Today’s BEST Interior Design Podcasts
Interior Design Business Podcasts #139
Today’s BEST interior design business podcasts come from hosts Suzanne Hall & Jessica Bennett, Tobi Fairley, LuAnn Nigara, Vita Vygovska, Rebecca Hay, Kate Bendewald, Fred Nicolaus, Dennis Scully & Mirjam Lippuner, Jason Lockhart & Maria Martin.
Today’s podcast guests include Keisha Blair, Cerissa McKinnis & Claire German.
Enjoy…
Dear Alice - Suzanne Hall & Jessica Bennett - Breaking Down Metal Finishes - 38 min
The Design You Podcast - Tobi Fairley - How to Create Holistic Wealth with Keisha Blair - 39 min
Window Treatments for Profit with LuAnn Nigara - LuAnn Nigara - Vita’s Tip in 10 with Vita Vygovska: An Easy Tool to Increase Your Productivity - 14 min
Resilient By Design - Rebecca Hay - My Exact Client Onboarding Process - 33 min
Designer’s Oasis - Kate Bendewald - Renovate your Business with Cerissa McKinnis - 48 min
Business of Home - Dennis Scully - The Thursday Show: RH England is unveiled, a London designer showhouse and more - 53 min
Designer Discussions - Mirjam Lippuner, Jason Lockhart & Maria Martin - The SEO Formula for Blogs - 14 min
Dear Alice - Breaking Down Metal Finishes - 38 min
In today’s episode, hosts Suzanne Hall & Jessica Bennett discuss metal finishes. One of their listeners wanted to know S & J’s favorite finishes for cabinet knobs and poles.
Episode Highlights:
Metal finishes 11:05
Cabinet knobs and poles for polished nickel plumbing 13:40
Different ways to finish metals 15:25
Plated metal 20:30
Different types of finishes 22:10
Brass 24:30
Nickel 29:40
Bronze 33:50
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The Design You Podcast - How to Create Holistic Wealth with Keisha Blair - 39 min
In this episode, host Tobi Fairley is joined by Keisha Blair, the award-winning, international bestselling author of the newly expanded and updated Holistic Wealth: 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom.
Keisha is discussing how a sabbatical after a tragedy in her life was the most productive and impactful thing she’d ever done, why we all have so much more to give when we tap into our intuition, and how to start embracing your personal financial identity as you work towards an all-encompassing Holistic Wealth.
What You'll Learn From This Episode
How Keisha realized that the way we define wealth as a society is completely lopsided.
What Holistic Wealth is and why we need to value it in our lives.
The productivity paradox we experience as women.
The non-financial parts of our lives that are truly priceless.
How to quantify exactly what Holistic Wealth means in your life.
What your financial identity is and why you need to start embracing it.
Why financial resilience is vital for entrepreneurs.
How you can start playing to your strengths and begin living a Holistically Wealthy lifestyle.
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Window Treatments for Profit with LuAnn Nigara - Vita’s Tip in 10 with Vita Vygovska: An Easy Tool to Increase Your Productivity - 14 min
In today’s episode of Window Treatments for Profit, Vita Vygovska is back to share an easy tool to increase our productivity.
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Resilient By Design - My Exact Client Onboarding Process - 33 min
In this episode, host Rebecca Hay shares her version of the most important thing every business needs: a clear step-by-step onboarding process to convert leads to clients.
This is absolutely necessary to keep yourself organized and to set expectations (and boundaries) to your potential clients. This process will help you strengthen your client relationships, protect yourself from misunderstandings and lapsed payments as well as establish a professional atmosphere to teach your customers to value and trust you. Listen to this episode to learn tips from Rebecca’s years of experience and also the one new step I'm starting to implement.
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Designer’s Oasis - Renovate your Business with Cerissa McKinnis - 48 min
Have you had doors close for you that you can later look back on and realize it was pushing you into a new place, a better place?
In today’s episode, host Kate Bendewald chats with Crerissa McKinnis, an interior designer from San Antonio Texas, and a member of the Interior Designers Business Blueprint program.
After attempting career paths toward being a doctor. And then a lawyer, she had what she calls a “god moment” and she knew that design was her calling.
She shares how she had many door close on her over the years - but her persistence has paid off. Today she runs a thriving interior design business she is proud of.
Here’s a glance at the episode:
[5:50] Cerissa shares her story about getting started (at the young age of 16) when her parents were building their dream house.
[10:20] Cerissa and I discuss her educational and career path towards interior design ranging from wanting to be a doctor to a lawyer and settling on interior design.
[17:40] We discuss how Cerissa got started in a retail environment and how she sorted out what she enjoyed, what she didn’t enjoy and what her next steps should be.
[24:20} We jump into Cerissa’s move back into interior design through a family renovation and how she began advocating for clients moving forward.
[29:20] We discuss making the move from a full time job into your own business including the time and commitment it takes to build a “side-hustle” into a full time business.
[30:25} I ask Cerissa to explain how she is a dream caster for her clients and how she applies that to her clients to help them manifest their dreams inside their homes
[33:00] Cerissa shares what she would have done sooner or what she would have done differently when taking your business to the next level. We discuss where to invest, what was most helpful and what key components you should nail down as you grow.
[40:00] We discuss how important really knowing and speaking to your ideal client is and how it’s necessary to revisit this as you grow to ensure you work with exactly who you are looking to work with!
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Business of Home - The Thursday Show: RH England is unveiled, a London designer showhouse and more - 53 min
BOH executive editor Fred Nicolaus joins host Dennis Scully to discuss the biggest news in the design industry, including home insurers pulling out of California, the acquisition of cookware brand Great Jones, and RH’s British invasion. Later, the managing director of Chelsea Harbor, Claire German, discusses the new showhouse in London’s design center.
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