June 1, 2025 • 50 mins
In this inspiring episode, I’m joined by the incredibly talented John Mansfield, the creative heart behind All Heart Photography based in Texas. John’s stunning work captures the beauty of love, connection, and everyday moments between couples and families...but there’s so much more to his story.
We dive into John’s creative process, not just behind the camera but also behind the mic as host of the podcast Wisdom in the Tangents. He opens up about the journey of building his photography business from the ground up, the unexpected lessons along the way, and how he balances creativity with his roles as a devoted husband and father.
Whether you're a creative entrepreneur, a fellow photographer, or someone looking for encouragement in your own journey, this episode is full of heart, insight, and real talk you won't want to miss.
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Victoria B. Glass (00:00):
Welcome to the Contagious Victories
(00:02):
podcast. Each week, we talkinspiration, explore
possibilities, and shareinsights from creative
perspectives. I'm Tori Glass,and I'm here to remind you that
your purpose in life is tocelebrate the victories because
victories are contagious.Friends, we're back. And wow.
(00:48):
It feels so good to say that.Welcome or welcome back to
Contagious Victories, the spacewhere we celebrate creative
victories of all shapes and allsizes with a whole lot of heart
and enthusiasm for doing whatGod created us to do. I'm your
host, Victoria Glass. And aftera beautiful pause, I'm back
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behind the mic, and I am soready to reconnect with you.
Life has looked a littledifferent lately in all of the
best ways.
And honestly, that time away hasreminded me of something really
powerful. Sometimes, the mostcreative and most spiritual and
most fruitful thing that we cando is pause. But now it's time
(01:34):
to get things rolling again.Before we get into today's
episode, I wanna take a quickmoment to apologize to our
special guest today for thedelay in airing this
conversation. I actuallyrecorded this interview with the
talented photographer, JohnMansfield, several months ago.
But then life threw in a littletwist. I found out that I was
(01:55):
expecting a baby. Needless tosay, that brought about a lot of
changes and a lot of shifts inpriorities, so this episode had
to take a little bit of abackseat for a while. But the
wait is finally over, and Icouldn't be more excited to
share this inspiringconversation with you all today.
John is a brilliant photographerwhose work captures the beauty
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of couples in love and alsoreally sweet moments of
families.
In our chat today, we talk abouthis creative process as a
photographer and a podcast host,his journey in starting his own
business and how he's givenback, and being a father and a
husband, two of the mostimportant things that God has
called him to do. So withoutfurther delay, let's jump into
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the conversation with JohnMansfield. Thank you for your
patience, and I hope that youenjoy this episode as much as I
did.
Welcome back to another episode of Contagious
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Victories. Today I have with meJohn Mansfield from All Heart
Photography, as well as theWisdom and the Tangents podcast.
So I'm just excited to talk toyou about both of those things.
John, welcome to the show.
John Mansfield (03:16):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Am I'm so
excited to talk. And like, I wejust recorded a couple days ago
on my podcast. I'm like, this isgoing to be so much like Tori
time. This is so great.
So yeah, excited to be here.Thanks for having me.
Victoria B. Glass (03:31):
Well, meant a lot that you asked me to be on
Wisdom and the Tangents becauseit was one of the first
interviews I've ever done whereI got to talk about my podcast
share kind of that. So it wassuch an honor to be asked and
it's going to stand out in mymind for as long as I've got
this podcast. So thanks fordoing that. Yeah. And today
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we're talking about you.
So tell me about being a weddingphotographer based out of Texas
and also a dad and podcaster.What's that like?
John Mansfield (04:01):
Yeah, it's busy. It's a lot. I'm a primary stay
at home parent. I work fromhome. My wife works out of the
house.
So I am here with the kids allthe time. Summer, as we're
recording this, it is summertimeand, everyone is here. They're
right outside my door. So we mayget interrupted. Who knows?
(04:24):
But yeah, it is. It's, it's awild ride of running, a full
time wedding photographybusiness from the house and and
also keeping up with a weeklypodcast and, finding time to, to
be on other podcasts like thisand and get to talk to fun
people, all while like trying toreally be intentional with,
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spending a lot of time with mykids and being, in the moment
with them and not just likesitting there on my phone
uploading to Instagram orsomething while we're building
Legos or whatever. Want to beintentional in the moment with
them.
Victoria B. Glass (05:08):
And also sharing good wisdom and tidbits
along the way. So how do theyfeel about watching dad work
from home? I had a work fromhome dad growing up, and it
always was really inspiring tome to see him go after his
passions and follow his dreamswhile also working hard for our
family. So what do your kidsthink about having a podcast
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host and photographer as a dad?Like, do they get to see
John Mansfield (05:34):
Oh, yeah, they get to see it a lot, especially
our youngest. She's usually theone we have three kids, three,
six and nine. And our youngestis usually the one that'll come
knock on the door during apodcast or while I'm, you know,
on a like a video call with oneof my wedding clients. And she
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has made many cameos on thepodcast of just me holding her,
especially when she was like alittle, little baby, and just
being on the video or wanting totalk to the guests. But yeah, I
think they love it.
I think they enjoy it. They it'sit's a normal for them. Because
I started I started the podcastin 2019. So for our six year
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old, she was a year old at thatpoint. She this is all she
remembers our three year old,this is all she remembers.
And then our nine year old, we Istarted the photography business
in 2013, so eleven years ago.And that's all he's ever known
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is whenever I say I'm going towork, is dad's going to a
wedding, he's going to be gonefor most of the day.
Victoria B. Glass (06:51):
Well, I imagine that it helps you with
children at weddings and beingable to really show that
attention whenever they aremaybe in the bridal party or in
the groomsmen party. One of thethings that I remember you
sharing with me when we met atthe heart conference are the
little cameras that you'll bringalong to your weddings.
John Mansfield (07:12):
Oh, yeah.
Victoria B. Glass (07:12):
That are for them, whether they're like the
little they're not disposable,but they're flat, aren't they?
Yes. Yeah. Remind me about the
John Mansfield (07:20):
Holding it up for the audio. It's a paper
shoot camera, and it's reallycool. It's smaller than a cell
phone, fits right in yourpocket. And then it's just got
one setting, or I guess it hasdifferent filter settings, but
there's just a shutter releaseand that's it. So I just have
showed the kids where to press.
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And there's little viewfinderthat's pretty much just like a
window cut out so they can seewhat they're pointing at, and
they'll just go around takingphotos. And sometimes I'll take
that to a wedding, especially ifI know that there's going to be
some kids there because it'sreally durable. And long as they
don't like, know, throw it in alake or something, we're pretty
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good. But like them dropping itor something like that, it's
fine. And it's all digital.
So it captures it on an SD cardand I can just plug it into my
computer and get to see the daythrough, like from knee height,
from a child and what they'redoing. And, you know, people are
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often a lot more, especially thewedding party, if they know the
kid, they're a lot more relaxedwith them than they are with me,
some strangers, some dude with abeard walking in with a couple
cameras, and they're just like,yeah. And, but yeah, it gets
some some fun candid moments.
Victoria B. Glass (08:40):
Well, that's really neat that you've been
able to use just the curiositythat your kids have for your
business and your work life andthen also take that to your
weddings and be able toincorporate just being a dad and
yeah, taking the photos of thelittle kids in the party and
(09:01):
whatnot, like you said. I betthat's really cool to get those
developed and to see them later.
John Mansfield (09:05):
Oh, yeah.
Victoria B. Glass (09:06):
Well, I know you also you're in Texas, right?
Is that where you're based outof?
John Mansfield (09:11):
Yeah, I'm a little bit north of Houston,
Texas. So like the conferencethat we met at, which it feels
weird because that was only likesix months ago. And I was like,
I'm sure that we've met at someother conference. But no, I
think that was the time that weactually met. It just seems like
I've known you and Dylan a lotlonger we Really?
(09:35):
Yeah. I was thinking about thatearlier this week before we
recorded on my podcast. I waslike, yeah, no, we've we just
met, like, in October. That'scrazy. Yeah.
But yes, so that conference isabout three hours from where I
live.
Victoria B. Glass (09:50):
Okay. Well, that's really interesting that
you have been to a fewconferences too. Sounds like.
Yeah. I know you're a student oflife, a self proclaimed student
of life according to your bio.
So tell me a little bit aboutwhy you believe in continuing
education through conferences,even though you've been a
wedding photographer for elevenyears. Why keep growing?
John Mansfield (10:13):
I believe that if you stop growing, you just
start, like, it's like, thatanalogy of like the river, the
current. If you're continuing tomove, if you're continuing to
grow, then you're bringing life,you're creating life, you're
feeling more fulfilled. You're Ibelieve that there's I'm never
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going to learn everything.There's always something. Even
whenever I go to a conferenceand I'm like, okay, yeah, these
like looking at the bios of thepeople speaking, I'm like, oh,
yeah, they've been in businessfor like three years and I'm
coming in with over a decade.
I'm like, I probably know mostof what they're saying. Being an
educator myself, know a lot ofstuff, but I always find
(10:56):
something, even if it issomething that I've always that
I've already learned orsomething like that, maybe I'm
not implementing it. And, like,oh, yeah, that's a good
reminder. I need to be doingthis. So yeah, I believe you
should always be learning andalways growing.
Because if you're still instagnant, then that life, the
joy, the creativity, just kindadies, I have found in in, in my
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own life, when I stopped movingand growing.
Victoria B. Glass (11:28):
That's really good. I love that you said that
about how you might hearsomething that you've heard
before, but if you're notimplementing it, then you may
have learned it, but you're not.It's like the difference between
wisdom and knowledge and how youyou might know things, but it's
through the wisdom that you areable to instill it and make it a
part of who you are. And that'swhen we really evolve and
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change.
John Mansfield (11:51):
Oh,
Victoria B. Glass (11:51):
yeah. So that's really good to hear is
that even as an educator thatyou're still able to go to these
conferences, like be in the roomwith people who are in the same
field as you, are doing the samethings or in the arena in the
ring and just being there withthem will teach you something
just, you know, by observation.But I just heard a quote earlier
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this week too and I wrote itdown. I was going to read it
verbatim, but I think I can spitit off. It was, I'm going to
stop thinking that everyone elseknows everything and also that I
know nothing.
