March 8, 2024 • 31 mins
This episode is your backstage pass to Canadian Imaging. Join me as I dive into the nuances of networking and the intimate atmosphere of the conference with coordinators Kathryn and Corrie.
The intimate ambiance of Canadian Imaging is a breath of fresh air for photographers who may feel daunted by larger crowds. The communal spirit of this gathering shines through, serving as a catalyst for creativity and camaraderie for photography professionals.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Mindset and Money Mastery for
Photographers the podcast.
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Tune in each week for practicaland actionable tips to take
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
So I am incredibly excited today to be here with
Corey and Catherine talkingabout a conference that is
coming up this year calledCanadian Imaging.
I am incredibly excited becauseI'm actually going to be
attending and speaking at theconference this year and
whenever I first met with Coreyand Catherine and they were
telling me about the conference,I knew that I had to find a way
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to make it there and make thiswork, because it really truly
sounds like such an awesomeevent.
I think one of the things thatI love the most that I've heard
about it is that there's like areally strong sense of community
and it's a really great groupof people where you get to know
people and you get to do lifewith people while you're at the
conference, and it isn't one ofthose giant mega conferences
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where there's like 10,000 peopleand you feel overwhelmed by all
the people.
So I think I've been telling alot of people who I've talked to
like if you love the idea ofconferences but they kind of
scare you because they're so bigand giant and you think like
it's just going to be this swarmof people which some of them
can be, and I think that this isa great experience to look into
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and to join, because it's goingto be a smaller, more intimate
gathering of people versus thegiant conference thing.
So I don't know.
I hope I did my explanationjustice there and what I think
is a really cool selling pointof why I'm looking for Canadian
imaging.
But I would love, corey andCatherine, if y'all can
introduce yourselves.
Catherine, do you want tointroduce yourself first?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Sure, my name is Catherine Gardner and I am the
conference coordinator forCanadian imaging.
I've been doing this for a fewyears and it's been really
exciting watching it grow andevolve.
This year, we've got so much onthe itinerary that I'm just so
excited.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And you have your own business too, right.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, yes, I am a full-time photographer.
I live in Nelson, britishColumbia, which is a small town,
sort of in the middle ofnowhere.
I run a portrait studio and I'mlooking forward to this
conference because it's going toteach me stuff and get me
involved.
That's what.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I do.
Okay, what's your businesscalled?
I don't think you said that,did you?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
My business is called KDG Photography and I operate
out of KDG Photography Studio,and the KDG, incidentally,
stands for Catherine Dorfey,gardner and Dorfey was the name
of my mother and my grandmother,and I'm so proud of it.
I love that that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, corey, you're up next, tell us who you are.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Hi, I'm Corey Landrous and I am the Assistant
Coordinator for Canadian Imagingand I work closely with
Catherine.
This is my second conferenceworking with her and yeah, it's
a lot of work, but we've beenhaving a lot of fun and I think
we've got a really great eventcoming up and I'm really excited
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about it.
I'm also a full-time portraitphotographer and I live up in
150 mile BC.
That is a real name and it'seven more remote than Nelson.
Yes, yeah, I'm in a remotecommunity and my business name
is Corey Landrous Photography.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Awesome, Okay.
So, Catherine, why don't youspill with us what the specifics
are, when it is where it'shappening?
And also, I think registrationis coming to a close.
People can still join us.
So, yeah, share with us thespecifics.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So when and where this conference is taking place?
On April 5th to 7th, it's inVictoria, british Columbia, and
we're hosting out of a hotelcalled the Hotel Grand Pacific,
which is across the street fromthe harbor.
So our whole venue is smack dabright downtown in Victoria,
which is a beautiful coastal,historic city full of amazing
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architecture, marine life,gardens.
So if you can eke out a littlebit of time to leave the
conference then there's amazingthings to see around it.
But the conference itself isgoing to be so full the
itinerary.
We have speakers, we havesocials, we have an expo with
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trades coming, all the bigcamera companies, some printers,
various vendors, and so thisgives people a chance to touch
and feel product and talk to thereps and ask questions.
So there's just so much goingon over that weekend.
And Victoria is actually apretty easy place to get to.
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You can fly into VictoriaInternational Airport.
You can also fly to Seattle andtake a ferry called the Clipper
Ferry that goes directly fromSeattle to the dock in
Victoria's, one block from ourvenue.
So that makes a really fun tripto get there.
If you're international, someCanadians will even fly down to
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Seattle and come up on theClipper because it's a nice
experience.
So Victoria is a big city withkind of a small town feel and
there's so much to do there ifyou wanted to extend your trip
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I love that.
I am excited I am staying anextra day so I can have a day to
explore.
But I'm also excited becausey'all are doing the what is it
called?
The Marine.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The Marine Photo Tour and I'm going to be on the boat
with you.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And Cory's going to sign up too, right, cory?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, I'm probably going to sign up too.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I was like you know what I'm going to this.
I might as well stay an extraday, even though it's in the
middle of crazy season.
I'm telling you, if I can carveout of my life during that time
of year for me to come to thisconference and to spend an extra
day exploring.
Like each and every one of youlistening to this can take the
time out of your lives to getaway, learn, grow, spend time
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with other photographers.
It's worth it.
I can't think of a time thatgoing to a conference or a
workshop or anything hasn't beenworth it.
There's always something goldenthat you're going to take home
from it.
So, corey, tell me what yourexperience has been like.
Going to the conference as justa normal person, like.
What has that been like for you?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, my first conference I went to was in 2018
and it was in Richmond, bc.
I'm one of those people thatwas like, oh my God, I'm going
by myself, I don't know anybody.
I felt like it was like areally big conference for me,
and so I was quite nervous.
(06:58):
But yeah, I got there,registered.
I made a goal to I was going tocome away from the conference
with one new tip for my businessand I was going to meet one new
friend, and that was sort of.
I just set my expectationsthere and, like I said, I was
really nervous because I wasgoing by myself and I walked
away with probably six or sevennew friends.
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I instantly met somebody and,you know, no longer felt lonely.
It was like this huge groupjust embraced me.
Yeah, it was just so much funand I learned a lot.
It was such a great weekend.
We had so much fun.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I love that.
It's funny Just my experiencegoing to like imaging here in
the US.
It's like you meet people andthey're with like a group of
photographers and you're like,oh, are y'all from the same town
?
