Creating Your Happy Place

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Dana Parker! Dana is an emotional resiliency coach who grew up in the Mormon church and was married at 19. All within a few years she left the church, got a divorce, lost her job, went bankrupt, all the while trying to be a great mom to four boys. By losing everything, she says she's learned that her house is not her home and that actually, if she's at home with herself, then she can be at home anywhere. Listen to hear about her journey!

Dana Parker has been on the ground floor in two previous personal-development movements, training other leaders. She is a highly qualified life coach with over a decade of experience in coaching thousands of clients all over the world. She specializes in navigating life change with emotional intelligence. She is experienced in spreading emotional education as a spiritual practice specifically through her development of educational materials, public speaking, and her work as a thought leader. She is the voice of the Inner World Movement and looks forward to future speaking engagements, online courses, retreats, and more.

Her Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/innerworldmovement/
Group Coaching: http://www.innerworldmovement.com/p/reclaiming-you.html
Website: http://www.innerworldmovement.com/

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe! 

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Maegan Blau! Maegan Blau is an interior designer based in sunny Arizona.  In 2009 she incurred a C6-C8 spinal cord injury and has been a wheelchair user ever since. She is diagnosed with an incomplete C8 spinal cord injury which has obviously changed the way she lives in the blink of an eye. As a person with a disability, it seemed the majority of options to make homes accessible were straight-up ugly and very hospital-like. It got her thinking…we can do better than this! Listen to this episode to hear all about her incredible journey.

Her interior design career started with a personal journey to renovate and adapt her first home to fit accessibility needs while having a high level of style. Combining her perspective of disability with her life-long passion for interior design fueled Maegan to find creative ways to make spaces beautifully accessible.  In 2018 she started Blue Copper Design to elevate the world of adaptive design.

Her Links:
Instagram: Instagram.com/bluecopperdesign
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bluecopperdesign

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe! 

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Mitzi Beach! No matter what age we are, everyone wants to have a happy home. That said, what we need from our home may change over time. Mitzi is an expert in Aging in Place, and shares with us what home looks like for those over 50!

Mitzi Beach A.S.I.D. C.A.P.S. is an award-winning Interior Designer, Author, and 50+ Demographic Marketing & Lifestyle Specialist. Author of the brand new book “Design Smarts,
Inspiration for Home + Life”. Mitzi, armed with 30 years experience and a masters degree in interior design, she is one of the Design Hounds top 100 influencers 2018, selected as a member of the prestigious Style Spotters High Point market in North Carolina, as well as High Point Market Design Bloggers Tour, quoted in The Wall Street Journal as an expert in the
emerging Aging in Place (AIP) trend. Along with designers across America, her home is featured in the 2018 “Christmas by Design” book.

Her links:
Website- www.mitzibeach.com
Instagram- www.instagram.com/mitzi.beach/
Facebook- www.facebook.com/MitziBeachDesign
Facebook Group- www.facebook.com/groups/LifeSizing

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe! 

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Star Hansen! Star lives in Tucson Arizona in a Santa Fe-style home with her boyfriend, and her 2 dogs, a cat, and 13 coy fish. She's a Certified Professional Organizer, aka a clutter whisperer! In this episode, she shares what clutter is (both physical and mental), and how we can deal with it.

Star Hansen brings peace to the world one color-coded label at a time.  Known as the “Lifestyle Organizer,” Star’s multi-layered approach is that of mind, body, spirit, & space. Star has a knack for seeing through the chaos and into the lives & hearts of those she works with. Through her unique approach, she diagnoses people’s emotional and lifestyle blocks, guiding them to a state of organization and joy.  She has been featured on OWN, TLC, HGTV, Style, and A&E. Star’s thought-provoking TEDx talk explores what the monsters in your closet are trying to tell you.  Star can be found helping people across the world shift their relationship to clutter through her Chaos to Calm Organizing Membership.

Her links:
Website- www.starhansen.com
Instagram- www.instagram.com/star.hansen/
Facebook- www.facebook.com/StarHansen/


Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe! 

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Samantha Kellgren! Samantha had been living in downtown Chicago for 10 and a half years, when she decided she needed a change in pace. Specifically, she wanted mountains! She and her husband packed up their belongings and moved to slower-paced Asheville North Carolina, with their 11-month-old son. In this episode, Samantha talks about everything from why she moved, to what it's like working from home, to the mental impact of social media!

Samantha is a health and mindset coach. She helps driven women slow down so they can ditch stress without guilt and live with an abundance of balance, joy, and confidence.

