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There’s a message I keep hearing in the photography education world, especially directed at moms building businesses: “Every time you say yes to your business, remember that you’re saying no to your children.”And… no surprise here… I’m f*****g sick of it. Because underneath that seemingly innocent advice is a much bigger conversation about mom guilt, ambition, money, and what we’ve decided a “good mother” is supposed to look like. In this episode, I’m getting personal about why I hear that message so differently, how my own childhood shaped the way I think about money and motherhood, and what happened when I actually lived the version of motherhood we’re so often told we’re supposed to want. We’re talking about building a business while raising kids, financial independence, motherhood and ambition, and the guilt women are handed when they dare to want both. And before you assume this is an argument for choosing your business over your kids... it’s not.This is an argument for something much bigger. Listen to the episode before you decide what you think I’m saying. Book a call with me, link is below, and let's figure out if this is your season. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist Timestamps:00:35 The Guilt Phrase04:55 Unpacking The Assumption06:44 Growing Up Poor12:12 What Kids Need13:50 Stay At Home Reality18:05 Divorce And Rebuild18:56 Presence Over Hours21:41 Modeling Partnership22:38 Hallway Desk Lessons26:44 Rewrite The Narrative27:00 Choose Your Way29:44 Questions And Coaching31:48 Wrap Up And Outro 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

I've been doing this podcast for a while now, and lately I feel like we've been moving fast. Quick lessons, straight into tactics, on to the next thing. This episode is me hitting pause on that, on purpose. I want to talk about in-person sales, and specifically, the three myths that are keeping so many of you from ever trying it. Not because IPS is complicated. Because you've been told things about it that just are not true. Here's what sparked this one. A few weeks ago I was driving into the studio and the idea for this episode hit me. That same day, within twelve hours, I got a voice note from a photographer I'd barely spoken to. She told me exactly what was scaring her about making this switch. It lined up with what I'd been thinking about that morning, so I knew I had to build the episode around her words instead of mine. In this episode I'm breaking down the three myths I hear more than anything else. You have to dramatically raise your prices to do IPS. You have to start selling albums and frames and take on a whole new workflow you don't have time for. Your current clients will get angry and leave you. None of them are true, and I walk through exactly why and how to understand IPS better so that we can change your mindset around it. I talk to you about a student who made over twenty two thousand dollars in a single month selling nothing but digitals (no products at all!!) And the real story of what fifteen years of an all-inclusive model actually cost me. Spoiler, it's well over a million dollars. If you've been putting off IPS because you're scared of one of these three things, this episode is for you. And if you're ready to actually build this out in your own business, the pricing structure, the reveal process, the launch system, that is exactly what we work on together inside the Mastermind. For the first time ever, I'm backing it with a guarantee. Book a call with me, link is below, and let's figure out if this is your season. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist Timestamps:00:00 Posers Podcast Intro00:35 Slowing Down the Pace02:14 Why This Episode Exists03:01 The DM Voice Note Story04:46 Client Reveal Gone Wrong06:57 Three IPS Myths08:06 Myth One Pricing Fear09:59 Myth Two Products Optional12:37 Myth Three Clients Won’t Leave14:40 Album Impact Real Talk18:22 IPS Eases Overwhelm20:51 My Revenue Switch Story23:01 Mastermind Guarantee Offer24:17 Wrap Up and Call to Action25:00 Outro and Reviews 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

You have 11 weeks left in this year. That's it. And if your fall isn't looking the way you hoped it would, it would be really easy to tell yourself you'll just get through the holidays and start fresh in January. New year. New strategy. New you. Except... didn't you say the same thing about 2026? The photographers who are going to be fully booked with the right clients in 2027 aren't going to start building that business on January 1st. They're doing the boring, unglamorous groundwork right now. In this episode, I'm giving you seven moves you can make before the end of the year to set yourself up for a very different 2027. We're talking brand clarity, content that actually builds authority, email lists, social proof, collaborations, and making it stupidly easy for someone who finds you to actually hire you. Because later doesn't exist. Later is just you kicking the thing you know you need to do a little farther down the road. And, Posers? It's go time. In This Episode, We'll Cover: Why waiting until January to work on your business is already putting you behind How to get painfully clear on exactly who you serve and what you want to be known for The simple “I help ___ feel ___ through ___” exercise to clarify your brand Why you need one repeatable content series instead of reinventing the wheel every week How sharing your actual opinions builds authority and attracts the right clients The three jobs your Instagram bio needs to do Why your profile should have ONE obvious next step for someone ready to hire you How to start building an audience you actually own instead of relying entirely on Instagram Why you should be collecting testimonials, screenshots, client reactions, and other proof constantly How getting in front of other people's audiences can grow your business faster than only posting to your own Why you don't need thousands of followers. You need the right people to understand what you do, trust that you can do it, and know exactly how to hire you. You have 11 weeks of runway left. Don't wait for 2027 to start building the business you want in 2027. Start now. Timestamps:00:00 Welcome to Posers00:35 Eleven Weeks Left01:36 Stop Waiting for January04:17 Brand Not Influencer06:27 Seven Moves Start Now06:43 Define Your Niche07:42 Repeatable Content Series08:23 Share Your Point of View09:41 Bio With Next Step10:21 Own Your Audience11:34 Capture Social Proof12:37 Borrow Other Audiences13:27 Booked Out in 202714:23 Mastermind Invitation15:06 Outro and Call to Action 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