Do y'all know each other?
And they're like no, we met atimaging five years ago and every
year we meet up and we hang outat imaging and it's like when
you go to these conferences,like year after year, you get
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these friends that are becomingconference buddies.
But there's something else yousaid that I think is really
important and that is you wereterrified to go into this,
feeling like you weren't goingto know anybody or you're going
to feel alone.
But I think it's so importantto know that everyone going to a
conference whether it's theirfirst time or their 10th time, I
think secretly has that fear oflike what if I feel alone?
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What if I don't know anybody?
What if I don't see anyone?
And so like know that when youwalk into a room and you sit
down, that chances are thepeople around you are feeling
the same way.
So don't be afraid to just liketalk to them, because it's not
just you feeling like that.
I did a podcast episode beforeimaging here in the US actually
earlier this year and someonecame out to me and they were
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like I listened to that episodeabout like other people also
feel scared and alone and likethey don't know anybody.
And I made it a goal when I satdown in the first room.
I sat in to just turn and talkto the people next to me.
And then the person next to mewas like I'm so glad you talked
to me, because I was so scaredand I don't know anybody, and
like look, we just made friendsand they hung out like the whole
time.
So I think that's really areally important lesson to go
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into conferences.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And I think that's probably one of the biggest
things that I love about PPOCand Canadian imaging is we all
have name tags and so if you area new member, it'll say new
member on your tag and I kind offeel like our organization sort
of sources you out right andworks really hard to make you
feel welcomed and you know theywill pair you up with other
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photographers.
You know like, oh, you shootwildlife.
Well, hey, I know so-and-so.
Hey, come over here, come meetsomeone.
You know it's a reallywelcoming and engaging group of
people.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I was going to say the same thing.
The PPOC is the ProfessionalPhotographers of Canada, and the
PPOC has been hosting thisconference for many, many years,
and I felt the same way as Coridid when I went to my first
conference in 2013.
I went by myself and I didn'tknow anyone, and I hooked up
with roommates.
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I got connected with peoplethat I had I'd never met them in
my life, and then I was theirroommate, and now they're
lifelong friends, and so notonly they live across the
country, but we stillcommunicate about business as
well as personal things.
So, as much as the speakerpresentations are so incredibly
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amazing, it's the conversationsthat take place after the
presentations in the lineup atthe buffet for your lunch or
sitting down at dinner or justtaking a break.
People talk about the talks andkind of get more ideas from
them, and also our speakers.
Most of our speakers are therethe whole weekend, so after the
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conference you can go sidle upto your favorite speaker and ask
them questions over lunch.
It's that much of a community.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Just to add on what Catherine was saying.
That's kind of one of thereasons we decided to go with
your full registrationconference ticket.
Most of the meals are includedand we've decided to go that
route again this year because wefelt that there was a lot more
networking happened overbreaking bread.
So yeah, so we can have dinnerand everyone can chat and you
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don't have to leave to find aMcDonald's.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Hey, I love that.
It reminds me of like Texasschool, where you're like in
class with the same people allday and then you're going and
having lunch or doing dinnertogether, and then there's
parties in the evening andthere's all this stuff happening
and it's like when you spenddays with the same group of
people, you really get to knowthem, which is really nice.
I've heard that the vibe ofCanadian imaging compared to
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Texas school, which I feel like,speaks a lot because I think
Texas school has such a good,rich reputation of the
experience, so the fact thatpeople would say it kind of has
that same feeling to it and thesame vibe to it is really
awesome.
Catherine, why don't you tellme about the learning part of
this?
How does this work with thespeakers?
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Everyone is in all the sameclasses, right?
So you don't have to choosewhere you want to go and make
those hard decisions.
So kind of share with us, likewhat the educational side of
it's like.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay, yeah.
So we used to run a couple ofdifferent programs at the same
time slot and people wouldchoose which genre or which talk
they wanted to hear.
And then we got a lot offeedback that people wanted to
see everything, because even ifyou don't shoot the same genre
as the speaker, everybody hassomething to share and you can
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bring something into your ownbusiness from virtually every
speaker.
So we switched it to having onespeaker at a time.
So when you register for thisconference, you are signed up
for Emory speaker.
There are a couple of optionalprograms if you want to extend
your stay, so I'll start withthose.
On the Friday, before theconference kicks off, we have a
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Victoria photo tour with a localprofessional photographer who's
going to take people aroundVictoria and show you the nooks
and crannies that the averagetourist is not gonna see, to
photograph and get to know thecity.
Then we also have a portraitand wedding workshop, and so
this is more of a hands-onworkshop with a photographer
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named Rabi Maddi and he's aamazing, award winning wedding
photographer portrait weddingphotographer and so he's doing a
workshop.
And then on the Monday, as youalready alluded to, we have our
Marine photo tour, where we'llspend a three hour tour.
If anyone knows Gilligan'sIsland, I might be dating myself
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, but yeah, sailing around on acatamaran not sailing, but
motoring around looking forwildlife and coastal scenery.
Then the meat and potatoes ofthe actual conference.
We have 10 speakerpresentations lined up and we've
got speakers from Canada, theUS and the United Kingdom, which
is pretty exciting.
So we have Rachel Owen comingand she's a hot topic right now
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in the World Photographic Cup.
She's gonna do a green screenphoto shoot demo.
A second part is going to beediting that.
So that's pretty exciting.
We actually have, I think,three or four speakers who are
all competing on the WorldPhotographic Cup.
So we've got quite a bit oftalent.
Anna Bodry is doing anarchitectural photography talk
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called Building Character how tocapture personality of a
building.
We have Claude Brezaux, who wonour use of Karsh award last
year for his lifelong experiencein photography, and he's doing
a seminar on natural lightphotography.
It's amazing.
You see what he does and youcan't believe he pulled this out
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of a natural light environment.
Derek Ford is the person who'sdoing the Victoria tour and he
is going to work with us on thebusiness of commercial
photography.
So nuts and bolts behind acommercial photographer business
Cassandra Jones, another WPCWorld Photographic Cup
photographer.
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She's going to talk aboutstorytelling and photographs and
the human connection, and she'sgot amazing painterly work.
Gary Hill is our UKphotographer and he's a lighting
expert and he's going to do atalk about putting the fine into
fine art later on that day atthe Photography Expo.
He's going to have backdropsset up and do lighting
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demonstrations all day.
