445. Learning to Accept Your Unique Self Through Boudoir Photography
Lesley Logan and boudoir photographer Shayla Pelton explored how boudoir can be a transformative experience, allowing clients to celebrate their unique beauty and worth. Shayla shared her journey into photography and the power of capturing authentic self-love. Tune in to discover how this practice can inspire confidence and self-acceptance.
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In this episode you will learn about:
- Why boudoir photography is about celebrating self-love and confidence.
- How Shayla’s personal journey inspired her to help others feel beautiful.
- Misconceptions about boudoir and its potential to break through insecurities.
- Tips for prioritizing self-care and balancing family and career.
- The empowering experience boudoir can bring for women of all backgrounds.
Episode References/Links:
- Sheyla Pelton Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shaylapeltonphotography
- Sheyla Pelton Website - https://www.boudoirbypelton.photography
Guest Bio:
Shayla Pelton is a full-time portrait photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in boudoir photography. Her journey in the field has led to a complete transformation, both personally and professionally, as she’s dedicated herself to helping clients embrace self-love and confidence. Passionate about capturing people in their most authentic light, Shayla has been featured on platforms like Beyond the Image podcast, where she shared insights into building a fulfilling career through her empowering approach to boudoir photography. Her work has earned her a loyal client base and recognition for her unique ability to make people feel celebrated and seen.
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Episode Transcript:
Shayla Pelton 0:00
You are worthy now, in this very moment. And we all deserve to be memorialized in that, in every single season of our lives. And I think it is so important to acknowledge the love that you have for yourself now instead of waiting until you look like some other person's idea of beauty because really at the end of the day we don't need to change a thing.
Lesley Logan 0:23
Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.
Lesley Logan 1:02
All right, ladies, how are you doing? Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast. I have a very fun topic for us today. Shayla Pelton is our guest. She's a boudoir photographer, and she is cool, and I just love her energy, and I love her enthusiasm, and I have to be honest, like I did a fedora shoot many, many, many, many, many, many moons ago, just for my friend who wanted to do it as a photographer and never thought about it again, and the way she talks about it, and the way she explores and the way she expresses what it's for. And every time I see pictures on her feed, I'm like, you know, I think I want to do that because kind of scares you a little bit doesn't it and also in a good way. And so we're going to talk about self love, worthiness, being a mom, trying to make a side hustle become a full hustle, and all of that stuff. So here is Shayla Pelton.
Lesley Logan 1:52
All right, Be It babe, this is going to be fun. I got to meet this person when Brad and I were down in Arizona, and we were doing a really fun talk that I'm pretty sure they expected us to do a whole different thing on the same topic. But at any rate, Brad and I got to talk to our guest today, Shayla Pelton, and she's like, a boudoir photographer. Then she went into like, started telling me her whole story, which she's going to tell you in a second. And I was just, oh my God, we have to have her on the Be It pod, because what you do could absolutely help people step into their be it till they see it. So Shayla, will you tell everyone who you are and what you rock at?
Shayla Pelton 2:27
Yes, hello. Well, thanks for having me. I am Shayla Pelton. I am a boudoir photographer in Phoenix, Arizona, and my passion is to help everybody love themselves better. So I do share my story. I do work with men, women, couples. I really even just like talking about self love and actual sex with viewers online. I just want everybody to mutually, like, elevate and be able to raise our mindsets and our self love.
Lesley Logan 2:56
Yeah, so in case people think that boudoir is like the glamor shot that they did at the mall, or it's something that you only give to your husband on the wedding day. Can you tell us a little bit about what you really feel boudoir is? Because I don't know. I guess I felt like it's something you did for other people, but you just said it, it's like for self love. So let's get into what is boudoir and how is it self love?
Shayla Pelton 3:20
Yeah, well, and also, I would even love to preface that with the very first time I ever did a boudoir session for myself was a wedding gift for my husband. And in my mind, that's all it was, right? And then I had couple more kids, and in my mind, I was like, I'm not worthy of another session. Why would I ever do that? I'm a mom now. So I really did, like, I was able to kind of transform my idea of what I was worth and how, even though I am older, I have had children, my body's changed. I'm still beautiful, and I am still worthy of love, especially for myself. So I really do love to just stress to people that even if you go into it as intending to give it to as a gift to somebody, ultimately, the way that you feel inside after your session is going to be more gift than you could ever dream for that person. So it's kind of like a double but, yeah, I think that ultimately, boudoir photography is about reclaiming your sexuality, learning to really accept everything that's unique about you, and whether it's the you know, my eyes, for example, right? They're different sizes, and there's different things about us, right? I have a ton of freckles, and I have this little snail tooth back here. Everything about us is different, and everything about us is worthy of love.
