In this episode of Hey, Thriver, Devin and Shay ~unload~ a lil bit about ethics in the photo/video industry and things that have felt a lil icky — basically, it’s a good ol’ fashion bestie gossip sesh and we invite you to join in haha!

SHOWNOTES: https://www.heythriver.com/blog/ethics-in-photo-video-industry

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 In this episode of Hey, Thriver, Shay grillssss Devin about Super 8! Devin upsells Super 8 as an add-on for her incredible photography clients. Not only is it a great source of income, but Super 8 is truly art — a nostalgic, vintage, home video dream. Listen to learn how YOU can add Super 8 to your biz!

SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.heythriver.com/blog/how-to-add-super-8-to-your-photography-business

What to expect on this episode of the Hey, Thriver Podcast:

How to add Super-8 to YOUR photography business 

In this episode of the Hey, Thriver podcast,  Devin + Shay chat about:

1. How Devin added Super-8 mm video offers to her photography business  as an upsell 
2. Super 8 vs. traditional wedding films
3. Hybrid shooting Super 8 alongside photo offers
4. How to get started with Super 8
5. Why Super 8 is sickkkk

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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 How adding video can unlock your photography business goals in 2024

SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.heythriver.com/blog/how-adding-video-can-unlock-your-photography-business-goals-in-2024

In this episode of the Hey, Thriver podcast, Devin & Shay talk about:
-BEING WORKING GURLS
-Shooting photos + videos for the same clients
-Finding a video editing style
-Upselling opportunities with video
-Devin's experience in Videography for Photographers
-A lot moreeeee

CHECK OUT HEY, THRIVER AT: https://www.heythriver.com
Weekly free education and resources for photographers, videographers, and creative service providers — the Hey, Thriver podcast, courses, templates, and guides will transform your business + life so you can finally thrive, not just survive.

FOLLOW US ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/heythriver 

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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Shay's Story: How a failed YouTube travel influencer built a multi-media adventure brand

SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.heythriver.com/blog/about-shay

In this episode of the Hey, Thriver podcast, Shay talks about:
-How she has always wanted to be a published author above all else
-Learning photography, videography, ~graphic design~ lol and other techy nerd things in high school, while having a parent that normalized remote work
-Going to school for communications + creative writing and feeling superrrr burned out from studying, working as a waitress, and freelancing
-Lovingggg YouTube + starting to vlog as a creative outlet
-How her Montana hiking vlogs accidentally had great SEO lol -- she ended up getting interest for wedding + brand projects before she even had a real camera
-Graduating, moving to a small town for a boi, and struggling to figure out her path forward as a professional
-Growing the business, shooting anything and everything, growing a lil fam...allll while other photogs starting asking questions about video
-Starting an education brand based on teaching photographers videography
-Niching down to shooting mostly adventure elopements/destination weddings
-Here we are! Partnering with the coolest woman alive, living in the most beautiful place on earth, and scaling/growing alongside YOU!

CHECK OUT HEY, THRIVER AT: https://www.heythriver.com
Weekly free education and resources for photographers, videographers, and creative service providers —  the Hey, Thriver  podcast, courses, templates, and guides will transform your business + life so you can finally thrive, not just survive.

FOLLOW US ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/heythriver

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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How a corporate drop-out built a thriving brand with a Craigslist camera | Devin's Story

SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EP: https://www.heythriver.com/blog/about-devin
FOLLOW HEY, THRIVER ON INSTAGRAM: @heythriver

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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You’re here because you knowwww a great pricing guide is important, but you have no idea where to start. You want to know what to put in your pricing guide, you want to know how to speak directly to your ideal clients, and you need ideas for copy and images that convert.

You might still be in the research phase —  you know what that is, that period of time where you read allll about the thing without actually DOING the thing. Wellll, it’s time to do the thing, and this guide will tell you exactly how to do it.

You might be struggling with getting booked. You might even have a great forward facing brand —  butttt then, when potential clients inquire, your pricing guide falls short of showing potential clients that YOU are the person who will serve them best!

Friend, listen up: when it comes to a pricing guide, you’re not selling yourself.

You’re selling the experience you want to provide.

Anddd once you show your potential clients the experience you can provide and it resonates, you’ll book every time.

SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.heythriver.com/blog/pricing-guide-that-converts-high-ticket-clients

FOLLOW US ON IG: @heythriver

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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HEY, THRIVER: All about the new creative business podcast for action takers

In this episode of the Hey, Thriver podcast, Devin + Shay chat about:

01. Introducing the rebrand — things are different! Here is our ol' pal Devin, here to stay!
02. How we met, the progression of our relationship, why we wanna do this together:
03. What is the hole in the photo/video/creative service industries,  problems, and how we’re filling the holes + fixing the problems lol
04. What do we want for our audience and our students and our attendees
05. What does thriving actually mean?


CHECK OUT HEY, THRIVER AT: https://www.heythriver.com
Weekly free education and resources for photographers, videographers, and creative service providers —  the Hey, Thriver  podcast, courses, templates, and guides will transform your business + life so you can finally thrive, not just survive.

FOLLOW US ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/heythriver

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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Eden Strader is a six figure photographer turned business coach who inspires creative entrepreneurs, artists, and makers to build a life of artistic growth, wealth, and personal power with carefully curated strategies in marketing, mindset, sales strategy, and self care through excavating her client's unique brand of magic. Everything Eden Strader is based on the concept that we should be building our dream businesses in order to have our dream lives - not stopping at the business as the final destination.

SHOWNOTES:  https://montanadiaries.com/creativebusinessblog/building-a-brand-that-has-no-competition-ft-eden-strader

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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MEET TANESSA SHEARS

Tanessa Shears is a Kinesiologist, Certified Sleep Science Coach, and health consultant who helps entrepreneurs double their energy and focus so they can make more money in their business with her 12 Becoming Limitless Protocols. She works closely with business owners to eliminate brain fog and wake up well rested so they can get more done in less time, maintain consistent, stable energy throughout the day and feel better than they have in years. Tanessa is also the host of The Becoming Limitless Podcast, sharing her expertise on optimizing health and focus for business success.

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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MEET MESHAYLA COX:

“I am a proud black woman born and raised in southern California and molded in Montana. I have fiercely advocated racial equity in Montana for nearly a decade. During this time, I have educated and impacted over 1,700 people in the public and private sectors - from philanthropy & technology to conservation. I regularly deliver workshops and trainings on racism, equity, DEI, and organizational transformation nationwide—including as a TEDx speaker.”

Want to book luxury weddings and destination elopements? Join us for Thrive: Montana, a 4-day retreat featuring high-end styled shoots, SEO & blogging strategy from Danielle Johnson, and a creative community that will push you forward. Stay in stunning mountain cabins, soak in the hot tub, and leave with the portfolio + marketing tools to book your dream clients. Join us at heythriver.com/in-person-events!

Photographers, we’ve got everything you need to level up your business! Head to our shop for LUTs, courses, contracts, email and blog templates, freebies, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, create stunning videos, or grow your client base, we’ve got you covered.
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