Benchmark Happenings

Your Brand Deserves More Than a Selfie

• Jonathan Tipton, Steve Reed & Christine Reed • Episode 50

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What happens when tourism expertise meets a passion for pageants and photography? Something magical, as Krishna Goodwin demonstrates in this captivating conversation about professional imagery, personal branding, and finding your true path.

Krishna pulls back the curtain on her journey from Sullivan County Tourism Director to sought-after photographer, revealing how her husband's hobby unexpectedly launched her into a specialized career capturing stunning headshots for pageant contestants and professionals alike. With remarkable emotional intelligence and 30 years of pageant experience, Krishna has developed an uncanny ability to identify and minimize insecurities, helping clients present their best, authentic selves to the world.

"We look in the mirror and see something different than maybe what everybody else sees," Krishna explains, sharing her philosophy that exceptional photography isn't just technical skill—it's understanding people. Through her work with beauty queens, realtors, and corporate professionals, she demonstrates why professional headshots matter more than ever in our digital-first world, where first impressions often happen before you walk through the door.

Beyond photography techniques, Krishna offers wisdom about career pivots, finding mentors, and embracing discomfort as a pathway to growth. Her faith-centered approach to business—"When I gave my business to God, it brings me the clients He wants me to have"—provides a refreshing perspective on professional success that prioritizes meaning over volume.

Ready to upgrade from backyard selfies to images that truly represent your personal brand? Listen now and discover why Krishna believes your headshot is more than just a photo—it's your calling card to the world.

To help you to navigate the home buying and mortgage process, Jonathan & Steve are currently licensed in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, contact us today at 423-491-5405 or visit www.jonathanandsteve.com.

Speaker 1:

This is Benchmark Happenings, brought to you by Jonathan and Steve from Benchmark Home Loans. Northeast Tennessee, johnson City, kingsport, bristol, the Tri-Cities One of the most beautiful places in the country to live. Tons of great things to do and awesome local businesses. And on this show you'll find out why people are dying to move to Northeast Tennessee. And on the way we'll have discussions about mortgages and we'll interview people in the real estate industry. It's what we do. This is Benchmark Happenings, brought to you by Benchmark Home Loans and now your host, christine Reed. And now your host, christine Reed.

Speaker 2:

Welcome back everybody to another episode of Benchmark Happenings, and today the star of our show is Krishna Goodwin. So Krishna, woo-hoo, that's exactly right. I am so excited to have you here today.

Speaker 3:

I am excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2:

We've tried to do this what? For about a year now. It's well, it's been too long.

Speaker 3:

I was starting to feel a little bit of heartbreak, Thinking I didn't want to come in.

Speaker 2:

I'm like I just don't know. I just I've got to get this fantastic photographer. You're letting me hold the dog, so you know. So, fantastic photographer, You're letting me hold the dog.

Speaker 3:

So you know that's. When you told me I could hold the dog, I was like, OK, I'll come.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, brody. So Brody is our little dog, he's the well, I'm not going to say the love of my life because Steve's going to listen to this. He might be like no, steve, honey, if you're listening, you are the love of my life.

Speaker 3:

Brody is the best dog in the whole world, the dog love of your life, the dog love of my life, see, see. Yes, I have two of those at home as well.

Speaker 2:

I tell you, it's nothing like having a dog. Is there, there's nothing like having a dog.

Speaker 3:

We could just make this about the dogs.

Speaker 2:

Well, you know what I have? I've had people here from the Humane Society and we talk about animals and things like that, because I am just a dog lover, me too, me too. So what kind of dogs do you have? I have two Cocker Spaniels. Oh, my goodness, I'm on my fourth and fifth one.

Speaker 3:

And then I also have a cat, a Dale cat, a big old fat cat it's what I call her. And then we have a lab that we kind of inherited. We had two of them when we moved into our house and one of them passed away sadly about a year ago, and then we've got one left. But our neighbors take care of Macy sometimes, so we have joint custody, joint custody of the lab. There you go. Well, it works out. It works out.

