I spent the last decade wearing a lot of different professional identities:
Photographer, systems expert, educator, marketing manager, client experience specialist, campaign strategist, director of operations...
I've played every role you can think of playing in a small business, for my own businesses and for others' businessess.
Transparently, I struggled for a long time with not being able to say I just did this one thing.
Fast forward to today, and I can see it all had a purpose.
I'm wired to be a full-scope business expert.
I get to help build the backbones that make a business sustainable:
From team leadership to internal business systems... to paid and organic marketing, media, and automations... to email funnels, sales strategy, and client experience...
I get to show you how it all connects--how each piece impacts the next.
From childhood, I'd always wanted to be a photographer. My photos were great, but I didn't know shit about business. ZIP. So there I was, serving at Red Lobster (before it had a comeback), just dreaming of the days I could work for myself. This was one of the two jobs where I worked for not myself.
I dropped out of bible college because they had a 10pm curfew. I was 20 and a night owl. With all my new free time, I was able to spend my mornings building my photography website, networking in my area, and OMGGGGG... BOOKED MY FIRST WEDDING?! it was game-over for me right then.
The question that I didn't know would change my life FOREVER. All of my acquaintances in business, from vendors to people I met at conferences, would ask me this. (For reference: Most people took 25 weddings annually) I finally got to share my system tips and tricks!! WOOHOO
With the world shut down, I knew that no matter what--I was going to have to build momentum again. I'd been setting up automations for others and considered creating a program to teach people who couldn't cover my 1:1 service fee. And the work began... I released my first course ever! While everyone was working on the backend of their business during shutdown.
Because of my older sister, I was coding my MySpace profile at age 11, so I'd put in the HOURS and had 10 years of experience under my belt for building cohesive spaces. I planned the program, recorded it, planned a media shoot for marketing, and launched it. The people ate that shi- upppppp😋
Remember that program I launched the year before? Yeah--well it was about how to use this certain Client Management System. The CEO of that company found me on IG and wanted to bring me on for marketing, even though it'd make me the only remote employee in the entire company. HOW COULD I SAY NO?! So I hopped on a flight and started my first week in person.
Before leaving the company, I'd wiggled my way into all the other departments to fill holes that were causing clients to drop off after experiencing the marketing I'd worked on. Not on my watch. My methods were born through this experience, and I'll preach forever: IT'S ALL CONNECTED
With multiple ops clients and a huge data pool to work with, I put my methods through the fire. The last thing I'm gonna do in this life is create and release shitty work, so I refined it, poked holes on purpose to see how to patch them back up, and expanded my business into what you see today.
In an online space full of how to start a business, I want to host the women who have already built a successful first version of business, who aren't focused on that first booking, but are asking the question, "What do I need to do to make this last?" And I'm beyond honored to be trusted by so many of those women!!
i have an idea
This is where I share all the behind the scenes stuff that I'm currently geeking out over. There's no set topic for this list other than "Morgan's brain today." This ranges from sharing business things I've recently realized, ideas I love but don't plan to execute myself (take them and run!), case studies, and BTS of my business in all areas.