So double hitter for Gary.
Then we have Corinna Kinsler andshe is going to break down the
walls keeping you from themythical five figure clients and
I can't wait to hear your talk,corinna.
I've been looking a little bitat the stuff you do and I hear
various podcasts and whatnot, sowe're so excited to have you.
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Tracy Munson is from EasternCanada and she is doing a talk.
Every Pet is a Masterpiece.
You got to see this woman'sphotography of Don's Cats,
chicken's, goats, you name it.
She can do it and she's goingto talk about how you capture
such amazing images with animalsthat don't always listen like
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we want them to.
Finally, we have Pratteknakeand he is going to be talking
about revolutionizing yourworkflow with artificial
intelligence tools.
The cool thing about his talkis he hasn't given us an outline
because everything is changingso fast in AI that he's going to
hammer out his program at thelast minute so he can give us
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the most up-to-date information.
Jam-packed, wide variety, bringlots of snacks and water, and
you're going to be really busyduring those talks.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I love that.
Something else that I think Inoticed from the schedule and I
could be wrong here, but I feellike your speakers have more
time to speak than mostconferences.
Sometimes you go to conferencesand the speakers are speaking
for 30, 40 minutes.
It's super quick and you don'treally get to take a whole lot
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out of it because the speakersare so constrained on their time
and I feel like your speakershave more time, is that?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
correct, absolutely.
Every speaker has an hour and ahalf time slot.
They can speak for an hour or75 minutes, and then there's
always time for questions builtin.
There is lots of time forspeakers to get into the topic
and lots of time for theaudience to ask questions and
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really delve into the topic.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I love that because I think that's what
people want to come toconferences and actually walk
away with something they'regoing to learn from each speaker
and really walk away with goodinformation.
I think having that extra timeis really nice, especially then
you can do Q&A and stuff.
I do love that about thestructure.
Also, I should point out we'retalking about Canadian imaging,
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but there are people from allover the place that come to
Canadian imaging.
You do not have to be fromCanada, you do not have to be a
member of professionalphotographers of Canada.
People here in the States go,hop on a plane, go do it.
Where do you help pull peoplefrom?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Everywhere.
We have one fellow who's cometo almost every Canadian imaging
from India.
He flies over here for that, Ithink, because it's such a
strong community-basedconference.
People from Australia, from theUnited States, from Italy yeah,
we've had Nigeria.
People from everywhere.
Nigeria, that's amazing.
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We love that because peoplefrom different parts of the
globe can bring differentelements and thoughts and ideas,
which just helps everybody growand get creative.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, this is a fun fact about me.
My first job as a photographer,I worked for a Canadian company
.
Yay, I would spend a week at atime with them at livestock
shows and then I would go homeand I would start saying
Canadian words and speaking witha Canadian accent.
My husband's like what's wrongwith you?
Why are you saying A?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well, y'all, we like the word A.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's my fun fact about Canada and my life.
I've never been to Canadaeither, so I'm very excited.
One day I want to come and goto the Calgary Stampede though
that is like a bucket list thing.
After seeing all the photosfrom and stuff, I think it would
be really fun.
Okay, so what kind of advicewould you share to someone that
is thinking about attending yourconference?
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But they're just like I don'tknow if a conference is right
for me.
I don't know if it's going tobe worth it.
I don't know if I should spendthis money going to a conference
.
What would you say to them?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The money is definitely worth it the
connections that you make, thenetworking, the education.
We have 10 different speakers.
I mean, if you were to try anddo that online, it would cost
you a fortune.
So I do believe that the valuein the price of the conference
is there.
And my advice if you first timedo what I did, I set a goal.
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You know I'm going to walk awaywith one friend and I'm going
to learn, you know, something Ican apply to my business and I
felt that by doing that, thatwas the attitude that I took and
, like I said, I mean I walkedaway with like 10 new buddies.
It was a group of girls andit's like we'd known each other
for years by the time we weredone and you know, we've still
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remained really good friends.
Like Catherine said, I meanthey turn into lifelong friends
and and yeah, even though someof them have lived across the
country, I mean we get to seeeach other every year at
Canadian Imaging.
Yeah, that would be my advice.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'll focus on the nervousness.
If you're nervous about comingto Canada, which is another
country for you, or you've neverbeen to a conference, or you've
been to bigger conferences andyou just don't like the vibe of
all that activity, thisconference we keep saying it
it's all about community and assoon as you arrive, you will
feel so welcome and you know, ifyou tell somebody, oh, I shoot
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this, then likely they will pairyou up with someone right away
and you'll have someone to sitbeside and then you will be, you
know, meeting more peoplethrough that and because there
is so much going on, you won'thave time to be nervous Once you
get there.
You'll just be so immersed inthe activities and the socials
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and the meals and the talkingand the chatting and make sure
you get plenty of sleep.
Ha ha, you're not going to getit.
Yes, sleep, but you're going towant to try to rest and take
lots of notes, because so muchhappens that you might forget.
So, those goals that you make,you want to write them down Pen
and paper, laptop, tablet,doesn't matter.
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You need to record.
But I wouldn't hesitate.
I mean, I didn't In 2013,.
I had just joined PPOC and Iheard about the conference and I
just put my money down and hereI am.
What is it?
Are we, many years later,running the thing?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yes, I want each of us to share a tip for getting
the most out of a conference.
What is some piece of adviceyou would give?
And I'll give my piece ofadvice first, because I think
this is the most important pieceof advice.
When you go to conferences,You're going to learn so much
and you're going to feel likeyour brain is a little bit mushy
and overwhelmed and you'regoing to take so many notes and
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go home, let the things sink ina little bit and then go back
through all of your notes andreally just say, okay, I really
love this idea.
At the conference I really waslike gun hoe on implementing
this in my business and then askyourself does this really align
with me and do I reallyunderstand and have an outfit
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formation to implement this inthe right way?
Yet Because I think sometimesthere's this urge to go to
conferences and, like, you heara piece of advice and you just
implement it almost a littleblindly, based on the excitement
and adrenaline of theconference, and then six months
later you're like why the heckam I doing this thing?
I don't even know what this is.
Oh yeah, I kind of got like alittle bit of the story to
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conference.
So I just took it and ran withit and put it in my business,
but I didn't really think itthrough.
