The Power of Belief with Bryn Bonino

IN THIS EPISODE:

#116 - It's hard to believe that Bryn Bonino started her pet photography business just 7 months ago. Already, she has some massive wins under her belt—including an $8,000 sale. But Bryn doesn't attribute her success to her background in marketing.

This week, Bryn joins me for a fantastic conversation about mindset, meditation, and how the mass of every human on earth could fit inside a sugar cube. Join us for a resource-packed episode that will help you see what's possible in your business.

What To Listen For:

The silver lining to Bryn's two car accidents
Why she builds an extra 5% into her product prices
How Bryn turned one connection into 150 new email subscribers
What most people get wrong about the Law of Attraction
The gifts and pitfalls of being an empath
How to rid your life of negative influences

Oh, and that $8,000 sale? It came from an event that looked like a total bust. Life's full of surprises! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Resources From This Episode:

Dog Days Photography
Dog Days Photography on Facebook
Dog Days on Instagram
The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, by Joe Dispenza
Sensitive is the New Strong, by Amita Moorjani
The Law of Attraction, by Esther and Jerry Hicks

Connect with us on Instagram and YouTube.
Explore valuable pet photography resources here
Discover effective pricing and sales strategies for all portrait photographers.
Ready to grow your business? Elevate helps you do just that.
Check out our recommended gear and favorite books.

Full Transcript ›

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Welcome back to the hair of the dog podcast.

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I'm your host,

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Nicole Begley.

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And today we are talking with Brynne Menino of dog days,

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photography based in Austin,

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Texas. Now Brandon started her business Amir seven months ago.

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And she's the first to admit that her first few months

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were a little bit of a struggle,

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struggling to get sales anywhere near 500 or more dollars.

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But in the past few months,

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her new sales average has been consistently four figures.

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Many of them in the multi four figures of $2,700,

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$3,500, even $8,000.

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And here's where it gets really good.

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It's not about what she did.

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It's about who she was being.

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It was what she was believing,

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and it was what was going on inside of her head

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to make these big changes that have paid off tremendously in

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her business today's conversation.

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Well, it's a good one.

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I encourage you to listen to it with an open mind

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and enjoy it and just see where it leads you.

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And yeah,

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I think it's going to be a fun one.

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Stay tuned.

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Welcome to the hair of the dog podcast.

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If you're a pet photographer,

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ready to make more money and start living a life by

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your design,

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you've come to the right place.

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And now your host,

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pet photographer,

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travel addict,

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chocolate martini connoisseur,

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Nicole Begley.

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All right,

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everybody. Hello and welcome back to the hair of the dog

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podcast with me today is Brendan Benino from dog days,

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photography and Austin,

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Texas. And we are going to be talking a bit about,

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well, all the things Bryn,

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welcome to the podcast.

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I am so happy to be here,

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Nicole. And I'm so happy to chat with you about all

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the things.

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Yes. Agreed me too.

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So this came about because you started while you started your

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business, how long ago?

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Seven months ago.

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Yes. Okay.

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So in business terms,

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that's like yesterday and you've had some pretty massive out of

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the gate success.

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So tell us just a little bit about that.

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Okay. So we first shot it because I was wanting to

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learn more about the elevate group probably about five minutes ago.

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I think.

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Yeah, at that point I had had one sale of $500

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and it was to my neighbor.

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And then I was doing all these marketing strategies that I

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knew about because I have a background in marketing and I

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didn't get any sales for close to five months,

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but then I ran the calendar contest as Jessica Wozzeck teaches

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it and it ended.

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And then I started getting,

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I got one sale of 2000,

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450, and then this one client that had it,

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it was the one that had signed up for a pop-up

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studio that I did with a dog daycare.

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I turned her into a custom client.

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She took forever to book because it kept getting pushed back

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because of her schedule.

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She, she spent $4,000

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with me.

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Wow. Well then I sat in her what,

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I'm calling a proofing page because I'm doing studio shots and

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stuff. They're going to change the background color they can.

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So I send them the background color that they want on

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a proofing page as a hidden page on my website.

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She's like,

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she emailed me back like five minutes after she spent $4,000.

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She's like,

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you know,

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I really like all the photos.

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Can you put all of the photos on the proofing page,

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25 of them?

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And then we go back and forth like about like how

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big the mat should be and just kind of like what

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different mock-ups would look,

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look like.

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And then after two weeks she's like,

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okay, I want to buy another $4,000

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frame from you.

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So this one client who was the one client that signed

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up for a pop-up studio spend $8,000

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with me.

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What did she end up getting?

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What, what kind of artwork?

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Okay. So I am using graphic studio and they have a

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frame that holds three fine art prints that are maded.

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She got the 30 by 20 size and she got two

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of them.

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Oh wow.

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And I priced them at $4,000

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each and yeah,

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she got two and that's the most expensive thing I have

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is the biggest thing I have and the most expensive thing

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that I have.

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And she thanked me for it afterwards.

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Like I was turning,

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I like,

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I was,

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I wanted to go do somersaults and cartwheels because I was

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so excited.

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And she was that excited to,

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Yeah. She thanked me.

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I think that's one of the biggest things that people,

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and one of the quickest ways to kind of change our

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mindset about sales and,

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you know,

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cause so many people it's so common for us photographers to

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be like,

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oh, I don't,

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God, that's just too much.

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And we just protect all of our money issues on everybody

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else. But if you could think back to a time when

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you purchase something that you were so excited to purchase,

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even if it was a little bit more than you had

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planned on spending,

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but you were like,

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yes, I am so into this.

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It's going to be amazing.

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And you were so thrilled to hand that money over because

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you were going to get closer to whatever it was that

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you were purchasing and that's how our clients feel.

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Exactly. Yeah,

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That's right.

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Yeah. And I'll say that I have a lot of money

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issues myself,

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but I did a lot of work this year to get

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over them.

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But what gives me confidence is if I have a strategy

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and honestly a spreadsheet to all of it,

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so I know what goes into my business.

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And I put,

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I put all of that into a spreadsheet.

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So I know what my sales goal is.

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Then I look at my cost of goods sold is,

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and I have a formula that tells me I need to

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five times that.

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And then something else that makes me more confident is I

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don't say to my clients that pay me.

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I don't say thank you because you paid me.

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I say,

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thank you on behalf of all of us,

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because what I have built into my pricing formula is a

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5% donation to a rescue.

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Oh, that's fantastic.

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And so right now I'm donating to love,

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hope, believe Google adoption with Travis Patina.

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And so I say on behalf of me and all the

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people, I'll let love,

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hope, believe Gaga,

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adoption, thank you so much for the,

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what you're doing to help.

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Go-Go's be rescued.

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That's fantastic.

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And that shifts so much of our energy that we are

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putting out there too.

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Cause it's no longer just about us,

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right. Because when we're out there saying,

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all right,

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yeah, that's frames $4,000,

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but 400 or 205% is going to somebody else.

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Even, even if it's not all of it,

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like a small portion,

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then the bigger the sale,

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the more you get to help that.

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And it,

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it just shifts something on our brain where it becomes less

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scary. Or I don't know,

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just something that becomes a little bit easier than to actually

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make more money because it's not just about us anymore.

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Exactly. Yeah.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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I it's a great,

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awesome little,

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little shift.

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Yeah, No.

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And then something else is when I thought of what I

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wanted to do with dog photography,

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I thought I don't want it to be like going to

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JC Penney's and you getting the quality that you would get

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there because they've seen that quality.

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So I've found the best products that I could find and

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the company that gives me the best customer service.

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And for me,

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I feel like it's graffiti studio.

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And I met with somebody yesterday for business networking purposes.

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when I first heard about your business,

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I didn't understand how you could make it go,

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like make it work with being a doc photographer.

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Right. Right.

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But then I explained to him,

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I showed him my products printed and I showed him the

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camera's pro biography.

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And I explained how,

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when you hang it on the wall,

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it's flat.

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Yeah. So it does,

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it's not a wire that kind of like,

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you don't know if it's going to be even or not.

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Right. You know,

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it's going to sit properly on your wall.

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And then everything is one of a kind and you have

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this certificate of authenticity on the back.

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So this person knowing nothing about photography and thinking,

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he doesn't understand how my business works.

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He's like,

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oh, I get it.

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I don't know anyone who does that.

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Yeah. So that helps me as well.

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That's great.

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Very much showcasing that there is room in the market for

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every level,

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because I know a lot of people get all hung up

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with, oh,

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there's so many people offering so much for so little,

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but you've swung to the totally opposite side and you're offering

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the very best of the best.

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And there is always room in the market for the best

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of the best.

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Always. I think if you think of how I'm finding these

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people, I have no idea how much they're going to spend

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with me.

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And so I'm finding them because I did the calendar contest

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and I had the idea to do a philanthropic pop-up studio

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that only one person signed up for.

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oh, and then something else that I'm doing that I think

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is really helping me is I am not running Facebook ads

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and I'm not myself putting my own,

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my own campaigns in Facebook groups.

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I am connecting with other business owners that have a similar

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goal as I do in business.

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And as I have a similar voice and they are pushing

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out my campaign to their audiences,

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so business to business marketing,

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and that got me a spot,

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a 10 minute spot to be interviewed by a local TV

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station. But then when I got on there,

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I didn't talk about myself.

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I had the president of the charity that I'm working with.

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She talks about what it was like to work with me.

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And then I talked about her.

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Yeah. So then I think it was more believable and it

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wasn't me right.

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With my ego.

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And that feels so much better to me as well.

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So I think that's another thing that's working well,

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for me it feels good.

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That's and that's a great way to,

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to look at that and make connections in your,

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your area.

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So what types of businesses,

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or what are kind of your checklist for lack of better

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term? Like what are you looking for in these other businesses?

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Okay. So when I started dark days photography,

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I wasn't well connected in Austin.

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So I basically am working with this one charity because they

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were the most responsive to me in email because I couldn't

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find, you know,

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it couldn't,

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I don't have connections to the most influential charities in,

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in the city.

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Yeah. So I'm working with hound rescue.

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They are amazing to work with.

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They're very well connected.

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They have been,

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their board members have been living in Austin for a long

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time. So when I first started the calendar contest,

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I had been running dog days photography for like two months,

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I think.

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And so I said to the president who do you know,

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I will do this fundraiser for you,

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but I need you to help me and connect me with

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the people that you have strong relationships with.

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Yeah. And she's been an Austin rescuing hounds in Austin for

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a very long time.

