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Anchor will distribute to all of the major channels for you including Spotify Apple podcasts Google podcasts and more download the anchor app or go to Anchored dot f m-- to get started. Hi everyone. What a crazy week last week Sarah and I were so bummed about having to release last week's episode a day late. But unfortunately, I was stuck in New York after flight delays from storms and we had to push it back. I know so crazy when I was chatting with you. I was wondering if you guys were actually going to make it back home or not. I so happy you made it home safe. I was wondering as well because it was like the first flight was cancelled and then we were like, okay. There are no flights the next day because everyone was jumping on them and then they had one become available at like 9:00 p.m. And we're like it. We literally can't wait that long. We're just going to get a car and so we try to get a car that did not end up working out for several reasons. So we're like, okay, let's just figure it out. We'll get on a plane and that one almost didn't work out as well and like last minute they were able to like accommodate us. We were able to fly home and it was crazy. Definitely an experience because we had an event on Saturday coming up and I just really I'd set everything up ahead of time. Yeah, we're like if I wasn't there I had someone cover it, you know, they had a key to get into my like, you know, get all the gear and everything but obviously like I just wanted to be home to make sure that I was able to like do what I needed to for the event. So it was like really really like a Like we just like take a deep breath. Once you're able to like get on the flight and be back for the event. So that would be so nerve-racking to me. I would just feel like oh my gosh, I need to get home like I would feel like I had to prepare and just like have a day before the event, you know just makes everything. I like that's the thing. I know that like, you know, this was a very very last minute trip that we had planned. Yeah and Joel had off for three days and we weren't going to be able to go when we thought we were later next month. So we were like, let's just wing it was Do it. Yeah, and I was trying to work while we were gone, you know, and that was like not happening either. But you know, when you plan a last-minute trip like that being a business owner. I was like I have to set everything up, you know, so that I'm not stressed. So there are right priority for your trip. Absolutely. Everything was programmed. Everything was ready. So if I didn't make it back it was okay. But yeah, it's always just nicer when you do make it back and you do get back as planned. And you don't have to pull in your plan B, you know exactly. Yeah, so then how did your event go on Saturday? So it was extremely extremely hot. I was not there my attendance were doing it. But just in general it was so hot and humid that I like didn't even leave my office all day while they were doing the event raised so literally I just can't like can't thank them enough for like doing the event. And being outside, they said my attendant one of them said I literally looked like a wet dog. Oh, she said I got sweat in my eye poor thing. Oh my gosh. Yes. That's why we really like, I feel like July events are just so rare out here because of the humidity and the heat. Yeah, you know the heat is one thing but you add the humidity and it's like almost embarrassed will but my team powered through and they were able to do another great event as always and the bride and groom love the photos. So I managed to make it through the hot July heat. Yeah, that's so crazy. Well, at least the client loved everything. Yes, and that is my absolutely number one priority other than my attendance not passing out. Yeah for sure. I don't know about you. But today it is finally cooler here. So it's making me feel really, you know, cozy it's raining. So I have a candle going and I definitely just want to be creative today and work on my website, which I've been doing the past couple days and finish some more. Fun projects but yeah, it's actually been pouring here too, which is crazy. We woke up this morning at like 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. And I just heard rain and I'm like what this wasn't in the forecast. I just got my car wash yesterday. So I was all upset and I'm like, you know what? It's okay. We embrace it. I went back to sleep. You know, we just kind of slept in a little bit this morning and hasn't been raining raining there at all. No, it's been super hot. Very very hot. And so yeah. Yeah, it's just kind of weird but it's been nice because this last week we actually didn't really have events over the weekend and it was just nice because our branding dig it finished and so we've just been love it working on everything. Yeah. I love how it turned out and we've just been really like, you know homebodies the last week just working on our website same thing like diving in and just trying to get a lot of stuff done. And I'm just really excited with our new branding and everything how you know, everything's going to turn out. So yeah, we should be wrapping that up soon. So do you feel like business is like it all slower with everyone just on vacation for summer. It feels like no one's really inside. Do you feel like yeah, I feel the same way. I know we have summer weddings out here, but I feel like we're really slow for like July and August same. Yeah, and it's good. Weird, but in September, it's definitely going to pick up again. It's super crazy til ya December so same yeah exactly. It's kind of nice. It's almost like a little summer vacation I guess right now exactly and you know, and I love that feeling like going back to what you said about hanging out in your house. Like I love a good Summer Outing going to get ice cream, but there is something so comforting and energizing about, you know, just staying inside especially if it is raining, you know, and put it on a candle and just getting that Creative Energy. Energy flowing. Oh, I like I've been doing today my guilty pleasure. I put on Christmas music this morning. I know I could hear it before we got on to record. I could hear it through my headphones. Yeah, cuz I are picked up. So I lit my candle on my desk and I picked up a new candle at home goods and it's like an apple cinnamon spice and like okay, I need Christmas music. So technically Christmas in July is like yes, nothing exactly. Oh, yeah Randall, and I have actually had Christmas in July party like two years ago and it was so much fun. We had such a blast. So if you ever get around to doing it, I highly suggest it because it's so much fun. Yeah, I think I did. I feel like I saw pictures or something probably because way back when I have like little flamingos with Santa hats. Yeah. I'm excited for fall and Christmas and all of it. Mmm. Me too. Yeah, like overall, you know, we've been these hermit crabs at home, which is Be fine, but you know I use that time that you guys are actually in New York to really, you know, just dive deeper with our website and develop everything with our branding and you know, I've had that mindset all week of being creative and getting fun with it and you know kind of having that outside perspective and we even did a product shoot, you know, I want to build a new photos. Yeah, and it was so much fun. I had a blast with it and I just took some pictures that were so Me and I can't wait to post them. I was just like really focused on those things. So it was kind of hard for me when that was sending out proposals and emails and like I don't want to do this. Yeah, so I was just sitting there like kind of putting it off. I'm like wait. Oh my gosh, hold up. I have to send these out. What am I thinking? These are the people that are like paying our bills and like we're getting payments from these people. I need to prioritize their the reason that you have the creative things to work on exactly. Yeah business creative with so but all those things are necessary, you know, like you said developing your website and your branding, you know, but then also taking time to send out proposals. I feel like you do need a day, you know set aside where you can set up a booth and take new photos of props and backdrops, especially if you've added to your collection, I find myself either really business minded or really creative minded it just kind of depends on Week so, you know, I guess the question is and the whole reason for this episode is how do we balance between the two see this is why I love this industry so much because I feel like you kind of get the best of both worlds, you know, the creative amp is inside. So when you are balancing it into a, you know, like your workflow or just scheduling, you know, your work week almost I like to spend three to four hours every morning just sending out emails and I'm finishing those business things, you know that we don't really like that, you know, sometimes it's enjoyable but sometimes it's not and just prioritizing like our clients are, you know, our first priority so I always like to make sure I'm getting right back to them. Even if they emailed us the night before, you know, just making sure I'm spending that time sending those emails or proposals out and then usually my mind works really really well later at night anyway, so that's when I Really creative, you know and do just having fun with it. Yeah, so if that's adding in photos into our website or you know, setting up the photo booth with our backdrops and doing some cool photos with our props, you know, just little things like that. So if we do have the time where we're not really doing anything after, you know late afternoon into the evening Randall, I will just kind of embrace it will be like, hey, let's do it. Like what do we need? Like what else do we need to do to be creative? I wonder if that's why Like in our signs or like something to do with the moon or something because I obviously think way like when it's dark outside I can put on like a candle and my salt lamp and I just like my creative mind just flourishes, you know. Yeah, do you feel like it's really hard for you when you are in the creative mindset to kind of step away from it, especially when you're on like a roll 100% Yeah, like if I can't finish Creative task that I'm working on I get itchy almost because I'm like if I stop now, I don't know when I'll be back. Oh I get so upset at Randall if he bothers me. I'm like go away I get so upset. I'm like seriously. Like I'm you know in the mindset it's hard for me like, you know this week. I was working on our website and I was just hustling literally till you know, two three in the morning because my mind I was just going going going, you know, and I was like, you know, I'm okay with it Randall didn't bug me. He like knew I had to really like get into it, you know and like once I did get into it you like didn't bother me. Now you kind of know so yeah that happened last night. I was redoing our website and Joel, you know, we were having some people over for dinner and he's like you need to go make dinner like just because it's it was a particular dinner that he's never made before so he Didn't really know how and he was like, you're the one who knows how to do it. I need you to do it. I've like set everything out for you and like I'll do whatever else you need me to do, but I don't know how to do this. And I was just like I can't stop like I was almost