So my challenge for anyone atany conference they go to, is to
think through the informationand make sure they fully
understand the concept beforethey implement something that
they only halfway understand,because then you're just doing
the cookie cutter business thingwhere you're plopping someone
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else's business into yourbusiness and it might not work
for you.
So that's my advice.
I feel like that was kind ofnot a that was a lesson learned
of my conference days of copyingand pasting what I heard
speakers saying and then goingwhat the heck am I doing six
months later.
So that's my experience.
But there are so many goodthings.
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I just I don't want to say thatthey're not good.
I just want to say fully takethe time to understand and
process them before youimplement them.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I love that, carinda.
That expands on my idea, whichI'll just briefly say because
I've got another one.
But I used to, as I left theconference, highlight the most
important things to me, but Ididn't take it to the next step
that you just described andthat's worth its weight in gold
the advice you just threw outthere, to really understand what
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we've learned before weimplement it.
But what I was going to say isbe prepared to remember the
people that you meet.
So when I first started to gointo conferences, people carried
physical business cards.
I guess that's kind of going bythe wayside, but we would all
trade our business cards andthen I would physically write on
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them where I was when I metthem or what it was we talked
about, or something that wouldjog my memory about who that
person was.
So then after the conference Icould connect with them and I
wouldn't be like who are you?
Again, I think I met you.
I kind of know what they weretalking about or I could ask
them advice, or it was just abetter connection.
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So now we have technology, youcan do that using your phones.
If you share contactinformation, write a few notes
about where you met them whatyou talked about, just so that
you can nurture that networking,that friendship later after you
leave the conference.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, I love that.
I tend to ask people what theirInstagram is and I follow them
on Instagram and then Iscreenshot their profile so that
it's in my phone camera rolland I don't forget who they are.
And then I also will send thema DM on Instagram and be like
hey, I'm so glad we ran intoeach other at the coffee shop or
I'm so glad that we sat next toeach other in this class,
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because then if I can't rememberthat message or if they forget,
helping me, it will help jogtheir memory too.
So for you Instagram people, itdoesn't work when people don't
have Instagram.
Kori, let's hear your piece ofadvice.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Okay, I'm gonna talk about again going by yourself.
I'm an introverted extrovert.
Anyway.
I get nervous easily aroundvery large groups of people.
So what I like to do is I willsort of source out a person
that's either standing off bythemselves or they're getting a
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coffee at the coffee bar, andthen I will target that person
and head on over and I willeither comment on oh I really
like your scarf, like where didyou get that?
Or love those earrings, or I'llcompliment the person in some
way and then that just easilystarts the conversation.
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And I'm not walking up to like agroup of four or five people
and they're already chatting.
I've singled out this oneperson and that's kind of I feel
.
Then it just evolves from there, because then that person
already knows that group of fourpeople.
So they'll take me back totheir group and then I meet four
or five more other people andbefore long I'm not at the
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conference alone.
So that would be my advice Findthat person that's off in the
corner by themselves and just goup and say hi, or compliment
what they're wearing or initiatethe conversation in some way.
And that's what I find worksfor me when I'm in a situation
by myself and don't know anybody.
And yeah, I find that oneperson.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That's also a great marketing piece of advice.
That's like the best marketingtool ever.
It's just like complimentingrandom people in public and
starting conversation withstrangers because they can be
your next client.
And that's a tool I use at likewhen I do events and stuff and
like expose with my business.
If I sit there and I will makeit a game like how many people
can I compliment today?
(27:42):
Honestly, people don't getcompliments of a lot in life and
I think that when you do likecome up to somebody and you
compliment them on something,they're like ah.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Hey, you made their day.
I think as adults, we all havesome sort of playground trauma
going on that prevents us fromwalking up to the group, or you
know that are already playingdodgeball or whatever.
So I find, as adults, we'rekind of like ooh, I don't know,
do I want to go over there andsay, hi, what if they won't?
Let me play with that?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
But they will, they will, they will.
I love that.
That's great advice.
This has been really fungetting to chat with y'all.
If somebody wants to register,when is the last day to register
?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Time is running out.
The deadline to register forthe full conference is March 15.
To do so, go to our website atCanadianimagingorg and that will
get you to our website and youcan read more about all the
speakers and click on the buttonto register.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And then you can use the CodeCorinth 20.
And then you can sign up forthe Marine Life Photo Tour that
I'm going to go on, which isalso kind of scary Like I'm a
little bit scared but at thesame time I'm like it's going to
be so fun being on a boat fullof strangers that aren't going
to be strangers by then, becauseeveryone's going to be so nice
no one's going to be a strangerby then Right, and I'm going to
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be like, oh my God, go away.
So I mean, if you want to getstuck on a boat with me for
three hours and you can juststand there and pick my brain
because, yeah, that's all I knowhow to do anyway talk business
so then come join us, and I amso excited to be joining all
this year and to experience it,and I hope that I get to see
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many of y'all that are listening.
I know there's a handful of mypeople that are coming.
I feel like there's a few of myCanadian people.
I feel like I have a lot ofCanadian coaching clients right
now too, which is I shipped like10 books to Canada, which is
stupid expensive, by the way.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's probably cheaper than shipping within Canada.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Oh gosh, and I will have some books with me at
Imaging.
If you're listening to this andyou're coming to Canadian
Imaging and you want to grab abook, send me a message before.
That way I know how many booksto bring too, and so that will
help me because I'm going toship some books up there as well
.
Well, I am super excited to bethere and thanks for joining me
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and talking about it andhopefully everyone's listening
to this and they're like dang it, I need to go.
Also, just come to like.
I know it's like a month away,but just come, do it, be
spontaneous.
When we were on our honeymoon inJamaica, we learned this
response, which is why not?
Like, somebody asks yousomething and you're like, uh,
and they're like why not Just doit?
(30:27):
And we kind of took that as ajoke home from our honeymoon in
Jamaica.
Like, when the opportunitypresents itself, just be like
why not?
Literally, why not do it?
You really don't have anythingto lose.
I mean, yeah, it just costsmoney, but other than that, you
don't have anything to lose, sojust do it.
So go to Canadianimagingorg.
It's April 5th through 7th andyou have until March 15th to
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register.
Thank you, ladies, for joiningus.
Thank you, carinda.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
So I am incredibly excited today to be here with
Corey and Catherine talkingabout a conference that is
coming up this year calledCanadian Imaging.
