Interior Design Business Podcasts for October 27, 2022
As a massive fan of podcasts AND the co-owner of a residential interior design firm in Toronto, it makes sense that I listen to a lot of interior design business podcasts.
Whether it’s marketing experts who provide service to interior designers, interior design business gurus or experienced interior designers sharing their lessons with us all, I always learn something that can help our Toronto-based residential design biz.
Here are the podcast episodes that I am listening to on October 27, 2022.
Designer’s Oasis - Kate Bendewald
The Design You Podcast - Tobi Fairley
Resilient by Design - Rebecca Hay
Dear Alice - Jessica Bennett & Suzanne Hall
Designer Discussions - Mirjam Lippuner, Jason Lockhart & Maria Martin
Designer's Oasis - How to Prep Your Business Finances for Ebbs & Flows with Jenny Karlsson - 1 hr, 21 min
In today’s episode, host Kate Bendewald interviews Jenny Karlsson of Financial for Creatives. Jenny is a certified money coach with a special focus on helping creative entrepreneurs. Jenny is the creator of the #moneycompassdeck (a powerful and practical tool that allows you to connect with the energy of money.) She is on a mission to help creative entrepreneurs heal their money blocks and manage money with confidence.
Today Kate & Jenny are talking about how interior designers can set up our business finances so that the naturally occurring ebbs and flows that happen both internally and externally don’t shake the foundation of our businesses.
In this episode Kate & Jenny discuss things like…
How you prepare your business for the ups and downs that are inevitable.
How to make your business more stable in the face of changes.
How to pay yourself
How to build an emergency fund for your business.
Highlights from this episode…
[6:22] Jenny shares her back story with us and how she got started working with creative entrepreneurs as a financial coach.
[11:48] Jenny shares all about her Money Compass Deck and how it helps to connect to the energy of money.
[17:20] I ask Jenny why she believes this is so important for entrepreneurs, specifically women to understand and control the finances for their businesses.
[26:35] I ask Jenny to share her top strategies for designers wanting to create the stability in their business. She shares how to make decisions that keep your business profitable. We talk through what accounts you need to setup, how to use them, and how to pay yourself!
[50:40] We chat about diversifying your income and how to create a ladder of services so that you are able to create structure and avoid hustling to do it all.
[01:01:00] Jenny and I chat about how to balance decisions related to hiring and help during busy seasons.
[01:10:00] Jenny and I wrap up with Jenny painting a picture of what it means to be successful with money in our business and personal finances. She shares what this looks like, what flexibility it can create and what emotions may surround this.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Annual Masterplanning Workshop - November 10th
Episode #13 - Auditing your Projects for Profitability
Book: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz
Book: Money Magic: Unleashing Your True Potential for Prosperity and Fulfillment
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The Design You Podcast - Let’s Create a New Business Paradigm - 1 hr, 1 min
Today’s Design You podcast is incredibly powerful & intimately personal for host Tobi Fairley. Here’s how Tobi describes today’s episode:
Hustling and trying to create financial success in my business led me to do a ton of damage to my health and well-being. The way I was striving for success would take a toll on any human body and is the reason why I’m now dealing with chronic pain. So this week, I'm sharing more about the consequences of putting myself through a system designed by men for men to succeed and why we need to be creating new business paradigms.
See the full show notes on Tobi’s website.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Resilient by Design - Let your vision inform your business with Natasha Ho - 57 min
In this episode, host Rebecca Hay had the opportunity to interview the fantastic PR Manager turned marketing and growth strategist AND phenomenal businesswoman, Natasha Ho!
Natasha helps creative entrepreneurs cut back on their working hours in half while doubling their income.
In this episode, Rebecca & Natasha talk about mindset and skillset and how you want both to hone in on what you're going to do so that you can do it with joy, and passion, and make more money!
About Natasha:
Natasha Ho is a woman on a mission to help entrepreneurs rapidly grow their businesses to six figures and beyond without grinding longer, working harder, or doing all of the things. She helps entrepreneurs tap into playfulness to elevate what they sell and how they sell it, so they can create massive visibility, and consistent sales, and have a whole lot more fun. Natasha wanted to crack the code on how to grow with more speed, simplicity, and joy for herself. So she studied and experimented with every marketing and sales strategy she could find. What she discovered is the key to rapid sales growth: you have to take the uncomfortable leap before you think you’re ready. Sell first. That’s how she created Sell Out Offers. She’s used this method to sell out cooking lessons, retreats, consulting services, and grow her business to six figures in the first year while working 20 hours a week.
Through the episode Rebecca & Natasha chat about her journey and how she's been able to bring forth all of the things she loves doing, like cooking, traveling, and hosting retreats, with her desire to help other entrepreneurs scale back their time commitment but still grow a business and an income! This episode is for you if you are tired of the constant hustle and want to take back some time for you to do the things you love without sacrificing the success of your business.
You can check out this podcast episode here:
Dear Alice - Our 10 Principles of Styling Pt.1 | Edit, Blank Spaces, Focal Points, and Shelf Styling - 57 min
Dear Alice hosts Jessica Bennett & Suzanne Hall always say that the last layer is everything and that everything they do from plan conception all the way down to the last bit of styling, and even though it’s all important and critical to a beautiful space, this is the cherry on top, or the soul of the house.
This is one of those things that people either have or don’t and it’s really hard to just own your own styling, so you go find inspiration. Jessica & Suzanne get a lot of questions on styling in general, just on how you do it and how one styles because it’s something they teach you in school at all. This is often what separates the good from the great where the good designer might design well, but not style so well, but the great stylists will design and style well.
Highlights from this episode:
Styling can be hard to grasp 5:19
Edit 10:42
Blank spaces and when to use them 16:04
Focal points 20:44
Shelf styling 32:40
“When we’re trying to put things together that are gonna go on a shelf, if those things look great together, even on the floor, or when we’re pulling things from the show room, we’ll usually load everything onto this console in the design center conference room, if they look great together, they’re gonna look great together on a shelf. No matter where you put them, they're gonna look great in a room.” 14:57
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