Lesley Logan 4:32
Yeah, no, I think that's beautiful. I think that's really because it is true outside of boudoir photography, I tell people all the time, if you need to get your pictures taken, right? Like, get your pictures taken. And people like, I'm uncomfortable to have my picture taken. And I'm like, people don't see the things that we nitpick about ourselves. I, too, I'm like, what is going on with this? Why is my eye like a different shape, right? So we see all these things, but most people don't see that in that having that style of shoe or it's about just showing off all parts of yourself and reclaiming those parts and not shoving them or shaming them or things like that. It's really powerful. And yes, you can give it as a gift, or can just be a gift for yourself. It could be like, this, I look fucking awesome, and I want to celebrate this moment, and I want to memorialize this moment.
Shayla Pelton 5:20
Exactly.
Lesley Logan 5:21
Okay, so there are people who don't think that they're sexy. There are people who don't think that they're worthy. There are people who think, well, that might be nice for them, or they think that they need to change what they look like to be able to do this. What do you say to that? And how do we talk about that?
Shayla Pelton 5:35
Oh, absolutely yes. I think that every single person that I talk to that wants a session, but they're putting it off for whatever reason. It usually comes down to, oh, they want to lose weight, or they want to do this or change that. And I'm like, you are worthy now in this very moment. And we all deserve to be memorialized in that, in every single season of our lives. And I think it is so important to acknowledge the love that you have for yourself now, instead of waiting until you look like some other person's idea of beauty. Because really, at the end of the day, we don't need to change a thing, right? Maybe there are things that we can do to improve or whatever, but you don't have to. It doesn't make you more worthy or more beautiful or sexier or anything. Your heart, your soul. This is just a shell. Everything else is just love.
Lesley Logan 6:23
That's beautiful. For you, like, I'm gonna be a boudoir photographer. How did you, how do you step into this? Because also, like, that's gotta be unique story. What's your be it till you see it becoming a boudoir photographer?
Shayla Pelton 6:35
It feels like it was just a whole lifetime of steps and different things that happened to kind of push me in different directions. So first off, I always love photography. So even when I was a kid, we never had a professional camera. But if my mom ever bought one of those disposable Kodak cameras, I would just fill that mother up within the first 10 minutes, wait a couple months to develop it. But yeah, after I had kids, or after I had my daughter, my second, I got my first professional camera, and I started kind of doing, usually for family, but I started, you know, friends, and then friends of friends, and then I was referred to like a wedding, and then I did a couple newborns. So everything just spiraled with my photography business. And I actually made it official in 2020 so that was great. February, I got my trade name, and then, boom, shut down. I was starting to really see it as something that I could do professionally. But at the time, I mean, I just left Costco. I was there for 17 years, so I was really struggling with trying to make everything work. You know, give my attention to all different areas and aspects, but still honor what I was doing and my passion. And I knew that I had this love for it, but I still was not really asked about boudoir and anytime I even thought about doing boudoir photography, immediately in my mind, it was like, no, I'm not comfortable doing that. I wouldn't want to make somebody else feel uncomfortable about themselves. And really now, when I look back at that, I realize it's because I had so much self love to work on and I had so much growing to do myself. So I knew that if I wasn't comfortable myself, that would immediately like near to my client. I finally got to a point where I was gaining confidence with what I was doing. I had started hearing from more people like, hey, will you do a boudoir session for me? And then finally, like, you know, the wheels are turning and one of my friends that I've known since we were 12, when we were just little dorks on the playground, she had, the year prior, been in a horrific car accident on the freeway, and she rear ended a semi truck, and she had these incisions that went from her pubic area all the way up past like, her navel, up to her chest bone, and then everywhere else. She was changed forever, but she was having such a hard time loving those changes, appreciating even though she knew like she was strong, wow, I survived this. It was a constant reminder when she looked in the mirror, now she's ugly, now she's not worthy, now she's not lovable. And so she asked me, she was about to move to Texas, so she asked me, hey, will you just, will you do a boudoir session for me? You can use my apartment. I'll be your guinea pig. So I said let's do it. So I printed off poses online, and I brought some lighting, and the whole time I'm shuffling pages and adjusting the lighting, but I can so, like, still to this day, it's been at least almost three years, but the way that she at first, was very hesitant to, you know, caress herself, or, like, move, the way that she transformed during that hour, hour and a half, the way her eyes, at first, she was kind of shy, coy, and then all of a sudden, fire like just body language, her response, the way she felt afterwards. And the entire time, I felt, even I (inaudible) response. I felt like this fire burning in my soul, and it felt so good. And I, immediately, also started feeling better about myself, and like, damn, this is, I love this. I love the way that this feels. And so from then, I was all in. I did some model calls, and I just kept building the experience. And at first I was a little nervous, because we all have self-doubt. What if the first time was a fluke, because we knew each other so well, how could I recreate this with somebody else? But then I kept doing it, and then I was photographing complete strangers in this super raw, intimate, vulnerable state, and I was getting the same results, and they were feeling so good. And I was, oh, it feels so good. So yeah, I just I grew my portfolio, and I followed some of the best educators in boudoir, and I just learned everything that I could. Got my socials up and running, which was exhausting. But yeah, I finally just went full time in May, so three months ago.
