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Event Planning: Handling The Stress, Pressure Points & Unexpected with Ali Phillips
mot(HER) Rewriting the Mother Code with Dr. Gertrude Lyons
English - October 25, 2022 14:00 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Kids & Family Parenting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ali Phillips is a premiere Chicago wedding planner, president, and owner of Engaging Events by Ali, Inc. She's been in the event planning business for over 19 years and is recognized as a leader in the wedding and event industry. She was named top A-list Destination Planner by Destination Weddings & Honeymoons magazine, one of the Favorite Chicago Wedding Planners by Chicago Magazine, and one of Chicago's favorite wedding planners by Brides magazine. Ali has planned over 350 weddings that have taken place all over the world, including Los Cabos, Turks and Caicos, Costa Rica, Napa, Fiji, England, Ireland, and South Africa. She does all these beautifully, seamlessly fun, and authentically. Outside her wedding planning life, she also gives back by mentoring aspiring event professionals, speaking at many college campuses and conferences, and volunteering her time with the charities she supports. She is also the co-founder of the Illinois Events Coalition, founded in 2020 to help advocate, support, and educate the events industry.
In today's episode, Dr. Gertrude is joined by Ali as she takes us through what goes on behind every successful event she planned. Through years of experience, Ali and her team have seen it all. She shares her strategies for handling the different emotions present during planning, preparation, and on the day of the event itself. Most of all, she talks about how she mothers herself and others in every event she handles.
Today on Mot(HER):
How Ali started her journey in the events planning industryHandling heightened emotions within the community of clients, vendors, and partners behind every eventUnderstanding and raising awareness that there isn't just one way to do thingsStrategies for managing stress, pressure points, and unexpected things that can happen in an eventMemorable disasters experienced by Ali and her teamAli's post-event rituals for releasing, recharging, and self careConnect with Ali Phillips:
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