You're listening to the gold, Digger podcast episode, one hundred and thirty. Today, Get to introduce you to an incredible woman, bath Kirby of local Dilke flog now bath is a photographer, a cook, a teacher, a mother and the lady Botz behind the key at local milk, which is in a winning a food travel and lifestyle blog, she is currently working on her first cookbook end. She's, not in the kitchen she spends or time teaching other creative entrepreneurs how to tell beautiful of visual stories how to harness the power of social media. You guys this girl has almost eight hundred. Thousand Instagram followers and turn their passions into a living through e courses, workshops and retreats all over the world from Japan to Paris. Her passion is helping. People eat well, live well and work well, and do it all with mindful

is ambitious and joy. I have always dreamed of having Beth on gold digger. Ever since I came across her work. She is an absolute game changer in the social media world and her images. Her content and messages are truly so rare and she crying so beautiful, meaningful content and images daily. Its Julia raising, which is why I could not resist inviting her on so that it could pick her brilliant brain of all things, photography, styling and curing and here's the thing. When you look at her feet, you would never gas the story that you in tell a story of mental illness and feeling listing flunking out of oh and running away and theirs So much honesty invest story and I think that it gives her work. So much more emotion and I'm just so excited to introduce her to you before we die

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Thank you so much for having me, I'm so excited you guys what I was introduced to Beth's stuff. I literally said swear words because it is so stinkin beautiful and I was kind of angry at the world that I haven't heard of her sooner so you know catch twenty, two but basket you cannot walk is through your whole journey of where you started how you landed to where you are today and what that process looked like sure so for anyone you haven't met me. My name is best, I'm a photographer, and a cook Anna Stylus, and I'm writing my first cookbook this year and I am said, the lady behind the curtain at large out local milk, which is my food travel and lifestyle brand that started ass, a blog and currently I'm a hat lady, like literally amateur. You remember our lotta hats, I

obsessive minimalism and then I go and buy like six berries, indifferent collars, and I really is analogous to my professional life. I do a lot of different things. We also hope these retreats all over the world, where I teach both visual storytelling and creative business to other entrepreneurs who want to start something of their own, which is so funny because we're this year we're trying to transition to on line and I've been travelling around the world teaching for so long in person and never really thought, even though I am a blogger to put any of that information I am, but I definitely check these sea neck were out to where I am now. My path was now The linear direct graduated,

my school go to college. You know a purely did. You study photography in college? No, I didn't. I did you gotta colony school. No, I did not. I did go to college often on and I studied philosophy which has absolutely no direct. Bearing on what I do now by yeah. I didn't go to college and then you know, get a great internship and then get a job in good experience and then start this. That would have made me very much easier. Asked that mine was all for one I was born. Start and will begin at the beginning. I was a relatively happy quiet child and then something happened. When I turn thirteen, I think it was like, with the onset of peace, Really I don't know like I started to get more depress, maybe more creative too bad. I got a little darker and that could have been like

the social shaft of high school, and I guess, junior high being different and on actually know everything seventh hinted at, but I know around the beginning: a junior high. I got a little off but I was still ok, but then I would say by the time I had seventeen. I was probably already in what I would consider form learn bipolar, but I didn't know it, and I wouldn't know that for many many years so I was living with a mental illness without knowing it, which is a train wreck. So it said nineteen. I ran away from home like random, one day. I just did not come home and I drove to New Orleans where I had never been before and I'm seventeen. I got my textbook still in my trunk. I don't know what I'm doing. I have with a gas card and a few dollars to my name and I just like role lock on Bergmann Street jump out of my car

unlike again here floating around in that we're home very few weeks. Looked for jobs, Dixon therefore job and then I felt really bad for my mom there's only person. I would talk to you as my best friend, and he told me how so my mom was and in my crazy disconnected manic brain. I even thought about her. I wasn't like screw you MA am, I was lying, just didn't occurred to me. I was a woman, sad I'll, come on now, so I came back. You know I had a really loving supportive family Mina. We had our issues in high school, but I don't think anything. That's out of the Mary, so I came home and I immediately moved out and I my high school, which was a private all girls school, which should have completely kicked me out for some reason. I didn't kill him here, so. Of course I dropped out was almost like. Oh this wonderful opportunities and given to meet and not be kicked out of high school. How about I just bail, so I do,

of high school and I got mine g t good enough degree is the joke, but I actually ended up going to college early so that year I dropped out. I was like oh well, I guess I should just go to college now. So what would have been the second semester? My senior year went to college. They allow the council sitting should look. I didn't show up at all and I saw how this New Orleans thing from having run away to new I had this new Orleans thing from having run away to New Orleans, and I can I had the sands at sea. In my mind, so I got a medical withdrawals. Odin look like I fail now, but it yeah, I guess in retrospect it really was medical cause. I was suffering from this illness. I didn't know I have but anyway I got into a school in New Orleans Loyola and I transferred there and I moved there and I was just like a normal college freshman, just as if I graduated, but of course I hate for a creative person,