Lesley Logan 10:59
Amazing.
Shayla Pelton 11:00
Yes. Thank you. Thank you. It is, it's, it feels, it just feels so good, even though there's things that I've loved and I've enjoyed and I'm good at, nothing gave me that spark like boudoir photography.
Lesley Logan 11:12
Yeah, thank you for sharing the whole journey though. I think so many people can resonate. Sometimes we're nervous about the things and we're drawn to things so there were, they scare us a little bit. It didn't cross your mind on accident. Like, you know what I mean? The things that we resist sometimes are there to assist.
Shayla Pelton 11:30
Yeah. Absolutely.
Lesley Logan 11:32
Yeah. So.
Shayla Pelton 11:33
And I think, too, there were even moments where just conversations or the way I'll compliment somebody, like, throughout my lifetime, I can remember people telling me, oh, wow, you make me feel sexy, right? Like when we were teenagers, early 20s, you make me feel sexy, make me feel beautiful, make me feel worthy. And I was already doing that, and then I just learned to do it with the camera.
Lesley Logan 11:51
Yeah, that's so fun. Okay, so you started this a few years ago, and now you're full time. And I think anyone listening, whether it's something, you don't have to be a boudoir photographer, some things just take time but if you are consistent and it also sounds like once you found this thing, you went in on it. So even though it wasn't a full time thing, you were doing boudoir and not going and shooting baseball games at the same time. You niched it so you could get down on this.
Shayla Pelton 12:17
Yeah. I did. I did niche down. Yes. I think now that I'm full time photographer, I will do anything, but boudoir is always my passion, and that's always what I will prioritize and and even if I'm doing a family session, talk to the mom like, hey girl, right? When was the last time you really treated yourself? So it's, you know, but yes, boudoir, it's just, it's amazing.
Lesley Logan 12:38
So you said prioritize. So I just want to come up. How do you prioritize you? Because you, starting a new business is not easy. You have mentioned kids plural, so, so and your spouse. So how do you prioritize you? Because it sounds like even though you are now more comfortable being a boudoir photographer, you still have to prioritize yourself to have that self worth and that and believe in yourself in that way. So what do you do?
