This week has been a big week of change for both the Weiss and Allen families. But the changes I’m going to talk about right now don’t have a lot to do with new schools & new beginnings for our families, but a getting back to where Jodie and I both really started in this whole online world, and where we seemed to have fallen away from a bit.
Last night, Jodie & I were lucky enough to listen to her:
If you don’t know who Jasmine Star is, you must add HER BLOG to your Google Reader now! Jasmine is a rock star wedding photographer, who despite all she has accomplished in a short amount of time, is just as humble, sweet, and funny as she is fabulous! It was a great opportunity to get to listen to her speak. To listen to her tell/remind us that we need to be ourselves, show ourselves, and she has done this by really sharing herself through her blog as an open book. And you see, when I first started blogging, it was just for me, as I was learning photography, to share photos with friends/family far away, to connect with other digital scrapbookers, and really record things going on with our family. And then my business started, and I guess I started to second guess myself, and the personal things got less and less, time constraints played into it, but I wondered if clients really wanted to hear about the silly things going on in my life. Would I turn people off because I said or do something they don’t like/agree with? I also guess part of who I am, is the insecure side of me. Insecure that my stories just weren’t all that fabulous. Our life isn’t super exciting… do people really want to hear about carpool lines and soccer games and potty training? Then merging with Jodie, who is a fabulous blogger, do I measure up? Do her followers really want to have me bursting in without knowing me? And then we got busy. Really busy. And so it was just easy to say that blogging and sharing myself could take a back burner.
One of our greatest assets as Fresh Art is that we truly become friends with our clients. We have a great time at our sessions, sharing ourselves, learning about our clients, giving and receiving advise. So I *know* that a big chunk of what we are selling as a business is ourselves, but I’ve been missing a huge boat in waiting until the session to let our clients know more about me. And that was the biggest knock on the head last night, that I have to share more of myself. Knowing it’s okay that to be me and share who I am. And it’s okay if people don’t like me, it’s best to know that before hiring me, right? So before I get all Stuart Smalley on you, just know I’m committing myself to coming our from behind the curtain. Ha! So you’ll hear more about our recent changes and all the emotions that went along with it for me!
And while I didn’t get to become BFFs with Jasmine last night (didn’t even get too close to her), I feel like she is a friend and has taught and reminded us so much!
Awesome, Kim!!! Can’t wait to hear more!!!
Yea Kim!!!! Who wouldn’t love you?!? You are seriously one of the most amazing women I have ever met. As I’ve told Jodie a number of times (and felt kind of stalker-ish), I love hearing about her and her family. I feel for her and wish her the best in all she does. I want to try her projects and feel like I can do more as a mom when I don’t do all the cool things that she does (but she inspires me to want to do more)
Now we get to do the same for you. We’re your cheering section. I admire how you juggle all the things in your life and do them all so well. You make me never want to complain about two little ones, because I say “Kim did it with 7, I need to suck it up” Glad you want to share yourself with all of us, because we’d love to learn more about this “superwoman”!
Yep, I’ve been wishing you would share more, Kim! More of your world and more photos of your cute kiddos! I always loved seeing your studio shots of your crew and I may or may not have nagged you via comments about wanting more Sophie photos! :- ) Like you, I hesitate to blog a lot of personal things I’d like to, not so much because I worry what people will think, but mostly because I think it would be silly since I probably only have a dozen or so blog readers. :- D You have tons of loyal readers & we want to know more! Spill it! Oh, and, post some recent photos of your kids, will you? ;- )
Thanks for coming out last night and I loved this post!! 🙂
I’ll just add that I would love to hear whatever you want to share. But I do totally get that “are they gonna care anything about this?” part too. I still get my feelings hurt far too often when a blog post or story I’ve worked hard on doesn’t get the response I’d hoped for, but it’s good to put it out there, because it’s cathartic, for me anyway.
You guys were so fun in that one day I got to hang around, so great with the families, so sensitive to the situation at hand, so I can’t imagine you sharing anything that wouldn’t be interesting to me. The great photography is enough to bring a person in, but the awesome girls behind it are what keep ’em hanging around. :o)
thanks for sharing all of yourselves…my little online friends. i’ve loved getting to know both of you…i couldn’t think of a better time to hear jasmine speak than now. love you both.
Kim & Jodie, you guys are amazing, you are my daily escape! I love your images and what you do with your clients is just amazing. They love you and so does the cyber world 🙂 Thank you for always sharing your lives with us, you’re one of the few blogs i check daily and i love that its always something new. Kim we are definitely ready to hear from you more often! And…I’m kinda jealous, I’m an avid Jasmine* stalker, she’s incredible and has the best sense of humor. I can only hope to be as successful as all of you ladies and to enjoy what I’m doing!
i love jasmine but your blog has moved up way above hers a long time ago! you rock jodi!