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Hey, what's up, everybody?

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 1008 of Ask Pat 2.0.

Today we're talking with Nicole Young, a photographer who's needing a little bit of help

because she's worried that a lot of other people who are entering the space that she's in are maybe getting a little bit ahead of her and have a

little bit of an advantage because of age and because they're just, you know, quicker to find new

trends versus what Nicole's been doing. And Nicole's been doing this for a while. She's an

amazing photographer. And we're going to talk through all of that, a lot of its mindset, but a lot of tactical, strategical things, too, that we discuss.

All right, now let's get to the coaching call today with Nicole Young. Here she is. Hey, Nicole,

thank you so much for coming on to ask Pat today. I appreciate it. How are you? I'm great. Thanks, Pat. I'm really happy to be here. Yeah, this will be a lot of fun. So tell me a little bit about what you

do and what your business is. Sure. I'm first and foremost, I'm a photographer, but I'm also

an educator, probably more so than I'm a photographer. I started photography while I got into it in high school, didn't think I'd ever be able to make it into a career.

So I ended up joining the Navy.

And while I was actually serving in Hawaii, I decided I wanted to kind of, I wanted to ramp up my photography skills.

And digital photography was just kind of becoming big at that time.

This is about 2005.

So I got a digital camera and kind of was doing that transition from film to digital. And I started doing some stock

photography. Then that just kind of picked up for me. I ended up realizing, hey, I can actually

make some money doing this. And then I was like, hey, I can do this full time. And I was, so I was like, okay,

I'll get out of the Navy and I'll do this full time. And then that kind of transition into

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