Shayla Pelton 13:04
Yeah, well, I'll even add to it that for the first 12, 13 years of being a mom, my oldest is 16, I never prioritized myself, like most people, parental units like, weren't that great. So I'm always trying to elevate. I'm trying to do better, and I'm trying to avoid the parent yield that seems to always be there, like I'm not doing enough, I'm not being there enough. I'm not being present enough. So I never prioritize myself. I didn't treat myself. I didn't really take care of myself. And it's always like I was telling myself, you're being a good mom, because you're always there, and you're, right? You're not, you're not doing anything for yourself. So I finally, I started, you know, having conversations with other people and boudoir photography as well, like hearing from other educators about how important it is to take care of yourself, because if you don't take care of yourself, then that will affect everybody else in your life. So by you prioritizing yourself and at least taking small moments every single day just for yourself, you can show up so much better to the people in your lives. And that changed my entire family dynamic, like, tremendously. It completely, completely changed our lives, because suddenly I was scheduling at least a small amount of time in the morning for yoga, get some form of exercise in, a little bit of meditation. I started getting my nails done. I would do my makeup, which, I mean, it sounds kind of vain, but if you just need to lift up, right? If you just want to get that boost in confidence, you throw that on immediately. It's a boost. And it is a little self care, so little things like that. I started doing more and more for myself. Now I could feel it building. And at the same time, I'm also sharing that journey with my kids so that they can see, like, wow, this is how long it took for our mom to even appreciate her worth, but she's now teaching us hey this is what you can do, and even if you falter, you can always try and do better, because I've struggled with that still. I'm still not perfect. I still have bad days, but I keep giving myself grace and being like, hey you're doing what you can today, every day, your best is going to look different. So I still do try to prioritize myself. School started, so it's a little bit easier. My youngest is five, and he's officially in kindergarten all day, so I have been able to get a little bit extra me time. She's been a dope.
Lesley Logan 15:17
I love that you shared it with them, because I think it's, it is so important for them to see that their parents don't revolve around them so that also they can have dreams and aspirations and you know?
Shayla Pelton 15:28
Exactly. Yeah. And I actually, so my husband and I went to Baltimore last week for a photo shoot for actually me to get my photos taken by someone that I followed since getting into boudoir photography. It was a dream shoot for me. Oh my God, my pictures look so good. Either way, my daughter was so upset, she's 10, and she was so offended that we would leave her for three days. I sat down with her, and I said, I want you to know that it's okay someday in the future, when you're a parent, if you want to do something for yourself and you are still making sure that your family is taken care of, everyone's needs are met, that's okay, and you're allowed to do that. And I was like, I know this makes you upset, because you love me. You wanna be around me all the time, and I love you too, but it is good for me to have this time and to do this for myself, and it's good for me and daddy to have some time too. So it was good, yeah. I try and turn the struggles into the learning moments.
Lesley Logan 16:26
I think that's impressive. So coming back onto boudoir, what is some misconceptions that people have about it? I think that's a good place to start.
Shayla Pelton 16:33
Okay. Well, first of all, misconception is like, oh I have to be a model or I have to have experience being in front of the camera or I have to be hot, right? It's like someone else's idea of hot, absolutely not. You as you are even no makeup, you're fucking beautiful. So like wardrobe, you have to only wear lingerie. You have to only wear sexy stuff. You could wear a paper bag, right? If you wanted to. A lot of clients do jerseys. They'll do even just like a white tank top and shorts or, right, little booty shorts or something. There's so many different ways that you can not only emphasize your curves and the things about you that you want to show off, but also honor yourself and your story and things that actually have meaning to you. And I think there's so many ways to personalize a boudoir session. People don't even realize that. They're like, oh, I'll just show up and get on the bed, you know, and boom. And then not being a model thing, most of my clients have never even had their own photo shoot done before. And I mean, everyone has this conceptions of to be good in front of a camera, you have to be photogenic, like, oh, I'm not photogenic. And really, I believe that it just comes down to being comfortable from the camera, and most people aren't, because it is awkward, it feels unnatural, and oftentimes a person taking the pictures isn't going to be able to connect with you on the deeper level and make you feel comfortable and draw out those beautiful emotions in you. And that's what I've really learned throughout this journey, is I can make anybody take a great picture, because I'm just going to get on your level. I'm going to relate to you. We're going to have a great time, we're gonna laugh, we're gonna be silly, we're gonna talk, and I'm gonna give you that space to just get comfortable and be yourself, and that will show in the pictures every single time.
Lesley Logan 18:30
Yeah, I think you're completely correct about the photogenic side. I think it's just being comfortable. I've seen some of your photos, and I think some of the most beautiful photos of women without makeup, you can just be sitting on a couch like yourself. And I think maybe it's because of the models and the more adult space that we're like, oh, I have to look like that. And actually, you don't. You and in fact, there's something so beautiful about just there's something so beautiful about the real you shining through and when we get out of our head and we are just very present, you all need someone like Shayla, because every photographer I've ever had, my best photos come from the photographer is a someone I trust. They're someone that I'm comfortable with, they're someone I feel like they get it. They're this is not just a job to them. They're very involved in it, and they're making me feel comfortable. And I think that's the best part. What are some reasons why women have done a boudoir shoot? Obviously, there's the wedding gift, but what are some other reasons why?