done with just like a few like things that we were I was doing to the website and it was like like I was trying to tear myself away from my computer to go make a dinner and thankfully in that situation. I ended up just telling him what he needed to do and he was able to manage it and I gained myself like 35 minutes before everyone came over. But yeah, it's definitely hard when you're on a roll to like just stop, you know, because you lose sight of that creativity and you know, your brain is like kind of on like this path, you know, and once you're kind of in the groove of things, you don't want to forget what your mind was leaning towards I guess so when I like step away, I'm always like Maybe I should write this down before I forget and if I were to come back, you know, I could just keep going with it. Right exactly. And you know, I do find it hard to transition like during the day if I am, you know working on like like yesterday. I mean, it's a perfect example, I was working on our website, but I was also sending out contracts proposals, you know people were booking so I had to do follow-ups. I was working on photos sending out galleries. Like I was I was just doing like a some creative things and some business side of things. Things and if I'm on a roll, you know one way or the other it's hard for me to like stop and pull back into, you know, just kind of like going back and forth. But what I have figured out that works for me is just having a workflow it helps so much because if I am in the creative mindset, you know, like working on our website, for example, I can stop for a few minutes, you know, 30 minutes to catch up on those emails that are coming through sending proposals galleries or whatever. I need to do that day because my workflow is just so curated that Really takes me no time to do those things. So that is definitely helped. I don't have to you know, I can like safely balance back like bounce back and forth knowing that I can kind of like go right back into it. So I do find that being creative takes a lot more energy for me. Now, you know when I did photography it was mostly like shooting and I really had to learn how to manage the business and like those side of things and I think I still think you know, there were things that I could have improved on like marketing. And follow-ups and things to help kind of push the business forward. Whereas like I do all those things now with the booth for some reason. They're just easier with the booth and I find being creative takes a lot more energy with the booth not because it's hard to be creative with a photo booth, but just like the business side has become a lot easier for me just with the photo booth, you know, so throughout your career of just owning, you know your businesses. Do you feel it's been easier to be more business focused or creative. My goodness definitely creative, you know, I went to school to be creative. So that's my first thought when it comes to business like how to be creative and the creative side of things. I can do that all day every day that's so easy for me and it comes really naturally to so like being a business owner. It's kind of taught me. Hey, I need to you know be great at both, you know business does come first because these people are paying us their testing our their money into our business, you know, you want to have happy clients, you know, so I really had to train my mind to think the opposite but once I started creating a workflow that kind of, you know worked for me and our schedule and everything like that. We just really started seeing the success in that and I'm like this works, you know, so I feel like just finding that balance because if you're all business or all creative, it's not going to work, you know you want to find A of being able to balance that to create the success in your business and like you said earlier, you know, the business side of things is what pays the bills. Yeah exactly without that, you know, so, I don't know how many of you listening struggle, you know to balance between the two or if you know one way or the other some of you may be better at the business side and need more creative inspiration or you may be listening to this episode and just you know, you have fun creating but you need help marketing your business and taking time to do those. Daily tasks one thing that I you know, will note that no matter which side you are focusing on the hardest part is getting started either way, like whether you're diving into a creative project or trying to do your monthly expenses. The hardest part is getting started for me monthly expenses is my like downfall I try to plug them into my bookkeeping system. You know, I try to do like the first of June due May. Yeah it takes Me like several months to backlog older months. Like I'm pretty good at it some times where I'm like every month doing it, but I have like at least two to three months that I need to plug into my bookkeeping right now. It's just like one of those heart like it's just a hard business tasks for me to stay on top of and you know, I someone listening might be like, why don't you something that like tracks your expenses for you? Because I don't trust them right now. I have tried so many different. Different bookkeeping, you know? Oh, I have our musical. I know we had that conversation. I was like, what do you do and you're just like I have to write it all out. You know, I'm the same way. Like I want to visually see it when I was using these other programs. I was just so lost and felt kind of confused. Yeah. I feel like none of them really, you know, like categorize my expenses way that they actually need to be so, you know, I feel like Even as a photographer, I don't feel like they were like perfect at it. So I