Dare to Develop

We are so excited to have Hannah Nowack, the Senior Weddings Editor at The Knot, on today’s show. 

We’ll chat with her all about their new list on The Knot, the ones to watch list. She shares with us how they started it, and her why behind creating it. You’ll also learn more about the Knot and how you can partner with them.

We're so excited to welcome a dear friend of ours, Megan of Megan Kay Photography. Megan is a destination photographer based in Dallas, Texas. 

Bachelor fans will remember Madi Prewett from season 24 (Peter the Pilot) and today we are diving in with Megan how she prepared and shot Madi and Grant Trout’s wedding. 

Megan has a wealth of knowledge to share about shooting celebrity weddings, how to prepare for them, and how to interact with publications and vendors. She will also share some of her favorite mantras that help her bring her best self to every wedding she photographs. You definitely don’t want to miss this episode!

Are you interested in pursuing work in Destination Weddings? If so, this is going to be a podcast you’re going to want to listen to. We have the sensational Jennifer Stein of Destination I Do, a Destination Wedding Blog, and she is going to dive into how you can start marketing and preparing to do destination work.

Jennifer has been running Destination I Do for almost two decades which wedding blog, wedding website, and podcast.

Jennifer is an expert on all things destination weddings and gives great advice on not only how vendors and couples can pull together a destination wedding team but also just be ready to work those destination weddings and work with vendors from all over the world.

We are so excited to have Jessica Lorren and Kat Braman with us today. The two are both destination photographers who have been in the industry for 15 years. Within the last couple of years, the two merged their individual photography businesses to become Lorren & Braman. They also have started The Reed Community. Which is a community for creatives in search of sustainability within work and life so we don’t burn out.

On today’s episode, we’ll be talking with them all about balance and harmony and how basically balance isn’t a real thing. That said, they have some great ideas on how you can have a more harmonious life. So stay tuned for business and life tips.

We're so excited to hang out and chat with Kir Tuben, a Washington DC-based photographer whose passion is talking about supplemental income and how to monetize different aspects of life.

We had the pleasure of getting to spend some time with her at HybridCo this year and she will be telling us how she has created multiple streams of income and talks all about numbers. Talking money has been thought of Taboo in the past but we believe in transparency and today Kir is getting real with us about how and how much she makes and how you can do it too. 

So stay tuned and learn how you can maybe 2x or 3x your business and your profit.

We are so excited to have Kirsten (she/they) and Maria Palladino (they/she), the co-founders of Equally Wed on the podcast.  Their mission is to make the wedding industry a safer place for the LGBTQ+ community by offering wedding, marriage equality, and information to the LGBTQ+ community and LGBTQ+ inclusive education to the businesses who serve them. They are  talking with us about being more inclusive and affirming to different marginalized communities in the wedding world.

We’ll talk about it all…from appealing to and working with new clients that are in the LGBTQ+ community or other marginalized groups, working with vendors, as well as guests at weddings who might identify in one of these communities as well. The education into being a good ally never ends and we are excited for everyone to continue this education with us.

We'd love to offer your listeners a discount in regards to the products that we have separate from our content. We do have vendor listings, a phenomenal vendor directory on our https://equallywed.com/, where vendors can get in front of our readers that are planning their engagements, weddings, and honeymoons. We have https://equallywedpro.com/, which has our LGBTQ plus inclusive education course and certification course, and Equally Inclusive, which is our membership group that is launching and should be out when you're listening to this.

• The code is DARE20 and it's for 20% off "Equally Wed Pro's LGBTQ+ Inclusive Training and Certification Course for the Wedding Industry"

We’re so excited to introduce you to Kristin Sweeting, a photographer top Nashville and Destination Photographer. She is also an educator,which in her words is what she feels like she is the best at, and is the  host of her own podcast, The Dangerous Creatives. With 13 years of experience Kristin has been all over the world and worked with so many different clients and the highs and lows of owning a business.

Today we are diving into how to be uniquely you. Kristin is going to break down how to get your work to stand out in saturated markets and how to be known for your style. This is such an insightful listen so tune in.