Shayla Pelton 19:28
Yeah, a lot of women want a little confidence boost. They probably heard from someone else, like, hey, I had this experience, and it was amazing, like, transformative, life changing. And a lot of them are saying hi, I'm gonna do that for myself. That sounds really great, but I'm gonna wait until I'm ready for it, right? So silly. (inaudible)
Lesley Logan 19:48
Everyone's ready to lie, right?
Shayla Pelton 19:50
Yes. Exactly. Don't lie to yourself. That's definitely a big one. And then, you know, maybe you hit like, a big birthday milestone, or one of my clients she actually at 63 beats cancer for the second time. That was her gift to herself. So like different ways that women find to honor themselves at a certain season of their lives. And then, of course, yes, there's the gift, you know, for your partner or special somebody.
Lesley Logan 20:18
Has anyone had surprise reactions?
Shayla Pelton 20:21
Oh yeah. Well, because almost everybody, even if they know what they think they're going to expect from the session, there's still that doubt. There's no way that I'm going to look as great as all these other women on her web page or her Instagram. I can't do that, but then almost immediately, and this is why I love doing it. But I will take the first couple shots, and then I'll turn around the camera and I will show them no retouching, no editing whatsoever. This is how beautiful you look. And so when they see that themselves, it is such a huge motivator, even in the session, they start almost immediately, like getting more confidence and just kind of like owning their space and their bodies in such a clear difference from where we started. And then, of course, when we do the reveals, because I do same day reveals, I get tears at least 50% of the time. Happy ones, they're happy tears. I have never, ever, ever made someone cry. But yeah, it's like that wow I truly am a fucking gorgeous woman and or man, or man, but I do, I just, I don't love over retouching photos so I don't body shape, I don't do too much obvious skin smoothing or anything like that, because I really do want people to see like I am beautiful exactly as I am. This is me, and so I really do and when they look at their photos, there's minimal touches from when I took them out of the camera, but there's always just an awe, like.
Lesley Logan 21:51
Yeah, I think it's so, I know I want to touch on, like, the I'll do it when I'm ready. This, it's so funny y'all can think back to looking at pictures of yourself in college and going, wow, why didn't I like myself more look how good I looked? So, may I just suggest that you are ready now because I just read a mantra like, this is the youngest I'll ever be right now. Like, tomorrow I will be older and so, yes. So, to have those special memories of who you are and capturing all about that you are, not just pictures of you in your favorite dress or like at a dinner with your friends. We have tons of those. Those are easy to get, but pictures of just from the inside out who you are, and have that in a moment, and also to really have I love that you keep like, that self love, I think it is so one of the things that's so hard to do is to love yourself. It is like a lifelong journey, but also just getting to have a moment to see how beautiful you are in your whole like your whole body, all of you.
Shayla Pelton 22:54
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Because, I mean, truly, we never see ourselves like just beautiful vulnerability. We never really see that, because like the people that love us the most do, the people that we're the most intimate with they see us when we're in those moments where we're passionate and we're feeling sexy and we're feeling confident, but when we look at ourselves in the mirror, or we get pictures taken of us on the street, we don't feel like that. So we don't see that. And I think there's something so powerful in seeing that just raw version of yourself, and people are usually very surprised about that, like, what do you mean?
Lesley Logan 23:28
I think we all need them so we can go, oh, I'm having it. Oh, look at that. Look at how I'm amazing. I can go take another day.
Shayla Pelton 23:34
Yeah, absolutely. And I think it's nice to think I can just train my mind to love myself, and now I'm like, all my self love issues are healed, and I'm doing great. But I think there's something that is it's so powerful in the experience, because, you know, hair and makeup, you're in this space where you're vulnerable and it's intimate, and you really get to just open yourself up. And it is just something that's so special, everyone should experience it at least once in your life. It's and it's not for everybody, right? Some people, none of my clients yet, but some people do it and then, like, you know what? I did it. I did that. But everyone else is like, oh my god, I gotta do that again.
Lesley Logan 24:19
I think, but also, I think, depending how you are raised, the idea of to being sexy at all you know, can be a difficult thing to admit to yourself, and especially if you've had kids or things you're like, I don't know if I should be sexy or if I should see myself that way. And and I think you can be multi-hyphenated people. You can have all these different parts of you. Yeah.
