#159: The Mistake of Not Focusing on Money
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
5.0 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt guilty about asking people to pay {gasp…that much} for your photography? Do you have trouble charging what you're worth because of how you grew up?
Maybe you're even worried that you'll feel guilty or change in icky ways if you start making more money in your photography business.
Today I'm sharing nine ways to use money from your photography business for GOOD so you can shift your perspective around what it means to be profitable and help you and the people around you live your best lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Kind of a dumb saying really, money can't buy happiness, but I actually want to address |
| 0:06.5 | this exact thing today. |
| 0:08.8 | I think so many people try to convince themselves that money is bad or business people are bad |
| 0:15.0 | if they have or want money. |
| 0:18.1 | There's a lot of shame around wanting more for ourselves and our families when there |
| 0:22.6 | are others in the world who have so much less. |
| 0:25.9 | So today I want to challenge you to ask yourself, what can money do for us as photographers |
| 0:33.1 | other than bias cool photography gear? |
| 0:38.4 | So the real question is how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable business |
| 0:44.8 | and still put our families first without selling digital files for cheap and working all |
| 0:50.5 | the time? |
| 0:51.7 | I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast and I went from a stressed |
| 0:57.2 | out overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's most profitable photographers |
| 1:03.3 | without working my kids' lives away. |
| 1:06.8 | Each week I'll show you how to find and serve Routique Portrait Photography clients in a |
| 1:11.4 | world where we compete with three thanks to everyone having a digital camera in their |
| 1:15.8 | pocket. |
| 1:17.2 | Make the first step to adding more joy and profit to your life by downloading your |
| 1:21.8 | free photography business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. |
| 1:32.5 | I always laugh when I hear people say money can't buy happiness because it's such a cliché |
| 1:38.4 | saying. |
| 1:39.4 | But the other day I don't remember who it was but somebody said yeah maybe money can't |
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