Bold Company – Episode 1

featuring Amy Eaton

Show Notes

Welcome to Bold Company!

In this first episode, I will share my own “origin story”, my breakthough
mindset moments in business, and my hopes and dreams for this podcast.

Links

The Startup Podcast – Pirate Needs Pirate

Being Boss Podcast
(GREAT NEWS, it appears that the Being Boss podcast is back!)

You Are A Badass At Making Money by Jen Sincero

Happy Life by FREDJI

https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic

https://www.facebook.com/fredjimusic/

Music promoted by Audio Library

https://youtu.be/u4PI5p5bI9k

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TODAY IS THE DAY! 🎉🎉🎉 Our new website is

Q: Hey Amy, what have you guys been working on for

Hell yes I'm excited, and hell yes I'm creating hy

Hell yes I'm excited, and hell yes I'm creating hype! Because we've been working our behinds off for WEEKS... And it's officially READY. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

"But Amy, what's in it for me?", you may be wondering - SO much, my friend! Tomorrow I'm releasing the full lineup, but today let me say you can expect:

🎉 Free downloadable resources

🎉 A free course!

🎉 Awesome affordable paid courses to help you uplevel your photography (and business)

🎉 All episodes of Bold Company in one spot

🎉 The blog

🎉 Easy access to my latest YouTube video

🎉 Some new and special I'll tell you more about tomorrow...

And one last thing... I'm celebrating the launch with 20% off a courses + tools AND a giveaway!!

Will you be tuning in? I'm seriously beyond excited!

Well, friends, it's happened. I'm finally at a pla

Well, friends, it's happened. I'm finally at a place in my creative journey where I'm ready to share my work.

While I was doing the "work" of unblocking my creative self, I made a commitment to myself that I wouldn't share the images with anyone, for the time being. It was important to the process that I was creating for me, and only me, without wondering how it would play into a social media strategy, or how it would resonate with people.

Many months later, I'm at a place where I feel ready some of the images from this journey.

I'd love for you to join me over at @amyeatonphoto, where I've created a dedicated space for my creative photography.

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Posted @withregram • @amyeatonphoto Hey there. As this is my first post on my creative account (business account: @amy.takes.pictures), I figure a little intro and recap is in order.

I am a photographer. I cannot tell you how much I've grappled with calling myself that, despite being a working photographer for 12 years, and a photography instructor with a thriving online photography school for the past 3+ years.

I've grappled with it because I haven't felt worthy of the title. Like many, I've struggled with imposter syndrome and with believing that I'm a creative person. I've felt like a fake, only capable of taking technically correct photos, but not creative, interesting, or compelling ones. This doubt was one of the very things that was blocking me from actually creating images that I felt worthy of the coveted (to me) title of photographer.

This past summer, my stifled creative finally came to head. I was miserable, lost, and disconnected. Through an intuitive reading that was supposed to be about my business, it became very clear that my feeling of uncertainty weren't to do with business at all, but about my place in the creative world. So, I set out on a quest to uncover my lost/locked away creativity that had been buried by years of criticism (mostly self), and ideas of what I "should" be as a creative.

The experience has been life changing. I no longer doubt that I am creative, but nurture it the way I nurture my other valued relationships. It didn't come easily... (cont'd on original post)

Yesterday was World Prematurity Day. This is our p

Yesterday was World Prematurity Day. This is our prematurity story.

At 33 weeks, I was airlifted to the city hospital from our rural area because of complications due to placenta previa. Our local hospital was unable to support a baby born that early, so I was immediately flown via helicopter to the children's hospital where she could be cared for if she came early.

Luckily, we hung on, and a week later I was able to go home with strict instructions to stay within 20 minutes of our local hospital. The placenta previa was a ticking time bomb, and we were both at very high risk if we didn't make it to the hospital in time.

A week later, I was back in hospital. This time, my doctors weren't recommending waiting. "This is what placenta previa does", they said. At any moment, the placenta could rupture and cause massive hemorrhaging. It was time, at 35 weeks, for Alice to come out.

The c-section was relatively uneventful, with skilled surgeons navigating the placenta and I only encountered minimal blood loss, all things considered. Alice was perfection, at exactly 6lbs.

But at 35 weeks, she hadn't fully developed the sucking reflex yet. Her attempts left her exhausted. She slept continuously and was barely feeding. She lost weight, and had to be put on a feeding tube. Every two hours around the clock, I fed her formula via syringe through her tube under the watchful eye of the nurses. I received iron transfusions to compensate for the blood loss, a needle every 8 hours to prevent blood clots, and took short walks around the unit to encourage recovery from the surgery.

Jeff was my hero these days. When I was cleared to go home, but Alice wasn't, he insisted on taking my place at the hospital so that I could go home, sleep in my own bed, and have some of my mom's home cooking (who was staying with us to help with our son - she was also a hero). I'd been struggling mentally and emotionally, and Jeff saw that even when I was too immersed in caring for Alice to recognize it. Jeff and I alternated at the hospital for two weeks. Alice slowly gained strength and energy, to the point where she ripped out her own feeding tube. (cont'd in comments)

Huxley here, checking in to see how you're all doi

Huxley here, checking in to see how you're all doing.
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How's your holiday rush going? AWESOME or not so much?
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He also wants to let you know that.... THE NEW WEBSITE IS LAUNCHING NOVEMBER 25th! 🎉🎉🎉

Pure joy, pure love. 😍 What is it about being

Pure joy, pure love. 😍

What is it about being thrown up in the air that make kids so happy? Maybe it's a combination of the thrill, and also knowing that there's someone there to catch you.

Which is wildly reminiscent of the time I left my day job, once and for all, to run my own business. I was elated, excited, and scared, but I knew that this guy right here was there to catch me. Fortunately, he never needed to. With his support, I built the business of my dreams, and now we work together in the business, while raising our little family at the same time. ❤️

And thanks to this guy, our new website is ALMOST DONE!! Jeff has done an incredible job, and I can't wait to share it with you all.

It's easier to navigate, easier to enroll in courses and buy presets and actions, find my latest YouTube videos and podcast episodes, and so much more.

Drop an emoji below if you're excited to see the new site! ❤️😍👇

On Tuesday, I asked if editing your handmade produ

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