Shayla Pelton 24:40
Yeah, absolutely. I think we lose that as we get older and we're like, we just, I don't know, we see ourselves differently, but you can be anything. You can be whatever you want. I was very much like, I would wear long sleeve shirts lightened up and always mom jeans. Four or five years ago, that was my everyday attire. And I was like, you know what? I feel sexy. I'm gonna dress a little sexy. My daughter kind of hates it, but we, we have lots of talks about how it's, it's okay for women to wear what they feel comfortable (inaudible).
Lesley Logan 25:10
I love, yeah, I think that's but I also think that's so cool, because she gets to grow up. I mean, it's okay that she can voice out how she feels. But also, also, just like you would never want anyone to tell her what to wear. You know?
Shayla Pelton 25:22
Exactly. Yeah. Exactly.
Lesley Logan 25:26
I mean it's just a wonderful it's we're always learning, you know, and that helps us grow. And I think it's so cool. I also love that your children are a wide variety of ages, and I think that probably helps you with your different clients who are older or have just had a kid, and all these things, we just tell stories about ourselves and what we look like and doing a boudoir shoot. You guys, if you have not seen how cool they can be, it is kind of amazing how it doesn't matter the size of your body or the scars on your body or what you've been through, there is just beauty in you being yourself.
Shayla Pelton 25:57
Yes, exactly, exactly. Yeah.
Lesley Logan 26:01
Shayla, what are you most excited about right now?
Shayla Pelton 26:03
Oh, man, I am most excited to get fully booked. I want to spread as much self love as I possibly can, and I'm also doing a lot more of collabs with other photographers, other people that I know, where I'm really trying to also devote energy to creative projects and things that I enjoy. I'm just looking forward to the work to growing every day. I really do think that I learn a little bit and I give myself more grace, and I get a little bit stronger. So it is a journey, and it's never, never quite finished, but I'm definitely very happy with where I'm at now. And I feel so in love with boudoir photography.
Lesley Logan 26:44
I mean, that's who we all want to take a photo shoot with. We're gonna take a brief break and find out where people can find you, follow you, work with you and your Be It Actions Items.
Lesley Logan 26:51
All right, Shayla, you said you live in Phoenix. Where can people connect with you online? Or how do you, how can they book with you? How can they see your work?
Shayla Pelton 26:59
Yeah, let's start with Instagram, because from there you get all my website links, all the nitty gritty details, and you'll see, obviously, right up at tons of images and behind the scenes. So my Instagram handle is shaylapeltonphotography, and definitely, let's be friends.
Lesley Logan 27:15
Yeah. And then you've given us a lot of ideas, but bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted steps we can take to be it till we see it. What do you have for us?
Shayla Pelton 27:25
Well, first of all, you can book yourself in the boudoir session, whether it's with me or somebody else, just do it for you, because you're worthy right now. But then going forward, I would really, no matter where you think you're at in life with your own self love a healing journey, I would definitely put time into energy work and releasing generational trauma and healing wounds within your own family, because the more that you really heal from the inside, it just, it, it always radiates outwards, and not just with you, but with everybody in your life. So.
Lesley Logan 28:03
I love that. You guys, if you do the boudoir shoot, if you do it with Shayla, that's amazing. And if you don't, then you better tell us you did it. We want to celebrate you.
Shayla Pelton 28:10
Absolutely.
Lesley Logan 28:11
Yeah. Oh, you're so amazing. I'm so excited for you. Congrats on going full time. It's a really big deal. It's so scary. But you were in the greatest place. You have so much, so many different ways people can come and take their shots with you, and if we inspired you to do boudoir shoot, please let us know, because I do think it's really cool. It's definitely on my mind since I've met you, so though I don't see myself doing that with anyone but you, so I've got to figure that out. At any rate.
Shayla Pelton 28:39
Let's talk. We'll figure it out.
Lesley Logan 28:40
Let's talk. You guys, share this with a friend. Share this with a friend who's having a hard time feeling beautiful. You know, maybe this is what they need to see themselves the way that you see them and the way other people see them. And until next time, Be It Till You See It.
Lesley Logan 28:55
That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod.
Brad Crowell 29:38
It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell.
Lesley Logan 29:43
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Brad Crowell 29:47
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Lesley Logan 29:54
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Brad Crowell 29:57
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