The Creative Edition Podcast

How do you plan for a photo shoot? How do you find a photographer to take your photos? If you’re asking yourself these questions, this podcast episode is for you.

Emma and Maddy share the 6 steps in planning for a photo shoot. Maddy dives into the importance and the different details involved in laying out your ideas before the photo shoot. While Maddy uses a Trello board to capture her photo shoot ideas, Emma uses her planner. 

Around the topic of photography, Emma gives insight on how to find a photographer to work with. Maddy shares how she and Sam (her fiance) has become her photographer and how she shows him what she’s envisioning for photos. Additionally, she shares a few tips on taking photos when your friend or significant other is acting as your photographer. 

Emma explains to find photo shoot locations with Pinterest and Instagram. She shares how to organize future photo shoot locations. Emma also shares how she learned how to organize outfits for photo shoots - especially for photo shoot days where they’re visiting more than 3-5 locations.

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Emma and Maddy answer their first question submitted to the @contentcreativespodcast Instagram: "How do you balance a full-time job and create content for your passion?"

This question was submitted by @nikkagabrielle. Thank you Nikka for submitting this question!

Both Emma and Maddy open up about their full-time jobs. Maddy shares that her 9-5 job is in sales and how she initially found creating Instagram story content challenging. She shares her three tips on how she shoots batches of outfits, captures her ideas, and when she writes captions and blog posts. 

Emma shares how she worked in different functions like sales, finance, and project management the last 5 years. She opens up how pursuing her master’s degree the last two years taught her how to be more efficient with her time. Emma shares when she plans out her month of blog posts and Instagram topics. She also shares how she carves out time to create content and how she stays organized with her planner. 

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Who is Emma and why did she start her blog Emma’s Edition? If you’ve somehow stumbled upon the Content Creatives Podcast and haven’t met Emma yet through her Instagram or blog, meet Emma! 

Emma is one of the co-host of this podcast. In this episode, Emma shares what her mom told her after she told her mom that she either wanted to be a fashion designer or a writer when she was a little kid. She shares why she started my blog/Instagram Emma’s Edition during her senior year of college. Emma also reflects back and shares when a major brand first reached out to her to be a style ambassador. 

Maddy also asks Emma: 

What’s your favorite part of blogging?

What’s your least favorite part of blogging or your biggest challenge?

Who is Brandon and Boone?

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Who is Maddy and why did she start her blog/Instagram @Madcrayy? If you’ve somehow stumbled upon the Content Creatives Podcast and haven’t met Maddy yet through her Instagram or blog, meet Maddy! 

Maddy is the co-host of the Content Creatives Podcast. In this episode, Maddy shares how she got started with photography in high school. Maddy shares her love of writing and her stint at songwriting. She also shares her college journey and both her and Emma find out they both were in the University of Washington Sales Certificate program. 

Maddy opens up and shares when and how she started her Instagram. She also tells why she chose “madcrayy” as her Instagram/blog name and the story of her very first brand collaboration. 

Emma also ask Maddy:

What is one of your biggest blog wins?

What’s one of your favorite photos you’ve ever taken?

Do you have any dream brands you want to work with?

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Emma and Maddy open up and share a piece of their stories on how they found their brands in the influencer world. 

Maddy shares how she started out taking photos that were aligned to what she wanted to do on her platform. She shares her Instagram has evolved over the years with trends and how she drew inspiration from Tezza. She discovered that she had to embrace her own style and perspective. She found that her strengths of photography and editing helped her define and find her brand.

Emma shares how she started sharing her love fashion but realized she wanted to differentiate herself in fashion blogging space. She discusses how she wrote and shared career related topics for a year or two. And when and why she decided to pivot to sharing content creation tips – like blog tips and sharing the most Instagrammable places. 

If you’re looking to create content online and start your brand, Emma and Maddy share 5 tips to help you get started in finding your brand. Maddy and Emma also share questions to ask yourself around exploration, trial and error, and defining how you want your brand to come across.

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Hi! It's Maddy and Emma and we're excited to bring you the Content Creatives Podcast. Our mission is to empower creatives to discover, grow, and own their brand. We'll be sharing content creation tips like batching content, photography and posing tips, and planning for photo shoots.

This podcast is for any aspiring content creators, influencers, or small businesses trying to figure out who they are and what their brand is going to be in the online space. We are both Seattle bloggers and content creators excited to share the lessons we've learned building our brands in the influencer world. 

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