9 Interior Design Podcasts Designed to Build Your Business
The BEST Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 136
It’s a 9 podcast Monday for y’all.
Today’s interior design podcasts episodes come from hosts Michele Williams, Terri Taylor, Michelle Lynne, LuAnn Nigara, Darla Powell, Melissa Galt, Laura Thornton, Rick campos & Dennis Scully.
Today’s podcast guests include Kamala Nair, Wilma Kulyk, Ali Faulkner and Asad Syrkett.
So much good stuff to level up your design business.
Profit Is A Choice - Michele Williams - Q & A with Michele - 40 min
Interior Design Business - Terri Taylor - Healthy Boundaries Part 1 - 25 min
Designed for the Creative Mind - Michelle Lynne - How the Right Words Will Elevate Your Business (And Your Bottom Line) with Kamala Nair - 39 min
Window Treatments for Profit - LuAnn Nigara - Wilma Kulyk: Unlocking Loyalty: Using Thank You Cards to Build Stronger Client Connections - 1 hr
Designed By Wingnut Social - Darla Powell - Mini News : How to Optimize Your Instagram Account - 15 min
The Affluent Creative - Melissa Galt - When Bad Business Habits Happen to Good Designers - 42 min
The Business of Beautiful Spaces - Laura Thornton - Let's Talk Design Quotes, the extras to remember! - 44 min
Design Biz Survival Guide - Rick Campos - Ali Faulkner: Detailed Processes and Documentation for the WIN - 36 min
Business of Home - Dennis Scully - Asad Syrkett wants Elle Decor's A-List to make a statement - 46 min
Profit Is A Choice - Q & A with Michele - 40 min
In today’s episode, host Michele Williams chats with Kelcee Sparks, who is with Elite Ops Support. Kelcee has a team of people that support designers and other industries with operational support, VA support, and she also provides operations support for me (Michele) personally.
She's going to ask me some questions today so that we can share a little bit more information on some of the questions that you all have been sending in and have asked.
Topics Mentioned:
Build a solid foundation
Allow for growth
Work on being centered not balanced
Ask for help
Key Thoughts:
Know your own why, know your own values, and give yourself space to evolve and grow in your life and your business. Michele 15:10
We can do it all, I just don't think we can do it all at once or without help. Michele 18:53
I'm all about delegating, and not dumping, but how can I push the work to a different level in my company where it can be done well and support the brand. It doesn't always have to be the owner. Michele 25:57
Know who you are, know what you want to do, know where your deal breakers are, know what you won’t do, and then just build a business that you love, and then get help doing it. Michele 36:12
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Interior Design Business - Healthy Boundaries Part 1 - 25 min
Do you find yourself constantly rushing out to job sites, responding to emails late at night, and taking calls on the weekends?
In today’s episode, host Terri Taylor is joined by coach Marsha Sewdass and they’re talking all about boundaries.
If you feel like work is encroaching on every hour of your day and you don’t have the time for your personal life that you wish you had, you probably don’t have enough boundaries in place, at least not ones that you’re sticking to.
Marsha and Terri are here to remind you that it’s okay to establish business hours and you don’t have to answer every question or solve every problem as soon as it arises. You need to be protecting your time and well-being if you want to be able to show up as your best self at work and at home.
They’re addressing why boundaries are so important, how to decide what you want your boundaries to be, and why your boundaries might be failing.
Topics covered in this episode include:
The definition of boundaries
The importance of prioritizing self-awareness and self-care
Why we break our own boundaries
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Designed for the Creative Mind - How the Right Words Will Elevate Your Business (And Your Bottom Line) with Kamala Nair - 39 min
We all know that we are in a very visual industry. Photos and images are eye-catching, but the written word is still needed in interior design. Your designs may be beautiful, but how are you differentiating yourself from other designers when people visit your website?
