Our , for those of you who would love to train with us as a celebrant. Our amazing of over 3K celebrants worldwide or our for people interested in becoming a celebrant.
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72: What should we do with children at ceremonies?
01/06/2025
72: What should we do with children at ceremonies?
In this episode, Claire and Natasha try their best to not sound like horrible child-haters (they're not!), whilst they talk about the worst and the best bits about having children at ceremonies. They look at what can happen when kids are present at ceremonies and how as a celebrant you can prepare yourself, the guests and their families for a smooth service. Sometimes though, prepared or not, when children are involved plans do not always go to plan! Claire and Natasha share their experiences, and what they do to try and ensure sure that everyone is happy! If you love our episodes please do consider leaving us a review. It really makes our day and helps other celebrants to find us. Thank you! Other ways to engage with us; Our , where we run monthly celebrant webinars covering a whole range of useful and interesting topics which will raise the level of your celebrant practice and business. Our , for those of you who would love to train as a celebrant. Our amazing of over 3K celebrants worldwide or our for people interested in becoming a celebrant.
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71: The four elements that can make or break your ceremony
11/18/2024
71: The four elements that can make or break your ceremony
In this episode, Natasha looks at four ceremony elements which can really affect the success of the ceremony itself. You may have been there yourself. You've written/prepared what you think is the perfect ceremony, the best one yet, you're prepped, poised and ready but when it comes to the actual ceremony itself, it just falls flat. And sometimes it can leave you scratching your head wondering why it might be. Well, tune in to this episode to hear Natasha share the four things which she feels can radically alter the way that a ceremony lands and what, if anything you can do about it. Ps. Apologies for the erractic sound quality in some parts. Natasha was recording on a new to her device! If you love our episodes please do consider leaving us a review. It really makes our day and helps other celebrants to find us. Thank you! Other ways to engage with us; Our , where we run monthly celebrant webinars covering a whole range of useful and interesting topics which will raise the level of your celebrant practice and business. Our , for those of you who would love to train as a celebrant. Our amazing of over 3K celebrants worldwide or our for people interested in becoming a celebrant.
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70: Should I publish my price on my website and other questions?
11/04/2024
70: Should I publish my price on my website and other questions?
Check out the latest episode where Natasha and Claire answer a series of common questions that they've come across or are asked a lot. They start off by looking at the question "Should I put my prices on my website?" Followed by "Am I too emotional to be a celebrant?" And finishing off with "I hate social media, do I really have to be on it to get work as a celebrant?" Three juicy questions, right? Tune in and hear what that have to say. On another note, they really enjoyed recording this type of episode, so if you've got a burning question that you'd love them to answer, let us know and they will! Email: Website:
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69: Working with wedding planners: the good, the bad and the ugly
04/15/2024
69: Working with wedding planners: the good, the bad and the ugly
In this episode, Natasha talks about working with wedding planners and her experiences of working with them, and why she thinks that having a good working relationship with wedding planners can be really good for business. She looks at how wedding planners can help to push referrals your way, which can increase your overall number of bookings, as well as how helpful wedding planners can be on the wedding day itself. And because with the good, sometimes comes the bad and the ugly, she talks about the potential negative sides of working with wedding planners too.
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68: How Claire prepared for her big six week sabbatical on the Camino de Santiago
04/01/2024
68: How Claire prepared for her big six week sabbatical on the Camino de Santiago
In this episode, Claire talks about how she has been gearing up for her trip of a lifetime, walking the 500 mile Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain. Before she left, Claire shares about what led her to want to want to do the Camino in the first place and how the idea crystallized into a solid plan. We also hear about what she's had to do in order to manifest this dream and the praciticalites of bringing a dream into a reality when you work as a full time celebrant and celebrant trainer. It's such an inspiring listen about life, about what motivates us, and about how we all can and should advocate for the things that we want in life, because at the end of the day, life is too damn short to be putting things off, waiting for tomorrow, waiting for a better time. It's a corker of an episode and be warned, you will come away full of inspiration and ready to kick your own plans into action!
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67: Are there too many celebrants (revisited)?
03/11/2024
67: Are there too many celebrants (revisited)?
In this revisited episode, (first recorded by Natasha in episode 12!) Claire and Natasha tackle the controversial and oft-cited statement that there are too many celebrants. They look at whether there really are too many celebrants, the accuracy in being able to make such a claim and whether actually the situation is far too nuanced for a blanket statement such as this. They also look at what celebrants can do if they feel like their work is under threat or if they are based in an area with lots of celebrants.
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66: How to have a holiday during the holidays (or any other time of year!)
11/20/2023
66: How to have a holiday during the holidays (or any other time of year!)