just do it myself and it really doesn't take it really does not take very long and it doesn't take a lot of energy it just trying to get me to do it. Yeah is the issue definitely. I know it's the last thing that I want to do, but I know when I do it I feel so much better. I love seeing where our money is going. Yeah, and just kind of staying on top of those things. It's really really nice. How have you learned to exercise? No, your business mind and making it, you know a priority because I know you said you're more of like creative minded. So so like what do you do? So I always like to write everything down. I don't know why but I just process those things better and I'm just able to like visually see it on paper. Even if it's on the computer. I don't really like see it that great. I use a notepad for everything I do too. Yeah, and it just really helps same. So if I think of a creative idea or you know, I have my to do I try to categorize everything so I'll be like, you know on honey book because I use honey book as our platform and I'll see you know, okay, I need to follow up with so and so so I'll write down a list of follow-ups that I have to do. You know, I'll write down a list of brochures. I need to send out creative things. I want to get done. So if that's like for the website or whatever it is, you know. And then also, you know prepping templates and you know getting stuff ready for the weekend. So I just like two categories things like that on to my notepad and then I just check it off as I go and then if I don't finish anything it goes, you know on to the next page for the next day, you know, so I could make that a priority for the next day. 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You know, like I said in categories, you know, so even if it's a two to three things in each category, at least those things are getting done and then it's getting moved to the next day and then you can just finish that you know, so right if it's consistent where every day, you know, that's your that's your workflow. You know, if it's Monday through Friday or you know No, Wednesday through Friday or whatever it is, you know, whatever days you set for yourself, you know, it's like going into a 9 to 5 job, you know create that workflow. So you're not feeling overwhelmed but you're tackling, you know, say two to three things in each little category and you're still getting those things accomplished, you know on your little notepad or whatever to just to feel like saying about yourself, right? You know, because I know when I see a whole long Less on my oh my gosh. Where do I start and then I procrastinate but if I just start going, you know tackling it one by one. Oh my gosh, it takes you know three hours and I was thinking it was going to take me, you know all week. Exactly. That's how it always feels. I think. Yeah, the way that I balance between the two is that I just kind of plan to do the business side of things and then I have, you know, like a weekly creative day where for maybe three to four hours, you know. For me, it's Thursdays. I will shut off my email and I will put my phone on do not disturb and that is when I just like block out time to update website photos more. So website photos and like website stuff kind of get it gets done like once a month or one. Yeah once every few months right now, but if I'm like honor roll, which I usually am it's just hard with summer because we've been like like we randomly took the New York trip kind of thing, but I will just use Thursday's to update website photos or just Is or a plan out my Instagram and create new content for Instagram and our marketing platforms or just sit down and brainstorm ideas. It just it really is helpful to just delegate creative days, you know, so yeah, I feel like if you're just kind of like, oh, yeah, I need to do these things. I need to do these things without actually having an action plan of when you're going to sit down and do them. I think they can just kind of always be pushed to the you know the next page for the next day. So I think having a creative Of day and just planning to do mostly business things every other day. He is really helpful because you mentally block out time to be creative and poor Creative Energy back into your business. Definitely and I know on Saturday when we were working and doing stuff with the podcast, you know, you kind of sat down with me and you're like, oh my gosh, I'm so excited with the website. I want to start doing these things. But I feel like the list is so long and when we sat down I was like, let's just tackle one by one and sure enough. Hurted we got everything done and even more so, you know, and so when you feel like just overwhelmed with like a list, it's usually not that big of a deal right but also the key takeaway there is how we were sitting down on a Saturday, you know, like we both pour into our own businesses and the admin stuff for the podcast and so we randomly took the Saturday to be creative. I feel like that's what it takes. I think you have to set aside a time for me. I can set aside their Thursdays and I'm good with that. But maybe it's Thursday night for you. Maybe it's like you need time. We don't feel like you need to be in the office like on business, you know, and just like set aside a time where you can just feel that Creative Energy. Yeah, or even like on a Monday. I kind of on Mondays. I kind of split it like if we have events over the weekend on Monday, we're being lazy all day. But if we have like one event or no events over the weekend on Monday. You know, I try to reset our week get excited for the week, you know, kind of sit down bounce ideas off Randall and just have like that time to you know, do a little bit of both like relaxed kind of just