Season 2

EP 90: The cost of poor communication with colleagues, leads, and clients can be severe. It can lead to missed opportunities, se…

Happy International Podcast Day! We are celebrating our 89th episode with a tribute to some amazing other podcasters out there w…

EP 88: Consciously or unconsciously, we are all playing the game of debt in our day-to-day lives. We tell ourselves many narrat…

EP 87: Student loan relief is on the way. Whether you love it or hate it; the fact remains that it will be taking place and kno…

EP 86: Sometimes it feels like we have to choose between niching down and diversifying to maximize our results, but truly I don't…

EP 85: We've all been told that doing the free job is destructive to our career and the industry we're in. "Value yourself", "Kn…

EP 84: Every once in a while, there pops up a fork in the road, where one side leads toward full-time employment and the other s…

EP 83: Instagram has long been the most preferred and efficient way for photographers to display their work to the masses. Howev…

EP 82: For years, I have felt that the best lightroom updates went unnoticed, because the ones that were noticeable, were either…

EP 81: What do you send in when a new lead asks for your pricing? Are you sending them an estimate or are you sending them a quo…

EP 80: Building a recession-proof business is no easy task, but it might be near impossible to accomplish with a brittle mindset …

EP 79: As visual creatives, it's important to grasp the responsibilities and roles of your creative team for optimizing your proj…

EP 78: Budgeting has a dirty feel to it doesn't it? It makes you feel like you did something wrong or that you're in a timeout …

EP 77: DBA's, also known as Doing Business As, can be a brand-building decision for your business, but is it all that it's crack…

EP 76: A bill has passed in the state of New York that impacts freelancers in a great way! One of the struggles of being a freel…

EP 75: Congratulations college graduates, it is your time to shine! The road ahead promises many great adventures and obstacles …

EP 74: One of the common traps I find freelancers fall into is they price themselves without taking into account the intellectual…

EP 73: I'm not sure if there is an easy way to reconcile the conundrum of prioritizing both creativity and income. If you ask 1…

EP 72: The longer I've freelanced, the more common I've seen this occurrence among industry colleagues. Their clients, my clie…

EP 71: After working exclusively with DSLRs for the past decade, I've finally accommodated mirrorless camera bodies in my workfl…

EP 70: Facing 8.5% inflation rates is no easy pill to swallow. Regardless of how we got here, we have our own choices to make t…

EP 69: We constantly fill out forms that require a Tax ID, whether it's for business, for banking, or for taxes. The question i…

EP 68: We are continuing our investigation on quarterly estimated payments for 1099 creatives, and in this episode, we break down…

EP 67: Freelancing and full-time employment vary in a number of different ways, and one of the most important differences to not…

EP 66: The debate between prime lenses and zoom lenses can be both sensible and fickle at the same time. Each photographer has h…

EP 65: We've all been told, that it takes money, to make money. And while some facets of that may ring true, it might not be a u…

EP 64: Copyright law is extensive and occasionally difficult to wrap one's head around. There are progressively more and more sc…

EP 63: Identifying potential points of failure can be just as critical to success as developing great work. It's not a matter o…

EP 62: The benefits to owning gear are numerous, but it is not without challenges either. Not every small business owner has th…

EP 61: Conduct is just as important to your branding as your style, your creativity, and your hustle. It is not about what you …

EP 60: Working photographers are not always guaranteed safe haven from accidents, theft, or damage. Some might even say, these…

EP 59: Oh the aches and pains of learning on the fly. These hardships are both excruciating reminders of what could have been, …

EP 58: With the label of "visual creator" or "visual storyteller" being so broad, it covers a number of sins like photo manipula…

"If you know your costs, you have key information that's going to fund many of your decisions going forward; you can build confid…

"This law should not impact your overall business, unless you're conducting under the table transactions on the reg, which I've a…

💯 💯 💯 "Identify what is important to you, and occasionally prioritize that over what might be urgent to you."