Send us a text Full disclosure, Mitzi and Cat cuss like sailors. Buckle Up. In the name of "streamlining" you realize you've created a house of cards versus a stable business and how your desire to be challenged in what you create and how you create that thing you create and what it teaches us as people, and as business owners, and artists. So Mitzi and Cat go down the rabbit hole of appreciating and understanding where your natural strengths lie (through Clifton Strengths and Wealth Dynamics) s...
Apr 15, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text As a husband, father, and employee to an Artist! Simon is a humble man taking his folio building and learning through CreativeLive (courses by John Cornicello) quite seriously, but after encouragement from his friend Angie Whitten and guidance from Saray Taylor-Roman and myself with The Consultation Collection stepped into TFP (trade) sessions into charging sustainable pricing and giving an amazing experience alongside incredible imagery! Sue Bryce even said to him "You're an amaz...
Apr 08, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text "Enthusiasm" is from the Latin root "Enthios" which means: to be filled with a Godlike energy. Emily Pearl IS a very enthusiastic person. When she lights up, she ⭐️LIGHTS⭐️ UP. And it is THAT energy that not only draws her portrait clients to her, but powers the work she creates. It is how she taps into love to CREATE. Emily and Cat talk and dance through faith, manifestation, love, and the business of fine art portrait through the heart of community, exploration, and decision. Ma...
Apr 01, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Send us a text As a man in the boudoir photography world Ben has been very intentional with how he shows up for his clients in creating safe environments, a clinical approach, and assuredly in his marketing to educate his audience about his work. He's uncovered and developed his style, at first through emulation of photographers before him like Peter Hurley and Sue Bryce and learned that he needed to learn to create work HE loved creating and experiencing as ART. His number one rule in his marke...
Mar 25, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Send us a text What you allow for yourself is up to you. Coming from a career as a nurse practitioner into full time as a portrait photographer, Hadonica has grown her business to support how she wants to live her life. She's been able to leave nursing and expand into two locations, and she now leverages her portrait business and revenue into real estate to build her personal wealth. "We can make as much or as little as we want to..." Look to be more in your life and use THAT to receive and buil...
Mar 18, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Send us a text Being an entrepreneur can be isolating. You're trying to figurer out all the "things", and you can feel like you are alone. Judith was courageous enough to bring her startup portrait business and share her story, and even receive mentoring from Cat Ford-Coates to be shared on the Takeover podcast so that she has some direction moving forward. You don't HAVE to know all the things at first, but putting a sustainable infrastructure in place is paramount to your foundation and your c...
Mar 11, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text My mentor has always said "You will learn more about who you are as a person when you start and learn to run a business (successful and unsuccessful)." And today we are talking with Angie Whitten who leans INTO that motto to grow and scale her portrait business and who she is as a person. She shares her journey from the auto industry and how her husband encouraged her to move into the photo space and she has taken that as an opportunity to serve her community in Washington state, ...
Mar 04, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text Ashanta Staten from But a Moment Photography in the Raleigh area of North Carolina is building her business while working in a full time position outside of photo to maintain her security as she grows her business sustainably. She began as many of us do in weddings and quickly discovered that weddings were not where she wanted to focus. During the Covid pandemic she pivoted into newborns and through her own search for business sustainability through platforms like CreativeLive, Yo...
Feb 26, 2024•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text "Why do I tie my identity to the economic value of my business?" Separating yourSELF from your business and trusting that the body knows. Asking curious questions instead of feeding into your fears to uncover your own leadership as an entrepreneur. Teri shares her journey and evolution of her own self awareness through entrepreneurship as a photographer and educator and addresses how she responded to issues in her business because of fear and how those choices were not sustainable...
Feb 19, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text Shift the obsession to YOUR own self care from the addiction of your ambition (#attacked) Kara Marie, yes, is an amazing fine art nude and boudoir photographer, an ex-pat American (with her family) living in Italy and a powerful speaker and educator; not only in the space of photo but in burn out. Her story is fascinating and her openness refreshing. Join us as we deep dive into the cycle of burnout; recognizing your patterns in your practice of self awareness to get a REAL handle...
Feb 12, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text I first met Bethany in a workshop with Sue Bryce just outside of Versailles in France (NBD right?) and have watched her grow her business year after year. Join us as we talk through how she shifted her perspective around campaigns to showcase her 40 Over 40 safely during a pandemic and discovered how that connection with the women in her community was sorely needed and she watched it explode her business. She breaks down cross promotion, staffing these events (now that they are an...
Feb 05, 2024•48 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text Deciding at the age of 8 Donnamaria decided her life's mission was "To Serve" and in this conversation has allowed herself to evolve that mission at 60 to CREATE. After not one, but two military careers, and a divorce did she finally choose photography to be a vehicle for her to fill her own cup. It's time to "stop with the good girl shit" and live her life on her terms; with her business and what she creates and for whom. You can find more of Donnamaria's work: Website: https://w...
