Event Bestie Podcast

Episode twenty and the spotlight is on...the planet! Specifically the importance of making events as eco-friendly as possible. We chatted with Romina Kwong an award-winning event strategist and educator with a passion for sustainability.

Romina’s career has been diverse, from being a Professor at Seneca College where she designed the course curriculum for Foundations of Sustainability in Event Management, to founding Eco-Friendly Events in 2019 - a Toronto-based sustainable event planning and consulting agency for organizations on a mission to do good.

We learn how to think differently about what sustainability event means, how easy it is to incorporate and why that thing most event planners do, isn't accomplishing what we think it is.

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Episode eleven, the spotlight is on... the ball drop heard around the world!
If you haven't heard about the event (or lack thereof) that went viral last week, we're dropping this week's edition of the podcast early to catch you up on all the not-so-British tea.
You've heard of Fyre Fest. You've seen Willy Wonka gone wrong, next up in the event fail hall of fame is the (unlicensed and unofficial) Bridgerton Ball.
I’ll be guiding you through the who the players are, the timeline with twists and turns, what guests were supposed to get and how this could all go from comically bad to legally worse for the event promoters.

Sources:
BBC, Detroit Free Press, NY Times, Teen Vogue, Reddit & Twitter

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Episode nineteen, and the spotlight is on Gabriella Robuccio, founder of ProEventTips, an event management consulting company, where she draws on over a decade of experience in high-stakes event production and relationship management to provide training for fellow event pros.

With a background that spans global sports broadcasts and transformative fundraising events, Gabriella shares invaluable insights and practical tools to help planners build resilient, lasting relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and teams.

In this episode we talk winning Emmys, making career and business moves (literally and figureatively) and why relationship building is probably the most important skill an event planner - whether amateur or professional - needs.

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Episode five, the spotlight is on...virtual events.
When the pandemic hit, the world was forced into virtual galas, summits and everything else in between. Now just four years later, and everyone officially 'zoomed out', we're chatting with Dionne Bishop, CEO & Event Strategist of Events By Dionne to see if they are staying in the rearview of history, why hybrid is here to stay (in our veteran opinions) and why virtual events aren't easier and cheaper to produce.

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Episode eight, the spotlight is on...the event component that literally lasts a lifetime...photography!
We sat down with Samantha Clarke who left the world of law to pursue photography 15 years ago. Samantha's commitment to excellence and undeniable talent have earned her recognition as one of America's top photographers by BRIDES Magazine two years in a row.
In this episode, we talk the questions you should ask before you hire a wedding/event photographer, why photoshop is a pet peeve (and not in the way you think), that AI is not the villain we thought it was, bras and unbaked cookies?

We also finally get a professional's opinion about the #SepiaBride debacle once and for all.

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