You're not too basic. You're not boring. You're just too smart for your own content, and it's costing you bookings. This week I break down “dummy maxxing,” a concept I came across in a carousel that stopped me mid scroll, and I tie it straight back to something I said a few episodes ago: the stuff that feels like basic common sense to you as the expert reads as pure genius to your clients. The problem was never your knowledge. It's that nobody's translating it into something your audience can actually picture happening in their own life. In this one, I get into: why “your kid can be as energetic as they want, I'll still capture the magic” doesn't land the way you think it does the three step framework I use for turning what you already know into captions and pitches that actually convert five real before-and-after examples, including the exact lines I use for a pricing conversation, a posing pitch, and a newborn session. Also in this one: the one on one with a mastermind student this week that I couldn't stop thinking about, and why consistency alone was never going to be enough. Timestamps:00:00 Why your “great” content is getting crickets01:48 What is “dummy maxing”?03:00 Why your audience doesn’t want to translate your expertise04:35 Making your content instantly relevant06:10 Why photographers need to stop “speaking in cursive”07:35 Consistency gets you seen, but messaging makes people stop10:00 Flowery vs. dummy-maxed messaging for photographers11:35 Talking about your pricing and investment12:40 Making posing language actually relatable13:35 Newborn and senior photography examples14:45 Why simple content doesn’t mean less intelligent content15:25 The 3-step framework for dummy maxing your content17:25 Your assignment: dummy max something today 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Concept credit: this episode was inspired by a carousel from marketing coach Morgan Anderson-Alexis (@morganandersonalexis), who coined the term “dummy maxxing.” Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

I'm breaking my own rule this week. Usually I wait until I've already lived a lesson before I hand it to you wrapped up nice and pretty — this time I hit record in the middle of it, scared, with no idea yet how it ends. It starts with one of those days where everything pops off at once: wins flooding the group chat, an inquiry landing for next year's Mastermind, waitlist signups rolling in. Then, almost on the heels of that high, my operations manager dropped a conversation I wasn't ready for one that means nearly doubling what I spend every single month, with no guarantee the revenue shows up to match it. In this one, I get into: The high of watching wins pour into the group chat… and why that feeling is proof something bigger is moving. The real, un-cleaned-up moment my ops team asked me to double monthly spend, and why I cried about it before I said yes. Why "force the standard instead of shrinking back" sounds inspiring as a concept and feels completely different when it's your own number on the page The exercise I've used since my divorce… to help make big decisions even when they are terrifying. Why this is an open-loop episode: no resolution, no bow on top, just what the messy middle actually looks like from inside it If you're sitting on your own version of this… a new hire, a hard commitment, a level you know you need to step into… this episode isn't going to hand you an answer. It's going to hand you company. Timestamps:00:00 Posers Podcast Intro00:35 Messy Middle Confession02:45 A Day of Big Wins05:26 The Expansion Ask07:00 Fear and The Numbers09:08 Forcing The Standard10:23 Identity Before Strategy12:28 Future Vision Practice15:18 You Will Not Feel Ready16:18 No Tidy Ending Yet18:27 Closing and Call To Action 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