Speaker 2:

So, krista, thank you for being here today that was a crazy introduction we had. It's okay, it's okay so. Uh. So, krista, you um, and I've known you for many years many you and your husband both. But you have done professional headshots for me and for my husband and you are just probably one of the best photographers professional photographers out there but know, headshots is one thing but really your niche of what you love is beauty pageants.

Speaker 3:

It is. It's pageant event photography. Pageantheadshotscom. Pageanteventphotographycom. All underneath the Goodwin Photography banner. I guess you could say Goodwin photography banner.

Speaker 1:

I guess you could say and really that started because I have always loved pageants and always been involved in pageants for probably 30 years now.

Speaker 3:

I used to have a Miss America prelim and then I stopped doing that and just kind of started in the photography business because of my husband actually.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so what did? Jim was so we were trying.

Speaker 3:

I was working in tourism, I was the director of tourism for the Sullivan County Tourism Department. Okay, First and only Years ago, when we first met and got married and I was doing a brochure for all the historical things that were in downtown Blountville Excuse me, sure, for all the historical things that were in downtown Blountville and we needed some photography done for the Deer Inn. And so I was like you know what? I think my husband could do that Because he had always loved photography. He had loved photography since high school. And so he came down and did that.

Speaker 3:

And then there was a guy that was also helping out with that, who did wedding photography, and he told me he said, hey, I'm looking for somebody to second shoot for me. Do you know of anybody? And I was like, yeah, my husband would probably love that. So I went home, asked him. He was like, absolutely, you know he could do it on his time off because he, you know, at the time he worked at the DA's office, and so he started doing it, interned with him for about a year and then started doing wagon photography on his own and I started going with him.

Speaker 3:

I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know what I was doing. But I started going with him and then I was like, well, we can take pictures of my title holders, and so I would get behind him and I would tell the girls how to move and all this kind of stuff. And then finally I just said you're just going to have to show me how to do this, and so kind of. The rest is history. And then when he became criminal court judge in Sullivan County he couldn't really do the photography anymore.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, Super busy.

Speaker 3:

He still helps me sometimes with the pageant stuff.

Speaker 2:

You can put him down if you want to Put Brody down?

Speaker 3:

Brody was getting Brody was getting anxious.

Speaker 2:

He was like that is enough love for one day. I'm done with you. I'm going to go over here and sit for a little bit.

Speaker 3:

I think he wants his mom is what he wants, but but yeah, so I mean kind of the rest is history really. Um, as far as that's concerned, I uh, I just I've always just I've, I've loved learning about the craft. I've loved learning what it is that and, I guess, knowing what pageant girls wanted because of being around them so much that I kind of knew you know little idiosyncrasies about women. I mean, we, let's just face it, we look in the mirror and we see something different than maybe what everybody else sees.

Speaker 2:

That is so true.

Speaker 3:

And you get it in your head. Oh well, my eyes aren't this, or my lips aren't this, or my nose isn't this, or my face isn't this, and so I can usually pinpoint. I pretty much know what her insecurity is going to be, because she's looking in the mirror and she's seeing that. I see it as something that's beautiful about her, but she probably doesn't like that, and so I just kind of think about that, and so I try to minimize whatever that is, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2:

Yes, oh yeah, absolutely. And so now do you so your love for pageants and doing this photography? So do you primarily, do you go to a lot of the pageants, krista, or is it just people who are competing? They call you or reach out and say hey, I need some headshots. A little bit of both, actually.

Speaker 3:

A little bit of both. I do pageant photography. Where I'll go to the pageants? There's a big one that's going on in Kingsport, at Meadowview, this summer, mrs International, and so I started working with them last year.

Speaker 1:

Mrs.

Speaker 3:

International. They have a Mrs, a teen and a Miss division and so I will go there and I'll shoot. I've got a staff that I'll come in with me and they'll work with me and I'll shoot that pageant. Some of those girls I do see they'll contact me to get headshots done, which I do headshots in my studio, at my house. So it's a little mixture of both, you know, and then that way I'm able to meet the girls, you know, I'm able to meet the contestants and the women. I mean sometimes we're talking about little, you know, six, seven, eight years old, and sometimes we're talking about 28, 29 year old. They're married.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, so both of them, them, that's a little mixture of both. I don't typically set up doing headshots at the pageant, okay, but I will do the event photography and then if they want to book a session, I'd prefer to do it at my studio. But I have like when I came here and I did your stuff, you're all stuff yeah, yes, that was so fun, so I've been to your studio a couple of times for headshots, and I just love the magic that you can perform on that.