by a new Orleans at the age of eighteen is not where gonna get your head on straight. So I went down and failed out of Once again, I was put an academic suspension, which meant I couldn't attend school for the year. I think two semesters but then- we'll. Let me come back, so I was a cocktail waitress at a jazz club called the funky boy, I was a barrister and I played a lot of game cube, and went back and I was just sort of this Andrew. You know last and I was just sort of this sooner last year, but when I got the opportunity to go back, I was super motivated, and I made a four point. No, and I was telling it- and this was that bipolar cycle that I didn't know was a thing, so my house would be immaculate shouting.

Eighteen hours semester, which for me was alive. I make a four point. I was never conferences with my professors, but then I'd start to go faster and faster, and my leg, late night study sessions wooden morph until late night party sashes wish them the old early morning. Studies Sasha his and that you know it was in San and a horse I quit again and then Hurricane Katrina happen and that kind of, like wash me out of new orleans- and I spent some time in Europe by I will come back to my home town- I met the wrong guy during a hurricane evacuation and he turned me onto really hot drugs. So here I am bipolar undiagnosed and my by my early twenty years. I you know I was really really really in a lot of danger.

And I remember I showed up in a doctor's office- I crying and liked something's wrong with me. What's wrong with me. This can't be normal made just a terrible person and they have taken. Tat in their like, dear god you're. So my dollar hurt and I was like it was a relief, but it was such a relief that I think a lot of people is the role of mental illness. Well, this will resonate with them. You feel, like a cop out, it's hard to believe eve that it's not your fault and you feel like you're just making excuses for yourself by the great thing, as once I got a treatment plan which- for me as a very minimal medication and a lot of healthy lifestyle, good sleep, good eating. I just started exercising again that really helps bites. You know having that good treatment programme, all the things I thought were character. Defects, like I thought,

I was an easy, you know. Well is a drug addicts and obviously you know that happened, but I think it happen because of the mental illness, and it was just also medicating so fast forward. This is a good decade of my life from seventeen years old. Twenty eight, so it twenty eight I got married somewhere in the world were to utter a really nice guy, but he was his messed up, as I was at the time. I know Without I didn't why get married, he proposed to me in front of a jewel box at our favorite bar to Molly hatchets flirting with disaster. I can unite So that ended the way you an egg in divorce. My divorce really, even though we both

It's really upsetting, so lake ran off to California with a pair of motorcycle boots and cut off Levi's, and that was as Finland have you under dollars and Catholic wanted up in my purse, and I basically attempted to drink myself today. That year. I think I just was really really everything that the bipolar had made. Look fine, look I gotta reckon mole, shows and party like it wasn't. Nothing was fine. I was crazy, nothing was working, and I finally ended up in a treatment facility when I was twenty eight for the second time actually gets. The first time was a really fancy, one that have horses. This one did not have any more, but it worked it works and it got me to a place where I got over my own be ass. I was

such was being call in my twenty and switches so stupid. I didn't know it. I didn't think I consciously, but looking back it was all about records and how I dressed- and I was settled not that I was you know. I don't go, look at anyone else and say that I would say actually you're hurting struggling person, but you know when I look at me it's hard to send that same as I just smack myself is also snobby and so the solution or an in treatment Alec. Let all of that go the need to be right, but also a lot of the really defeating beliefs I had about the universe, I let go. I was able to allow myself to believe things that work so for me to believe that everything happens for a reason is a belief that really works, because it helps me manifest things in my life. It helps you look for the rest

then create the reason, maybe there's bigger reason that I have anything to do with. But for me doesn't matter whether it's gone there are simply my attitude shaping reality. I know when I believe in that purpose and that path that it kind of unfolds before me, but look if I get stuck in traffic, If I don't believe that, unlike all you know so stressed out- and I gotta get there and its ultimate goal, if I wasn't stuck at this traffic light, you know what will happen in my life, so and says struggles, hardship, pain like that whole decade of my life. I mean, me and even perceived, inconveniences struggles, hardship, pain like that whole decade of my life I mean, like nobody, changer, absolutely not because I'm in a unique position to actually speak to people who have been through that I can help people and also it made me who I am for butter of Workers- and I like me now so I wouldn't change it and I wouldn't have met

now husband or have my daughter or have this amazing career- that I love. If I hadn't taken this path, it's crazy, but it's true so- basically a year and that new life, where wasn't it using drugs and hay was like sleeping at time and waking up in the daytime in king showers more anyway then I was you know it's just. I don't learn to live again. I had never been in normal functioning, adopt that had never happen, so I did a lotta yoga, but then I thought what am I gonna do so I what everyone, I think, does need it as a good guess. I'll go back to school, so I went back to school to sunny philosophy in our cities and creative writing classes is always really enjoyed that and I was sitting on my therapist couch in you known having conversations that one has with one's therapists where she was.

