Black Friday Special Announcement

Thankful Photography Breakthrough Pitch

Here we are the day after Thanksgiving, November, 2025. I know this has been a challenging year for a lot of people, but right now I just want you to be thankful. I wanna remind you of all the great things that are still here.

You're still breathing. You can hear and see and taste and touch, and that's a blessing. With all that's happening around us all over the world. It is very easy to be caught up in all that's negative. But today I want to remind you to be truly thankful.

Whenever I talk to anybody about Thanksgiving, the conversation immediately turns to food. What you're going to have, the Turkey, the ham, the dressing, you know, the conversations.

Thanksgiving has become a holiday of just eating and being with friends and family. I must admit, when I lived in the States, it was my favorite holiday. Not so much because of the eating, but just being around friends and family. It can be a beautiful thing.

But you are a photographer and maybe you've had a challenging year.

So many of us today struggle. Struggle with marketing, struggle with clients, struggle trying to raise our prices, struggle. Just trying to make a living as a photographer. I get it. But today I want to tell you, there's a lot to be thankful about.

If we've never met before this year, we've had a chance to connect over this podcast. This year, the creator woke me up and showed me how to make something that can change not only my life. It can change your life no matter where you are in the world. That's a lot to be thankful for.

If you're going through any challenges in your photography business, Or maybe you're just trying to get your business up and going get your first clients and not sure how to get past charging a very low amount of money to have anybody hire you. That is a challenge and a lot of new photographers face that at even more established photographers face that same struggle.

Doing other things on the side just to make it, or maybe you're doing a regular job and trying to do it on the side in hopes that you can make photography your main thing later on.

Wherever you are, and that challenge rollercoaster.

I want you to be thankful. That we are here today. Today is a very special day.

If you've been with me on these three days of workshops, you know, today is the day when we launch Photography Breakthrough System. Today is the day you have an opportunity to come and join us. To learn what being thankful really is. So next year, this time, your song is very different. Your feeling is very different Next year, this time on Thanksgiving, you'll truly be thankful , for all the creator has done for you.

I have to tell you that feeling of having your life change so dramatically brings tears to your eyes. If you are truly struggling doing everything you can and nothing's working. And you find a solution and you watch it change your life. There is nothing like that.

I'm telling you this because I went through that.

I know what it feels like to be challenged to not know where to turn next. Not to know where to go for help. I know all of those feelings. That is why I created this podcast to help you, to inspire you, to let you know that there is really help out there.

I've heard all those struggles. I've talked to so many photographers this year who have been going through it.

New photographers who are charging a hundred dollars for a session.

Established photographers who are surprised how the industry has changed and are struggling now to figure it all out and everything in between.

But I'm here to tell you. This is the dawn of your breakthrough year.

The only reason you can stay stuck is if you turn away from what I'm about to tell you.
You now have an opportunity to join photography, Breakthrough System. I am so thankful that the creator gave me this idea to share with you.

Photography Breakthrough system is not a course.

And by that I mean it's not like a course where you go online and you look at videos and, and all of that. It's not that. It's live training. Live training is where you are held accountable. Where you can ask questions, we can talk to each other. That's when things change. If you are left just to watch a video, you know what happens.

Life gets in the way and you never get around to doing it. But when it's live, there is no excuse. You show up or you don't, and I can see when you show up. When you make that commitment to yourself and you show up, that's when things change. You already know what happens when you try to do it by yourself.

You've been trying to do that all your photography life and you know where that's gotten you. Maybe you're doing pretty good in photography. But you want to do better. This system can take you for wherever you are to double what you're making. If you have no clients whatsoever, the sky is truly the limit.

If you are a photographer who made less than a thousand dollars this year in photography, they are out there. I've spoken to them.

Maybe you're here right now. You have an opportunity to truly change your life in such a way that you won't believe it. All you have to do is get out of your own way and follow the system. Today is the day the Photography breakthrough system opens up for enrollment.

It is Black Friday. I know you're thinking about shopping and getting all these deals and all of this, but what about your future? This is the day where that can change. This will not stay open long, only a few days. Enrollment will end on Monday. It will end on Monday because I'll need to prepare everything that's going to happen going forward for you, for your first class, for your first breakthrough. So lemme just walk you through what's gonna happen once you join photography Breakthrough System. I know it's the holidays and you're wondering what, Matthew, there's so much going on. I'm gonna have a busy December.

I don't have time to join the class. I got you. Don't worry when you join today.

The first thing that's going to happen is we will have a meet and greet meeting. All the new students together will have a meet and greet session.

