This episode features Reid Valmestad, a professional adventure and lifestyle photographer and videographer living in Winnipeg. He shares his progression and journey towards photography and filmmaking, and how he thinks about storytelling for both his personal projects and CoPilot's. We also get practical advice from him on growing your social media following. Hope you get a lot of value from this episode.

Shownotes:

00:50 - Who is Reid Valmestad

01:51 - Getting started into photography and videography

04:59 - The pressure of Wedding Photography

06:28 - Transitioning to Commercial & Adventure genre

09:26 - Reid's advice from his mentors

11:22 - Building a travel photo portfolio without travel opportunities

15:57 - Becoming big on social media

18:44 - Being genuine on social media

19:19 - Copilot and BTS content

23:01 - Watching their own BTS content

23:38 - The upside of sharing BTS

26:34 - Showing a personality with your brand

28:02 - Can you give away a helicopter to grow your social media following?

31:17 - Why he said yes to the podcast

32:37 - How to storytell

38:29 - Favourite creators

42:14 - Hardest thing to overcome in this journey

45:56 - One last blurb on Instagram growth

46:56 - How to support Reid and Copilot

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