What are you gonna do with your life and I was like law because I have always been a huge internet percent. Like add my first website, when I was thirteen years old, It was a star wars fan pay, you should I taught myself html on. I wrote it with you all. I had a fashion blog, don't look for it, I'm gonna find it so I've always been mean. I love video games and just I'm computer nerd by nature, but I'd, and I also love cooking and food. So of course I was following lot of food blogs at the time. This is twenty twelve. When she asked me- and I remember seeing this one blogger and particular her name- is around I'm the guy yoga thinking pronouncing her last name right, I saw her no traveling the world and she was teaching people food Photography in Spain and France, and I was leg and she was, I think, releasing a book. I don't know who at the time, but I know eventually she did

I was looking at the wheels are turning in my brain. I might do this is her job and you know that's part of what allowed me to do this with someone else was out there doing it. I could observer and let me know was possible. That's all I needed a knows that it was possible and I hope that I can do the same thing now for other people, s thoughts, people who think maybe they have lake no Hofer insurmountable problems so to say in a lot of people start with. Motivation or finding time. Unlike wall, you know, you're not like shooting up in your bedroom on a Tuesday, but even that you know like it is crazy. How far you can come in what you can do when your beliefs change. So I realized it was passed, and I told her- I want to do that and she has more aren't you do that as it ok. Do that I literally jumped out of school that day again my leg, the bond brazilian timed. It was therapists,

I followed that was cool met, their pursues a gag drop out of school and yes, twenty eight were, and I was- philosophy. Should I do want to teach philosophy, I think now I think you ll be a lawyer. Maybe a really gets taken you where you want to go so oh certainly, my boy, I remember said I'm trying to think about it. A name and I almost called a bake in black like an easy to use all my group and the branded a different rights. But I had this epiphany because has anyone who meets me can attest to, and so I was gonna do my original blog internet, my spoken voice, but I found that it alienated certain people. It's like a lot about old life was still in their. If I make sense- and I didn't want you- because I remember my mom tying- the psych sweetly white hair, little old lady, like only Daughter- has its food blow, you should read it knows

am. I didn't want you because I remember my mom tying the psych sweetly white hair, little old lady, like only daughter, has its food blow. You should read it and I was thinking I really do until grandmother reason and I wanna grandmama- be able to read it. I wanted my mom to be comfortable reading at my mother, and I know I may say something that the candidate to buy I wanted to be able to share my passion for food and living and creativity without sort of relegating at two people who could only relate to that voice and I also wanted to get myself a creative outline of always written, and I knew that this blog wouldn't be about writing, but that I wanted to try to keep working on muscle. So what

atrophy leg out for me, like writing and blogging on exactly the same thing like I was gonna, go right, you know a lyric essay or a poem, that's a much longer process on a blog posts, but I'm just gonna trying to bring Madden, because I didn't want to use it and that's kind of how the brain was born and I was thinking of trying to think of a name and you're gonna need a name and obviously I was really into the local farmers. Guess. I found a lot of joy and purpose and cooking seasonably and locally. An cooking for me in general was an obvious choice for the sort of nets to start an because, It was the one thing I kept doing to the bitter end. Even when I was out there in California and leg, You know I was sort of just on the road to dine at that point, one for my brother even said to my parents, and I wish you go ahead and died just so. We don't have to go through the pain of watching her. Do it

slowly I mean inhuman that and a good were heading. It was like this is so extremely painful in their conclusions forgone. Even at that point you know I wasn't writing anymore. I wasn't painting, I didn't go out, I didn't dress. I have all the things that had kind of in my identity. For so long were gone. You know I was a shelf. The one thing I still dead was cut when I was out there in California again just so depressed after my divorce is like that darkest year. I would go to the local whole foods, and I would just make a lists don't even buy them. I would make a list of all the beautiful consent from Tennessee, so I wasn't it. Eager the grocery store, zero, Mulatter cool stuff, your bloom trends and all the staff. So I would make these lists of all the cool stuff, and then I will go home and his dream up recipes and ideas and things I would make with them. I was kind of how I pass my time

So it seems like you know it. That's the one thing you can still do and you can't even get up, then that's a pretty good choice of where to put your energies that that's gonna be easy. But I did so. It seemed like you know it. That's the one thing you can still do and you can't even get up, then that's a pretty good choice of where to put your energies that that's gonna be easy you know, you're gonna enjoy at so I started the blog call that local knock partially, because I just like the way it sounded like it. Had a nice looked to it an hour, said- started getting local milk from my farmers market and because it seemed like a good metaphor. Like local being at present, be where you are an analogous her, the first form of sustenance alot thus, ever now men is just a great metaphor for being present and finding sustenance where you are when near their sound like time, local mark, ok.