You'll find out the date of the meet and greet once you join, but trust me. I've got you. I know it's the holidays. We may have two different sessions just because I know we're all busy doing things for the holidays. Maybe you're traveling or whatever. I've got you. Don't worry. The actual training however, will begin in January after the holidays, after all the excuses are gone.

Let's talk about the training and how it begins. The first seven weeks are consecutive live training. I want you to be there for each of them if you can make it to each of the live trainings. No worries. As long as you've signed up.

They are recorded for you. These seven weeks are your foundation after those first seven weeks of live training, which will be intense, I have to tell you now.

But it's gonna take that to break past all you've been going through trying to fix your struggles on your own, it won't be easy, but it'll be much easier than if you do nothing and stay where you are. You know what that feels like.

Your first seven weeks. I wanna change how you feel about photography. About the future, about what's possible. I've got your back. Be thankful today because your day, your day to change your life is here.
Today is the day to give a gift to yourself.

During the holidays, we think about giving gifts to others, which is great. But this gift, this first gift, is for you, gift to yourself. And I'll teach you how to give to others for the rest of your photography career in a manner that's so incredible. It will give to you in ways that you cannot imagine. I know you're thinking about increasing your finances.

Yes, we're gonna do that, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

This is the day. When I'm asking you to believe in yourself now when you join, there is a 30 day guarantee, a money back, 30 day guarantee.

Now maybe you're thinking, well, Matthew, you know, the first 30 days it'll still be the holiday season. Your 30 day guarantee will begin January 1st because the training begins in January.

I am committed to training you in a way that's gonna change your life forever.

Don't cheat yourself. Don't hold back. I know you're scared. I was there too.

But this is the time for you to surrender so you can grow, surrender your old ways of thinking, which is not easy. I know. Trust me. I fought that myself at times. I still fight that. But that's why every day I start my day by getting up, getting on my knees and thinking the creator for all that he's done for me every single day.

Let me just tell you what I pray for every single morning for strength throughout the day, first and foremost. I thank the creative for life for letting me wake up. I don't take that for granted, for letting me see another day, for being able to take another breath, to walk on my own, two feet to taste. The touch, the smell to see, to use my eyes, to use my voice, to be able to speak to you, and then I ask for help. Help in teaching you, training you.

And I thank the creator for all he's done for me to turn my life around. If that had never happened, I would not be here talking to you. I thank God every single day for this opportunity to do what I love and do it more abundantly.

And I pray for you, even though I've never met you. I pray for you. I pray for the creator to bring the right people to me. Those who really need the help, who are sincere, who are earnest and will act. No matter where you are, the creator sees you, knows your pain, knows your heart, not just what comes out of your mouth, knows your heart, what you're thinking, what you're wishing for, and I'm here to tell you.

He hears you. He knows your pain. He's placed you right here to hear this message. This is your call to join Photography Breakthrough System today. This is the day that can change everything.

So you now have a choice. The choice is stay where you are. The next time somebody sees your work, they like it, and they ask you, oh, how much do you charge? And you get nervous, not sure how to respond, and you respond the same way you always have and you get nothing back.

You hear crickets the next time that happens. Remember, you could have changed that. Because that is exactly what I'm offering you today, a chance to change that and what happens after that forever.

I want you to imagine this I that one client who walked away.

Could have been a client like Aretha Franklin was for me, a client who hired me for 13 years until she passed away, like Vanessa Williams, who I photographed for over 20 years. Like Queen Latifah, who I photographed along the same time since 1995. There's a list that goes on and on, but those clients are back in America. I now live in Japan.

I'm working to speak the language, but trust me, I am struggling. But this year. I've shot over 60 different clients. Let me say that again. This year I've shot over 60 different clients, and guess what? This invitation, it closes on Monday. It closes on Monday for several reasons. Number one, I need to prepare for your training.

Get things ready to go, but also another client who I met through my main client is taking me away for a week and guess where they're taking me? On Monday at midnight, I will fly to Africa for the first time in my life. To work as a photographer, shooting for a new client. Everything I've been telling you works.

You'll be amazed what happens when you get out of your own way and let the creator take over. Yes, that's what's happening.

God has been very, very good to me through the ups and downs, through the struggles of life and all that's going on all around us.

This has been an incredible year, and I want you to experience that. When you become a student in photography breakthrough system, no matter what you believe, that doesn't really matter.

I pray for your success every single day.

No matter where you are in the world, there's somebody thinking about you and praying for your success.
Has anybody else ever done that before?

I want you to thrive. I want you to know what it feels like to have clients lined up next month and the month after that, where you're not worrying about, oh, how do I pay my bills? How will I do this? All that goes away.