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And so she has people that will do anything for her.

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So when she connected me to them,

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they helped me tremendously.

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That's fantastic.

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Yeah. And some of them have,

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they did much more than I asked of them and they

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have big audiences.

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And then with my marketing background,

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I thought if I can get,

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if I can help them get an,

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get my content from my campaign in front of their audiences,

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then that would help me.

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But they're so busy.

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All of these were animal focused or mostly specifically dog focused

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businesses. What I'm finding about the population is they're very compassionate

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about what they do,

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but then sometimes if they don't set boundaries,

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their compassion overflows,

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because they're overflowing with empathy.

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And so they take on too much and all of them

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I'll talk to and they will love what I do.

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And it'll be an awesome conversation,

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but then they don't respond to my emails.

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A lot of times They don't have the margin to actually

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take the action.

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Yeah. So what I did is I wrote for every single

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business for the calendar contest,

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three email blasts to be sent out on specific days.

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And then I had corresponding social media posts that had the

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same message as the email blast.

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And I said,

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what day it should go out.

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And then I gave them the graphics.

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Cause that obviously is my photos to post that way.

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All they had to do is copy and paste.

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And I was telling them the date to,

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to publish everything that way it would work well for when

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I would be doing everything with the calendar contest.

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And I said,

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you can adapt this if you want to.

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And you don't have to do those,

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but it really helped me.

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And they all did it.

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Yeah. That's definitely key too,

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is making it easy.

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Anytime you're bringing on any sort of partner,

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make it easy for them to help you by getting everything

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done. So they really just have to copy and paste and

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can adjust it to Yeah.

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And it was a lot of work for me to do

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that, but I don't think I would have gotten the email

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subscribers that I would have gotten.

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I write and I say email subscribers,

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cause it didn't raise a ton of money.

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I raised $2,766

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for the calendar contest.

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Yeah. But I got in one day I got no in

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two, in a 20,

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no in a 40 hour period,

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I got over 150 email subscribers.

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They were interested in the contest.

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Right. And like,

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I couldn't have,

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I couldn't have done that even if I paid for it.

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Right. But these were all people that were really interested in

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what I was doing.

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And it was because of the sponsors because I made it

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easy for them.

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So it was a lot of work for me,

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but it really paid off Well.

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And once you do that work,

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if you're going to do a calendar contest again or do

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something else like that,

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it's, it's all done now.

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So you can rinse and repeat so much more easily.

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That's fantastic.

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So let's go back though a little bit,

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cause you didn't always,

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I mean,

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you started your business seven months ago,

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so what were you doing before that?

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Okay. So before that,

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I worked as a marketing consultant for 18 months and that

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is because before that I was working in education,

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but because I had education and marketing my,

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my managers when I was working in education because I was

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working not as a teacher,

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but as a program manager for a large school district,

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my managers recognize what I was doing,

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which was basically community building and email marketing for the people

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that I needed to get in touch with.

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They recognized I was good at marketing.

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I started a marketing blog.

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I started getting my own clients and this is like five

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years ago.

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I started getting my own clients to supplement what I was

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not earning,

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working for a large school district.

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And then that turned into my own marketing business.

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But then fast forward,

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I fast forward a couple of years,

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I was not really happy with the clients that I was

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getting and working as a marketing consultant.

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And I had been using photography as a hobby,

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but a very serious hobby and also kind of how I

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see it as therapy for years to get out of the

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negativity that I saw in my career and what I heard

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from other people saying to me,

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I go out and make beautiful photos of what I saw

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around me.

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And so over the years I was thinking I really enjoy

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the work that I've done as a photographer,

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much more than I've enjoyed as a marketing consultant.

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And so,

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and then also part of my backstory is that in 2017

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and 2018,

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I was rear-ended twice when someone else was driving.

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So I was the passenger in someone else's car.

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And in a seven month period,

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I was rear ended twice and I had three herniated discs.

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And I had in every part of my spine and I

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had sprained my neck and my back,

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my lower back and gotten a concussion twice.

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Well, so all of that led to a lot of pain

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that it was to the point that doctors didn't understand why

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I was still in so much pain.

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That's important because I could not have an office job.

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I had to do something where I could walk around more

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and I was pushed,

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I think,

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into a corner with my career.

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And then how I felt in my body.

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I was like this life,

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I have to find something that brings me joy because if

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I continue doing the way I am being shifted in my

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life, either with working in marketing,

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not liking education anymore,

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being rear-ended being in so much pain,

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I need to make a decision for myself.

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And so what I decided to do,

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and this is at the end of 2019,

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I found so a family friend that gave me the book

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the artist's way.

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And she's like,

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you need this.

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I haven't read that book.

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Which book is that?

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Oh My gosh.

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Okay. It's by Julia Cameron.

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And it is a 12 step course.

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Basically that's a book that teaches you how to peel off

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the layers of the onion that are,

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she calls the monsters in your closet.

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How do you get to your creative core?

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Well, I'm going to buy that right after this podcast interview.

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Oh my gosh.

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Well listening to your podcast,

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I would think that you would be all over that.

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I think.

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Yeah, if you don't really like it.

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Yeah. And so that's what I did at the end of

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2019. I found a group of women that were meeting this

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one woman's apartment and we did it together.

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We'd meet every week and talk about the activities that we

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did and what we thought of the readings.

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And also at that time I had,

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I was finishing up six months of photography education at the

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Austin school of photography.

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Not because I didn't know how to use my camera,

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but honestly,

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because at first I just wanted to meet more people in

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Austin. Cause I hadn't been living here very long.

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So I was like,

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okay, let me take these classes.

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So I finished those classes.

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And then when I did the artist's way,

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what happened at the beginning of reading the book is all

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of the journaling,

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an activity she has.

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You do.

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They're meant to get your monsters out of your closet.

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As she calls them my monsters manifested in the form of

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a series of nightmares.

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Hmm. I normally don't dream.

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But when I was doing that I,

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one week I woke up gasping for air three times,

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like I would sleep at night,

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I'd have these horrible nightmares.

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I wake up in the morning gasping for air and one

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day I was crying.

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Oh Man,

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that's Stressful.

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And yeah.

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Okay. Fast forward though.

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It comes out good because yeah,

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that's why I started his photography,

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the, the trends and the artist's way.

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My trends were dogs and photography always because my nightmares were

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remembering abuse of dogs that I had seen when I was

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younger and I was so powerless to stop it.

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That's honestly why I started dark days photography and I branded

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it as I have.

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I want dogs to be the most beautiful and the most

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joyful in my photos.

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And I want you to get the best wall art possible

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because I want to flip what I had my nightmares about.

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And I,

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I don't say this,

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I don't say this to my clients.

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And I don't tell people this when I'm not working,

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but you got it out of me,

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but yeah.

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And so kind of like taking this roundabout way and going

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in circles and spiraling and,

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and taking zigzags,

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I come to dark photography and I'm so confident about it.

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And this is 2019.

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So this is before I built a portfolio.

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Right. But I was like,

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you know what,

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I'm going to be a doc photographer.

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And then the pandemic happened and I couldn't get any rescues

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to allow me to photograph their dog.

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And so fast forward,

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I got my vaccine at the beginning of 2020.

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I built my portfolio with rescues and then I started my

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business a month later.

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Yeah. I love this.

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There's so many layers here that I just want to touch

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on real quick.

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Number one,

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that you've managed to find success in a market where you

525
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didn't really know a lot of people.

526
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,400
Cause I think that's an excuse.

527
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,570
A lot of people make that like,

528
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,090
oh, well easy for them.

529
00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,560
They know everyone in that market.

530
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,120
They've been there for their whole life.

531
00:22:16,180 --> 00:22:18,100
Okay. Blew that out of the water.

532
00:22:18,370 --> 00:22:19,990
Then the,

533
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,430
that you found I've said this so many times the people

534
00:22:24,430 --> 00:22:26,590
that work from like their true heart's purpose,

535
00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:28,930
like find success no matter what,

536
00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:32,110
because they're working from what they were really meant to be

537
00:22:32,110 --> 00:22:32,860
here to do.

538
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,370
So by you doing that artists way work and like digging

539
00:22:36,370 --> 00:22:37,870
out to your actual,

540
00:22:37,870 --> 00:22:41,530
like true why before you even started your business.

541
00:22:41,950 --> 00:22:42,280
You know,

542
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,510
I think that also adds to the success that you've found

543
00:22:46,660 --> 00:22:47,260
as well.

544
00:22:47,380 --> 00:22:49,120
Now if there's people out there sitting,

545
00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,250
like, I don't know my why,

546
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:51,760
you know,

547
00:22:51,790 --> 00:22:52,660
that's not to say you,

548
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,630
you need to hang up your shingle and not do anything

549
00:22:55,630 --> 00:22:55,990
and be like,

550
00:22:55,990 --> 00:22:56,350
forget it.

551
00:22:56,350 --> 00:22:58,270
I can't be in business because I don't know my why

552
00:22:58,270 --> 00:23:00,640
yet I've done numerous podcasts on this.

553
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,440
Like it changes.

554
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:03,580
It comes out later.

555
00:23:03,580 --> 00:23:04,900
It takes a while to get there.

556
00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:07,330
And how you are saying you Zig and zag and you'd

557
00:23:07,330 --> 00:23:08,560
go all these different places.

558
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,050
Like the things we're about to talk about on this podcast

559
00:23:11,050 --> 00:23:13,390
and no way really seemed like they should be related,

560
00:23:13,390 --> 00:23:14,050
but they all are.

561
00:23:16,090 --> 00:23:21,190
And so all of these different pieces come together to put

562
00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:23,770
you exactly where you need to be with the experience that

563
00:23:23,770 --> 00:23:27,100
you've had to then move on to whatever is next.

564
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:28,960
So anyway,

565
00:23:28,990 --> 00:23:31,360
long story short for all of you guys out there,

566
00:23:31,570 --> 00:23:31,900
you know,

567
00:23:31,900 --> 00:23:32,400
just to,

568
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,260
to keep working from that heart and asking yourself what it

569
00:23:35,260 --> 00:23:36,400
is you want to be doing.

570
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,830
And if you're trapped in a nine to five right now,

571
00:23:38,830 --> 00:23:40,390
and you can't leave because you know,

572
00:23:40,390 --> 00:23:41,980
it pays the bills and your mortgage,

573
00:23:42,220 --> 00:23:44,380
like what can you be doing on the side to start

574
00:23:44,690 --> 00:23:46,490
exploring if you're listening to this,

575
00:23:46,490 --> 00:23:49,130
I'm assuming dog photography is something that you're at least somewhat

576
00:23:49,130 --> 00:23:49,850
interested in.

