Most of us got into creative work wanting to do everything, then spent years drowning in all of it. Sean McCormick did the opposite on purpose. Sean spent years as a public school special education teacher before he walked away from the steady paycheck, with two young daughters at home, to bet on one narrow […]
“As soon as your age has a six in the front in Germany, it’s very difficult to find another corporate job.” That’s where Jörg Kampers starts his story. He spent 35 years inside companies like Commodore, Dell, and CommScope, selling the Amiga 500 as a physics student in his university days and running PCs, networks, […]
Most photographers will tell you the same thing if you ask them honestly. The shooting is the part they love. Everything else is overhead. Ashley Siegert heard that enough times that she built an entire company around it. Ashley is the founder of Vacanva, a platform that pairs photographers with nonprofits to run portrait-based fundraising […]
I met Billy Thorpe on a bus. We were heading to the venue for Ecamm Creator Camp last October, he sat down in front of me, we started talking, and somewhere in that conversation he casually mentioned that he makes product videos on Amazon and that brands pay him to do it. I pulled out […]
Getting Good at Claude: Why Most Photographers Give Up Too Soon (And How to Fix It) Have you tried Claude once, gotten something too generic to be useful, and just moved on? This episode is the podcast version of my live webinar, Getting Good at Claude for Photographers. I’m breaking down why I switched from […]
Generator Live: WPPI 2026 Recap – The Good, The Bad, and The Dance Circle What happens when you find yourself in the middle of a dance circle surrounded by phones at a photography conference after party? This is a solo Generator Live episode recorded the day after I got home from WPPI 2026 in Las […]
Generator Live at WPPI 2026: Josh Beaton on Following Dreams, Self-Esteem, and Starting Over at 50 What happens when you decide to chase the dream you always thought was unattainable, even if it means starting over at 50 years old? Josh Beaton is a Chicago-based portrait photographer and fine art artist who also runs Tween […]
Can AI replace the human element that makes photography and retouching valuable, or are we measuring the wrong thing entirely? Nino Batista is a photographer, retoucher, and educator whose work spans commercial photography and fine art. He’s known for his technical expertise in retouching and his thoughtful approach to how technology shapes creative industries. After […]
What if closing your studio isn’t failure but the smartest business decision you could make? Nine days into 2026 and I’m seeing patterns emerge that tell me this year is going to force a lot of photographers to make hard choices. Not because the industry is dying, but because the old models aren’t working the […]
Planning a live show format terrifies me, but staying stuck terrifies me more. I’m rebuilding Generator from the ground up for 2026. It’s about creating something sustainable that actually serves the people who need these conversations. In this episode, I walk through the new show structure I’m testing, why I’m shifting from pre-recorded to live, […]
