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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder · Authentic Living

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Welcome to Authentic Living with Roxanne.
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I'm Global Voice Radio.
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To Roxandra Hart and her thought provoking conversation, the catalyst to live your life to
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the fullest.
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Hi, everyone.
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It's, Roxanne Durgesh.
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Nice to see you, or hear you again this, week it's authentic living with Roxanne.
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So today, I have a another special guest.
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I've I think that everybody that takes the time to come in and and, share the with me is
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special.
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And it's Pooja Misra.
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Puja, and I hope I'm saying your last name properly.
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Is it Misra?
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You're
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you're the try to
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help me.
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So Pooja, is, someone that's quite unique, puja works with, women.
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I, I, I said, that what I think she does is she transforms the perception of what people see in
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the mirror.
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I think that's how I would would describe it.
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So I'm gonna read a little bit about Pooja and, and then I I hope that Pooja will be able to
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explain a little bit better what she does.
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Puja, owns zoom into life photography.
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And, in this, in her business, she empowers women by having them capture their inner light
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and beauty, and it's a basically a gift back to them as a pore as a portrait photographer, She
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specializes in contemporary portraits for women.
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Her passion and mission is to help women by giving them the confidence they they deserve
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and the knowledge that they are beautiful and worthy just the way they are.
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Making them confidence and empowered both swift personally and professionally to save the
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world.
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I'm beautiful now.
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I'm good enough now, which is wow.
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If you can do that, I know that, oftentimes women, I'm and, you know, before you're getting
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ready, like, even today, you know, it's kinda like, okay.
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Is my hair look okay?
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I think I see a little bit of gray.
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All those things that we go through as women.
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So, Puja, tell me tell me a little bit more of what I've not kind of, highlighted.
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I know you do branding and you do portraits for family generations.
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So tell, tell me a little bit more about, what you do.
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So, basically, like you read, a little bit about me.
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So I do what I do is even if I'm doing, the family generations of beauty poters, which are
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made with doll shoes or personal branding, My goal is always to really capture the person or,
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the beautiful soul that woman is to really capture her in my lens and then be able to get
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it back to her.
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So, beauty coaches, like I said, is essentially make over style portraits.
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It's for a woman who really wants to come in and take the time to just celebrate herself, so
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that she feels in powered and, confident and beautiful in her own skin.
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Family generations are basically an extension of that same beauty shoe because I have the
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family join her later.
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After her shoot is done.
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And then personal branding, shoots are basically customized sessions for the
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entrepreneurs or the small business owners, wherein, I truly capture or my goal is to truly
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capture who they are, what they do, and what their passion is all about, into the images
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that I create for them.
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Because I truly believe that images invoke feelings in the other person.
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So as a small business owner, what are the what are the feelings that you want your target
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audience to really feed about you and, communicate that, in the images through your
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story.
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So that's what I do in personal branding and headshots.
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So, you know, what I what I, love about your story is is your beginning and it's in your
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bio, but I think, you telling it is, story about your daughter and your and the family
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pictures that when you went digging through looking for them.
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So I'd like you to share with the audience kind of what how this path got started because you
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were in, fashion design and and textile, right, and and how you kind of landed where you did.
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So please, share some of that story with them.
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Sure.
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So, yes, I was, so I graduated from my university in textile Designing, and then I did
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fashion design.
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And then I worked in the different countries that I have been in so far, as a fashion
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designer, as a senior designer, wherein I was designing, for retail for either men's wear or
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women's wear.
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And so I've been to, I have had that exposure all throughout my life, but I always had, that
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feeling inside of me that I am to do something else that there is something more that I need
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to, I have that I need to offer to the world, but I didn't know what at that point of time.
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And, but I knew that I wanted to do something, but I could really make a difference in the
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other person's life.
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And so it still happened that I already had my photography business and everything, which I
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started with my, husband initially, And so, couple of years back when my daughter was in
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elementary school, she came back, one day saying that, mama needs some photographs of
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ours.
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Our family forecast put on a classroom wall.
