Grow Your Photography Business Podcast

Ashleigh Taylor is an internationally award winning portrait photographer and photography speaker/educator based in Santa Barbara, CA. Ashleigh is an accredited Fellow with The Portrait Masters as well as an official mentor of The Portrait System Powered by Sue Bryce. She has spoken at conferences such as The Portrait Masters & WPPI and teaches two online courses which are available through ThePortraitMasters.com. 

Paula Brennan is a photographer and educator based in the gorgeous Sunshine Coast in Australia… and yes it lives up to its name! With 23 years experience across multiple genres including weddings and portraits, Paula now focusses her attention solely on the Personal Brand Market, primarily photographing industry-leading entrepreneurs and small businesses. She is the host of the podcast The Business of Personal Brand Photography - and is passionate about spreading the good word throughout the photography industry about how highly lucrative this emerging sector of the industry is. She shares the tools to incorporate lifestyle branding photography into their businesses with helpful, inspiring and insightful content in her weekly show and within her online education platform. She sees her growing success due to the fact that she engages her clients to come back again and again with subscription-style packages and multi-person shoot experiences unlike anything her competitors offer, and brings back many of her clients 1-3 times per year, making sure their content buckets for their website and social media are full and fresh.

Mary Vance is a lifestyle photographer and videographer located in the suburbs of Seattle, Wa, where she specializes in high school senior photography. Over the past decade, Mary has earned a reputation for creating connection in single-subject images as well as crafting inclusive experiences for her senior clients, specifically for those who are neurodiverse or identify as a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Mary merges her past life as a professional dancer with her ease of interaction with teenagers to create natural posing workflows to flatter all bodies. Mary has shared her approach to senior photography thru speaking engagements with WPPI, the RangeFinder Lounge, The Bokeh Podcast, and the Elena S Blair Mastermind and Retreat. She writes regularly for RangeFinder.com and has been educating for over 20 years. 

Rhea Whitney is an international wedding photographer and speaker & educator for creative entrepreneurs who want to run a profitable photography business. In the last 10 years, Rhea has consistently driven her business to six figures by putting client service first, establishing a constant brand presence, collaborating with top vendors and sponsors + implementing strategic marketing that works!Recently, Rhea was named one of the world’s top wedding photographers of 2020 & 2021 by BRIDES magazine; and has also been featured in many other national publications. Though Rhea has become one of the most sought photographers and speakers in her industry, she is most passionate about collaborating with local sponsors and vendors for events, styled shoots, and content creation.  To date, Rhea has helped over 100+ creatives build a revenue-generating business through 1:1 coaching + her digital education platform PhotoBomb Academy™.Rhea grew up with a camera in hand, and in her free time loves to work out, hang with her girlfriends, relax by the water, or do a little shopping at Nordstrom. She is a proud graduate of Howard University, where she majored in Business Finance & Accounting. She attributes her success to her genuine passion for client service, business and finance acumen + innate love for photography and art; which allowed her to deeply understand the numerical world of camera settings and the beauty it creates.She is most renowned for giving real-life applicable tips that any brand or business can apply right now, in a simplified way they can understand.

With a BFA in Photography from the University of Michigan, numerous awards including the Oregon Bride Best Portland Photography finalist for 2022, many publications, and over fifteen years of photographing weddings full time; Jessica's style is a blend of photojournalism and creative portraiture. As an educator and speaker, Jessica focuses on business and posing to streamline photographer's workflows and maximize their profits. 