Speaker 3:

Well, I have to give part credit to the hair and makeup artist too. So you know, I work a lot with Shamel McKenzie, and so I have to give her a little shout out there.

Speaker 2:

We love Shamel. We do love Shamel, and we're trying to get her on the podcast too.

Speaker 3:

We're going to get her on the podcast Eventually. Yes, yes, yeah, it will happen, it will happen, it will happen.

Speaker 2:

But yeah, she does do a fantastic job, phenomenal, yeah. And then she's done makeup and hair for me, just for me going to an event. I reached out to her.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think you actually came to the house one time just to get, because I'll let her do that. Sometimes she'll book people in and I'll just let her use my glam room. That's what she calls it my glam room.

Speaker 3:

And I will let her do that. She'll do people that way, so I meet a lot of people that way too, and I'll meet a lot of professional women who are also getting headshots done, because I do the professional side as well. If you want a little bit more of a glam professional headshot and a lot of women, do you know realtors and some of your? I just did somebody the other day that was a pharmaceutical sales rep. Yes, and so you know some professional women. They want you know, if you want glam headshot, I'm your gal.

Speaker 2:

Well, I'll tell you the last headshot you did for me I think it was a couple of years ago. I probably need to do an updated one. But I think it was a couple of years ago. I probably need to do an updated one, but I loved it and I use that on my company website for, you know, for my work and and they, they always want to do these headshots at sales meetings and they want us to use those and I'm like, and I refuse, I'm like, no, I paid to have this professional headshot. This is the one you will use for me.

Speaker 3:

I had a gentleman that works for a large company in West Tennessee and he had his shot done and he actually sent it to me to fix the background and retouch him a little bit. And he says every time he goes through and uses his little badge people ask him wait a minute, your headshot looks different than everybody else's.

Speaker 2:

Like 100% better, yeah, well, yeah, that is awesome. So, and you know, and I can just tell Chris and working with you, you love what you do, I do. And so I bet you don't feel like you ever work, do you?

Speaker 3:

You don't. You really don't, because you know what's the old saying Turn your passion into a profession and you'll never work a day in your life. And I think that's true. But I think when God calls you to do something, if you follow that, you're not going to be bogged down in the stress. You're doing what you love, I know.

Speaker 3:

When we found our house, you know we came here and you guys were our mortgage company and I just remember because we had been around other realtors and other you know in that field and I just felt such a sense with Steve that he loved what he did. He loved putting people into their homes and figuring out the right place for them. You know to go, you could just see the excitement, and so I feel the same way about what I do. I feel the same way I you know to go, you could just see the excitement and so I feel the same way about what I do. I feel the same way I like I want to be able to give that girl that great headshot that when she walks into that pageant interview that she knows that she can compete with anybody else.

Speaker 3:

Same thing with the business headshot that when they put that shot there they know that that's their calling card and you know those real estate books that they used to sell all the time that they don't do those anymore.

Speaker 1:

I wish they did those.

Speaker 3:

They don't do those anymore, but a lot of times I would flip through those and you look at those headshots and the person that that that you see, that you know that looks like I don't know that looks professional. Um, you kind of gravitate to that person. Yes, and the headshot is your calling card. It really is. And if you look at that and you know I don't know, it just does I don't know if it does and it's it's you know everything that we do.

Speaker 2:

You know it's all about it's your image, it's your image and it's excellence. And so that having a professional headshot, whatever your role, is your job, having that that you can put on LinkedIn, on a social media page, to your company on your resume.

Speaker 3:

It's your brand. It is your brand, it is your calling card. It is the first impression, is what it is, and when you look at those things and that first impression looks really good and you want that first impression to look really good.

