"Photography, Purpose & Travel"
Warning: This episode might make you sell everything you own, buy a camera, and go live somewhere incredible.
Christina Spoerer didn’t study photography in college. But that didn’t stop her from travelling around the world, earning a full-time income as a personal branding photographer.
Founder of The Remote Photography Masterclass, Christina joins me in this episode to share how she discovered passion for photography and monetised it.
We discuss:
- How Christina took a chance to become a digital nomad, burned herself out, and then found her soul's calling
- Making a full-time income from remote photography
- How Christina helps other photographers become location-independent and follow their dreams.
Key Highlights
- 01:34 About Christina Spoerer
- 03:42 What is remote photography?
- 04:25 Christina on her digital nomad journey
- 13:00 Christina on rediscovering herself in Ubud and finding out that photography is her passion
- 15:45 Christina set herself two months to see if she could make enough money in photography to cover her living expenses
- 16:54 Why Christina dropped all of her online marketing clients before going into photography
- 17:40 Significant mistakes Christina made at the beginning of her photography business
- 20:38 How Christina picked a photography niche
- 21:19 Christina on losing clients due to the pandemic and finding new clients within three weeks
- 22:10 Christina on launching the Remote Photography Masterclass to teach photographers everything on the business side of photography
- 25:10 How can people find Christina if they want to work with her?
- 26:27 How often is Christina able to get home and see her family and friends?
Rapid-Fire Questions
- 27:24 What’s a fundamental value that you’ve woven throughout everything that you do, and why is it important to you?
- 28:30 What is your secret sauce?
- 29:15 What is your core motivator? ?
- 30:20 What is the big dream?
- 31:44 What’s your go-to remedy when you’re having an off day?
- 32:25 If you could go back to the beginning of your business journey, what’s something you would tell yourself?
- 33:47 What is a resource/tool/system that you use in your business that you couldn’t live without, and what’s one that you think is overrated?
- 34:41 What is something that has happened in your business that you’re really proud of?
>- 38:09 What was one of the hardest lessons you learnt in your business?
- 39:11 Final word for listeners
Resources Mentioned
-Notion
-Pic-time
-The Remote Photography online course
As always, feel free to connect with me on Instagram @siafecreative; I would love to know what you thought of this episode!
