{"id":36254,"date":"2021-03-30T16:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/?page_id=36254"},"modified":"2023-09-14T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:47:04","slug":"case-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study – Jess Ratcliffe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The story portrait - a Case study<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What challenge or problem were you trying to solve before the Story Portrait? How was it affecting you?<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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“The critical things that I struggled with were feeling any clarity around my story or feeling confident, I guess, in my own skin, which sounds massive, doesn’t it? But I feel like that represents what was really going on. I wasn’t entirely stepping into who I knew I could be, or had the potential to be.<\/p>

I didn’t know what was interesting about my story, what parts to pull out and what to focus on, and it left me spinning. I needed someone’s help to shine a light on the personal brand story elements that would really resonate with people.<\/p>

And on the photography front, I’d look at my website and not feel happy with the photos I would have taken myself; I didn’t feel like they represented me; it’s so much more than the fact that they were shoddy, selfie photos. It’s way more. I didn’t feel like they captured ME. I never felt happy with them. I was never confident sharing them, whether to pitch myself to speak at events or for Podcasts. I just never felt like they were, wow photos.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Why did you choose the Story Portrait as the solution?<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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“I actually remember the exact moment I thought to myself, I’m gonna ask Phil if we can do a story portrait. I was sitting in the garden. And feeling really stuck and frustrated that I wasn’t stepping into my story; I was holding back. I remember looking at my website and thinking, this is shit.<\/p>

I needed to figure out how to represent who I am and who I want to be. I knew the experience would be exactly what I needed, which is way more than a photo shoot – It’s so much deeper than that. And so that’s why I chose to go for it.<\/p>

I wanted to explore my story with Phil rather than having to figure it out myself because I was so ‘in it’ – I knew he’d get me; I felt that this journey would genuinely capture my energy.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What did you discover along the way?<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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“I discovered my confidence – honestly, our work of unfolding my story and peeling back the layers coupled with photographs that truly represent who I am and portray who I want to be.\u00a0I left thinking, ‘This is me; this is what I stand for. Let’s bloody go for it!”<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What benefits have you seen? How has this served your personal brand and your business?<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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“Visibility! I share the photos everywhere. Instagram, on my website, Linkedin, I use them for anything that I’m promoting – across the board, and I get a positive response from people; they see me in the shots. I feel confident sharing my story now; I know the benefit and feel how it lands with people, which does wonders for my personal brand and business!”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jess Ratcliffe The story portrait – a Case study What challenge or problem were you trying to solve before the Story Portrait? How was it affecting you? “The critical things that I struggled with were feeling any clarity around my story or feeling confident, I guess, in my own skin, which sounds massive, doesn’t it? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36254"}],"version-history":[{"count":158,"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59887,"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36254\/revisions\/59887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luminouslives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}