Great Escape Radio: Episode 152: Declutter your life
“For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.” –Anonymous Host, Jody Maberry and Director, Lori Allen discuss The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. Although the book came out in 2014, it’s getting more attention now because the author has a Netflix series. The book…
Perfection Won’t Help You Sell More Stories – Here’s What You Do…
My husband and I learned to ski at different times. I started when I was a kid. Once a year, a mountain 3 hours from where I lived held a ski-free day for beginners. My parents would load us into the car at 4 a.m. and we’d be the first ones there. We’d take a…
5 Ways To Get Writing About Local Travel Experiences
Social media can be depressing, right? Everyone seems to post travel photos from far-flung exotic locales. Scroll down your Instagram, Twitter or Facebook feed any time of day. Go ahead. You’ll find images of the 18th-century sculpted Trevi Fountain in Italy, the Great Blue Hole for scuba diving in Belize, coffee plantations in Hawaii, ancient…
How To Write A Listicle – 3 Tips To Get Started
One of the least-romantic (yet most-published) articles out there is the listicle. “’6 Amazing Ski Tours Around the World” – Outside Magazine “100 Best Albums of All Time” — Rolling Stone “100 American towns founded before the Revolution” — USA Today Listicles are basically a list of people, places, and things held together by an…
5 Tips To Find The Right Publication For Your Travel Story
Where should I send my story? It’s one of the top questions I’m asked at travel-writing workshops, during writing retreats, and in feedback sessions with beginning freelance writers. But it’s the wrong question to ask. Instead, I encourage writers to start asking this question of themselves: Where do I want to see my story published?…
Worry Less — Use This Simple Trick To Get More Done
Cows are a little bit skittish. I know this because every time my cousin’s dog goes into the field, the cows run away from him. They don’t like him jumping at their feet. Or maybe they don’t like that he’s so small they can’t see him in the grass. But here’s the difference between cows…
Great Escape Radio: Episode 151: Selling landscape photos
“Life is a gift. Wake up every day and realize that.”—Unknown Host, Jody Maberry and Director, Lori Allen introduce us to Nigel Danson. Lori met Nigel by phone in the beginning of 2018. “Every year at the start of the year I call 100 people—members of GEP—to see that’s working for them, what’s not working and…
Making A Six-Figure Income As A (Shy) Photographer
I’ve always been on the shy, quiet side. You know, the little girl who hid behind her mother when faced with meeting someone new. I was totally that kid! As I got older, I learned to “act as if,” but deep down, I was still that shy little girl. Growing up a baby boomer in…
Starting A Photography Business Is The Simple Decision To Say “Yes”
My photography business sort of just happened. A few years ago, a friend was chairing an event at our children’s preschool and asked me to bring my camera along. I had always loved photography and had plenty of practice photographing my kids and other little ones. No pressure at all—simply capturing those moments we all…
How DIY Photography Setups Can Earn You $2,000 In One Weekend
When I first started photographing wine bottles, I had no idea what I was doing. I figured I had learned enough about how to shoot decent photos to be able to get great bottle images. False. I was embarrassed by my results, and no amount of post-processing was going to save me. So, I took…
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