"First let me start by saying Jodi is amazing! She taught me how to shoot in studio, I would say effectively and efficiently, let me explain. She taught me flow posing so that when you do a boudoir session you are posing in a way that flows and your client is making small movements to change the pose slightly but enough to get different photos that will fit in an album beautifully. This works great because your client isn't constantly up and down and moving all over when you are shooting but rather in the same area for several shots and you move on to the next, this is what makes it more efficient. She helped me with using lighting in studio also. I had never used any studio lighting so she helped with settings for the camera and the studio lights, she allowed me to do my own thing and ask questions during which is super beneficial if you are one that learns being hands on. It's much more effective to take photos in the same area using flow posing with the same lighting set up and then move on to another set and repeat. If you have the questions she will have the answers! We did shooting using studio and natural light combined along with a moodier set changing the light for a completely different look. Having come from never using studio lights before or even having an understanding of studio light she helped me so much!

For the business mentoring... 

Jodi is super knowledgeable when it comes to the business - which to me is not the fun part. I have been doing things so manually that I was taking up so much time with the business part of my business I was reaching burnout! She helped me set up quickbooks, which my accountant was using but I was not... I was getting basic information from her but Jodi helped me to see that if I want to grow I need to see what packages and products are being sold and what is working verses what is not... the only way to see this is to have it set up completely and have all of that info in the system so that I can run reports and make sense of my finances. She also helped me set up Flowdesk for email campaigns, she helped me get all of my contacts from the old email system and from my client management program and move them to Flowdesk. We also completely set up online booking through square. We went through my website and she helped make suggestions for optimal user experience - which is something I still have to finish. We went over my pricing and packages and she made some suggestions on how to upsell products and to simplify packages. She also helped me set up a landing page through link tree and we also linked my square online bookings to my gmail calendar, so that they show up as "busy" and work with my CRM system so that I can't be double booked, they are also color coded so that's nice too! Truly if I could I would do another day with her to see what other tricks she has up her sleeve, she's helped me tremendously!"

- wendy, wendy nolte photography