In today’s episode, host Michelle Lynne chats with Kamala Nair. Kamala is a meticulous copywriter, brand voice expert, and acclaimed novelist with twenty years of professional writing experience. Kamala believes that interior design is much deeper than what we see on the surface, and there are so many stories that just looking at a beautiful photograph can't tell. Great copywriting has the power to elevate your brand and grow your business.
ddd and Kamala chat about ways to use words to stand out from other designers, the difference between writing your own copy and using a professional copywriter, and how interior designers can use copywriting to create a waitlist of clients.
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Window Treatments for Profit - Wilma Kulyk: Unlocking Loyalty: Using Thank You Cards to Build Stronger Client Connections - 1 hr
In today’s episode, host LuAnn Nigara chats with Wilma Kulyk, the President and Founder of Sensational SEAMS, established in 1986 and located in Ontario, Canada.
Wilma joins LuAnn today to share with us all about the outstanding thank you card program she developed, which caught everyone's attention.
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Designed By Wingnut Social - Mini News : How to Optimize Your Instagram Account - 15 min
Today’s Mini News episode highlights Darla Powell’s latest informational webinar, “The 6 Keys to Success on Instagram.” Today’s excerpt focuses on optimizing your Instagram account.
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The Affluent Creative - When Bad Business Habits Happen to Good Designers - 42 min
Are you tired of feeling held back by bad habits in your design business? Think of habits simply as patterns of behavior that have become routine. There are healthy habits and unhealthy habits, and we all have a bit of both. Unfortunately, some of these unhealthy habits can be costing you a lot more in your design practices than you might realize and they can be very easy to fall into but trickier to break.
In today’s episode, host Melissa Galt walks us through a list of some of the bad habits that she encounters in many of the designers she works with. By pointing these habits out, Melissa want to create awareness and shine a light on unhealthy business habits to give us a chance to take corrective action. Our awareness of these habits is key to helping ourselves to reclaim time, money, energy, and productivity. Plus, there's a whole lot of extras that we're going to reap as a benefit of breaking these bad business habits.
In this episode, you will hear:
Bad habits in sourcing, billing, and client communication that might surprise you
Strategies that you can use to break free from unhealthy habits
The importance of setting boundaries and proactively establishing communication practices with clients early on
The power of asking for testimonials for boosting future design business
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The Business of Beautiful Spaces - Let's Talk Design Quotes, the extras to remember! - 44 min
In today's episode, host Laura Thornton is diving into an often overlooked aspect of interior design projects— Let’s talk extras to consider when quoting your design projects. These are the little details that can make a big difference in the overall success and satisfaction of your clients.
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Design Biz Survival Guide - Ali Faulkner: Detailed Processes and Documentation for the WIN - 36 min
In today's episode, host Rick Campos welcomes Ali Faulkner of AEF Interiors, a full-service design studio based in Costa Mesa, California. In this episode, Ali shares how her hospitality background instilled a high level of service when developing her design business model and her perspective on the client experience. Rick & Ali also discuss Ali’s emphasis on detailed documentation to translate the design journey to clients, contractors, and artisans and its impact on building trust and referrals.
Ali’s systems and documentation are top-notch from the first interaction with the client to the very end. Everyone involved is always aware of the next step of the process and is prepared to move forward, eliminating room for confusion, miscommunication, or errors.
I hope this conversation helps spark a new level of organization and an improved client journey for your design business!
Show Highlights:
The AEF Interiors business model
The relatability of hospitality and design
Creating a client journey and being steps ahead of the client
Having a clear and beneficial documentation process
The AEF Interiors spec guides and why they are a differentiator for their business
What installation day looks like
Why you have to educate clients from the beginning
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Business of Home Podcast - Asad Syrkett wants Elle Decor's A-List to make a statement - 46 min
Almost three years into his tenure as editor in chief of Elle Decor, Asad Syrkett has just unveiled the magazine’s annual A-List of top designers.
In today's episode, he speaks with host Dennis Scully about how he approaches who makes the cut, who doesn’t, and what role lists play in the age of social media. Other topics include Syrkett’s thoughts on AI, the rise of interior design TikTok, and why, when it comes to the really important issues, he wants Elle Decor to keep asking difficult questions.
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