Carla Lynn – A Photographer Podcast Interview

From Nothing to Profit

Matt’s last interview from SYNC is with Carla Lynn and you need to listen to this one! Carla is bilingual and hearing impaired. She is from Bolivia and came to the US (Nashville, TN) at 18 years old with her new son. She worked 3 jobs and met her husband at one of them. You DO NOT want to miss Carla’s inspirational story. Carla photographs 140 seniors a year and is bummed the rules don’t allow her to go to prom with her street team (model program). Authenticity is what is working for Carla in her business. We should never stop learning, we don’t ever know everything. Carla’s husband is her tech guy, payroll department, etc - just like Matt is to Allison. Make sure you buy a leaf blower (you have to listen to find out why). Rachel Martin taught Carla at Texas School and that was the turning point in her business. Don’t miss what happened next in Carla’s story. Online Resource: Creative Live Books: Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done - Jon Acuff (https://amzn.to/2XY1ai3) The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (https://amzn.to/2GRrVis) Love Does - Bob Goff (https://amzn.to/2GTrdkQ) Follow Carla @carlalynn (instagram) https://www.carlalynnphotography.com/ 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 Carla Lynn and you're listening from nothing to pop it. 00:05 Welcome to from nothing to profit of photographers podcast with Matt and Kaia. We're 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. 00:22 Hey everybody. So Matt Hogan here, um, one, I think this will be the final interview from sync. Um, I'm with my friend Carla Lynn and so I'll go out with a bang, right? Go ahead and do this. I can go out with a bang. We got that. Okay. So I have to tell you this crazy story. So I met Carla two year, not, not last year, but the year before. And so I was hosting the Millers Lounge and you had come out to hang out with us and we had like free beer or something like that. And we're talking about pricing and say yes, Joe was there. Yeah. Yes. And so, um, we were talking and you, and you said, you know, I, I, I want, I want to figure out how to sell my albums better when we're talking about this. And I was like, and you were talking about how good, you know, just like what you were doing. 01:06 And I was like, well, sounds like you've got all figured out. And then I said, how many albums do you sell? And you said, you said, I don't know. I saw him to like 80% of my clients. And I was like, why aren't you talking to me about cells of your selling your albums to 80% of the clients? You probably should be teaching everybody here. But anyways, um, I do remember that. And so as one of those things that I just think, yeah, obviously you guys do really well and your business and I think you're more humble than then you probably should be. Cause I know you guys really kicked butt. So anyway, so I just, thanks for being on this interview. I, I'm so excited. I know. And, and Carlos says she's never done a podcast like this. So I'm just going to Mike, I feel like I'm a big time person, but this guide, okay, I'm just going to throw curve balls that are left or right. 01:43 It says that she thinks it's just doesn't know it's coming anyways. Okay. I introduced you. I don't, I know you from here, but tell us like, tell us about your studio, where you're from, all that stuff too. Okay. So, um, I guess I will start with, I'm from Bolivia, South America and I have lived between both countries. My hose, I, I am bilingual. I speak Spanish and English. Should we do this whole thing in Spanish? I can't speak that much. So you might try that and Spanish, if anybody understands what we're saying. I don't,