The constant double bind we face as moms: do it all and don’t let them see you sweat. Be smart and opinionated, but not too opinionated, because then you’re not likable. Have your stuff together, but not too together, otherwise you’re too perfect or you’re a try hard or you’re a Karen. 

It’s exhausting. 

In this episode:

✨why I view mom guilt as an indulgence, and how I free myself from it…amidst running a business, writing a musical, and parenting four kids including a special needs kiddo.

✨the point of diminishing returns where even if you sacrifice more, your kids won’t benefit (and will actually be harmed)

✨how to leave mom guilt behind and step into leadership that rewrites the story for your children and your children’s children (without overwhelming yourself)

✨how to make room for play, pleasure, and fun without feeling like you should be productive instead

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We know intellectually that people pleasing chips away at your soul, but what about what it does to the people you are pleasing?

If your clients are happy but you’re not, this episode will give you new insights and practical to-dos to rebuild the relationship with your artist self so you can find your artistic voice and make work that moves people.

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There’s one thing that will make you *feel* like  when you’re actually living far beneath what’s meant for you. In this episode, we talk about two flavors of creative adjacency and how to jump back in the arena, even if it’s with 30 seconds of radical courage.

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Sending Buzz Lightyear into space with NASA, building an Olympic length swimming pool down Main Street in Disneyland for Michael Phelps, and working with companies like Google, Apple, the NBA, Coca-Cola, and many more to help them tap into the deep well of creativity within their companies through his workshops and speaking–it’s Duncan Wardle, the former head of innovation + creativity at Disney. In this episode Duncan shares how to believe in yourself again after many failures, how to tap into creativity when you have nothing special on your schedule, how to choose an idea when you have oh so many, and how to innovate when you have zero dollars.

Take a screenshot wherever you’re listening and tag us both on Instagram I’m @brookebschultz and he’s @duncanjwardle, let us know that you’re listening. Duncan also has a book coming out in a couple weeks, it’s available for pre-order now called the Imagination Emporium and it’s full of FUN tools for tapping into your creativity.

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✨ Family Photo Sessions in 2025: DM me the word ‘INQUIRE’ on Instagram @brookebschultz for all the details!

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GRWM and chat about how to plug into the sparkle of creativity without running away from your daily life! Including: ⚡️the one magical question I ask myself when I want to feel creative, especially on a mundane, regular day ⚡️how quitting therapy was the best thing I did to feel happier + more fulfilled on the daily Thoughts on this? Have you felt creatively blocked as a mama because you feel a lack of time/energy? Let’s chat in the comments or send me a DM @brookebschultz!

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You really can do this!! Not feeling motivated, well friend let me take you by the hand. I've helped more than 700+ photographer find their style!

DM me the word CURIOUS on Instagram @brookebschultz if you want to learn more about Love Soaked Course. 

If you are even slightly curious about working together, the price for Love Soaked is jumping up by $1k tomorrow night, so DM me the word Curious on IG to get all the details plus some fun before and afters of photograhers who I've had the pleasure of helping through this process. 

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Welcome my friends to this inside look with my girl Isabella into her transformation story as a photographer. DM me the word CURIOUS on Instagram @brookebschultz if you want to learn more about Love Soaked.  

Isabella shares so much wisdom about what it takes to improve your work, including:

💖 why she doesn’t consider herself to be talented and the mindset that supports her instead

💖 how she saw a difference in her images right away after starting the Love Soaked course but the thing that really made the difference in creating images she and her clients are obsessed with

💖 how she went from a new person in a new place not knowing anyone to fully booked. 

If you are even slightly curious about working together, the price for Love Soaked is jumping up by $1k tomorrow night, so DM me the word Curious on IG to get all the details plus some fun before and afters of photograhers who I've had the pleasure of helping through this process. 

I've just been so impressed with her imagery and asked her if she’d be willing to share how she went from taking generic pics to having a style her clients come to her specifically for and she was gracious enough to accept and share with you all.

Description:

Setbacks are part of the inextricable set of experiences that make you who you are, and thus make your creative work what it is. We are obsessed with triumph stories, where hard work is the only ingredient required to succeed, but what about the inevitable curveballs life throws along the way? Is the only way to handle them toxic positivity that demands you see how those curveballs were the best thing that every happened to you? There’s another way. In this episode we explore how to think about setbacks in a way that supports your creativity but also connects you to your humanity, and how to alchemize the hardest things into something beautiful.

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Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now

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You know how there can be a storm, or a bunch of clouds, and planes can simply fly above it all? It’s still there, but the clouds take a backseat to where the plane is going. The weather is a consideration, but it’s not the focus—the destination is. ☀️⛅️🌦️ THAT’S what being a visionary means. It means that the wiggly toddlers, kids who don’t wanna listen, dads who don’t want to be there, stressed moms, and EVERYTHING that might arise in a family shoot is simply the weather. Family photogs, this is a WHOLLLEEE new way of approaching your photographs and your business. I can’t wait to share it with you! Comment VISIONARY to join us live for a ❤️‍🔥special bonus (something I made just for this group to tangibly tap into your inner visionary before every photo shoot that’ll take less than 10 min).

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If youre a human listening to podcasts in 2024, you’ve probably done some sort of mindset work. You’re familiar with the idea that your happiness is an inside job, and that no one else can give it to you. You realize that you can rise above your circumstances and write your own story about what everything in your life means, that everything can be viewed from multiple perspectives. You see that some people are blissfully happy with nothing and others are miserable with all the $ in the world; you know that if you don’t believe in yourself no one else will. You know that you’re the key to your own success or failure. and yet:

Sometimes, or a lot of times, you find yourself still being human and not acting in integrity with what you know. You find yourself knowing intellectually one thing, but behaving in another way. Still snapping at the people you love. Still acting in a way that suggests you DO believe someone else can make you happy, still believing that someone else has it more figured out or together than you, still hiding when you’d previously determined to show up for your business or your creativity. What we do at THAT point in the process– the point of ‘I know this but I’m just not doing it’ is crucial.

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💖 Dress to Create

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💖 Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle