Tried & True With A Dash of Woo

Renee Bowen
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This podcast is about integrating tried and true strategies that we know actually work - in life, business, self-help; with the science of unconscious programming & the magic of manifestation. I’m a certified life and business coach and a professional photographer who built a multiple six figure business with a degree in Psychology while being a mom to three little kids. I had zero business training, so I dug in, learned the methods and now I’m passing that all onto you! I’m a self described brain geek and have certifications in things like RRT, NLP, Neuro-encoding and Amen clinic brain training and I’m always interested in hearing what you have to say on the topic of brain rewiring too. In this podcast, our conversations range from photography how to’s, systems and business strategies to more woo-woo stuff like energy healing, human design & the basics of manifestation - because well, I’m just kind of all over the place. I know that most creative entrepreneurs ARE a little neuro-spicy so I want to fire up your super charged brains and show you what’s possible.

  1. 4d ago

    Midlife Aches & Mental Inflammation with Dr. Shivani Gupta

    Have feedback? Text us! You know the woman who's doing everything right and still feels like her body is falling apart? This episode is for her.  Dr. Shivani Gupta joins me to explain why so many of the symptoms we chalk up to "just getting older" are actually inflammation, and how to tell the difference. Why "this is just aging" might be the wrong story you're telling yourselfThe real difference between mental inflammation and being "stressed out"What your gut has to do with your brain (and vice versa)Why sprinkling turmeric on your food probably isn't doing what you think it isThe two minute reset Shivani uses to stay out of fight or flightHow declining estrogen quietly turns up inflammation in your bodyWhy your dosha matters more than any generic wellness adviceAbout Dr. Shivani Gupta: Dr. Shivani Gupta is an Ayurvedic practitioner with a master's in Ayurvedic sciences and a PhD focused on turmeric research. She's the author of The Inflammation Code (Hay House) and founder of Fusionary Formulas, and she's spent over two decades helping women get to the root cause of chronic inflammation. Links: Her Book: The Inflammation Code Her Website & Podcast Her Instagram Her Supplements: Fusionary Formulas — use code RENEE for 15% off Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

  2. Sep 2

    The Signature Brand Strategy That Makes You Impossible to Ignore with Kristin Lawton

    Have feedback? Text us! Watch this episode on YouTube You know that feeling when someone loves your brand, follows you everywhere, and still can't tell you what you actually do? That's a signature brand strategy problem, and Kristin Lawton spent six years as "the cocktail girl who does marketing" before she figured out how to fix it. Here's what we chat about in today's episode: The three pillars of a signature brand strategy, and which one you're probably neglecting right nowKristin's three "lines" toolWhy niching down isn't rejection, and what actually happens when you finally do itThe "Frankenstein brand" problem, and how leaning on AI tools can make it worseHow Kristin uses Human Design and astrology inside her Signature Brand DossierThe real difference between what makes people like you and what makes people actually buy from youAbout Kristin Lawton: Kristin is the "Chief Brand Mixologist" behind District Brand Bar, with 25 years of experience in brand and marketing communications. She helps solopreneurs and creative entrepreneurs build unmistakable, signature brands through her three-pillar framework, and she's the creator of the Signature Brand Dossier and the Brand Bar. Links: District Brand Bar Instagram Kristin's YouTube channel Signature Brand Dossier The Brand Bar Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

  3. Aug 12

    What Your Brand is Actually Broadcasting

    Have feedback? Text us! Grab the Stand Out & Sell Out VIP ticket HERE  10 Spots ONLY for the Custom Hypnosis Track - based on YOUR Human Design and Astrology - snag one HERE Show Notes: Your brand is telling people something right now. The question is whether it's saying what you think it is. In this solo episode, Renee pulls directly from a live roundtable conversation at the Stand Out and Sell Out summit and from real questions that landed in the community afterward — because what she found is that every question, no matter how different it looked on the surface, was asking the same thing underneath. What's covered in this episode: Why every branding question eventually becomes an identity question — and how to tell the differenceThe real reason your content isn't converting (and why fixing the strategy won't fix it)What it actually means to build a brand around a "credibility stack only you have" — and why naming it isn't the first step How to hold a positioning line in an industry that uses the wrong language — and whether you win the term or name a new categoryWhy performing your values out loud is different from standing for something — and how to know which one you're doingThe one question most creative entrepreneurs have never sat with long enough to actually answerThis episode is for the creative entrepreneur who is doing everything right and still feels like something is off. Who has tried the frameworks, hired the coaches, redone the website — and still feels like the brand is not quite landing. This conversation is about why. And what is actually underneath it. Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

  4. Jul 29

    Let Me Change Your Mind About "The Breakthrough"

    Have feedback? Text us! LAST CHANCE for $500 off the Senior Sprint - click HERE to grab it and join us for a live zoom Q&A on August 18th!  Watch this episode on YouTube  SHOW NOTES: Have you been waiting for the moment when the confidence finally clicks, the fear disappears, and you magically become the woman who charges what she is worth, posts without spiraling, and stops flinching when someone asks about her pricing? In the final episode of my summer “Let Me Change Your Mind” series, I’m changing your mind about the breakthrough. Because real transformation rarely arrives as one giant, cinematic moment. Your brain builds the identity you rehearse through the tiny choices, reactions, and decisions you repeat when nobody is watching. We’re talking about how to change your identity without forcing yourself into fake positivity, why uncomfortable feelings need to finish their full sentence, and the three small reps that can start shifting who you are right now.  Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

  5. Jul 22

    Let Me Change Your Mind About Being STUCK

    Have feedback? Text us! Grab the SENIOR SPRINT for $500 off Show Notes: You think being stuck means you haven't found the answer yet. In this episode I'm taking that belief apart, because being stuck almost never has anything to do with the answer. It has everything to do with the state you're trying to find it in. And once you see that, you can't unsee it. What we get into: Why "more effort" is the exact wrong move when you hit a wallThe NLP concept of state, and why it drives every decision you makeWhat's really happening in your body when a pricing decision makes your chest tightWhy journaling about the same problem for three weeks lands you nowhereState Before Strategy: the four-step reset for the moment you're activatedThe client who sat on a pricing decision for ten weeks and what finally moved itWhy this was never actually about pricing, captions, or bookingsThis one is a solo episode with Renee Bowen: luxury senior portrait photographer, NLP-certified life and business coach, and hypnotherapist.  Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

  6. Jul 15

    Let Me Change Your Mind About... HUSTLE!

    Have feedback? Text us! Grab the HOUSE MANUAL for only $39.99! SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS: do not miss The Senior Sprint Sale! It's only $500 for a short time - grab it HERE and fix your marketing before the Fall madness! SHOW NOTES: Everyone is telling you to stop hustling right now, and I am not going to be one of them. Because I do not think hustle is your problem. I think you have been fighting the wrong thing this whole time, and that fight is the reason it has felt so brutal.  In this one I get honest about the fact that I am living this exact struggle as I record it, and then I show you the actual difference between the work that builds a business and the pushing that builds a cage. In this episode: Why the anti-hustle movement is aimed at the wrong target completelyThe one distinction that changes how you see every hard day you have ever hadWhat cortisol and adrenaline are actually doing when you force your workThe hundred-year-old research that explains why trying harder stops workingA famous study about a white bear that will change how you see resistanceWhat physicists confirmed in 2012 and the bridge I choose to walk from itThe 90-second thing to do before your next task instead of pushingWhy surrender only works after you have done the unsexy work firstThanks for being here!   Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

  7. Jul 8

    Let Me Change Your Mind About... Luck

    Have feedback? Text us! Get the SENIOR SPRINT for $500 - but hurry Welcome to the first episode of my summer series, where every week I put one belief on the table and try to change your mind about it. First up: luck. In this episode I'm going to show you what's actually happening inside your own head when something looks like luck, and why the thing you've been calling a lucky break is really your brain fetching evidence for who you already believe you are. I'll walk you through the story that cost me years in my photography business, the brain science that finally changed my mind, and a three-part practice you can start this week to change what your brain lets you see. Come in with an open mind. Or don't, and let me change it for you. In this episode Why "some people are just lucky" is one of the most expensive beliefs you can holdHow your reticular activating system works, and why it decides what you get to noticeThe bouncer at the door of your brain, and how your identity is the guest listWhy brilliant strategy keeps failing you when it lands on an old identityThe real difference between wishing and deciding, and why your brain treats them like two different languagesHow to regulate your body so a new identity stops registering as dangerA three-part practice to change your own guest list this weekLinks & next steps Loved this one? Send it to the creative friend you thought about while listening.Come go deeper with me on Substack, that's where I take these ideas further.New series alert: "Let Me Change Your Mind About ______" runs all summer. Next episode, I've got another belief on the table, and I'm coming for that one too.Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

  8. Jun 10

    Stop Doing These Five Things In Your Photography Business If You're Ready to Be Seen

    Have feedback? Text us! Watch this episode on YouTube Links: Try Evoto free (15 credits): https://link.evoto.ai/ReneeBowen use the code RENEE07 for up to 20% off as well Evoto giveaway: comment on this week's reel: https://instagram.com/reneebowen Senior Sprint waitlist: https://reneebowen.myflodesk.com/sprint The Creative Team Method is $600 off for a short time: https://reneebowen.com/seniorrepteam Real talk: some of this might sting. After 18+ years in the photography industry, Renee names the five habits she's watched keep talented, hardworking photographers invisible, and none of them are what you'd expect. No hashtags, no posting schedules, no preset packs. Just the patterns running underneath all of it. In this episode: The "research" habit that's actually a slow drip of self doubt, and the surprisingly useful thing your jealousy is trying to tell you The way most photographers are using AI right now that's making their businesses more generic and harder to book Why "I'm just not a social media person" is not a personality trait What your amygdala has to do with the 17 reasons you didn't post today The difference between learning from someone and borrowing an identity that will never convert for you The most insidious habit of all, the one that hides behind responsible-sounding language The single root problem underneath all five, and what to do about it Plus: Evoto's new tools for volume and sports photographers, a giveaway for 100 Evoto credits, and the first announcement of the Senior Sprint waitlist, with first access and the lowest price for waitlist members. About Renee: Renee Bowen is a luxury senior portrait photographer, NLP-certified life and business coach, hypnotherapist, and your slightly bossy business bestie. She helps creative entrepreneurs get radically clear on who they are so they can build businesses that feel like freedom. Get COACHING:  SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL HERE  LEAVE A REVIEW in 5 seconds flat (helps us a ton!) JOIN the Podcast & Creative Community LEARN MORE about Renee at www.reneebowen.com - main site (photography + coaching) & www.reneebowencoaching.com (coaching + courses) SOCIALS: Instagram Facebook TikTok FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS:   FREE TRAINING for Photographers Make sure you TAG me when you post on social and once a month, we choose one person who leaves us a review and we'll send you a FREE audible book of your choice!

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This podcast is about integrating tried and true strategies that we know actually work - in life, business, self-help; with the science of unconscious programming & the magic of manifestation. I’m a certified life and business coach and a professional photographer who built a multiple six figure business with a degree in Psychology while being a mom to three little kids. I had zero business training, so I dug in, learned the methods and now I’m passing that all onto you! I’m a self described brain geek and have certifications in things like RRT, NLP, Neuro-encoding and Amen clinic brain training and I’m always interested in hearing what you have to say on the topic of brain rewiring too. In this podcast, our conversations range from photography how to’s, systems and business strategies to more woo-woo stuff like energy healing, human design & the basics of manifestation - because well, I’m just kind of all over the place. I know that most creative entrepreneurs ARE a little neuro-spicy so I want to fire up your super charged brains and show you what’s possible.

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  • Creator
    Renee Bowen
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    140
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Tried & True With A Dash of Woo
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