Confession: I am painfully Type B about my business. I despise spreadsheets. I barely look at my P&L. The only number I actually check is the year to date tab in Stripe, green means I'm on track, red means tighten up, and that tells me almost nothing about what's actually happening underneath it. So I stopped tracking the outcome and started tracking the behavior instead, and it's the single biggest thing that's taken me from panicking every quarter to feeling calm about where this business is headed. In this episode I walk through the scale versus protein grams idea that changed how I think about this completely, why checking your revenue once a quarter is the business equivalent of weighing yourself once a week and having no idea why the number didn't move, and what to track instead so you always know, daily, whether you're doing the things that actually lead somewhere. This is the same shift that's helped me scale from $40,000 a year to over half a million, and it's a core part of what I teach inside the Mastermind. Timestamps:00:00 Welcome to Posers00:42 The Shift That Calms01:33 Type B Money Tracking03:02 Track What You Control03:51 Weight Loss Analogy06:42 Revenue Is Outcome07:39 Behavior Metrics List09:22 Fix Leaks Fast10:48 Homework and 80 2012:31 Revenue Disclaimer13:40 Mastermind Invitation14:26 Outro and Reviews 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

I ruffled feathers the last time I went after a pricing model in this industry. This time I'm doing it again, and I'm not sorry. If you're running Simple Sales, sometimes called Collections, where clients pick a number of images before the session and get the option to upgrade to the full gallery later for a small fee, this episode is your mirror. I break down exactly why this model isn't a simplified version of IPS. It's the opposite of IPS. It removes the buying moment, the guidance, the urgency, all of it, and leaves your client alone on her couch with a gallery and a budget she picked before she ever saw her kids' faces in it. I scored five common pricing structures against ten factors that actually drive a sale, things like emotion, guided decision making, scarcity, and revenue that isn't capped. True IPS hit all ten. Simple Sales hit zero. The only model on the entire table that failed every single one.One of my students made the switch off this model and went from $4,500 on a mini shoot series to over $20,000 with the same number of sessions. I'm not coming for you if this is your model. I'm coming for the model. Come find out why simple doesn't mean better, it means less, and decide for yourself what your business actually needs. Timestamps:00:00 No Fluff Welcome00:37 The Pricing Bombshell03:41 What Simple Sales Is09:49 Why It Fails Clients11:13 Online Cart Psychology18:34 The 10 Buying Factors23:05 Choose IPS Over Comfort24:39 Mastermind Invitation25:42 Outro And Call To Action 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

I used to think building a mockup meant hours in ProSelect, a couple hundred bucks on Etsy templates, and still ending up with something so flat it looked like a paper doll with a Velcro dress. Then I finally had one thought that changed everything. One of my clients had forty foot vaulted ceilings, gorgeous floating shelves, and absolutely nothing on them. I built her the same lifeless two dimensional mockup I always did, hated it, and finally asked, what if AI could do this instead. Turns out it could, and it took two minutes to build a mockup so real it looked like a designer had already been through her house. A $13,000 wall in about two minutes. In this episode I'm breaking down exactly what I did, the five step system so simple you'll want to kiss my toes, why your brain remembers a picture a thousand times better than a sentence, and how to stop proving frames will fit and start selling the actual dream. In this episode, we'll cover: Why ProSelect and Etsy mockups are actively killing your close rate  The real client story behind a $13,000 gallery wall  The five step process, in order, so you can use it today  The psychology of why a finished image sells harder than any pitch  How to stop selling prints and start selling a feeling Want to steal the exact prompt process? Come find me on Instagram, I'll be sharing the before and afters from this one. Timestamps:00:00 Podcast Intro00:35 Why Mockups Matter02:46 Old Way Problems08:05 Client Story Breakthrough11:17 AI Rendering Workflow13:43 Psychology Behind Yes15:21 Five Step Process18:11 Sell The Feeling19:45 Wrap Up And CTA20:11 Subscribe And Goodbye 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

