Episode 228 (Maia is based in Chicago)
In this conversation with Maia Rosenfeld we explore:
About our guest, Maia Rosenfeld:
Maia has been a headshot photographer in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York for 28 years.
Some of her corporate clients include BMW, J.P. Morgan Chase, Salesforce, GE Healthcare and The Make-A-Wish Foundation.
She's never met a stranger.
Learn more about her photography services at
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Excerpts from this conversation with Maia Rosenfeld:
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I'm not particularly interested in taking photographs of what you look like. Lucky for me, you already look like what you look like. Thank you very much. I'm interested in taking photos of who you are.
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I've come up with a game that they do, which is I throw a word out at them, and they just repeat that word inside their brain. They just have to think it.
So if I say to you, just with your eyes, say the word power, if you literally just think the word power, you're done. You don't have to give me what you think a powerful look is.
You don't have to define power. You don't have to think of a ton you once felt powerful. Literally, I say power. You say power. I say cat, you say cat. And why does it work?
It works because it keeps George inside the building. That is George, where people tend to derail themselves in photos, any photo, family photo, picture, it out with your friends.
Is the second the camera comes up. Everyone tends to leave the building, right? We're in a big group of people. We say cheese. We don't know how long it's taking. We don't know how many they're taking.
Our faces kind of freeze. We don't know it's, oh, it's the other camera. Are they using a flash? We get that photo back, and we hate how we look, right? You're not in that photo.
You left at least 15 seconds ago, right? So that is one of the places that we derail ourselves and we don't we start to hate how we look.
Now we live in a world, in this selfie culture, where you can watch yourself in the photo, right? Which is almost even worse of a problem. It makes it even more self conscious, right?
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