Because a lot of times we thinkpeople might know more than us
and they might know differentthings, but also we got to give
our own credit of like, I'velearned some things in my
(12:35):
lifetime. Yeah, hearing you saythat really struck a chord again
and reminded me of that quote Iheard earlier.
John Mansfield (12:43):
I think that's really good to remember because
like imposter syndrome is a hugething out there. And like I
still battle with that. I getimposter syndrome all the time
of like, even whenever I'm likereaching out to big name guests
who have millions of followersand like they have giant
(13:05):
podcasts. I'm like, I don'tknow. Why would they want to be
on my podcast and all of that?
And I have to, like, get throughthat imposter syndrome of I'm
I'm not good enough. I don'tknow enough. I'm not, you know,
worthy or whatever, and just askthe question. And, and sometimes
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it's a no. A lot of times it wasno.
But, like, it's, whether that'sin podcasting or photography,
seeing other people's work andthen feeling less than because
I'm like, oh, they were shootingin, you know, Cabo San Lucas. I
want to shoot there. I wasshooting at a barn this past
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weekend. Was like very differentvibes. And and yeah, like kind
of not believing in that that Idon't know anything and that
everyone else knows everything,but that we can all learn from
each other no matter where youare on the ladder of success or,
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you know, the social networksand all of that.
Victoria B. Glass (14:15):
Oh, yeah. Well, how do you handle those
times when you get a no? Like,what is something that you would
maybe offer as advice? Do youhave anything that you could
offer as advice of like whereyou go? Do you go back to the
drawing board?
Like, what happens in thosemoments and how do you keep
getting back up?
John Mansfield (14:32):
Yeah, I have had to train myself not to take it
personally. I am very much arecovering perfectionist and
people pleaser. So any time thatsomeone was just like, no, I
don't want Like, like even earlyon in my career, whenever, I
would meet with someone aboutbeing their wedding
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photographer, and then theywould say, oh no, we went with
someone else, it was like adagger to my heart. And I was
like, Oh no, they've rejectedme. And I'm such a terrible
person and I'm not a goodphotographer.
And like, I would just go downthat spiral. And it's not
something that you can just likeflip the switch and just be
like, All right, cool. You know,water off a duck's back. I'm
(15:14):
cool. Let's move on.
But it's definitely beensomething that I've worked on
over the years of not taking ittoo personally and realizing
this is a business. And also I'minterviewing them as much as
they're interviewing me. And,you know, maybe we're not a good
(15:35):
fit. Maybe, you know, they, theywanted some other kind of
editing style or they want moreof the editorial and I am more
of the candid photography. Andit just wouldn't be a good fit
if they went with me because Iwouldn't be fulfilled in the
photos that I was creatingbecause I knew that they
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wouldn't enjoy them and thenthey wouldn't enjoy them.
And the same with likepodcasting and too, all that
with like big, big guests. Ifthey say no, it's not, anything
against me. It's just maybe itdoesn't line up. And I've had
that a couple of times where itjust didn't line up. And then
(16:21):
two years later, I reach outagain, they're like, Oh yeah,
no, I'm available this month.
Let's do it. So yeah, not takingit personally, which I know is
not something that is super easyto do. But taking those little
steps and those reminders toyourself of like, okay, this
isn't about me. Let's moveforward.
Victoria B. Glass (16:43):
I love that. And so it sounds like you
actually gave two little piecesof advice. One, not taking it
personally. And two, I'm hearingyou say that you've got back up
and tried again. It sounds likeeven with some of the same
people sometimes it's likelythat they weren't it wasn't even
anything about you.
Like you mentioned that it's notpersonal. It's usually just a
(17:05):
scheduling conflict or maybethey had something going on in
their personal life and it wasmore personal to them and they
couldn't do it, but they wouldlater on or maybe yes, the
editing style didn't work out.So it would have required you to
be someone you're not and that'snot what you want. So getting
back and trying again, whetherit be with the same situation,
at a different time or with acompletely new person who's more
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aligned with who you are andwhat you offer. Sounds really
great advice.
John Mansfield (17:34):
Yeah. And not taking that. Yeah, absolutely.
And like not taking thatnegativity from the no from the
last person into the next one.So like the next lead that I get
not coming into it with thatmindset of, well, they're
probably going to say no alsobecause the last three people
said no and going into it withthat negativity because like
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they will, they can feed on thatenergy.
Like when you get them on aphone call or a video or
whatever, they can kind of telllike, oh, this guy is not
confident in his prices or he'snot confident in what, you know,
what he can provide as aphotographer. And, yeah, just
(18:17):
like not, not taking thatnegativity in, but kind of like
resetting, take a minute, clearyour mind, go in with some
positivity of this is adifferent place. Yeah. Yeah.
Just breathe in, close youreyes.
And, you know, this is, this isa different, different scenario,
even if it is with the sameperson. Like I, I follow-up on
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leads all the time that I usedto believe that they were, you
know, I make up these scenariosin my mind of, well, they
probably didn't like me. They'vealready booked someone else, you
know, my prices were too high orwhatever. But going into it,
believing the best in them andnot creating this like negative
(18:57):
version of them in my mind,creating a positive version of
maybe they're just really busy.You know, I get really busy
sometimes and forget to returnemails.
I get busy when I inquire aboutsomething on like Facebook
Marketplace. And then two monthslater, I'm like, Oh, yeah, is
this still available? I totallythis was like out of my mind,
(19:19):
back burner, not even thinkingabout it. And yeah, having that
positivity mindset of maybe theyjust forgot. Maybe maybe they
marked they thought they markedit as unread, but then it got
left as read.
And it's just in the thousandsof emails in their inbox, you
know, kind of going into it likethat. And, it just it changes
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your perspective on things.
Victoria B. Glass (19:43):
Yes, giving people the benefit of the doubt.
Like, I think we could all use alittle bit more of that in our
lives on a mass scale of like,just, you know, the person who
maybe got your food order wrongor something. Maybe they didn't
mean to like, I don't think itwas on purpose, but like, yeah,
don't take it personal. Let'sgive them the benefit of the
doubt and just roll with whatactually does end up happening
(20:06):
and let go a little bit and andassume that they're yeah, that
everyone's just trying theirbest. Yeah,
John Mansfield (20:14):
was some of the best wedding advice that my wife
and I got. We had those littlelike cards that people can write
stuff and we'd read them later.And we actually did read them.
And one of them that has stuckwith us, because we're coming up
on twelve years now one that hasWow. Yeah, it's been a while.
Victoria B. Glass (20:32):
That's amazing. Yeah. That's a victory
story, John. It is victorystory. Yes, that's amazing.
John Mansfield (20:38):
Yeah. Thank you.
Victoria B. Glass (20:40):
Thank you. Go ahead. Sorry. So you're reading
your
John Mansfield (20:42):
advice. This advice is one of the reasons
like, we're still best friends.We still want to spend all of
our time together. We stilljust, like, support each other
really, really well. And thisadvice was that of believe the
best in each other.
You're a team now. And, youknow, you hear from or at least
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we did, we heard from othermarried people about like, oh,
well, you know, she wants to godo this and this is her time
with, with the girls or it'slike, it's his, it's his time to
go play golf or whatever. Andinstead we, it's our time. And
if we need a break to go, youknow, hang out with some
(21:26):
friends, that's cool. And, likealways believing the best in
each other.
So if something happens thatit's like, oh, kind of rubbed me
the wrong way. We play a gamethat we say, This is what you
said. This is what I heard. Isthat what you meant? That has
saved us from so many fightsbecause we're just like, Oh,
hey, hold on a second.
(21:47):
You said this. I heard this,like this is what that meant to
me when you said this. When yousaid, I wish you would do the
dishes more or something or evenjust like a passive thing of
like, oh man, the dishes areoverflowing. It's like, oh, I
heard you don't do the dishesenough. Is that what you meant?
(22:10):
Or were you just commenting thatthere are dishes and one of us
needs to do them or now we canget the kids to do them. Like
that kind of thing of this iswhat I heard. Is that what you
meant? And sometimes, yeah, thatwas I was in a bad headspace and
I did mean that negatively. I'mso sorry.
(22:31):
Thanks for calling me out onthat. And other times, most of
the time it's like, oh, no, I'msorry. I was just commenting on
the dishes that I was planningon doing that later on this
evening. Not right now becauseI'm tired or whatever. But yeah,
thanks.
I don't want this to fester ineach other's heads of just like,
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well, they're always pointingout these things. And that
advice has saved so many badthoughts and so many fights. And
we can count on one hand thedisagreements that we've had.
And we're just like, yeah, wejust really enjoy being around
each other all the Yes.
Victoria B. Glass (23:15):
Well, that is good advice. And I could see
people using that even outsideof their marriage, maybe with
their boss or in a situation,maybe with a parent where,
sometimes the communication justgets tough and we say things and
it's got a lot to do with thetime that we say it. Going back
to the don't take anythingpersonal. Sometimes it's the
timing, sometimes it's the toneor whatever, but getting clear
(23:37):
on, hey, I know this is thewords, physical words or actual
words or whatever you said. Thisis exactly how I interpreted it.
Just being able to take thatthird step and saying, I'm going
to get clear. Is this outside ofthat scenario? Is this what you
meant? Because I care about ourrelationship, whether it be a
husband and wife or sister andbrother or whatever, you know,
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like just having that kindnessand that intention to go outside
of the actual conversation andtalk about what the meaning
behind it and the intentionalitybehind it was or That's really
good. I'm gonna have todefinitely share that one with
Dylan.
And we are always looking forlittle bits of tools to just use
(24:20):
like that. So I'm gonna have tolet you know how that works out.
Yeah. See us See us utilizingthat a lot.
John Mansfield (24:27):
Oh, for sure. Yeah. We are always looking for
like that same thing of alwaysbe learning. We're always
looking for marriage andrelationship advice and tips.
