Grow Your Photography Business Podcast

Melissa Love is a graphic designer and website developer who works with creative professionals to help them develop a strong brand presence and stand out in a crowded market. She is passionate about affordable design for small businesses and founded The Design Space to help photographers, designers and other makers grow their businesses on and offline. Based in the UK, she is also a keen photographer.

Victoria is the CEO of Image Salon, an editing, retouching and photo studio based in Montreal, Canada. It was founded in 2014 with the core value of placing people first and offering a tailored editing and retouching services for its clients as well as a high touch Customer Service.Victoria found her calling and passion in management pretty early in her career. Prior to joining the Image Salon team in 2016, Victoria grew and managed several photography studios, first across Canada, and then internationally aboard cruise ships. She has also worked as a Wedding and Portrait photographer, both  including to some destinations such as Australia, the Philippines, Bahamas and Lebanon. In her free time, she enjoys spontaneous road trips, long-distance biking, and hosting dinner parties.With a strong interest in streamlining workflows for photographers and team members alike, Victoria’s embrace of exploring new and innovative technologies and methods has and continues to help Image Salon grow and continuously improve all it has to offer. She has a bright and forward thinking pedagogical approach and between her experience in Leadership and the trust she has placed in her team means Image Salon can keep pushing business forward for both clients and her team.

First and foremost, Rick is a dad and a husband. His world revolves around his wife Nadia and daughter Vedra. After shooting on every continent, he is now a wedding photographer solely dedicated to serving his local region, the Yarra Valley. His relationship with local venues provides him with a sustainable source of leads and the opportunity to shoot a high volume of weddings, over 100 per year. This has led to his obsession with streamlining his workflow, leveraging automation and outsourcing to drastically reduce the time he needs to spend behind the scenes  and treats himself more like his own associate shooter; just showing up to shoot, having a zoom call, and answering the odd query over email. 

Ben Hartley will help you get out of your own way and design the life you want to live. (without wasting years of your life trying)Ben is the founder of Style & Story, based in Tampa, FL which was named one of the top 10 wedding photographers in the country in 2017 and 2020. Ben also offers photographers free coaching inside his Facebook Mastermind Group and weekly Six Figure Photography Podcast to help them win more bookings, maximize their profits, and break through limiting beliefs.

Ryan is a videographer, marketing strategist, and the owner/operator of Snaadt Media Group.Snaadt (it rhymes with odd) discovered his interest in video during his sophomore year of college while shooting workout videos on a GoPro for his YouTube channel. He quickly developed a creative eye for film and started Snaadt Media Group, a video marketing business specializing in the fitness industry. Over the last few years, Ryan has had the pleasure of working with a variety of clients ranging from national football brands to social media influencers, taking him across the country creating content. He truly loves the process of learning new areas of video and connecting passionate people with their target audience. In addition to shooting, Ryan also consults and speaks on topics surrounding online marketing and using video to grow brands.  Apart from creating videos, he also teaches other videographers how to build successful businesses of their own via his YouTube channel, Facebook group, and online courses. He is the creator of the largest Facebook group for videographers in the world "The Freelance Videographer Community" with over 80,000 members. He is currently in the process of building a new program called 6 Figure Filmmaker, teaching videographers how to grow a thriving business in the fitness industry. You can learn more about Ryan at www.ryansnaadt.com or connect with him anywhere on social media.

Rebecca photographs love. Couples, new babies, families, romantic proposals and intimate weddings. Connecting with people and creating visual art through a shared meaning and real purpose is what drives her. Rebecca’s work gravitates towards a clean, light filled style, and her collaborative vision gives her images a true sense of honesty. Make sure you check out her in-between moments, they are stunning!

Karen is a wedding photographer and SEO consultant and coach based in Glasgow. With a wedding photography business in it’s 16th year, she specialises in shooting urban, city weddings in the summer months in Scotland, and out of season she coaches photographers on SEO with her ‘done with you’ SEO services that are personalised to each client. Karen has a background in teaching and coaching, and uses this to help empower and upskill other photographers and wedding industry professionals to help them achieve their goals. 

Honza has a passion for people and their emotions. Proud husband, used to be a guy from corporate and now shoots weddings all around the world and hosts his own workshops for Wedding Photographers. Honza honestly believes that capturing real and authentic moments is the biggest value that any photographer can deliver to their clients. Based in Czech republic, but love has no borders for him.

Vicki is one of the UK’s leading family & branding photographers based in Surrey, UK. She set up her business after the birth of her first son in 2008, following her dream of running her own business and leaving behind a successful career in advertising.Vicki specialises in expressive, joyful photography for big-hearted families & entrepreneurs and her work has been published internationally in publications such as Vanity Fair, The Telegraph & Cosmopolitan.Vicki is also hugely passionate about supporting other photographers to create a thriving businesses that delights both themselves and their clients. She has mentored many photographers over the past few years, spoken at photography conferences, run her popular Delight Retreat, and more recently her Delight & Dream 7 week online programme for family photographers.She is fascinated by all things psychology & mindset, and has trained in NLP and success coaching and uses this experience in her training with photographers.Vicki is also the co-host of the popular (and award winning!) podcast for people photographers, Shoot Edit Chat Repeat which her and Eddie Judd launched in early 2008.

Anna Pumer is a Brighton-based wedding photographer. She's been shooting weddings since 2012, and before that was a magazine editor in London. Anna also runs Kick Ass Photographers, which is an education platform, where she teaches photographers how to run a successful business (with success being based equally on happiness as it is on earnings) - and how to get fully booked with clients they love, and who love them back. Anna has held several workshops, and loves bringing likeminded people together. She also loves animals and nothing makes her happier than seeing a dog at a wedding!