How to Set Healthy Business Boundaries and Prevent Entrepreneur Burnout: A Wedding Photographer's Success Story

Are you tired of working weekends, answering client emails at 2 AM, and feeling completely burned out in your creative business? What if you could take eight weeks of vacation while having your highest-earning year yet? Wedding photographer and business coach Johanna Hribal joins us to share exactly how she transformed her photography business from chaotic feast-or-famine cycles to a sustainable, boundary-rich enterprise that supports both her lifestyle and financial goals. If you're struggling with people-pleasing, overworking, or the seasonal ups and downs of creative entrepreneurship, this conversation will show you a better way forward.

In this episode, Johanna breaks down her practical approach to creating healthy business boundaries that clients actually respect and appreciate. She shares her energy inventory method for identifying which tasks to automate, delegate, or eliminate, and explains how strategic pricing can help wedding professionals avoid the extreme highs and lows of seasonal business. The conversation covers everything from setting communication boundaries and taking consistent days off to creating polished client experiences that prevent scope creep. Sara and Dana also share their own boundary-setting journeys, including the mindset shifts required to move from people-pleasing to confident business leadership.

What to listen for: 

• Proactive boundary setting is essential: Communicate your time off, response times, and processes upfront in contracts and email signatures rather than trying to enforce boundaries reactively when problems arise.

• Use the energy inventory method: List all your business tasks and categorize them as "love it," "hate it," or "it's okay" – then prioritize automating, delegating, or eliminating the tasks you hate to free up energy for work you enjoy.

• Strategic pricing prevents burnout: Instead of offering the lowest prices during peak demand seasons, price appropriately so you can work with fewer clients while meeting your income goals, leaving more time for rest and personal life.

Connect with Johanna Hribal: 

Instagram | @yourcoachjohanna

Momentum group coaching | https://yourcoachjohanna.kartra.com/page/momentum

Visibility Intensive | https://yourcoachjohanna.kartra.com/page/visibility

Freebie | https://yourcoachjohanna.kartra.com/page/freebie