Sustainable Freedom with Boudoir Photography Podcast

Dhi Skrmetti of 5th House Boudoir is a TLC Boudoir Photographers Mastermind photographer.  Ten years ago, she picked up a camera for the first time and fell in love. Since 2020, she has been trying to get her flailing boudoir photography business off the ground. After a year and a half of struggling and charging anywhere from $50-200 for her work, she finally decided to look into education. When D...

In this episode, I’m sharing the EXACT steps I took to leave my 9-5, how I made it happen so fast once I decided it was time, and I want to talk about my photography workflow.  A photography workflow is very important because, once you start booking a lot of clients, you can quickly find yourself in the weeds, between retouching, shooting more sessions, keeping up with client inquiries to the poin...

Faith of Faith Ray Boudoir helped her family relocate to their dream city of San Antonio, Texas in less than a year with her boudoir photo business.   She is a TLC Coaching client who flew through the TLC Course Suite and the TLC Boudoir Photographers Mastermind. By implementing every single business and marketing recommendation to a tee, she’s already achieved more in such a short time than she e...

Booking boudoir photography sessions at a bridal fair or wedding show is more than just showing up. It takes a lot of strategy and a TON of prep work before the show ever happens. In this episode, I tell you exactly what I did that helped me book photography clients – 17 to be exact – at my very first wedding show.  Because this was five years ago, things have changed quite a bit. I also chat abou...

Chelsey Dorr Photography is a Portland boudoir photographer and boudoir photography business coaching client of Tracy Lynn Coaching.  She has been photographing women in Oregon since 2016, but wasn’t able to truly take her hobby full time until hiring a boudoir business coach in 2020.  Chelsey is an AMAZING boudoir photographer and has the sweetest personality.  She is the first one who trusted me...

The boudoir model call, which was super popular several years ago in the boudoir photography industry, is run as “ a way to grow your portfolio or change it up,” but in reality it’s just a way to get clients interested in your services. Honestly, I would call it a photography flash sale or even a “quick cash grab” because that’s what it is. It’s a dollar amount off the photography session total di...

When I moved to St. Louis, MO and decided to go all in with my boudoir photography business, my focus was Instagram.  Very quickly, I was able to grow my Instagram without realizing I was using a photography marketing strategy that converts.  What’s crazier is this strategy is similar to what Nicole Riccardo teaches in her Instagram Marketing and Sales Academy, and the exact reason I invited her o...

Until I hired my own photography buisness coach, I had no idea what a photography business coaching was.  Up until that point, it was like I was just throwing spaghetti at the wall, hoping that, at some point, things would start working out.  The problem was, I didn’t have a strategy.  I was taking all kinds of courses and trying random marketing strategies for businesses outside the photography i...

Time off from my photography business and my photography education business is important to me.  During a recent three day vacation I booked sessions without lifting a finger!    By the time our weekend away was up, I ended up booking seven sessions in those three days, and they all came from businesses I had been creating relationships with the past few months.   That’s what I’m talking about in...

Welcome to my all time favorite topic – how to book photography clients without Facebook ads.  I am a believer in not paying for what you can attract for free.  There are so many avenues to free organic leads and many photographers don’t pay attention to them.  It’s understandable because when you think photography advertising, you probably think well I need to PAY to play. I want you to know that...

Marissa had built what seemed like a successful photography business—but what she didn’t have was a sustainable business. Her success relied on things like paid Facebook ads, constant availability, and working a 9-5 in addition to running her own business. In today's interview, we're going to talk about the transformation in her photography business since we started working together and the steps...

I’m not a person who carried around a camera my whole life, but a camera changed my life for the better. My degree is in dental hygiene, and while my career taught me a lot, it was never going to give me the freedom I so badly wanted. In this episode, I want to give you a little background about how I started my boudoir studio and transitioned to a photography business coach. I’m also giving you a...

How do I get more clients in my photography business? When should I raise my prices? Can I actually make enough money with photography to support my family? What are the best ways to advertise my photography business? Which business model is best for my photography business? And the most asked question of all, can I really charge more, work less, and enjoy photography on a deeper creative level? I...