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Overheard: Mae Reedy, Abigail Kahan & Jennifer Arteaga: What Growing Pains Look Like beyond $5 Million
Today with Mae Reedy, Abigail Kahan & Jennifer Arteaga: Three interior designers. Three multi-million dollar firms. Jennifer Arteaga, Mae Reedy, and Abigail Kahan all built their businesses... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
What Would Lu Do?: Your Net Cost Isn’t the Point
Today With LuAnn Nigara: Last week's episode on interior design and trust got a real response, DMs, comments, one designer admitting she wouldn't have known what to say if a client brought up... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
Sponsored Show | Sandra Funk: The Season That Tested Everything She Built
Today with Sandra Funk: Every business owner is one bad month away from finding out what their business is actually built on. This year, Sandra Funk found out. Her mom got sick. Two surgeries... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
What Would Lu Do?: Can We Stop Apologizing For Being a Business?
Today With LuAnn Nigara: Somewhere on a coaching call this week, a designer told LuAnn the same An interior designer was arrested a few weeks ago. Grand theft, diversion of construction funds,... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
Liz Lidgett: A Smart Way to Source Art for Every Project and Budget
Today with Liz Lidgett: Art is one of the most overlooked ways designers can elevate a project and expand their own margin, and most designers are sourcing it the hard way. In this episode, LuAnn... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
Overheard: Being a Great Interior Designer Won’t Make You a Great CEO
Today with Kathleen Reynolds & Lauren Vallario: Being a great interior designer and being a great CEO are not the same skill set, and Kathleen Reynolds and Lauren Vallario both learned that... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
Megan Reilly: SHOWing Up at WestEdge Design Fair and other Industry Trade Shows
Today with Megan Reilly: Today with Megan Reilly, co-founder and owner of WestEdge Design Fair, LuAnn dives into why designers at every level should stop treating trade shows as shopping trips... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
Camia Brown: Keeping a Business Alive Through the Hardest Season of Your Life
Today with Camia Brown: In the space of about a year and a half, Camia Brown lost her grandmother, lost her mother, lost a contractor she relied on for most of her projects to suicide, and went... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
What Would Lu Do: The Discount Lie
Today With LuAnn Nigara: Somewhere on a coaching call this week, a designer told LuAnn the same story she hears constantly: her client is insisting on seeing the invoice, certain she's entitled... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
Jude Charles: The Reason Clients Choose One Interior Designer Over Another
Today with Jude Charles: My guest today has interviewed over one hundred homeowners after they hired an interior designer, and he asks every single one of them the same two questions. Why did... (READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION)
