$497.00 USD

Home Grown (for family photographers)

For photographers who want to lead with presence, confidence, and creativity. So every session feels like art, not performance.

What if guiding families didn’t mean relying on prompts, hoping for cooperation, or pushing through resistance?

What if you knew exactly how to hold space when a toddler melts down…

How to bring the parents back when they start worrying about outfits or the way their kids are 'behaving' at your shoot…

What if you had an endless well of ideas to draw from for how to guide families to connect with each other instead of having to memorize poses and prompts?

And you knew how to walk into every session with a clear, grounded presence that makes people feel seen, safe, and beautifully themselves?

Home Grown is a photography course that teaches you how to lead your sessions. Not just pose them.

Who This Is For

This course is for photographers who are ready to:

Ditch the pose bank and feel confident guiding any kind of family in any kind of situation with presence and flexibility.
Learn emotional leadership that supports your creativity—not drains it.
Create an experience that allows real moments, play, and connection to unfold for you and your clients.
Build a signature approach rooted in empathy, artistry, and calm authority.
Stop feeling like you're “faking it” at sessions—and start showing up like a creative guide who truly knows what they’re doing.

What Students Say

“Home Grown changed the way I shoot, the way I see families, and the way I see myself.”
- Britt

“I used to panic if things didn’t go to plan. Now I know how to co-create a session in real time. I’m more confident, relaxed, and creative.”
- Katie

“This course gave me the language, structure, and mindset I needed to fully step into leadership as an artist.”
- Alice

What’s Inside

The Home Grown Method eBook: A complete framework to emotionally and energetically prepare for your sessions—from the first inquiry to the final delivery.
Pre-recorded video modules: Behind-the-scenes walkthroughs, mindset shifts, and teaching moments you can apply right away.
Session Prep Tools: Scripts, audio preps, and real-life examples to guide families before the shoot.
Bonus community access: A private space to ask questions, share wins, and grow with others learning to lead from within.

What You’ll Walk Away With

A practical yet intuitive framework for leading shoots with more calm, confidence, and connection.
Renewed creative energy—because when you know how to lead, you have more space to play.
A body of work that feels more like you.
Clients who rave not just about the photos, but about how they felt.

What People Are Saying:

I’ve admired your work for years and am obsessed with your process and beautiful storytelling. I raised my prices significantly in 2023 and started feeling A LOT of pressure (from myself - not my clients) to produce “perfect” galleries and the consequent anxiety that comes along with perfection. Last year, I started examining my art and approach to photo sessions and thinking about how to incorporate more “real moments” and storytelling into my work and taking the pressure of perfection off myself and my clients. I attended a workshop with a well-known photographer which was certainly inspiring and memorable. But I had a difficult time applying [their] approach to family photography. [I’ve] participated in several workshops throughout the year and experimented with different ways of shooting when I could, but wasn’t getting the desired results. Your course has been the BEST at helping me figure out how to photograph families in a more relaxed and memorable way. It is so dense with information. When you talk about each featured session, I feel like I am there with you.

Alice

Before taking this course I had done a handful of family sessions. While I was going through the videos, I simultaneously had family sessions so I was able to put all of my learnings into practice immediately. [the tools I’ve learned have] helped me connect with the family quicker, see when people are getting burnt out before they are depleted, and observe the interactions between family members better. The gallery walk-throughs have been helpful because it matches the way that I learn …. Hearing Suzy talk about what was going through her head during the different photos in the gallery and the conversations she was having with the families helped me set expectations for my future shoots. Ultimately that knowledge sharing has helped me give better experiences and ensure that I’m going to deliver photos that my clients like just as much as I do. A monumental part was being able to sense Suzy‘s passion for teaching, and her want to give families beautiful photos. That energy jumped across the screen! Her passion stoked a fire for my own enthusiasm to go down this path of family photography.

My work has never been better. I could never find a course that I actually could learn from until this [class] with Suzy was offered. My work has never been better. My business has never been so profitable. It's like a grad class in business and photography, but written just for you. 10/10!

Caili

The course was one of the most beneficial things I did for my business and honestly my personal life. [Home Grown] gave me the push I desperately needed to make necessary changes in my business. What is so amazing about Suzy is that she managed to help me truly see and connect with my own heart, desires and creativity. I also love that she encourages balance, rest and building a business that works with your life. I am so grateful for Suzy and this course.

Katie

Suzy's Homegrown e-book and course was so incredibly enlightening and refreshing. It gave me such a good perspective on finding the joy amidst family dynamics and toddler meltdowns, which is all normal and real and something to be expected and should be met with love and grace. I love how Suzy outlines ways in which she draws a family together, and helps parents take delight in the moment they are in, whatever it may look like. I admire how Suzy takes a holistic approach to helping photographers prepare their minds and bodies for a session, and the work that we need to do in ourselves to be able to show up as creators. This helped me, as a photographer, re-frame my own expectations and realize how my own energy and mindfulness can dramatically shift a session from a family maybe feeling resistant, frustrated, and a "why did we do this?" mentality to "oh, she sees us just as we are, and there is value in being authentic in this moment- there is beauty here that she sees." This allowed me the opportunity to structure my sessions differently and adapt to each and every situation, no matter the circumstances. Because our job as photographers is to lead with love and acceptance, be flexible in nature, and instill confidence in a family that their time and investment is not wasted, but actually SO valued.

Britt