034 - Reid Valmestad - Storytelling, Being Genuine with Your Brand, and Giving Away Helicopters
Description
This episode features Reid Valmestad, a professional adventure and lifestyle photographer and videographer living in Winnipeg. He shares his progression and journey towards photography and filmmaking, and how he thinks about storytelling for both his personal projects and CoPilot's. We also get practical advice from him on growing your social media following. Hope you get a lot of value from this episode.
Shownotes:
00:50 - Who is Reid Valmestad
01:51 - Getting started into photography and videography
04:59 - The pressure of Wedding Photography
06:28 - Transitioning to Commercial & Adventure genre
09:26 - Reid's advice from his mentors
11:22 - Building a travel photo portfolio without travel opportunities
15:57 - Becoming big on social media
18:44 - Being genuine on social media
19:19 - Copilot and BTS content
23:01 - Watching their own BTS content
23:38 - The upside of sharing BTS
26:34 - Showing a personality with your brand
28:02 - Can you give away a helicopter to grow your social media following?
31:17 - Why he said yes to the podcast
32:37 - How to storytell
38:29 - Favourite creators
42:14 - Hardest thing to overcome in this journey
45:56 - One last blurb on Instagram growth
46:56 - How to support Reid and Copilot
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