Speaker 2:

I mean, anybody can go take their cell phone in the backyard and take a picture, and I've seen many, many of those I have to.

Speaker 3:

That's not what we do. No, and I custom curate everybody that I do. That's the one thing that I do. I'm not I'm not using AI to make you look different than you look. I am custom curating, in that I am retouching your headshot. That's going to look like you. It's the glam version of you, but it's going to look like you, right, because I do think that's important.

Speaker 3:

And sometimes I take a little bit longer than other people, but that's because I'm making sure that all the I's are dotted and all the T's are crossed, and I want it to be what you want it to be.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, well, and they're beautiful and I'll tell you it's so hard to pick your headshot. I mean, because what I love about what you do is you provide everything that you need. You know hair, makeup, you do a consult, you tell people what colors to wear, what type of jewelry, because you know what is actually going to photograph the best. And then you have backdrops if you do it in your own studio, and it's the comfort level because, I mean, some people may not feel comfortable getting their picture taken A lot of people don't and it's amazing how a lot of women are.

Speaker 3:

You know. They'll sit down in front of me and they'll say to me well, now tell me what to do, because I don't know and I'm like, I got you.

Speaker 3:

I got you, you know, and I think it's also just about having that relationship with that person, you know, and bringing out. A lot of times I'll have somebody put their first outfit on that's maybe not, and we might just do it in a t-shirt, because I want them to get comfortable in front of me, because I do try to encourage, you know. I tell people you look great, you look beautiful. Oh, yes, I like that. Keep that, because I want that person to leave that experience going. Wow, I just feel like a billion bucks, you know, and that's what I want to have happen.

Speaker 2:

And that's every time I've been. That's exactly how I left. I feel like a million bucks just tickled to death. Love, the overall experience and everything. And then you actually came here to benchmark and did headshots for the entire staff. That was a fun day.

Speaker 3:

That was a fun day. I enjoyed that day. A staff. That was a fun day. That was a fun day. I enjoyed that day a lot. That was a fun day, yes.

Speaker 2:

And you had a lot of folks here that just they weren't used to having their picture made. They were uncomfortable, but you had everybody laughing, cracking up, cracking up and and I think it's just like your emotional intelligence with getting people to kind of loosen up their personality can come through.

Speaker 3:

You have to, you have to um, you know that's, that's really part of it because, again, especially I think women, women sometimes can be uncomfortable in front of the camera. I know, I am know, even when my husband takes my headshots, you know, he knows, but he knows me and it's getting to know that person.

Speaker 3:

You get to know them and you get to know what it is kind of that makes them tick Right, and then you're able to you know, or you just have a conversation about something else that has nothing to do with the fact that they're getting their headshot made, take a few clicks and then just start talking to them about their dog or about their kids, and then that way it gets their mind stopping what I'm doing. It's kind of like going to the doctor and getting blood drawn. We talked about that upstairs. Talk to me about something else, so I'm not focused on this.

Speaker 2:

We'll take care of that later. We're going to get that taken care of, I promise you. So I have connections.

Speaker 3:

I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. But um, now everybody's gonna be like what are they talking about?

Speaker 2:

we're not gonna tell you no, no, no, you can ask us when you see us out in public that's right but um so, krista, I know that you kind of picked this up, and so is there any additional training and education and things that you do to perfect your craft, you know, as a photographer? Because I mean, I mean, is there like licensing or accreditation?

Speaker 3:

there's not even really licensing and there is some accreditation to become like a professional photographer, if you did like landscape and fine arts and stuff like that. But I personally think a lot of that is more for the other photographers to go oh, you're a CRM or something, and I don't even know what those are. My biggest thing is just seeing, kind of keeping in touch with what's going on in the industry and seeing, okay, what's this new technique that they're using, Kind of like the makeup artists do with different things and doing makeup differently depending. So there's not really any of that, other than you know what a lot of trial and error. Okay, I want to use my strobes and I want to do something different, or I want to light it differently, and sometimes it's just a matter of, you know, going and positioning the lights in different places, places depending on what you want.