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And at that moment, when I, went to my back to my family albums, and I was flipping through
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them, I could not find any image of mine with her or just myself.
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And, and at that moment, I asked my husband is like, how come I'm not finding any photograph
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of mine?
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You know, like, we take photographs for other people where are my photographs.
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And so Great.
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And when you look at the moment that you don't want to take, any photographs or you're not
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willing to Jump in.
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At that moment, it's like, you know, when you notice something, you kind of notice the
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pattern all around you.
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And so I saw that that similar kind of thinking or a similar perception in my family some of
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the friends that I had or even just strangers who I used to meet, in my everyday life.
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And it didn't really matter whether a person, Roscoe, we like me, or, a person who is lean
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because my sister is lean.
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My younger sisters has been throughout her life, but even she has those things.
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And so In that moment, I realized that I need to change this perception of women not feeling
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good enough because that does not me putting on weight or whatever happens, in my life
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physically does not really speak about who I am.
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And, as an individual or, me as a person.
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And I feel like I have that image in my head when I used to look at myself in the mirror in
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my photographs, I never could connect the two images.
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And so my thing was, okay, it really does not matter because I have the space of my fashion
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and styling and all of that.
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I need to marry all of this that I have over the years and create, a kind of a shoe wherein
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I can really capture who the person is and reflected back to them at the back of my camera
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so that they feel that connection.
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Because when you get that connection, you feel so confident in your own skin, that you can
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basically move mountains.
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So that's how that's what my story is.
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What's all sounds amazing.
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So, you know, I think of what happens to women, you know, and you what you see, you know, all
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over the magazines and the internet and you know, people or celebrities or even people in,
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in, influencers sometimes will take down pictures Photoshop it and then put them back
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up.
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So we are really working in a world where we're consistently bombarded with perfection.
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Right?
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And really what is real?
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Like, how, you know, how tall or how short or what sizes anybody, something, you know, in in
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reality, off in times what we're seeing is not the reality, and that's, unfortunately, what
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most people are comparing to.
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Would you would you agree with that being in the fashion world, you could you could probably
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give us even a, you know, a better backstory on that.
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What what did you see out there?
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Well, it is true.
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Like, we always, especially when we are going up, I think
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it hap starts happening when we are in our teams where we are bombarded with all these
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fashion magazines.
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And at that time, I feel like, the focus is more on acceptability from your peers or
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whatever.
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And then, you when you come across, images, in fashion magazines and everything, you it's
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almost like an escalation.
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It's like I wanna be like her, or, you know, I wanna look like her, and that kind of stays
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true.
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And, just as to how each individual's life progresses.
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Sometimes it stays, and then it leads to, leads to this when you, like, the non matching of the
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2 images, like I was talking to you about, when that happens, then you kind of feel like, okay.
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I'm not good enough.
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I don't look beautiful enough because in your mind, you're always kind of referring back to
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it.
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Or Sometimes I've seen it even happens, like in my case, wherein I used to I used to feel I I
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looked I looked good in my teen years or in my university year, a couple of years before.
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And then when I saw that mismatch, in my current images and I was I was looking at
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myself.
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I felt like, oh, no.
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I have to look like that.
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That is perfect.
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This is imperfect.
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And so, yeah, absolutely.
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So that's what I feel like, we need to just know that, you know, what we are beautiful
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individuals just the way we are, and, we can change that if we don't like something, we can
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definitely we'll do what's changing it.
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So, yeah.
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So those messages really are, and if if we look at what I do, which is authenticity, is about
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being authentic, like you are right.
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Like, we are so much more than what we look like on the outside.
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But if that's the only benchmark that you're using without kind of recognizing, you know,
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who am I, you know, do I like me, you know, and, what do I do, to be kind to myself first
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And I think oftentimes, what happens is, you know, we're we're we can be really nice to the
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meanest, meanest person in our lives or people, but we're we're oftentimes not so nice to
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ourselves, and that's really external and internal back and forth, which is really what
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self esteem is.
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You know, so what I'm curious about is when you meet women, right, what do you do?
