71 - Caring for Yourself in Busy Season: How to Avoid Burnout
All Angles Photography Podcast
Release Date: 06/06/2025
85 - Jess's Scale It Experience: Outsourcing, Systems, + an Associate Team
All Angles Photography Podcast
What if your photography business could keep booking clients, serving couples beautifully, and generating revenue—even when you're going through the hardest season of your life? Most photographers think scaling means raising prices or shooting more weddings. But true scaling means building a business that runs without you, whether you're on vacation, navigating a personal crisis, or simply choosing to step back for a season. In this episode, I'm sitting down with Jess, one of my Scale It graduates who transformed her thriving-but-exhausting photography business into a sustainable model with...
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84 - Associate Weddings Profiting 4k+ and Cutting Her Weddings in Half: Maddy's Scale It Case Study
All Angles Photography Podcast
You don't need to shoot every wedding to scale your income — and my student Maddy is living proof. If you've been grinding through wedding season after wedding season, trading every weekend for income and wearing burnout like a badge of honor, this episode will show you exactly how to build an associate photography team that frees up your time while increasing your profit. Maddy joined my Scale It mentorship program in January 2025 after finishing her first full wedding season feeling completely overwhelmed. She had big goals but zero idea how to tackle them without spending her entire...
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83 - Nicole's Highest Revenue Year Through Outsourcing, Email Marketing, and Albums
All Angles Photography Podcast
You're working 70-hour weeks, manually tracking every client, taking days to respond to inquiries—and while your business looks successful on paper, you're completely drowning behind the scenes. What if I told you that your highest revenue year could also be your most sustainable one? That scaling your photography business isn't about working more, but about building systems, email funnels, and strategic outsourcing that actually give you your life back? In this episode, I'm sitting down with my Scale It graduate Nicole, a wedding and elopement photographer who transformed her business from...
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82 - Five-Figure Months in Motherhood: Annika's Scale It Experience
All Angles Photography Podcast
You know that feeling when you're sitting on the couch during your baby's contact nap, desperately trying to balance your laptop while answering client emails—all while wishing you could just soak up this precious moment? If you're nodding along thinking "that's literally me," then you need to hear Annika's story. She went from survival mode as a new mom photographer to celebrating back-to-back five-figure months, one of them while on vacation without her laptop. This isn't about working harder or hustling more—it's about implementing the right systems so your photography business can run...
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81 - My Client Files: A Recent Booking and a Recent Rejection
All Angles Photography Podcast
What if I told you that the photography inquiry you lost last week wasn't because your prices were too high, but because your business didn't feel professional enough? In today's behind-the-scenes episode, I'm sharing the raw truth about a recent $15,000+ wedding inquiry rejection that taught me everything about luxury client expectations, plus a $10,000 booking story where the couple chose me over cheaper photographers specifically because of my business foundations. These real client experiences reveal exactly what separates profitable wedding photographers from hobbyists in today's...
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80 - $22K Months, 6 Figures, and Her Husband Home: Trinity’s Scale It Experience
All Angles Photography Podcast
Are you an exhausted photographer feeling trapped in the endless cycle of posting on Instagram, getting ghosted by potential clients, and watching your income fluctuate wildly while you trade every weekend for barely enough profit? What if I told you that one of my Scale It students went from that exact place to booking out her entire year with Google ads, hitting $22,000 months, and creating enough financial freedom for her husband to quit his corporate job - all while spending more time with her kids? In this episode, I'm sharing Trinity's complete transformation story, from struggling with...
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79 - Things I Outsource In My Business + Life
All Angles Photography Podcast
Are you convinced that outsourcing means losing control of your photography business? That no one can do it as well as you? Here's the perspective shift you need: every time you delay outsourcing, you're trading your time, energy, and presence with the people who matter most for the illusion of control. The truth is, outsourcing isn't about dropping the ball as a business owner - it's about stepping fully into your CEO role. Think about it: how many successful CEOs do you know who actually do everything themselves? They don't, and neither should you. In this episode, I'm pulling back the...
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78 - I Spend 2 Hours Editing a Wedding... Here's How
All Angles Photography Podcast
Picture this: You're spending your entire weekend editing wedding galleries while your personal life sits on the back burner, and you're telling yourself "this is just what wedding photographers do." But what if I told you that's actually keeping you stuck in a cycle that's capping your income and burning you out? The truth is, you can deliver stunning wedding galleries in just 2 hours of hands-on work while maintaining complete artistic control—and I'm about to share with you exactly how. In this episode, I'm sharing my complete workflow for outsourcing wedding photography editing while...
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77 - Selling Your Highest Package Without Feeling Salesy
All Angles Photography Podcast
Getting nervous when it's time to talk pricing with potential wedding clients? You're probably not being salesy at all – you're just missing the strategy behind confident package recommendations. Most wedding photographers fall into one of two camps: either underselling by default because you assume couples want the cheapest option, or pitching low packages out of fear of rejection. But what if I told you that your highest package is often exactly what couples want when you know how to present it as the perfect solution for their dream wedding day? In this episode, I'm sharing how to sell...
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76 - How To Stand Out in a Saturated Photography Market
All Angles Photography Podcast
"The photography market is so saturated" – Sound familiar? Here's the perspective shift you need: your beautiful portfolio isn't what's keeping you from booking your highest packages, and market saturation isn't real when you master what actually makes photographers stand out. In this episode, I'm breaking down why competing on portfolio, pricing, and experience keeps wedding photographers trapped in the "starving artist" cycle, and revealing the one business foundation that eliminates competition entirely. Most photographers think branding means having a pretty logo and website design, but...
info_outlineIf you find yourself completely exhausted by October, dreading your next wedding weekend, or feeling like your photography business is running you instead of you running it, you're not alone. Here's the truth: photographer burnout isn't about being too busy – it's about having a reactive business structure instead of a proactive one. I know photographers who shoot 30 weddings a year and love every minute, while others burn out at just 15. The difference? How their business is structured for long-term sustainability.
In this episode, I'm sharing real strategy that helped me transform my own photography business from 33 weddings and 60-hour work weeks (where I completely lost myself) to a scalable, profitable business that serves my life instead of consuming it. We're diving deep into wedding photographer business strategies, scaling your photography business, avoiding burnout in busy season, and creating multiple revenue streams that don't require trading your time for money. This isn't surface-level self-care advice – this is about fundamentally shifting how you operate as a photography business owner and CEO.
Whether you're struggling with double headers, editing until 2 AM, or just feeling overwhelmed by your photography business workload, this episode will give you the roadmap to work less while making more. I'm sharing the importance of implementing CEO days, planning for long-term growth instead of short-term fixes, and building systems that allow your business to run without you being "on" all the time.
In this episode of All Angles Photography Podcast, you will learn:
- Why "success" can burn you out in your photography business
- How to shift from reactive to proactive business planning for sustainable growth
- The framework for implementing CEO days to work ON your business instead of just IN it
- Strategies for scaling beyond trading time for money through multiple revenue streams
- How to plan ahead so busy season doesn't consume your personal life and relationships
Resources Mentioned:
- Episode 33: Avoiding Short-Term Thinking and Planning for Long-Term Growth
- Episode 4: Self-Care During Busy Season
- Scale It Mentorship Program Waitlist (get the free CEO Day Framework bonus immediately, as well as exclusive early access details, first access when enrollment opens, up to $1500 off, 1:1 time with me, and more)
- From Reactive to Proactive: Your CEO Day Framework (free bonus for waitlist members)
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