And sometimes we find someadvice and we're like,
Victoria B. Glass (24:40):
you know, I don't think that's going to work
John Mansfield (24:42):
for us. That doesn't seem like great advice.
In other times, okay.
Victoria B. Glass (24:48):
Yeah. Yeah, a funny one. I was going to say
that we tried and it didn't workout. But I've got to tell it to
you just because you said that.So we saw it on Instagram,
Facebook, one of the reelspopped up and it was like, when
you're fighting, go get a partyhat and you can't get mad at
someone who's wearing a partyhat.
And so sometimes it's like,we'll just say, okay, party hat.
And so it'll be like thevisualization. But we tried that
(25:10):
one time and it was like, okay,we just feel maybe that was the
point. We felt like fools.Right.
Yeah.
John Mansfield (25:16):
Kind of takes you out of the emotion of being
angry.
Victoria B. Glass (25:19):
Yeah. So when we heard that one, we did give
that one a try. And then it waslike, yeah, we just this is
silly. But, but yeah, well,thank you for sharing that
advice. And if you're listening,utilize it and see if it'll work
with your partner or withanother relationship that you
are having maybe some a littlebit of trouble communicating
(25:41):
with or even if you're not, thenthat'll prevent.
Yeah, prevent any troubles lateron down the road. Thank you for
that. All right. Well, I want totalk a little bit about one of
your many victory stories or wecould talk about them all. So
I'll let you take us throughthem.
But it sounds like you've raisedsome money at one point, a lot
(26:01):
of money, but not just a littlebit. Yeah, I want to hear about
that story. So I'll let you takethe mic and about that victory
story.
John Mansfield (26:10):
Yeah. Yeah. So like that, raising money for
charity, has been like acornerstone of the business
since it started. I was at anine to five job is a pretty
toxic relationship between mysupervisor and myself where,
there was no upward movement forme. And I was just like coming
(26:34):
home every day, very, very upsetand very stressed, which is not
really part of the story.
But that's just painting apicture of where I was. Yeah,
Victoria B. Glass (26:44):
no, it is a part of the story.
John Mansfield (26:45):
I was like, I can just get off on that because
there are still some feelingsthere. But like, that's where I
was that day. And I was justover lunch thinking, what can I
do on the side to kind of createa business? And I had an idea.
I've always had fairly decentcamera and enjoyed photography.
(27:08):
So I was like, I could buy likethis lens. I could do this. And
I wrote down my expenses tostart the business and kind of
threw around some ideas for aname and landed on All Heart
Photography and then came home.And it was three months into our
marriage. And I was like, hey, Ihave an idea to start a
(27:31):
business.
What do you think? And part ofthat idea was kind of grown from
the fact that my wife and Ididn't have a lot of money. We
were paycheck to paycheck. We,but we had so many organizations
and charities and likemissionary friends that we
(27:53):
wanted to help fund and wewanted to give to, but we just,
we didn't have any to give. So Iwas like, this would be
something that after like thefirst two bookings, it's already
making profit.
And then we can use a portion ofthat profit to like, before it
even comes into our hands tojust go out and we can partner
(28:16):
with some different charities.So from the beginning we had, I
think it was like 10% at thebeginning and then we ended up
landing on 15% of everythingthat came in, went to a charity.
And we've partnered with somereally great ones over the
years. And, I think as of now,we're like right over $90,000
(28:38):
that we've been able to redirectfrom, from clients who pay us.
And then we just move that intothe hands of other charities and
organizations.
We've even funded a couple ofGoFundMe's for, friends who were
going through, cancer anddifferent things and just like
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being able to, to use our moneyand our funds and resources in
that way has been a hugeblessing for us and for them
too, for sure.
Victoria B. Glass (29:15):
I bet. Yes. Oh, yeah. And how does it feel
when you are able to say, yes, Ican give because I have I've put
aside and organized my income tobe able to have enough. And how
does it feel when you workedbackwards like that and found a
way a system to say, hey, I canuse my camera to literally make
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something from nothing and say,here, here's what you need.
And how does that feel?
John Mansfield (29:44):
I mean, it feels amazing because we can tangibly
see the change in other people'slives. And for us, it's not like
we're taking food or money outof our house or anything. It's
like when it comes in, it goesdirectly into this savings
(30:05):
account that is for giving. Sothat's its own own thing. And,
it doesn't like that's that'skind of one of the hard hurdles
to get over is the like, oh,well, we need to write this
check for we don't write checksanymore.
What am I talking about? We needto tell you about like when I
first started all this, but
Victoria B. Glass (30:26):
Sometimes you write checks.
John Mansfield (30:27):
Mean Sometimes. Yeah, I haven't in years because
the last checks I had had thewrong account number. And I was
like, you know what? This is asign. I'm just not doing paper
anymore.
But yeah, like that feeling ofbeing able to help someone else
and being able to help fund aGoFundMe so that they can get
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the operation that they need orto some amazing organizations.
There's one that we've beenpartnering with since the very
beginning called the ArchibaldProject, where they fly around
the country. They were bothwedding photographers and
videographers, and they usetheir cameras to tell the
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stories of different orphans indifferent places and then share
it on their YouTube and socialmedia so that their future
parents, the parents that areout there ready to adopt them,
see them. And they're like,that's our kid. Who we didn't
know who it was, but that'sthem.
And then they can connect tothem. And so they've been a
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huge, huge thing. Like seeinghow many children are getting
adopted through the work thatthey've been doing that we've
been able to help fund over thelast decade has been really
great. And just like, not inlike an arrogant way of like,
look what I did. I was able todo But just like that
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fulfillment of like, what I'mdoing is bigger than me.
It's bigger than just my fourwalls. And we're helping make
the world a better place.
Victoria B. Glass (32:08):
Well, it just the image that comes to mind is
like a garden, like you'veplanted these seeds and you're
planting them again, it seemslike with your own family and
being able to share what you'redoing and why you're doing it
and help friends, family, andeven people that you might ever
never get to meet in person, butthat you
John Mansfield (32:27):
can
Victoria B. Glass (32:27):
see how your involvement, even if it's just a
little bit can go a long waybecause you are acknowledging
that bigger story and not takingno for an answer. Like it sounds
like at the beginning, you know,you might not have been in the
best place, but it was thattension point of not enjoying
the job you had that made youlook at your camera and the
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resources that you did have andsay, what would it take to get
me to that? Not I can't affordit, but how can I afford it? And
how can I also not only affordit, but be able to help other
people afford what they'reneeding? And I imagine it also
makes you way more willing whenyou need to, way more willing to
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ask for help.
And sometimes we are in thosesituations where we're like,
hey, how can you know, it mightseem like a no, but how can I do
this? And it might be relying ona friend or asking a friend or
not relying, but asking on afriend. And those relationships
open up a lot more when we doask for help and we're able to
help. The garden is like sobeautiful and you're able to
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trade and like an old timefarmer's market. You
John Mansfield (33:40):
got tomatoes. I have some asparagus. Here you
go. Let's trade.
Victoria B. Glass (33:44):
Yeah, exactly. And that is so
beautiful and just so rich inthe way of like not monetary,
but just in the way of havingeverything you need. And when
you look around and you're ableto have those relationships and
you feel like you'recontributing and you are able to
contribute and you're alsosharing with your kids. I mean,
let me ask you this, Sean. Howdo you share with your kids?
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Like, when you do donate andwhen you're working and stuff,
do you share those videos of thechildren and stuff or at least
with your nine year old maybe?Yeah. How do they feel about it?
John Mansfield (34:14):
I mean, we've shared that kind of stuff with
them. I do a lot of like charityevents too, where I'm going
somewhere. Like I have onecoming up next month. That's an
annual thing for a charity herein town that they go to Ghana
many times a year to set up,like, a fishing town, pretty
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much teach the people there howto fish, how to, like, build
their own business andeverything. And that gets them
out of child labor andtrafficking and all that.
And they've been doing that forfifteen years, I think now. But
they have, a charity event everysummer of like this casino night
and people silent auction andraising money and all that. And
(35:04):
I donate my photography servicesfor that and get to be part of
that. So like sharing that withthe kids of like, hey, this
weekend, I'm going here and likethey do this and they go and
help these people and here,let's pull out a map and show
you where Ghana is because Ialso don't really know and all
(35:24):
of that. And so, yeah,definitely sharing with them in
that sort.
Don't really do like the, hey,we just made a deposit of a
couple grand in this thing.Yeah, like sharing that kind of
stuff with them for sure.
Victoria B. Glass (35:41):
Well, thank you too for raising another
generation of people whounderstand how it all can work
and that bravery and couragethat you're instilling into your
little ones to help peoplebecause the world does need that
and it starts at home and justtaking those extra moments to do
that from someone who is in theworld and experiencing it on the
(36:05):
other side, you know, like,obviously, I'm not in Texas, but
thank you. Like, thank you forraising more, more really big
hearted and all hearted people.Yeah. And speaking of Allheart,
I want to focus a little bit onyour photography business. Can
you tell us why you chose thename Allheart?
What does that mean to you?
John Mansfield (36:23):
Yeah, I wanted to choose a name. One, I didn't
want my photography business tojust be like John Mansfield
photography, because I waskeeping options open for like
expansion and like, who knows,years down the road, I might
have an associate team, which Ido. And, you know, it just, it
(36:43):
seemed weird to me to be like,oh yeah, John Mansfield
photography, and, here's Ariel,who's going to be your
photographer. But yeah, I wanteda name that wasn't my name. And
I wanted a name that kinda,like, gave a good description of
how I would show up for them andthe work that I would do and
(37:05):
also tie in my faith too.
And it took me a bit of, like,going through different
scriptures and stuff. And Ifound, Colossians three twenty
three that says, well, in oneone translation that I think it
was NIV that says, like,whatever you do, do it with all
of your heart as if working forthe Lord and not for men. And I
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was like, okay, all of my heart.That's great. All heart.
And like, I have that on mywebsite and like that on my
email signature and everythingof this is I'm going to be
showing up not for you, but forGod. Like, I want to I want to
show up and do my best because,that's that's what I have. And
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I'm gonna gonna show up with allof my heart, and it definitely
comes through. Those twelve hourwedding days are brutal, but
like, I'm there the whole timeand partying with them and, you
know, up like I'm not just likesitting in the corner. I have
been to a couple of weddingswhere I'm just like, oh, the
(38:10):
photographer is just chillingright now.