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Like, what do you do, like, an like, I mean, I when I meet people, obviously, in my work, as a
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culture, you know, in psychotherapy, I go through an assessment, which is, is
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conversational.
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Is your similar?
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What what do you do?
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Or do you do a formal piece, where they fill out paperwork?
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What?
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What?
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What's your process?
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Yeah.
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So my process is exactly like you mentioned.
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For me, it's very important.
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No matter which sheet I'm doing, it's really important for me.
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Need to know as to what is it that they are really looking forward to, be it their personal
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branding or their beauty or family portraits.
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So always have a consult done with them.
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And once I know the vision of, their shoe, then it's easier for me to kind of a map everything
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in my mind as to what I'm going to create for them.
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So, yes, if we so I first laid down like, a photoshoot date, and then I kind of back
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calculate 2 or 3 from that day.
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And then I have a style consolidation.
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And on the style consolidation, I talk in-depth about, okay, what is your vision?
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If it's, for personal branding, where does your business stand at the moment?
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Are you going through a process of rebranding What is your vision?
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What is it that you want to communicate?
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And, even for building photos is the exact same thing.
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So once I understand what is it that they're looking for, then it's easier for me to kind
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of, map that you'd be able to say like I was saying, accordingly.
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So I have the style consultation I discussed.
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Okay, what outfits to get from for your photo shoot?
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What colors to pick?
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What accessories to pick?
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And all that is discussed on the day, of the council.
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I actually sent them a style guide and a beauty guide, which they are looking at while them
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while I'm walking them through.
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So it's easier for them to understand because it's visual.
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Then, after that, they come in, on the day of the police shoot.
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I have her here, Nikkabar is waiting for them.
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And, they're going to hair and makeup, then I photographed them in the different outfits and
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the lifestyle shots that we've discussed.
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Then I take around 2 weeks ago signature with my images, and then they come back in for a
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presentation, where they actually get to see what happened on the day of the shoot and
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really, see what images is.
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Looking at that moment or the love from the Polish.
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So it's a little bit different and a slightly longer process, but then, the client seemed to
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really enjoy because, they know that they have been handheld and and really, it really takes
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care of, any insight or any kind of thing that they have in their mindset.
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Okay.
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What do I get for the ship?
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Or am I going to look, or what am I going to do, and all of that?
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So, yeah.
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So in business, I would think that that most people have a vision of branding.
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I would assume most of the time.
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So they have sense of what they're gonna want to.
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But let's say I gotta play devil's advocate.
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It's a woman.
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I don't like kinda how I look.
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I'm not so sure what my look is.
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Like, I kinda think it should be this, but I'm not so sure.
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And I'm going back and forth with you because I confused myself because I I'm not comfortable
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in my skin.
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And I wanna look beautiful, but I'm not sure what that should look like.
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How do you, how do you help me out?
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So, so here's what my fashion background kind of, helps me over here because having worked
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for so many international brands, I kind of understand more about branding and how to
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really communicate the story of the brand to the target audience.
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So then I know that, okay, if if if somebody hasn't had a chance to really, you know, work
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on to their branding more, if it's it's a great opportunity.
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I feel like, you know what?
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Wow.
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That is, that is incredible because now I get to really work with them right from.
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Okay.
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What is it that you really want to communicate to your, target audience.
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So is it that you wanna look powerful and confident, or you wanna look warm and
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approachable?
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What is the nature your, work that is there.
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Are you a coach, or are you into real estate, or are you into mortgage, or are you a health
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are you into health and wellness.
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So based on all that, then it just every question is asked to them in a way that it just
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helps them clarify because we know what we want.
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It's just that we might not be able to see it at that moment.
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And also, okay, what colors are you really drawn to?
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If you don't have your branding colors, already, you know, kind of So I think one of
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the you gravitate towards, or, what kind of field are you in?
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So say, for example, I had a person wherein, they were into, spiritual guidance and all of
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that.
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And earlier, they were using hot link, but it didn't fire, the thing that they were kind of,
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helping the clients with.
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So it it was it was more of, okay.
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What is it that you really want your target audience to be?