Jan 29, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text Welcome Ashleigh Taylor! A portrait photographer from Santa Barbara, CA and during this discussion we touched on all things burn-out, cultivating inspiration for your sessions, clients, and life, advertising for your studio, awards, and so much more. Ash has been winning silvers and even gold awards in print competition and awards with The Portrait Masters, PPA, SWPP, and has been named in the top ten of fashion photographers worldwide with the One Eyeland competition. Needless to...
Jan 22, 2024•49 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text Starting a portrait business you can journey through a wealth of the unknown; pricing, customer journey and experience, choosing products, learning marketing and sales. Alena has been in the photo world for some time and has made it a priority that even before she starts HER business off on the right foot, that she stays IN photo related careers while she lays the foundation of her success in her business. Join us here where she shares not only the successes she has found so far a...
Jan 15, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a text "The way is always through and through is rarely comfortable" - Jonny Edward Join Cat Ford-Coates as she and Jonny Edward dive down the rabbit hole of self doubt, creative development, and discovering not only WHY we create but HOW we show up to be in connection with self AND the person/people we are photographing in addition to the photographers that we educate in the realm of photography. During this conversation we bridge the gap between the "math" of lighting, posing, and the ...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text Navigating the business of boudoir and portrait as an empath with St Louis award-winning photographer Shannon K Dougherty. How does she approach her process, hold boundaries with potential clients to ensure she can meet her customer service standards, and stay in integrity with herself as an empath? She shares what those boundaries are and why they are important to her, and how she prioritizes her own self care while creating amazing art with her clients in a thriving boudoir port...
Jan 01, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text Trusting the universe isn't about sending up a wish and just waiting. Trusting the Universe requires that you have faith in yourself to take the inspired and tactical action necessary so that you can take advantage of opportunity as it is delivered to you. Join me as we chat with award winning portrait photographer and studio owner Ann Landstrom who has embodied the definition of resilient throughout her life: as an immigrant from Sweden, her journey from living as a homeless pare...
Dec 25, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text Portrait Photographers building their businesses are integrating a sales system so that the byproduct of that system is the revenue and success they want for their lives. This, like any business system can create challenges and questions. Join Cat Ford-Coates as she navigates these challenges in real time with these professionals mentoring them on their specific needs. Pricing, marketing, workflow, and mindset. THESTUDIOTAKEOVER.ONLINE Support the show...
Dec 18, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text Expansion as a business owner is never just handed to you on a plate. Oftentimes our growth is made purely out of circumstances and new decisions. Matt Stagliano shares with us just how he's learned about his craft and his business through experiences, relationships, and opportunity. You can find Matt Stagliano here: https://stonetreecreative.com/ https://generatorpodcast.com/ Support the show...
Dec 11, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text Professional Photographers are not exempt from personal development, not by a long shot. Join Aaron Jay Young & Cat Ford-Coates as they discuss: creation, forgiveness, boundaries, and personal practices so they are able to show up for their businesses and their LIVES through artistry in portrait photography. Learn more about Aaron Jay Young here: https://www.aaronjayyoung.com/ Aaron's book QUEEN is available for purchase here: https://www.queenthebook.com/store #aaronjayyoung ...
Dec 08, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a text Judith Hill is a professional portrait photographer based in Nashville, TN who openly shares her journey as a business owner from a career in economic development and finding her joy in the portrait world. Judith has studied with Cat Ford-Coates in various mentoring and is now bringing her growth to the forefront. Join us to understand how your development unfolds when you choose to decide to bet on yourself to build a business you are proud of. Join us on THESTUDIOTAKEOVER.COM Fi...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text Grief is one of those things you don’t just “get through” until one day, it isn’t the very first thing you feel upon waking. Maybe it’s the second, or the third…to this day I still carry their memories daily but that grief has been transformed into a different kind of relationship: the one I have with myself, which has changed how I am in relationships with all others in my world. Support the show...
Dec 02, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text Entrepreneurship requires not the absence of failure but the embracing of it. In this episode, Cat Ford-Coates shares her challenges and failures as a business owner. THE STUDIO TAKEOVER IS AN ONLINE EDUCATION PLATFORM FOR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS THESTUDIOTAKEOVER.COM Support the show
Dec 02, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a text So often educators go immediately to the "dream", to being the solution their audience needs and there is something TO that, certainly. Sharing the desired success is the fastest way to booking your audience. There is also HUGE value in understanding where someone is coming from, regardless of industry. No one just wakes up one day having found success only throrugh privilege, no one I have ever met anyhow. Any trruly successful person will appreciate the trials of getting where t...
Dec 02, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 1
