How they went from making $35k/year to $125k in 6 months. (Student Spotlight with Kyle and Olivia Herzberg)
Passion With Purpose - Photography Podcast, Creative Business, Six Figure Photographer
Nathan Chanski - Photography Business Coach
5.0 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today, I have special guests Kyle & Olivia Herzberg, of Ivory Creek Photography who are a husband & wife photography team and have been part of my coaching program, the Business Blueprint. You're going to love their story of going from ~$35k per year to $125k in just SIX MONTHS. This episode tells all about how they did it.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Welcome back to the Passion with Purpose podcast, everybody. I'm your host, Nathan Chansky. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm so excited today because I have my friends, Kyle and Olivia, here today with us. And Kyle and Olivia are, you guys are a photo and video duo team, right? |
| 0:18.4 | Photo only so far. Photo only team. Okay, gotcha. I talked to so many |
| 0:22.9 | photo and video teams that it's like, it seems like that's just the thing to do, but I love that |
| 0:27.6 | you guys are photo only. So I'm learning so many things about you. And it's really cool because, |
| 0:34.1 | you know, I've been able to watch you guys in the program and been able to see you guys |
| 0:38.7 | in the coaching calls and in the different Facebook group posts you guys have kept us updated with. |
| 0:46.0 | And a lot of times what I like to do, as you guys know, is I like to bring people on the podcast |
| 0:50.5 | to just hear more about them and hear more about their story. And then it's really |
| 0:56.1 | cool too because I get to showcase your story for other people and inspire other people. So Kyle |
| 1:01.5 | and Olivia, if you guys could introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit of background on who you |
| 1:09.0 | are and what you do and how you got here. Yeah, of course. Well, |
| 1:13.1 | first of all, Nate, thank you so much for having us on, you know, such a big honor. We love this |
| 1:17.1 | podcast and just love listening. Thank you. Well, I love having you guys here. Awesome. Yeah, |
| 1:21.7 | but yeah, we're Kyle and Olivia. We're also known as Ivory Creek. That's our brand name. |
| 1:26.4 | And we're primarily a husband and wife |
| 1:28.6 | photography team. But we also have a team of two other associate photographers, Katie and Gabe. |
| 1:34.3 | But basically at our core, we're a faith-based wedding photo team that we just make it our goal |
| 1:39.9 | to serve like Jesus and to celebrate our clients on, you know, one of the biggest days of their life. |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah. We're located in Newburgh, Oregon, just a little small town, but, you know, we shoot |
| 1:52.1 | weddings all over the Northwest. Got a couple in Montana this summer. Hopefully going to Hawaii soon. |
| 1:58.6 | So, yeah, shooting in some new places, which is exciting. So you do some destination work then. A little bit. So far, like the Hawaii wedding that I'm talking about, it might be for a friend that's going to get engaged soon. And they're from Hawaii. And so that might be a little introduction to something that might grow in the future. There you go. I love it. I mean, is some of the work, because I know Oregon is definitely a |
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