Waiting until life feels perfect is a good way to wait forever. Bradley and Alexis Shuffler are building a film business, raising a child, starting a wedding brand, and finding out that “free time” is mostly a rumor people tell each other.

On Episode 63 of Snackin’ & Yakkin’ with BIG Ben Kennedy, the Charleston couple talks movies, friendship breakups, faith, airport TikToks, fake punches, trail mix, and the Lamborghini that has apparently been on Bradley’s vision board since childhood.

Meet Bradley and Alexis Shuffler

Bradley Shuffler is a Charleston-area writer, director, filmmaker, and actor behind BA Shuffler Productions. His work includes commercials, corporate projects, short films, and stories built around action, drama, thriller, and comedy.

Alexis is not sitting on the sidelines, either. She is Bradley’s wife, a mom, one of the company’s editors, and now a major part of its wedding branch. She also has a background in pharmacy and urgent care, which explains why an EKG tattoo is not just “some heartbeat thing” to her.

Big Ben, a paramedic, was quick to point out the missing P-wave and T-wave. This is what happens when filmmakers, medical people, and microphones get in the same room. Somebody’s tattoo gets audited.

A Production Company With a Wedding Side

Shuffler & Co. Weddings grew out of BA Shuffler Productions because weddings need a different touch. Nobody wants to wonder whether the people capturing their first dance also plan to yell, “Let’s run it again!” after the vows.

The team still brings film experience, but the focus is the couple’s day, their pace, and the little things that matter when the flowers cost more than your first car.

Alexis brings something Bradley knows he can’t fake with a telephoto lens: a bride’s perspective. When both of them reached out to potential wedding clients, Alexis got more responses. Bradley got the lesson.

Calling yourself a production company can sound expensive. Calling it a wedding team sounds like somebody will remember to film Grandma crying.

They joked about crane shots, 8K footage, CGI birds, and making the wedding party duck so the camera can glide over them. The jokes are funny because the concern is real. Couples want beautiful video, not a film crew turning the ceremony into Avatar 6.

The Personal Story Behind Half of Me

Bradley’s short film Half of Me moves away from the action-heavy work he usually makes. It is a rom-com, though more romance than comedy, about two best friends whose relationship changes when one starts dating someone new.

That kind of loss hurts differently. A romantic breakup is rough, but a close friend has seen the version of you that nobody else gets. The ugly cry version. The broke version. The “please don’t tell anybody I said that” version.

The film follows the heartache, distance, and internal struggle that come after the friendship shifts. It is about coping, reaching out, faith, and figuring out who you are when someone you thought would always be there starts doing life somewhere else.

Bradley wants to make stories that feel honest, even when honesty is uncomfortable. As he told Big Ben, he does not want to become somebody else just to get bigger.

Fake Punches, Real Work

Action is still in Bradley’s blood. He discussed The Heist, a three-part YouTube short-film project built around monologues, action, and ideas developed week by week.

Fight scenes are a small magic trick. A telephoto lens closes the visual distance. Timing sells the movement. Sound effects make the hit land. Nobody needs to actually get punched in the face, which is good news for everybody’s face.

Bradley worked with Jacob, a boxer who helped choreograph believable combat. The actors knew where to move, when to turn, and how to make a punch stop short while the camera tells a much more violent lie.

That is filmmaking in a nutshell. Three days of work for 15 seconds where somebody says, “Cool.” Then they keep watching. Which is the point.

The Airport Motivational Guy

Before filmmaking became busier, Bradley worked at Charleston International Airport. He pushed wheelchairs, worked long shifts, moved into management, and began posting motivational TikToks during the quiet stretches of airport life.

The videos grew to roughly 1,200 to 1,800 followers. People sent messages saying his words had helped them through severe emotional struggles, including moments when they considered leaving this life.

That is a heavy thing for anybody to carry, especially a young guy making encouragement videos between flights. But Bradley understood it because he has had hard thoughts and hard seasons himself.

His message stayed simple: you are competing with yourself, not the stranger you saw doing better online. He still posts through BA Shuffler Productions on Instagram.

Family, Faith, and the Work Nobody Sees

Bradley and Alexis built this while becoming parents. Their son Aaron arrived shortly before Bradley’s 27th birthday, almost the exact age Bradley had once said he wanted to be when he had a child.

Life heard the plan and said, “Close enough.”

They have worked opposite shifts, edited late at night, gone to shoots after regular jobs, and worried about rent, groceries, and the usual grown-up nonsense that arrives with a bill attached. Alexis fell asleep editing at 3 a.m. Their child woke up at 4 a.m. That is not a work-life balance. That is a tag-team match with no referee.

Still, they believe their current work can give their family more freedom later. Bradley sees filmmaking as more than a way to buy a Lamborghini. Fine, he still wants the Lamborghini. But he also wants enough money to help family, support his church, and eventually build a backlot and studio where other filmmakers can work.

Keep Going Before It Feels Safe

Bradley wants Half of Me or another project closer to a major theater premiere or streaming release within two years. He also wants steady commercial clients, a growing wedding business, and more space for the people he loves.

That is a lot. But nobody said the dream had to fit neatly in one folder.

The strongest part of this conversation is the reminder that meaningful work rarely begins when everything is ready.

Sometimes it begins when you are tired, nervous, broke, unsure, and still willing to hit record.

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