7 Interior Design Podcasts that CAN Improve Your Business
Interior Design Business Podcasts #104
In today’s curated collection, I’ve got 7 interior design business podcasts that will/can/should improve your design biz. Of course, we will have to listen & implement some of the advice being shared today.
So…if you’re looking to level up your interior design business, here are today’s podcasts:
Designers Business Community - Eric Lee - Top 5 Business Mistakes Interior Designers Make - 12 min
The Design You Podcast - Tobi Fairley - Partnerships and Podcasts with Kandrac & Kole Interior Designs - 39 min
Window Treatments for Profit with LuAnn Nigara - LuAnn Nigara - Vita’s Tip in 10 with Vita Vygovska: A Surprising Way to Find Business Leads - 13 min
Resilient by Design - Rebecca Hay - Stepping in to a CEO mindset with Dena Patton - 55 min
Designer’s Oasis - Kate Bendewald - Mental Health and Taxes with Christy Taylor - 1 hr, 16 min
Dear Alice - Jessica Bennett & Suzanne Hall - TikTok Interior Design Trends - 45 min
Business of Home - Dennis Scully - The Thursday Show: Live from Milan Design Week with Dan Rubinstein, MillerKnoll's PR crisis and more - 46 min
Designers Business Community - Top 5 Business Mistakes Interior Designers Make - 12 min
In this episode, host Eric Lee shares his top 5 business mistakes that interior designers make when they first start their business.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
The Design You Podcast - Partnerships and Podcasts with Kandrac & Kole Interior Designs - 39 min
In today’s episode, host Tobi Fairley chats with her friends Joann Kandrac and Kelly Kole. about their secrets to building & maintaining a solid business partnership. Joann and Kelly are sharing how they’ve structured their business to financially protect each other, how they approach their joint projects, including their podcast, and all of their advice for building the kind of partnership that truly lasts and allows each person to play on the other’s strengths.
What You'll Learn From This Episode
Why partnerships are so difficult in the interior design industry.
How Joann and Kelly became business partners and what their journey has involved.
Why Joann and Kelly knew immediately they would make amazing partners.
Why you don’t have to be best friends to start a business partnership with someone.
How Joann and Kelly have structured their business financially to protect and respect each other.
Joann and Kelly’s thoughts on what it’s really like to be in a partnership when disagreements happen.
Why being in a partnership can bring a new valuable perspective to your work as an interior designer.
What Kelly and Joann love about being partners on their podcast
How Kelly and Joann decide who takes the lead on each specific project they work on.
Kelly and Joann’s advice for anyone listening who wants to start a partnership or a podcast.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Window Treatments for Profit with LuAnn Nigara - Vita’s Tip in 10 with Vita Vygovska: A Surprising Way to Find Business Leads - 13 min
In today’s episode of Window Treatments for Profit, host LuAnn Nigara & LuAnn University instructor Vita Vygovska shares a surprising way to find business leads.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Resilient by Design - Stepping in to a CEO mindset with Dena Patton - 55 min
In this episode, host Rebecca Hay chats with Dena Patton about the CEO mindset. R & D talked about how to transition from being a fly-by-the-night designer or entrepreneur to the truly savvy business person you know you want to be.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Designer’s Oasis - Mental Health and Taxes with Christy Taylor - 1 hr, 16 min
In this episode, host Kate Bendewald chats with Christy Taylor, a Certified Public Accountant on a mission to help empower women in business through financial literacy.
Christy specializes in tax preparation and consulting for women-owned small businesses and creative entrepreneurs. When she's not trying to keep her clients from panicking about taxes, you can most likely find her curled up by the fire with a scandalous romance novel, sipping strawberry margaritas by the water, or listening to Taylor Swift on repeat.
Here’s a glance at this episode…
[06:15] Christy and I dive into business and entrepreneurship for those of us with ADD/ADHD and how we work our businesses around our struggles. We dive into protecting our mental health and ways that we have set boundaries.
[19:54] Christy shares how she helps people start to understand money through the lens that anyone can learn about their finances if someone takes the time to teach them.
[26:00] Christy shares how she got into the business and found her passions within the financial world.
[37:00] We discuss filing as an S-corporation vs and LLC and Christy’s top tips related to which is best for you and when that step may make sense.
[45:00] As an interior designer, we often get money in ebbs and flows that we need to plan for in terms of taxes and setting aside money so Christy shares with us her tips for making sure to set aside the proper amount of money.
[59:15] Write-offs! What can you write-off and what can you not? Christy dives into the do’s and dont’s. PLUS you can download her freebie below!
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Dear Alice - TikTok Interior Design Trends - 45 min
In this episode, hosts Jessica Bennett & Suzanne Hall debunk some TikTok interior design trends.
If you’re a regular user of TikTok, you may notice there are some micro trends happening in the interior design space online of these teenagers who talk really fast and are emphatically opinionated on these trends. We’re just here today to talk about what these “micro trends” are in interiors and whether we agree or not, such as chopping your pillows, whether fluffy beds are in or out, if colored sheets are in or out, and what you should do in regards to artwork in your home.
TikTok trends discussed:
Cottage core and dark academia 3:00
The dark kitchen is coming back again 11:00
Polished chrome and silver 15:50
Mass-produced art 19:20
Chopping your pillows 20:45
White fluffy beds 22:20
Colored sheets 23:20
Cottage core style bedrooms 24:55
Kitchens 27:00
Dealing in absolutes 32:50
Marble veining in countertops 34:10
Living rooms 38:10
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Business of Home - The Thursday Show: Live from Milan Design Week with Dan Rubinstein, MillerKnoll's PR crisis and more - 46 min
BOH executive editor Fred Nicolaus joins host Dennis Scully to discuss the biggest news in the design industry, from MillerKnoll's PR crisis to some good signs from the stock market. Later, journalist and podcaster Dan Rubinstein joins the show live from Milan to share an update from Salone del Mobile.
You can check out this podcast episode here: