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Episode 69: Are You Using Family First as an Excuse?
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Episode 66: My Baby Left For College: 4 Things I Did To Set Her Up for Independence
When I had my twins, I knew I wanted another baby because I couldn’t handle the thought of them...
Episode 64: Behind the Scenes of a $3,501.25 Portrait Order with Shalicia Johnson
Sarah Petty: In my community of professional photographers, we celebrate when people get...
Episode 63: How to Use the Parking Lot Tool When Life Gets In the Way of Your Photography Business
Major life changes. Whether we’ve planned for them or never saw them coming, we all experience...
Episode 61: How to Take Your Clients’ Photography Orders from $200 – $2,000
Sarah Petty: Sometimes the thing that invigorates you to take action in your photography business...
Episode 60: I Stopped Making These 7 Excuses. Here’s What Happened
I grew up with an entrepreneurial father and had the benefit of watching him take...
Episode 59: How This Photographer Turned Her Portraits Into a New Car (and you can, too) with Jill Daugherty
My student, Jill Daughtery, was constantly frazzled, doubting herself and stretching herself thin....
Episode 56: 3 Aha’s From Photographers In Growth Mode
I don't know about you, but I love having aha moments in my business. An aha moment is that...
Episode 53: What Your Photography Clients Actually Want
If you could only read your photography client's minds, am I right? Well, with a few easy tweaks...
Episode 257 – Juggling Kids + Photography Clients? 3 Tips For Making It All Work
If you're a parent, you probably have two favorite jobs in the whole world- photography and parenthood. They're filled with emotion and can be rewarding yet incredibly stressful at the same time. There is no exact handbook on how to do either perfectly. While you will...
Episode 256 – What’s Really Stopping Your Photography Business? Real Talk from Go Boutique Live 2025.
Go Boutique Live is a once a year, three-day virtual event for photographers who offer printed artwork instead of digital. And today I want to share some of my favorite moments and programs from this event. We've been doing this event for six years and I think...
Episode 255 – The Boutique Photography Model: How Adam Landed $2K+ Orders
Sarah Petty: Adam Redding spent 12 years as a seasonal photographer before taking the leap to open a storefront studio at the Jersey Shore in 2021. With no kiddos and a growing business, Adam was ready for a more profitable photography business and felt that following...
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