They're missing moments. Yeah,I'm just in there and they feel
that and I want them to feel allthat all of my heart is in it.
And it's not just like, yeah,all right, well, you're another
number on my book and a dollarin the bank. I'll show up and
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send you some photos.
Victoria B. Glass (38:34):
Well, you are all in, what is the biggest
takeaway from the moments thatlike when you see your photos?
Do you feel a certain way aboutthe ones that you remember being
even more tuned in for, likemaybe on the dance floor or when
you get a moment back with maybea loved one, like a parent or
(38:57):
something? Are there tendermoments or exciting moments that
you feel shine through yourwork? And what do those look
like to you?
John Mansfield (39:05):
Yeah. I mean, the ones that shine through the
most are like those tiny littlemoments. Like the grandmother
who's sitting in the cornerbecause she can't walk all that
well and doesn't want to bewalking all over the reception.
And she's just there with hergrandkid or great grandkid who's
(39:28):
just walking up. I got onerecently of a grandmother with
one of the children at thewedding, and they were just
blowing bubbles at each otherbecause that's what they did for
the exit out of the ceremony.
And they were just blowingbubbles. And I was like, yeah,
this is a very sweet moment oftheir relationship that I was
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able to witness and capture.And, you know, the couple is off
on the dance floor and they'redancing right now. They had no
idea this was going on. Andlike, whenever they're looking
through their gallery, they'llbe like, oh, look at this.
I love this. I didn't even know,like, when was this? And all
that. So, those kind of moments,those really like genuine when
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people are showing theirpersonalities with each other
and don't really know that I'mthere. I love those.
And then, yeah, also the dancefloor. I love getting out there
with everyone and just like Ilove feeling the music through
the photos and not just likestanding on the sidelines and
like, okay, yeah, this is whatit was. It's like getting in
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there and feeling the emotionsof like jumping around and
dancing and screaming to Mr.Bright side.
Victoria B. Glass (40:47):
Oh, I was just about to
John Mansfield (40:48):
say that.
Victoria B. Glass (40:49):
I was like, you can tell the ones where Mr.
Bright side are on. I swear Iwas about to say that. I cannot
believe that. That's so funny.
But yeah, no, I get it. I getit. And your photos do a great
job of that. And I think whenyour heart is open and your
shutter is open, then you can,capture those moments because
you're open to being able to seethem and like the grandmother
(41:11):
with the grandchild and thebubbles, I can just imagine
that. And I think I saw somebubbles on your story a couple
of days ago, or maybe it wasyesterday.
So listeners, you got to gocheck out those photos. Yes. And
I'll share a few on the screenhere for anyone who wants to
look at the YouTube version ofour interview in conversation.
But yes, go and check out Johnon his Instagram and website.
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John, you want to drop thoseplugs in real quick so that
people can find you online?
John Mansfield (41:40):
Yeah, for sure. I'm on Instagram all the time,
as a good millennial should be.And I'm in the stories and DMs a
lot. But yeah, Instagram is allheart photo. And that's H E A R
T, just like your heart.
And, some people are just like,are you John Hart? Is that your
(42:01):
name? I'm like, no. No, it isnot. But yeah, allheartphoto on
Instagram.
Website is allheartphoto.com.The podcast is Wisdom and the
Tangents, which your episodewill be out soon. And I am very
excited for everyone to listen.If you enjoyed this
conversation, you'll definitelyenjoy that one, too.
Victoria B. Glass (42:23):
Yes. And I love that you share wisdom and
just conversations, talking topeople, letting the wisdom come
out. And there's alwayssomething you can get from an
episode. So go listen to thatlisteners wisdom in the
tangents.
John Mansfield (42:35):
Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I think that's about it.
Yeah, Instagram. And then frommy website, you can find all the
other places.
My educational stuff is on therefor photographers. And yeah,
that's that's about it.
Victoria B. Glass (42:51):
Well, before we go, do you have anything that
you're loving? I know you askedme this question, and there's
probably like four or fivethings that came to mind. Was
like, I don't know why I saidwhat I said. But do you have
anything? I know you asked thisto your listeners or to your
guests on your show.
And I do the same thing. So whatbooks or podcasts or tools are
(43:11):
really lightening you up in thisseason? It doesn't have to be
like this week, but this seasonthat you want to share with
other people.
John Mansfield (43:19):
So many things. Let's see. I'll do a book, a
podcast and a tool.
Victoria B. Glass (43:24):
Oh, yes. Awesome. Very generous.
John Mansfield (43:27):
A book that I'm really loving, actually one that
I just read recently. It's abrand new book from Tamara
Darden, who is a great productphotographer at DC. And she
wrote her first book called ThePhoto CEO, and it is like a
(43:49):
blueprint for creating andrunning a successful photography
business. And it's not too thickeither. It's not like 700 pages
or anything.
But yeah, I
Victoria B. Glass (44:00):
Well, I have to know really quick. What did
you take away from it? Becauseit sounds like you've been doing
I mean, you have a successfulphotography business. So if you
read it recently, what'ssomething that that you liked
about it?
John Mansfield (44:12):
I really liked she she talked about like
intention of why you do things.And, and that was a good
reminder of like, I've heardthis before. I know that, like,
I should be doing stuff that Ienjoy, that I find fulfilling.
And over the last couple ofyears, I had some stuff that
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would be a whole another podcastepisode of just like associates
who, did some stuff, and, I amdealing with the aftermath of
that. So it kind of it hurt thebusiness by a good $30.40 grand,
which is not nothing.
Victoria B. Glass (44:56):
No. Yeah. Especially when you're giving
back to other people. But yeah,I'm so sorry to hear that.
John Mansfield (45:02):
Yeah. Like with that, I got very in my mind of
like, okay, well, I need to showup on social media in the way
that I think that other peoplewould want to see me and I want
I need to take these photos inthe way that I think people
would want them. And I just kindof changed a little bit, in like
(45:23):
'22, '20 '3, those years. Andtoward the end of, 2023 was when
I really kind of that was beforeher book came out. But like,
started feeling this, and thenthe book just like reiterated it
of when I do things that Ireally enjoy.
(45:43):
Like, I love doing doubleexposure photos and just like
being creative and artsy and notjust a like, here, stand here
and hold each other kind ofthing, but bringing in different
elements and their personalitiesand just like off the wall
locations, I am more fulfilledin that. My creativity is like
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bursting at that point. And justit's it's I'm in the flow. And
And also, that has created, moreof a brand, for me that other
people are just like, oh yeah,I'm gonna hire you because you
shoot differently than everyoneelse. Because you do, You're
very creative.
(46:28):
And I don't even know what youwill do at our engagement or
wedding. So yeah, I took thatout of the book and just like,
it's really great.
Victoria B. Glass (46:38):
That's nice. And I love to hear that you're
still able to learn like youwere mentioning earlier. And it
sounds like people really seeyour personality when you are
intentional in your work andthey hire you because they they
can't get John anywhere elselike except through, you know,
through your business and yourphotography.
John Mansfield (46:57):
Exactly.
Victoria B. Glass (46:57):
Yeah. That's good. That's cool. Okay, sorry
not to take you out of thequestion. So let's go back.
You said a podcast that youwould recommend.
John Mansfield (47:04):
Okay. I listen to so many podcasts. We'll do
there's a business podcast.Let's see. A business podcast
that I really like.
Oh, man. I can't just narrow itdown to one. I'm trying to think
(47:24):
of like ones that I listened torecently. There's Well, one that
I kind of have gone back to. Hedoesn't record them anymore, but
shout out to Adam Mason, who'salso from DC.
Interesting. But the Bearded Togpodcast, I go back and listen to
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some of his conversations withpeople and just like get some
good insight out of those.
Victoria B. Glass (47:53):
And that's a business podcast?
John Mansfield (47:54):
Yes.
Victoria B. Glass (47:55):
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll have to give that a
lesson too. Yeah.
John Mansfield (47:58):
Yeah. And then also, an interesting podcast is
search engine, and, it's hostedby PJ Vogt. He goes through, and
kinda like answers questionsthat he would put into like
Google. Just like, like one wasthe recent one was like, how
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much glue can you put in a pizzasafely or something? Ew.
And yeah, it kind of like wentoff of this whole, like, weird
AI Reddit thing. It's aninteresting story, but like,
he's a investigative journalist,and they're always just really
interesting shows. So yeah,search engine is cool.
Victoria B. Glass (48:40):
Search engine. Okay, I'm gonna have to
listen to that one on my nextroad trip. Does sound really,
really interesting. And yeah,what a cool concept for a show
because we all Google reallyrandom things or put random
questions into the searchengine. And yeah, that sounds
like it would be a good time.
Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Well, thankyou, John, for coming on and
(49:04):
listeners, go check him out. AllHeart photography, A L L Heart
photography and Wisdom in theTangents podcast or y'all are on
Instagram as WITS, right?
John Mansfield (49:17):
Yeah. WITPod WITT.pod.
Victoria B. Glass (49:21):
WITPod. Okay, cool. You're gonna love his
podcast too. So throwing thatout there again. Go listen to it
listeners.
And John, thank you for comingon. I really appreciate it.
John Mansfield (49:31):
Yeah, thanks for having me on. I really enjoyed
this.
Victoria B. Glass (49:34):
We will have to come back and do a follow-up
episode in the future. If you'rewilling, I'd love to invite you
back on and tell us more aboutjust your victory stories and
how your life as a dad andbusiness owner has been going.
So we'll hear from you again, Ihope.
John Mansfield (49:49):
Yes, I would love that. I can talk all the
time. So yes, let's do it.
Victoria B. Glass (49:54):
Awesome. Well, thank you for coming on
and sharing your knowledge andyour wisdom, and you can always
learn something from hispodcast. So go check him out and
we'll talk to you again soon,hopefully. Bye, John.
John Mansfield (50:06):
Bye.