577
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,430
Like how can you start exploring that or your other passions.

578
00:23:52,940 --> 00:23:54,050
So, oh,

579
00:23:54,230 --> 00:23:54,770
so good.

580
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,310
I think also important if you listen to my story,

581
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,370
I had this idea in 2019.

582
00:24:01,580 --> 00:24:03,260
I didn't have the confidence though.

583
00:24:03,590 --> 00:24:06,680
Right? I didn't have the confidence to say I'm going to

584
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,760
be a dog photographer.

585
00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:11,960
I kept on with my marketing and business and with a

586
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,060
pandemic. It wasn't going well.

587
00:24:14,150 --> 00:24:17,450
Yeah, but what it mean now,

588
00:24:17,930 --> 00:24:22,040
I think what was happening is that I wasn't happy with

589
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:26,990
what I was doing and that energy was showing up in

590
00:24:26,990 --> 00:24:30,800
when I was presenting myself when I was talking to potential

591
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,870
clients and what I was not working.

592
00:24:34,010 --> 00:24:36,440
And before you started recording,

593
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,210
we talked about Joe Dispenza's work.

594
00:24:39,620 --> 00:24:43,700
I don't understand how all of this fits together,

595
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,210
but I've seen it show up in my life.

596
00:24:47,930 --> 00:24:52,170
Is that there in Joe Dispenza researches this in,

597
00:24:52,170 --> 00:24:53,090
in his books,

598
00:24:53,150 --> 00:24:58,700
is that our bodies admit they actually emit a vibration.

599
00:24:59,180 --> 00:25:00,620
Well, I've heard this,

600
00:25:00,620 --> 00:25:01,670
this will blow your mind.

601
00:25:01,940 --> 00:25:03,860
If you took the actual,

602
00:25:03,860 --> 00:25:04,220
you know,

603
00:25:04,220 --> 00:25:09,200
each Adam has a nucleus and a nucleus proton,

604
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,100
nucleus and electrons.

605
00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:14,000
And if so you took the mass of each Adam of

606
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,680
all the people on the planet,

607
00:25:15,770 --> 00:25:17,030
because so much of it's space.

608
00:25:17,030 --> 00:25:17,600
Right. And like,

609
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:17,750
you know,

610
00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:20,030
the electrons spinning around the nucleus and proton,

611
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,570
if you collapse just the actual mass of all the humans

612
00:25:23,570 --> 00:25:24,170
on the planet,

613
00:25:24,170 --> 00:25:27,650
like 7 billion plus it would be the size of a

614
00:25:27,650 --> 00:25:28,850
sugar cube.

615
00:25:29,220 --> 00:25:31,100
Yeah. So like,

616
00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:31,730
what are we,

617
00:25:31,730 --> 00:25:33,080
we're not actually solid.

618
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:33,650
I mean,

619
00:25:33,650 --> 00:25:34,490
we're kind of solid,

620
00:25:34,490 --> 00:25:35,600
but not really.

621
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,200
So yeah.

622
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,840
There's we could go really deep and like a whole quantum

623
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:39,620
physics rabbit hole.

624
00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:40,130
And you guys,

625
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,150
I know some of you might be like,

626
00:25:41,330 --> 00:25:41,750
all right,

627
00:25:41,750 --> 00:25:42,710
you're getting a little loony.

628
00:25:43,130 --> 00:25:45,230
So it's all based in actual,

629
00:25:45,260 --> 00:25:46,430
like quantum physics,

630
00:25:46,430 --> 00:25:46,940
like they're,

631
00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:51,860
they're discovering more and more scientifically proven things of how all

632
00:25:51,860 --> 00:25:56,510
of these different energies and work together and just that's.

633
00:25:56,510 --> 00:25:56,780
I mean,

634
00:25:56,780 --> 00:26:00,380
that's what we are is our body is constantly moving.

635
00:26:00,380 --> 00:26:01,820
This desk is moving.

636
00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:04,730
This microphone is just a whole bunch of moving electrons.

637
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:05,360
But anyway,

638
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,450
and Joe Dispenza is for those of you guys that don't

639
00:26:09,020 --> 00:26:10,970
know, or haven't heard of him,

640
00:26:10,970 --> 00:26:13,220
he is helped me remember his story.

641
00:26:13,220 --> 00:26:14,720
He's a chiropractor that got,

642
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,010
he got into a really bad accident and basically was told

643
00:26:19,010 --> 00:26:20,030
like, that's it,

644
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:21,980
you're never gonna walk again.

645
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,650
And he like rebuild his spine through his mind.

646
00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:26,780
Yeah. So he was,

647
00:26:27,410 --> 00:26:31,520
he was in a triathlon when he was 23 in 1986

648
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,000
and he had just finished chiropractic school and he basically was

649
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,260
run over by an SUV.

650
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:37,250
It's horrible.

651
00:26:37,250 --> 00:26:38,000
What happens?

652
00:26:38,810 --> 00:26:40,430
And he not.

653
00:26:40,460 --> 00:26:41,450
So I'm,

654
00:26:41,540 --> 00:26:43,290
I'm having problems with three hernia,

655
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,840
Dez. He had six crushed vertebrae.

656
00:26:45,990 --> 00:26:48,780
And so all the best doctors at the time said,

657
00:26:48,780 --> 00:26:51,270
you need to get a Harrington rod placed in your spine.

658
00:26:51,990 --> 00:26:55,830
And he just thought intuitively I would have recommend he's like,

659
00:26:55,860 --> 00:26:58,500
I would have recommended that for my clients,

660
00:26:58,530 --> 00:26:59,730
maybe, but not for me.

661
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:00,630
I don't want that.

662
00:27:00,870 --> 00:27:08,940
He healed his spine completely by visualization and meditation within 12

663
00:27:08,940 --> 00:27:12,480
weeks. And I read this in his first book that I

664
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,680
think the science,

665
00:27:13,830 --> 00:27:14,880
I forget his first book,

666
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,650
but it's a lot of science and,

667
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,280
and he tells a story more fully,

668
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:25,260
but he healed his spine completely within 12 weeks through visualization

669
00:27:25,260 --> 00:27:26,010
and meditation,

670
00:27:26,550 --> 00:27:28,470
not through traditional medicine.

671
00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:29,390
And he said,

672
00:27:29,390 --> 00:27:30,870
the doctors Were all just like,

673
00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:32,310
what, what is Happening here?

674
00:27:32,340 --> 00:27:35,520
Yeah. And so what I learned,

675
00:27:35,580 --> 00:27:41,550
because there is a 10 part docu series on Amazon prime

676
00:27:41,550 --> 00:27:43,080
that he did called rewired.

677
00:27:43,170 --> 00:27:45,300
Oh. And I'm going to get that now,

678
00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:47,670
too In my,

679
00:27:47,730 --> 00:27:50,790
so I got a new chiropractor at the beginning of the

680
00:27:50,790 --> 00:27:52,260
year here in Austin.

681
00:27:52,650 --> 00:27:55,140
Cause I'm moved here from Miami and I,

682
00:27:55,260 --> 00:27:57,480
well, my story is traditional medicine.

683
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,940
Wasn't really working for me and even chiropractors,

684
00:27:59,940 --> 00:28:06,330
like they were regularly frustrated cause they couldn't help me anyways.

685
00:28:06,870 --> 00:28:09,420
My situation with my spine and my never system,

686
00:28:09,450 --> 00:28:11,130
I really needed another chiropractor.

687
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,860
And I found one that was,

688
00:28:14,010 --> 00:28:15,480
has worked really well with me.

689
00:28:15,510 --> 00:28:17,910
But the first day that I met him and I told

690
00:28:17,910 --> 00:28:18,960
him my whole background,

691
00:28:19,110 --> 00:28:22,140
he paused before saying anything.

692
00:28:22,170 --> 00:28:22,920
And he said,

693
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,910
sometimes you just have to believe when you believe you'll get

694
00:28:26,910 --> 00:28:29,400
better or you will any briefly told me,

695
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:30,900
Joe does spends a story,

696
00:28:31,530 --> 00:28:33,600
but he didn't because he heard him speak when he was

697
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:34,620
in chiropractic school.

698
00:28:35,220 --> 00:28:36,630
But he didn't tell me his name.

699
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:37,860
And so,

700
00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:41,430
and it turned out through steps that I took people in

701
00:28:41,430 --> 00:28:42,030
my life.

702
00:28:42,060 --> 00:28:44,610
I had five people recommend her Dispenza in like a two

703
00:28:44,610 --> 00:28:45,360
week period to me.

704
00:28:46,620 --> 00:28:50,220
And it's like the universe screaming at you read it bread.

705
00:28:50,250 --> 00:28:51,210
Yeah, Exactly.

706
00:28:51,810 --> 00:28:55,860
And so the meditations that I've been doing say exactly what

707
00:28:55,860 --> 00:28:57,150
you said about quantum physics.

708
00:28:57,180 --> 00:28:57,930
He says,

709
00:28:58,830 --> 00:29:00,390
go in your mind,

710
00:29:00,390 --> 00:29:02,040
you go into no place,

711
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,320
no time and no space.

712
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:05,640
And, but first you says,

713
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:08,190
imagined space all around you.

714
00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:08,820
Cause he said,

715
00:29:08,820 --> 00:29:11,130
he realized that because he's done.

716
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,390
Like he does research of like tens of thousands.

717
00:29:15,390 --> 00:29:18,030
He has done research on tens of thousands of people doing

718
00:29:18,030 --> 00:29:19,110
his meditations.

719
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,420
And in his in-person workshops,

720
00:29:21,450 --> 00:29:25,260
he hooks them up to this machine.

721
00:29:25,260 --> 00:29:27,930
So he can see their brain frequencies as you're meditating to

722
00:29:27,930 --> 00:29:28,830
his meditation.

723
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,450
And he finds tunes his meditations based on real research.

724
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:34,410
It's amazing.

725
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:35,220
So I was like,

726
00:29:35,250 --> 00:29:37,680
okay, I'm just going to do what Joe Dispenza says.

727
00:29:37,830 --> 00:29:39,690
If he says the dude I'm going to do it and

728
00:29:39,870 --> 00:29:41,070
I wanted to do this.

