Building a Sustainable Portrait Business with a Full Time Position with Ashanta Staten Artwork

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Building a Sustainable Portrait Business with a Full Time Position with Ashanta Staten

February 26, 2024 • Cat Ford-Coates • Season 2 • Episode 6

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Ashanta Staten from But a Moment Photography in the Raleigh area of North Carolina is building her business while working in a full time position outside of photo to maintain her security as she grows her business sustainably.
She began as many of us do in weddings and quickly discovered that weddings were not where she wanted to focus. During the Covid pandemic she pivoted into newborns and through her own search for business sustainability through platforms like CreativeLive, YouTube, The Portrait System which is where she then found permission to direct her energies into portrait.
Ashanta has since expanded into continuing education with The Studio Takeover and is creating 5 figure months regularly working part time in her business.
As her mentor I find myself with a giant grin at her results week after week, month after month because even with skepticism, she trusts the process and those results speak for themselves.
You can find Ashanta and connect here:

Website: https://butamomentphotography.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/butamoment/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/butamomentphotography

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ABOUT CAT FORD-COATES

Cat Ford-Coates has been told to soften her whole career.

She didn't.

She built a multi-six-figure business teaching photographers that the thing keeping them stuck was never the market, the portfolio, or the pricing. It was the voice. The one that sounds like wisdom. The one that keeps moving the goalpost and calling it patience.

She's spent over a decade in rooms with photographers who are extraordinarily talented and somehow still convinced they should be grateful for what they have.

She disagrees. Loudly.

Cat serves photographers who already know what they want. Who know what they're capable of. Who have known for a while, actually, and have spent years finding sophisticated reasons not to claim it.

The question was never whether you're ready.

You already know you are. Stop pretending that you don't.