Early on in my career, I had to make an important distinction between what it means to be a photographer, and what it means to be a professional. Not suprrisingly, if you have an ambition to do something different in your career, there are a myriad of obstacles. The largest one, being you. In this episode I pull some lessons from my own career that helped me break through. Enjoy! --- Today's episode is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.