About 9 years ago I met these ladies through various photography workshops and we got together to create the first women only, luxury, photography workshop called Love Affair. We held our first on Bald Head Island in North Carolina where we coordinated almost a hundred women to come and stay in beach homes, fed them every meal made from scratch and taught just about everything we could on the topic of photography, business and family life balance. We had a big party at the end, stayed up with attendees each night and even hand delivered their suitcases to their beach houses… it was truly ground breaking (and back breaking!) in the photography industry. We went on to host them in Atlanta, San Diego and Dallas in the W Hotel chain over the following 2 years. I still call those the “glory days”.

Millie, Kelly, Davina and I haven’t got together in 5 years since our last workshop date and I have to admit, I was a little nervous! 5 years can really change a lot in someone’s life and I was crossing my fingers that we would all still get along. I was pleasantly surprised that although we were world’s different in where we were in life compared to 5 years ago, we were still very much the same people at our core. We ate great food, laughed, cried and then in typical fashion dove head long into helping each other come up with greater ways to improve their business and life. Yes, we talked about planning another workshop and then decided now was not the time:)

These girls will always have my heart, they care deeply and fully accept me with all of my quirks and flaws. Our personalities all compliment and challenge each other towards greatness in whatever we are aiming towards. I had a really great weekend away and came back with a new passion to be GREAT!