729
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,760
So I wouldn't be in pain anymore.

730
00:29:42,790 --> 00:29:44,800
What's happened though,

731
00:29:44,860 --> 00:29:47,470
is that now when I do as meditations,

732
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:48,070
my neck,

733
00:29:48,070 --> 00:29:49,270
which is my big problem,

734
00:29:50,260 --> 00:29:51,730
it will adjust itself.

735
00:29:52,210 --> 00:29:54,040
I don't understand how it works,

736
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,820
but I do his meditation and there are like serious meditations,

737
00:29:57,970 --> 00:30:03,010
like an hour and 10 minutes I meditating and it's no

738
00:30:03,010 --> 00:30:04,390
joke of a meditation,

739
00:30:04,540 --> 00:30:06,160
but my S my,

740
00:30:06,190 --> 00:30:12,340
my neck will adjust itself more significantly than any chiropractor or

741
00:30:12,340 --> 00:30:14,260
acupuncturist has been able to do for me.

742
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,010
Wow. And when I look at the dates that I started

743
00:30:18,010 --> 00:30:19,330
getting these big sales,

744
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,400
and I should say any sales,

745
00:30:21,430 --> 00:30:22,600
but when they started coming in,

746
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:22,900
for me,

747
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:25,750
they were big sales that were twice what my,

748
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,610
my sales goal was.

749
00:30:27,820 --> 00:30:32,470
Yeah. It's 10 days after I started the Joe Dispenza meditations.

750
00:30:32,530 --> 00:30:35,530
Yeah. I don't know if that has anything to do with

751
00:30:35,530 --> 00:30:36,310
my business.

752
00:30:36,370 --> 00:30:39,010
If, if Joe Dispenza's meditations have anything to do with my

753
00:30:39,010 --> 00:30:43,180
business, but everything is happening like in just the right time

754
00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:43,750
for me.

755
00:30:44,170 --> 00:30:47,260
Right. Like the fact that five people in one week recommended

756
00:30:47,260 --> 00:30:48,280
Joe Dispenza to me.

757
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,580
And it was like two weeks after my chiropractor was like,

758
00:30:51,580 --> 00:30:55,240
you just have to believe then Amazon prime recommended to me

759
00:30:56,470 --> 00:31:04,360
the law of attraction and the law of attraction by Jerry

760
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,740
and Esther Hicks and then ask,

761
00:31:05,740 --> 00:31:07,660
and it is given by Jerry and Esther Hicks.

762
00:31:08,410 --> 00:31:09,940
And then through them,

763
00:31:10,390 --> 00:31:11,590
through reading those books,

764
00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:12,670
I was like hooked.

765
00:31:12,730 --> 00:31:13,210
I'm like,

766
00:31:13,450 --> 00:31:14,890
I'm going to change my life.

767
00:31:15,070 --> 00:31:16,150
I'm going to do this.

768
00:31:16,930 --> 00:31:19,480
And I had been starting to read those books before or

769
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:25,270
after these big sales before and asking it as given.

770
00:31:25,330 --> 00:31:28,510
Okay. So I think if a lot of people think of

771
00:31:28,510 --> 00:31:29,260
law of attraction,

772
00:31:29,290 --> 00:31:29,800
they think,

773
00:31:29,890 --> 00:31:32,590
oh, I just think happy thoughts and good things will come

774
00:31:32,590 --> 00:31:33,070
to me.

775
00:31:33,430 --> 00:31:34,990
Yeah, no,

776
00:31:35,140 --> 00:31:36,730
it is you,

777
00:31:37,780 --> 00:31:41,920
you manifesting your own good emotions.

778
00:31:41,950 --> 00:31:45,370
You feeling love and joy in your life because what you

779
00:31:45,370 --> 00:31:46,240
want to happen,

780
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,740
you feel like it's already happened.

781
00:31:48,580 --> 00:31:50,110
Yep. That's what they're saying.

782
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:51,640
And asking.

783
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,690
It has given they have,

784
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,730
I think 22 activities that you can do to feel happy

785
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,760
before you've actually got that thing happening.

786
00:32:00,790 --> 00:32:01,480
Right. Right.

787
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,820
So what I did,

788
00:32:04,090 --> 00:32:05,830
and this is before Joe Dispenza,

789
00:32:05,830 --> 00:32:08,650
and this is after going to the chiropractor that said,

790
00:32:08,650 --> 00:32:09,490
you have to believe,

791
00:32:09,490 --> 00:32:11,170
but before I found out Dispenza,

792
00:32:11,950 --> 00:32:16,180
I was doing all the activities in asking it as given,

793
00:32:16,210 --> 00:32:17,110
like it was my job.

794
00:32:18,310 --> 00:32:20,950
So what that looks like in my business,

795
00:32:20,950 --> 00:32:21,400
I was like,

796
00:32:21,430 --> 00:32:23,650
okay, I want to be a working dog photographer.

797
00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:26,710
So I'm going to take,

798
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,250
make photos of dogs as if it's my business.

799
00:32:30,850 --> 00:32:33,820
So what that looked like is I reached out to,

800
00:32:33,850 --> 00:32:36,490
I got two good relationships with two local rescues.

801
00:32:36,580 --> 00:32:43,040
And I was making photos for the foster moms and mostly

802
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:43,520
foster moms,

803
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,400
but some foster dads and I was giving them,

804
00:32:46,430 --> 00:32:48,350
so it was treating them like they were my clients.

805
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,170
And then I was giving them it.

806
00:32:51,170 --> 00:32:53,090
Wasn't giving them in-person sales,

807
00:32:53,090 --> 00:32:55,310
but I was giving them like,

808
00:32:55,340 --> 00:32:57,290
through the best photos to share out.

809
00:32:57,410 --> 00:32:59,390
And then also I,

810
00:32:59,420 --> 00:33:01,700
okay. Because of my back problems,

811
00:33:01,820 --> 00:33:05,210
I shoot only with prime lenses because I don't,

812
00:33:05,390 --> 00:33:06,860
I can't carry the weights.

813
00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:11,090
Right. And I got 1 35 and 180 5.

814
00:33:11,090 --> 00:33:11,720
That's all I had.

815
00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:15,620
And I really wanted to have a super short lens.

816
00:33:16,250 --> 00:33:18,740
And I really wanted to have a super long lens to

817
00:33:18,740 --> 00:33:19,910
get that work.

818
00:33:20,420 --> 00:33:24,110
Right. But my business hadn't been going well,

819
00:33:24,350 --> 00:33:26,150
I didn't feel like I had the cash to buy those

820
00:33:26,150 --> 00:33:31,190
lenses, but I wanted to simulate doing the kind of work

821
00:33:31,190 --> 00:33:32,240
I wanted to do.

822
00:33:32,270 --> 00:33:37,790
So what I did is I ordered the lenses that I

823
00:33:37,790 --> 00:33:39,380
wanted from Amazon prime.

824
00:33:40,490 --> 00:33:44,300
I shot with those lenses and made really fun and very

825
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:47,810
beautiful photos with the lenses I couldn't afford.

826
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:48,920
Then I sent them back.

827
00:33:49,070 --> 00:33:51,740
At least I had in my mind what it was like

828
00:33:51,770 --> 00:33:52,850
working with those lenses.

829
00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:54,740
And that was an,

830
00:33:54,830 --> 00:33:58,640
I was meeting people along the way that were telling me

831
00:33:58,670 --> 00:34:01,100
great things about how I interact with dogs,

832
00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:02,540
the work that I do,

833
00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:04,430
they're telling other people about it.

834
00:34:04,670 --> 00:34:06,350
It didn't bring me tons of clients,

835
00:34:06,380 --> 00:34:08,660
what it does builds up my confidence.

836
00:34:08,660 --> 00:34:10,220
So then when I launched on days,

837
00:34:10,220 --> 00:34:15,770
photography, I'm feeling so capable and I'm feeling so confident that

838
00:34:15,770 --> 00:34:20,570
then when I am in front of the people that could

839
00:34:20,570 --> 00:34:23,840
become my clients and have become my clients through this calendar

840
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,920
contest and the pop-up studio,

841
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,900
the only got one person signing up.

842
00:34:29,990 --> 00:34:35,060
They trusted me enough and they believed in me enough to

843
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,560
want to spend a lot of money with me.

844
00:34:37,850 --> 00:34:40,460
And I think all of that together really helped.

845
00:34:40,950 --> 00:34:45,090
Yeah. I think one thing that people miss when they start

846
00:34:45,090 --> 00:34:45,570
to think,

847
00:34:45,630 --> 00:34:47,130
oh, I've heard of this law of attraction.

848
00:34:47,130 --> 00:34:48,950
I'm just going to sit and visualize and oh,

849
00:34:48,950 --> 00:34:49,920
okay. It's what you said.

850
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,750
Like you just meditate and visualize,

851
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,060
but there's a giant piece missing.

852
00:34:54,060 --> 00:34:55,230
And that's the action.

853
00:34:55,620 --> 00:34:57,900
Like if you're not going to take any action,

854
00:34:57,930 --> 00:34:59,070
nothing's going to happen.

855
00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:01,860
You have to do the action.

856
00:35:01,950 --> 00:35:07,440
And I love the creative ways that you found to get

857
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,460
that feeling.

858
00:35:08,490 --> 00:35:09,720
So I've talked about this too.

859
00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:10,380
When people,

860
00:35:10,380 --> 00:35:10,710
you know,

861
00:35:10,710 --> 00:35:13,800
are talking about like manifesting money or manifesting things,

862
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:14,880
it's really about like,

863
00:35:14,910 --> 00:35:15,270
all right,

864
00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:17,460
if you manifest how you're feeling,

865
00:35:17,820 --> 00:35:19,320
this is quantum physics,

866
00:35:19,350 --> 00:35:21,270
proven guys like attracts.

867
00:35:21,270 --> 00:35:23,190
Like, so if you are,

868
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,090
you know,

869
00:35:24,330 --> 00:35:25,950
feeling good and happy,

870
00:35:25,950 --> 00:35:28,080
and it doesn't mean that bad things don't happen or that

871
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,480
you have a down day or you have moments like we're

872
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,010
all human that still happens.

873
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,930
But if you are able to find joy and gratitude and

874
00:35:36,990 --> 00:35:38,370
all of the things,

875
00:35:38,670 --> 00:35:39,930
then more of that comes,

876
00:35:39,930 --> 00:35:41,910
it's the same reason why you like wake up late in

877
00:35:41,910 --> 00:35:43,440
the morning and then there's traffic,

878
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,610
and then you stub your toe.