A start blogging I could write. You know, I'm not. A terrible writer was only war either you're in a releasing greater some people on the internet would strongly disagree with the heap of events and pretty angry emails about my writing. You know you'll love. It are you hated by the way, as I could write and I could cut these skills I already possessed, but I couldn't take a picture to save my life. I'd never touched a camera. Actually, my ex husband was a photographer and I think when you're, like your person, does nothing you just like that. Everything can be my thing. United, never crossed my mind, also hated taking pictures. I thought it took me out of the moments. I wasn't someone you took pictures of vacations or anything like that, I had no motive, but I quickly you, my powers of observation realise that all the successful blogs in my neck hundred photos. It was again no brainer you now so I was like Whelp I guess I should learn how to do this and my dad.

Gave me as a hand me down. It was his first generation cannon rebel with chitlins on it and I was like wow upgrade and I just certainly learning to use it, and I'm really technical and really obsessive by nature. So photography was actually really good fit for me and I couldn't in a way to me as a lot like cooking because you never start learning about it is. Are you reach the end? You so in its also technical could actually what I like about cooking, like the technical aspect like the science of it, so it ended up. A strong suit that I never knew. I would have so taught myself photography slowly up anything and I didn't have any money so be any holidays overcome around. Like dear everyone, don't get me anything, but just can I get this Carolyn, there's something until eggs. Slowly slowly add and I bought a little some camera on Craigslist, because I thought

you know. I don't want to rely on a machine that contained a fix. My mistakes are cover up that I don't know what I'm doing so. I'm just gonna go to this purely mechanical thing and one site and learn to take good pictures on nurse. Then I consider upgrading my digital camera. Sorry really taught myself with so much, I think, was really beneficial. I was able to learn some basic principles of it. Her feet, so taught myself photography and then slowly. My work got better. And then more people came and then all this and I got jobs, and then I had to learn a new skill which was business because I woke up one morning with a brand and a business, a throne, at me. I get know what to do with that. I haven't really plan for my success and legal armed everything about it beforehand.

I really actually is Heidi swans and I was talking to her the other day and she used the phrase embracing the public learning curve, which I really likes. I just embraced the public learning her. I learned as I went. I you is the internet as my resource to learn ivy on twitter, talking to other bloggers, what the camera lenses and their frosty the bees. You know it was a great was on Twitter. I think at the time was really were, allow the conversations are happening and it was great. It was a community. I was part of something I had purpose and I really looked at it. I, since I never really did that college neighing. I thought you know, I'm a treat this bottom thing like college and they give myself for years and at the end of four years I feel like in, I should be able to earn and have a living in a job, and it worked, and I was I was making a decent living within but really it was until years, three and four and five and six thousand three.

When I started making a living and then it just went up from there, but it took time I think I got paid twenty dollars for my first photograph. Another. Like yeah So let me like fifty bucks to big like two hundred hand eyes like amazing, and I think I see of my readers. Followers get really discouraged and I think why wasn't I discouraged I wrote this because my life was so bad breathing was so upheld for me, one like gonna photo. You know fifty dollars for two hundred eyes. I mean this was For me, I felt like I was just conquering the world with every little when and I really helped me not get discouraged, but it I was talking to my husband about what's wrong with me, he's a he don't

look down. I never looked down. I never thought. Oh there are so many people out there. Oh I'm so bad! I don't know what I'm doing or oh, how could someone like me? You know with a history of mental illness and addiction and still have to contend without my whole life. How you know I just don't think about it. So you can't get scared. I really do think it's working a tightrope use don't let down. But yes, that is the very long circuitous, you are aware I am and new ones I built All of that and I felt like I really came into my own as a person. I found my purpose you now and when I found that I dont think that it happens this way for everyone. But for me, TAT was when I was the person they needed to be to find. My Then, if we met sooner, he would not have had any they didn't even know you might have tried to save me. You might have tried added budgets

yeah and we met, and then you know we have set shared passions. It was like the whole world soldiers opened up, and now we have This family. We just leave this lifestyle together because we're both so somewhere in the way that we like to live, which is kind of crazily, actually were to entrepreneurs who loved to be nomadic. You can imagine that keep up with you kids were whatever, let's do it, but that is the long story. I got here long to be. We all have this love hate relationship with Instagram. We find ourselves scrolling work. I'm taking our way into oblivion, trying to crack the code on how to it more followers and we're straight up exhausted from the rat race, I get it. That is why I want to help you. This show is made possible, with the help of my totally free into resources, to help you write captions at convert to use hashtags that actually connectivity, your dream.