I'm not saying all struggles go away because your next struggle will be, oh. When I have time for myself to do this, you'll be so busy. You'll have a different problem trying to break away and go on vacation anywhere you want, whenever you want. That's a great feeling to provide for your family in a way that you haven't before. To have less stress in your life, to have a community behind you supporting you. Yes, you get that too.

Today's the day, the day you can change your life forever. Jump on in, make that commitment. To yourself. This is the day when you can change your life and have all those worries behind you. You know what it feels like to have a client, a potential client contact you. You send your price and then you hear nothing.

Let's back up for a second. They send their email to you. Or message or however they contact you, asking you how much you charge. And right away you get nervous, right?

You start second guessing yourself, second guessing your rate. Second guessing how to proceed. What if there was a system to change All that? Take all your worries away. That's the beginning of what I teach you, how to get past that hurdle and all the other ones that's going to come.

I'm so excited for you today because today is an incredible day. Oh, and there's one more amazing thing that happens, but only for the first 30 people that sign up. The first 30 people who sign up today get an incredible gift worth $750. The first 30 people will get the Aretha Cool Box set

The Aretha Cool Box set. It is the brand new book I've done on Aretha Franklin. It's those 13 years I told you about where I photographed her and captured her life. But you don't only get the book, you get this beautiful fold out. I call it an Ugokugraph. Ugoku is the Japanese word for movement. It's a movement.
Fold out.

You get a signed print, you get an audio on a beautiful pink USB drive. Aretha loved pink. With stories behind the scenes stories of working with the Queen of Soul, but your book is not like the standard book , there's a special cover with an acrylic print embedded in the cover.

In the Aretha Cool Box set, all the contents come in a beautiful clamshell case. Every element in the box set is signed and numbered. There are only 100 limited edition box sets. Out of those 100, only 30 are left. That's it. And the first 30 people who sign up today, they get those box sets. My gift to you for believing in you. The box sets will go out after the 30 day trial is over. Yes, we wanna know you are committed, that you're here to learn and stay with this.

With the Aretha coup box set, the clamshell is numbered. Your Aretha Cool book is numbered and signed.
Your foldout is numbered and signed. Your limited edition print is numbered and signed. Your limited edition box set, every element is numbered and signed. You'll have one of one. There's only one number 50, only one, number 30, only one number 25, and that's your gift for being one of the first 30 people to sign up. So jump on in, change your life and get a great gift in the process. Yes, today, Thanksgiving extends itself for you. You have a lot to be thankful about now as you change your life in the year on a high note, but begin the year on an even higher note. I am here for you. I'm excited for you and I'm looking forward to meeting you in that first meet and greet session.

Don't put it off. Today is all about you and your future. Now it's up to you. What will you do with this opportunity? You know time is a funny thing. It goes by so fast. What are you going to do with your time? Do me a favor? If you have a calendar close by. Take a look at it. Look at today's date.

Now think forward six months from today. Where do you want to be six months from now? In the same place where you are now or seeing a new version of you. A new version of your business, a new version of your photography.

Imagine yourself smiling and laughing 'cause you can't believe how much your life has changed.
Imagine what that feels like. Imagine being so happy to call yourself a photographer. And say it with a smile on your face.

That's what we're offering you today. All you've got to do is jump in today and be a part of photography breakthrough system. Again, the doors are open today, but they're only open for a few days. Don't miss this opportunity to change your life forever. The doors will close on Monday. You have a few days to jump in.

The first 30. Get that free gift. The Aretha Cool Box set valued at $750. The regular book Aretha Cool is available on Amazon.

It makes a great gift for the holidays for anybody who loves music. But the box set, that's not available on Amazon. If you want to see what comes inside the box set, go to aretha cool.com. Take a look.
See for yourself how beautiful and special the box set is. 

When you join Photography Breakthrough System as one of the first 30, you get the box set for free. That's only for the first 30 people. They're the last 30 box sets available, and you can grab yours today in the process. Learn how to change your life forever

if you're struggling to raise your prices. Don't know how you've tried, but you've gotten pushback
and in response, you drop your prices again. There's another way to do this. The link to join is in the show notes.

Click it now and join today. If you're on Instagram, I'll put the link to join also on the Instagram page in my bio only for a few days. Sign up now.

Again, the link to join is here in the show notes or go to Instagram and look in my bio. You can sign up there as well.

All right, everyone. Have a great rest of your weekend. Dream big. Believe in yourself and know you now have a community that's behind you pushing you, supporting you. With someone who's praying for you every single morning.

Happy holidays.

I look forward to seeing you very soon. Until then, bye for now.

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