In this Episode, Matt and Kia tell you a little about why they started the podcast and what to expect.

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Intro: [00:00] Welcome to from nothing to profit, a photographer’s podcast with Matt and Kia where each week they talk to photographers about what is working in their business now so you can swipe those ideas and grow your business faster. Alright, welcome everybody to episode zero.

New Speaker: [00:16] This episode, me and Kia is going to be telling the story about where we come from and why we created this podcast. Kia, real quick, do you want to tell a quick story about where about your story and where you come from and stuff?

Kia: [00:27] Yes. I am super excited to do this. I have been a full time professional portrait photographer for over 20 years and I feel like the industry really needs people to inject hope into it and to give people ideas of how to make it a viable business.

Matt: [00:44] No, and I completely agree with that. I. That’s exactly why I’m doing this as well. So my wife Allison and I have owned a studio in Durango, Colorado for 10 years, I guess almost 11 years now and doing it full time as well. And I reached out to you about doing this podcast because I just thought, excuse me, I thought you were someone that you know, runs a studio full time that has been on the, you know, through the grind of running a business and could really help me, like you said, it bring hope to the industry as well. So yeah. Why, why me? Why should the audience be listening to us?

Kia: [01:16] Well, I think it’s interesting that you talked about why you reached out to me to do this and I would have to say I feel like we bring different things to the table whereas I have the experience and I’m the actual photographer in the business. I feel like you bring the ability to look at things from a technical aspect and figure out how to make it go more smoothly.

Matt: [01:39] Yeah. It wasn’t. Just to give a little bit of background on that, my wife Alison does all the shooting. I mean I, I go on a few weddings a year with her, but we’re mostly a senior portrait studio and she does all the shooting. So my job is to get the phone to ring and make sure that the calendar is booked. You’re right. Like while she’s out on a shoot, thinking about lighting and stuff like that, I’m more like figuring out systems to make us run more efficient so we have time off.

Kia: [02:01] Yeah. Yeah. And I have been. My roles in the business have definitely included the advertising and the marketing, but I definitely look at the photography business as a, as a whole more so. And I look at it definitely more visually that would, that’s the way that I think is more from a visual aspect. I’m excited because I feel like when you take both of our experience and you bring in the people that we’ve met throughout the years in the industry, I think we’ll be able to bring a lot of great, really practical steps that people can do to make their business better.

Matt: [02:35] Right. And that’s exactly what my goal too is like you and I have so many friends in the industry, we, we speak from the same stage very often, you know, like I’ll, I’ll fly into town into. You’ll be able to speak in the morning, I’ll be speaking the afternoon and stuff and we have so many friends that offer so many great things for businesses, but I don’t know if there’s. There’s really a great outlet right now...