Ants, and so much more hop on over too J K, instead dot com and get your hands on my resources created with you in mind, that's right to free ninety nine and it is waiting for you over J K. Instead, dotcom go dig on in an all see over on the Graham. I love it and I think that what so interesting is that people probably would never guess said if they just looked. I your beauty or feed and white drew me in wiser images, but once I really started looking deeper reading your words and you guys you have to check out us about me page. It is literally the best written about me page. I've ever had in my life, so

why has been ever Lucian from when you started to where you're out right now, what has that process look like as it always been so beautiful or how have you kind of transition throughout the years? So, like I said, I hadn't even touched a camera when I started so wise and always beautiful No, no, it was not an alarming no. I embrace the public learning curve and ages They can. I don't know if it always be there, but right now it is because it was therefore the recipe is, as I will recipes so good Now there is a massive shift in the photographs and then there's another ship and continues to happen to me, and you know I recently, I think handsome at ending a perfect heating is having been in your style changes. Do you change and I think the one thing I I knew, maybe consciously or maybe just intuitively in the beginning was

pending a perfect keeping his having been in your style changes. Do you change and I think the one I passions ends in that's really been the case. Fortunately, when I picked food and cooking a sort of the centre and heart of my brand, that's ends in that's really been the case fortune. And when I picked food and cooking a sort of the centre and hard and of my brand. That's abided it's something. I'm so passionate about, and I enjoy so much whenever people trying to figure out what to do with their life and Michael. What do you do when you should be doing other things? This means I mean I was cooking. It was my favorite waiter. Procrastinator just see now do something I enjoy

so. For me, the cooking has stayed at the heart of the blog, but I think I'm a very, very much like a web thinker. I see everything is being very connected in life and I think not make any. So sorry, I think, a lot of women are where the thinkers- and I know my husband is a very like compartment- think earthquake is like the lunch trays and the food. They do not tackled by. Because of that I started to see you know when I think of the food chain. I'm all a really natural light growth of the brand from food, because I think food and travel are so intimately connected and I think food is amazing, because it is a way you can travel me haven't really authentic experience without leaving your house

If you have the right ingredients and the right methods you now, you can really sit in Amicia Soup, there were taste the same as the Musa Soup RE sipping in Kyoto, and I think that's just one of the cruellest things about food, so it grew into travel, never sort of the first evolution. I always knew I wanted there may guess. I saw the other woman doing and I thought she travelling in food for her lake job. I want to do treats always wear, which is interesting because I never brought it online, but I've been teaching photography for years now and then solely again. The next thing I had learned was business. I actually found and it makes sense. My mom is actually an amazing Do you worked for IBM and then she was brought in to help company or failing later in life. You just gotta, go

and then solely again. The next thing I d learn was business. I actually found, and it makes sense. My mom is actually an amazingly talented business woman. She worked for IBM and then she was brought in to help companies that were failing later in life. You just gotta, go any like forbidden shape and then from I guess the past ten twenty years. She's run my doubts company with him so Oh, I come from really business family actually in the car business, which is very different, brother went into the car business, I'm the only one who is not going into the curve business, but so that language was always there and once I started to think about business, I got super super passionate about business and marketing. Specifically, I think it's a visual verbal person in a very relational person that was a natural place for me like bookkeeping, not my jam,

really bad. There are not many people, scam, no, and I am just lay their gold, the people who it is their jam. They are pure gold and we all need them very, very much but yeah, so I've just sort of grown and let the blood and the brain. In itself just sort of follow where I'm going. You know when my daughter was born. I was sort of open like wall Do I want blog about motherhood? Am I going to become a mom blogger, and I knew I could if I wanted you and I do talk about mother, a lot, but I don't think I found it wasn't that passion about. Mom bloody, you know, I didn't really have a lot to say about it. I don't know I just mom mom. The way that I feel I should but you now. I think that it's cool when you leave it open and I know that you can change. If you want to change- and I think that's what's helped me be so

focused is at any moment I have permission from myself to switch. And that alone makes me not panic, because it's like every dream I have even the ones that are like crazy, like I love scuba, diving and I've always wanted to photograph sharks. This is not only the shark photography time of my life, but sharp photography. Just sits on the shelf, and I know any day. I why I can take it off the shelf and start working on it, but that I need to put another box back up, because I know I have so much bandwidth and so much energy and time