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And so she's like okay, I want them to feel loved, and I want them to feel safe, and I want
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them to feel trustworthy.
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And I want them to feel calm and, completely at ease with me.
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And so I'm like, okay, then let's look at, are you drawn to more of blues and in blues What
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are the tones or, colors that you've drawn to it?
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So it was like, okay.
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I like aqua blue.
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And you catered the shoot around that.
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And, just the personal branding for me was more like, okay, how do I show this person's divine
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power through their images.
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And that's how we kind of discussed and, came, to do her images And so far, that's like my
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most favorite shirt because every time I see her image, it gives me goosebumps because I
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want to feel a positive and beautiful aura through that.
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So.
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It's interesting.
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Right?
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Cause I get I get to you an example, like, when I did my shots, so I had 2 I had one
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photographer, both gave to my home, right, to do.
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And, the first set of shots, people said it's a look contrived It it just didn't look like me.
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It didn't, you know, and the second one, a different photographer, and I looked completely
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relaxed And my because of my brand authenticity, relatable, not intimidating in
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any way, even though I'm bringing the professional background, And the second one
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captured it within me.
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Mhmm.
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The first one, even though, you know, I, yes, I was dressed a bit differently or whatever I
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seemed up tight.
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So I may and then the second photographer, really, he kept saying, you know, just breathe,
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you know, just, you know, he kept, you know, he did some outside, you know, and, and they're
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all really those are the ones that I still use today, but I think what you're saying is,
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really, the first was more surface and the seconds was more essence.
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So is that is that what you mean?
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Absolutely.
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You know, because I I often think, and this is, you know, as a coach or a psychotherapist, what
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we do is you know, when we go through all two steps, it's kind of who's important.
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What's important?
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How will you know when?
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What will you be feeling differently?
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How, how will you be thinking differently?
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How will your body, you experience your body in a different way ultimately based on why they're
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there?
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Right.
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And we're continually, I often say it's like a fuzzy, you know, those old TVs where there's a
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fuzzy image when I meet them originally, And then as I I continue to assess the concerns,
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whatever they're coming in with, that fuzzy picture becomes clearer and clearer to me in my
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mind so I can get them where they need to get but it's not about me.
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Yeah.
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It's just about me being, a bit of a vehicle alongside them, but they're coming of their own
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because their goal has to fit into their lives because sometimes we will say, well, you know,
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I'm saying, just tell me what to do, and I'll go home, and I'll do it.
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And I say, okay.
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Great.
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Great.
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Just let me give me a couple of minutes.
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I'll write out what you need, and I'll send you off.
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And I said, in 2 weeks, you'll come back.
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You'll be freaking out.
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You would have done it for 1 week.
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2nd week, you're gonna fall on your face, and then you're gonna come back, and you're gonna
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be really mad at me.
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And I said, I won't I won't let that happen.
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So is that do you find that people sometimes try to put you in that spot to have you use
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your voice, be just because they're not sure or, you know, how do you kind of deal with
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those areas where they say, Pooja, just tell me what to do.
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You're the you're the fashion icon.
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You know colors.
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You know wardrobe.
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What do you do with those
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I I absolutely agree with you.
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And so if I, if if anybody says that to me, I'm like, I will take the photographs for you, but
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the images are not about me.
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It's about you, and it's about capturing the essence of your brand and you because when you,
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when you put out these images, I really want them to work for you in a way that it not only
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elevates your brand, and, and really works for your vision, but your target audience is really
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attracted to you because now they can feel your tendency of you being captured in them.
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And, they have that trust, build up for you.
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And they can see that when, through the images.
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So it has to be about you.
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And, and so then when I walk them through all of these questions, asked you, okay, what are
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the emotions that you want, to really for the other person to feel?
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Or, what is it that you are more drawn to?
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Are there any images that you are drawn to?
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Because when I ask all of those questions, yeah, it just becomes clearer and clearer and
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clearer.
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And then I kind of build a vision board for them.
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So when I put all of those, ideas onto a vision board for them and they look at it, they are
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like, oh my god.
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It's like you are in my head.