879
00:35:44,610 --> 00:35:47,550
And this one happens because you've gotten into that negative energy

880
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,460
and it just keeps on piling on quantum physics.

881
00:35:50,460 --> 00:35:50,820
It's like,

882
00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:51,720
oh, that's what you want.

883
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:52,380
And here comes,

884
00:35:53,340 --> 00:35:53,910
buckle up.

885
00:35:54,180 --> 00:35:55,650
Exactly. Exactly.

886
00:35:55,650 --> 00:35:56,430
Yeah. Yeah.

887
00:35:56,430 --> 00:35:58,080
And I think for me the big piece,

888
00:35:58,140 --> 00:36:03,300
it wasn't the action because I have been so proud of

889
00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:05,010
myself, my entire life we're doing,

890
00:36:05,010 --> 00:36:05,490
doing, doing,

891
00:36:05,490 --> 00:36:06,030
doing, doing,

892
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,030
and people have been telling me along the way,

893
00:36:09,030 --> 00:36:10,590
like, you just need to calm down.

894
00:36:10,590 --> 00:36:11,820
You need to not do so much.

895
00:36:11,850 --> 00:36:12,420
But I was like,

896
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,590
how do I build a business?

897
00:36:13,590 --> 00:36:16,020
But I don't do I need to listen to this.

898
00:36:18,060 --> 00:36:20,490
Okay. So I think with that,

899
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,050
with the message should have been,

900
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,690
was that I need to feel more peace and joy in

901
00:36:24,690 --> 00:36:28,170
everything that I'm doing and listening to your podcast.

902
00:36:28,170 --> 00:36:29,550
Nicole, I think you got it.

903
00:36:30,270 --> 00:36:32,010
I hear you laughing so much.

904
00:36:32,010 --> 00:36:33,210
And I hear you so joyful.

905
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,010
I notice I got a lot of peace and joy in

906
00:36:35,010 --> 00:36:35,340
my life.

907
00:36:35,490 --> 00:36:35,910
I just,

908
00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:38,640
I just look at my to-do list and it's always very

909
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,410
long. No,

910
00:36:40,410 --> 00:36:42,150
but one other point I wanted to make too,

911
00:36:42,150 --> 00:36:43,050
which I started to make.

912
00:36:43,050 --> 00:36:45,480
And then I went off on a tangent was when you

913
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,840
were buying the lens from Amazon prime shoot with it and

914
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:49,470
go back,

915
00:36:49,950 --> 00:36:56,160
like you were able to like lock in that actual feeling

916
00:36:56,610 --> 00:36:58,320
so that you could refer back to it.

917
00:36:58,350 --> 00:36:59,490
Like, for instance,

918
00:36:59,820 --> 00:37:02,130
when you're trying to feel better or like,

919
00:37:02,130 --> 00:37:02,370
you know,

920
00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:03,150
they say like,

921
00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:04,800
oh, test drive an expensive car.

922
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,000
If you want to have that car.

923
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,320
But for some people,

924
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:09,690
like if they would go to the car dealership and sit

925
00:37:09,690 --> 00:37:10,470
in that car,

926
00:37:10,710 --> 00:37:15,840
it might make them feel like worse that they can't afford

927
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,020
that car where other people might actually sit in and be

928
00:37:19,020 --> 00:37:20,130
like, oh yeah,

929
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,600
I can see this in my life.

930
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,020
So it's all about finding the things that work for you

931
00:37:25,050 --> 00:37:29,520
that make you feel abundant and gratitude and all of the

932
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:30,870
things. Exactly.

933
00:37:31,230 --> 00:37:34,770
So, and this is back in like 20 15,

934
00:37:32,910 --> 00:37:34,770
20 16,

935
00:37:35,010 --> 00:37:38,280
a friend of a friend had gotten a lot of success

936
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:39,210
in her business.

937
00:37:39,810 --> 00:37:43,740
And she referred me to this book that I forget what

938
00:37:43,740 --> 00:37:44,160
it's called,

939
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,460
but it was basically all these actions to take.

940
00:37:47,490 --> 00:37:49,740
So you can manifest what you want in your life.

941
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,870
And I did all the things that you were supposed to

942
00:37:51,870 --> 00:37:57,450
do, the visualization and the thinking basically visualization and the Jordan

943
00:37:56,700 --> 00:38:02,340
Lane. But I didn't get from that book that I needed

944
00:38:02,340 --> 00:38:05,730
to feel how I want it to feel right.

945
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,410
Got exactly what I wanted,

946
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,580
but I hated it.

947
00:38:10,380 --> 00:38:15,660
Right. And so I think now coming to law of attraction

948
00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:19,440
and learning so much about quantum physics and all the resources

949
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,970
that I have found this year,

950
00:38:21,150 --> 00:38:23,820
I realized the most important thing is how you feel.

951
00:38:25,260 --> 00:38:28,830
So, and I think that goes along with branding for a

952
00:38:28,830 --> 00:38:33,810
business, you can listen to what someone else says that you

953
00:38:33,810 --> 00:38:37,150
should do to brand yourself or to brand your business.

954
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:40,240
But if it doesn't feel right for you,

955
00:38:41,020 --> 00:38:42,460
okay. And as I say that,

956
00:38:42,460 --> 00:38:45,310
I realize a lot of people say that for me.

957
00:38:45,730 --> 00:38:48,610
And, and this is another piece to my story.

958
00:38:48,670 --> 00:38:53,010
And I didn't realize this about myself until last year.

959
00:38:53,020 --> 00:38:55,600
So I was 42 when I realized this about myself,

960
00:38:55,630 --> 00:38:56,800
is that I'm an empath.

961
00:38:56,950 --> 00:39:02,800
So I'm so sensitive that I feel other people's emotions when

962
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:03,700
they're feeling it too.

963
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,890
And I'm saying this because I'm finding that in the people

964
00:39:08,890 --> 00:39:11,260
I talked to in the hair of the dog community,

965
00:39:11,590 --> 00:39:14,770
and then other other pet photographers that I talked to in

966
00:39:14,770 --> 00:39:19,390
person, I think that a lot of them might be impassed,

967
00:39:19,390 --> 00:39:20,680
you're your highly sensitive people too,

968
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,400
but not know it.

969
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,540
And I found so much value in knowing that this happens

970
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:25,990
with me.

971
00:39:27,490 --> 00:39:29,770
So now that I know that I'm an empath,

972
00:39:29,950 --> 00:39:34,210
I know strategies to use to actually realize what I am

973
00:39:34,210 --> 00:39:36,610
feeling and not what someone else is feeling.

974
00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:41,560
So that's another reason why meditating has been so helpful for

975
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,920
me, because I can clear out all of the thoughts and

976
00:39:45,070 --> 00:39:49,720
calm what Joe Dispenza will talk talks about is my analytical

977
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:54,040
minds. And I shut off the beta brainwaves in my mind,

978
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,570
get into alpha and feta.

979
00:39:55,600 --> 00:40:01,030
So I'm vibrating on a much not calmer level.

980
00:40:01,420 --> 00:40:04,060
Right. That's when I come out of that and I feel

981
00:40:04,060 --> 00:40:04,780
like myself,

982
00:40:05,230 --> 00:40:08,860
I don't feel like someone else felt that I talked to

983
00:40:08,860 --> 00:40:09,670
the night before.

984
00:40:10,420 --> 00:40:11,380
And I think that's it.

985
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,570
That was like a huge jump for me.

986
00:40:13,750 --> 00:40:15,760
So it was yeah,

987
00:40:15,790 --> 00:40:19,180
like realizing what felt good for me and reading these books,

988
00:40:19,180 --> 00:40:25,000
but also knowing these things about myself that I recently read

989
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,650
a book by Anita Moorjani.

990
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,410
She recently came out with sensitive as the new strong,

991
00:40:29,890 --> 00:40:31,360
and she says,

992
00:40:31,690 --> 00:40:35,320
her story is that she had a near-death experience.

993
00:40:35,380 --> 00:40:39,340
Her body was ravaged by cancer and she basically died for

994
00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:42,130
30 hours and then came back to life as a new

995
00:40:42,130 --> 00:40:43,840
person. Wow.

996
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:44,980
Yeah. And,

997
00:40:45,130 --> 00:40:48,850
okay. So if anyone is listening and thinking that they weren't

998
00:40:48,850 --> 00:40:50,260
to check out these resources,

999
00:40:50,260 --> 00:40:52,780
that I'm mentioning that they don't have a whole lot of

1000
00:40:52,780 --> 00:40:56,860
time. What I recommend is check out the heal documentary,

1001
00:40:56,890 --> 00:40:58,810
which is available on Netflix.

1002
00:40:59,350 --> 00:41:02,590
They have both Anita Moorjani and Dr.

1003
00:41:02,590 --> 00:41:04,330
Joe Dispenza on it.

1004
00:41:05,950 --> 00:41:10,600
And then also I think what is important with Anita Moorjani

1005
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:11,170
his work?

1006
00:41:11,230 --> 00:41:14,950
Is that in why I'm talking about me being an empath

1007
00:41:15,100 --> 00:41:19,660
now is because if you don't realize who you are,

1008
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:21,000
well, if,

1009
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,780
if your psychology and how your body is built is not

1010
00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:28,210
like most of the population out there,

1011
00:41:28,630 --> 00:41:31,960
then it's going to be harder to learn these things about

1012
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:36,350
you and Nita Moorjani didn't realize she was an empath until

1013
00:41:36,890 --> 00:41:38,600
she had her near death experience.

1014
00:41:38,690 --> 00:41:42,380
And then her life went on a totally different course than

1015
00:41:42,380 --> 00:41:43,250
it had been going.

1016
00:41:44,090 --> 00:41:47,450
And then she basically had an intuitive healer tell her that

1017
00:41:47,450 --> 00:41:48,140
she's different.

1018
00:41:48,140 --> 00:41:49,010
She's an empath.

1019
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,350
She's meant to do something greater in her life.

1020
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:58,910
I learned about it because I hired a branding consultant to

1021
00:41:58,940 --> 00:42:00,860
help me with my marketing business.

1022
00:42:01,430 --> 00:42:05,630
And she ran my human design and she came,

1023
00:42:05,660 --> 00:42:09,530
she gave me back a 30 page report telling me all

1024
00:42:09,530 --> 00:42:11,600
about my human design and how I can use it in

1025
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,460
my business and in my life.

