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Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 40 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast.

I hope you are doing well, especially to all my Indian listeners who have family back in India.

I hope they're safe.

I hope they're healthy.

I know we're seeing horrific news every day about the surge in India.

I just want you to know that I'm thinking of you and your families. On the show today, I have my dear friend and photographer

Lauren Mitchell. And we're going to be talking about something a little more fun and informal.

Well, I'm not sure if you would call it fun, but it's not a heavy

duty yoga topic. We're talking about what it takes to get good pictures at home from your iPhone

and how to work with a photographer because I think this is something that yoga teachers

struggle with a lot, just putting themselves in front of a camera and taking pictures, whether that's for our classes, our business, our blog, our social media.

It's a visual medium, right? Anything with branding is a visual medium. And it's something we struggle with, at least I know I have in the past.

And Lauren's really helped me on this journey of being comfortable in front of the camera,

learning to have fun with pictures, but most importantly, helping me to plan and understand,

you know, this journey of storytelling and drawing people into the conversation.

And I just thought that listening to her on the podcast today will help some of you if you've been wanting to do this and you're feeling a little stuck.

She's a respiratory therapist who's also a photographer.

She's a mom and she just adopted a new puppy.

You'll hear about this in the podcast.

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