The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour by Sara Schneider is a brand of specialized services utilized individually or collectively to frame your life with intention, joy, and purpose.

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Through The Golden Hour, Sara inspires people to see themselves in a different light.

The Golden Hour is a brand of specialized services utilized individually or collectively to frame your life with intention, joy, and purpose. Through aspects of photography as her metaphor, Sara radiates interior joy, captures connection, and leaves each room a little brighter than she found it. Whether you are seeking a life coach, photographer, or speaker, Sara, through The Golden Hour, will light you up in a way that assures you, you CAN do hard things.

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"Valuing, naming, and noticing small joys in your life makes you open to abundance, even in the midst of pain + suffering."
-Sara Schneider

Sara's Services

Photography

In photography, the Golden Hour refers to the time shortly before sunset when the light is soft, warm, and diffused. It occurs when the sun is near the horizon, about an hour before sunset. Sara’s natural ability to cultivate connection and establish comfort will easily bring out the best in you, making your photo session easy and enjoyable. Sara brings 20 years of photography and editing experience to her photography business. Sara likes to keep things simple and straightforward and enjoys working alongside the client to create a dream shoot. Sara’s specialty are families and high school senior grad photos.

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Life Coaching

Sara is a joyful listener who offers one-on-one coaching, to understand, inspire, and encourage women to see themselves in a fresh, authentic light. Through The Golden Hour, Sara uses her experience as a wife (20 years!), mother (16 years!), friend (40+ years!), as well as 15+ year photography experience, and convictions of her Catholic faith to help you frame or REframe your life in an authentic and personal way.

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Speaking Engagements

Sara speaks from the heart. With courage and vulnerability, she genuinely shares her own unique experiences of pain, suffering, and redemption. Sara has experienced childhood trauma, infertility, failed adoptions, navigated 2 successful adoptions, suffered friends loss, navigated life with a child with mental illness/special needs, and worked through issues of county and educational failure. In addition, Sara subscribes to a life of joy! Her secret sauce is seeking the positive in any situation. Sara will inspire you with real life experiences that will resonate with you. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll leave knowing you are not alone and more equipped to handle life's adversity.

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The Golden Hour

Professional Life Coaching is not legal, medical, or clinical advice.