159: How To Own Your Creativity So You Can Take Incredible Photos and Book Out Your Calendar with Haley McDevitt
08/06/24 • 63 min
Do you ever doubt your own abilities as a photographer and wonder if your couples are going to be happy with your photos? 😰
Haley, a wedding photographer and one of my past students, was in this exact position not too long ago. She loved being a wedding photographer, but weddings made her constantly feel on-edge.
She’d stress about getting the perfect shot of the dress and the ring because that’s what she thought she was “supposed” to do.She’d constantly question if she was in the right place at the right time, and she’d worry that she was missing out on picture-perfect moments.She felt too scared to try her unique, out-of-the box ideas for fear that her couples wouldn’t be happy with the photos.
But after Haley took my course, Intuitive Storytelling, everything changed for her. She learned to trust her creativity & intuition and tune out that self-critical voice in her head.
Now, she shows up to weddings feeling 100% confident, and she takes creative shots that her couples love. 🙌
I was so inspired by Haley’s transformation that I decided to interview her about her journey. This week, we’re talking all about how to tap into your intuition so you can take incredible photos, show up confidently to shoots, and book out your calendar.
I hope that Haley’s story inspires you to trust your own creativity and intuition so you can take photos that’ll have your couples saying:
“We love the photos and you were the best decision we could have made for our wedding day!” 😍
Tune in to discover:
✨ Examples of super special moments captured during weddings, and how you can spot these opportunities on your own
✨ How to train your intuition if you don’t know what signs to look for
✨ Why memorizing names of the couple’s friends & family can help you bond and ultimately improve your storytelling
✨ Why you don’t need to follow every industry standard when it comes to photography
✨ How getting your couple to fill out a family and friends questionnaire can help you show up on wedding day feeling totally prepared and relaxed
✨ Ways to navigate heavy emotions at weddings so you can bond with the couple’s family
✨ Signs that hiring a second shooter is meant for you
✨ An out-of-the-box concept for an engagement photo (that the couple loved!)
Want to hear Haley’s story and find out how you can own your signature brand of intuitive storytelling? Hit play now! :)
RESOURCES + LINKS
Intuitive Storytelling for Wedding Photographers: Discover how to storytell like a pro on wedding days - Sign up here!
Do you ever doubt your own abilities as a photographer and wonder if your couples are going to be happy with your photos? 😰
Haley, a wedding photographer and one of my past students, was in this exact position not too long ago. She loved being a wedding photographer, but weddings made her constantly feel on-edge.
She’d stress about getting the perfect shot of the dress and the ring because that’s what she thought she was “supposed” to do.She’d constantly question if she was in the right place at the right time, and she’d worry that she was missing out on picture-perfect moments.She felt too scared to try her unique, out-of-the box ideas for fear that her couples wouldn’t be happy with the photos.
But after Haley took my course, Intuitive Storytelling, everything changed for her. She learned to trust her creativity & intuition and tune out that self-critical voice in her head.
Now, she shows up to weddings feeling 100% confident, and she takes creative shots that her couples love. 🙌
I was so inspired by Haley’s transformation that I decided to interview her about her journey. This week, we’re talking all about how to tap into your intuition so you can take incredible photos, show up confidently to shoots, and book out your calendar.
I hope that Haley’s story inspires you to trust your own creativity and intuition so you can take photos that’ll have your couples saying:
“We love the photos and you were the best decision we could have made for our wedding day!” 😍
Tune in to discover:
✨ Examples of super special moments captured during weddings, and how you can spot these opportunities on your own
✨ How to train your intuition if you don’t know what signs to look for
✨ Why memorizing names of the couple’s friends & family can help you bond and ultimately improve your storytelling
✨ Why you don’t need to follow every industry standard when it comes to photography
✨ How getting your couple to fill out a family and friends questionnaire can help you show up on wedding day feeling totally prepared and relaxed
✨ Ways to navigate heavy emotions at weddings so you can bond with the couple’s family
✨ Signs that hiring a second shooter is meant for you
✨ An out-of-the-box concept for an engagement photo (that the couple loved!)
Want to hear Haley’s story and find out how you can own your signature brand of intuitive storytelling? Hit play now! :)
RESOURCES + LINKS
Intuitive Storytelling for Wedding Photographers: Discover how to storytell like a pro on wedding days - Sign up here!
