Photographer Yenny Stromgren offers commercial, portraiture, fashion and editorial photography for companies and publications.
When Yenny is not working on commissioned assignments, or consumed by one of many photographic projects, or doing interviews for her podcast and blog, Everyday Light Warriors, you can see her long boarding or just enjoy the waves with her boys.
In this episode we talk about:
Yenny Stromgren’s story coming to Australia 16 years ago
Her love of photography
Australian culture and people
How Yenny became an accidental podcaster
How podcasting uplifted her spirit as she experienced crisis in Life
How she gathered her friend and interviewed them about positivism just to inspire herself
How she joined “We are Podcast” community
The launched of Everyday Light Warriors podcast
Yenny’s mission to inspire people and the world through interviewing people about challenges and happiness
Her achievement and wins as a result of starting a podcast
How she really pushed the boundaries of her fears
How she learned and give importance in speaking clear
Overcoming the fear of contacting people to be on the podcast show
The passion of doing a podcast
How she loves using apps and learns everything around the technical side of podcasting
The functions of Zapya, Boomerang and Trello app
How she likes using Convert kit app and Calendly that really save time
Avoiding procrastination and asking for help
The importance of conversations and getting feedbacks from people
The importance of Saying Thank You
Asking for recommendation from guests to have more people to be interviewed in your show
How she found her life’s purpose through doing a podcast
How she’s interested more in listening stories from the heart
What would have made your podcast journey easier knowing what you know now?
“Just do it and stop procrastinating and ask for help more. Also, one thing that I really want to share is, I should have done more of these from the beginning. I get a few quite of emails from people listening to the show. I don’t think it’s about numbers, I think it’s about the conversation and feedback from people. And now if a person emails me, I call them back. And I try to check to them and see what they like and what they don’t like about the show. And I think that’s so important because they are your listeners. “
When someone is considering a podcast as a medium, how do I know if it's for me?
“This is I really like and anyone doing a podcast, they should do because it’s their passion. Otherwise, you can’t do it. You shouldn’t do it.”
How complicated is it to do a podcast?
“You have no clue how many times like I redone things. Like I do one show, I think I spent four hours doing the intro and outro because I was so nervous. On the technical side, I always love the apps and use apps and learn things. I’ve learned everything so I don’t outsource anything yet because I believe I had to learn the craft first. So just about to do a system and then I can outsource the boring bits. You know I’ve learned. Even my website, I do that myself with the show notes, my blog, and everything. “
What are the most important things to consider?
As a I started as an accidental podcaster, I didn’t really have the avatar, I didn’t have any purpose who I was talking to. And now I found that person in my audience.
Also say thank you to people and also people will help you along the way. Also one thing I think it’s important as well that I found people you interview ask them for people that they can recommend. As you do that, and as you interview people, you kind of get more and more interesting people and high profile people as well. Because you get recommendation, and it’s so much easier to get a yes.
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