Today's guest, Jamie Swanson, is a photographer turned photography mentor who now has a really unique niche of teaching personal branding photography. We talk about how to approach a personal branding shoot and what to expect and even why it's so important. One of the things that I love is when Jamie tells us why "personal branding", which sounds so personal is NOT all about YOU.

Today's conversation is with Beth Montpass. Beth is a life coach and is not only trained and certified but she's got her own life lessons that she got knocked down from and then picked herself up from, that she now uses in inspiring others. In this conversation we'll hear about Beth's story and how she now considers it a privilege to have been through the rough spots she's been through. Be sure to check out more from Beth at www.bethmontpas.com.

Join me this week in this candid look into the importance of creating a luxury brand for your creative business.

This week's conversation is with my dear friend Karin Holder. Karin is a woman of faith, a daughter, wife, mother, and friend to many.

On this episode Karin shares why the first 3-5 years of starting your business is "off balance".

She gives us her tips for managing our finances and starting a savings habit and talks about making intentional choices for our faith, our family and our finances.

Karin says, "When we are building a business, we must make intentional choices - we don't have time to waste!".

This week, Lori takes you through her steps to Planning For Profit.

Today's conversation is with Julie Staley. She is a Charlotte, North Carolina based wedding photographer. Julie married her college sweetheart 21 years ago and has two beautiful teenage daughters. Her journey has taken her from the corporate world to stay at home mom and, shortly after that, her photography hobby turned into a commercial, world-wide wedding company, grossing in the multiple six figures each year. Julie is now reinventing again and focusing on her background and experience in nutrition and fitness. Julie and I have known each other for about five years through the photography industry, and I've got to tell you guys, I first officially met Julie on a bus that one of our mutual vendors in the industry had rented to take us from a convention over to a party and this girl was the life of the party. She danced up and down the aisles of the bus and she was so good you guys, and that's my very first memory of her. We had some great conversation that night, too. Through all of that, through the industry, I've known her and I've been watching her in this transition, so I'm super excited to chat with her about what she's learned through growing her business while keeping faith and family first.

Today, I'm chatting with April Beach and I can't wait for you to get to know her! April is a business development strategist for lifestyle entrepreneurs with kids, and she's got quite a story. April's specialty is helping her clients design their entrepreneur lifestyle and today she's going to share the stages of that lifestyle with us and I can't wait for you to hear from her.

Today's conversation is with Sarah Jane Meeson. SJ, as she's called, is the founder of Christian women in business podcast and a membership site by the same name. She also owns a completely different business called The Automation Girl which you're going to hear a little bit more about as well. SJ is on a mission to help women in business understand how faith and business can be connected. She's got a great accent you're gonna love. She's originally from the UK and now lives in Australia.