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EPISODE #5 - Photographers Gone Wild: Jared & Trish McMillen - Part 1
If you understand anything about creating art, this couple seems to defy logic. Jared and Trish McMillen are fine-art photographers who seem to share a brain. They’re making an incredible living doing what they do, while so many others struggle. They shoot stunning landscapes with a large-format view camera, and they do it together. They run a successful gallery in a competitive town. But before this all happened, they were each established independent commercial photographers. Somehow they’ve put ego aside for artistic cooperation. They’ve also recently had a kid—which has not slowed them down, but they think it’s better for their business. 

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LOGLINE: Two professional photographer entrepreneurs run a business, get married, learn how to put aside ego, run a gallery in a high-end tourist destination, and maintain their active outdoor lifestyle--even with a toddler. 

They both met when  she was trying to hire him to shoot the Grammy Awards  03:49
 
She invited him over and made him dinner because she’s Italian. He though she was coming on to him.  04:19
 
After they started dating, they were totally inseparable, and on their third date they almost burned down a cabin—taking it as a sign that they can solve anything together  06:13
 
They both realize, “If you can’t work with this person, who can you work with?”  07:52
 
Started working together and running a business before they were ever married  08:06
 
Her Sicilian father came over, saw how they were running things, and made them get a commercial space  08:22
 
Dad was an entrepreneur and pushed them along  08:48
 
Several businesses before they were even married  09:12
 
Their work as photography purists  11:00
 
The way the work with film forces them to slow down  12:13
 
Together, they can study the same scenes indefinitely before they ever take one photograph  12:56
 
She bought him his first digital camera, and they felt even more married than now  13:36
 
The move from Las Vegas to Park City and opening a gallery was big   13:58
 
Nature is what they do. It’s their church.  14:17
 
She would be the model in their commercial work they shot for Patagonia  14:30
 
They’d always been moving towards something bigger  14:46
 
He hated Las Vegas and they had to make a move  14:57
 
They always knew they could make things work  16:07
 
Both influenced by Tim Ferriss and The Four-Hour Work Week 16:11
 
Learned to enjoy their lives more  16:25
 
They started taking back their lives together  16:57
 
They had honeymooned in Park City and loved it, and decided to live there  17:15
 
He pounded the pavement like crazy to find business space for them in Park City  17:43
 
People who say, “Oh, I could never work with my spouse.”  18:57
 
They dynamic and the magic of how they work together  19:06
 
The value of having a partner with a different perspective  19:53
 
They’ve worked out how to communicate their way through things, and there’s less ego involved  20:29
 
You have someone on your team 24 hours a day and they’re always on your side 20:51
 
Without a team, a CoupleCo isn’t possible  21:32
 
People always say, “I could never work with my spouse.” But have you tried? It takes cooperation. 21:37
 
Their end goals together are much bigger than their personal goals  21:52
 
Make it a point to eat together every night and talk  22:05
 
Talking is important when you’re together all day doing the same job.  Started taking a walk at night with the dogs just to unwind  22:36
 
The business was growing so exponentially that it was taking things over, and they had no time for themselves  23:01
 
Love to cook, and they made sure their home life was as important as their working life  23:57
 
A positive change was taking the offices out of the home  24:25
 
Time management: They run a gallery and also find time to create the work  25:01
 
How adding a child affects the dynamic of work and balance  26:46
 
Having a child has refocused them and given them new goals  27:10
 
The kid travels with them in the RV when they go on photo expeditions and she loves it  27:24
 
The value of good baby sitters  27:37
 
Park City is a lifestyle choice, it’s very active and the child is very adventurous  28:58
 
They made a decision that having a child was not going to change their lifestyle  29:37
 
How the business is affecting the child  30:10
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