True Moua – Episode 026 – A Photographer Podcast Interview

From Nothing to Profit

This is a podcast episode you definitely want to hear! Matt and Kia interview True Moua, who is a photographer and educator, based in Wisconsin. She shoots only natural light and has a love for Iceland. You don’t want to miss True’s “all seasons session” and how she does that. You also want to listen in to why she doesn’t do a model program anymore and still does a destination session every year. True talks about how to do Instagram stories. She also talks about how she structured her pricing when she first started out and how to do what she says, not what she did. Listen in to hear how True would and wouldn’t spend $1k - you’ll be surprised! Curious which lens is True’s go to? You might want one too! True says, “Dig deep to find what makes you different and stop following every trend”. Keep hustling. Online Resources - Google, YouTube, CreativeLive, Sue Bryce, Instagram TV Certified Madness Podcast https://truemoua.com/ @truemouaphotography Read Full Transcript Transcription was done by Temi.com which means it’s an AI generated transcript. The transcript may contain spelling, grammar and other errors, and is not a substitute for watching the video. 00:01 This is true and you are listening to from nothing to profit. 00:04 Welcome to from nothing to profit a photographer's podcast with Matt and Kayak 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 00:21 from everyone. We are super excited to have true. And how do you say your last name? So it's [inaudible]. Okay. True. Moolah here today and uh, I have seen her work online for the last couple of years and she is a phenomenal photographer and I've seen that she's does a lot of education and so we're super excited to have her here today to share with us about her business. And I've only seen you're shooting in natural light. Um, she's based in western Wisconsin and specializes in creative fine arts senior portraits. And you have a love for Iceland to, is that correct? I do, yes. Well thank you guys. Thanks so much for having me here. I'm super excited to be here, but yes, I am just, I just shoot natural light. I do have like studio equipment, but it's just isn't a demand, at least in my area. Uh, so yeah, everything I do is as natural light. 01:18 That's awesome. Yeah. I'm excited to have you on here because you're one of the, one of the first interviews were Kaia and I both didn't really know you'd be helped before this podcast. You know, typically I'm like, you know, people that we, I say Chi, we should in a reasons person kind of like, I don't know that person. I'm like, well I do and it's perfect, you know? But you're my first people that like both of us are going to be learning from you right now while you're doing your interview, which I'm really excited about. 01:40 Oh good. Well, I hope you learn something. I don't know. I don't know how much help I'll be, but I'm excited to be here. 01:46 So anything else that you want to share? I mean, so, so I kind of said you're from Wisconsin. Natural light photographer. Okay. Any other things that you would want to share, your family, anything like that? 01:57 Well, you know, I, I'm actually before photography, I worked in dental for actually 16 years and was actually not looking for, you know, a new career or anything like that. And our son was approaching his senior year actually. And so I kind of fell into this kind of fell into photography. Really. I just, you know, we purchased this camera and I'm Craig's lists and like, you know, everybody else, it doesn't really understand photography. He was saying like, you're going to buy this amazing camera and it's just going to take amazing pictures for you. Um, and so, yeah, I mean that's kind of what we thought. I'm like, well, just buy this camera and we'll take great pictures and we'll have, you know,