#55: Creating a Personalized Schedule for Your Business with Samantha Ste Marie
Release Date: 06/09/2022
#102: Is Brand Photography Harder to Sell than Wedding Photography?
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Rebrand, my sixteen-week group coaching experience for photographers, is now enrolling. This program is for photographers who desire to offer brand photography so they can scale their income, work betters hours, and run a business that feels like them. Visit to learn more and join.
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#101: Can You Have a Personal Brand and Privacy?
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Rebrand, my sixteen-week group coaching experience for photographers, is now enrolling. This program is for photographers who desire to offer brand photography so they can scale their income, work betters hours, and run a business that feels like them. Visit to learn more and join.
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#100: The Biggest Mistake Brand Photographers Make
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Rebrand, my sixteen-week group coaching experience for photographers, is now enrolling. This program is for photographers who desire to offer brand photography so they can scale their income, work betters hours, and run a business that feels like them. Visit to learn more and join.
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#103: Kate started showing up confidently in her business so she can help her clients do the same (Rebrand Client Spotlight)
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I’m so excited to have my friend Kate Wark on the episode. Kate was a member of my group coaching program, , and she had a such a transformation during our time together. I loved being able to coach Kate as she was ready to go and make big things happen in her business. We are talking about her story and how her business changed during and after Rebrand. Here are the main things discussed in this episode: Being able to work ‘regular’ business hours as a photographer How Kate’s day job experience and skills are reflected in brand photography Why Kate joined Rebrand Kate’s desire to...
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#99: What I've Learned in 100 Podcast Episodes
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I launched Take It Personally Podcast in October of 2019. The reason I got into podcasting was because of my love for blogging. Blogging moved the needle a ton in my business, but eventually as blogging became less popular, I decided to dive into podcasting. And now we are already almost up to 100 episodes! It has been such a cool journey to see where my business was when I first started podcasting to where it is today. I’m sharing some of the things I’ve learned in recording (*almost*) 100 episodes: Here are the main things discussed in this episode: Starting was the easy part! The tech...
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#98: How to Run a Business in 15 Hours/Week or Less with Brittnie Renee
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Brittnie is a family and newborn photographer with over 13 years of experience. In 2021 Brittnie started using her extensive photography knowledge to coach other photographers on how to build a profitable photography business in less than 15 hours per week. Brittnie is also the host of the Capture The Chaos Photography Podcast where she shares tactical tips and tricks photographers can use to run their business without experiencing the burnout. When she isn't working, you can find her recreating ridiculous TikToks with her husband, chauffeuring her 3 wildlings around, napping, or working...
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#97: Ask Me Anything About My Studio, White Space
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I previously did an episode about my studio, White Space, and the response was overwhelming. You all had more questions about owning a studio, and this episode is going to answer all of them. If you’ve ever been interested in what it looks like financially to open and run a studio, how long it took for us to make a profit, how we found the space, and what business model we like most so far, tune into this episode! Here are the main things discussed in this episode: Initial investment into the studio Initial changes we made to the studio Was it difficult to find the space? Expenses to...
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#96: Getting Started with Passive Income with Molly Kayser
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Molly Keyser has been a business owner for 17 years. Her first business was a photography studio. It was a massive success and other photographers started asking her how she did it, so she decided to package her knowledge into digital products. Those digital products turned into a $2M per year business and next people started asking her how she did that. Today Molly helps business owners add passive digital products to their businesses so they can stop trading their time for money and help even more people by sharing their knowledge with the world! Molly currently lives in New Mexico with...
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#95: Creating a Social Media Strategy That Feels Good with Social Kat Media
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Kat is the CEO and lead strategist at Social Kat Media, a social media agency based in Ontario, Canada. Kat believes social media should be FUN and works with businesses to alleviate the stress social media can cause. A mom of two kids, ages 1 and 4, Kat keeps it real on social media, talking openly about mental health and parenting. She brings this point of view into her business, helping business owners set up boundaries and healthy relationships with social media. Be sure to connect with Kat on social media @socialkatmedia to continue learning about making social media fun...
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#94: Why You Need a Brand Guide with Sarah Klongerbo
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Sarah Klongerbo is a conversion copywriter and website designer who believes your story matters, and the way you tell it can make or break your business. She lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with her husband, baby boy, and golden retriever — but she works with creative entrepreneurs around the world. She's passionate about crafting compelling messages and polished websites to help you validate your brand, increase your impact, and make your business shine online! Here’s what I discussed with Sarah regarding growing your business by utilizing a brand style guide: Sarah’s journey...
info_outlineI’m so excited today to be joined by Samantha Ste Marie. Samantha is a productivity strategist and specifically works with service providers to help them find clients with ease and create their perfect work schedule. We all know that the perfect work schedule for someone else may not be the perfect work schedule for us. And in this culture of online business and so much hustle and grind, I think a lot of us are coming up for air, realizing that we don’t actually have as high of capacity as we thought we did.
And instead of trying to push past that, Samantha really challenges it by helping business owners realize that it’s possible to create a schedule that serves your life well, your business well, and also serves your clients well too. You can be getting paid what you want to be paid AND be loving your job and the flexibility that you have.
The conversation that I had with Sam for this episode could have gone on even longer as we are both so fired up about this topic. Sam is very passionate about productivity and helping service providers run their businesses well. Here are some of the things we talked about in this episode:
- Who Samantha is
- Who Samantha works with and why they come to work with her
- Shiny object syndrome and passive income
- How Samantha became passionate in this area
- Shifts in business and motherhood
- Creating your ideal business/schedule (even if you don’t have kids or passive income)
- Accepting your goals as your own
- Evaluating your role and how much flexibility it offers you
- Charging a monthly retainer (phasing out hourly rates)
- Being “on” all the time
- Boundaries within business
- Working with clients that respect your schedule and space
- Getting a handle on your time (first figure out where your time is going)
- The post-in note strategy
- Cut out the waste and start following the money
If you want to connect with Samantha you can find her on social media at @samanthastmarie or grab her resource of 22 Time Saving Strategies for your Business in 2022.
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