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The Studio Takeover podcast is about and for Portrait Photographers from all walks. Join host Cat Ford-Coates as she shares her journey and interviews other Portrait Photographers to learn how they navigate personal and professional challenges, their businesses, and their lives.© 2026 The Studio Takeover Podcast アート マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • The Diver's Mentality with Eryn Brydon

    The Diver's Mentality with Eryn Brydon
    2026/07/13

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    She spent fifteen years calling "just enough" a career. Then she got in the water and stopped coming up for someone else's air.

    Six months ago Eryn Brydon clicked an ad she couldn't scroll past. She had the master's degree. The college teaching job. Fifteen years of underwater photography she'd been doing well enough to survive on and never well enough to feel like hers.

    She also had an agreement running underneath all of it. The quiet one. The one that says an artist takes what she can get, keeps the price low, keeps herself smaller than the work, and calls the whole arrangement humility.

    Then she went to Mexico. Four days at Elevate, a Temescal ceremony, and a version of the real world so real she still can't stop talking about it. She came back forty, in love, done neglecting her own body, and finished (genuinely finished) auditioning for a life she'd already been living underwater the entire time.

    This is the confession episode. Eryn is a scuba diver, and she talks about business the way she talks about the ocean: the current isn't the thing that kills you. You are. Complacency is. The moment you stop watching your own air and start believing nothing can touch you because that's when it does. Cat and Eryn take that all the way down. What the fear is actually for. Why the most dangerous thing in the water is the person holding the camera. And what it costs a woman to keep putting everyone else's oxygen mask on first.

    Then it turns, the way these always turn. Because Eryn isn't just processing a retreat. She's launching two things fifteen years in the making, and you get to hear her build them out loud.

    Decision compels action. She wrote it on her mirror. Come find out what she's deciding.

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    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceaninkstudios/
    Website: https://oceaninkstudios.com/

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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.
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    49 分
  • The Audacity to Choose with Kristen Fields

    The Audacity to Choose with Kristen Fields
    2026/06/22
    Send us Fan MailFor 23 years, Kristen Fields ran her photography business the only way her nervous system knew how: feast or famine, hypervigilant, thriving in chaos because chaos felt like home. Then something changed, and it wasn't a new funnel, a new offer, or working harder.In this episode, Cat sits down with Kristen, a Boise-based photographer 16 months into their work together, for one of the cleanest Flinch-to-Flow conversations we've put on the show. Kristen is building an empire in real time: a photography business taken international, a keynote and shoot in Mexico this September, and a book — The Audacity — on its way by year's end. But the inventory isn't the story. The story is how she learned to hold all of it and be at peace. How she got there is the part you'll want to hear in her own words.The Flinch Nobody Names Out LoudEvery photographer's flinch wears a different costume. Kristen's looked like constant constriction, chronic indecision, and handing her choices to other people so she'd never have to sit with what she actually wanted. Underneath it ran the same permission system so many creatives never consciously installed — the quiet rule that wanting more, being seen, and getting paid for your art are things you're supposed to apologize for.A year ago, she says, she was surviving. Existing by default. Chaos wasn't just tolerated — it was identity. In the episode she names the exact belief that kept her there for two decades, and the moment she caught it running the show. (It's the same wiring a lot of us carry in from scarcity, and Cat traces where it comes from.)The Question That Made Her FuriousThe shift didn't start with a strategy. It started with a single challenge from Cat — one Kristen admits she was "f*cking pissed" about for a long time. It became the title of her book. It also became the question this whole episode circles: what would it look like if you had the audacity to choose the life you actually want?We won't spoil how she answers it. But the conversation moves through the mechanism Cat comes back to again and again — why a decision, not a plan, is what actually compels you to change — and the retreat moment six months ago where Kristen stopped performing the work and started feeling it.What Flow Actually Looks LikeFlow doesn't mean the hard stuff stops showing up. It means it stops meaning something about who you are. Kristen gets honest about how she moves now when everything goes sideways — and how different that is from the version of her who'd spiral, grit, and drown in shame just two years ago.There's a thread here about regulation, visibility, and the fear that being seen isn't safe; including the surprising place that fear had been hiding in her body and her calendar. If you've ever believed a packed schedule was the only proof you were okay, this stretch of the episode is for you.Also In This EpisodeWhy The Audacity isn't written from victimhood, and the arc Kristen says every woman moves through, from "good girl" to Phoenix to sovereign.How her September keynote, her Sovereign destination campaign, and the book all feed each other — what Cat calls "satellite congruence."Where photography fits now that it's no longer the whole empire What actually makes a five-figure destination session worth it; and why it has almost nothing to do with the location.The unprompted thing Kristen's 12-year-old said before a school play that told her the change is already reaching the next generation.Find Kristen Here:Website: https://kristenfieldsphoto.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenfieldsphoto/ Support the showABOUT CAT FORD-COATESCat 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.
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    57 分
  • Shadow Series: The Overturning

    Shadow Series: The Overturning
    2026/05/11

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    The Shadow · "The Overturning"

    Seven episodes. Seven shadows. Seven lies that creative women tell themselves to stay exactly where they are.

    This is the last one.

    And it's the most sophisticated — because this shadow doesn't keep you from doing the work. She lets you talk about doing the work. She hands you the vocabulary, lets you name every pattern with tremendous clarity, and then watches while you adjust the rate before you send it anyway.

    Awareness is not transformation. Insight is not identity shift. Naming the cage is not the same as walking out of it.

    In this final episode, I'm not introducing another shadow. I'm telling you what I didn't say in any of the first seven — including what was running in me while I was building this series. And I'm telling you about a word that doesn't mean what you think it does.

    Catastrophe. From the Greek. Kata + strophe. Not the disaster. The overturning.

    The moment the structure that's been holding you in place gives way — not with a crash, but with a release — to something that was always there underneath it.

    The Torch is not a different woman. She is the same woman after she stops protecting herself from what she already knows.

    You've spent seven episodes doing the naming. Now do the choosing.

    Links:

    • Book announcement → https://substack.com/@catfordcoates
    • Instagram: @catfordcoates

    Tell me which shadow ran the longest. Come find me on Instagram.

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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.
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    30 分
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