…on being brutally honest about your design business. As a business consultant to many leading creative teams, Emily Cohen has developed, tested, and curated key business insights and strategies that have helped creative firms become more effective, profitable, and fun to work at. She now shares her expertise through her new book, “Brutally Honest: No-Bullshit Business Strategies to Evolve Your Creative Business. Emily and Ryan talk about growing up in a book store, why it’s important to be a specialist and not a generalist and what opportunities and pervasive evils are plaguing the design community.