#80 - How to build a photography business while balancing family - part 1 with Tessa Huff

My Food Lens

If you had to uproot yourself and move to a new country,
you had to shut down your business
And when you moved to the new country with the hopes of starting a new business,
You found out that you had a baby on the way.

How would you feel at that point in life?

Would you be excited at the prospect of building a new life and having a clean slate to start from?

Or

Would you be upset that you had to shut down your business and move to a completely unknown country and start building a life from scratch with such a huge life change on the way?

Most of us would be pretty confused or pulled down. I know I would.

And even if I would be okay with everything, willing to start a new business, the news of the baby would make me think. I would be excited but also wonder if it would be a good time to start a new business knowing full well how big mom commitments are.

Why am I asking you this?

Because this is the story of our podcast guest, Tessa Huff.

Tessa had to overcome all those challenges that I mentioned above and in spite of it, she built a successful food blogging and photography business for herself.

Tessa is a food photographer, blogger, professional cake designer, and cookbook author based in Canada. She’s worked with several big brands including food network Canada. In this week’s episode Tessa shares exactly how she built a business from scratch while taking care of 3 kids at home.

She shares what it takes to uproot yourself and settle in a new country, how to set a niche for your business, food styling and content creation tips and how to set up an organized approach to build a successful business from the get go.

Family is more important than business, so how do we bring ourselves to be present for our loved ones but also build the business of our dreams? It is totally possible. It takes a different style of working but with determination and an organized approach, it is totally possible.

We often take challenges and life changes as setbacks but the truth is that these changes have the potential to shape a brighter future for us. Tessa’s opportunity to work with Food Network may or may not have happened had she not moved to Canada.

A life change whether it's moving cities, having a baby or simply the idea of starting a business, tune in to learn how to accomplish everything without compromising on anything.

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