Barkha Agarwal is one of the top Maternity and Newborn Photographers globally, based in Gurugram(Delhi) India. Canon has awarded her with the prestigious Canon Maestro title. She is teaching at WPPI 2023 this year. Her session is on 'Creating Hi-Fashion Maternity Portraits that bring an edge to your portfolio' and it is already creating a lot of buzz. In past, she has won multiple international awards like WPE, Rise International, AFNS etc, and has also taught at Belly Baby Summit, USA. She left her corporate career of over 5 years in Sales and Marketing to pursue her passion of photography. Leaving a well-established corporate career was challenging but Barkha listened to her heart and decided to pursue photography full-time. Barkha experimented with a lot of different genres for over a year before pursuing Maternity and Newborn photography. What made her choose Newborn & Maternity as her genre was the emotions involved - she says that she is not photographing just the mom - but the life within her. Along with the newborn baby - a Mom and Dad take birth too& it was these emotions which she wanted to capture through her lens and turn them into lifetime memories for her clients. Barkha is a new Mom herself with a 20-month-old daughter. After her maternity leave she started back with shoots when her daughter was just 40 days old and her little girl accompanies barkha to her studio everyday. Barkha did her maternity and newborn photoshoot herself. You can check out the amazing images on her website www.memoriesbybarkha.com. She has one motto in life - " If you want something - Just go Get it Period". Barkha's Instagram handle: #memoriesbybarkhaWebsite: www.memoriesbybarkha.com

For three years running, Sean has been recognized as one of the top wedding photographers in the world by the Wedding Photojournalist Association, Artistic Guild. Based in Colorado, he specializes in capturing environmental portraits using off-camera lighting. Originally a reporter for the Orange County Register, he is a photojournalist turned wedding photographer and has been documenting portraits and events for over a decade. As an ambassador for some of the most recognizable names in the photo industry, Sean can be regularly found sharing his photography passion with creatives around the world as a seasoned educator. 

Miranda Hayek, MA, is the lead content creator and artistic director of Blossom Blue Studios for the past 15 years, a team of creative artists offering fine art products and visual storytelling services throughout Long Beach and worldwide. She holds a Masters in Marketing, and is known for her unique editorial approach to photographic and video content. Miranda’s ability to create engaging storytelling and branding content has brought her national and international clients including Sherwin Williams, NASA, A&E, Wells Fargo, VAIO and ILVE. Miranda has served as an expert panelist and educator for local and national organizations, including Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and has been recognized as a finalist in the Director of the Year award by IDEA Health & Fitness Association.

Marcie Reif is an in-demand kids, family, commercial photographer, and photography educator in the Atlanta, GA area. Marcie is a Tamron Pro Ambassador and travels around the country each year speaking at conferences and leading other photographers. Marcie is also founder of The Roadtrippers Retreat, an educational experience for female photographers, and the author of the best selling instructional resource Bringing Home the Story of the Beach. Marcie Reif Photography has been featured on highly popular online communities such as Click It Up a Notch, Manfrotto School of Excellence, Tamron blog, and the Click Magazine blog. Her work has been featured and shared countless times by industry-leading companies and has appeared in print in the highly acclaimed Click Magazine, Tamron Magazine, and Digital Imaging Reporter. 

Amber Henry is a Michigan, USA-based international award-winning wedding and portrait photographer, who looks for beauty in everyday tasks.  Amber’s creative, romantic, and uniquely stylized images have been featured around the world but her greatest joy is capturing her clients’ most cherished life moments. She has been a professional photographer for over 18 years, taking huge pride in offering highly unique and timelessly romantic photography. Spending most of her young adult life as a single mother of three sons, Amber started from the absolute bottom and grew her studio from the ground up. She is self-taught, seeking out education in every form she could find, knowing the years of perseverance would one day pay off as she fought to overcome the weight of childhood poverty. Every day she counts herself as grateful to do what she loves as her life’s work.Amber has collected a variety of awards from international organizations including WPPI, WPE, PPA, Portrait Masters, and Fearless Photographers as well as published worldwide. Her desire to pass on what she has learned in the form of hands-on education includes many speaking engagements, one-on-one mentorship programs, and an online group for women called Females Who Flash. She is proficient in both natural light and strobe, which allows her to make any location at any time of day look extraordinary. Amber believes all body types and all walks of life should be photographed and captured in the most beautiful way, one that tells the story of who they are. Above all else, her core value is rooted in the belief that absolutely anyone can change their stars!