You're listening to The Heart and Hustle podcast. We are your hosts, Evie McLeod and Lindsay Roman.

Welcome back to the show, friend. We are so happy to have you here week after week and episode after episode.

This one is going to be a gem for our mothers, hopeful mothers to be.

Wherever you are, if you are intrigued with the concept of building a photography business while being a full-time mom as well, we are going to have a great conversation with two gems of ladies, photographers, Alex and Jamie, today.

And we are covering basically these two besties from Iowa coming in both moms, both photographers

to share their thoughts, their experiences, and their opinions on motherhood and business.

So Jamie, I'll cover her and then Lindsay will dive in a little bit about Alex.

Jamie is a destination adventurous, like a lotment photographer based in Iowa, but hitting up all around the

U.S. since about 2012, passionate about motherhood and business and tackling the two together.

And Alex, her bestie, is also based in Iowa, and she is a Midwest wedding photographer that

focuses on traditional weddings. She's a mom, a girl mom, two, three little

girls. And she had such a different perspective from Jamie while being, obviously they're both

moms, but her being like, I focus only on local weddings. I'm very traditional. Um, like, that's my

market. Um, and I, it's a priority for her to be in, you know, bed every night in her

home as a mom. And so we had these two perspectives on the show to dive into the topic on motherhood

and photography and how to run a full time wedding photography business, whether that's destination or

local while having children and especially children in the toddler stage. We covered so much.

It was a good girl chat, like very back and forth conversational, but we cover how to deal

with pregnancy as a wedding photographer who watches their kids, especially for Jamie when she's

traveling and, you know, flying everywhere to do destination weddings.

Alex talked about boundaries on specifically how she implements boundaries so that, you know,

all of her weddings don't overtake her personal life and her time with her kids.

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