so don't mean and never gonna, let my dreams issues. I do. Cannot one dream at a time I've loved? I think that's so powerful too, because they think so many times. People are multi passionate. I mean where human beings, it would be impossible to not be amazing. People can get frustrated with that, but I feel like the people that make progress in that you put your head down a new work on one passion and you get really good at it and you get it so it doesn't feel like as much work and then you can continue to move on, but you have to give yourself that time and space- and I think you know, balances something that world chasing, but it doesn't exist because you're always putting your energy towards something and that lack of energy going towards something else. So one thing that I I love about you and what I'm excited to pick your brain on is a process of curious fashion and what I felt lately in interviews and hearing from people is this for US

duration with Instagram and curated lives, and you know this push towards authentic, but I think that as visual storytellers correction is so important and were all doing it, whether we recognise it or not whether we're picking the prettiest photo or this, and he used for all of us or whatever that looks like, and so can you kind of explain your process of creation and in how you ve almost systematically in your business, because your feet is absolutely beautiful and I think that sometimes so it takes to draw people into share more of the passion yeah. I definitely look at Instagram Canada beaten switch. First, I gotta make you look in Our aim is for looking that's why we're on Instagram, it's a visual photo platform for scrolling and looking at pictures and tapping. If you like the picture- and you know you have a certain percentage of people who are going to stop and Reed Orson Nina period, Orison percentage fuel that if they like what they see me,

it'll, stop and read by. I now that the number one way on Instagram I'm gonna get someone's attention is beautiful photos. So, for me,. Consistency is key and its consistency and everything so anyway, aesthetic And that will be a sort of the style. I have the types of things I shoot: the types of interiors, the types of fashion, the types of food props. You know what I'd shoes tissues. I, like my style to be consistent. I let my editing style to be consistent, although if I want to change it, I just like to just solely phase into the next thing and then be consistent again, the kind of all of my experimenting behind closed doors. Basically until I have settled on something, if I do want to change so editing, consistent style, consistent, color, consistent is huge, and here a lot of we'll talk about choosing color story or you know a theme for your instagram. Mine is very intentional minors, gray and pink with blue

who angry and accents and then black and white, or should I just a baseline as their black and white by agrarian pinker kind of my big colors, and I always at the other end there's color and then those temperature so you'll find that feeds that are out by an successful visual fields not celebrity fees you, but this person has a million followers near photos are like that's because their pop star that does not apply to buy it. I think the you'll notice there either warm or cool my feet as a cool feed and cool and temperature. So it's on more on the blues I'd essentially, and then you know you have warmer fields which are gonna be more on the yellow side, although I think if you told anyone with a warmer coffee that their photos

blue reality by their cool there, not balloon there below, and you ve been in wrong. Sometimes, yes, I think color temperature, color theme style site, prop style, lifestyle and then editing style that consistency there is the thing that will make a pop. So when I you know basically using a photo weather is choosing to take the photo in the first place or choosing actually from my photos but but on their I'm. Looking for color, I'm looking for light and I'm looking for emotion and that's that they want them by emotion. I am. I dont mean like necessarily happier sad at the back to its. It makes me feel something, but I must look. Wow I want some of you, wow. I want to make that Oh wow I wanna go, there are now well. I want aware that what

However, it is I why it should be like the best of the best I wanted to be arresting, lay something, but most of all, arresting led beautiful. None of my detail, shots in my beer or none email, storytelling photos. I guess I would say, are gonna make it as that lead food on instrument. I might do the swipe thing and puts in detail shot after that cover photo that cover photo is always gonna, be a really wow wooing consistent, establishing shot at a wife and family life doesn't dig on details. I didn't get that there's no contacts and it takes too long to figure out. What's happening is Instagram very fast platform yeah, so my question, then, is: does the way that you curate with all the things that you mean,

gender does that make you ever feel stock, or do you feel empowered in your system? I kind of like what I like so for me it's really nice, because I maybe it's because I'm older, I mean I'm method. But he is now when I was younger like early twentieth. I just issue like fashion was a big thing for me. And there are so many. I had a different sale every day three times a day. You know I was in the creative process of trying on lots of different things, but now that I'm bulgarian boring, like I like what I like, and I know of it's me with a split second of looking at it. You know so I enjoy that because it takes away a lot of noise in my life, my life is alot simpler because I have an aesthetic. I can appreciate other aesthetics, it's just like that. Just a gun on you, but I just

