Professional party girl turns her side hustle into a career w/ Hallie Meland | Ep. 20

Fun on Weekdays

Jenna Palek

Fow, Palek, Adulting, Leisure, Jenna Palek, Weekdays, Fun On Weekdays, Jenna

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Meet Hallie Meland - our Miami raised, Jonas Brother loving, spunky party girl AND full time event planner for Fun on Weekdays. Did I mention she is also one of my best friends? In this episode we chat about Hallie’s experience moving to Austin and working a corporate job before being drawn to the chaos of start-ups. Hallie shares her journey into event planning from her early start of hosting gettys with childhood friends, to becoming the social chair of her sorority & corporate job, her first role as an event coordinator at Blue Norther, to her current position with FOW. Get to know how Hallie was hired and how we manage our friendship and professional relationship. We also chat relationships, buying her home, her can-do attitude, experience with 75-hard and how Hallie continues to live a life fueled by having fun.

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0:00.0	What's up, you sexy little bitches? Aren't you nervous? Your boss is going to hear this?
0:10.6	Oh my god, I'm so nervous, especially when I drink and smoke in front of her.
0:15.2	You guys, today I am with Halle, my friend and the fun on weekdays event planner, Halle
0:22.2	Meland. The party of fun on weekdays. Yeah, it's funny because we met like last spring and when
0:28.8	we met and started hanging out, I used to talk about you on the podcast all the time. I always
0:32.6	mean my friend Halle. It was sent to me once. I wasn't listening to your podcast yet. We were just
0:37.7	feeling each other out. Yeah, you're like, that's kind of weird. No, I loved it. You know, I love
0:41.6	attention. Wait, what's your horoscope? I don't know. I think, oh, I'm a Pisces. Okay. I'm not like
0:49.7	into off brand of me, not into like the horoscope stuff. Oh, I feel like you would be into that, actually.
0:55.2	I'm a big man of fester, but don't know much about that. I know my Pisces, which I think is like
1:00.3	emotional. Oh, I'm I love to cry. I don't think I've ever seen you cry. It's mostly happy
1:06.6	happy tears. Like that's big. That makes sense. I feel like you're a generally very happy person.
1:11.2	I am a happy person. Yeah, I love life. Life is fun. Life is fun. It's such a weekdays.
1:17.2	So Halle is our full time event planner. She joined our team in February Valentine's Day,
1:23.2	because we love each other. Yes. That was the best little gift that I got. Oh, my God. Happy
1:27.7	Valentine's Day to us. It's like our anniversary. We're never going to forget that. No, we won't.
1:32.8	But for a year before that, we became friends because actually we were connected through social media
1:37.7	and through events in general. Yep. I remember somebody sent me your profile and they're like,
1:42.0	you should really connect with this girl, Halle. She throws events in Austin and I feel
1:45.6	give a lot in common. I think I DM to you. You did. I remember I was home in Miami. And I was
1:51.8	definitely like sort of keeping up with what you were doing because you were new to Austin. Yeah.
1:55.9	And dabbling in events. Really? Who is this bitch doing my thunder? No, I remember you DM me and
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