A few years ago, as our education business was growing, we reached a point where we needed help. We needed someone to lead our Customer Care Team; someone to, through a screen, serve our students joyfully and excellently; and, most important of all, to love them with empathy. That’s when Melissa walked into our life. […]

It was a temporary job. For both of them. They were each just passing through. On their way to something bigger and better. Little did they know the best wasn’t actually yet to come. It was about to sit down next to each of them. Out of thousands of employees, Jessica and Mike were assigned […]

Sometimes, in life, you meet people so genuinely kind that it catches you off guard. Not because you’re surprised that such kindness exists; but because, in the moment, you think, If everyone was like them, what a more beautiful world it would be. That’s how we felt the first time we talked with Grace and Ryan […]

One of our favorite parts about teaching photographers online has been getting to meet amazing couples like Shauna and Jordon in real life. Just like us, they were both elementary school teachers when they enrolled in all three of our courses and, today, they’re full-time professional photographers together! We’re so proud of how hard they’ve […]

Oh, Anna and Ryan, where do we begin? Getting to meet our online course students in person is always such a gift, but you two are the kind of people that we’d met for two minutes and felt like we’d known you for two years. That must be how your photography clients feel, too. It […]

They only lived a few minutes apart, but it took a trip for Europe for them to meet. Stephanie and Hayden are both from the San Francisco area. They went to the same high school. They sang in the same choir. But Hayden’s a few years older, so they never sang together. Then, one summer, […]