So friends, I could not be more excited to be sitting and having a conversation with my

dear friend and mentor James Wedmore.

I know that I was looking on the podcast plenty of times about my journey as a photographer.

And what many people know me as now would be a business strategist, a photographer, talk

about social media and all of those things are true.

But there was somebody that I met in my path that really transformed who I became in the

future.

So in 2016, I had this idea that, oh, hey, I wanted to learn how to actually run a digital

business, not just a business online.

Having a business online meant having a website.

People can contact me via email, but what did it need to have a digital business?

People that could actually buy and consume things in a digital format from me, something

I had never done before.

So I'm just searching on the internet for how to find information and get help.

And I stumble across an invitation for an online class.

Now, at the time this online class was something called a webinar.

This is 2016 and I had never heard of the word webinar.

So I sign up and I get an email with a link to join and I get in like four minutes early

and this gentleman, his name is James.

And he's like, hi, welcome to this class.

And he's like, tell me your name and where you're from.

And I nervously type into the chat box, Jasmine Star, Newport Beach.

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