Melanie Anderson – A Photographer Podcast Interview

From Nothing to Profit

Today’s podcast is with Melanie Anderson, who is constantly teaching and giving back to the industry. She has a retail studio space that is full service, including portrait work, extreme volume and commercial work. Listen in to hear Melanie talk about re-inventing herself every few years and how important that is for the mentality of creatives. She’s fired up about the leadership in education in our industry right now. You don’t want to miss Melanie talk about the importance of print. Melanie also talks about grace, body rhythm, being the best version of your authentic self and fully understanding the 5 love languages. Melanie talks about starting every day with what she’s grateful for and with the perspective of being open to serve however she’s called. This a podcast you’ll want to listen to over and over again! Resources: https://www.danijohnson.com/ Books: The Bible Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There (https://amzn.to/2Q8CikW) The 5 Love Languages by Dr. Chapman (https://amzn.to/2Q7ddGS) Connect with Melanie: http://melanieandersonworldwide.com Read Full Transcript 00:00:01 Hey everyone, this is Melanie Anderson and you're listening. Two from nothing 00:00:06 to profit. Welcome to from nothing to profit of photographers 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. 00:00:23 Hey everybody, thanks for joining us again this week. So I have my friend Melanie Anderson this week. Um, Kaya and I have known Melanie for years and years and years and uh, we run cross paths all the time. I'm a nice Melany ass on you some a couple of times this year. I saw you at sink this year. We're going into each other in North Carolina all over the place. So, um, you're always doing your best to give back to the industry and travel around and, and just for indoor industry. And so first of all, I want to say thank you for doing that, but I'm also, I'm excited to have you on the podcast because you have a lot to share with our audience for sure. So 00:00:58 yeah, thanks guys. I am so excited for this. So I really appreciate it and it's a huge honor. So thank you for your time. 00:01:05 So Kaia when was the first time you met Melanie? Do you remember? 00:01:09 Oh goodness, this might not be fair. I what I remember is, uh, your video, you are doing video. So that's what I remember the most about. Um, we started doing video for sync. So 00:01:21 yeah, I think that's like when I got to know Melanie as well. 00:01:24 Yes. So that was several years at what, probably about four or five years ago. Uh, through the relationship of sync and dirty. We just sort of said, hey, we need these videotape, we need behind the scenes and we want to create that for you. And that was one of the first things we'd ever done that big of a deal video wise. So that was kind of cool. And like you said, that was an opportunity for us to all meet. 00:01:47 Yeah. That's awesome. Okay. So then I saw you at North Carolina and you spoke on volume, sports and then I saw you at sync. You did a Miller's thing alongside of me. And you did a lot about how to like implement ideas from a conference. So you don't just go home with this list of stuff to do and never accomplish anything, which everybody, everybody loved. And I know you're like a workbook and all kinds of stuff. So I know you talk about a lot of stuff. So kind of tell me, tell our audience if they don't know who you are, like you know what you do on the photo side and all everything cause you do so much. 00:02:19 Sure. Um, yeah, that's a lot. It's like you almost go, okay, how much time do we have? Because you know, when you like you guys love this industry and have a passion for it. It's all in. So I have a, a, a retail studio space in western Maryland. It's about an hour from Washington DC.