In this latest episode, Claire challenges you to think or rethink how you plan your time off away from your business. If you're thinking, 'time off? What time off?,' then this episode is for you! Being self-employed requires us to manage so many things within our business, and one of them is our time management and also managing our time off. But many celebrants and self-employed people per se, find this a difficult thing to do. Listen to this episode for Claire's top advice on how to avoid burnout, how to protect your precious time-off and how to recognise that time away from your business is actually a good thing, even if you can't quite see it, or fully appreciate it.
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65: Why do prospective clients ghost us and what can we do about it?
11/06/2023
65: Why do prospective clients ghost us and what can we do about it?
In this episode, Natasha gets stuck into the topic of 'ghosting.' She looks at what ghosting is and why this frustrating and sometimes annoying occurence happens. She looks at what might be going on with some couples and families, which might explain why they never get back to you. And she also looks at some of the things that celebrants might or might not be doing which stops couples from getting back in touch with the celebrants they initially reached out to.
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64: How I've grown a successful celebrant business by Natasha Johnson
10/23/2023
64: How I've grown a successful celebrant business by Natasha Johnson
In this episode, Natasha talks about why she recognises her business as a successful one and she shares what she's done to grow it into one. With 17 years worth of celebrant experience under her belt, Natasha gives her insights into how she created success on her own terms and what she's learnt from growing a business that works for her and helps her to achieve her goals.
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63: Why building connections with other celebrants is so important
10/09/2023
63: Why building connections with other celebrants is so important
In this episode Natasha and Claire talk about the joys of celebrant connection. Of what it is like when celebrants come together online and also offline and how positive it can be for your celebrant growth and confidence. They look at the different ways that celebrants can connect, how to connect with the right groups for you, and what different types of meet-ups offer on a personal and business level. They also take time to look at the negative side of celebrant connection from gossip and bad talk, to negativity online too.
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62: New celebrants: Here's how to not reach out to existing celebrants
09/25/2023
62: New celebrants: Here's how to not reach out to existing celebrants
In this first of a two-part series, Natasha and Claire get to grips with celebrant communication by looking at how celebrants communicate with one another. Celebrants are so used to communicating with clients and families and other funeral and wedding colleagues, but how do we communicate with our fellow celebrants? How do we reach out to our celebrant neighbours and make connections with them, or not? In this episode they look at what happens when new and wannabe celebrants take the plunge and get in contact with celebrants either in their area or someone who they might have come across online. Claire and Natasha look at some of the no-nos of cold calling and emailing celebrants, as well as sharing advice for celebrants on the receiving end of lots of cold calls, emails, and DMs from new or prospective celebrants. If you're a new or wannabe celebrant and you've got questions that you want answers to, why not join our 'So You Want To Be A Celebrant,' Facebook,
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61. What's it really like being a destination wedding celebrant in Spain?
09/11/2023
61. What's it really like being a destination wedding celebrant in Spain?
In this episode, Natasha talks about her experiences of being a wedding celebrant in Spain and the challenges that celebrants working here can face. Having been a celebrant there for almost 17 years and built a successful celebrant business from scratch, Natasha talks about both the highs and lows of being a celebrant in the Costa De Sol. Yes, it's not all sunshine! In fact, there can be too much sunshine! Listen to this episode to hear her top 4 "challenges" of working in the sun. There's one quite obvious one!
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60: ADHD and celebrancy
06/19/2023
60: ADHD and celebrancy
In this episode, Claire talks about her experiences of having ADHD and how it affects her as a celebrant, in both the good and bad ways, and what she does to manage her ADHD alongside her work. Claire talks about the aspects of work that she really struggles with, how they show up for her in her wedding and funeral work, and what strategies she has in place to help her. This is a great episode for fellow ADHD celebrants, those who suspect that they might have ADHD or anyone who simply is interested in learning more about the experiences of a neurodivergent celebrant, and to gain a better understanding of it.
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59: When will it be time for you to say goodbye to celebrancy?
04/24/2023
59: When will it be time for you to say goodbye to celebrancy?
In this episode, Natasha and Claire look at the different ways that celebrants can move away from celebrancy. They talk about retirement and how empowering it must be to come to the decision that you’re ready to take your final ceremony. When is the right time? Or do you just know in your heart that it is? They also look at pivoting away from celebrancy, which means not saying goodbye but making celebrancy something that you do alongside something else. This might be in the case of a celebrant who has been working or trying to work as a full time celebrant but has found for whatever reason, it isn’t working, or something’s come up. It might mean that there are other things that need prioritising, alongside your celebrant work. And lastly, they discuss stepping away from celebrancy altogether. Not retiring but leaving the profession to pursue other goals, perhaps with a view to one day returning, or not. It’s a really interesting and fascinating episode where they both consider their own futures as celebrants and weigh up how much time they feel they have left doing what they do, and also pondering the feelings involved in making such a big decision.