Links:
Aligned Action Collective - https://www.facebook.com/groups/letsdothisshift
Website - https://www.simplywellcoaching.com/
Insta - https://www.instagram.com/simplywellcoaching/
Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/LiveSimplyWell/

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe! 

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Spencer Frost! Spencer is a 31-year-old who was diagnosed with Achondroplasia Dwarfism at birth. He's just a regular guy who currently works for Apple as a Technical Support Advisor. In this episode, he talks about what navigating life, and home, as a little person is like.

Spencer and his wife live in a one-story house they just purchased in Leander,  Texas, and are eager to finish out all the interior decorating they want to do! In his free time, Spencer likes to be outdoors. And since the start of the pandemic, he has been spending much of his time plane spotting, and practicing photography.

Spencer's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/atx_aviation_addict/

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe! 

 Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Grace Mase! Grace lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids. After going through her own home improvement nightmare, she decided there must be a better way to go about managing home projects.

Grace Mase is the Founder + CEO of BEYREP [Construction Tech + EQ] - an all-in-one home construction management solution that provides peace of mind and confidence. She started her career as a Campus Architect for UC Berkeley after earning B.A. from UC Berkeley and M.Arch. from Yale University. She held senior executive positions at YP.com, Beachbody, United Online, and Yahoo!. Grace leveraged her 20 years of software development experience to build BEYREP to help design/building professionals to collaborate more effectively with their clients, grow their business smarter, and increase profit. BEYREP also simplifies the home improvement process and empowers people to achieve a better life through a better home.

Her Instagram- instagram.com/beyrep101
Her Facebook- facebook.com/beyrep

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe! 

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Christina Frost! Christina is a whimsy instructor and consultant, teaching others about how to bring surprise and adventure into your life. But how did she end up on this amazing path? Listen to the episode to hear about Christina's journey to loving everything whimsy!

Born in Colorado, but essentially a Texas native, Christina graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Radio-TV-Film. After many years of wrestling with singleness, Christina created her own turning point when she re-focused her attention on studying and incorporating more whimsy into her life. This revealed pieces of her heart she'd forgotten she had the power to fill. Now she teaches others about the incredible joys and positive impact whimsy can have in our everyday lives. It's closer and more marvelous than we know. You can reach her on Instagram at TheWhimsyPage, or email her at [email protected].

Her website- https://thewhimsyblog.com/
Her Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/thewhimsypage

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe!

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Anne Strunk! Anne is involved with Special Spaces; a nonprofit that designs dream bedrooms for kids with life-threatening illnesses. She got started with them back in 2011, after finding herself an empty-nester. Listen to this episode to hear about all of the incredible spaces she designed, and how rewarding of a journey it was.

Anne and her husband of 41 years live in Chattanooga,  TN. She lives in a house that has had every room in it redecorated at least once in their 16 years there! Anne has 3 grown children and 6 1/2 grandchildren.  When not chasing grandbabies and 1 unruly grand dog,  Anne and her daughter are busy as owners of The Venue Chattanooga.

Link to Special Spaces- https://specialspaces.org/
Link to The Venue Chattanooga- https://thevenuechattanooga.com/

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe!

Today on Creating Your Happy Place, we are chatting with special guest Crystal Collinson! Crystal is an interior designer that specializes in model homes.  Listen in to hear how she designs spaces that everyone will like, instead of just the family who's living in the home.

Crystal is the principal of Crystal Collinson Interiors, a full-service design firm specializing in the Design and Decorating of Model Homes, Sales Presentation Centre’s, Condominium amenity spaces, and small commercial projects. Crystal & her team work with many of the GTA’s largest home builders. After 18 years in the industry, Crystal has developed an approach to interior design that sets her apart, while setting her clients & trusted trade resources at ease.

Crystal is also the creator and host of The Productive Designer podcast-launching this month! The goal of the podcast is to educate, collaborate and motivate all Interior Design professionals to intentionally design the life and business they want.

Her Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/crystalcollinsoninteriors
Her Twitter- https://twitter.com/crystalhelean
Her Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/crystalcollinsoninteriors

Rebecca is CEO of her Seattle-based residential interior design company Seriously Happy Homes, author of the book Happy Starts at Home, and host of this podcast! She's a business consultant to her fellow residential interior designers through Seriously Happy Coaching & Consulting and a small business mentor with SCORE Seattle. She can't resist a costume party or a cat video, and has a weakness for Oreos, Taco Bell, and Scotch whiskey. 😁 Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/beseriouslyhappy/

Welcome to Creating Your Happy Place! A podcast that explores how our spaces support (or sabotage) our happiness and make it easier (or harder) to reach our goals, then empowers you to do whatever it takes to get happy at home. 😊🏡

Make sure to review and subscribe!