Why did I mean he hit a lot of things? I love other people's aesthetics and I love Ellison variety actually aesthetics. I, like the least, are the ones that remind me the most of myself. It's not because everything, You know what you somewhere the copy me: it's not that it's just not as in Spain, Erin most of the people. I follow. Do things really differently from me, like I love minimalist visa like willing craft colorful warmer ones? the eye, just like the variety, but I just know for me. I only feel comfortable influenza nearby, warn them to be careful what you wish for. I think some of us got into that and then like slowly wanted them back away. Like o k, he became a back out of this room because he do start to feel intense pressure to make everything beautiful think that people who are aspiring in the sort of lifestyle categories which, if they want to be like a lifestyle info,

sir. I want them to be careful what you wish for, I think, some of Scott into that and then like slowly wanted them back away. Like o k is gonna back out of this room because he do start to feel intense pressure to make everything beautiful and you now to have every moment. Look a certain way and I went through, I think, a phase of feeling weighing feeling really frustrated by it and then I sort of grew out of it by separating like shoot time from living time yeah, so I cannot know if I'm gonna shoot or not, and I'm gonna shoot is kind of photos you and if I now baby- run around in your diaper, I mean I don't there's, a reason whose whom I fear to my face stories very much, because

My hair and phase out my warmest priority in the whole world are now so, but it is gonna be on camera that I'm gonna take the time to blow dry, the banks but now. I dont have to feel like every moment has to be a pretty adjustment, I'm shooting I like it to be started all in the way I get over the feeling of lake. Oh, but life is messier. Am I I'm not? Sharing people get confused about them? but I'm not sharing my life on social media I am sharing my work. My work as part of my life, especially with a lifestyle brand, but the truth is, is actually a big difference between path and look knock there very intimately intertwined by at the

the day in my mind, at least for me: that's all that really matters. What goes where is really clear like what is personal Ursus? What is private and personal? I'm happy to share personal as anything. I think that you feel happy to share so is gonna very wildly between, before I always tell when in teaching retreats for me, you know I can talk about my history dragon sure am bipolar, not actually feel that that's a struggle because I overcame it and Ngos. I M inspired by and I want to let other people know that it's ok fire people, ask you what happened to my tat all the time, and I am waiting for just don't ask, because we had to give them to my friends sister, because we travel too much and that breaks my heart that it makes me so sad that I came and talk about it. So I ignore the question social media, one ambrosia, might thus private and deliver you put your home

I fear nothing. Certain might know completely arbitrary and it is up to me what's personal on what's private, although age a shared and ass, if anyone was wondering if my cat no they're, very loving home down the street. I could see them all the time by yeah we, it wasn't the right decision and we had to make the hard choice and give them a place where the people would be around. But yeah. That's me is the difference between those two things. I love it. I know for me, like cure aiding, gives me like releases stress, because it gives me a system and for things that I could get to emotional about having assessed

helps remove that emotion where it is at the end of a marketing, and I think that there are so many different ways you can approach, and I think that there are so many different ways that people can you know, enjoy a. But whenever people talk about that Forestry Shin something tells me that its deeper than just selecting images for feed that I've just always separated my work and my emotion, because if I get emotional about my work in a sense, I am not thinking like a business, and so I think everyone's different and that's the beauty. So one of the things that I would love for you to pass on your knowledge,

before we wrap up, is what our three simple tips for our listeners to learn: how to style butter. Your styling skills are literally out of this world, and so do you have any little tips on how to style a beautiful image? Better, yes idea! So a lot of people don't actually think about the props and how that such a huge part of styling. I think that for me. The thing that made the biggest demands in the beginning was curing. There's that word again that collecting assembling church. A small but excellent. Proper collection and at least one amazing background, so that could be like a table top, just a wooden word or a marble slab, I have also to staff have been metal she plaster dry wall. That's really affordable thing. You can do in plaster apps and dry long. Is that, as a background

You can buy poster born when I was super super scraping I will just by a poster board from the Walgreens and it's like is not ideal. But it is a plain white background and it gets the job done more so than like. You know. I had like the weird granite like model Brown, black, greater or less, so it was better than that. But perhaps I think the problem, Are there the tools that you're gonna work with so whatever your style? Is you want a few objects to use if you're gonna style an image, and then I would say the big thing that makes styling composition. That's was sailing essence, composing objects, undifferentiated objects. Begun and then you need to compose them. So when I'm styling, I think about how the human eye is going to read a photograph, so they're gonna reader laughter right top to bottom, at least in the west. Yes,

I just want to lead their. I, in a way that flows through the frame so When I am putting straight lines and a photo like forks, or chopsticks or the edge of a rectangular plate, which I would never use rectangular plate. And waiting whenever am hard minds and a photo, I make sure they point in the direction I want that I'd ago. So I said me and then five circles are gonna play, connect the dots with the circles so that things flow through the frame, if I'm sorry a further ahead on shot. I want my talk objects in the back and then mice shorter objects in the fry. I'm gonna stagger those down building high on one side and trickling down or maybe not in height middling going down, but I always thinking about sort of make king, the eyes flow through the image and it really controlled way before I ever start styling. I think about the composition.