Speaker 3:

But I do a lot of through B&H and a lot of times Paul Buff, they'll send things and I'll watch those tutorials and things like that and be like, oh, that's really cool. But because of what I do, it is kind of so niche in this, it's just headshots that, unless I'm branching out into doing some modeling stuff and I do a little bit of that too with the pageant girls. I've kind of narrowed my niche down to. I know I have to adjust my camera for different lighting situations as far as natural light coming in, but I like shooting in natural light. I do think that that gives a. It gives the most organic, I guess, representation of that person.

Speaker 3:

So I raise my garage door up and yes, and I've been in that garage.

Speaker 2:

when it's like 20 degrees outside, I give you a heater though, yeah, you do get a heater, but beauty is pain. Yes, I can attest to that. It's a lot of work.

Speaker 3:

I was shooting the Virginia USA and Virginia teen USA girls yesterday and it had been so warm last week. Yeah, it was like 85 degrees, and then it was like what? 60 degrees yesterday and it was probably 55 in the garage and I was just like I'm so sorry and for me it was comfortable, but they were freezing, they are freezing, they had chicken skin.

Speaker 1:

So I told them.

Speaker 3:

I said it's fine, they won't, the camera won't pick up the chicken skin. But they were like can you edit out my chicken skin? I was like go stand by the heater.

Speaker 2:

It'll be okay. It'll be okay it is. It is just I've noticed that I remember years ago, when I did my first professional headshot with you, I remember telling my manager at the time, you know, hey, this is my professional headshot, this is what. She couldn't believe it. And I said, well, I said, you know, we need to invest in ourselves, as you know, career, whatever it is. But now I've noticed, you know, that was probably Kristen. That was probably back in 2005 or something. I mean, it was the first one. It was a long time ago. And well, when did y'all buy your house?

Speaker 3:

Let me see. No this was. It would have probably been 2014 then, because we we moved in we moved into the house in 2014. So before that I had three different studios in Johnson City. So I started out with a studio in downtown Jonesboro actually, then moved to a studio in Johnson City on Boone Street, then moved to a studio in downtown Johnson City across from Freiburg's, right, next to Mail, Stamps and Coins.

Speaker 3:

I had a studio there for years, and when I was doing wedding photography, it was important for me to have that type of a location. I wasn't one that was going to meet my clients at Starbucks or Panera.

Speaker 3:

And I know a lot of people do that, and there's nothing wrong with that If that's what works for you, absolutely, but for me it was important for me to have that space. But once I transitioned to just pretty much doing headshots, I knew I didn't need that. And transition to just pretty pretty much doing headshots, I knew I didn't need that, and so when then?

Speaker 2:

when we moved into that house.

Speaker 3:

It was perfect because it worked for that. But, excuse me, so yeah, I guess that was probably 2014,.

Speaker 2:

But that's been 11 years ago, yeah, and I've had two more since then, but I've noticed, you see, that more and more people investing in themselves getting these professional headshots. I just think it's a, like you said, it's a brand, just we need that this day and age.

Speaker 3:

Well, I think it's important for somebody to do the things that they feel good about, to make you know. It's whether you're going shopping to get something you know new because you want to make yourself feel good. I'm not encouraging going out here and spending, spending, spending, spending every day, but you know everybody feel you want to feel good about yourself. You know what you're wearing and and and. So if you can project that to the world with a photo of yourself, you know, and it's fun to put a new photo out there and people say, oh my gosh, you look so great. You look so great, you look so great Because of Krishna. Well, no, no, I will steal this from Shamel. After God and your parents, I'll take some credit.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there you go, god and your parents. I love that. And that sounds like so Shamel.

Speaker 3:

It is she does, because she'll always say well, after God and your parents, but it is yeah, yeah, so after God, parents and Shamel, then I'll take credit, then comes.

Speaker 2:

Krishna. So what advice would you give to young folks, krishna, that might be interested in photography or you know how would you advise, like, a young person, on a career path?