Victoria B. Glass (50:11):
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Welcome to the Contagious Victories
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podcast. Each week, we talkinspiration, explore
possibilities, and shareinsights from creative
perspectives. I'm Tori Glass,and I'm here to remind you that
your purpose in life is tocelebrate the victories because
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It feels so good to say that.Welcome or welcome back to
Contagious Victories, the spacewhere we celebrate creative
victories of all shapes and allsizes with a whole lot of heart
and enthusiasm for doing whatGod created us to do. I'm your
host, Victoria Glass. And aftera beautiful pause, I'm back
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behind the mic, and I am soready to reconnect with you.
Life has looked a littledifferent lately in all of the
best ways.
And honestly, that time away hasreminded me of something really
powerful. Sometimes, the mostcreative and most spiritual and
most fruitful thing that we cando is pause. But now it's time
(01:34):
to get things rolling again.Before we get into today's
episode, I wanna take a quickmoment to apologize to our
special guest today for thedelay in airing this
conversation. I actuallyrecorded this interview with the
talented photographer, JohnMansfield, several months ago.
But then life threw in a littletwist. I found out that I was
(01:55):
expecting a baby. Needless tosay, that brought about a lot of
changes and a lot of shifts inpriorities, so this episode had
to take a little bit of abackseat for a while. But the
wait is finally over, and Icouldn't be more excited to
share this inspiringconversation with you all today.
John is a brilliant photographerwhose work captures the beauty
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of couples in love and alsoreally sweet moments of
families.
In our chat today, we talk abouthis creative process as a
photographer and a podcast host,his journey in starting his own
business and how he's givenback, and being a father and a
husband, two of the mostimportant things that God has
called him to do. So withoutfurther delay, let's jump into
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the conversation with JohnMansfield. Thank you for your
patience, and I hope that youenjoy this episode as much as I
did.
Welcome back to another episode of Contagious
(03:02):
Victories. Today I have with meJohn Mansfield from All Heart
Photography, as well as theWisdom and the Tangents podcast.
So I'm just excited to talk toyou about both of those things.
John, welcome to the show.
John Mansfield (03:16):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Am I'm so
excited to talk. And like, I wejust recorded a couple days ago
on my podcast. I'm like, this isgoing to be so much like Tori
time. This is so great.
So yeah, excited to be here.Thanks for having me.
Victoria B. Glass (03:31):
Well, meant a lot that you asked me to be on
Wisdom and the Tangents becauseit was one of the first
interviews I've ever done whereI got to talk about my podcast
share kind of that. So it wassuch an honor to be asked and
it's going to stand out in mymind for as long as I've got
this podcast. So thanks fordoing that. Yeah. And today
(03:52):
we're talking about you.
So tell me about being a weddingphotographer based out of Texas
and also a dad and podcaster.What's that like?
John Mansfield (04:01):
Yeah, it's busy. It's a lot. I'm a primary stay
at home parent. I work fromhome. My wife works out of the
house.
So I am here with the kids allthe time. Summer, as we're
recording this, it is summertimeand, everyone is here. They're
right outside my door. So we mayget interrupted. Who knows?
(04:24):
But yeah, it is. It's, it's awild ride of running, a full
time wedding photographybusiness from the house and and
also keeping up with a weeklypodcast and, finding time to, to
be on other podcasts like thisand and get to talk to fun
people, all while like trying toreally be intentional with,
(04:50):
spending a lot of time with mykids and being, in the moment
with them and not just likesitting there on my phone
uploading to Instagram orsomething while we're building
Legos or whatever. Want to beintentional in the moment with
them.
Victoria B. Glass (05:08):
And also sharing good wisdom and tidbits
along the way. So how do theyfeel about watching dad work
from home? I had a work fromhome dad growing up, and it
always was really inspiring tome to see him go after his
passions and follow his dreamswhile also working hard for our
family. So what do your kidsthink about having a podcast
(05:29):
host and photographer as a dad?Like, do they get to see
John Mansfield (05:34):
Oh, yeah, they get to see it a lot, especially
our youngest. She's usually theone we have three kids, three,
six and nine. And our youngestis usually the one that'll come
knock on the door during apodcast or while I'm, you know,
on a like a video call with oneof my wedding clients. And she
(05:57):
has made many cameos on thepodcast of just me holding her,
especially when she was like alittle, little baby, and just
being on the video or wanting totalk to the guests. But yeah, I
think they love it.
I think they enjoy it. They it'sit's a normal for them. Because
I started I started the podcastin 2019. So for our six year
(06:23):
old, she was a year old at thatpoint. She this is all she
remembers our three year old,this is all she remembers.
And then our nine year old, we Istarted the photography business
in 2013, so eleven years ago.And that's all he's ever known
(06:43):
is whenever I say I'm going towork, is dad's going to a
wedding, he's going to be gonefor most of the day.
Victoria B. Glass (06:51):
Well, I imagine that it helps you with
children at weddings and beingable to really show that
attention whenever they aremaybe in the bridal party or in
the groomsmen party. One of thethings that I remember you
sharing with me when we met atthe heart conference are the
little cameras that you'll bringalong to your weddings.
John Mansfield (07:12):
Oh, yeah.
Victoria B. Glass (07:12):
That are for them, whether they're like the
little they're not disposable,but they're flat, aren't they?
Yes. Yeah. Remind me about the
John Mansfield (07:20):
Holding it up for the audio. It's a paper
shoot camera, and it's reallycool. It's smaller than a cell
phone, fits right in yourpocket. And then it's just got
one setting, or I guess it hasdifferent filter settings, but
there's just a shutter releaseand that's it. So I just have
showed the kids where to press.
(07:41):
And there's little viewfinderthat's pretty much just like a
window cut out so they can seewhat they're pointing at, and
they'll just go around takingphotos. And sometimes I'll take
that to a wedding, especially ifI know that there's going to be
some kids there because it'sreally durable. And long as they
don't like, know, throw it in alake or something, we're pretty
(08:02):
good. But like them dropping itor something like that, it's
fine. And it's all digital.
So it captures it on an SD cardand I can just plug it into my
computer and get to see the daythrough, like from knee height,
from a child and what they'redoing. And, you know, people are
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often a lot more, especially thewedding party, if they know the
kid, they're a lot more relaxedwith them than they are with me,
some strangers, some dude with abeard walking in with a couple
cameras, and they're just like,yeah. And, but yeah, it gets
some some fun candid moments.
Victoria B. Glass (08:40):
Well, that's really neat that you've been
able to use just the curiositythat your kids have for your
business and your work life andthen also take that to your
weddings and be able toincorporate just being a dad and
yeah, taking the photos of thelittle kids in the party and
(09:01):
whatnot, like you said. I betthat's really cool to get those
developed and to see them later.
John Mansfield (09:05):
Oh, yeah.
Victoria B. Glass (09:06):
Well, I know you also you're in Texas, right?
Is that where you're based outof?
John Mansfield (09:11):
Yeah, I'm a little bit north of Houston,
Texas. So like the conferencethat we met at, which it feels
weird because that was only likesix months ago. And I was like,
I'm sure that we've met at someother conference. But no, I
think that was the time that weactually met. It just seems like
I've known you and Dylan a lotlonger we Really?
(09:35):
Yeah. I was thinking about thatearlier this week before we
recorded on my podcast. I waslike, yeah, no, we've we just
met, like, in October. That'scrazy. Yeah.
But yes, so that conference isabout three hours from where I
live.
Victoria B. Glass (09:50):
Okay. Well, that's really interesting that
you have been to a fewconferences too. Sounds like.
Yeah. I know you're a student oflife, a self proclaimed student
of life according to your bio.
So tell me a little bit aboutwhy you believe in continuing
education through conferences,even though you've been a
wedding photographer for elevenyears. Why keep growing?
John Mansfield (10:13):
I believe that if you stop growing, you just
start, like, it's like, thatanalogy of like the river, the
current. If you're continuing tomove, if you're continuing to
grow, then you're bringing life,you're creating life, you're
feeling more fulfilled. You're Ibelieve that there's I'm never
(10:34):
going to learn everything.There's always something. Even
whenever I go to a conferenceand I'm like, okay, yeah, these
like looking at the bios of thepeople speaking, I'm like, oh,
yeah, they've been in businessfor like three years and I'm
coming in with over a decade.
I'm like, I probably know mostof what they're saying. Being an
educator myself, know a lot ofstuff, but I always find
(10:56):
something, even if it issomething that I've always that
I've already learned orsomething like that, maybe I'm
not implementing it. And, like,oh, yeah, that's a good
reminder. I need to be doingthis. So yeah, I believe you
should always be learning andalways growing.
Because if you're still instagnant, then that life, the
joy, the creativity, just kindadies, I have found in in, in my
(11:24):
own life, when I stopped movingand growing.
Victoria B. Glass (11:28):
That's really good. I love that you said that
about how you might hearsomething that you've heard
before, but if you're notimplementing it, then you may
have learned it, but you're not.It's like the difference between
wisdom and knowledge and how youyou might know things, but it's
through the wisdom that you areable to instill it and make it a
part of who you are. And that'swhen we really evolve and
(11:51):
change.
John Mansfield (11:51):
Oh,
Victoria B. Glass (11:51):
yeah. So that's really good to hear is
that even as an educator thatyou're still able to go to these
conferences, like be in the roomwith people who are in the same
field as you, are doing the samethings or in the arena in the
ring and just being there withthem will teach you something
just, you know, by observation.But I just heard a quote earlier
(12:15):
this week too and I wrote itdown. I was going to read it
verbatim, but I think I can spitit off. It was, I'm going to
stop thinking that everyone elseknows everything and also that I
know nothing.
Because a lot of times we thinkpeople might know more than us
and they might know differentthings, but also we got to give
our own credit of like, I'velearned some things in my
(12:35):
lifetime. Yeah, hearing you saythat really struck a chord again
and reminded me of that quote Iheard earlier.
John Mansfield (12:43):
I think that's really good to remember because
like imposter syndrome is a hugething out there. And like I
still battle with that. I getimposter syndrome all the time
of like, even whenever I'm likereaching out to big name guests
who have millions of followersand like they have giant
(13:05):
podcasts. I'm like, I don'tknow. Why would they want to be
on my podcast and all of that?
