Wedding Atelier: Photography Podcast

Let’s Catch Up: Life, Launches, and Lessons

Alora Rachelle

It’s been a season, friend, so let’s catch up. ☕

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what life has really looked like lately...

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Hello. Hello. Welcome back to another episode on the podcast. I have just been living my life, after this wedding atelier launch. I have just been caught up in the weeds, man, like school's in full throttle. My son is in karate. He complains, but he does really well. Whatever he's for, we'll let him crash out about it. I'm just like, son, it's for your good. You need to learn how to fight. Okay? You're small, you're little. You need to know how to pull away. From Stranger Danger because my son is actually very extroverted. My daughter is a little more introverted like her father, and that works for my benefit. My son, however, will talk to a tree and he assume everybody wants to be his friend, and I'm just like, that person doesn't know you. You don't have to say hi. You don't have to ask them why they're wearing that. You don't have to ask them why they're bald, like just. Please chill. Anyways, that was a crazy introduction. I've obviously haven't podcasted in a long time. That's what happens when you don't talk a lot on your podcast. You just like spill over with your personal life. Oh my gosh, I don't even know where to begin. I am just so excited because right after the launch of Wedding Atelier, which was our 10th launch, by the way. This program has been launched 10 times over the course of the past three years, and I don't know, feeling really blessed, feeling really grateful and thankful in October. Just seeing, I don't know everything that's happened and how things are coming together and actually look at this. Today's affirmation prompt today says, my actions are intentional and bring me closer to my goals. Absolutely, yes, 1000%. I have been brainstorming some amazing offers. For next year, actually for Black Friday. I am doing Black Friday this year. I ha I think I've done it like two times. I wanna say two times. And it's always like an afterthought oh yeah, let me do Black Friday. No. This year I really want to launch some offers that I've never launched ever. And then one of them that had gotten revamped Lab 35 used to be cinematic editorial, and then we're going to actually do that live. I've never done this program live. It's only ever been a self-study course, but I really want to be able to in real time. Do a 30 day or 90 day sprint where we're just making over everybody's portfolios and just getting inspired from each other and getting ideas and I love the energy of a live cohort. Wedding Italy, when it started out was the wedding, CEO, and it was a live cohort and I loved it. It was so fun. And people got results because the energy was so high and everything was in real time, definitely gonna be doing a lot more live things next year. So it's a little bit of a hint and a sneak peek of what I've been working on. I have been journaling, I have been scrapping random pieces of paper, pin it to my boards, trying to figure out how I'm gonna make this all work because I am a little bit of an offer suite nerd. And if you don't know what that is, it's basically like how all of your offers go together, make sense, feed into each other. Something I'm actually gonna be teaching next year because I'm gonna be offering one-on-one coaching for people that specifically want to build an online business. This has been something that I have wanted to do for so long and I've tried to launch it. I pulled back, I created a wait list and pulled back This time, for real, we're doing it. But it's gonna be one-on-one because I really want undivided time to help you flesh out, create, launch your online offers. So really pumped about that. And I love working one-on-one with people because we get to hop on a call and you can just DM me anytime and yap to me your thoughts. And we'll come up with things together. And we're gonna come up with unique strategies and just, I don't know. I'm really excited. Obviously I can't keep my mouth shut'cause I keep telling you all the things that I'm working on next year. But anyway, why did I come on here. Pause. This is why I need to have bullet points in front of me because where are we going? What are we talking about? Oh yes. Get on the wait list for Black Friday. If you go on my website, alora rochelle.com, there should be a popup that tells you like, Hey, we're gonna be launching things 50% off. Definitely join that wait list. It's gonna be a maze. And I'm also coming out with a newsletter series. I had some of you guys help me vote on the topics and what you're interested in because while I do love sharing my personal life on my podcast. Anybody in the world can I guess anybody in the world could also subscribe to my newsletter series, but it feels more like pen pals and I'm willing to share more personal stuff, more crazy things that happened to me in my motherhood in my newsletter series, in addition to giving you mindset reframes and a couple of marketing thoughts and things that inspired me about branding and marketing, I have them every single day. Every single day I'll have an interaction with a business or interaction with a brand, and I'm just like, wow, that would be such a good