With the holiday season upon us it’s easy to get swept up in all the busyness and preparation and forget to pick up our cameras. But when it comes to filming YOUR story, Christmas & the holiday season is the perfect time to switch over to video and start recording your favourite memories.

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Family Photographers & Filmmakers, Kylie Purtell sits down for a chat with Boston Family Filmmaker & Photographer, Amy Murgatroyd about her experience as a speaker at Unfiltered Retreat this year as well as her thoughts about the concept of an "ideal client" and why maybe we should re-think the way we define this. It's a great listen!

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Family Photographers & Filmmakers, Kylie sits down for a chat with Tog Hub Founder Stacey Rolfe about the value of outsourcing and pricing your time in business as a photographer + filmmaker.

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers, your hosts, Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell sit down for a chat with Melbourne based in-home newborn & young-family photographer MICHELLE MCKAY.

Michelle McKay is a master storyteller. From her background as a high school English teacher to her work as an in-home newborn photographer, story is at the heart of everything Michelle does. She’s also one of the speakers at the upcoming UNFILTERED RETREAT in the Blue Mountains from August 8th to 11th and we are so excited to have her on the podcast today, sharing her thoughts and expertise about creating compelling storytelling images for yourself & your clients.

We chat about:

• How the practice of documenting life, what it looks and feels like, has become Michelle’s life’s work and acts to ground and anchor her to real life.

• Michelle’s struggles with time management and how changing her perspective on time has made a difference not only to her life but to how she documents it as well

• Michelle’s background in English, poetry and teaching, and how that fuels her obsession with storytelling

• How Michelle approaches a session and prepares her clients in order to tease out their own unique story

• The strategies & visual devices Michelle uses to shape individual stories within larger, more universal ones

• What Michelle wishes she’d known when she first started as a photographer

• And how finding your voice is not something that happens overnight

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers, your hosts, Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell sit down for a chat with Sydney newborn & family portrait photographer Sophie Partyka from SOPHIE LEA PHOTOGRAPHY.

Sophie Partyka has been in the photography biz for more than 18 years, and been running her own portrait business for 10 years. She’s also one of the speakers at the upcoming UNFILTERED RETREAT in the Blue Mountains from August 8th to 11th and we are so excited to have her on the podcast today, sharing her thoughts and expertise about building a brand and a business that you love.

We chat about:

• How nostalgia and desperation to hang on to moments in time fuels the passion to capture images for ourselves & others

• How experience & maturity impacts our work and how we relate to clients

• Sophie explains how being patient and allowing your business to grow rather than rushing through that growth leads to long-term sustainability

• How the best way to grow is to just get in and do the work, don’t wait for everything to be “right”

• How cultivating genuine relationships is the real secret to building a successful business

• What Sophie believes is one of the big misconceptions about building a successful brand, and

• How outsourcing can be the catalyst for exponential growth

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers, your hosts, Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell, have a wide ranging chat about FilmingLife® Academy’s new Colour Grading course, shifting mindsets and everyone’s current social media nemesis, Instagram Reels.

You’ll hear Courtney & Kylie chat about:

• What’s been happening since the last episode

• Courtney’s new Colour Grading course, what’s included and how it will take your films to the next level

• Instagram Reels - what are they, how we feel about them, how we’re approaching them and making them our friend

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers your hosts, Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell, explain just what the heck happened to the FilmingLife® Podcast in 2021 and what happens when life gets in the way of your best laid plans.

You’ll hear Courtney & Kylie chat about:

• A wrap-up of all that happened in 2021

• How depression can derail your creativity

• Remote Learning & the death of productivity

• How the FilmingLife® Network saved our sanity in lockdown

• What’s in store for 2022

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers your host Kylie Purtell interviews our newest FilmingLifer PRO, Amy Murgatroyd.

We chat about:

• Amy’s journey to filmmaking and what led her to create the films she makes

• The beauty of being a beginner

• The comparison trap and bringing your work back to your ‘why’

• The magic that happens when passion & purpose intersect

• Passion as the flame, purpose as the fuel

• The camera as an instrument for hope & healing

• Stripping ourselves down to become a blank slate for our clients to write their story on, receiving rather than taking

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers your hosts Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell chat about your artistic vision versus what other people want, and how to find a comfortable medium between the two. Courtney will also share an excerpt from one of the lessons in her intermediate course in the Academy, FilmingLife® 201: The Art of Filming Families.

You’ll hear Courtney & Kylie chat about:

• The importance of portfolio building for both finding & building your artistic vision

• How a larger portfolio with more films will help you find clients who want films that embrace your artistic vision

• How your artistic vision can grow & change over time

• How being confident in your artistic vision can help you create work that not only your clients love & want, but alsofulfils you creatively and helps avoid burnout

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers your hosts Courtney Holmes and Kylie Purtellchat with Australian Photographer Karen Webb about what it’s like to wake up and find your Facebook business page has been shut down with no warning.

You’ll hear Courtney, Kylie & Karen chat about:

• Why Australian facebook pages were banned so suddenly

• The impact of losing one of your business communication channels

• Steps you can take to make sure you have a way to communicate with both booked & potential clients outside of social media

• The importance of setting up an email list and customer management software, as well as which newsletter provider you could use

In this episode of the FilmingLife® Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers your hosts Courtney Holmes & Kylie Purtell talk about creative ruts, how to recognise when you're in a rut, and what you can try to pull yourself out of it.

You’ll also hear Courtney & Kylie chat about:

• The FilmingLife® ArtHouse, a new series of guided film projects and showcase opportunities for members of FilmingLife® in 2021

• The different types of creative ruts

• How to recognise when you’re in a creative rut

• Things you can try when you’re just not feeling it