I am incredibly excited becauseI'm actually going to be
attending and speaking at theconference this year and
whenever I first met with Coreyand Catherine and they were
telling me about the conference,I knew that I had to find a way
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to make it there and make thiswork, because it really truly
sounds like such an awesomeevent.
I think one of the things thatI love the most that I've heard
about it is that there's like areally strong sense of community
and it's a really great groupof people where you get to know
people and you get to do lifewith people while you're at the
conference, and it isn't one ofthose giant mega conferences
(01:07):
where there's like 10,000 peopleand you feel overwhelmed by all
the people.
So I think I've been telling alot of people who I've talked to
like if you love the idea ofconferences but they kind of
scare you because they're so bigand giant and you think like
it's just going to be this swarmof people which some of them
can be, and I think that this isa great experience to look into
(01:27):
and to join, because it's goingto be a smaller, more intimate
gathering of people versus thegiant conference thing.
So I don't know.
I hope I did my explanationjustice there and what I think
is a really cool selling pointof why I'm looking for Canadian
imaging.
But I would love, corey andCatherine, if y'all can
introduce yourselves.
Catherine, do you want tointroduce yourself first?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Sure, my name is Catherine Gardner and I am the
conference coordinator forCanadian imaging.
I've been doing this for a fewyears and it's been really
exciting watching it grow andevolve.
This year, we've got so much onthe itinerary that I'm just so
excited.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And you have your own business too, right.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, yes, I am a full-time photographer.
I live in Nelson, britishColumbia, which is a small town,
sort of in the middle ofnowhere.
I run a portrait studio and I'mlooking forward to this
conference because it's going toteach me stuff and get me
involved.
That's what.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I do.
Okay, what's your businesscalled?
I don't think you said that,did you?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
My business is called KDG Photography and I operate
out of KDG Photography Studio,and the KDG, incidentally,
stands for Catherine Dorfey,gardner and Dorfey was the name
of my mother and my grandmother,and I'm so proud of it.
I love that that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, corey, you're up next, tell us who you are.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Hi, I'm Corey Landrous and I am the Assistant
Coordinator for Canadian Imagingand I work closely with
Catherine.
This is my second conferenceworking with her and yeah, it's
a lot of work, but we've beenhaving a lot of fun and I think
we've got a really great eventcoming up and I'm really excited
(03:17):
about it.
I'm also a full-time portraitphotographer and I live up in
150 mile BC.
That is a real name and it'seven more remote than Nelson.
Yes, yeah, I'm in a remotecommunity and my business name
is Corey Landrous Photography.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Awesome, Okay.
So, Catherine, why don't youspill with us what the specifics
are, when it is where it'shappening?
And also, I think registrationis coming to a close.
People can still join us.
So, yeah, share with us thespecifics.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So when and where this conference is taking place?
On April 5th to 7th, it's inVictoria, british Columbia, and
we're hosting out of a hotelcalled the Hotel Grand Pacific,
which is across the street fromthe harbor.
So our whole venue is smack dabright downtown in Victoria,
which is a beautiful coastal,historic city full of amazing
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architecture, marine life,gardens.
So if you can eke out a littlebit of time to leave the
conference then there's amazingthings to see around it.
But the conference itself isgoing to be so full the
itinerary.
We have speakers, we havesocials, we have an expo with
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trades coming, all the bigcamera companies, some printers,
various vendors, and so thisgives people a chance to touch
and feel product and talk to thereps and ask questions.
So there's just so much goingon over that weekend.
And Victoria is actually apretty easy place to get to.
(05:00):
You can fly into VictoriaInternational Airport.
You can also fly to Seattle andtake a ferry called the Clipper
Ferry that goes directly fromSeattle to the dock in
Victoria's, one block from ourvenue.
So that makes a really fun tripto get there.
If you're international, someCanadians will even fly down to
(05:22):
Seattle and come up on theClipper because it's a nice
experience.
So Victoria is a big city withkind of a small town feel and
there's so much to do there ifyou wanted to extend your trip
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I love that.
I am excited I am staying anextra day so I can have a day to
explore.
But I'm also excited becausey'all are doing the what is it
called?
The Marine.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The Marine Photo Tour and I'm going to be on the boat
with you.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And Cory's going to sign up too, right, cory?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, I'm probably going to sign up too.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I was like you know what I'm going to this.
I might as well stay an extraday, even though it's in the
middle of crazy season.
I'm telling you, if I can carveout of my life during that time
of year for me to come to thisconference and to spend an extra
day exploring.
Like each and every one of youlistening to this can take the
time out of your lives to getaway, learn, grow, spend time
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with other photographers.
It's worth it.
I can't think of a time thatgoing to a conference or a
workshop or anything hasn't beenworth it.
There's always something goldenthat you're going to take home
from it.
So, corey, tell me what yourexperience has been like.
Going to the conference as justa normal person, like.
What has that been like for you?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, my first conference I went to was in 2018
and it was in Richmond, bc.
I'm one of those people thatwas like, oh my God, I'm going
by myself, I don't know anybody.
I felt like it was like areally big conference for me,
and so I was quite nervous.
(06:58):
But yeah, I got there,registered.
I made a goal to I was going tocome away from the conference
with one new tip for my businessand I was going to meet one new
friend, and that was sort of.
I just set my expectationsthere and, like I said, I was
really nervous because I wasgoing by myself and I walked
away with probably six or sevennew friends.
(07:20):
I instantly met somebody and,you know, no longer felt lonely.
It was like this huge groupjust embraced me.
Yeah, it was just so much funand I learned a lot.
It was such a great weekend.
We had so much fun.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I love that.
It's funny Just my experiencegoing to like imaging here in
the US.
It's like you meet people andthey're with like a group of
photographers and you're like,oh, are y'all from the same town
?
Do y'all know each other?
And they're like no, we met atimaging five years ago and every
year we meet up and we hang outat imaging and it's like when
you go to these conferences,like year after year, you get
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these friends that are becomingconference buddies.
But there's something else yousaid that I think is really
important and that is you wereterrified to go into this,
feeling like you weren't goingto know anybody or you're going
to feel alone.
But I think it's so importantto know that everyone going to a
conference whether it's theirfirst time or their 10th time, I
think secretly has that fear oflike what if I feel alone?
(08:18):
What if I don't know anybody?
What if I don't see anyone?