piece of content. But I, I just don't feel like doing that on Instagram. So I'm just gonna do that in a newsletter. And so you're gonna hear from me and hopefully be inspired at least once a week or once every other week on different ways you can think about business, branding, marketing, and hopefully give you some ideas. I don't know. Super fun. I am very heavily leaning on myself next year. I am gonna trust my intuition. I spoke with a friend who is a success and leadership coach, and she was like, your intuition is I'm not very strong, my love. And I was like, what does that mean? She's you're questioning everything. And somebody who has grown up relatively confident, I'm like, uhoh, this is, it's not good. What do I do? And so now I'm thinking like I'm just gonna launch offers that I wanna launch. I'm gonna do workshops that I want. I'm just gonna launch everything unabashedly without caring and I'm gonna have fun. I'm gonna have fun again in my business. I think I need a little bit of a break from a consuming, we all do it. You're listening to this podcast the way that I listen to dozens and dozens of others, and it's just at the end of the day, I feel like at the end of the day, you lose your intuition. You lose your inner voice that's telling you like, okay, what is it that I need to do? And I feel like inherently we're all born with unique gifts and talents and. Mine is definitely strategy. I think about strategy every there I have. I could help anyone create a strategy for any business at any time. Literally, someone will come up to me the problem, and I'll just answer them and be like, you're welcome. That's worth$500. Go map out your business plan. And so having all these strategies and not being able to implement any of them and sticking to like a very boring business model is I can't do it anymore. Oh my gosh. Anyway, I feel like I'm coming alive. I actually have to hop on a wedding atelier group call in a second. But I also wanted to say like next year, I am coming up with some ideas on really how to help build a very strong sense of CEO business model. Yes, we do a plan your business like a millionaire, like CEO plan. I was just DMing somebody who applied for the program and I was like, wait a minute, why are we not talking about. The way that we're gonna be building sales strategies in between gaps in your income. And I was like, this is my secret sauce. This is what I was born to do. So we're going heavy on sales campaigns next year, but they're gonna be fun. Like selling is fun. It should be fun. The energy behind it, the ideas, the creativity. The only reason why selling and marketing wouldn't be fun is if you are in a creative rut. If you are experiencing burnout or you have lost a sense of your why or your passion, otherwise it should be fun. So that's definitely something to think about. I guess the purpose of this episode, friends, is to let you know that good things are coming and next year's gonna be amazing. I'm mapping out my own vision for 2026 now in October because once things get cold and simmer down here. All my ideas come'cause I'm not running around outside and trying to soak up the sun. Like the sun is gone. The sun is gone. So anyway, good things are coming. Offers are cooking. Join the wait list for the Black Friday deals. There will be things lower than a hundred dollars. There will be things that I've never launched before. There will be things that will help you with your marketing, and then there will be, we will be want launching. And then we'll be launching some other offers. If you wanna work with me one-on-one. I've had people asking for more. Basically like aor, you only have one offer and a half. Like, how can we work with you? How can we learn from you in this way, in that way? And I have all this stuff, I just never packaged it up and I was like, oh my gosh, you want this? Like I'm over here trying to have this minimalist business and everybody wants a piece of the pie, so I'm working on it. Okay, give me, gimme a month. Gimme a month and you will have it, and hopefully this year you'll be able to cook up something special. Really get inspired with your marketing, with yourself, your brand, your why. That is of course my secret sauce. And then, we are still accepting applications for wedding atill. If you missed the launch and you're like, oh my gosh, Delora, I just found you, no problem. The link is in the show notes. Send me an application. I literally will voice message you in your dms. And we'll chit chat about what you need to work on, how we can help you, and then if we can't help you, then I will redirect you to some resources that absolutely can. This is for you if you're anywhere between the three to 5K pricing range and you wanna raise your prices, you wanna reposition your business, you wanna attract higher end clients, you wanna book less weddings, you want to balance business and motherhood and be able to make six figures or multiple six figures. This program is for you, 1000% applications are open, and if you enroll asap, you also get a one-on-one intensive with me, or we will map out how we're gonna help you do all these things over the course of the next 12 months. Alright? So if you need me, I'll be hopping on a group call right now and I will see you guys in the next episode. Have an amazing week. Bye.

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