It’s November, which means it’s editing season, the time of year when wedding videographers everywhere are staring down a backlog of films while simultaneously trying to run a business, stay on top of admin, keep their social media alive, and remember to eat. Jason and Danny get into exactly that this week, the reality of running a one-person operation when life keeps getting in the way, from nursery plagues to family health, and why productivity suffers more than most people realise when you lose even a few weeks in peak season.

But the main event this week is Jason. Over the past week he built himself an AI-powered business dashboard using Claude and Notion, and it has already changed how he works. He walks through exactly what it does, how it reads his emails twice a day to surface the things that actually need his attention, how it populates his calendar each evening with a prioritised to-do list based on deadlines and edit times, how it tracks every client project and flags where outsourced films are in the pipeline, and how he gamified the whole thing with a scoring system and daily streaks so his business now works like a game he actually wants to win.

Danny points out, correctly, that Jason basically built himself an AI boss. Jason agrees entirely and says he has never been more productive.

They also talk about why AI is not just about doing the work for you, it is about fixing the specific weak spots in how you personally operate, and why knowing your own business data, where you are in bookings compared to this time last year, what upsell opportunities are sitting untapped, how many hours you actually spent editing last month, is the thing that most videographers are missing. All of that is in here too.

There is also a teaser for the That Wedding Videographer Summit, taking place on the 23rd of March in Glasgow. The speaker lineup is announced, including Bach Films flying over from South Africa, The Wild Strawberry from France, Abigail and Luke Films, Zaid Film Co, and Rather Lovely Films. Plus a hint at an Industry Pro session on AI being added to the summit, run by someone who is using it to genuinely transform their business income.

Tickets are available now at twvp.co.uk/summit.

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A couple of weeks ago we sat down with Lauren from Social Brides Club and Erin from Your Day Unplugged for part one of what turned out to be one of the longest and most honest conversations we’ve had on this podcast. This is part two, and it’s where things get properly real.

We pick up where we left off, moving from the debate about marketing language and blurred lines into something harder, the actual lived experience of being a content creator on a wedding day. Lauren shares the full story of an incident last year that left her in tears in a car park, genuinely scared, and questioning whether she wanted to continue doing this job. It’s one of the most important things we’ve put on this podcast and it needs to be heard.

From there the conversation opens out into something more constructive, the kind of team dynamic that actually produces great work for couples, why fear is probably behind most of the hostility in this industry rather than genuine grievance, why looking inward at your own business is always more useful than blaming the people around you, and what both sides genuinely wish the other understood.

There are also some honest words for videographers whose Instagram grids are half eaten meals and safari park days while wondering why the bookings have dried up.

It ends where it should, with four people who clearly respect each other, laughing, and agreeing that the whole thing would be a lot simpler if everyone just remembered why they’re at the wedding in the first place.

Find Lauren at @socialbridesclub on Instagram and visit her workshop brand Modern Luxe Club at @modernluxeclub. Find Erin at @yourdayunplugged on Instagram. Worth a follow for both.

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Two weeks out from the doors opening at Gosford House, Danny and Jason sat down with Emma, the founder of The Unveil Forum, a two-day wedding industry conference taking place on the 28th and 29th of October just outside of Edinburgh.

Emma built Timeless White Wedding Planning at 21 while still at university, spent years investing in conferences from Vegas to Florence, and somewhere along the way decided the UK wedding industry deserved something better than what was on offer. The Unveil Forum is the result, global speakers, a stunning venue, two full days of keynotes, breakout sessions, panels and a closing afterparty at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, all aimed at wedding professionals who are serious about where their business is going next.

In this episode they talk through the full agenda, the speakers including Alan Berg who Danny and Jase are genuinely excited about, the price point debate and whether 950 pounds for two days is a reach or a no-brainer depending on where you are in your business, the dress code, the Home Alone themed afterparty, and why Emma is the most nervous she has ever been about anything in her life right now.

It is also a surprisingly honest conversation about what conferences actually do for your business, why the connections you make in the room are often worth more than the keynotes themselves, and why the end of wedding season is exactly the right time to sit in a room with people who are thinking about the same things you are.

Tickets are still available at www.the-unveil-forum.com. Full two-day passes are at 950 pounds, day passes are at 20 percent off, and if you just want the afterparty that is 125 pounds on the door.

A quick shoutout to our sponsors who keep this podcast going week on week: Lumix, Bride and Groom Video, Vidflow and Wedola. Links and discount codes for all of them are in our show notes as always.

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