Welcome back to season 3 of Dare to Develop! This season we have more amazing guests lined up for you and they dive deep into connection and ways to grow your business. In today’s episode, we  talk about what we have been up to since the last season and give you a sneak peak of what’s to come this season.

We're so excited to have Sacia Matthews, a destination wedding photographer and educator based in the Southeast, here with us today. We’ve had her on our show before but she is back and this time talking all about developing strong creative partnerships and how you can do that too, with your business.

So let's dive in and talk all things, photographers and planners becoming close and working together.

Sacia's offer for D2D listeners: I offer one-to-one coaching calls but for all of the Dare to Develop listeners, I'm going to take $50 off. You just have to mention that you heard about it through the podcast.

We are so excited to welcome Molly McCauley, a destination wedding photographer, and the host of Make Pretty Workshops. 

We're talking with her today about her journey into developing international workshops and what really goes behind making a workshop come to life. Molly tells us the scoop about what goes on behind the scenes to create a seamless experience for her attendee's and how her background in planning has helped with that. If you've thought about creating your own workshop or thinking of heading to one but don't know how to choose, Molly. has some great tips so listen in. 

We're so excited to have Alexey Nikityuk and Anja Winikka, co-founders of Maroo, a payment platform designed specifically for wedding professionals.

Today, they're chatting with us about how you as a business owner can save money and streamline your payments so you can get them faster and easier.

Maroo's offer for D2D Listeners: 

We are going to do a special code for anybody who's listening to Dare to Develop.

And if you sign up using that link, we're going to give everybody who signs up using that link $50. We'll just pop that into your account and show you because for us, of course, moving money and putting money and sending money is very on-brand. So we could think of no other way than to show off our product than offering $50.

Today on the podcast, we are privileged to introduce you to Krystel Stacey. Krystel is a business strategist and wedding planner who is going to talk about taking daring risks in your businesses to level up and move yourself into the next space that you want to be in. She has made some daring risks in her business that have taken her to the next level and some that haven't and today she is talking about both.

We met Krystel at Hybrid where she was doing a keynote speech and asked the audience to take a risk. So we decided to step up and ask her to be on the podcast. We can't wait for you to listen to this interview!

We're really excited to have Mary Costa with us today. Mary is a photographer based in Southern California and is well known for her colorful style. Today we are chatting with her about finding your own style and not going with the crowd. Mary has so many great tips on how to do that yourself as well as has a special suprise for you all at the end of the episode.

We're so excited to have Erinn Bridgman with us. Erinn is a money and business coach for creatives. She's going to talk all about daring to use your business to build personal wealth which is something that I feel a lot of wedding creatives can definitely use.

Money can be a hard topic for creatives to make a plan for in your business, but Erinn is going to break down so many great ways to break through that mindset. Stay tuned for so much good information.

Today on Dare to Develop, we have Hope of Hope Taylor Photography. She is a photographer and business coach based out of the south, and she started her business while she was in high school and has continued to cultivate and grow her photography and education business.

We're so excited for you to listen to this episode all about following your intuition and moving into the next phase of your career!

Today on Dare to Develop, we're chatting with Sarah Carpenter, a Pacific Northwest photographer who is widely known for her beautiful portrait work especially with ballerinas. We are chatting with Sarah today about personal projects and how having those has helped her grow her business and help in other aspects of life as well. We can't wait to dive in!

Where can our listeners find Sarah Carpenter?

EPISODE SUMMARY

Today on Dare to Develop, we wanted to fill you in on the business and personal books that we have both been reading. We think it's so important to work on self-development as well as your business. Today we're going to chat about our current favorites, books we’ve just finished and ones we are currently part of the way through. Check out the blog to find links to our 2022 Book Recommendations.

We're so excited to have Jennefer Wilson on Dare to Develop. You might know her because she's not only a photographer, a podcaster, and an educator, but she's also the creator of Kindred Presets.

Jennefer is going to talk all about the Kindred community and why she created the presets. She dives deep into how it has really helped her business and paved the way for so many photographers.

We’re so excited to welcome Steph Wahlig on the podcast today. Steph is an accomplished destination photographer based in the Arizona Area. She has diversified her work from her own wedding work, an editing company and an associate team. We’ll be talking all about how she started one of her many businesses, Step on Me, which is her associate program.