Last week, Laura shared what it looked like to build a business while fear was riding shotgun. This week, we're talking about what happened when she finally stopped letting fear drive. In Part 2 of our conversation, we get into the actual changes that transformed her business. Not because she found some secret marketing hack, but because she committed to showing up consistently, saying what she actually believed, and trusting the process long enough for it to work. Laura shares how she found her voice through sticky marketing, why she stopped trying to sound like every other photographer, and how embracing what made her different helped her stand out in a crowded market. We also dive into the launch that completely shifted her business. What started as a goal of booking just three sessions quickly turned into 17 bookings, a 387% increase in revenue, and the beginning of a business she finally felt proud of building. The best part? None of it happened because she became fearless. It happened because she kept showing up anyway. In this episode, we'll cover: Why "sticky marketing" is about being memorable—not louder How Laura found the courage to say what other photographers wouldn't The power of building your business around your convictions instead of trends Why consistency matters more than perfection on social media How one launch grew from a goal of 3 sessions to 17 booked clients The mindset shift that led to a 387% increase in revenue Why community and accountability accelerate growth faster than trying to figure it out alone How launching creates demand instead of constantly chasing new clients The surprising reason people are paying attention—even when it feels like no one is listening Why the business doesn't change first... you do. Timestamps:00:00 Podcast Kickoff00:35 Retreat First Meeting01:25 Shoot And Learn Hangout02:39 Trust And Psychology03:42 Red Blue Ocean Breakthrough04:48 Mastermind DM Invite05:57 Money Leap And Support10:06 Burn It Down Days12:15 Sticky Marketing Starts16:13 Stories Without Hello18:22 Business Villains Angle20:25 Mini Sessions Margarita Reel24:38 Be Yourself In Content25:17 Messy Progress Mindset26:24 Consistency Over Perfection27:45 Rewinding to First Launch28:53 Seven to Seventeen Sessions31:28 Measuring Growth Not Hype33:22 Why She Stayed In Mastermind36:09 Community Accountability Engine37:35 Fall Launch Runway Plan40:04 Networking Pays Off43:28 Pricing And Profit Proof45:22 Show Your Face Shift47:39 Credits And Wrap Up48:42 Final Podcast Outro 🔗 Connect with Laura:📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurastansberryphotography/ 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

What if the biggest thing standing between you and the business you want... isn't your pricing, your portfolio, or your marketing? What if it's fear? In this first half of a two-part conversation, I sit down with one of my Mastermind clients, Laura Stansberry, to unpack what fear actually looks like in business—and spoiler alert: it rarely announces itself as fear. Instead, it disguises itself as perfectionism. Overthinking. Waiting until you're "ready." Convincing yourself you need one more website update, one more course, or one more tweak before you put yourself out there. Laura shares the incredible story of how she built her photography business from scratch by cold-emailing 50 preschools with no portfolio, no reputation, and nothing but the willingness to hear "no." But after experiencing success, fear showed up in a completely different way—and nearly convinced her to walk away from photography altogether. This episode is about the subtle ways we sabotage ourselves, the lies we tell ourselves in the name of "playing it safe," and why building a successful business almost always requires acting before you feel ready. And we're just getting started. In this episode, we'll cover: Why fear almost never sounds like fear How Laura landed her first photography clients by cold-emailing 50 preschools Why success can sometimes trigger more self-sabotage than failure The hidden danger of only marketing your business when you have something to sell How "playing with the pretty" keeps photographers stuck for years The mindset shift that separates photographers who grow from photographers who stay busy Why visibility—not talent—is often the missing ingredient in a successful photography business How fear disguises itself as perfectionism, productivity, and "just one more thing" Timestamps:00:00 Podcast Cold Open00:40 Fear And Readiness01:30 Meet Lara And Her Turnaround04:43 In Studio Catch Up07:23 Lara Origin Story11:17 Starting With Schools12:18 Landing Clients Fast17:15 Covid Derails Plans20:12 Boutique School System25:14 From Profit To Collapse27:49 Visibility Reality Check28:48 McDonalds Marketing Lesson30:27 Playing With The Pretty32:40 Santa Launch Burnout34:42 Cornered By Messaging38:20 Fear Of The Ask42:58 Silence Equals No45:49 Retreat Investment Math47:23 In App Purchases Warning49:27 Kismet And Wrap Up 🔗 Connect with Laura:📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurastansberryphotography/ 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

I just got home from two unforgettable weeks in Italy, and somewhere between watching my teenage boys make questionable decisions in St. Mark's Square, crying on the flight home, and trying to shake off the jet lag, I realized something… The vacation wasn't just the reward. It was the receipt. In this episode, I'm sharing the unexpected business lesson that hit me thousands of miles from home: ordinary isn't safe—it has a price. And if you want an extraordinary life, you have to stop waiting until you "make it" before you start living like the person you're trying to become. We dive into the psychology behind why experiencing your dream life—even in small, affordable ways—changes your identity more than another vision board ever could. I talk about the research on future-self thinking, why your standards shape your reality, and how forcing yourself into a bigger life often comes long before you feel ready for it. In this episode, we'll cover: Why "playing it safe" may be the riskiest decision you're making. The psychology of future-self identity and why it changes the decisions you make today. Why vision boards aren't enough (and what actually creates momentum). How to experience the life you want before you can fully afford it—without being financially reckless. The investment I made as a broke single mom that completely changed the trajectory of my business. Why raising your standards is often more powerful than setting bigger goals. How extraordinary lives are built one uncomfortable decision at a time. If you've been waiting for confidence, permission, or the perfect moment before going after the life you really want, this episode is your reminder that the cost of staying ordinary may be higher than the cost of changing. Bye for now, Posers. Timestamps:00:00 Podcast Cold Open00:45 Back From Italy02:48 Motherhood Travel Chaos07:01 Vacation As Receipt08:54 Taste The Future10:47 Future Self Continuity14:20 Vision Boards Reality Check17:05 Comedown And Constriction18:54 Force The Standard Story22:42 Identity Sets The Bar24:42 How To Apply It25:44 Final Takeaway27:24 Outro And Call To Action 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

