Ashley + Graham Scobey held hands for the first time when they were twelve. He had a blonde bowl cut and she was wearing argyle knee-highs. Eighteen years later, they still like holding hands, but they’ve left the bad hair and tall socks behind. They are the husband and wife team behind Scobey Photography. They’ve been recognized as Rising Stars of Wedding Photography by Rangefinder magazine, and their work has received awards such as Junebug’s Best of the Best, PDN Top Knots, and Showit’s Image of the Year. More importantly, though, they are in constant search of ridiculous places to have dance parties and tickle fights with their two kids. Because, for them, life is all about how much fun you can have with the time you’re given and the people you love.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
… I think going out on your own you are risking a lot at the beginning but that also means that you are learning a lot which in turn means you are failing a lot. So I think one of the biggest hurdles that we had was when we were starting out was figuring out how to divide out our work between the two of us. We struggled in that a bit, it took us a while to figure out like efficient systems so that we weren’t both having to work on the same thing and having to wait on each other…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret Book by Richie Norton, Natalie Norton, Stephen M. R. Covey The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Book by Steven Pressfield Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Book by Brené BrownFavourite Quote:
“We’re all just walking each other home” -Ram Dass (Rumi)
Recommended Online Resources:
Trello (keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details. Good for projects and share rolls and tagging things.)
Showit (The easy drag and drop website design app to activate your creativity, create unique, engaging experiences for your mobile and desktop visitors)
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
…stop running after the idea of balance. I think balance is such a catch phrase now a days and we have been small business owners nearly a decade and we are also parents and spouses and friends and children to our parents and members of the community and all of these things and the idea that at any given time I would give the exact same slice of the pie to all of those things and plates would be spinning in such a way that the scales would balance is to me very detrimental to people because when you are passionate about something, when you believe in it, it is going to upset the balance in your life. And there are days when I am 100% into one thing 0% into another and that does not mean that I am bad at the thing that is getting put on the back burner it just means that it is not the day…[Listen for More]
More About Ashley Scobey + Graham Scobey:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.” Bill James
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ashley Scobey + Graham Scobey:
“Culture is your company values in action”
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