And I have to, like, get throughthat imposter syndrome of I'm
I'm not good enough. I don'tknow enough. I'm not, you know,
worthy or whatever, and just askthe question. And, and sometimes
(13:26):
it's a no. A lot of times it wasno.
But, like, it's, whether that'sin podcasting or photography,
seeing other people's work andthen feeling less than because
I'm like, oh, they were shootingin, you know, Cabo San Lucas. I
want to shoot there. I wasshooting at a barn this past
(13:47):
weekend. Was like very differentvibes. And and yeah, like kind
of not believing in that that Idon't know anything and that
everyone else knows everything,but that we can all learn from
each other no matter where youare on the ladder of success or,
(14:10):
you know, the social networksand all of that.
Victoria B. Glass (14:15):
Oh, yeah. Well, how do you handle those
times when you get a no? Like,what is something that you would
maybe offer as advice? Do youhave anything that you could
offer as advice of like whereyou go? Do you go back to the
drawing board?
Like, what happens in thosemoments and how do you keep
getting back up?
John Mansfield (14:32):
Yeah, I have had to train myself not to take it
personally. I am very much arecovering perfectionist and
people pleaser. So any time thatsomeone was just like, no, I
don't want Like, like even earlyon in my career, whenever, I
would meet with someone aboutbeing their wedding
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photographer, and then theywould say, oh no, we went with
someone else, it was like adagger to my heart. And I was
like, Oh no, they've rejectedme. And I'm such a terrible
person and I'm not a goodphotographer.
And like, I would just go downthat spiral. And it's not
something that you can just likeflip the switch and just be
like, All right, cool. You know,water off a duck's back. I'm
(15:14):
cool. Let's move on.
But it's definitely beensomething that I've worked on
over the years of not taking ittoo personally and realizing
this is a business. And also I'minterviewing them as much as
they're interviewing me. And,you know, maybe we're not a good
(15:35):
fit. Maybe, you know, they, theywanted some other kind of
editing style or they want moreof the editorial and I am more
of the candid photography. Andit just wouldn't be a good fit
if they went with me because Iwouldn't be fulfilled in the
photos that I was creatingbecause I knew that they
(15:59):
wouldn't enjoy them and thenthey wouldn't enjoy them.
And the same with likepodcasting and too, all that
with like big, big guests. Ifthey say no, it's not, anything
against me. It's just maybe itdoesn't line up. And I've had
that a couple of times where itjust didn't line up. And then
(16:21):
two years later, I reach outagain, they're like, Oh yeah,
no, I'm available this month.
Let's do it. So yeah, not takingit personally, which I know is
not something that is super easyto do. But taking those little
steps and those reminders toyourself of like, okay, this
isn't about me. Let's moveforward.
Victoria B. Glass (16:43):
I love that. And so it sounds like you
actually gave two little piecesof advice. One, not taking it
personally. And two, I'm hearingyou say that you've got back up
and tried again. It sounds likeeven with some of the same
people sometimes it's likelythat they weren't it wasn't even
anything about you.
Like you mentioned that it's notpersonal. It's usually just a
(17:05):
scheduling conflict or maybethey had something going on in
their personal life and it wasmore personal to them and they
couldn't do it, but they wouldlater on or maybe yes, the
editing style didn't work out.So it would have required you to
be someone you're not and that'snot what you want. So getting
back and trying again, whetherit be with the same situation,
at a different time or with acompletely new person who's more
(17:28):
aligned with who you are andwhat you offer. Sounds really
great advice.
John Mansfield (17:34):
Yeah. And not taking that. Yeah, absolutely.
And like not taking thatnegativity from the no from the
last person into the next one.So like the next lead that I get
not coming into it with thatmindset of, well, they're
probably going to say no alsobecause the last three people
said no and going into it withthat negativity because like
(17:56):
they will, they can feed on thatenergy.
Like when you get them on aphone call or a video or
whatever, they can kind of telllike, oh, this guy is not
confident in his prices or he'snot confident in what, you know,
what he can provide as aphotographer. And, yeah, just
(18:17):
like not, not taking thatnegativity in, but kind of like
resetting, take a minute, clearyour mind, go in with some
positivity of this is adifferent place. Yeah. Yeah.
Just breathe in, close youreyes.
And, you know, this is, this isa different, different scenario,
even if it is with the sameperson. Like I, I follow-up on
(18:37):
leads all the time that I usedto believe that they were, you
know, I make up these scenariosin my mind of, well, they
probably didn't like me. They'vealready booked someone else, you
know, my prices were too high orwhatever. But going into it,
believing the best in them andnot creating this like negative
(18:57):
version of them in my mind,creating a positive version of
maybe they're just really busy.You know, I get really busy
sometimes and forget to returnemails.
I get busy when I inquire aboutsomething on like Facebook
Marketplace. And then two monthslater, I'm like, Oh, yeah, is
this still available? I totallythis was like out of my mind,
(19:19):
back burner, not even thinkingabout it. And yeah, having that
positivity mindset of maybe theyjust forgot. Maybe maybe they
marked they thought they markedit as unread, but then it got
left as read.
And it's just in the thousandsof emails in their inbox, you
know, kind of going into it likethat. And, it just it changes
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your perspective on things.
Victoria B. Glass (19:43):
Yes, giving people the benefit of the doubt.
Like, I think we could all use alittle bit more of that in our
lives on a mass scale of like,just, you know, the person who
maybe got your food order wrongor something. Maybe they didn't
mean to like, I don't think itwas on purpose, but like, yeah,
don't take it personal. Let'sgive them the benefit of the
doubt and just roll with whatactually does end up happening
(20:06):
and let go a little bit and andassume that they're yeah, that
everyone's just trying theirbest. Yeah,
John Mansfield (20:14):
was some of the best wedding advice that my wife
and I got. We had those littlelike cards that people can write
stuff and we'd read them later.And we actually did read them.
And one of them that has stuckwith us, because we're coming up
on twelve years now one that hasWow. Yeah, it's been a while.
Victoria B. Glass (20:32):
That's amazing. Yeah. That's a victory
story, John. It is victorystory. Yes, that's amazing.
John Mansfield (20:38):
Yeah. Thank you.
Victoria B. Glass (20:40):
Thank you. Go ahead. Sorry. So you're reading
your
John Mansfield (20:42):
advice. This advice is one of the reasons
like, we're still best friends.We still want to spend all of
our time together. We stilljust, like, support each other
really, really well. And thisadvice was that of believe the
best in each other.
You're a team now. And, youknow, you hear from or at least
(21:03):
we did, we heard from othermarried people about like, oh,
well, you know, she wants to godo this and this is her time
with, with the girls or it'slike, it's his, it's his time to
go play golf or whatever. Andinstead we, it's our time. And
if we need a break to go, youknow, hang out with some
(21:26):
friends, that's cool. And, likealways believing the best in
each other.
So if something happens thatit's like, oh, kind of rubbed me
the wrong way. We play a gamethat we say, This is what you
said. This is what I heard. Isthat what you meant? That has
saved us from so many fightsbecause we're just like, Oh,
hey, hold on a second.
(21:47):
You said this. I heard this,like this is what that meant to
me when you said this. When yousaid, I wish you would do the
dishes more or something or evenjust like a passive thing of
like, oh man, the dishes areoverflowing. It's like, oh, I
heard you don't do the dishesenough. Is that what you meant?
(22:10):
Or were you just commenting thatthere are dishes and one of us
needs to do them or now we canget the kids to do them. Like
that kind of thing of this iswhat I heard. Is that what you
meant? And sometimes, yeah, thatwas I was in a bad headspace and
I did mean that negatively. I'mso sorry.
(22:31):
Thanks for calling me out onthat. And other times, most of
the time it's like, oh, no, I'msorry. I was just commenting on
the dishes that I was planningon doing that later on this
evening. Not right now becauseI'm tired or whatever. But yeah,
thanks.
I don't want this to fester ineach other's heads of just like,
(22:52):
well, they're always pointingout these things. And that
advice has saved so many badthoughts and so many fights. And
we can count on one hand thedisagreements that we've had.
And we're just like, yeah, wejust really enjoy being around
each other all the Yes.
Victoria B. Glass (23:15):
Well, that is good advice. And I could see
people using that even outsideof their marriage, maybe with
their boss or in a situation,maybe with a parent where,
sometimes the communication justgets tough and we say things and
it's got a lot to do with thetime that we say it. Going back
to the don't take anythingpersonal. Sometimes it's the
timing, sometimes it's the toneor whatever, but getting clear
(23:37):
on, hey, I know this is thewords, physical words or actual
words or whatever you said. Thisis exactly how I interpreted it.
Just being able to take thatthird step and saying, I'm going
to get clear. Is this outside ofthat scenario? Is this what you
meant? Because I care about ourrelationship, whether it be a
husband and wife or sister andbrother or whatever, you know,
(24:00):
like just having that kindnessand that intention to go outside
of the actual conversation andtalk about what the meaning
behind it and the intentionalitybehind it was or That's really
good. I'm gonna have todefinitely share that one with
Dylan.
And we are always looking forlittle bits of tools to just use
(24:20):
like that. So I'm gonna have tolet you know how that works out.
Yeah. See us See us utilizingthat a lot.
John Mansfield (24:27):
Oh, for sure. Yeah. We are always looking for
like that same thing of alwaysbe learning. We're always
looking for marriage andrelationship advice and tips.
And sometimes we find someadvice and we're like,
Victoria B. Glass (24:40):
you know, I don't think that's going to work
John Mansfield (24:42):
for us. That doesn't seem like great advice.
In other times, okay.
Victoria B. Glass (24:48):
Yeah. Yeah, a funny one. I was going to say
that we tried and it didn't workout. But I've got to tell it to
you just because you said that.So we saw it on Instagram,
Facebook, one of the reelspopped up and it was like, when
you're fighting, go get a partyhat and you can't get mad at
someone who's wearing a partyhat.
And so sometimes it's like,we'll just say, okay, party hat.
