Stay-at-Home Mom Makes $4500/shoot Using Cultural Portraits with Mapuana Reed
The Portrait System Podcast
Sue Bryce Education
4.9 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like you wanted to start your own business and explore your passion but it just sounded too scary or impossible to do? If so, this is the episode for you! In this week's episode, host Nikki Closser interviews Mapuana Reed, a mother of 6 with a witty and lovable personality and an incredibly successful portrait photographer based in Hawaii. Mapuana shares with us how she felt like she was losing her identity being a stay at home mom and decided to start learning photography to create her own business. She did some research, bought a camera from Costco and gave herself 30 days to succeed. She worked hard and met Sue Bryce at a workshop in Beverly Hills in 2015 who gave her the affirmation and inspiration to raise her prices and really grow her business. Since then, Mapuana has been exploring something that she is extremely passionate about: cultural portraits, through which she perpetuates a family tradition that is very meaningful to her. Now, Mapuana's average sales are between $3000 & $6000 per photoshoot. If you're afraid of making that big change and trying to explore the thing that you love and are passionate about, then you definitely don't want to miss this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Nikki Klosser, and I want to let you know about an awesome free giveaway for people on our email list. |
| 0:05.6 | If you haven't already, click the link in our podcast description or go to the PortraitSystem.com |
| 0:10.1 | slash sign up to get on the list. |
| 0:12.1 | If you sign up, you'll get a free posing 101 PDF to jumpstart things. |
| 0:16.2 | It's an epic PDF, so you'll definitely want to get this. Also, just by being in our email community, |
| 0:22.0 | you'll get deals, sales, and information about any of our upcoming events and activities. |
| 0:26.5 | So head over to theportrait system.com slash sign up and sign up today. |
| 0:32.4 | You're listening to The Portrait System podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | My grandmother passed away. I can't get this time back with her. |
| 0:38.3 | I can't get a cultural portrait with her. |
| 0:41.6 | And I wish with all my heart that that is something that I could have today and I don't. |
| 0:46.3 | And because I don't have that, I truly want to give it. |
| 0:49.8 | I want to be able to help families to have these in their homes. |
| 0:55.2 | This is the Portrait System podcast, a show that helps portrait photographers and people |
| 0:59.6 | hoping to become one, navigate the world of photography, business, money, and so much more. |
| 1:04.6 | We totally keep it real. We share stories about the incredible ups and the very difficult |
| 1:08.8 | downs when running a photography business. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm your host, Nikki Klosser, and the point of this podcast is for you to learn actionable steps that you can take to grow your own business and also to feel inspired and empowered |
| 1:19.5 | by the stories you hear. |
| 1:21.1 | Today's guest is Mopwana Read, and she has pretty much mastered the genre of taking |
| 1:25.5 | cultural portraits. |
| 1:26.8 | And not only is her work just incredibly |
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