1026
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:14,570
And she said,

1027
00:42:14,570 --> 00:42:15,350
I'm an empath.

1028
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:16,430
And I was like,

1029
00:42:16,910 --> 00:42:17,810
what does that mean?

1030
00:42:18,470 --> 00:42:19,690
This is All news to me.

1031
00:42:20,060 --> 00:42:24,320
So I started Googling and then I've found the book,

1032
00:42:24,350 --> 00:42:26,870
the empath survival guide by Judith Orloff.

1033
00:42:27,230 --> 00:42:28,970
And in that book,

1034
00:42:28,970 --> 00:42:31,730
she has like seven different quizzes.

1035
00:42:31,730 --> 00:42:34,220
You can take to figure out if you're certain kinds of

1036
00:42:34,220 --> 00:42:37,460
empath. And I was on a path I'm like six out

1037
00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:38,180
of the seven.

1038
00:42:38,870 --> 00:42:41,780
So that's why now I know I'm an empath and I

1039
00:42:41,780 --> 00:42:44,510
absorb other people's energy and feelings.

1040
00:42:44,630 --> 00:42:46,640
And I feel them as if they're my own.

1041
00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:50,210
And I won't realize it until I know that happens.

1042
00:42:51,050 --> 00:42:55,670
Right. So that's why one reason why meditation is so important

1043
00:42:55,670 --> 00:42:56,360
for me.

1044
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,970
And I don't know if I said this before,

1045
00:42:58,970 --> 00:43:00,230
but I'm saying this here,

1046
00:43:00,230 --> 00:43:04,010
because I really think that a lot of people that work

1047
00:43:04,250 --> 00:43:06,320
in the pet photography,

1048
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:07,550
animal photography industry,

1049
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:09,200
I think you are too.

1050
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,840
And I don't want to tell you who you are,

1051
00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:15,290
but if you think it sounds like you have people tell

1052
00:43:15,290 --> 00:43:15,840
you that you're,

1053
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,620
you're so sensitive all the time and you just need to

1054
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:19,610
get stronger and,

1055
00:43:19,610 --> 00:43:21,080
and, and grow thicker skin.

1056
00:43:22,370 --> 00:43:26,210
No, it's probably the best thing that you have is that

1057
00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:29,360
you might be an empath and it probably is,

1058
00:43:29,570 --> 00:43:31,670
is, is a way that you can connect more shine,

1059
00:43:31,670 --> 00:43:32,330
live with animals.

1060
00:43:32,330 --> 00:43:33,620
And it's an amazing thing,

1061
00:43:34,250 --> 00:43:35,330
not something Awesome.

1062
00:43:36,050 --> 00:43:37,130
So if you,

1063
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,020
I don't think I'm an empath.

1064
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,090
So what,

1065
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,220
like, what are some things that,

1066
00:43:43,630 --> 00:43:44,450
that you would,

1067
00:43:44,450 --> 00:43:44,990
if you like,

1068
00:43:44,990 --> 00:43:45,560
if I,

1069
00:43:46,130 --> 00:43:47,120
as a pet photographer,

1070
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,800
that is an empath that doesn't know it yet.

1071
00:43:49,340 --> 00:43:52,010
Like, is there certain things of,

1072
00:43:52,070 --> 00:43:52,310
you know,

1073
00:43:52,310 --> 00:43:54,950
cause I see a lot of my students that get,

1074
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:55,760
you know,

1075
00:43:55,790 --> 00:43:58,850
really down on themselves or if somebody is,

1076
00:43:58,850 --> 00:43:59,210
you know,

1077
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:01,040
oh, you're too expensive or,

1078
00:44:01,220 --> 00:44:01,790
you know,

1079
00:44:03,050 --> 00:44:05,630
whatever, all the normal things that happen in business,

1080
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:06,530
you know,

1081
00:44:06,530 --> 00:44:07,700
is there,

1082
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:08,990
cause that,

1083
00:44:08,990 --> 00:44:10,040
that kind of hurts all of us,

1084
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:10,190
you know,

1085
00:44:10,220 --> 00:44:11,810
even when I still get somebody that's like,

1086
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,280
oh, it's too expensive for a minute.

1087
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:13,550
I'm like,

1088
00:44:13,580 --> 00:44:14,990
oh, maybe I should lower my prices.

1089
00:44:15,470 --> 00:44:15,800
You know,

1090
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,180
like I start to question myself,

1091
00:44:17,390 --> 00:44:19,790
but I think some people would take that much more sensitively.

1092
00:44:19,790 --> 00:44:22,040
Is that something that could mean that you're,

1093
00:44:22,190 --> 00:44:22,490
you know,

1094
00:44:22,490 --> 00:44:26,570
more empath or is it also just like when somebody around

1095
00:44:26,570 --> 00:44:27,260
you is having,

1096
00:44:27,290 --> 00:44:27,590
you know,

1097
00:44:27,590 --> 00:44:29,810
really sad or really angry or,

1098
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:30,080
you know,

1099
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,650
you're pulling in that energy kind Of,

1100
00:44:31,650 --> 00:44:33,360
what, what does it feel like?

1101
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,260
So I'm going to take the scale that I heard in

1102
00:44:37,260 --> 00:44:40,380
Nina. Murjani say in a podcast the other day is she

1103
00:44:40,380 --> 00:44:41,850
says at one scale,

1104
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,080
at one side of the scale,

1105
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,780
you have the sociopath only thinking of themselves and they don't

1106
00:44:45,780 --> 00:44:48,270
have anyone else and they don't care what anyone else thinks.

1107
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:49,530
And then the other side,

1108
00:44:49,530 --> 00:44:53,730
you have full bone and paths that they feel what other

1109
00:44:53,730 --> 00:44:55,260
people think so strongly.

1110
00:44:55,290 --> 00:44:56,760
They don't even know what they think.

1111
00:44:57,630 --> 00:45:01,680
Gotcha. So if you think that sociopaths are very much for

1112
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,470
themselves and do nothing for anyone else,

1113
00:45:04,470 --> 00:45:07,410
the AMPATH at the full-blown empath at the other end of

1114
00:45:07,410 --> 00:45:12,300
the spectrum will do everything for everybody else.

1115
00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:15,340
They are complete people-pleasers and what she calls,

1116
00:45:15,340 --> 00:45:21,180
those are doormats and looking back a lot.

1117
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:22,740
And this is my story.

1118
00:45:22,770 --> 00:45:23,310
Looking back,

1119
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,250
a lot of what I did was to please other people

1120
00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:29,790
to show other people I was good enough or to make

1121
00:45:29,790 --> 00:45:30,900
other people happy.

1122
00:45:31,530 --> 00:45:37,080
And so I think signs that you might be one is

1123
00:45:37,140 --> 00:45:40,110
if, if you feel it in your heart,

1124
00:45:40,140 --> 00:45:41,070
like if you feel bad,

1125
00:45:41,070 --> 00:45:42,690
if someone says you're too expensive,

1126
00:45:42,780 --> 00:45:43,410
it hurts.

1127
00:45:43,410 --> 00:45:44,280
You physically,

1128
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:49,890
you feel a visceral reaction to words and maybe it keeps

1129
00:45:49,890 --> 00:45:52,350
you up at night or maybe you wake up early in

1130
00:45:52,350 --> 00:45:53,040
the morning.

1131
00:45:54,090 --> 00:45:56,490
That's how I then experiencing it.

1132
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,380
And that's also how I hear a native Murjani talk about

1133
00:46:01,380 --> 00:46:06,510
it. And so I think the way I've been able to

1134
00:46:06,510 --> 00:46:09,150
kind of not get over it,

1135
00:46:09,210 --> 00:46:11,340
but it took me about a year or year and a

1136
00:46:11,340 --> 00:46:15,870
half to figure out what do I do with my highly

1137
00:46:15,870 --> 00:46:18,270
sensitive empathic qualities?

1138
00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:23,250
Yeah. It will be a superpower and not something that means

1139
00:46:23,370 --> 00:46:24,960
I'm a weak person.

1140
00:46:26,310 --> 00:46:29,040
Right. And so what I do in dog days,

1141
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:33,750
photography is one thing that I do is I,

1142
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,780
and I think probably a lot of DOD photographers and pet

1143
00:46:36,780 --> 00:46:37,740
photographers do this,

1144
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,780
you read the animal,

1145
00:46:40,590 --> 00:46:43,110
you don't do the,

1146
00:46:43,250 --> 00:46:46,260
you don't make the photo if the animal's not completely comfortable.

1147
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:50,220
Yeah. And then I don't place the animal places.

1148
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:51,060
I get them.

1149
00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:53,580
And I talked to the,

1150
00:46:53,850 --> 00:46:54,720
I don't even call them on our,

1151
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:55,650
I call them the human,

1152
00:46:57,060 --> 00:46:59,700
the human with a dog.

1153
00:46:59,970 --> 00:47:04,410
I get them to coax the dog with treats and with

1154
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,130
loving expressions and with their voice.

1155
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,220
So the dog wants to do something and not making the

1156
00:47:11,220 --> 00:47:12,240
dog do something.

1157
00:47:12,630 --> 00:47:16,260
And I think another part of that is me being in

1158
00:47:16,260 --> 00:47:18,150
a grounded state and thinking,

1159
00:47:18,690 --> 00:47:21,000
how can I have my business serve a greater good?

1160
00:47:21,510 --> 00:47:23,010
So I mean,

1161
00:47:23,790 --> 00:47:26,610
an awesome example of that is what you're doing with the

1162
00:47:26,610 --> 00:47:29,010
hair of the dog conservation foundation.

1163
00:47:29,770 --> 00:47:32,680
Yeah. I'm so not there yet.

1164
00:47:33,250 --> 00:47:34,780
So what I did,

1165
00:47:36,130 --> 00:47:39,340
So with the donating a certain percentage to different charities,

1166
00:47:40,450 --> 00:47:41,110
that's definitely.

1167
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:46,420
Yeah. So instead of doing any kind of lead generation on

1168
00:47:46,420 --> 00:47:47,170
Facebook eyes,

1169
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,160
I'm doing,

1170
00:47:48,460 --> 00:47:50,150
I did the calendar contest and now,

1171
00:47:50,170 --> 00:47:51,790
and doing something very similar,

1172
00:47:51,820 --> 00:47:53,080
but instead of doing a calendar,

1173
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,630
it's a book that I'm going to launch in a couple

1174
00:47:55,630 --> 00:47:56,170
of weeks.