And so it'll be like thevisualization. But we tried that
(25:10):
one time and it was like, okay,we just feel maybe that was the
point. We felt like fools.Right.
Yeah.
John Mansfield (25:16):
Kind of takes you out of the emotion of being
angry.
Victoria B. Glass (25:19):
Yeah. So when we heard that one, we did give
that one a try. And then it waslike, yeah, we just this is
silly. But, but yeah, well,thank you for sharing that
advice. And if you're listening,utilize it and see if it'll work
with your partner or withanother relationship that you
are having maybe some a littlebit of trouble communicating
(25:41):
with or even if you're not, thenthat'll prevent.
Yeah, prevent any troubles lateron down the road. Thank you for
that. All right. Well, I want totalk a little bit about one of
your many victory stories or wecould talk about them all. So
I'll let you take us throughthem.
But it sounds like you've raisedsome money at one point, a lot
(26:01):
of money, but not just a littlebit. Yeah, I want to hear about
that story. So I'll let you takethe mic and about that victory
story.
John Mansfield (26:10):
Yeah. Yeah. So like that, raising money for
charity, has been like acornerstone of the business
since it started. I was at anine to five job is a pretty
toxic relationship between mysupervisor and myself where,
there was no upward movement forme. And I was just like coming
(26:34):
home every day, very, very upsetand very stressed, which is not
really part of the story.
But that's just painting apicture of where I was. Yeah,
Victoria B. Glass (26:44):
no, it is a part of the story.
John Mansfield (26:45):
I was like, I can just get off on that because
there are still some feelingsthere. But like, that's where I
was that day. And I was justover lunch thinking, what can I
do on the side to kind of createa business? And I had an idea.
I've always had fairly decentcamera and enjoyed photography.
(27:08):
So I was like, I could buy likethis lens. I could do this. And
I wrote down my expenses tostart the business and kind of
threw around some ideas for aname and landed on All Heart
Photography and then came home.And it was three months into our
marriage. And I was like, hey, Ihave an idea to start a
(27:31):
business.
What do you think? And part ofthat idea was kind of grown from
the fact that my wife and Ididn't have a lot of money. We
were paycheck to paycheck. We,but we had so many organizations
and charities and likemissionary friends that we
(27:53):
wanted to help fund and wewanted to give to, but we just,
we didn't have any to give. So Iwas like, this would be
something that after like thefirst two bookings, it's already
making profit.
And then we can use a portion ofthat profit to like, before it
even comes into our hands tojust go out and we can partner
(28:16):
with some different charities.So from the beginning we had, I
think it was like 10% at thebeginning and then we ended up
landing on 15% of everythingthat came in, went to a charity.
And we've partnered with somereally great ones over the
years. And, I think as of now,we're like right over $90,000
(28:38):
that we've been able to redirectfrom, from clients who pay us.
And then we just move that intothe hands of other charities and
organizations.
We've even funded a couple ofGoFundMe's for, friends who were
going through, cancer anddifferent things and just like
(29:01):
being able to, to use our moneyand our funds and resources in
that way has been a hugeblessing for us and for them
too, for sure.
Victoria B. Glass (29:15):
I bet. Yes. Oh, yeah. And how does it feel
when you are able to say, yes, Ican give because I have I've put
aside and organized my income tobe able to have enough. And how
does it feel when you workedbackwards like that and found a
way a system to say, hey, I canuse my camera to literally make
(29:38):
something from nothing and say,here, here's what you need.
And how does that feel?
John Mansfield (29:44):
I mean, it feels amazing because we can tangibly
see the change in other people'slives. And for us, it's not like
we're taking food or money outof our house or anything. It's
like when it comes in, it goesdirectly into this savings
(30:05):
account that is for giving. Sothat's its own own thing. And,
it doesn't like that's that'skind of one of the hard hurdles
to get over is the like, oh,well, we need to write this
check for we don't write checksanymore.
What am I talking about? We needto tell you about like when I
first started all this, but
Victoria B. Glass (30:26):
Sometimes you write checks.
John Mansfield (30:27):
Mean Sometimes. Yeah, I haven't in years because
the last checks I had had thewrong account number. And I was
like, you know what? This is asign. I'm just not doing paper
anymore.
But yeah, like that feeling ofbeing able to help someone else
and being able to help fund aGoFundMe so that they can get
(30:50):
the operation that they need orto some amazing organizations.
There's one that we've beenpartnering with since the very
beginning called the ArchibaldProject, where they fly around
the country. They were bothwedding photographers and
videographers, and they usetheir cameras to tell the
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stories of different orphans indifferent places and then share
it on their YouTube and socialmedia so that their future
parents, the parents that areout there ready to adopt them,
see them. And they're like,that's our kid. Who we didn't
know who it was, but that'sthem.
And then they can connect tothem. And so they've been a
(31:36):
huge, huge thing. Like seeinghow many children are getting
adopted through the work thatthey've been doing that we've
been able to help fund over thelast decade has been really
great. And just like, not inlike an arrogant way of like,
look what I did. I was able todo But just like that
(31:56):
fulfillment of like, what I'mdoing is bigger than me.
It's bigger than just my fourwalls. And we're helping make
the world a better place.
Victoria B. Glass (32:08):
Well, it just the image that comes to mind is
like a garden, like you'veplanted these seeds and you're
planting them again, it seemslike with your own family and
being able to share what you'redoing and why you're doing it
and help friends, family, andeven people that you might ever
never get to meet in person, butthat you
John Mansfield (32:27):
can
Victoria B. Glass (32:27):
see how your involvement, even if it's just a
little bit can go a long waybecause you are acknowledging
that bigger story and not takingno for an answer. Like it sounds
like at the beginning, you know,you might not have been in the
best place, but it was thattension point of not enjoying
the job you had that made youlook at your camera and the
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resources that you did have andsay, what would it take to get
me to that? Not I can't affordit, but how can I afford it? And
how can I also not only affordit, but be able to help other
people afford what they'reneeding? And I imagine it also
makes you way more willing whenyou need to, way more willing to
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ask for help.
And sometimes we are in thosesituations where we're like,
hey, how can you know, it mightseem like a no, but how can I do
this? And it might be relying ona friend or asking a friend or
not relying, but asking on afriend. And those relationships
open up a lot more when we doask for help and we're able to
help. The garden is like sobeautiful and you're able to
(33:36):
trade and like an old timefarmer's market. You
John Mansfield (33:40):
got tomatoes. I have some asparagus. Here you
go. Let's trade.
Victoria B. Glass (33:44):
Yeah, exactly. And that is so
beautiful and just so rich inthe way of like not monetary,
but just in the way of havingeverything you need. And when
you look around and you're ableto have those relationships and
you feel like you'recontributing and you are able to
contribute and you're alsosharing with your kids. I mean,
let me ask you this, Sean. Howdo you share with your kids?
(34:05):
Like, when you do donate andwhen you're working and stuff,
do you share those videos of thechildren and stuff or at least
with your nine year old maybe?Yeah. How do they feel about it?
John Mansfield (34:14):
I mean, we've shared that kind of stuff with
them. I do a lot of like charityevents too, where I'm going
somewhere. Like I have onecoming up next month. That's an
annual thing for a charity herein town that they go to Ghana
many times a year to set up,like, a fishing town, pretty
(34:40):
much teach the people there howto fish, how to, like, build
their own business andeverything. And that gets them
out of child labor andtrafficking and all that.
And they've been doing that forfifteen years, I think now. But
they have, a charity event everysummer of like this casino night
and people silent auction andraising money and all that. And
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I donate my photography servicesfor that and get to be part of
that. So like sharing that withthe kids of like, hey, this
weekend, I'm going here and likethey do this and they go and
help these people and here,let's pull out a map and show
you where Ghana is because Ialso don't really know and all
(35:24):
of that. And so, yeah,definitely sharing with them in
that sort.
Don't really do like the, hey,we just made a deposit of a
couple grand in this thing.Yeah, like sharing that kind of
stuff with them for sure.
Victoria B. Glass (35:41):
Well, thank you too for raising another
generation of people whounderstand how it all can work
and that bravery and couragethat you're instilling into your
little ones to help peoplebecause the world does need that
and it starts at home and justtaking those extra moments to do
that from someone who is in theworld and experiencing it on the
(36:05):
other side, you know, like,obviously, I'm not in Texas, but
thank you. Like, thank you forraising more, more really big
hearted and all hearted people.Yeah. And speaking of Allheart,
I want to focus a little bit onyour photography business. Can
you tell us why you chose thename Allheart?
What does that mean to you?
John Mansfield (36:23):
Yeah, I wanted to choose a name. One, I didn't
want my photography business tojust be like John Mansfield
photography, because I waskeeping options open for like
expansion and like, who knows,years down the road, I might
have an associate team, which Ido. And, you know, it just, it
(36:43):
seemed weird to me to be like,oh yeah, John Mansfield
photography, and, here's Ariel,who's going to be your
photographer. But yeah, I wanteda name that wasn't my name. And
I wanted a name that kinda,like, gave a good description of
how I would show up for them andthe work that I would do and
(37:05):
also tie in my faith too.
And it took me a bit of, like,going through different
scriptures and stuff. And Ifound, Colossians three twenty
three that says, well, in oneone translation that I think it
was NIV that says, like,whatever you do, do it with all
of your heart as if working forthe Lord and not for men. And I
(37:27):
was like, okay, all of my heart.That's great. All heart.
And like, I have that on mywebsite and like that on my
email signature and everythingof this is I'm going to be
showing up not for you, but forGod. Like, I want to I want to
show up and do my best because,that's that's what I have. And
(37:49):
I'm gonna gonna show up with allof my heart, and it definitely
comes through. Those twelve hourwedding days are brutal, but
like, I'm there the whole timeand partying with them and, you
know, up like I'm not just likesitting in the corner. I have
been to a couple of weddingswhere I'm just like, oh, the
(38:10):
photographer is just chillingright now.
They're missing moments. Yeah,I'm just in there and they feel
that and I want them to feel allthat all of my heart is in it.
