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Katie Sautter was last on this podcast after booking 29 weddings in her first year as a wedding planner. At the time, she was still working her engineering 9-to-5, logging about 100 hours a week between both jobs, and just starting to think about what it might look like to go all in.

She went all in.

In 2025, Katie quit her job, built a team of five, went from under $10K in revenue to six figures, and did all of it in a single year. She attributes a huge chunk of that growth to a framework called the Lazy Genius Way, and to one particular tool her team built from scratch: a 75-step wedding management system she calls the Due Date Dashboard.

In this episode, Katie walks through exactly how she did it, what the Lazy Genius principles actually look like applied to a wedding planning business, how she survived 12 weddings in 8 weeks without anything falling through the cracks, and why she's now selling the Due Date Dashboard so other planners can use it too.

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