Forced to pivot into anything and everything to make money as a professional creative, you leaned on side hustles and wild ideas: FaceTime sessions, micro weddings, Zoom consultations, and online courses for everyone stuck at home… You spent hours coming up with creative ways to show up for your audience and pay the bills, all while the world was unraveling from six feet outside your front door.

To say it was exhausting would be the understatement of the century, right?

Think back to that first “yikes” moment: 

That first lockdown.
That first cancellation.

Did you ever wish you could peek into the future, just to know that things were going to be okay? Maybe you wished you could find a global pandemic how-to manual for entrepreneurs (and one that’s more recent than 1918).

I get it–I was in the same sinking ship.

As my wedding photography bookings dried up fast, the branch of my business that licensed stock photography online hummed along in the background. Photographs I had taken years prior are what kept my family afloat when all else seemed doomed for the foreseeable future. The best part? Those images continue to pad my bank account as clients come back in full force. Today, I continue to earn more each year licensing photos that would’ve died a sad, dusty, .jpeg death sitting on my hard drive.

That, my friend, is the power of passive income. It’s time you make it yours!