like, you know, enjoy the time together and then if we say go get dinner or lunch or something maybe talking about hey, what are some things you know, you like to see to get creative with our business, you know, and kind of just talking to someone, you know that has a other perspective of something. You know and he helps me with a lot of fun creative ideas, you know. Yeah, I love sitting down and talking to Joel about yeah, like an idea that I have. It's so refreshing Mmm Yeah, because they see you day-to-day, you know, and so they see the business from their perspective. They like know what you're doing with the business where it's going and then they could just kind of come in and really help with like any, you know struggles you're having, you know, sometimes we need that little extra help herb that boost, you know, Right. So let's talk about you know in the middle of a busy season when it's almost impossible to do anything except the essential, you know daily tasks like singing off Galleries and follow up, you know, falling up the clients or proposals. You know, how do we find time to be creative and find new energy to avoid burnout? So I schedule everything I know we do that consistently for the podcast, but even we're doing it for the podcast I threw in you know our of Vents into the calendar so we knew you know, when our busiest times were, you know, we can kind of work around those things. So in our calendar, you know, I have the podcast the photo booth, you know, I have our events. I like to keep track of even payments coming in. So I could see that on the calendar when bills are going to be do stuff like that. So you can just really see where everything is going and just kind of be on top of it and be prepared, you know for the future. Every month, you know, and so I think staying on schedule really helps you be on top of things even with Instagram or posting things to social media, you know, we use plan only to like really help us, you know schedule Instagram and make sure make sure it looks great too, you know, so so I guess it comes back to like we were just talking about just even scheduling time to be creative. Yeah, you know and time to breathe and take a little time off and I don't mean like oh weak in you know, Mexico. Yeah. I just need to take like you're going to take Sunday off because burnout is a real thing. Oh, yeah. I mean, I know a few episodes back I was crying. Yeah, you know, I was so overwhelmed and so now I feel like I've really been able to prioritize things during the week, you know, if we do have events over the weekend. My priority is not going to be getting creative that week, you know, my priority is let me work. And getting all the templates designed. I really really enjoy creating, you know, a workflow that just works for you know, desert Luna and the podcast and it just helps us like just to stay on top of things, you know and making things happen. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So every day, you know, you kind of have to set your workflow and like your hustle and have that drive at first when we first started out I would literally stare at my computer screen and be like What do I do when you first started desert Luna? Yes, I want I don't know what to do here. Like I want people emailing us and I want the emails coming in. I want you know to create this workflow and now I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't have enough time in a day. You know. Yeah. Well part of that is a podcast. I had the same issue and I love being busy like not in an overly busy way that, you know defeats the purpose of our anti hustle episode, but I have set work hours and I want to be working. During those hours there have been times in the past where I felt like my workflow is almost to streamlined if that's possible just because I would finish tasks so fast just because my workflow was like awesome like I set it up to do that. Very thing. Yeah and like it'd be great to be like, okay, I'm done with work. Let me go do all these other things but I also am, you know, both a business owner and creative. So I want to be like pouring myself and my business and yeah the podcast has been Great. It's been a like a really awesome creative side project that I really needed to get both the business energy and the creative, you know energy back than my week. So that's awesome. Now that we've had our busy season with bookings. We're starting to like really, you know approach these fall bookings for our own company. It's actually been really fun kind of like, you know learning how to balance all of it between the podcast and our business and the point of this episode, you know is to how to find balance between the daily tasks and creating so When you can find that balance, I feel like it is really really rewarding and your business is growing but it's also evolving it's growing with the business side of things, but it's evolving when you're pouring creativity back into it. Yeah. Definitely. I know when we first started the podcast, you know, we just kind of started diving into the admin things and like getting things done and it was just so nice to like sit down with you and like see your workflow and we're kind of at the same level I guess and just being able to like get those Those things done, but I feel like you know, we have to have those creative days where even if it's once a month were you know, scheduling plan only together and having fun and what pictures are we going to use or like, you know developing the website more just sitting down and just being creative and thinking brainstorming ideas. Yeah, just so like make it a fun experience for all of our listeners out there. You know, I feel like as we're talking I'm thinking about how we should you know a