Steph will share tips on starting an associate program. We will also talk about common roadblocks that can prevent a lot of photographers from creating their own programs.

Grab your notepad because Steph comes with a whole bunch of business knowledge that we can’t wait for you to hear!

We're so excited to have D’Arcy Benincosa with us. D’Arcy is a world renowned international photographer and an industry leading expert in marketing, mindset, and motivation for creative entrepreneurs. D’Arcy has worked for Sports Illustrated Magazine and her work and teachings have been featured in The Huffington Post, Martha Stewart, Out Magazine, ABC, NBC, The View, and Upworthy. D’Arcy has educated, consulted and inspired thousands, while also founding three six-figure businesses in the past decade. She is diving in all about money today and how your view of it can really be detrimental. She gives tangible tips on how to work on shifting your ideas of money and how that can change your whole life.

There's so much meat in today's episode with tips, recommendations on how to really work on your money mindset. And just a good gut reality check of what that looks like and how much your mindset around money really impacts your business and your life.

Today, we're welcoming back Courtney Wolf of Invision Events on the podcast. In this episode, we’re talking all about manifesting and how that is going to really help your business grow and why it’s so important to implement this into your daily life.Courtney also shares some of her favorite resources that can help you on your manifesting journey. With the new year, it is the perfect time to start working on your mindset and adding these practices into your life.

We are so excited to introduce you to Ryan Greenleaf and we are going to talk about inclusivity, why it’s important, and how to reflect that in your business. Ryan has plenty of actionable steps that you can take to make your business more inclusive.

Today on Dare to Develop, we welcome Becca and Betsy of Rebecca Rose Events. They are a destination wedding planning, design, and production firm that produces weddings all over the world. Becca and Betsy talk about what true hospitality is which they learned from their respective hospitality backgrounds and also how we can bring that to a wedding day.

We are so excited to introduce you to Anna Lord, a filmmaker out in the LA area. We’ll chat with her about how she pursues both wedding and commercial work in the creative industry. We dive into how she started in the commercial world and the differences she has seen in her work since. Also Anna gives tips on how other creatives who might be interested in diversifying from just weddings might be able to do just that.

On today's episode of Dare to Develop, we're really excited to have John Dolan with us. John Dolan is a legend in the wedding and film photography community, and just has so much insight on how to not only create beautiful photographs, but how to truly interpret and present what a wedding day looked like after the fact. So we cannot wait for you to hear this episode and just hear him, teach us how to lean into our art and our truth.

We are so excited to launch season two of Dare to Develop with Perry of Perry Vaile Photography. Perry is a world renowned photographer who is mostly known for her beautiful work that is full of color.

Today, Perry is talking all about how she creates work-life balance.

Perry dives deep into how she sets rhythms and routines for herself and she also talks about how to share a lot of your personality and personal life on social media while still having a luxury business.

Welcome to Season 2 of Dare to Develop, we have missed you all! We are back with so many great episodes for you this season and today we wanted to chat a little bit about where we've been and what’s been going on in our lives. We’re also going to give you a sneak peek into what’s coming up in this season in Dare to Develop!

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Today on Dare to Develop, we are welcoming Charlie Hilbrant who is a filmmaker out in Chicago. We are chatting all about how to create great relationships between the visual team members on a wedding day, and how we can work best together to serve our clients.

We were so inspired by the daring leap that Charlie made when he went full time and we just know that you will be too!

Today we have Abby of Abby Jiu Photography. Located in Washington DC, Abby is known for her showstopping images as well as her Sophisticated couples.  Over the years of her career, Abby has done such a wonderful job of curating and figuring out not only who her ideal client is and what to show to attract that client.

We also love Abby’s emphasis on highlighting her team in her business. Make sure you follow her on Instagram and you’ll see what we mean!

If you are a part of the film community that you have heard of Fuji 400H. Last week Fuji just came out with the discontinuation of their film, which has rocked the film wedding world. We’re noticing some nervous photographers in our community, so we wanted to take this opportunity to talk about how to navigate this time.