009: Destination Adventure Photography & Living on the Road with Abbi Hearne
The Heart & Hustle Podcast
The Heart University
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today Lindsey and Evie welcome one of their best friends in the photography industry, the queen of adventurous elopements and an advocate for the outdoors, Abbi Hearne.
Abbi is an adventurer, outdoor advocate, climber, skydiver, and photographer based in the Utah desert. She and her husband Callen run The Hearnes Adventure Photography, specializing in intimate weddings and elopements all over the American west but mainly in Moab, Yosemite National Park, and Alaska. They lived on the road full time for three and a half years and recently bought a house in Moab where they now spend Spring and Fall while still traveling 6+ months of the year. Abbi has built her business and lifestyle around adventure and time in the places she loves most. While her business thrives she emphasizes her own love of the outdoors, trying to never become "too busy" to enjoy life outside of work! The Hearnes are at the top of their niche, often setting the course for others pursuing adventure wedding photography, and have done so in non-traditional ways that go far beyond the tempting all-in mentality of early entrepreneurship. They have redefined the world of elopements, pushed the boundaries of adventure in wedding clothes, and done so while falling even more in love with the environment and the landscapes that drew them to this business in the first place.
They dive ALL into how Abbi navigated her wedding photography business from Houston, Texas shooting big weddings to what she's known for now: serving the niche of epic, high end, adventurous elopement weddings. They discuss practical ways she raised her pricing over time, how she became a lover and advocate for protecting the outdoors, AND how to balance the leave no trace stance as a photographer whose job it is to shoot in the outdoors. Abbi brings such a unique and NECESSARY perspective to being a destination wedding photographer. If you're a photographer who has always dreamed of traveling and shooting destination elopements in especially beautiful places, this episode is a MUST listen.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to episode number nine of the Heart and Hustle podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | We're your hosts, Evie Rupp, and Lindsay Roman. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we're welcoming on to the podcast, one of our best friends in the photography industry, |
| 0:11.0 | the Queen of Adventures Alomentsements and an advocate for the outdoors |
| 0:14.3 | Abby Hearn. Abby is an adventurer outdoor advocate climber skydver and photographer |
| 0:20.2 | based in the Utah desert. She and her husband Callin run the Hearns |
| 0:23.4 | adventure photography specializing in intimate weddings and elopements all over |
| 0:27.1 | the American West but mainly in Moab, Yosemite National Park, and Alaska. They |
| 0:31.7 | lived on the road full- time for three and a half |
| 0:33.4 | years and recently bought a house in Moab where they're now spending their |
| 0:36.4 | spring and fall while still traveling six plus months out of the year. |
| 0:39.5 | Abby has built her business and lifestyle around adventure and time in the places she loves most. |
| 0:44.8 | While her business thrives, she emphasizes her own love of the outdoors, never trying to become too busy |
| 0:49.7 | to enjoy life outside of work. The Hearns are in the top of their niche, |
| 0:53.8 | often setting the course for others pursuing adventurous wedding photography, |
| 0:57.3 | and have done so in a non-traditional way that goes far beyond the tempting |
| 1:00.6 | all-in mentality of early entrepreneurship. They have redefined the world of elopements, |
| 1:04.8 | pushed the boundaries of adventure in wedding clothes, and done so while falling even more in love |
| 1:09.3 | with the environment and the landscape that drew them to this business in the first place. |
| 1:13.0 | In our chat with Abby, we dived all into how she navigated her wedding photography business from Houston, Texas, |
| 1:18.5 | shooting big weddings to what she's known for now, serving the niche of epic high-end adventurous alumnit |
| 1:23.9 | weddings. We talked about practical ways she raised her pricing over time, how she |
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