7 Interior Design Podcasts To Elevate Your Business
The BEST Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 96
We’ve got 7 great interior design podcasts designed to elevate your design biz on this fine Monday morning.
Today’s interior design podcasts episodes come from Terri Taylor, Rebecca Ward, Rick Campos, Michelle Lynne, Darla Powell, LuAnn Nigara & Melissa Galt featuring guests Jamie Van Cuyk, Annie Aldridge & Lori Carpenter.
So much good stuff to help us grow & improve our interior design biz.
Interior Design Business - Terri Taylor - Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone - 25 min
Design Perspectives - Rebecca Ward - 4 Limiting Beliefs Holding You Back From Pursuing Your Interior Design Career or Business - 23 min
Design Biz Survival Guide - Rick Campos - Jamie Van Cuyk: Master the Art of Hiring - 50 min
Designed for the Creative Mind - Project Management: Giving you the Freedom to Create and Grow with Annie Aldridge - 36 min
Designed by Wingnut Social - Darla Powell - Mini News : Instagram Content Ideas for Interior Designers - 13 min
Window Treatments for Profit - LuAnn Nigara - Lori Carpenter: Resilience and Tenacity Leads to Success - 50 min
The Affluent Creative - Melissa Galt - How to Sell the Design Dream - 37 min
Interior Design Business - Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone - 25 min
How often are you pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone? We ALL know that it’s hard to do, and you can’t do it all the time, but the truth is if you never leave your comfort zone, you’re missing out on a lot of opportunities.
In this episode of the Interior Design Business podcast, host Terri Taylor tries to make it a little easier for us by sharing some practical reasons and ways to get out of your comfort zone. We’re talking about how to know where your comfort zone ends, embrace the good kind of scary, and start getting different results for your design business.
Topics covered in this episode include:
How to identify your comfort zone
Examples of what it looks like to be stuck
How getting out of your comfort zone can make you more money
How to know when to take a risk
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Design Curious - 4 Limiting Beliefs Holding You Back From Pursuing Your Interior Design Career or Business - 23 min
In this episode, host Rebecca Ward talks about four limiting beliefs that a designer might encounter as a newbie in interior design or when starting their own business. Learn how to identify them and work through them so you can prevent these beliefs from limiting you and can navigate the design industry smoothly and successfully.
Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:
Identify the limiting beliefs that are keeping you from pursuing your passion
Develop ways to combat your limiting beliefs and empower yourself
Change your mindset around your beliefs and reach your highest potential
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Design Biz Survival Guide - Jamie Van Cuyk: Master the Art of Hiring - 50 min
In today’s episode, host Rick Campos welcomes Jamie Van Cuyk, Owner and Lead Strategist of “Growing Your Team,” a consulting firm specializing in mastering the art of hiring. Jamie shares her process of identifying candidates, developing an effective interview, and evaluating personality and fit. We also discuss the state of the employment market, what the new hybrid workplace looks like, and the factors contributing to the disparity in salary requirements across the industry.
Show Highlights:
Writing job descriptions in a way that will connect with someone outside of your organization
Growing Your Team’s packages to help with hiring
The Great Resignation and how it’s still an employee market
Jamie’s take on remote and hybrid work
Paying employees what you can afford
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Designed for the Creative Mind - Project Management: Giving you the Freedom to Create and Grow with Annie Aldridge - 36 min
Do you want to get out of the project management role and get back to designing? Wish you could have someone help you with tracking, backorders, re-selections, and scheduling.
In this episode, Annie Aldridge explains to host Michelle Lynne why outsourcing the non-creative parts of your business is the best option for continued growth. We also discuss the benefit of working with their team vs. hiring in-house and the importance of SOPs for work-life balance.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Designed by Wingnut Social - Mini News : Instagram Content Ideas for Interior Designers - 13 min
Are you a new interior designer trying to figure out what to post on social media? Are you a veteran designer with lots of content to post, but not sure how to split it up? On today's Mini News, host Darla Powell shares some info from Wingnut's new "Instagram for Interior Designers" course. Stay tuned to learn about content pillars and content mixes, and you just might develop a new social media plan today!
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Window Treatments for Profit - Lori Carpenter: Resilience and Tenacity Leads to Success - 50 min
Today on Window Treatments for Profit, super-host LuAnn Nigara talks with her friend Lori Carpenter. Lori’s journey in her business is incredible, and we all have a lot to learn from her about the value of learning, resilience, and commitment.
Pick It Apart
[2:38] Lori shares how she’s managed to run her business herself with just occasional contracting and minimal help.
[10:20] Lori discusses how she has built a thriving business in a small, rural community.
[15:12] LuAnn and Lori discuss the value of education and learning in business.
[23:23] LuAnn and Lori talk about IWCE and how valuable it can be.
[30:00] LuAnn and Lori highlight how knowledge can change the way you show up and prevent pushback on pricing.
LuAnn Nigara and Lori Carpenter's Ah-Ha Moments
“Had I not gone to the custom home furnishings academy, I don’t know what would have happened. That was the turning point for me. After that, I didn’t shy away from anything.” - Lori Carpenter
“It drives me crazy that consumers will ask about what the designers pay for window treatments, and even crazier that designers will answer the question.” - LuAnn Nigara
You can check out this podcast episode here:
The Affluent Creative - How to Sell the Design Dream - 37 min
In this episode, host Melissa Galt shares some tricks and tips for how to sell the design dream. In Melissa’s experience, taking a new client from a prospect to a VIP is a process of courtship. It is all about the romance and the wooing that needs to take place for your client. And to navigate that place most successfully, you need to learn how to use the correct language to paint a picture of the transformation you're going to deliver for them.
You want to create that vision in a way that they can see it, smell it, taste it, feel it, and hear it. A lot of this comes down to using sensory language to make a journey of all five senses for your client throughout the whole design process.
Interior Design truly does encompass every sense. Melissa wants us to harness our creativity to turn our design brand and process into a multi-sensory experience. We’re diving in today with methods to help you create that luxurious design journey for your clients.
In this episode, you will hear:
How using sensory language can elevate the entire design experience for your client
Examples of creative phrases you can incorporate into your vocabulary to romance your designs
The impact that experiencing high-end, luxury goods has on your ability to present them effectively.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