There is one moment in my career that still makes me cringe. Years ago, I stood outside a breakout session at a photography conference while a stranger tried to convince me to attend a class on sales. I refused. I thought sales meant being pushy, manipulative, and everything I never wanted my business to become. Looking back, I can honestly say that decision cost me more money than almost anything else in my career. In this episode, I'm sharing the exact 8-step sales framework I wish someone had forced me to learn years earlier. This isn't about scripts or convincing people to buy. It's about learning how to ask better questions, listen more than you talk, and help people articulate what they actually want before you ever make an offer. Whether you're booking discovery calls, running in-person sales sessions, or simply trying to feel more confident talking about your pricing, this framework will completely change the way you think about selling. Because the best salespeople aren't the ones who talk the most. They're the ones who listen the best. In this episode, we'll cover: The biggest mistake I made that held my business back for years. The 8-step conversation framework I use for both discovery calls and in-person sales. Why most clients aren't actually buying "photos." How to uncover what people really want before you ever mention your pricing. Why silence is one of the most powerful sales tools you'll ever use. The moment you should finally make your offer—and what to do immediately afterward. If sales has ever made you uncomfortable, this episode will completely reframe what it actually means to sell. Bye for now, Posers. Timestamps:00:00 Welcome to Posers00:35 Italy Vacation Vibes01:49 The Sales Lesson I Dodged03:14 Conference Hallway Regret05:55 Eight Step Sales Framework07:37 Steps One to Four10:10 Steps Five to Eight12:42 Why Listening Is Sales15:40 Framework in the Sales Room20:03 Study It and Go Sell21:17 Outro and Call to Action 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

I keep hearing the same thing over and over right now... in my DMs, on coaching calls, inside the Mastermind. Photographers telling me they're stuck. They tried to raise their prices, bookings dried up, they panicked and dropped back down, and now they're too scared to touch their pricing again. I'm going to tell you why that fear is pointed in the wrong direction. Staying stuck in the middle of the market isn't playing it safe, it's the fastest way to price yourself out of business completely. In this episode, we'll cover: Why the market right now looks like a barbell — busy at the cheap end, untouched at the luxury end, and getting crushed everywhere in the middle Why you can't just "decide" to go luxury when you need bookings fast — and what actually earns you that tier of client The real story of a photographer who dropped her prices to save her business, and lost her best clients in the process What happened in my own studio with a client who spent over $10K in one sitting — and what she said while handing me her card that changed how I think about pricing forever The scarcity mindset loop keeping photographers underpriced, and why it has nothing to do with your talent Three things to focus on if you're the $800 photographer trying to move up: positioning over pricing, real relationships over marketing, and designing for rare instead of available "You keep pricing your work off of your own bank account instead of hers." Pick a direction. Not for this month, for who you're building toward. If this episode hit something for you, I go even deeper on the strategy inside The Posing Method and inside the Mastermind. Links below. Go do something brave. Timestamps:00:00 Podcast Cold Open00:35 Italy Trip Banter01:57 The Mid Price Trap05:31 Two Buyer Economy11:40 Barbell Market Explained14:51 Why Luxury Is Different19:56 Status And Certainty22:18 10K Client Mindset25:24 Fix Positioning Not Price27:35 Pick A Direction Wrap30:29 Outro And Call To Action 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