And like am I gonna, just maybe arrange some objects in the bottom left hand corner and can have them flow from the top Alas, down to the bottom, you know firstly the frame and I should draw a little sketch and that way I have my composition. I used the role of thirds super basic, but I'll just draw little grid and sketch out where I want things to flow and that's gonna help you no control and guide me while I do it and then the thing is color color theory a union grandma color will anywhere on the internet. I say you gotta in dish, roll top foods, Thailand and you want to sell them green thing you can look at it. I will and you can see what its complex Injury colors are going to be what is churchyard colours and, on behalf of us of that word right, I'm going with you Harry. I dont agency, analogous colors bids quickly. Gonna, give you some good ideas of what two pair with that, but it

the day. If I have a lot of bright color and my subject that gets flowers or its food, or even people who were brightly dressed, your life has a lot of colors. I keep my propping very neutral because otherwise it just gets really crazy. By. Similarly, you can use colorful props to brighten up a subject. This maybe drastic lentils are notoriously a terrible thing to photograph, so yours wasting your how you can bring that color and- and I can use complimentary colours and also obviously, I deal in a lot of gray and pink props, because those are my main colours for my brand and my feed so yeah. It's props composition and color. If you are really mindful about those three things, an author and a fourth negative space include some negative space.

We all have it. I think that that was a people's games. They actually just thought about. The objects is flowing through the frame and thought about the colours in the proper. Like really intentionally love it are you If a rapid fire yeah sure K, are you ready for it like the most enthusiastic. Yes, they even sure like trepidation Bogot, if you had to pick your absolute favorite thing about creating content for local milk, what would it be Nevertheless, I am an idea. Patterson love it. What is your at least there about image in content creation for your work, late, uploading, stuff, women's guys, If you D Pig three words to describe your brand, what would they be in describe my brand on that one's rowing hard. It's a tough one. I now

you would think it would be easy because I've written about river and so much, I would say intentional For every beauty I mean beauty is a huge value of the brand of the business being intentional, valuing beauty and that for me like abundance, the brand is really about creating a lover, and so it censure on gold digger. What is your biggest goal for local milk in the new year? this one's heard it's hard to be sustained through they do now when it is for me

in writing. I bought this year, so I want to revolutionize the way people cook at home. I want to change the way they think about food, not thinking about recipes and then ingredients are them to think what ingredients and then recipe is, and I want to scale up this business to reach more people want to hire people and really watch it grow so that we can talk to more people. Have this conversation war? I love it guys. I get it hang out with Beth all year, which I'm so excited about. But where can everybody find you you guys, please, if you do anything after they shall pay. He's a and check out bath, because I was so enamored. I found her on a Friday night and the entire weekend. I just spent going through all of the archives, so trust me it's a good find. Where can everybody do this sound you? can find me on Instagram and at local underscore milk,

can find me on my blog and that's local melt, blog dot com, and you can find things about IRA cheats and events that local milk retreat stop come. Thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you for sharing your story. I think that we are really striving You open the dialogue about all different kinds of conversations, and I think that talking about mental health is so necessary and so needed, and so just thank you for your openness and for sharing that few severe live with us. I think it was such a breath of fresh air, so there you have a guy's, isn't Beth awesome. I know you see that every week, but I feel so lucky to get to pick. These incredible

women's brains, for a job I mean it doesn't feel like a job, so I had so many take always from best story about what I think is so wonderful about this platform is that we can use it to talk about things that people are struggling with like mental illness and I'm just really truly thankful that Beth shared her story of what that looks like in real life in those seasons of uncertainty that and her two such clarity, and I think that for a lot of us, we are all struggling and especially in the creative world, mental illness is really real thing and soldiers really filled with gratitude that both took the time to workers through her journey. I also love how she talked about how she Seifert between what is public and what is private and how we are all in control of our comfort level in what we choose to share and that you can be often dick and still be curated. I think that as artists

It's something that we are always toeing. The line on we're not sure if its black or white or grey, and what I think is so wonderful, is that best can have this incredibly beautiful feed, but she and make an impact through the words that she shares in the stories that she tells, and so I really that charge from bath today to understand that it's ok to be a visual artists and want to show the beautiful things, but there can always be meaning and stories and emotion behind that and I loved hearing that until next time, gold diggers key binding your biggest calls. Thank you once again for tuning into another episode of the gold digger podcast in. We would love to hear from you, of course, go check out bath in her incredible blog, and if you want to let us know what your biggest take away was, of course, where I was listening. There is a girl behind this green who loves you hear from you happen over to act, goals eager podcast on Instagram and. I will hang out with you there thanks for listening to the gold digger podcast

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