And so like know that when youwalk into a room and you sit
down, that chances are thepeople around you are feeling
the same way.
So don't be afraid to just liketalk to them, because it's not
just you feeling like that.
I did a podcast episode beforeimaging here in the US actually
earlier this year and someonecame out to me and they were
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like I listened to that episodeabout like other people also
feel scared and alone and likethey don't know anybody.
And I made it a goal when I satdown in the first room.
I sat in to just turn and talkto the people next to me.
And then the person next to mewas like I'm so glad you talked
to me, because I was so scaredand I don't know anybody, and
like look, we just made friendsand they hung out like the whole
time.
So I think that's really areally important lesson to go
(09:02):
into conferences.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And I think that's probably one of the biggest
things that I love about PPOCand Canadian imaging is we all
have name tags and so if you area new member, it'll say new
member on your tag and I kind offeel like our organization sort
of sources you out right andworks really hard to make you
feel welcomed and you know theywill pair you up with other
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photographers.
You know like, oh, you shootwildlife.
Well, hey, I know so-and-so.
Hey, come over here, come meetsomeone.
You know it's a reallywelcoming and engaging group of
people.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I was going to say the same thing.
The PPOC is the ProfessionalPhotographers of Canada, and the
PPOC has been hosting thisconference for many, many years,
and I felt the same way as Coridid when I went to my first
conference in 2013.
I went by myself and I didn'tknow anyone, and I hooked up
with roommates.
(10:00):
I got connected with peoplethat I had I'd never met them in
my life, and then I was theirroommate, and now they're
lifelong friends, and so notonly they live across the
country, but we stillcommunicate about business as
well as personal things.
So, as much as the speakerpresentations are so incredibly
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amazing, it's the conversationsthat take place after the
presentations in the lineup atthe buffet for your lunch or
sitting down at dinner or justtaking a break.
People talk about the talks andkind of get more ideas from
them, and also our speakers.
Most of our speakers are therethe whole weekend, so after the
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conference you can go sidle upto your favorite speaker and ask
them questions over lunch.
It's that much of a community.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Just to add on what Catherine was saying.
That's kind of one of thereasons we decided to go with
your full registrationconference ticket.
Most of the meals are includedand we've decided to go that
route again this year because wefelt that there was a lot more
networking happened overbreaking bread.
So yeah, so we can have dinnerand everyone can chat and you
(11:13):
don't have to leave to find aMcDonald's.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Hey, I love that.
It reminds me of like Texasschool, where you're like in
class with the same people allday and then you're going and
having lunch or doing dinnertogether, and then there's
parties in the evening andthere's all this stuff happening
and it's like when you spenddays with the same group of
people, you really get to knowthem, which is really nice.
I've heard that the vibe ofCanadian imaging compared to
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Texas school, which I feel like,speaks a lot because I think
Texas school has such a good,rich reputation of the
experience, so the fact thatpeople would say it kind of has
that same feeling to it and thesame vibe to it is really
awesome.
Catherine, why don't you tellme about the learning part of
this?
How does this work with thespeakers?
(12:00):
Everyone is in all the sameclasses, right?
So you don't have to choosewhere you want to go and make
those hard decisions.
So kind of share with us, likewhat the educational side of
it's like.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay, yeah.
So we used to run a couple ofdifferent programs at the same
time slot and people wouldchoose which genre or which talk
they wanted to hear.
And then we got a lot offeedback that people wanted to
see everything, because even ifyou don't shoot the same genre
as the speaker, everybody hassomething to share and you can
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bring something into your ownbusiness from virtually every
speaker.
So we switched it to having onespeaker at a time.
So when you register for thisconference, you are signed up
for Emory speaker.
There are a couple of optionalprograms if you want to extend
your stay, so I'll start withthose.
On the Friday, before theconference kicks off, we have a
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Victoria photo tour with a localprofessional photographer who's
going to take people aroundVictoria and show you the nooks
and crannies that the averagetourist is not gonna see, to
photograph and get to know thecity.
Then we also have a portraitand wedding workshop, and so
this is more of a hands-onworkshop with a photographer
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named Rabi Maddi and he's aamazing, award winning wedding
photographer portrait weddingphotographer and so he's doing a
workshop.
And then on the Monday, as youalready alluded to, we have our
Marine photo tour, where we'llspend a three hour tour.
If anyone knows Gilligan'sIsland, I might be dating myself
(13:35):
, but yeah, sailing around on acatamaran not sailing, but
motoring around looking forwildlife and coastal scenery.
Then the meat and potatoes ofthe actual conference.
We have 10 speakerpresentations lined up and we've
got speakers from Canada, theUS and the United Kingdom, which
is pretty exciting.
So we have Rachel Owen comingand she's a hot topic right now
(14:00):
in the World Photographic Cup.
She's gonna do a green screenphoto shoot demo.
A second part is going to beediting that.
So that's pretty exciting.
We actually have, I think,three or four speakers who are
all competing on the WorldPhotographic Cup.
So we've got quite a bit oftalent.
Anna Bodry is doing anarchitectural photography talk
(14:22):
called Building Character how tocapture personality of a
building.
We have Claude Brezaux, who wonour use of Karsh award last
year for his lifelong experiencein photography, and he's doing
a seminar on natural lightphotography.
It's amazing.
You see what he does and youcan't believe he pulled this out
(14:44):
of a natural light environment.
Derek Ford is the person who'sdoing the Victoria tour and he
is going to work with us on thebusiness of commercial
photography.
So nuts and bolts behind acommercial photographer business
Cassandra Jones, another WPCWorld Photographic Cup
photographer.
(15:05):
She's going to talk aboutstorytelling and photographs and
the human connection, and she'sgot amazing painterly work.
Gary Hill is our UKphotographer and he's a lighting
expert and he's going to do atalk about putting the fine into
fine art later on that day atthe Photography Expo.
He's going to have backdropsset up and do lighting
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demonstrations all day.
So double hitter for Gary.
Then we have Corinna Kinsler andshe is going to break down the
walls keeping you from themythical five figure clients and
I can't wait to hear your talk,corinna.
I've been looking a little bitat the stuff you do and I hear
various podcasts and whatnot, sowe're so excited to have you.
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Tracy Munson is from EasternCanada and she is doing a talk.
Every Pet is a Masterpiece.
You got to see this woman'sphotography of Don's Cats,
chicken's, goats, you name it.
