The Studio Takeover Podcast

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Trusting the universe isn't about sending up a wish and just waiting. Trusting the Universe requires that you have faith in yourself to take the inspired and tactical action necessary so that you can take advantage of opportunity as it is delivered to you.

Join me as we chat with award winning portrait photographer and studio owner Ann Landstrom who has embodied the definition of resilient throughout her life: as an immigrant from Sweden,  her journey from living as a homeless parent to thriving in California through portrait photography.

You can find Ann here: 
Website: https://www.annphotography.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annphotography1/

Are you considering a venture into portrait photography? Perhaps you're making some money in the portrait genre but you want to make MORE? We can help! Scoop a free one-on-one call with Studio Takeover Mentor and Founder Cat Ford-Coates where you can share your circumstances, get clarity around next steps for you in your business, and if she feels she can help you with your business she may make an offer to a signature program. And if she doesn't she'll give you resources and actionable strategies for next steps you can take on your own.
Scoop your call at CATFORDCOATES.COM

#portraitphotography #photomentor #successfulstudio #successfulbusiness #photoeducation #businessowner 

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ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.

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Portrait Photographers building their businesses are integrating a sales system so that the byproduct of that system is the revenue and success they want for their lives. This, like any business system can create challenges and questions. Join Cat Ford-Coates as she navigates these challenges in real time with these professionals mentoring them on their specific needs.
Pricing, marketing, workflow, and mindset.
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ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.

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Expansion as a business owner is never just handed to you on a plate. Oftentimes our growth is made purely out of circumstances and new decisions. Matt Stagliano shares with us just how he's learned about his craft and his business through experiences, relationships, and opportunity.

You can find Matt Stagliano here:
https://stonetreecreative.com/
https://generatorpodcast.com/

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ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.

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Professional Photographers are not exempt from personal development, not by a long shot. Join Aaron Jay Young & Cat Ford-Coates as they discuss: creation, forgiveness, boundaries, and personal practices so they are able to show up for their businesses and their LIVES through artistry in portrait photography.

Learn more about Aaron Jay Young here: https://www.aaronjayyoung.com/
Aaron's book QUEEN is available for purchase here: https://www.queenthebook.com/store

#aaronjayyoung #queenthebook #photomentor #photoeducation #portraitphotography #portraiteducation #mindset #author #photographer

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ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.

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Judith Hill is a professional portrait photographer based in Nashville, TN who openly shares her journey as a business owner from a career in economic development and finding her joy in the portrait world.
Judith has studied with Cat Ford-Coates in various mentoring and is now bringing her growth to the forefront.
Join us to understand how your development unfolds when you choose to decide to bet on yourself to build a business you are proud of.
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Find Judith here: https://www.judithhillphotography.com/
and on IG: @judithhillphotography

Support the show

ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.

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Grief is one of those things you don’t just “get through” until one day, it isn’t the very first thing you feel upon waking. Maybe it’s the second, or the third…to this day I still carry their memories daily but that grief has been transformed into a different kind of relationship: the one I have with myself, which has changed how I am in relationships with all others in my world.

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ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.

Send us Fan Mail

Entrepreneurship requires not the absence of failure but the embracing of it. In this episode, Cat Ford-Coates shares her challenges and failures as a business owner.

THE STUDIO TAKEOVER IS AN ONLINE EDUCATION PLATFORM FOR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS

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Support the show

ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.

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So often educators go immediately to the "dream", to being the solution their audience needs and there is something TO that, certainly. Sharing the desired success is the fastest way to booking your audience.

There is also HUGE value in understanding where someone is coming from, regardless of industry. No one just wakes up one day having found success only throrugh privilege, no one I have ever met anyhow. Any trruly successful person will appreciate the trials of getting where they are in the now and be assured that it is in those failures that success is born.

In this episode Cat Ford-Coates shares her first few years as a photography business owner. She's since discovered that it is in these failures she's experienced that has allowed her business to thrive today.

THE STUDIO TAKEOVER IS AN ONLINE EDUCATION PLATFORM FOR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE AND PROFITABLE BUSINESSES.

THESTUDIOTAKEOVER.COM

Support the show

ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.