A Leap of Faith: Joey and Sandi Fotheringham Left Careers to Make Kids Smile in Preschools
While many people were learning to pivot during 2020, Joey and Sandi Fotheringham, in Katy, Texas were looking for franchise opportunities to take a leap of faith with a career change.
With a blended family of 10 children and 8 grandchildren, Joey and Sandi have collected an impressive collection of portraits of their family on their walls. They knew if they valued those school pictures so much, there would be other local families who would also value quality portraits provided in a preschool setting. After landing on Spoiled Rotten Photography through a google search, they couldn’t find another opportunity that would teach and train them to produce the quality of images they saw on our website.
After two extensive careers in the telecom industry, Sandi and Joey decided to combine their love of photography and children and share their talents in a way where they could work and play together. “Leaving the strict corporate structure was a much needed change,” Joey explained. “We’ve always had so much fun playing and photographing little kiddo’s — now, we get to be Nana and PopPop at work!”
Joey and Sandi didn’t let the closed doors and face mask barriers of 2020, stop their determination to build the foundation of their business and start making solid relationships with the schools they began to partner with for easy picture days.
Founder, Melissa Tash, says “Joey and Sandi are both driven by a goal, but I can say their quick success has come by following our laid out franchise systems and processes, hard work, as well as being teachable and asking questions from other franchise owners. Joey has become a mentor and cheerleader to many of our newer franchise owners in recent years. It makes me proud to see how far they have come in three years as business owners!”
If you follow Spoiled Rotten Photography Katy on social media, you have probably caught Joey juggling, acting silly with a squeaky pig and constantly adding value to their local community. The partnership with the schools they photograph goes beyond taking just pictures of their children and you will often see Joey promoting enrollment opportunities or special community events the preschools are hosting.
Joey and Sandi have successfully built a thriving preschool photography business in their corner of Houston, Texas. They continue to scale and add photographers to their team who love the process of making kids smile just as much as they do!
Award Winning!
It has been a full circle feeling for Joey and Sandi as they are now able to produce award-winning images for their clients and train and inspire their associate photographers to produce the same quality of beautiful images!
Check out our recent SRP Live chat with Joey and Sandi.
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