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158: Riff Episode: Challenges I'm Facing Lately, What I'm Doing About It + What's Helping Me Grow
I’m gonna be real with you. I’ve been feeling like I’m in an awkward stage in my business right now. And by awkward, I mean...
- I’ve been feeling a heaviness around not having everything figured out yet with the direction I’m taking my business
- I’ve been feeling like I have SO MANY ideas, but confused on which ones to focus on - so I end up stalling
- I’ve been feeling like my world has been turned upside down since becoming a mom and I’m still navigating my way around how to peacefully flow through some challenges that arise with being a new parent
- (And more explained in today’s podcast episode!)
Have you been feeling any of these feels lately too? In case you have, instead of keeping this all to myself, I want to share it with you so that 👇🏻
- You feel less alone if you’re also feeling like you don’t quite have everything figured out the way you want to in your business right now
- You can piggy back off me and my MIND BLOWING realizations I’ve had recently about how to get through this phase in my life feeling empowered instead of it feeling like it’s hard to breath at times!
If you know me, you know I HATE small talk, so I go DEEP in today’s episode and I’m talking all about challenges I’m facing lately, what I’m doing about it, and what’s helping me grow.
I’m trying something different with this new “riff” style of podcast where I dive in with no plan and no script. I call this episode my “riff” episode because I literally grabbed my podcast mic, and started openly sharing with the intention of it feeling like I’m just chatting on the phone with you 📞
Tune in to discover:
✨ How I’m navigating my “awkward” phase
✨ The “radio station” analogy for how different realities exist all around us all the time (and how we can simply choose the reality we desire)
✨ Questions you can ask yourself when faced with challenges to keep you out of negative spiraling
✨ What motherhood is teaching me
✨ Why life challenges are actually gifts that bring you closer to your higher selves
✨ How to look for the “gain” so you can stay motivated and productive
✨ Why focusing on the “gap” is where all the suffering happens
✨ A simple explanation of quantum physics that’ll help you make better, more aligned decisions
✨ Why it’s normal to alternate between seasons of flow and seasons of resistance & uncertainty
RESOURCES + LINKS
“The Gain and the Gap” by Dan Sullivan
Audiobook “10x Is Easier than 2x” by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan:
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160: How Kimberly Re-defined Mini Sessions and Made $8000 From 1 Day Of Shooting!
Want to know how Kimberly was able to make $8000 from just 1 day of shooting? 💰💰💰 Oh, and plot twist–she did it with mini-sessions. 🤯
If you had told Kimberly, a branding photographer, a few years ago that she could make that kind of money from mini-sessions... She wouldn’t have believed you.
Like many photographers, she’d written off mini-sessions as “they are just so much work for so little profit!”. She thought there was no way she could charge high-ticket prices with this type of session. And in her mind, they carried connotations of “cheap”, “fast”, and “low-quality”.
But after a colleague shared a new way of doing mini-sessions with her that was profitable, low-stress, and fun... She decided to launch a mini-session offer with absolutely no idea what to expect.
And guess what? She booked up all 8 slots within 48 hours. 🤯She quickly discovered that this type of session was her jam. 🤩 So if you’re a photographer who’s feeling burnt out and you want to earn more and shoot less...
...You’ll definitely want to listen to Kimberly’s story.
On this week’s podcast episode, I picked Kimberly’s brain about how she leveraged mini sessions to build a profitable, aligned photography business. She completely redefines mini-sessions and it’s going to blow your mind and show you what’s possible for you!
Tune in to discover:
✨ The power of the waitlist for creating desire and removing all the stress from your mini-session offer
✨ A detailed breakdown of Kimberly’s offer, including pricing, number of participants, hours worked, launch timelines, and more
✨ A breakdown of her second relaunch, and how she made even more and worked less
✨ 2 common limiting beliefs about mini-sessions that might be holding you back from trying them out for yourself
✨ How mini-sessions can help you recoup lost revenue while serving your clients better
✨ Success stories from Kimberly’s students who tried doing similar offers
Plus, she even goes deep into entrepreneurial mindset with golden nuggets like:
✨ Why being attached to an outcome = living in the future, and how you can let go of expectations to attract more abundance
✨ An awe-inspiring story about what happened to her at a live business conference that’ll have you on the edge of your seat
✨ Why showing your audience your “messiness” can actually magnetize them
✨ How to surrender to good things in your life, even when they make you super uncomfortable
✨ Why it’s important to strike a balance between desperate and uncompromising when it comes to pricing
RESOURCES + LINKS
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