113. Overcome Goal Aversion to Reach Your Full Potential
Learn why we set goals as business owners, how to identify where resistance is showing up for you, and what you can do to move past it. Discover how embracing discomfort and building self-trust can help you navigate the goal-setting process and unlock the next level of your interior design business.
112. Progress Goals vs Outcome Goals: Staying Motivated and on Track with Your Goals
Learn what progress goals and outcome goals are, how they differ, and why you need both to not only make consistent progress toward your desired results, but to make the journey there so much more enjoyable. I show you how setting clear and measurable milestones helps you stay focused on what matters most, and why these approaches will help you take your goal-setting to the next level.
111. 5 Key Ingredients to Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet
Join me in this episode as I walk you through each of the five key elements of effective goal-setting. Learn the most common reason goal-setting falls flat, how to stop working against yourself and create a smooth path forward instead, and my roadmap for making your big goals a reality in 2025.
110. Defining Enough
I explore how to identify when you need to define enough, the different ways to approach it, and the transformative power of making that decision for yourself. From setting financial goals to managing your time and team, knowing what enough means for you is crucial for success, and I guide you through this process today.
109. Uplevel Your Brand Messaging & Positioning: Copywriting for Interior Designers with Deb Mitchell
From the importance of authentic brand positioning to crafting a compelling voice that builds trust with your ideal clients, Deb shares her expert insights on the power of investing in strategic messaging for your business. Learn Deb’s tips for making empowered decisions about your brand messaging and positioning, and the internal growth that’s required when you want to up-level.
108. Break Free from the Productivity Trap: A New Perspective on Getting It Done
Join me this week to hear some hard truths about productivity that might surprise you. But don't worry, I also share some good news that will help you approach your work in a more intentional and sustainable way. You’ll learn why more isn’t necessarily better, how the productivity trap strings you along, and most importantly, how to break free from it.
107. Designing for Good: Charitable Giving Strategies for Interior Designers with Mark Ostrom
Mark Ostrom shares how thoughtful, functional design can be truly life-changing for these families. We also discuss creative ways interior designers can incorporate charitable giving as a memorable gifting and marketing opportunity, and how even small contributions can create a powerful ripple effect of joy.
106. Project Panic: Navigate Hiccups While Staying Calm
I share practical strategies for managing your mindset when the unexpected happens. Learn how to separate facts from stories, tune into your body to process emotions, and approach projects with realistic expectations, which will all help you navigate project challenges with more ease and resilience moving forward.
105. Pivot with Purpose: Should You Revise Your Year End Goals?
Listen in this week as I show you how to master the art of goal revision. You’ll hear what the process of evaluating your current position entails, the factors to consider when deciding whether to adjust your targets, and how to make the most of the remaining months and position yourself for success in the year ahead.
104. Eliminate Business Bloat with "All Killer, No Filler"
I dive into the origins of All Killer, No Filler, share practical examples of how I've applied it in my own life and business, and guide you through the process of using this powerful filter for yourself. You’ll hear why this concept is the secret to creating more ease, how it opens up both physical and mental energy, and helps you better utilize the resources in your business.
103. How to Optimize Your Team’s Performance, Productivity, and Profitability
Learn how you can optimize your team’s performance to increase productivity, profitability, and overall satisfaction. Hear the importance of conducting a time audit to identify gaps, redundancies, and inefficiencies in your team's workflow, and a step-by-step process of gathering data, reviewing it, and implementing solutions that will create more value for your business as a whole.
102. Fear of Rejection (& How to Overcome It)
Are you holding back in your interior design business due to a fear of rejection? You're not alone. As a designer, putting yourself and your creative ideas out there can feel incredibly vulnerable, and the possibility of hearing no can be paralyzing. But the truth is that learning to work with and move beyond this fear will be transformative for your business and your goals.
101. Growing a Successful Design Business: Lessons from Campbell Minister
Campbell shares her insights on the keys to her success as an interior design business CEO. She opens up about her fear of going from solopreneur to leading a full-time team, how she navigates the desire to control every detail, why focusing on relationships, not outcomes, has been vital to her success, and her goals for the near future.
100. 100 Episodes Later: Top Lessons from Podcasting for Interior Designers
Discover why focusing on small wins and cumulative effort is key to achieving big things, how patience and commitment work together to help you stay the course, and why examining your beliefs about yourself is crucial for unlocking your next level of potential.
99. What’s Next (CEO Summer School Lessons)
Whether you’ve knocked CEO Summer School out of the park or it hasn’t gone quite as you hoped or planned, join me this week as I show you what’s next. In this final episode of the series, you’ll hear why making small shifts can compound into the kind of success you want, the importance of acknowledging how far you’ve come, and how to focus on the insights that resonated most with you.
98. How to Increase Your Confidence in Your Interior Design Business
I explore the two types of confidence every interior design CEO needs to master. Learn why your level of confidence affects every aspect of your business and how to build unshakable confidence, even when you're venturing into uncharted territory.
97. You at Your Best (CEO Summer School)
I share how to identify and leverage those times when you’re at your best so you can embody that version of yourself more often. Learn why tapping into your best self always starts with your thoughts and beliefs and how to use those as fuel to generate the feelings and actions that reinforce your ideal state.
96. Becoming Your Future Self: A Leadership Journey
Discover how tapping into the wisdom and perspective of your future self can help you make better decisions, stay motivated, and achieve your biggest goals. Hear why now is the perfect time to see what you can do to set your future self up for success, and how to lead with your future self to gain a fresh perspective on your role as CEO of your interior design business.
95. Business Blind Spots (CEO Summer School)
Discover how business blind spots limit your growth and a powerful reflection question that will give you clarity on your current blind spots. With this knowledge, you learn how to make looking for blind spots a regular part of your business-building activities so you can make profound changes to accelerate your growth.
94. Beyond Later: How to Overcome Procrastination
If you often procrastinate with the best of intentions but find yourself never actually getting to the task, you're in the right place. Whether you’re putting things off in the short term or imagining grandiose plans that you never actually take action on, the truth is both hinder your progress toward achieving the goals you want. Learn how to recognize your Later Habit patterns and how to conquer them for good.