The Interior DesignHer Podcast

real-world interior design business education

Kate Cook: 3D Rendering Artist for Interior Designers
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Kate Cook: 3D Rendering Artist for Interior Designers

Kate Cook: 3D Rendering Artist for Interior Designers

Your client stares blankly at your floor plans. Your presentation stalls. You know the design will transform their space, but they just don't see it. What do you do?

Kate Cook solves this problem for interior designers by transforming their 2D architectural plans into fully immersive 3D spaces…that homeowners understand, appreciate & get excited by.

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Interior Design Law, Contracts & Templates
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Interior Design Law, Contracts & Templates

Discover essential legal insights for interior designers with Erica Canas from ID Law Shop. Learn about contracts, intellectual property, and protecting your design business from potential legal pitfalls.

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Interior Designers CAN Build a Better Business
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Interior Designers CAN Build a Better Business

Interior Designers CAN Build a Better Business

Interior designer Laura Thornton spent the past 27 😧 years learning how to run a successful interior design BUSINESS. If you don’t want to spend the next 27 years struggling to build your interior design business, Laura is here with two time-saving solutions 🙏

Laura’s podcast - The Business of Beautiful Spaces - is one of the absolute best podcasts for interior designers. Seriously, it’s really good. And it’s free :)

If you want to get better…faster, Laura has spent the past year creating a 6-week, 30+ module course - The Profit Academy for Interior Designers - dedicated to helping interior designers, decorators & home stagers build a PROFITABLE 📈 business.

The Profit Academy ain’t free, but it will save time. And as they say, time is money.

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Pricing for Interior Design Business Success
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Pricing for Interior Design Business Success

Pricing for Interior Design Business Success

Interior design is a luxury business that revolves around function, form and fantasy.

But…if you want to run a successful interior design business, you HAVE TO move beyond the design side of the business and level up the business side of your business.

During my interview with interior design business coach Nancy Ganzekaufer, we discuss:

How accurate pricing is key to the financial success of your interior design business, and

How Nancy’s pricing tool - The KEY - is a high-quality, low-cost option for interior designers looking to improve the accuracy of their pricing with reinventing the wheel.

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Should You Hire an Interior Design Business Coach?
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Should You Hire an Interior Design Business Coach?

Should You Hire an Interior Design Business Coach?

If you’ve ever thought of hiring a business coach to help you grow/improve/scale your interior design business, you really, really need to listen to my interview with interior design business coach Andrea Liebross.

Andrea is a business and life coach specializing in working with women entrepreneurs from a variety of industries…including interior designers.

As a business coach, Andrea guides her clients to combine big thinking with solid systems that work together to unleash their success and find the freedom of time, money, and energy they crave.

During our interview, I asked Andrea ALL of the questions that I think interior designers need to know before hiring a business coach.

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Systems and Processes for your Interior Design Business
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Systems and Processes for your Interior Design Business

Systems and Processes for your Interior Design Business

In this 3rd episode of the Interior,DesignHer podcast, we discuss something that was probably never discussed during your interior design education - business systems & processes. During my chat with interior design business coach Gail Doby, we discuss:

What are business systems & processes?

Why do you need them in your business?

Why don't interior designers learn this stuff in design school?

On the job training vs education & business coaching

An easy way to start creating your business processes

Is there a perfect template for business processes?

Which processes should you do first?

How should we document our business processes?

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Everything You Need to Know About Interior Design Business Coaching - My Chat with Gail Doby
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Everything You Need to Know About Interior Design Business Coaching - My Chat with Gail Doby

Everything You Need to Know About Interior Design Business Coaching - My Chat with Gail Doby

If you’ve ever thought of hiring a business coach to help you grow/improve/scale your interior design business, you need to listen to my interview with interior design business coach Gail Doby.

Gail is the co-owner of the interior design business consultancy firm - Pearl Collective - and is one of the most OG interior design business coaches working today.

Gail is one of my favorite interior design podcast guests, so I was super fan-boy excited when she agreed to sit down and share some of her coaching expertise with us.

And Gail didn’t disappoint. 100% full value. If you’re considering hiring an interior design business coach, listen to this interview before starting your search. You’ll thank me…and Gail Doby.

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What To Look For In An Interior Design Business Coach - Marc Müskens
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What To Look For In An Interior Design Business Coach - Marc Müskens

What To Look For In An Interior Design Business Coach - Marc Müskens

I’m more than a little excited to share my interview with interior designer & business coach Marc Müskens. I met Marc over at LinkedIn a few months ago and we hit it off. In addition to his massive interior design LinkedIn group, Marc has a unique interior design business coaching philosophy that I want to share with you.

I really, really hope this podcast episode helps you clarify your thoughts on whether or not you should hire a business coach to improve your business.

Interior DesignHer is all about bringing real-world business education to interior designers…because we all know that interior design school didn’t prepare us for the world of business :(

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