The BEST Interior Design Podcasts #69
The BEST Interior Design Podcasts - Episode 69
We’ve got 4 great interior design business podcasts today. So much good stuff to help you level up your interior design business :)
The Chairish Podcast - Michael Boodro - Crafting the New Closet: Why Glamour and Luxury Are Essential - 50 min
The Design You Podcast - Tobi Fairley - Cutting the BS in Your Business with Maggie Patterson - 52 min
Resilient by Design - Rebecca Hay - A raw conversation about balance and boundaries with Jen Sottosanti - 1 hr
Designer’s Oasis - Kate Bendewald - How Hiring can Dramatically Improve your Interior Design Business - 46 min
The Chairish Podcast - Crafting the New Closet: Why Glamour and Luxury Are Essential - 50 min
Proper organization and storage are crucial to any successful home. But storage has gone far beyond the utilitarian. Luxury closets have become potent fantasies for clients and stars on social media. Creating spaces for everything from an array of Hermès handbags to a hand-made carbon fiber bicycle is an opportunity for designers to dazzle their clients—or disappoint them.
How can you satisfy the demand for luxury organization? Host Michael Boodro chats with three closet designers—Lisa Adams, Melanie Charlton Fowler, and Maria Castro— convincing them to reveal their secrets for transforming overlooked spaces into useful assets, ingenious ways to upgrade existing storage spaces, and why closets are quickly becoming the most glamorous room in the house.
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The Design You Podcast - Cutting the BS in Your Business with Maggie Patterson - 52 min
For many entrepreneurs, marketing and sales are the aspects of their business that make them most uncomfortable because they've been taught these disciplines in unhelpful and icky ways. Host Tobi Fairley’s guest this week is here to discuss marketing in a way you’ve never heard it framed before.
Maggie Patterson has two decades of experience working in client services and she’s been a successful entrepreneur herself for 15 of those years. She's sharing her humane business practices, rooted in respect, empathy, and trust, so you can feel empowered, authentic, and proud in how you do business with other human beings.
What You'll Learn From This Episode
How Maggie discovered a need for education around values-driven, ethical marketing.
The way we’ve been desensitized to inauthenticity and dishonesty on social media platforms.
Why we believe the things we see in the online marketing world are normal, and why a lot of online marketing is actually just normalized manipulation.
How, in a lot of cases, we’ve been taught marketing by people who are profiting off of questionable practices.
Some classic problematic practices and tactics to look out for in terms of unethical sales and marketing in online business models.
What it means to be truly transparent in your marketing and how to spot lip service in businesses you’re considering buying from.
The huge problems Maggie sees with ethical marketing certifications.
How to be conscious and start marketing your online business in an authentic, honest, BS-free way.
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Resilient by Design - A raw conversation about balance and boundaries with Jen Sottosanti - 1 hr
In this episode, host Rebecca Hay walks through what she does in her design business when a project phase comes to a close. Rebecca calls it a post-project review.
A raw conversation about balance and boundaries with Jen Sottosanti
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In this episode, host Rebecca Hay sita down with interior decorator supreme and one of her Power of Process course alumni, Jen Sottosanti.
From Nurse to Decorator - Jen moved into interior design as a second career, bringing over her skillsets of caring for people into her design business.
Jen and I have a really candid conversation about balance, setting boundaries, and the real struggle of being a parent to young children. We also share tips and tricks for when we feel over-committed and want to unplug at the end of the day. This raw conversation is not feeling with parenting 101 tips and answers but it will help you see that you're not alone and hopefully encourage you to keep going because you're doing great!
To anyone out there debating taking a leap of faith and taking a different path in their career, Do it! You have 1 life. Don’t hold back. You can be and do whatever you want to do. Drive in your own lane. When you’re constantly comparing yourself, you’re just holding yourself back on what you could be accomplishing. Focus on your goals and focus on the things you want to accomplish in your life, you will get there in your own time. You will get there when you’re meant to get there Jen Sottosanti
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Designer’s Oasis - How Hiring can Dramatically Improve your Interior Design Business - 46 min
In today’s episode, host Kate Bendewald is talking all about the benefits of hiring for your interior design business.
Highlights from this episode…
[03:06] Kate dives right into why most designers get stuck on hiring and understanding how they would utilize an assistant.
[05:00] Kate share how having an assistant can help your business - what can they help with? How will it uplevel the client experience?
[12:25] Kate runs through an exercise with you all about how to figure out all that you do plus what you should be doing yourself!
[19:05] Grab your pen and paper! Kate goes through an exercise to sort out what is fulfilling about your career and what lights you up.
[23:24] Kate share her real-life experiences with moving her business across the country twice and how she have used a wide array of assistants and employees.
[28:40]We run through examples of tasks that an assistant can help with during the interior design process and imagine what you could do with the time you gain back to really focus on and grow your business.
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