Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 177

Today’s collection of the world’s best interior design business podcasts includes 8 fantastic episodes from hosts Kimberley Seldon, Josh Cooperman, Kylie Tyrell, Desi Creswell, Rachel Larraine, Darla Powell, Kaitlin Petersen & Michael Boodro.

Today’s podcast guests include Mary Lou & Marc Fulson, Amanda Minuk and Debbie Golub, Nikki Rausch, Regan Baker and Christopher Spitzmiller.

If you want to build a thriving interior design business, these are eight essential podcasts to help you get started.

• Business of Design - Kimberley Seldon - Give & Take with Mary Lou & Marc Fulson - 41 min

• Convo By Design - Josh Cooperman - Top SoCal Talent Spill the Tea on Elevated Design - 1 hr, 20 min

• Interiors Insider - Kylie Tyrell - Investment guide vs Welcome guide - do you know the difference - 13 min

• The Interior Design Business CEO - Desi Creswell - How to Manage Annoyances - 14 min

• The Holistic Interior Design Business Podcast - Rachel Larraine - The Value of Mentorship & Experience with Design Shop

• Designed by Wingnut Social - Darla Powell - Overcoming the Price Objection and Becoming a Stronger Salesperson - 45 min

• Trade Tales - Kaitlin Petersen - Why Regan Baker hired three former clients - 49 min

• The Chairish Podcast - Michael Boodro - Christopher Spitzmiller on Lighting Up Tradition - 40 min

Business of Design - Kimberley Seldon - Give & Take with Mary Lou & Marc Fulson

Having a business partner sounds like heaven to most solo-preneurs. In this episode, we hear from a husband-and-wife team, who use give and take to create a seamless experience for their ideal clients.

In this episode we learn:

• increase your service and you increase your net worth

• professional design is not for everyone, not every client is ideal

• get a clear understanding of how your business makes money

• taking the wrong client has consequences

• communicate your value by using business language like ROI, LTV, CAC, TAM, SAM, EBITDA

• part of any design job is to be empathic to your customers’ needs

• be future focused, keep your eye on the horizon

• never let clients dictate your process

Convo By Design - Josh Cooperman - Top SoCal Talent Spill the Tea on Elevated Design - 1 hr, 20 min

In this episode, Josh Cooperman shares another installment of the Design Leadership Series and this week he has a group that was recorded live from the Design Hardware showroom on Third Street in LA. This was an amazing group and with 12 creatives there, it was the biggest event Josh recorded to date. Keep listening, you’re going to enjoy this.

Interiors Insider - Kylie Tyrell - Investment guide vs Welcome guide - do you know the difference - 13 min

The Interior Design Business CEO - Desi Creswell - How to Manage Annoyances - 14 min

We can all agree that running and growing an interior design business can be filled with some (or many) annoying parts. What can we do when we experience those humps that keep us stuck? Is it possible that we might be making the challenges in our business even more annoying?

Hear why wishing challenges away isn't an effective strategy, how to begin accepting the annoyances in your design business, and why embracing them is the key to running your business with more ease.

What You’ll Discover from this Episode:

• What I mean by “annoying” in this context.

• The parts of running and growing your business that might be annoying you right now.

• What are making the annoyances in your business more annoying.

• The power of anticipating, acknowledging, and accepting annoyances.

• How to accept the annoyances in your design business.

The Holistic Interior Design Business Podcast - Rachel Larraine - The Value of Mentorship & Experience with Design Shop

In this episode, host Rachel Larraine welcomes Amanda Minuk and Debbie Golub of Design Shop to the podcast to talk about mentorship and the value of experience in the interior design industry.

Debbie and Amanda share how their passion for design developed, how they met and began working together, and what led them to eventually partner to create their own design firm. Both spent several years in their early careers gaining experience in a wide range of areas in the design world, which has helped them successfully develop their own business and now mentor and support other designers. They share their philosophy behind mentorship and the team they’ve built, all of which are a result of what they learned and experienced working for other firms.

Designed by Wingnut Social - Darla Powell - Overcoming the Price Objection and Becoming a Stronger Salesperson - 45 min

Have you ever sent a budget proposal to a client and they objected to your rates? This can be a difficult situation to navigate, but today’s guest, Nikki Rausch, is a sales expert with lots of tips on how to become a stronger salesperson.

CEO of Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch has the unique ability to transform the misunderstood process of “selling”. With 25+ years of selling experience, entrepreneurs and small business owners now hire Nikki to show them how to sell successfully and authentically. Nikki has written 3 books, all available on Amazon. And she has a podcast called Sales Maven which you can find on your favorite podcast platform.

Trade Tales - Kaitlin Petersen - Why Regan Baker hired three former clients - 49 min

Regan Baker has a unique claim to fame: she’s hired three of her former clients as employees. On this episode of the podcast, she explains why they all wanted to work for her once their projects wrapped, and how they each brought invaluable insights from other industries that turbocharged the business’s growth. She also shared what it feels like to step away from the work you love in order to expand your team, and which roles to hire first if you want to get growth right.

The Chairish Podcast - Michael Boodro - Christopher Spitzmiller on Lighting Up Tradition - 40 min

Christopher Spitzmiller’s gleaming and boldly colorful lamps can be found in some of the most distinguished homes in America—and in virtually every shelter magazine.

In an exclusive interview, he tells how he overcame his dyslexia by turning to pottery and how he became a designer favorite, updating traditional techniques and classic forms for a new generation. He also discusses his evolution into a social media maestro with his posts about his house and garden at Clove Brook Farm, why he feels the current “maker- moment,” is here to stay, and why he is optimistic that respect for craft and the hand-made object is only going to increase.