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This is exactly what I wanted.
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I'm like, I'm glad you feel that way.
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So I think that really helps because when I create that for them.
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It just helps, get that clarity for them.
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And it's almost like I know exactly what's there in my their head, and they know exactly
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what's there in my mind.
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It just brings so much of clarity to it.
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So what I'm curious about is the family shoots.
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So so let's say, you know, you a woman comes in and she goes through all of this.
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So I've I I'm assuming you're picking color based on tone and and feel that they want all
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those things.
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Like, like, people want to feel connected.
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Like you said, they when they look at the picture, they get an emotions, an emotion
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associated with you.
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So you're doing all of that.
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And then you create something like you said, the one with the goosebumps.
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What an what a feeling?
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That's what I mean.
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You've tapped into something really, really deep there.
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So I'm so then you said that you bring they bring the family in.
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So I'm curious about that.
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So what happens?
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So they go through this whole metamorphosis, I call it.
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Okay.
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Oh, that's a really good word.
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Yeah.
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What is a cocoon?
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Right?
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You're breaking them out and, you know, like, they say with the butterfly, all the things
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that the butterfly has to go through, which is horrific to be able to come, come out of this
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cocoon, and to become this beautiful butterfly, which is really the internal space of our
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uniqueness within each one of us, which I truly believe.
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Yeah.
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And what happens to the family?
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Like, do they end prepped do they say, oh, by the way, you know, mom or sister's gonna be a
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bit different.
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How do how do you kind of line that up so that you get these pictures in line with this new
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metamorphosis that has gotten created.
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Right.
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So say, for example, if it's a mother and daughter shoot, wherein it's the mom, and then,
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you know, she has daughters or she has just one daughter, and then she comes in for her shoe So
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the way I work it is that, first, the mom would go into hair and makeup, and then I start
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photographing her.
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And depending on It's, you know, say till 16 years of age or whatever.
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I think they'll still like to, kind of have a little bit makeup done, kind of have them,
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like, a full makeup, like, sort of a thing, but I know how, it feels at that age because I have
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a twelve year daughter, and she, like, kind of blush and all of that.
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So we just put, like, a a little bit of blush and a little bit of gloss or something for, the
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small kids that they also feel like, oh, I'm I'm all packed.
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I'm putting everything, like, once I photograph the mom, then, I then the mom takes best.
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And then once the the daughter is ready, I start with the daughter is 16 or 18 years and
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up.
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And she wants to do, her hair makeup, like her mom, she goes into hair and makeup.
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So once she's ready, then I are photographing them.
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Once everybody's ready, then I photograph all of them.
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Together in the different combination so that none of the, none of the emotions or none of
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the relationship bonds are kind of missed out.
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And then, if they want the in as well then because I've seen that men don't like to sit,
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through all of the hair and makeup and all of this stuff.
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They're like, do I have to?
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Everything.
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They are like, the perfect time.
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I'll come in.
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I'll get my photos done.
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You tell me what to do when I wanna get out.
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Just tell me what to share wearing up good.
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Yes.
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So it was an endless thing.
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We're not picking on you.
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It's just you need to know.
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And so that's coming, towards the end or brothers coming towards the end of the shoot.
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The last one are, wherein, all the girls are taken care of and they've you know, had a
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lovely time and then they come in.
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I kind of create all the combinations for them as a family and, yeah, away they go.
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So everybody's be monks happy.
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The daughter's happy because she's been really pampered and enjoyed, through the whole
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process.
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And dad's happy that Okay.
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He has this, 1 hour and everything gets done.
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And, yeah, it's a beautiful feeling.
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So you actually, have the mom Are you are you when she's doing hair and makeup, are you doing
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pictures then too, or is it just formal, or I'm same with the child?
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Or the young, you know, younger person?
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So the mom goes into hair and makeup the first.
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Once her hair and makeup is done, then I start photographing her in the time that I'm
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photographing mom, her daughter has, is onto the hair and makeup seat and getting her hair
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and makeup.
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So say, for example, she's twenty years old or whatever.
