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Hey guys, Kirsten here.

Today I'm interviewing Jess McLaughlin with Jess McLaughlin Media.

She is an incredible photographer and journalist.

Some of her works that she has done with different clients include Patagonia, Yeti, Orvis,

Costa, Field Ethos, the U.S. Army, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Outside Magazine,

as well as many countries that she's done different tourism events with.

So without further ado, Jess, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

I'm glad to be here.

I'm super pumped you're here.

I've told you for years that you need to write a book.

So hopefully this is the start of that.

So tell me, how did you get here today from the journalism aspect and the photography

aspect, how that can't be an easy world?

It's a fun world and a really challenging world.

I came into it through many back doors.

I was chucked out of eighth grade.

I was thrown out of eighth grade in a private school for arguing with a logic and rhetoric

teacher and decided that I wasn't made for the traditional paths at that point.

I guess that was a good lesson of I do bad things when I'm bored.

So let's find a career where I won't be bored.

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