This episode is a little different. It's not about marketing. It's not about pricing. And it's definitely not about presets. It's about the stories we tell ourselves. After a conversation with a photographer who told me she'd purchased hundreds of preset packs over the last decade and still wasn't happy with her editing, I realized we weren't actually talking about Lightroom anymore. We were talking about confidence. We were talking about perfectionism. We were talking about the exhausting habit so many of us have of searching for an external solution to an internal wound. And that's where this episode goes. I share a deeply personal story about one of my closest friends growing up, body image, and the realization that the same distorted thinking that can affect the way we see ourselves often sneaks into the way we see our work, too. In this episode, we'll cover: Why buying another preset probably isn't going to solve your problem The surprising connection between body image and creative confidence How perfectionism quietly disguises itself as productivity The psychology behind why we keep "tinkering" instead of moving forward Why the hardest work in your business usually has nothing to do with photography The question I want every photographer to ask themselves before opening Lightroom again How self-doubt keeps us stuck and what it looks like to finally call it by its real name If you've ever found yourself endlessly tweaking your galleries, chasing the "perfect" edit, or convincing yourself that you'll finally market your business once your work is "good enough"... This one's for you. Timestamps:00:00 Podcast Cold Open00:47 Episode Disclaimer01:59 Remember That Girl02:56 Beauty She Couldn't See04:45 Body Image Spiral06:14 Evidence Wasn't Enough07:09 Business Mirror Moment07:18 Preset DM Story08:17 No One Click Fix09:16 Hundreds Of Presets10:42 Confidence Behind Tinkering12:50 Tough Love Advice13:30 Her Honest Breakthrough14:01 Editing as Avoidance14:52 The Deeper Wound15:54 Business Dysmorphia18:21 Presets Aren’t the Fix20:10 Perfectionism Disguised24:04 The Real Cost25:14 Questions to Sit With26:48 What We Could Build27:41 Closing and Support28:15 Podcast Wrap Up 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral

If you've ever caught yourself saying, I don't have time, I'm not good at business, I'll start next year, or I've already tried that and it didn't work... this episode is for you. Today I'm calling out the six biggest excuses keeping photographers stuck. Because the truth is, your camera isn't the problem. Your editing isn't the problem. Your talent isn't the problem. Your excuses are. In this episode, I'm breaking down the lies we tell ourselves that feel productive, responsible, or even logical, but are quietly costing us bookings, confidence, momentum, and ultimately... six figures. I'm sharing the mindset shifts that helped me build financial freedom after my life completely fell apart, and why waiting for the perfect time, consuming endless free content, or quitting after one failed attempt will keep you exactly where you are. This episode is packed with tough love, real talk, and practical perspective that will challenge the way you think about your business and the woman running it. In this episode, we'll cover: Why "I don't have time" is usually a prioritization problem. The identity shift from photographer to CEO. Why there is no such thing as the "right time." The hidden cost of free education and information overload. Why consistency beats talent every single time. How to stop collecting excuses and start building the business you actually want. If you're ready to stop playing small, stop waiting, and start taking ownership of your success, this episode is your wake-up call. Bye for now, Posers. Timestamps:00:00 Welcome to Posers00:35 Spicy Mom Energy03:40 Excuse One No Time09:09 Excuse Two Business Skills12:10 Excuse Three Start Now14:15 Excuse Four Right Time17:01 Excuse Five Invest Wisely22:34 Excuse Six Tried Before26:32 No B******t Pep Talk29:36 Outro and Call to Action 🔗 Connect with Jodi:📸 Website: https://www.j-annephotography.com📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.annephotography Love this kind of coaching?Make sure you’re on my newsletter list where I share the behind-the-scenes of launches, pricing, posing psychology, and what it really takes to scale a photography business with soul. 📣 Help Spread the Word!The Mastermind Waitlist → If this episode lit something up for you, if you recognized yourself in the pattern of working hard without seeing the growth you know you're capable of the Posers Mastermind is where we fix that. This is my most comprehensive program for photographers who are done leaving money on the table and ready to build a business with actual strategy behind it. We go deep on marketing, lead generation, content, email, sales psychology, pricing, client experience, and the mindset it takes to run a profitable company, not just a busy one. Everything I taught in this episode is just the surface of what we build together inside. I built this business as a single mom of three boys with no fallback plan and no safety net. Failure genuinely was not an option. The strategies I teach inside the Mastermind are the same ones that turned my camera into a career, my career into a company, and my company into a life I'm incredibly proud of. If you're ready to stop hoping the bookings come and start building the machine that makes them get on the waitlist for the next round. https://j-anne-photography.kit.com/posers-waitlist The Posing Method → My signature course that teaches you how to pose the brain instead of the body so you can drop dopamine and oxytocin in the first two minutes of a shoot and completely transform your galleries. https://j-annephotography.com/the-posing-method Pass Platinum → Stop scrambling for a last-minute sale. Use my link to get 2 months of Platinum free WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE when you start collecting cash on autopilot. https://success.passgallery.com/jodianne-platinum-referral