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He's getting her hair and makeup done.
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Once her hair and makeup is, done, which takes about the hair and makeup takes about an hour
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or a half depending upon the length of the hair and all of that.
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So after that one hour where the daughter's ready, I start photographing her and mom kind
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of relaxes and, sees her beautiful daughter being photographed.
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Once I've done her, daughter's images, then I photograph both of them together.
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So that's how I kind of loose.
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It's like everything is flowing smoothly and just back to back, and it's just, easy for
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everyone.
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So I know you're doing something pretty special, and I want to give you the opportunity
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to talk about this because I think, the listeners would be quite interested in this.
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And, so there's a someone that found out about your your business that, and I want you to
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tell, the listeners a little bit more about that because I know there's a a situation where
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there's a go fund me that you're maybe, gonna ask people if they're interested in helping
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out.
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So tell us, tell me a little bit and tell them a little bit about that go fund me that's
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happening.
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Sure.
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And thank you so much for sharing about the GoFundMe.
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It's really special for me.
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I've never done something like this before.
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For, and I'm really looking forward to, for the campaign to be successful.
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So it all started a couple of weeks, almost 3 weeks back where I received an email early
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morning from my client saying that, Puja used your website as a therapy for, someone who was
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in our group.
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So she's a part of international group, that are getting trained.
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They're coaches and they're getting trained on business skills.
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And so she said that there's this one lady who was a US marine.
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She lives in the US and she gained, she doubled her weight because of her her needed disc.
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And, she was medically retired, but then because of her gaining so much weight due to
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lack of physical activity.
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She started feeling not beautiful and not good enough.
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And to the point where she also felt like, people would not respect her if she puts her
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images onto her website because, she's like, because, you know, my weight was like, okay.
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Find this, weight, then people might start judging me as to, okay, maybe, you know, I'm
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not that good or something like that.
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And so she said that when she saw your website and, how the women were transformed within
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those couple of hours, she started crying, flying with, tears of happiness that, oh, it is
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possible probably for her to look beautiful and confident even though with all of the weight
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that she has.
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And then, she said that she started, seeing as to where you're located, and she wanted to come
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and get her shoe done from you.
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She saw that you were in Toronto, and she's an Indiana police.
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And so she was not financially in a position to really or, come down to Toronto as and at the
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same time, really invest in getting a photo shoot and everything done.
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And so she said, okay, I'll I'll just work with, you know, I'll ask any my family member
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to take a photo of mine, and I'll, and I'll start putting that image.
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And maybe at any point in my life future, I'll I'll get a a photo shoot of mine down the puja.
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But for me, when I read that email, I was so moved that if only looking at my work or the
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experience that other women have had, if somebody who's so motivated and empowered.
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I knew at that moment that how much more motivated and empowered she
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will feel if she
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actually experiences this whole experience for herself.
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And so in that moment, I I relayed back a message, to her saying that, okay, If there is
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any way that you can come to Toronto, I will give you the ex entire experience and your
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images and everything at no cost to you as a gift from my side.
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And so she was she's all excited, and she decided that she's going to drive down, to
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Toronto.
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But, obviously, with that, even though I have kicked it over the session and all of that,
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electronization food and so many other things.
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So for that, to offset that for her, I created a go fund me campaign, and the campaign is
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called you are beautiful, Michelle.
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Because I truly believe that.
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So that go from is basically to fund her, for her expenses, her other expenses.
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And I'm also putting a back for her that she can take away with her, once, her photo shoot
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and everything is done.
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It's called as you are beautiful.
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And it's basically for her to continue feeling beautiful, even after the experience.
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So if there are any inclined sponsors who would like to donate.
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I don't know if if it's some kind of a, a makeup thing or jewelry or whatever whatever
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they feel like they are business owners.
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They want to be an in kind sponsor.
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I've just created that campaign for them to connect.
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And if they want to help monetarily, they can sponsor her by going to direct, directly to the
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link.
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So it's called go fund me dot com slash you are beautiful, Michelle.
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They can go to that link and donate it to herself.
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Generate for her campaign.