1175
00:47:56,860 --> 00:47:59,410
And then I built into my price.

1176
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,480
My prices are kind of high,

1177
00:48:03,490 --> 00:48:08,290
but that's because it's five times of cost of goods sold.

1178
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,620
5% of that goes to charity.

1179
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,010
And so that makes me more confident.

1180
00:48:15,340 --> 00:48:17,230
So an I can say,

1181
00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:21,430
yeah, my prices are high because I give back this much.

1182
00:48:21,460 --> 00:48:22,230
Right. But,

1183
00:48:22,230 --> 00:48:26,350
but because I've found this strength in my qualities,

1184
00:48:27,250 --> 00:48:28,900
I don't feel like I have to explain this to my

1185
00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:33,040
clients. I don't have to explain my business decisions to my

1186
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,200
clients and like why I charge what I charge.

1187
00:48:35,350 --> 00:48:36,640
If they don't want to pay my prices,

1188
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:37,330
they don't have to,

1189
00:48:37,330 --> 00:48:40,240
but also what I do and I did.

1190
00:48:40,330 --> 00:48:44,410
So I was in the hair of the dog academy for

1191
00:48:44,530 --> 00:48:45,130
two months.

1192
00:48:45,130 --> 00:48:46,150
At the beginning of the year,

1193
00:48:47,020 --> 00:48:50,380
I did laser focus like I did,

1194
00:48:50,770 --> 00:48:53,170
I think just about everything I wanted to in two months.

1195
00:48:54,670 --> 00:49:00,010
And I really appreciate the different pricing packages that you showed

1196
00:49:00,010 --> 00:49:01,270
that you do with your business.

1197
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,380
And I tried everything out to see how it felt with

1198
00:49:05,380 --> 00:49:06,250
me. Right.

1199
00:49:06,430 --> 00:49:08,740
What I really like is how you set up the,

1200
00:49:08,740 --> 00:49:09,730
the Allah cart.

1201
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,230
So I only do a LA carte.

1202
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,370
Yep. And how most people are coming to me is the

1203
00:49:15,460 --> 00:49:19,450
session fee goes to a charity and then they only buy

1204
00:49:19,450 --> 00:49:20,050
what they want.

1205
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,020
And so you can buy one print or they can spend

1206
00:49:23,170 --> 00:49:28,450
$4,000 on one framed piece of 8,002.

1207
00:49:29,770 --> 00:49:32,710
So I see it as I turned my empathy into compassion.

1208
00:49:33,670 --> 00:49:36,430
So that's my compassion coming through in my business where the

1209
00:49:36,430 --> 00:49:38,140
charities then also for my clients.

1210
00:49:38,140 --> 00:49:41,680
So I don't pressure them to buy more with packages.

1211
00:49:41,710 --> 00:49:43,210
If you want to buy one print.

1212
00:49:43,660 --> 00:49:44,440
If I make,

1213
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,670
if I spend an hour photographing your dog and then I'll

1214
00:49:48,670 --> 00:49:51,670
retouched 25 photos for you and I present them to you

1215
00:49:52,180 --> 00:49:53,290
and you went to buy one print,

1216
00:49:53,290 --> 00:49:53,950
that's fine.

1217
00:49:54,310 --> 00:49:56,410
Yeah. Because it makes me feel good.

1218
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:57,760
Right. Right.

1219
00:49:57,790 --> 00:49:58,360
And you know,

1220
00:49:58,360 --> 00:49:58,900
this all,

1221
00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:01,920
again goes back to which we've talked about numerous times when

1222
00:50:01,930 --> 00:50:05,650
I have the podcast with Heather of finding the awareness is

1223
00:50:05,650 --> 00:50:06,340
like the hardest,

1224
00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:09,190
first step is figuring out like,

1225
00:50:09,250 --> 00:50:11,500
oh, I am an empath or,

1226
00:50:11,530 --> 00:50:13,150
oh, this is going on,

1227
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:14,060
whatever it is,

1228
00:50:14,060 --> 00:50:15,070
it's shining the light on that.

1229
00:50:15,070 --> 00:50:15,730
And then it's like,

1230
00:50:16,090 --> 00:50:17,260
then you can start to figure out,

1231
00:50:17,260 --> 00:50:17,500
all right,

1232
00:50:17,530 --> 00:50:19,360
now, now that I know this,

1233
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:20,260
what do I do with it?

1234
00:50:20,470 --> 00:50:21,910
How do I harness this?

1235
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:23,410
And I love,

1236
00:50:23,410 --> 00:50:24,520
I love that scale.

1237
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,890
I hadn't heard that scale way to describe.

1238
00:50:27,590 --> 00:50:28,520
So I think that's really,

1239
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:29,030
really great.

1240
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:35,090
And I think this all kind of sums up in how

1241
00:50:35,090 --> 00:50:36,110
important it is.

1242
00:50:36,620 --> 00:50:38,060
Well, actually let me say it another way.

1243
00:50:38,780 --> 00:50:41,420
I see this happen a lot of times where I see

1244
00:50:41,810 --> 00:50:44,750
students that have similar markets,

1245
00:50:44,930 --> 00:50:46,100
similar skills,

1246
00:50:46,190 --> 00:50:47,450
similar branding,

1247
00:50:47,630 --> 00:50:49,760
similar marketing plans,

1248
00:50:49,820 --> 00:50:50,960
similar pricing,

1249
00:50:51,590 --> 00:50:52,730
one's very successful.

1250
00:50:52,730 --> 00:50:53,630
And one struggles.

1251
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,040
And it's so hard because often they're like,

1252
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,330
what do I need to do?

1253
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:00,770
Tell me what to do.

1254
00:51:01,340 --> 00:51:02,540
What do I do?

1255
00:51:03,020 --> 00:51:04,610
But it's not about what we do.

1256
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:09,890
It's about who we're being and what goes on between the

1257
00:51:09,890 --> 00:51:14,840
ears and what stories we're telling ourselves and what we believe

1258
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:16,010
is possible for us.

1259
00:51:16,220 --> 00:51:18,320
Because if we don't believe that it's possible to sell an

1260
00:51:18,350 --> 00:51:22,250
$8,000 sale for two beautiful graphic framed pieces,

1261
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:23,570
then you're never going to sell it.

1262
00:51:23,660 --> 00:51:24,890
So, Yeah,

1263
00:51:24,890 --> 00:51:25,970
I completely agree with that.

1264
00:51:26,030 --> 00:51:27,500
And that was me for a long time.

1265
00:51:27,530 --> 00:51:27,950
I was like,

1266
00:51:27,950 --> 00:51:28,730
just tell me the steps.

1267
00:51:28,730 --> 00:51:29,270
I'll do it.

1268
00:51:29,450 --> 00:51:30,230
And I was doing,

1269
00:51:30,230 --> 00:51:30,740
doing, doing,

1270
00:51:30,740 --> 00:51:31,430
doing, doing,

1271
00:51:32,150 --> 00:51:35,450
and nothing happened for me and,

1272
00:51:35,930 --> 00:51:37,850
and people that were in my mastermind groups.

1273
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,850
They couldn't understand it either because everything looked good.

1274
00:51:41,150 --> 00:51:46,730
Right. But then I abandoned my marketing business and I did

1275
00:51:46,730 --> 00:51:50,000
what brought me the most joy and became a doll photographer

1276
00:51:50,060 --> 00:51:51,680
that was branded as high-end.

1277
00:51:51,980 --> 00:51:52,970
And so,

1278
00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:59,000
and I think so another piece is that I realized that

1279
00:51:59,150 --> 00:52:00,410
with how's sensitive,

1280
00:52:00,410 --> 00:52:04,880
I am and how I wanted to use my feelings to

1281
00:52:04,910 --> 00:52:07,490
get where I wanted to get in my life with my

1282
00:52:07,490 --> 00:52:08,750
health and my business.

1283
00:52:09,530 --> 00:52:12,380
I didn't need any negative influences.

1284
00:52:12,950 --> 00:52:13,760
So I don't know,

1285
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,680
maybe this is something else someone can do.

1286
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,940
Yeah. I stopped listening to all news.

1287
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:20,780
Well, that,

1288
00:52:20,810 --> 00:52:23,360
that helps get rid of quite a few negative influences off

1289
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:23,750
the bat.

1290
00:52:23,780 --> 00:52:24,410
That's for sure.

1291
00:52:25,250 --> 00:52:25,880
I got off.

1292
00:52:25,940 --> 00:52:27,500
I stopped listening to all news,

1293
00:52:27,620 --> 00:52:30,170
no educational podcasts and,

1294
00:52:31,430 --> 00:52:32,540
and social media.

1295
00:52:32,540 --> 00:52:35,450
I took all social media off my phone and I tried

1296
00:52:35,450 --> 00:52:36,500
not to get on Facebook.

1297
00:52:36,650 --> 00:52:36,890
I mean,

1298
00:52:36,890 --> 00:52:37,670
I still get on Facebook,

1299
00:52:37,670 --> 00:52:38,480
but I tried not to.

1300
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,880
Oh. And then I also unfollowed everybody on Facebook.

1301
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,430
So I only see groups on Facebook now.

1302
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:53,180
So I put myself in a bubble to where I was

1303
00:52:53,180 --> 00:52:56,480
more easily able to feel good about my life.

1304
00:52:57,650 --> 00:52:58,490
Not because,

1305
00:52:58,910 --> 00:53:00,560
and that might be something.

1306
00:53:00,740 --> 00:53:01,400
And I don't know,

1307
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:05,450
maybe you can do that and you'll find your joy more

1308
00:53:05,450 --> 00:53:09,290
easily. And then you'll find what you should do with your

1309
00:53:09,290 --> 00:53:10,280
business. But,

1310
00:53:11,450 --> 00:53:12,950
and people say this all the time.

1311
00:53:12,980 --> 00:53:13,790
I think Alex,

1312
00:53:14,060 --> 00:53:16,010
Alex Kern said this in the,

1313
00:53:16,030 --> 00:53:16,700
in the summit,

1314
00:53:17,330 --> 00:53:18,170
don't do,

1315
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:19,220
don't look at the competition.

1316
00:53:19,250 --> 00:53:20,510
Don't do what they're doing.

1317
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:21,950
And I,

1318
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,590
I didn't look at anybody in my market.

