I hear people say, oh dang, I work a full-time job and I just don't have time to grow my photography business.

Listen, instead of waiting until you have the time you think you need to switch careers,

I want to challenge your perspective and help you see that actually by using the current job you have

maybe you don't love to fund your dream job, you could actually get where you want faster.

And I believe it will take less time than you're probably already putting into your hobby.

And listen, if you are a state-home parent or you don't have a day job right now,

I think you will also be served by listening as well because these ideas can change your life too.

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 can

compete with free 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.

It's funny, isn't it? When do we have time and money just sitting there waiting for us to use them?

The funny thing is, you never will have an abundance of either until you decide to, and that is the truth.

I have a student, Darren Elias. He was working full-time in sort of a soul-sucking IT job.

It was super high stress, and he just didn't love it. So at the end of the day, during nights and weekends to relax, he would do what he loved, which was photography sessions.

And he told himself what a lot of others told themselves too, photography can't be a career. It's just a fun hobby.

I can't charge what I need to charge so that I could actually support my family. And so he continued the grind during the day and just saw his photography as a hobby.

He somewhere came across some of the training that we put out into the market so that photographers could see that, oh my gosh, there's actually another way.

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