Brandy Aldrich was a Charlotte North Carolina graphic designer who had grown bored with her job.

As a mom of three, she'd always loved photography, but was scared she would fail if she started her own

business. Hung up by the thought that she needed official education to be a professional photographer,

she put the idea of photography to the side. But during the pandemic, she couldn't get the idea of

photography, business out of her head. Today, I'm talking with Brandy about how she started a

photography business from scratch with no formal photography training and got her first $4,000

dollar photography client. 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 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. Hey Brandy, thanks for being here. Hey Sarah, thanks for having me.

So talk about, tell us about your backstory a little bit. What were you doing before you did

boutique breakthrough? Yeah, so I work remotely for a brand and marketing firm. I'm a senior graphic

designer and so I since my children were born, that's what I've been doing. I've been taking care

of them and juggling that. There are many years that I've worked through the middle of the night

while they were sleeping and then woke up and or got them up and took care of them.

So it's been rough but yeah. Yeah, so you were doing digital files, editing retouching.

So actually I was not doing photography. I was doing. That was the big marketing. Yeah, yeah.

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