Being a full-time photographer and running a business can be very overwhelming.esp when everyone around is constantly hustling.  Someone is working with food52 Someone is shooting for Delicious magazine Someone just made $500,000 by selling their online course Someone is talking about completing 10 years in food photography We hear them, we look at their photography businesses and go, “Sigh! I’m so behind. Everyone is doing so much. I need to work more, work harder.” Running a business is tough.  But do you know what is the best part about having your own business? The best part is that your business is your own. It can be anything you want it to be and it does not need to be like anyone else’s. In this week’s episode, we continue our conversation with food photographer, blogger, professional cake designer, and cookbook author, Tessa Huff, who tells us all about how to create a business  you love without compromising on your personal life. Tessa has 3 kids, moved countries, shut down a business and started a photography business from scratch only to go on to work with brands like Food network canada. The biggest step she took to set herself up for success was by creating a business unique to her and not influenced by how others were doing it in the industry. In this episode Tessa tells us her challenge of working with food network, how she continues to work with brands on an ongoing basis, how she wrote a cookbook while balancing a business and family and how to make photography a profitable business. The advantage of having our own business is that we can make it anything we like. It doesn’t have to look like someone else’s.  We are unique as creatives, our lives are different from each other so how can our businesses look the same?  If we can come to terms with this simple concept, it makes it so much easier to create a business around the life we have. Our personal commitments are as important, if not more, than our professional responsibilities.  Oftentimes, life changes or starting from scratch makes us feel like we’ve fallen behind. But the truth is that there is no “behind” in life. The biggest advantage of having our own business is that we can set our own pace, milestones, deadlines, processes and definition of success. If you’ve been wondering whether your photography career will ever take off or are feeling behind because of personal commitments or you’re thinking about starting a new business, this episode is for you.  Read more at https://myfoodlens.com Follow Dyutima on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dyutima_myfoodlens/   Show notes available https://myfoodlens.com/82-how-to-build-a-photography-business-while-balancing-family-part-2-with-tessa-huff/ Have a question? Submit it as a voice note to be featured on the My Food Lens Podcast HERE Download free guide and workbook The 10-step photoshoot https://myfoodlens.com/the-10-step-photoshoot-guide/ Write that pitch https://myfoodlens.ck.page/writethatpitch