Most people don't think it's possible to have a career as a photographer.

They've been told their whole lives that artists don't make any money.

Then they pick up the camera for the first time and start dabbling,

photographing friends for free, and maybe occasionally making a little money.

Today I'm talking to Minneapolis, Minnesota, area mom of three, Shana Madrid,

who always loved photography. But with her full-time corporate career,

she didn't think photography could be a career even though she'd had some clients.

Now she's getting $3,000 client orders and seeing what's possible with a photography career.

So the real question is how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable

business and still put our families first without selling digital files for cheap and working

all the time? I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast.

And I went from a stressed-out overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's

most profitable photographers without working my kids' lives away.

Each week I'll show you how to find and serve Routique Portrait Photography clients in a world

where we compete with three thanks to everyone having a digital camera in their pocket.

Take the first step to adding more joy and profit to your life by downloading your free

photography business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast.

Hey Shana, thanks for being here.

Hi Sarah, thank you for having me. So tell us about your background. What's your backstory

with regard to photography? Where were you? So before I started Routique Breakthrough and really

started working on building my business, I was like you said I was dappling. I was doing things

for free. I had the most horrible imposter syndrome, right? I didn't feel like I could charge

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