Photographer & Business Strategist
Episode 007: Life, Love and Likes
Description:
Jasmine Star has a blockbuster story, a huge successful business, and wants to share all of it with you. Today, she talks with Carrie about how she built her huge platform to help elevate others discover and use their voice. Jasmine is an award winning social media strategist, and a self taught photographer who has been named one of the Top 10 Wedding Photographers in the World. Her remarkable wisdom and connection to her purpose is inspirational, and her practical tips in branding, marketing, and social media are grounded in real life results.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
● How Jasmine’s family and upbringing sparked her love for self learning and curiosity towards the world around her.
● The emotional and difficult time Jasmine went through while in Law School while dealing with her mother’s brain cancer.
● Why we know in our deep down heart what our dreams really are, and why it’s okay to follow them even if we feel far away from them.
● The hilarious truth that Jasmine wasn’t Annie Leibovitz from the start, and she self taught her way into excellence.
● Jasmine’s advice for building a foundation even while doubters and highly critical people try to tear down your dreams and minimize your successes.
● How both Jasmine and Carrie let their most painful moments serve as a vehicle to move forward in life with openness and bravery.
● How Jasmine transitioned from the wedding space into the social media market.
● Jasmine’s expert advice on how often we should post, and on what specific platforms.
● The real information on using geographic based and visual specific hashtags.
● The top mistakes that even professionals in social media make, leading their content to
be irreverent and vanilla!
● Helpful advice on how to get great social media pictures and posts, but also be present
in the moment.
Quotes:
● “My passion to help other people literally ricochet off the walls.”
● “Law school came as a result of being a child of an immigrant.”
● “What is the thing that matters most? Love.”
● “We have the option to choose the safe, wide and luscious path, or the scary, steep
path. I chose the thin and narrow path because I believe it led to where I wanted to be.”
● “Show up in service of others. Figure out how your purpose align with their needs.”
● “Life is so short that your opinions don’t pay my bills, but my passions do.”
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Journey Into the Inner Circle:
Carrie Doll @CarrieADoll - Twitter @carriedollconsulting - Instagram Carrie Doll - Facebook