You're listening to the Heart and Hustle podcast. We are your host, Evie McCloud and

Lindsay Roman. Welcome back to another show, my friend. Today we are diving into a

niche topic that we have never covered on the show before. Pretty sure. I don't think ever. Actually, no, yeah, right. No, never. I don't think ever.

Actually, no, yeah, right.

No, never.

We're talking about birth photography with the incredible Samantha Tolison.

Now, Samantha is a birth photographer, videographer,

podgaster, based in North Texas, and she has been a birth

nerd for as long as she can remember. Her passion is to show women how incredibly powerful and capable

that they are through the lens of her camera, and she attended her very first birth as a friend in 2013 and then

attended her first birth as a photographer in 2020.

Aside from the creativity and passion that she has for the birth art she loves to connect with and support others in the birth condition. and

support others in the birth art.

She loves to connect with and support others in the birth community.

And today we just had such fun talking with her.

Yeah, so we covered Samantha basically like open doors to the behind the scenes of her business and what it looks like we had a lot of logistical questions for her from the lighting to how to handle being on a call what happens how many do you book, what happens if, you know, mom's due dates or birth and labor

overlaps.

How do you take a vacation?

Yeah, how do you take time off?

The financial possibilities of birth photography.

Can it be something super profitable

for most photographers when all we hear

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