HeyJaredMentor and the Muse
Sharing my point of view from behind the lens to inside the mind. International portrait photographer + transformation coach.
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You can't outsource this (opens the original)
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The universe keeps testing us until we get the memo.I’ve noticed it most clearly in the moments where in the past, I might have given a little too much or bent a little too far. A client asks for something outside the scope. Then something else. The expectations creep beyond what was quoted. A phone call at 7pm.The old version of me could very easily have thought: just do it. Keep them happy. Don’t make it awkward.I’ve built a 21-year career on being very good at taking care of people. Seeing wh
What Grief Builds Next (opens the original)
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One of the most profound things someone has said to me came from my dear friend and peer Carlii Lyon:“You didn’t go through what you went through to suffer.”It has stayed with me for several years and has given me the strength to recognise that there were deep learnings within what I experienced that helped me become the person I am today.Over the past few months, I ended a relationship with someone I deeply loved. It was a huge, disruptive challenge that required more courage and strength than
Resentment Is the Signal (opens the original)
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If something in your business isn’t working and you’re beginning to resent it, it usually means you haven’t set enough boundaries.Not that you’ve picked the wrong clients. Not that you need better systems, a new offer, a different niche. It’s that somewhere along the way you stopped drawing lines, and the resentment is the feeling the body makes when a line should have been drawn a long time ago.I’ve had to set a lot of these. No calls after 5pm, and ideally after 3pm, unless it’s a project I’m
Transformation is F***ing Painful (opens the original)
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I’ve just wrapped up 12 weeks with a cohort of women.I want to tell you what happened, but not in the way you’d expect. Not the wins, not the numbers, not the receipts. Those are all there, and they’re extraordinary. One woman moved from a $750 package to a $5,000 package and sold three of them in the space of a few weeks. Another closed a chapter of her business that had been quietly draining her for years. Another spoke about her own talents out loud, in front of witnesses, for the first time
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