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Welcome to The Empowered Photographer Podcast!
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🎙 Episode Summary:
In this episode, we dive deep into what it truly means to be an empowered photographer. Beyond business tactics, the biggest challenge photographers face is feeling worthy of success. Many start photography for personal reasons, making it difficult to charge what they’re worth and confidently receive compensation.
💡 Key Takeaways:
✔️ Self-Worth & Pricing – When you undervalue yourself, you create a business model that leads to burnout.
✔️ The Power of Receiving – Charging what you’re worth allows you to show up fully for your clients.
✔️ Mindset Shift – You are not just a photographer; you are providing a luxury service capturing life’s most valuable moments.
✔️ The Cost of Playing Small – When you charge less, you feel less pressure but it also limits your success.
✔️ "When people pay, they pay attention." The more your clients invest, the more they value your work.
✨ Action Step:
Think about one way you can step into empowerment today, whether it’s raising your prices, setting boundaries, or confidently marketing your work.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Empowered Series
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Welcome to Empowered. I am so excited to share this new experience with you that I dreamed up while I was on a walk. And if you are new to me, you will learn quickly that I am equal parts strategy, equal parts energetics when it comes to your photography business, and really when it comes to your life.
00:00:26
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So I'm very excited
Purpose of the Series
00:00:27
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to share this with you. I think it's going to be super fun. And I want to tell you a little bit about why I named this series empowered. first of all i know this isn't actually a podcast it's not on itunes it's not on spotify i just wanted a quick way to share knowledge about art and business with you why i was getting a lot of questions in my facebook group on my instagram account in my email about running a photography business And I was feeling like there was this divide between photographers who asked me questions from an empowered place and photographers who asked me ah questions from a place that was disempowered, meaning that their confidence was really
Community and Empowerment
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low.
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Now, no one of those places is wrong. We all kind of teeter back and forth from feeling empowered and feeling disempowered. But my hope for myself and for my community is to bring us all up, to rise us up to that empowered place because I know that the more artists, the more photographers that are sharing their creative gifts with the world, the better.
00:01:29
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I believe wholeheartedly in community over competition.
Flexible Listening Format for Busy Times
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I also was thinking about starting a video series to share the answers to these questions in video, whether it be on my stories and saving as a highlight or YouTube or in my Facebook groups with a live. But what I was realizing in my own mind was that this is busy season.
00:01:50
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And if you're listening to this, you know, on the replay and you're not in the busy season, but for you to know when I started recording this, it's September, end of September, we're all really busy. And sometimes it's hard to sit down and watch something and be really present.
00:02:03
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But for some reason, when you pop in those earbuds and you're doing the dishes or you're picking your kids up from school or you're on a walk or whatever, or maybe you're editing, you're able to sort of absorb the information while doing other things while multitasking. So that's where this idea came from. And I wanted it to happen quickly. I wanted it to be intimate.
00:02:22
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So I'm calling it a podcast experience knowing full well that it's not an actual podcast. So just little insight into my mind. So I want you to think about stepping into this new place of empowerment.
Target Audience: Early-Stage Photographers
00:02:34
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I want you to think about becoming an empowered photographer, an empowered business owner, and I'm going to share with you some things along the way that are going to really hopefully help you with that, especially right now in this beginning phase of this little, you know, private listening experience that I'm creating for you.
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So that's where that all came from.
About Elena Blair
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If you're new to me, my name is Elena S. Blair. I am a lifestyle family and newborn photographer in Seattle, Washington. I also have a busy boutique school photography segment of my business and I have two associate photographers who work underneath me.
00:03:08
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And then I also run an education platform, ElenaSBlair.com, where I have a high ticket mastermind that really helps people transform their lives and businesses. I have a invite only level two mastermind called influence where I help photographers become educators. That one only happens once a year.
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and I also have a bunch of classes for anyone um
Resources for Photographers
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who's interested. But I give a ton of information for free. I really like to help people out in the earlier stages of their journey, or I really help like to help people out when they feel burnt out or they feel like they're on a precipice of should I keep going? Should I quit?
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And I'm here for you if that's who you are
Invitation to Engage with the Series
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as well. So the next couple of um episodes that you're going to listen to, or maybe i don't know how many I'm going to have, are going to empower you to take the steps into having a profitable, meaningful business that you love.
00:03:57
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I cannot wait. Thank you for being here. i hope that you binge all of these and let me know what you think. Let's dive in.