And it's not just like, yeah,all right, well, you're another
number on my book and a dollarin the bank. I'll show up and
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send you some photos.
Victoria B. Glass (38:34):
Well, you are all in, what is the biggest
takeaway from the moments thatlike when you see your photos?
Do you feel a certain way aboutthe ones that you remember being
even more tuned in for, likemaybe on the dance floor or when
you get a moment back with maybea loved one, like a parent or
(38:57):
something? Are there tendermoments or exciting moments that
you feel shine through yourwork? And what do those look
like to you?
John Mansfield (39:05):
Yeah. I mean, the ones that shine through the
most are like those tiny littlemoments. Like the grandmother
who's sitting in the cornerbecause she can't walk all that
well and doesn't want to bewalking all over the reception.
And she's just there with hergrandkid or great grandkid who's
(39:28):
just walking up. I got onerecently of a grandmother with
one of the children at thewedding, and they were just
blowing bubbles at each otherbecause that's what they did for
the exit out of the ceremony.
And they were just blowingbubbles. And I was like, yeah,
this is a very sweet moment oftheir relationship that I was
(39:51):
able to witness and capture.And, you know, the couple is off
on the dance floor and they'redancing right now. They had no
idea this was going on. Andlike, whenever they're looking
through their gallery, they'llbe like, oh, look at this.
I love this. I didn't even know,like, when was this? And all
that. So, those kind of moments,those really like genuine when
(40:15):
people are showing theirpersonalities with each other
and don't really know that I'mthere. I love those.
And then, yeah, also the dancefloor. I love getting out there
with everyone and just like Ilove feeling the music through
the photos and not just likestanding on the sidelines and
like, okay, yeah, this is whatit was. It's like getting in
(40:39):
there and feeling the emotionsof like jumping around and
dancing and screaming to Mr.Bright side.
Victoria B. Glass (40:47):
Oh, I was just about to
John Mansfield (40:48):
say that.
Victoria B. Glass (40:49):
I was like, you can tell the ones where Mr.
Bright side are on. I swear Iwas about to say that. I cannot
believe that. That's so funny.
But yeah, no, I get it. I getit. And your photos do a great
job of that. And I think whenyour heart is open and your
shutter is open, then you can,capture those moments because
you're open to being able to seethem and like the grandmother
(41:11):
with the grandchild and thebubbles, I can just imagine
that. And I think I saw somebubbles on your story a couple
of days ago, or maybe it wasyesterday.
So listeners, you got to gocheck out those photos. Yes. And
I'll share a few on the screenhere for anyone who wants to
look at the YouTube version ofour interview in conversation.
But yes, go and check out Johnon his Instagram and website.
(41:36):
John, you want to drop thoseplugs in real quick so that
people can find you online?
John Mansfield (41:40):
Yeah, for sure. I'm on Instagram all the time,
as a good millennial should be.And I'm in the stories and DMs a
lot. But yeah, Instagram is allheart photo. And that's H E A R
T, just like your heart.
And, some people are just like,are you John Hart? Is that your
(42:01):
name? I'm like, no. No, it isnot. But yeah, allheartphoto on
Instagram.
Website is allheartphoto.com.The podcast is Wisdom and the
Tangents, which your episodewill be out soon. And I am very
excited for everyone to listen.If you enjoyed this
conversation, you'll definitelyenjoy that one, too.
Victoria B. Glass (42:23):
Yes. And I love that you share wisdom and
just conversations, talking topeople, letting the wisdom come
out. And there's alwayssomething you can get from an
episode. So go listen to thatlisteners wisdom in the
tangents.
John Mansfield (42:35):
Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I think that's about it.
Yeah, Instagram. And then frommy website, you can find all the
other places.
My educational stuff is on therefor photographers. And yeah,
that's that's about it.
Victoria B. Glass (42:51):
Well, before we go, do you have anything that
you're loving? I know you askedme this question, and there's
probably like four or fivethings that came to mind. Was
like, I don't know why I saidwhat I said. But do you have
anything? I know you asked thisto your listeners or to your
guests on your show.
And I do the same thing. So whatbooks or podcasts or tools are
(43:11):
really lightening you up in thisseason? It doesn't have to be
like this week, but this seasonthat you want to share with
other people.
John Mansfield (43:19):
So many things. Let's see. I'll do a book, a
podcast and a tool.
Victoria B. Glass (43:24):
Oh, yes. Awesome. Very generous.
John Mansfield (43:27):
A book that I'm really loving, actually one that
I just read recently. It's abrand new book from Tamara
Darden, who is a great productphotographer at DC. And she
wrote her first book called ThePhoto CEO, and it is like a
(43:49):
blueprint for creating andrunning a successful photography
business. And it's not too thickeither. It's not like 700 pages
or anything.
But yeah, I
Victoria B. Glass (44:00):
Well, I have to know really quick. What did
you take away from it? Becauseit sounds like you've been doing
I mean, you have a successfulphotography business. So if you
read it recently, what'ssomething that that you liked
about it?
John Mansfield (44:12):
I really liked she she talked about like
intention of why you do things.And, and that was a good
reminder of like, I've heardthis before. I know that, like,
I should be doing stuff that Ienjoy, that I find fulfilling.
And over the last couple ofyears, I had some stuff that
(44:34):
would be a whole another podcastepisode of just like associates
who, did some stuff, and, I amdealing with the aftermath of
that. So it kind of it hurt thebusiness by a good $30.40 grand,
which is not nothing.
Victoria B. Glass (44:56):
No. Yeah. Especially when you're giving
back to other people. But yeah,I'm so sorry to hear that.
John Mansfield (45:02):
Yeah. Like with that, I got very in my mind of
like, okay, well, I need to showup on social media in the way
that I think that other peoplewould want to see me and I want
I need to take these photos inthe way that I think people
would want them. And I just kindof changed a little bit, in like
(45:23):
'22, '20 '3, those years. Andtoward the end of, 2023 was when
I really kind of that was beforeher book came out. But like,
started feeling this, and thenthe book just like reiterated it
of when I do things that Ireally enjoy.
(45:43):
Like, I love doing doubleexposure photos and just like
being creative and artsy and notjust a like, here, stand here
and hold each other kind ofthing, but bringing in different
elements and their personalitiesand just like off the wall
locations, I am more fulfilledin that. My creativity is like
(46:07):
bursting at that point. And justit's it's I'm in the flow. And
And also, that has created, moreof a brand, for me that other
people are just like, oh yeah,I'm gonna hire you because you
shoot differently than everyoneelse. Because you do, You're
very creative.
(46:28):
And I don't even know what youwill do at our engagement or
wedding. So yeah, I took thatout of the book and just like,
it's really great.
Victoria B. Glass (46:38):
That's nice. And I love to hear that you're
still able to learn like youwere mentioning earlier. And it
sounds like people really seeyour personality when you are
intentional in your work andthey hire you because they they
can't get John anywhere elselike except through, you know,
through your business and yourphotography.
John Mansfield (46:57):
Exactly.
Victoria B. Glass (46:57):
Yeah. That's good. That's cool. Okay, sorry
not to take you out of thequestion. So let's go back.
You said a podcast that youwould recommend.
John Mansfield (47:04):
Okay. I listen to so many podcasts. We'll do
there's a business podcast.Let's see. A business podcast
that I really like.
Oh, man. I can't just narrow itdown to one. I'm trying to think
(47:24):
of like ones that I listened torecently. There's Well, one that
I kind of have gone back to. Hedoesn't record them anymore, but
shout out to Adam Mason, who'salso from DC.
Interesting. But the Bearded Togpodcast, I go back and listen to
(47:46):
some of his conversations withpeople and just like get some
good insight out of those.
Victoria B. Glass (47:53):
And that's a business podcast?
John Mansfield (47:54):
Yes.
Victoria B. Glass (47:55):
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll have to give that a
lesson too. Yeah.
John Mansfield (47:58):
Yeah. And then also, an interesting podcast is
search engine, and, it's hostedby PJ Vogt. He goes through, and
kinda like answers questionsthat he would put into like
Google. Just like, like one wasthe recent one was like, how
(48:19):
much glue can you put in a pizzasafely or something? Ew.
And yeah, it kind of like wentoff of this whole, like, weird
AI Reddit thing. It's aninteresting story, but like,
he's a investigative journalist,and they're always just really
interesting shows. So yeah,search engine is cool.
Victoria B. Glass (48:40):
Search engine. Okay, I'm gonna have to
listen to that one on my nextroad trip. Does sound really,
really interesting. And yeah,what a cool concept for a show
because we all Google reallyrandom things or put random
questions into the searchengine. And yeah, that sounds
like it would be a good time.
Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Well, thankyou, John, for coming on and
(49:04):
listeners, go check him out. AllHeart photography, A L L Heart
photography and Wisdom in theTangents podcast or y'all are on
Instagram as WITS, right?
John Mansfield (49:17):
Yeah. WITPod WITT.pod.
Victoria B. Glass (49:21):
WITPod. Okay, cool. You're gonna love his
podcast too. So throwing thatout there again. Go listen to it
listeners.
And John, thank you for comingon. I really appreciate it.
John Mansfield (49:31):
Yeah, thanks for having me on. I really enjoyed
this.
Victoria B. Glass (49:34):
We will have to come back and do a follow-up
episode in the future. If you'rewilling, I'd love to invite you
back on and tell us more aboutjust your victory stories and
how your life as a dad andbusiness owner has been going.
So we'll hear from you again, Ihope.
John Mansfield (49:49):
Yes, I would love that. I can talk all the
time. So yes, let's do it.
Victoria B. Glass (49:54):
Awesome. Well, thank you for coming on
and sharing your knowledge andyour wisdom, and you can always
learn something from hispodcast. So go check him out and
we'll talk to you again soon,hopefully. Bye, John.
John Mansfield (50:06):
Bye.
Victoria B. Glass (50:11):
Thanks for joining us for this week's
episode of the ContagiousVictories podcast. If the show
inspired you to hear your ownvictory story, I'm here to tell
you the world deserves to hearit. Submit it to me online at
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Telling a friend about the showhelps contain his victories to
(50:31):
grow.
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