1319
00:53:26,190 --> 00:53:27,690
I have since done that.

1320
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:30,870
And I realized there's 30 other darn photographers in my city,

1321
00:53:31,950 --> 00:53:33,330
but I was just,

1322
00:53:33,570 --> 00:53:37,020
I was doing me and I wasn't looking at anybody now,

1323
00:53:37,620 --> 00:53:40,380
now that I'm more confident in what I do.

1324
00:53:41,130 --> 00:53:42,510
I have,

1325
00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:46,200
I've met up with a couple of them and we're supporting

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00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:46,830
each other.

1327
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:48,130
That's great.

1328
00:53:48,130 --> 00:53:48,790
Yeah. Yep.

1329
00:53:49,270 --> 00:53:50,320
Yeah. And you know,

1330
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,340
and that comes down to as well that you're finding relationships

1331
00:53:54,340 --> 00:53:55,630
that build you up.

1332
00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:56,410
You know,

1333
00:53:56,590 --> 00:53:58,030
like if you reached out,

1334
00:53:58,060 --> 00:54:00,760
hopefully no one that listens to this or is inherit the

1335
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,070
dog, somebody would reach out and not be nice to a

1336
00:54:03,070 --> 00:54:06,700
fellow dog photographer because we all help each other build community.

1337
00:54:07,060 --> 00:54:09,340
But if you were to find that case,

1338
00:54:09,370 --> 00:54:11,710
you reach out to someone and they're not responsive then.

1339
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,860
Okay. You don't have to make it mean anything about you.

1340
00:54:14,860 --> 00:54:17,530
It's just their perspective and you choose,

1341
00:54:17,530 --> 00:54:18,580
okay, we're just,

1342
00:54:18,670 --> 00:54:20,140
I'm going to focus my energy here.

1343
00:54:20,140 --> 00:54:24,070
So it's all about being protective of our time,

1344
00:54:24,100 --> 00:54:24,760
our energy,

1345
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:25,480
our focus,

1346
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:26,590
our influences.

1347
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:28,660
I think that is so critical.

1348
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,060
That's something everybody should just take a,

1349
00:54:31,090 --> 00:54:35,950
an audit of and see where it is that you are

1350
00:54:35,980 --> 00:54:37,120
giving your attention.

1351
00:54:37,570 --> 00:54:43,360
And, and really one of the ways to start noticing it's

1352
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,400
really just starting to take notice.

1353
00:54:45,430 --> 00:54:48,160
Maybe you have something on like a key chain or a

1354
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,020
bracelet that like means that you'd like,

1355
00:54:50,050 --> 00:54:51,880
whenever I see this or touch it or,

1356
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:52,330
you know,

1357
00:54:52,330 --> 00:54:53,950
have something that you see regularly,

1358
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,310
that can be a cue for you to ask yourself,

1359
00:54:57,310 --> 00:54:58,060
how am I feeling?

1360
00:54:58,270 --> 00:54:59,560
Oh, that's A really good idea.

1361
00:54:59,980 --> 00:55:01,150
Yeah. You can just like,

1362
00:55:01,180 --> 00:55:03,790
because these scripts are going on in our hand all day

1363
00:55:03,790 --> 00:55:05,560
long, we don't even know what they're saying.

1364
00:55:05,620 --> 00:55:06,730
And all of a sudden where it's like,

1365
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:17,050
Hey, I feel so you could start like asking yourself,

1366
00:55:17,050 --> 00:55:17,440
just like,

1367
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:18,940
Hey, whenever I,

1368
00:55:19,020 --> 00:55:19,510
I don't know,

1369
00:55:19,570 --> 00:55:21,760
pick something or put something on your desk or something.

1370
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:22,540
Whenever I look at this,

1371
00:55:22,540 --> 00:55:23,380
I'm going to ask myself,

1372
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:24,160
how am I feeling?

1373
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:25,300
And if you're feeling good,

1374
00:55:25,300 --> 00:55:25,690
you'd be like,

1375
00:55:25,690 --> 00:55:25,990
all right,

1376
00:55:26,410 --> 00:55:27,340
what am I thinking about?

1377
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:28,570
Or if you're feeling bad,

1378
00:55:28,570 --> 00:55:28,840
it's like,

1379
00:55:28,870 --> 00:55:29,740
why am I feeling bad?

1380
00:55:29,740 --> 00:55:30,400
What's going on?

1381
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:32,140
And so then you can start to kind of,

1382
00:55:32,890 --> 00:55:33,280
I don't know,

1383
00:55:33,310 --> 00:55:35,170
just take stock of where we are.

1384
00:55:35,310 --> 00:55:36,960
That's such a good point because,

1385
00:55:37,610 --> 00:55:40,980
and I think that happens with everybody is that you don't

1386
00:55:40,980 --> 00:55:42,240
even realize how you're feeling.

1387
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:43,200
Yeah, no.

1388
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,060
And then you get to the end of the day and

1389
00:55:45,060 --> 00:55:46,350
you've had a crappy day.

1390
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,710
And then you realize after you feel so bad,

1391
00:55:49,980 --> 00:55:53,040
that that's how you've been feeling all day.

1392
00:55:53,550 --> 00:55:58,050
And what I realized is that I can change how I

1393
00:55:58,050 --> 00:56:03,120
feel. So I will myself to feeling better by doing the

1394
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:04,620
meditations by Joe Dispenza,

1395
00:56:04,950 --> 00:56:07,260
he has a book called breaking the habit of being yourself.

1396
00:56:08,370 --> 00:56:10,620
And I read that and took copious amounts of notes.

1397
00:56:11,700 --> 00:56:13,620
And then through the meditation every morning,

1398
00:56:14,430 --> 00:56:15,120
he helps you.

1399
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,450
Once you can realize that these thoughts are popping up,

1400
00:56:18,510 --> 00:56:21,570
then you can change how you're thinking and how you're feeling.

1401
00:56:23,170 --> 00:56:24,880
Yeah. It's the awareness is the hardest Step.

1402
00:56:25,630 --> 00:56:26,740
Yeah, for sure.

1403
00:56:27,820 --> 00:56:28,690
Awesome. Oh my gosh.

1404
00:56:28,810 --> 00:56:31,570
In this has been such a good conversation.

1405
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:32,860
I've really enjoyed it.

1406
00:56:32,860 --> 00:56:35,260
And I know that so many people in our community are

1407
00:56:35,260 --> 00:56:37,270
going to find this incredibly helpful.

1408
00:56:37,660 --> 00:56:39,700
So thank you so much for taking the time,

1409
00:56:39,730 --> 00:56:42,310
sharing your time and energy with us,

1410
00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:43,870
but where,

1411
00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:45,700
where can people find you if they want to connect with?

1412
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:47,860
So I'm at,<inaudible>

1413
00:56:48,850 --> 00:56:50,230
on all the big social media.

1414
00:56:50,260 --> 00:56:51,580
So Facebook,

1415
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,070
LinkedIn, and Instagram.

1416
00:56:54,430 --> 00:56:57,310
And then my website is dog days.photography,

1417
00:56:58,030 --> 00:56:58,930
and then perfect.

1418
00:56:59,140 --> 00:57:02,590
I'm in the hair of the dog academy podcast.

1419
00:57:02,710 --> 00:57:05,500
No, I'm in the hair of the dog podcast group.

1420
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:06,990
And so you can fly me.

1421
00:57:06,990 --> 00:57:09,400
It might be one of the only brands.

1422
00:57:09,430 --> 00:57:11,020
So you'll find me.

1423
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,420
Yeah. Perfect.

1424
00:57:13,450 --> 00:57:14,620
Perfect. Thanks again,

1425
00:57:14,620 --> 00:57:16,360
Brendan. Is there anything else you want to leave us with

1426
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,910
or a last word of advice for anyone out there that,

1427
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:19,930
you know,

1428
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:24,130
I think I'm going to repeat what my chiropractor said to

1429
00:57:24,130 --> 00:57:26,980
me is sometimes you just have to believe.

1430
00:57:28,300 --> 00:57:29,530
I agree.

1431
00:57:29,980 --> 00:57:31,800
Yeah. When you believe it will happen,

1432
00:57:32,860 --> 00:57:34,450
Couldn't have said it better myself.

1433
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:35,500
Perfect way to wrap up.

1434
00:57:35,500 --> 00:57:36,550
Right. And thank you again,

1435
00:57:36,820 --> 00:57:37,540
everybody else.

1436
00:57:37,810 --> 00:57:38,620
We'll see you next week.

1437
00:57:39,700 --> 00:57:41,890
If you enjoy this podcast episode,

1438
00:57:41,890 --> 00:57:45,280
go ahead and take a screenshot of this episode on your

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00:57:48,550 --> 00:57:52,060
be sure to tag us at hair of the dog academy.

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00:57:52,180 --> 00:57:55,720
And we would just love to see how you're listening and

1442
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:56,860
a full disclosure.

1443
00:57:56,980 --> 00:58:00,400
Sometimes we just like to give away a little pet photographer,

1444
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:04,240
swag in the form of hair of the dog t-shirts and

1445
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,820
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Go ahead and share that screenshot of this episode.

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00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,100
And don't forget to tag us at Hare,

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00:58:12,100 --> 00:58:12,910
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1449
00:58:13,150 --> 00:58:14,140
And while you're there,

1450
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,450
maybe you want to jump on over to our account and

1451
00:58:16,450 --> 00:58:19,420
see what we're up to on the gram would love to

1452
00:58:19,420 --> 00:58:20,140
connect with you.

1453
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,780
Thanks for listening to the hair of the dog podcast.

1454
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,270
This was episode number one 16.

1455
00:58:25,630 --> 00:58:27,610
If you want to check out the show notes for access

1456
00:58:27,610 --> 00:58:29,290
to any of the resources we mentioned,

1457
00:58:29,590 --> 00:58:34,330
simply go to www.hairofthedogacademy.com/

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00:58:34,330 --> 00:58:37,300
1, 1 6.

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00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:40,420
Thanks for listening to this episode of hair of the dog

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00:58:39,820 --> 00:58:42,190
podcast. If you enjoyed this show,

1461
00:58:42,310 --> 00:58:44,020
please take a minute to leave a review.

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00:58:44,230 --> 00:58:45,100
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00:58:45,220 --> 00:58:46,630
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So you don't miss our upcoming episodes.

1465
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One last thing,

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00:58:50,530 --> 00:58:53,200
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