#191: This Mom Stopped Selling Digital Files When Her Baby Was 2 Months Old. Here's What Happened Next.
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
5.0 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Especially for moms, life is full of tough choices.
When Felicia's 2-month-old baby boy couldn't stay out of the hospital, she knew she had to make a choice:
Being a present mom OR being an "I work crazy long hours" digital photographer.
UNLESS ….
She could find a third option that allowed her to do BOTH!!
(Spoiler Alert: She did - and got a $3,297 sale!!)
If you've been struggling to make a decision about your photography career, you're going to love the happy-ending-story for Felicia and her family.
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| 0:00.0 | Felicia Irribe was selling digital files and hoping people would buy expensive wall art, |
| 0:06.4 | but they usually didn't. |
| 0:08.7 | When she heard a boutique breakthrough, she thought, |
| 0:12.0 | I don't have a problem investing in my husband or my kids, |
| 0:14.5 | but I always put myself on the back burner. |
| 0:17.8 | Not this time. |
| 0:19.7 | Once she became boutique, her first client invested, get this, |
| 0:23.6 | $3,297 before the class even finished. So the real question is, how are portrait photographers |
| 0:35.0 | like us able to run a profitable business and still put our families first |
| 0:40.3 | without selling digital files for cheap and working all the time? |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast, and I went from a stressed out |
| 0:50.9 | overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's most profitable |
| 0:55.6 | photographers without working my kids' lives away. Each week, I'll show you how to find and serve |
| 1:02.6 | boutique portrait photography clients in a world where we compete with free thanks to everyone |
| 1:07.4 | having a digital camera in their pocket. Take the first step to adding more joy and profit to your life by downloading your free |
| 1:15.6 | photography business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. |
| 1:24.6 | Welcome, Felicia. |
| 1:27.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:28.5 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm so happy that you are here joining us because you're actually still in Boutique |
| 1:36.9 | Breakthrough. |
| 1:37.4 | Are you not? |
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