Vicky used to run weddings. She'd be there when the couple arrived and couldn't bring herself to leave until the last guest did.

Now she's a calligrapher doing around 100 weddings a year, engraving £360 perfume bottles while people watch, and trying to figure out how to stop saying yes to everything.

What You'll Learn:

What a calligrapher actually does in a day!

The different perceptions of calligraphy in the UK versus the US.

Why the creativity is always the first thing to go when your calendar gets too full

How doing cold outreach feels like sending a naked photo of yourself

Why two artists obsessed with beauty both keep the plainest to-do lists

The spa day that completely backfired because she couldn't stop thinking about work

Why this is the first year she's putting a cap on how many weddings she'll take

About Vicky:

Vicky is the calligrapher behind Inviting Writing, based in the UK with her husband and dogs. She went from hotel management and wedding coordination to building a calligraphy business that covers weddings, luxury brand events, signage, and hand-lettered maps.

She teaches calligraphy courses, listens to nineties dance music while she works, and is currently learning the hardest skill of her career: saying no.

Links:

Instagram (Inviting Writing): https://www.instagram.com/invitingwritinguk

Instagram (Signs by Vicky): https://www.instagram.com/signsbyvicky

Website:

https://www.invitingwriting.co.uk

Teepublic:

https://www.teepublic.com/user/inviting-writing

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Ryan Doyle grew up with an Irish Catholic grandmother, strict rules, and a constant sense of doing everything wrong. Then he went to clown school in France where they insult you, f*ck with your head, and force you to face the fact that people are going to hate you...

What You'll Learn:

• How Catholic guilt and shame actually become creative fuel
• How clown school trains you to stop caring what people think
• The cut-up technique: stealing text from anywhere and sculpting it with the delete key
• Why his fiancée is his only audience before anyone else sees his work
• Gremlin Day: one day a month with zero rules, pizza, weed, and Real Housewives
• The Hindu priestess who gave him a flower that unblocked his throat chakra
• How he's working 10-12 hours a day on one insane show after years of being scattered

About Ryan: Ryan Doyle is a writer, performer, and clown creating Free Speech, a one-hour show that performs every type of speech possible. He does typewriter poetry at weddings, wrote a board game over seven years, and paints himself green to sing Rat Pack songs as a goblin.

Links:

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Coach Lee wakes up at 2:30am. Works out, builds her coaching business, then goes to her full-time job as a criminal defense attorney. She's in bed by 8:30pm. And her coaching philosophy is "The goal is once we finish working together, for you not to come back." That's a terrible business model. And exactly why it works.

What You'll Learn:

• Why she calls it "procrast-planning" (when you plan instead of actually doing the thing)
• Her 2:30am-8:30pm schedule that lets her run two full careers without burnout
• The three categories for any task: must do, need to do, want to do
• Why following productivity gurus without adapting to your lifestyle always fails
• Her "terrible business model": teaching clients to never need her again
• How to check if what you say is important is actually, factually what's important
• Why she's "very anti hustle and grind, but not anti hard work"

About Coach Lee: Coach Lee is a criminal defense attorney and productivity coach who believes in realistic, sustainable systems over guru advice. She helps high-achieving women build schedules that actually work for their lives, not someone else's Instagram version of productivity.

Links:

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