For this past Saturday, we should definitely do that. Like we need to put it on the calendar to have a creative day for ourselves. You know, we've been talking about our businesses the whole time but the podcast is the same like yeah, you know, we sat down and we worked on some fun new features that we're going to be talking about the very end of this episode that we just heard offering and our website and if we hadn't just sat down on a Saturday and just been like hey you have time like I have time let's just be creative today. We wouldn't have done it exactly. I think we Need to do that. Yeah forward. Oh definitely. I couldn't agree more, you know, there's always a time and a place for both and I feel like if we do end up going with what we're feeling for that day. I feel like that's when it's the most rewarding and we truly enjoy what we're working on. You know, if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life, you know, and it's just fun. Yeah, and I do love that quote, you know, like if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. I think that's I so true for me. I really do love what I do. I don't feel like I'm working like The one I'm hustling with proposals and you know all that stuff like they're truly business side of things. I absolutely love it. And I think that's what the episode should have been called. You know, it's so true. I have experienced real burn out before and it doesn't mean that I stopped loving my job, but I do have to take some time off and last year was a good example. I was on the go so much through are busy busy fall season by the time I was done. I almost couldn't go into my office. I was feeling so drained. Yeah, I just wasn't taking the time to be creative and you know use my creative mind and I was just like go go go with the business side. And you know, I was in my office doing you know, all the backend work and then I was doing most of the events myself without any kind of assistant or attendance or help or anything like that just because I just I just was like, it's who I got it. I'm just going to do it and it was you know at the end. I was just like I'm not opening my office door. Yeah, so that's why I wanted to feel like when you get to that point you open your office. You're just like you kind of cringe a little bit are you doing I like don't I didn't even want to go near my computer. Yeah. Yeah. It's so exhausting that's you know what I wanted from this episode because I wanted to talk about how if you're wanting more creative ideas for your business. You have to set aside time to find them and if you are feeling any kind of burnout, you need to take a look at like how you're balancing or a lack thereof, you know, are you taking time to re-energize yourself a trip to Mexico, you know is kind of what I always. Picture when I say like take take some time off or re-energize yourself. I literally picture myself on a beach but you know in that is awesome. And that's one way but on a monthly basis, you know, you can't I mean hey if you can go to Mexico on a monthly basis, then you should be doing this podcast not us, but for most of us, we can't, you know, take time off to go to Mexico once a month. So on a monthly basis turn off your email get a cup of hot tea or whatever you like grab a notebook and overall just A few hours brainstorming and pouring, you know, not even just working on your website and things like that because I feel like those can feel a little admin sometimes so I'm talking about like brainstorming ideas in a notebook getting on Pinterest, you know, just getting inspired and you know from their set aside a day to put the work back into these projects. The creative projects are just as important as the business side, even if you only do them once a month, so set aside time to be creative. In the midst of all your business activities. Yeah, or even you know, unplugging so no technology don't take your laptop, you know, put your phone on do not disturb and go to cute coffee shop or somewhere that inspires you it's super cute, you know, it's a nut in. Yeah, soak it in favorite pen exactly get excited about those things like those visual things. I know when I see places or go places where it's just so like exciting to like be in that element. And stuff like that. It just really inspires me. So I feel like that's really important. But then also self-care, you know, just making sure you are balancing that work life and personal life, you know, you don't want to drain yourself or exhaust yourself to the point where you know, you aren't creating for your fullest potential, you know, we owe it to ourselves and even our clients, you know to be fully present with our ideas and services. So, you know, we are providing a service that is fun and Native and they're investing their time and money with us, you know, so we need to make sure we're you know on our a game at all times. You know, I feel like it just kind of exactly like to sum up what you just said there, you know saying balancing, you know work life with just like self-care. I think that is another term for business mind versus creative mind. I feel like you know, if you're listening to this podcast you do want to be creative or you are creative or you're drawn to Of things and I feel like the work life equals the business mind. Yeah, and if you're just constantly using those muscles, then you're not pouring back in the self-care, which is your creative mind. And you know, yeah. Yeah, one of the things that you know, Katie and I have been working on for the admin side of things for the podcast is actually blogging on our website, you know, we wanted to implement something fun on our website and talk a little bit more about these topics that we are discussing on the podcast. So We've actually recapped our episodes and talked a little bit more about them for you guys, you know, and which I'm really excited about. Yeah, and it's just something fun and creative for us within that and so I just feel like it's creating that other element for us even and if you guys do comment, we will answer on them. So it's important that you give us as much insight into each topic so we can talk about these things. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I'm really excited about the blog post. You know, I don't want to Just say exactly what we say in the pot like from the podcast of the blog post. It will be a little of that just because you know, we're we are kind of recapping but at the same time I like I want to use the blog to extend the conversations and I want to have you know guest bloggers. If you are interested in guest blogging like send us samples of your work. If you're interested in that you can email us to creative photo booth podcasts at gmail.com. And you know, we just want to extend even more of the conversation because I feel like you know, we're trying to fit so many ideas into like, you know, 30 45 minutes to an hour. So there's so much more we could talk on each topic and if you do have a blog post request, you know, if it's something you want us to dive more into we can definitely like write a blog post about it too if you if you do like reading so another thing we've added to our website as well that we kind of alluded to earlier are our consultations. I've actually been offering then yeah. Like side, I've been offering them for a few years to help business owners grow their business and I love them because they provide like an hour or two of just one-on-one for you and your business which is really catered to like what you are going through. You know, if you're interested in booking a consultation or learning more about we're offering we're going to link the episode in the episode description for you to send us an email on how you know, we can help you grow your business a console is a great way to Target topics. You want to talk about specific to your business or get advice from I'm Us in certain areas you make areas. You may be struggling with, you know, you can ask us general questions about the ins and outs of running a business or if you need help with, you know, anything with a topic that maybe we've already covered on the podcast but you're like can we dive into this specifically for my business and like things that I can Implement for my business, you know, that's what these consultations are for. So if you are interested in that, please send us an email and we'll talk more about it. Yeah, and just to even help with like the success of your business, you know, we've really been striking out. Conversations and our Facebook group as well. So if you guys haven't joined yet we do encourage you to do so because this is just a safe platform for all of us to get creative and ask for advice and just start the conversation with other photobooth honors, you know, and then if you guys do think of any additional questions or topics, you can always message us on Instagram or send us an email to creative photo booth podcast at gmail.com. We are always happy to extend the conversation. And Katie and I love seeing all the emails and dams coming in. And so Vera fun together. Yes. Well, I love it. It looks like we're putting this out there and we want to know that you guys are getting something from it. So if we hear crickets, yeah, we're like do we keep going or you know, which we don't hear crickets, but you know just in general it's it's more fun. If you guys talk back to us because we will be able to continue the conversation. Yeah, and be sure to join our creative photo booth podcast group. 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 Welcome to the Creative Photo Booth Podcast! An informational podcast with a weekly dose of topics on how to level up your photo booth business. Join us as we dive deeper into the photo booth industry and talk about how to stand out in a flooded market, set trends, and create a unique client experience. We're your hosts Kaytee Lauren with Badass Booth and Sarah May with Desert Luna Photo Booths! In this episode, we're talking about what it means to be more business minded vs creative minded. Do you tend to lean one way or the other? We'll talk about the important of exercising both and how to balance between the two for a fulfilling career owning a small business in the photo booth industry. Make sure to follow us on Instagram @Creativephotoboothpodcast and like our Facebook Page at Creative Photo Booth Podcast. We’ll be taking questions and requests to make our podcast unique, so send us an email at creativephotoboothpodcast@gmail.com to let us know if there is a topic you want to hear and your thoughts on our discussions. Please subscribe and download our podcast to keep these conversations going! These episodes are available to you on Spotify and iTunes, we can't wait for you to follow along our journey. Thanks to our Sponsor Everybooth for this week's episode! Everybooth - https://everybooth.com/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/everybooth Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everybooth/ Episode Links -   Creative Photo Booth Podcast Website - https://www.creativephotoboothpodcast.com/ Creative Photo Booth Podcast Blog - https://www.creativephotoboothpodcast.com/blog Schedule a Consultation - https://www.creativephotoboothpodcast.com/book-a-consultation Creative Photo Booth Podcast Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativephotoboothpodcast/ Listener Support - https://anchor.fm/creativephotoboothpodcast/support  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 