This episode’s drinks: a proper British cuppa
Topics we covered:
- What constitutes a good cuppa
- Why Natasha started Engaged and Ready
- Winning her first blogging award and then won “Best Bridal Real Talk” award
- Why we think her most popular blog post has to do with Game of Thrones
- The issues that block small business owners from hiring help
- The rule Beyond the To Do List (a GREAT podcast!) gave me about delegation
- How Natasha went from a BBC journalist to a celebrant ex-pat in Spain
- The crazy story of Natasha’s first wedding ceremony in Mexico
- We discuss the “wedding high”
- The interesting ways that the legal and the ceremonial happens separately in Europe and the UK
- How celebrants in Australia actually issue the legal marriage paperwork
- The craziness of getting legally married in Spain (because it’s all about the church ceremony)
- When tradition enhances the experience versus when tradition gets in the way
- How we both developed our celebrancy in isolation and why Natasha feels the European Celebrants’ Collective can help
- How Natasha is bringing more recognition to celebrants
- Why we so strongly believe that words matter
- Why I won’t write ceremonies for Uncle Bob to perform
- The reason I don’t like the term “heart-centered business” and prefer the “value-based business”
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