Grow Your Interior Design Business With These Podcasts
Interior Design Business Podcasts - Episode 97
Good morning designers…I’ve got 5 interior design podcasts for you today.
We’ve got podcasts from hosts Dennis Scully, Hannah Bowyer & Timothy Murenzi, LuAnn Nigara, Kimberley Seldon & Josh Cooperman featuring guests Sarah Sherman Samuel, Jill Cole, Andrea Liebross & Wayne Turett - to help you grow & improve your design biz.
Let’s level up our businesses….
Business of Home Podcast - Dennis Scully - Sarah Sherman Samuel puts passion over business, every time - 49 min
The Mindful Designer - Hannah Bowyer & Timothy Murenzi - Choosing The Best Platform For Your Systems - 18 min
A Well-Designed Business - LuAnn Nigara - Jill Cole: Sustaining a Prosperous Hospitality Design Firm in an Ever-Changing World - 59 min
Business of Design - Kimberley Seldon - You're Worth It with Andrea Liebross - 37 min
Convo By Design - Josh Cooperman - This Architect Crafts Projects That Will Make Your Heart Skip A Beat - 1 hr 2 min
Business of Home Podcast - Sarah Sherman Samuel puts passion over business, every time - 49 min
A multitalented creative, Sarah Sherman Samuel has occupied many roles in the industry: Interior designer, product designer, TV star, social media creator, and artist. Her collaborations with Lulu & Georgia, West Elm and Semihandmade are perennial hits, and her own line of furniture, SSS Atelier, just debuted at New York’s buzzy Colony gallery last month.
On this episode of the podcast, Samuel speaks with host Dennis Scully about balancing design projects with product collaborations, the shifting winds of social media, and the complicated relationship between creative passion and commercial success.
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The Mindful Designer - Choosing The Best Platform For Your Systems - 18 min
In today’s episode, hosts Timothy Murenzi (creator of indema) and Hannah Bowyer discuss the best business platforms and softwares for your firm. There are so many to choose from, and while Timothy is a bit biased with indema, T & H discuss the importance of understanding needs versus your wants.
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A Well-Designed Business - Jill Cole: Sustaining a Prosperous Hospitality Design Firm in an Ever-Changing World - 59 min
In today’s episode, host LuAnn Nigara is joined by Jill Cole, an icon of the hospitality interior design industry. At Cole Martinez Curtis and Associates, Jill has made a name for herself, designing fabulous hotel and resort interiors worldwide for over 40 years. She joins LuAnn to discuss how she has sustained this impactful and extensive career in an ever-changing world. This is a great conversation with one of the best in the business that touches on a little bit of everything, from finding inspiration to embracing tech and staying true to your core values.
Pick It Apart
[11:13] Jill talks her first hotel design, the Adolphis Hotel in Dallas, and how that motivated transitioning her firm from office and retail design into hospitality design
[18:17] Jill and LuAnn discuss designing high-end senior living, how it mimics luxury resorts and was another opportunity for Jill’s firm to consider when other interior design projects were slowing due to the financial collapse of 2009.
[23:58] LuAnn and Jill discuss embracing tech as an interior designer.
[30:30] LuAnn asks Jill how she understands design trends to inform and expand aesthetics.
[37:20] Jill talks about defining your personal and company values and staying true to them in the industry.
[44:16] Jill talks about hospitality interior design appealing to a broad market and the importance of knowing who you are serving as what your competitors are doing.
LuAnn Nigara and Jill Cole's Ah-Ha Moments
“We spend, realistically, a large percentage of our lives working. I want people to feel good about it. I want you to be enthusiastic. I want you to enjoy your co-workers. I want you to enjoy the experience of dealing with each other, and feel good about what you're doing.” – Jill Cole
“You have to absorb all things visual, and filter through that and interpret it in your own way, and spit out the latest trends…If all you're doing for inspiration is looking at pictures of your competitors work, you're not doing your job.” – Jill Cole
“When you do work and live in your values, then it builds that trust and reliability factor with the people that are orbiting you.” – LuAnn Nigara
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Business of Design - You're Worth It with Andrea Liebross - 37 min
Each of us has a belief system built up around what we understand our worth to be. Often, we tell ourselves conflicting stories about our value is and when that confusion seeps into our client relationships, it causes real damage. In this episode, host Kimberley Seldon shares her three pillars of a value belief system and learn how to impact them for more positive growth.
In this episode we learn:
your worth is a combination of three beliefs: belief in yourself, belief in service and belief in the emotional and financial maturity of your client
we are in the business of transformation
by limiting what we present to clients, we deny them growth and transformation
to understand your value, consider how the client’s space will evolve or transform as the result of working with you
take a strategic pause at the end of a project or milestone and look for what went well
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Convo By Design - This Architect Crafts Projects That Will Make Your Heart Skip A Beat - 1 hr 2 min
Wayne Turett is the force behind The Turett Collaborative. Wayne and his team are reshaping New York through the application of extraordinary architecture principles, new ideas and a re-imagined idea of what architecture is and can be. The work is imaginative, daring and the philosophy is sustainable. Everything from reshaped inner city dwellings to a ground up passive house. Outdoor playgrounds inside, inside living spaces outdoors and so much more.
In this episode, host Josh Cooperman & Wayne Turett take a walk through quite a few of these projects and if you are so inclined, you can walk through them with us. What you are going to find is that Wayne’s firm takes the work seriously, but in that approach, find ways to reignite the imagination through the use of materials in unexpected ways, application of technique in a manner that is multi-functional and serves as multiplier against other materials and techniques. Space, flow, lighting, emotion and a clear passion for the work are evident in every detail.
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