Speaker 3:

I say get with somebody who is willing to open up and be a mentor to you. Okay, you know, if they've got a camera and I've done that with a couple of my friends who are kind of venturing on in Nashville particularly she's a makeup artist and she also is doing a few headshots now and you know she'll call me up and she'll ask me different questions Find somebody that's willing, open and willing to help you. And you know, just go and even if you're just holding, holding, uh, you know, doing some behind the scenes with your phone and and so you can watch them and I and you know, and and participating like that, that would be what I would tell young people, you know, um, and there's, there's a lot of education on youtube. There's a lot of education on YouTube.

Speaker 2:

There is a lot of education on YouTube, but nothing takes the place of just real life experience.

Speaker 3:

Nothing takes the place, nothing will ever take the place of real life experience because, there are things that happen to me in the studio and in the setting and I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to do that again or, oh, I've got to pivot. Nothing will ever take the place of real life experience. And if a young person can go and they can find a mentor, that's going to mentor them and help them, because you know, everybody's on a trajectory, on a path to be better At least I am, I mean. And so if they can find that person that can help them to grow because isn't that what we're supposed to be doing anyway? Is to helping other people grow, helping other people grow and helping other people become the best version of themselves.

Speaker 3:

And that's why I got into pageantry in the first place, because I wanted to see these young women reaching their dreams, because I was doing what I loved at the time. Who knew that I was going to be moved into the pageant headshot arena? But I was doing what I loved in marketing and tourism. And so you know, and I was lucky enough to have some of those mentors myself. So you know, when you find your mentor, that would be my biggest advice.

Speaker 2:

And I just hear you know from everybody that I bring in who are. They're all entrepreneurs. I love the story because the story that you tell it's, it's always. It's never a straight line. It's peaks and valleys, lots of changes, just like you mentioned earlier. Sometimes we have to be flexible, we have to be willing to pivot. This may not be working out, but I think what's important is finding those people around you willing to mentor. But I also think that if you're going to do that, any young person out there, you have to be humble and willing to listen. And you know sometimes things might hurt.

Speaker 3:

But you know, sometimes with you know a little bit of pain, comes growth in our life I have always found that when I'm sitting in that valley, I have always found that I'm down in that valley. But you know what? Or you know, maybe I lost the job, or maybe you know I was trying to get to be a sponsor of this and they didn't want that. Something else always opens the door. A different door always opens, you know, and, and you know, god will say maybe yes, maybe no, not right now.

Speaker 3:

And I've heard from many pageant girls that will say to me and actually just one yesterday had said if I had won this title back two years ago when I tried to do it, I wouldn't have been ready for it, because at the time she said I would have been 16, you know, and she said I just I wouldn't have been ready for it and I just that really resonated with me yesterday and I've heard that before. But just to hear that again right there, because I said now you did this a couple of years ago. She said yeah, and she said I didn't do it last year I think, as it was her, maybe her senior year, but she just said she said I wouldn't have been ready.

Speaker 3:

And I mean that's wisdom and for a young person, for somebody you know, 18 years old to have that self?

Speaker 3:

yes, and so I was just that impressed me greatly that she understood that and I think it is. But I find too that when I'm in those things I just have to sit back and it's hard. It's hard to sit back and it's sometimes hard to listen to. This is yes, no, and not right now. Sometimes that not right now, you want that, yes, and so it's hard sometimes, but we still, and I think life is just going to be that way, Life is just going to be that way, Life is just going to be, but hopefully, hopefully, you know you, you've, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. I guess.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely. Yeah, I think that's great and I just I think that we all need to realize that. You know life is, it does have its peaks and valleys. It does.

Speaker 3:

It does and and you know I will say this, I have been like everybody else has you can. You can sit there and you can um, you can wallow in the, the valley of life, right in the valley of life. Or you can say you know what, because of this I'm going. I know that something better is coming. I know that I'm here and I'm uncomfortable, because how many times have you been uncomfortable and then you go back and look at that and you can see all the lesson in the uncomfortability. So I think sometimes God does make us uncomfortable because he wants us to focus more on him and what we need to be doing for him.