She can do it and she's goingto talk about how you capture
such amazing images with animalsthat don't always listen like
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we want them to.
Finally, we have Pratteknakeand he is going to be talking
about revolutionizing yourworkflow with artificial
intelligence tools.
The cool thing about his talkis he hasn't given us an outline
because everything is changingso fast in AI that he's going to
hammer out his program at thelast minute so he can give us
(16:32):
the most up-to-date information.
Jam-packed, wide variety, bringlots of snacks and water, and
you're going to be really busyduring those talks.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I love that.
Something else that I think Inoticed from the schedule and I
could be wrong here, but I feellike your speakers have more
time to speak than mostconferences.
Sometimes you go to conferencesand the speakers are speaking
for 30, 40 minutes.
It's super quick and you don'treally get to take a whole lot
(17:05):
out of it because the speakersare so constrained on their time
and I feel like your speakershave more time, is that?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
correct, absolutely.
Every speaker has an hour and ahalf time slot.
They can speak for an hour or75 minutes, and then there's
always time for questions builtin.
There is lots of time forspeakers to get into the topic
and lots of time for theaudience to ask questions and
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really delve into the topic.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I love that because I think that's what
people want to come toconferences and actually walk
away with something they'regoing to learn from each speaker
and really walk away with goodinformation.
I think having that extra timeis really nice, especially then
you can do Q&A and stuff.
I do love that about thestructure.
Also, I should point out we'retalking about Canadian imaging,
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but there are people from allover the place that come to
Canadian imaging.
You do not have to be fromCanada, you do not have to be a
member of professionalphotographers of Canada.
People here in the States go,hop on a plane, go do it.
Where do you help pull peoplefrom?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Everywhere.
We have one fellow who's cometo almost every Canadian imaging
from India.
He flies over here for that, Ithink, because it's such a
strong community-basedconference.
People from Australia, from theUnited States, from Italy yeah,
we've had Nigeria.
People from everywhere.
Nigeria, that's amazing.
(18:34):
We love that because peoplefrom different parts of the
globe can bring differentelements and thoughts and ideas,
which just helps everybody growand get creative.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, this is a fun fact about me.
My first job as a photographer,I worked for a Canadian company
.
Yay, I would spend a week at atime with them at livestock
shows and then I would go homeand I would start saying
Canadian words and speaking witha Canadian accent.
My husband's like what's wrongwith you?
Why are you saying A?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well, y'all, we like the word A.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's my fun fact about Canada and my life.
I've never been to Canadaeither, so I'm very excited.
One day I want to come and goto the Calgary Stampede though
that is like a bucket list thing.
After seeing all the photosfrom and stuff, I think it would
be really fun.
Okay, so what kind of advicewould you share to someone that
is thinking about attending yourconference?
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But they're just like I don'tknow if a conference is right
for me.
I don't know if it's going tobe worth it.
I don't know if I should spendthis money going to a conference
.
What would you say to them?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The money is definitely worth it the
connections that you make, thenetworking, the education.
We have 10 different speakers.
I mean, if you were to try anddo that online, it would cost
you a fortune.
So I do believe that the valuein the price of the conference
is there.
And my advice if you first timedo what I did, I set a goal.
(20:07):
You know I'm going to walk awaywith one friend and I'm going
to learn, you know, something Ican apply to my business and I
felt that by doing that, thatwas the attitude that I took and
, like I said, I mean I walkedaway with like 10 new buddies.
It was a group of girls andit's like we'd known each other
for years by the time we weredone and you know, we've still
(20:30):
remained really good friends.
Like Catherine said, I meanthey turn into lifelong friends
and and yeah, even though someof them have lived across the
country, I mean we get to seeeach other every year at
Canadian Imaging.
Yeah, that would be my advice.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'll focus on the nervousness.
If you're nervous about comingto Canada, which is another
country for you, or you've neverbeen to a conference, or you've
been to bigger conferences andyou just don't like the vibe of
all that activity, thisconference we keep saying it
it's all about community and assoon as you arrive, you will
feel so welcome and you know, ifyou tell somebody, oh, I shoot
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this, then likely they will pairyou up with someone right away
and you'll have someone to sitbeside and then you will be, you
know, meeting more peoplethrough that and because there
is so much going on, you won'thave time to be nervous Once you
get there.
You'll just be so immersed inthe activities and the socials
(21:30):
and the meals and the talkingand the chatting and make sure
you get plenty of sleep.
Ha ha, you're not going to getit.
Yes, sleep, but you're going towant to try to rest and take
lots of notes, because so muchhappens that you might forget.
So, those goals that you make,you want to write them down Pen
and paper, laptop, tablet,doesn't matter.
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You need to record.
But I wouldn't hesitate.
I mean, I didn't In 2013,.
I had just joined PPOC and Iheard about the conference and I
just put my money down and hereI am.
What is it?
Are we, many years later,running the thing?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yes, I want each of us to share a tip for getting
the most out of a conference.
What is some piece of adviceyou would give?
And I'll give my piece ofadvice first, because I think
this is the most important pieceof advice.
When you go to conferences,You're going to learn so much
and you're going to feel likeyour brain is a little bit mushy
and overwhelmed and you'regoing to take so many notes and
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go home, let the things sink ina little bit and then go back
through all of your notes andreally just say, okay, I really
love this idea.
At the conference I really waslike gun hoe on implementing
this in my business and then askyourself does this really align
with me and do I reallyunderstand and have an outfit
(22:50):
formation to implement this inthe right way?
Yet Because I think sometimesthere's this urge to go to
conferences and, like, you heara piece of advice and you just
implement it almost a littleblindly, based on the excitement
and adrenaline of theconference, and then six months
later you're like why the heckam I doing this thing?
I don't even know what this is.
Oh yeah, I kind of got like alittle bit of the story to
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conference.
So I just took it and ran withit and put it in my business,
but I didn't really think itthrough.
So my challenge for anyone atany conference they go to, is to
think through the informationand make sure they fully
understand the concept beforethey implement something that
they only halfway understand,because then you're just doing
the cookie cutter business thingwhere you're plopping someone
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else's business into yourbusiness and it might not work
for you.
So that's my advice.
I feel like that was kind ofnot a that was a lesson learned
of my conference days of copyingand pasting what I heard
speakers saying and then goingwhat the heck am I doing six
months later.