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Everything is going to go to her for her to, use for her expenses and all of that.
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So, yeah.
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What a nice thing, you know, for someone, obviously, like, I mean, you know, because
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women are, I think, everybody wants to be experienced in a certain way.
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I think when we, you know, we we we not to under estimate the physical because I think we
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all wanna feel beautiful.
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And whether, you know, we're dressed a certain way, or we write the we wear the same certain
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colors or whatever, you just feel better.
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You're right.
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And what a nice opportunity with someone like this that has gone through such a hard time to
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be able to do that.
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And, you know, Hopefully, if people are hearing this, they they will help out with the
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campaign.
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Now, Puja, I, I'm struck by what you do.
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And I know when you and I met and, we went met at a networking event.
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And as we start to talk further, you know, like what I do is obviously, you know, coaching and
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psychotherapy and, and, and, and, I work a lot with women.
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And I think, you know, to be able to have a gift where you can do that, and you're I mean,
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like I said to you, you're transforming women you know, in a couple of hours, and it gives
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them something that's a bit of a legacy piece, right?
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Cause I think of when I look back on my old pictures, I think, oh my goodness.
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I was too sure and I was too, you know, I should have lost a little bit here and it and
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now you look back and you're like, wow, that was actually a nice picture.
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So you're great.
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It's done.
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That look that when we look at our self and where we become self critical and some of
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catching ourselves, like you're saying, right?
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And those are the things that I teach psychologically, emotionally, and biologically
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to really kind of, you know, really start within yourself.
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And you're doing that intuitively by, you know, in a couple of hours, and then they get to take
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that piece with them.
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I think it's a fantastic thing that you're doing.
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I have a son, so I think I might consider coming with him.
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And, you know, doing it because I think that's such a nice thing to be able to keep that piece
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and get something formally done, with him.
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Right.
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Absolutely.
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I would love to photograph you.
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Anytime you're ready, just give me a call.
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I'm here.
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So any any things that you would like to, I want you I want they, listeners to be able to
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reach out to you, and, you know, and and where they can get a hold of you if they're
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interested in that, whether it's branding for their business, or just the family legacy,
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portrait collection.
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So where can they reach you?
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And I know you're located.
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You're in Mississauga.
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But, you know, so it's not too far for most people, if you're in Ontario, but for other
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people that, you know, might be interested in just reaching out to you just to even have chat
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with you, that would be great.
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I think the best way to reach, me is through my website.
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And, it's called as, so my the name of my business is zoom into live photography.
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So it's zoomintolife.com.
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And so if they send me, an email through that with their contact information and what is it
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that they really, are looking for for themselves, then, I will definitely make that
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connection with them.
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And then, you know, we can take it from there.
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So absolutely, my website would be the best, me to connect with me, and, it's zoomangelife.com.
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Awesome.
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So what I've taken away from this is that, you know, that chatter in her head skews our
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perception of how we view ourselves.
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And I often go to that takes, you know, slowing down and sometimes just being gentle and kind
35:30
to ourselves so that we can see what other people see when, and obviously, Puja does that
35:34
in such a nice way, and then she makes you look even more beautiful.
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That, that light on inside, get Sean, and then you capture it in a picture.
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So thanks so much Pooja for that.
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And like I said, you know, We come into this world authentic.
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It is there.
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Sometimes we need to kind of figure out the ways to kind of, bring out that light as often
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as possible.
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So for anyone that, likes listening to my show and if you're wanting a bit more information
35:59
about me, I, I'm offering a 2 part web our, video series on, sexual intimacy so that if you
36:08
wanted to get more connected to yourself and then return your partner, so you just go to
36:12
Roxanne or watch.com/sex.
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Not hard to forget to remember.
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And, what we'll do is we'll send you out those videos.
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So again, Pooja, what a pleasure and I hope that, people take you up on that to offer to at
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least have a chat, and to realize that we have everything right here, right?
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No need to, look too much further.
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So thanks again.
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Okay.
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Take care.
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Thank you, Bachelor.
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Alright.
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Bye bye.
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Bye.
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