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58: How to get paid as a celebrant
04/10/2023
58: How to get paid as a celebrant
In this episode, Natasha breaks down the process behind getting paid as a celebrant by looking at when to get paid, how to get paid and what to do when you don't get paid on time! Recognising that this is an important part of your celebrant business, Natasha talks about what she does within her own business and also other popular methods that other celebrants adopt. She looks at how she handles these key transactions to ensure a clear, easy and efficient payment process not just for her wedding clients, but also for herself, as the business owner, with the key aim of being paid easily, on time and with zero stress. Natasha references 17hats a lot in this episode (obviously, because she's obsessed with it!) and how she uses it for invoicing and keeping at track of payments. If you're interested in knowing more about 17hats, you can read our blog post about it
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57: Menopause, menstruation and celebrants!
02/13/2023
57: Menopause, menstruation and celebrants!
In the spirit of this podcast, surviving celebrant life, Claire and Natasha discuss a topic which affects so many celebrants, themselves included. In this episode, they look at the impact of being a celebrant who experiences menstrual cycles, perimenopause or menopause, and how it can affect day-to-day celebrant life and work. They share their experiences and the mechanisms that they have in place to cope with the physical and mental challenges that stem from these cycles, and they talk about how it can influence their celebrant practice, too.
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56: Raising your celebrant prices in three easy-ish steps
01/30/2023
56: Raising your celebrant prices in three easy-ish steps
In this episode, solo-host Natasha talks through the process she went through when she recently raised her prices. After years of advocating for other celebrants to charge their worth, Natasha finally took her own advice and realised it was time to raise her prices to the level that they ought to be at. She's now getting bookings at her new higher rate and couldn't be happier. Listen to this episode to hear Natasha walk through the three easy-ish steps that she took, which will help you to see that raising your price is often something we make more difficult than it really is.
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55. What trainees can and should expect from training in 2023
01/16/2023
55. What trainees can and should expect from training in 2023
In our latest podcast episode, Claire talks all about celebrant trainees and training prospects for the year, what they can expect and also importantly, what they should expect. It can feel lonely and scary when you’re on the verge of making a big move but this podcast episode will make you feel a whole lot better! Claire gives some awesome insights into the world of celebrancy and celebrant training and looks at why 2023 is a good year to make the leap for so many different and awesome reasons.
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54: Our three takeaways from 2022's bumper year of ceremonies
11/21/2022
54: Our three takeaways from 2022's bumper year of ceremonies
In this hour-long special, Claire and Natasha look back at their summer of 2022, a year which saw them hold record numbers of weddings (not to mention Claire's funerals too!), as a result of the pandemic and postponements from previous years! They discuss the highs and the lows and what this year of celebrancy has uncovered for them. They look at the lessons that they've learnt, the big fat no-nos and the things that they are not in a rush to repeat. But they also look at all of the joy that they had during this time too. This episode will hopefully get you thinking about your own celebrant activities over the year and help you to work out how you want to move forward for 2023. The things you want more of and the things you definitely don't!
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53: Your celebrant results - do you know what you want them be?
11/07/2022
53: Your celebrant results - do you know what you want them be?
In this episode, Claire talks about the pitfalls of comparing your results to other people’s - and what you can do instead. Comparisonitis is nothing new. We've all been there. And we all need to hear Claire's sage advice!
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52: Social Media - how do we use it and navigate it as celebrants
10/24/2022
52: Social Media - how do we use it and navigate it as celebrants
In this episode Claire and Natasha take a look at social media and discuss how we use it and navigate it as celebrants, particularly in the wake of Queen Elizabeth's death. They talk about the different ways that celebrants show up on social media and the 'expectations' that some celebrants may have about how they think they have to be on their platforms. They also chat about how they chose to not mark the Queen's death on the Celebrants Collective platforms, their treatment of world events in general and how they show-up online both personally and professionally.
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51: Wedding couples and their celebrant shopping habits
10/10/2022
51: Wedding couples and their celebrant shopping habits
In this episode, Natasha takes a look at how people approach the task of finding themselves a celebrant. And whilst she talks about it from a wedding celebrant's point of view, it actually can apply to all sorts of people looking for a celebrants. In her 15 years as a celebrant, Natasha thinks she has identified three main type of celebrant shoppers, with three quite different approaches to 'purchasing' their celebrant. With a better understanding of how some couples go about this process it can give celebrants a better idea of who their ideal clients are and the habits they have, which make them ideal or not!
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50: How will the cost of living crisis affect your celebrant business?
09/26/2022
50: How will the cost of living crisis affect your celebrant business?
In this episode, Claire and Natasha reflect on the inescapable news about the shape of the economy and the rising costs of living, and they look at how this might affect us a celebrants. There is not one country that isn't experiencing some form of inflation or rising prices and living costs, and with many only just back on their feet after the pandemic, it's understable that some may be worried. Claire and Natasha look at ways that we can keep our celebrant businesses running as usual, and taking action to make sure that our businesses stay afloat during a period of uncertainty.
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