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Caydie McCumber: What it’s like to let go of the identity you’ve always known
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This week, Larissa speaks with Caydie McCumber, photographer and LinkedIn Vigilante.
Caydie McCumber is a Top Voice on Linked-In (15K + followers) and a freelance photographer /director with a focus on active and healthy content. Caydie is an industry expert with 15 + years as a commercial photographer/ director. She is not afraid to advocate for her community, weighing in on issues ranging from fair compensation to still-ingrained sexism in the creative industry. Caydie speaks to what it’s like to ride the highs and lows of the freelance industry from an honest and brave POV.
Larissa & Caydie chat:
- What was it like growing up with 3 brothers and wanting to feel just as capable as the “boys”
- How being homeschooled set Caydie up to be a freelance creative
- Growing up poor, and how that motivated Caydie to better her situation
- How Caydie was outspoken to her father as a child
- How it’s easier to stick up for other people than to advocate for yourself
- The impossibility of taking care of everyone’s needs
- What it’s like to deal with friend clingy-ness
- What it’s like to be a LinkedIn “Top Voice’
- How Caydie sharing online has attracted clients and lost others
- Caydie’s internet presence is a “persona” and not exactly who she is in her day-to-day
- Caydie talks about calling out a billion dollar brand in her DMs
- Caydie’s manifestations and how she is calling in being seen as capable
- How hard it is to say no to work when you plan a vacation
- The moment Caydie wanted to give up and walk away from photography
- How picking a niche transformed Caydie’s business
- Releasing the identity of being a photographer and focusing on human connection
- Caydie’s new reframe around her romantic partnership of accepting the realities
- Caydie’s Creative Supper Monthly dinner series
Follow Caydie:
- Apply for the Creative’s Supper Club Bi-Monthly in-person LA dinner series
- @caydiemccumber (LinkedIn + IG)
- Learn more about Caydie at caydiemccumber.com
Follow Larissa:
- Sign up for Seriously Authentic Newsletter with resources, tips, insights on how to be your most authentic self to achieve your dream life.
- @larissavictoria (LinkedIn IG)
- Work with me (1:1 Coaching)
Original music by Haile Meirow “inside your tears”
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