So that's my experience.
But there are so many goodthings.
(23:56):
I just I don't want to say thatthey're not good.
I just want to say fully takethe time to understand and
process them before youimplement them.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I love that, carinda.
That expands on my idea, whichI'll just briefly say because
I've got another one.
But I used to, as I left theconference, highlight the most
important things to me, but Ididn't take it to the next step
that you just described andthat's worth its weight in gold
the advice you just threw outthere, to really understand what
(24:24):
we've learned before weimplement it.
But what I was going to say isbe prepared to remember the
people that you meet.
So when I first started to gointo conferences, people carried
physical business cards.
I guess that's kind of going bythe wayside, but we would all
trade our business cards andthen I would physically write on
(24:44):
them where I was when I metthem or what it was we talked
about, or something that wouldjog my memory about who that
person was.
So then after the conference Icould connect with them and I
wouldn't be like who are you?
Again, I think I met you.
I kind of know what they weretalking about or I could ask
them advice, or it was just abetter connection.
(25:04):
So now we have technology, youcan do that using your phones.
If you share contactinformation, write a few notes
about where you met them whatyou talked about, just so that
you can nurture that networking,that friendship later after you
leave the conference.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, I love that.
I tend to ask people what theirInstagram is and I follow them
on Instagram and then Iscreenshot their profile so that
it's in my phone camera rolland I don't forget who they are.
And then I also will send thema DM on Instagram and be like
hey, I'm so glad we ran intoeach other at the coffee shop or
I'm so glad that we sat next toeach other in this class,
(25:43):
because then if I can't rememberthat message or if they forget,
helping me, it will help jogtheir memory too.
So for you Instagram people, itdoesn't work when people don't
have Instagram.
Kori, let's hear your piece ofadvice.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Okay, I'm gonna talk about again going by yourself.
I'm an introverted extrovert.
Anyway.
I get nervous easily aroundvery large groups of people.
So what I like to do is I willsort of source out a person
that's either standing off bythemselves or they're getting a
(26:18):
coffee at the coffee bar, andthen I will target that person
and head on over and I willeither comment on oh I really
like your scarf, like where didyou get that?
Or love those earrings, or I'llcompliment the person in some
way and then that just easilystarts the conversation.
(26:39):
And I'm not walking up to like agroup of four or five people
and they're already chatting.
I've singled out this oneperson and that's kind of I feel
.
Then it just evolves from there, because then that person
already knows that group of fourpeople.
So they'll take me back totheir group and then I meet four
or five more other people andbefore long I'm not at the
(26:59):
conference alone.
So that would be my advice Findthat person that's off in the
corner by themselves and just goup and say hi, or compliment
what they're wearing or initiatethe conversation in some way.
And that's what I find worksfor me when I'm in a situation
by myself and don't know anybody.
And yeah, I find that oneperson.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That's also a great marketing piece of advice.
That's like the best marketingtool ever.
It's just like complimentingrandom people in public and
starting conversation withstrangers because they can be
your next client.
And that's a tool I use at likewhen I do events and stuff and
like expose with my business.
If I sit there and I will makeit a game like how many people
can I compliment today?
(27:42):
Honestly, people don't getcompliments of a lot in life and
I think that when you do likecome up to somebody and you
compliment them on something,they're like ah.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Hey, you made their day.
I think as adults, we all havesome sort of playground trauma
going on that prevents us fromwalking up to the group, or you
know that are already playingdodgeball or whatever.
So I find, as adults, we'rekind of like ooh, I don't know,
do I want to go over there andsay, hi, what if they won't?
Let me play with that?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
But they will, they will, they will.
I love that.
That's great advice.
This has been really fungetting to chat with y'all.
If somebody wants to register,when is the last day to register
?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Time is running out.
The deadline to register forthe full conference is March 15.
To do so, go to our website atCanadianimagingorg and that will
get you to our website and youcan read more about all the
speakers and click on the buttonto register.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
And then you can use the CodeCorinth 20.
And then you can sign up forthe Marine Life Photo Tour that
I'm going to go on, which isalso kind of scary Like I'm a
little bit scared but at thesame time I'm like it's going to
be so fun being on a boat fullof strangers that aren't going
to be strangers by then, becauseeveryone's going to be so nice
no one's going to be a strangerby then Right, and I'm going to
(29:05):
be like, oh my God, go away.
So I mean, if you want to getstuck on a boat with me for
three hours and you can juststand there and pick my brain
because, yeah, that's all I knowhow to do anyway talk business
so then come join us, and I amso excited to be joining all
this year and to experience it,and I hope that I get to see
(29:26):
many of y'all that are listening.
I know there's a handful of mypeople that are coming.
I feel like there's a few of myCanadian people.
I feel like I have a lot ofCanadian coaching clients right
now too, which is I shipped like10 books to Canada, which is
stupid expensive, by the way.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's probably cheaper than shipping within Canada.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Oh gosh, and I will have some books with me at
Imaging.
If you're listening to this andyou're coming to Canadian
Imaging and you want to grab abook, send me a message before.
That way I know how many booksto bring too, and so that will
help me because I'm going toship some books up there as well
.
Well, I am super excited to bethere and thanks for joining me
(30:07):
and talking about it andhopefully everyone's listening
to this and they're like dang it, I need to go.
Also, just come to like.
I know it's like a month away,but just come, do it, be
spontaneous.
When we were on our honeymoon inJamaica, we learned this
response, which is why not?
Like, somebody asks yousomething and you're like, uh,
and they're like why not Just doit?
(30:27):
And we kind of took that as ajoke home from our honeymoon in
Jamaica.
Like, when the opportunitypresents itself, just be like
why not?
Literally, why not do it?
You really don't have anythingto lose.
I mean, yeah, it just costsmoney, but other than that, you
don't have anything to lose, sojust do it.
So go to Canadianimagingorg.
It's April 5th through 7th andyou have until March 15th to
(30:52):
register.
Thank you, ladies, for joiningus.
Thank you, carinda.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Thanks, carinda.
Thank you so much for listening.
If you enjoyed this episode andyou'd like to support the
podcast, please make sure youshare it on social media or
leave a rating and review.
As always, you can check outthe links and resources in the
show notes over atmasteryourmindmoneycom.
To catch all the latest from me, you can follow me on Instagram
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Tune up with Carinda Kay.
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