Speaker 2:

Put our eyes up where they belong, not down, Not down, but look up. And it is, you know. I think about agriculture. You know why do we prune trees and things like that? It's to bring more growth, and that's the same thing with our lives. We are being pruned and sometimes it's not comfortable, but it causes us to grow and, like you said, to depend on Jesus, Because without Him he's our hope Absolutely, and I love the fact that you are very vocal about that.

Speaker 3:

Chris, absolutely, when I gave my business to God and said this is not yours, this is not mine, this is yours. It brings me the clients that he wants me to have, and it's not just everybody, because I'm not right for everybody, and that's fun, right.

Speaker 2:

Well, yeah, we're all everybody's so different. Yeah absolutely, you know, and you're getting the people that that you're going to mesh with and work out with, and it's going to be a great experience on both ends, you know which is beautiful, and I don't, and I don't, I don't care to share my faith with somebody.

Speaker 3:

I don't mind to do that at all Because, quite frankly, I want people to know that I am a Christian.

Speaker 2:

That's what we're called to do, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

I want people to know that that's who I am. Yes, I have fun Christians can have fun too but I do. I want people to know that that's you know, that's who I am, and that I want people to know that that's who I am and that's who my husband is.

Speaker 2:

Yes, and we're very thankful for Judge Goodwin. He is a wonderful judge.

Speaker 3:

I had to throw his name out there.

Speaker 2:

Well, he is a good man he is, and he actually came and spoke at our Tennessee Nurses Association and did some information sharing with us a few years ago. Okay, so I always appreciated him doing that he's funny too.

Speaker 3:

He is funny, he's very good.

Speaker 2:

He's very dry and I love dry. I love that.

Speaker 3:

I'm not as dry as he is. I wish I could be that way, but he's funny. He also tells really bad dad jokes. I mean, we don't have children, as you know.

Speaker 2:

Well, you have dogs, we have dogs, we have fur babies, yes.

Speaker 3:

But he tells some really bad dad jokes.

Speaker 2:

We've got to get him and Steve together.

Speaker 3:

Oh no, that's dad jokes right there. But no, we do, we do. Steve tells some jokes. When we came in, I think the last time I was here, he told some pretty bad dad jokes. I was like, oh, I'm surrounded with men who tell dad jokes yeah, he's, he's well and you have to.

Speaker 2:

We have to give credit to darvis reed uh, steve's daddy, yes so is that where it comes from? That's where it comes from is all those bad dad jokes and he tells them over and over and he'll be telling a story and he's like now, have you heard this before? I'm like no, darvis, I haven't, because I just you know, know, yeah, but you have.

Speaker 3:

But you still just yeah.

Speaker 2:

But he's there on an honor flight this weekend, the Appalachian Highlands Honor Flight, okay, going to DC, going to Washington DC, and they'll be back on Sunday, so it was just awesome. I'm so thankful we have a country that honors the veterans. Absolutely, you know, but anyway, we digress Are you. Add.

Speaker 3:

A little bit. Okay, me too, I think so. Yeah yeah, we started out talking about dogs, we ended up talking about my husband, your husband and the honor flight.

Speaker 2:

And we've covered it all. We've included Jesus in there.

Speaker 3:

Even Jesus, I mean, why not?

Speaker 2:

But that's what it's supposed to be about, though? Yes, absolutely that's what it's about. It's about, well, krista, so tell our listeners how they can get in touch with you for professional headshots, pageantry shots, um venues, events. Uh, krista, good one.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, I I yeah, I don't do events. I don't do anything unless it's pageant related pageant related events. Pageant related events I will do those. Um, that's pageant event photographycom, okay. If you want headshots, it's pageant headshotscom, and professional headshots is goodwin photographycom. You can get to everything just by going to goodwin photographycom. Okay, but I also have those two urls as well, so okay awesome.

Speaker 2:

All right, chris now. Well, thank you for being here today. Well, thank you for having me.

Speaker 3:

I had a blast Me too. Thanks for letting me hang out with Brody there, oh yeah, he's yeah he's he's, he's perfect. What can? I say he's the love of your life, the dog love of your. I love your life. I have two of those. Thank you for having me You're welcome.

Speaker 2:

Thanks, Krishna.

Speaker 1:

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