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Introducing Jaz, the 6 figure Design Superwoman turned Pricing Queen. Jaz is an Aussie creative teaching pricing through courses, resources and tomato sauces… ok maybe not the last one. Passionate about pricing, pie and puns, shes all about helping transform her students from Starving Artists to Hungry Creatives. In this episode we talk about all of that plus Survivor, Australian maternity leave (mind blown), and what her 14 years in the industry has looked like!

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Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

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Joy is an Illustrator, artist and maker based in New Jersey and she was such a delight to chat with! She illustrates puzzles, she has paint by number kits and she's got a painting book coming out! I loved how joy was sharing specifics on her process and the tools she uses. We talked about finding your artistic voice through creating work in large quantities and drawing from inspiration, and the challenges of being an artist on Instagram right now. You're going to love this one!

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Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

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This is a short and sweet Halloween episode where I (Lauren) tell some listener submitted stories and a few of my own. Let me know if you'd like to hear more episodes in this format! 

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Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

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Today we're talking with traveling muralist Sarah Meitler. We were honored that Sarah took a break from her painting day in North Carolina to have a quick chat with us. We talk about finding clients, her mural process, insurance... She even turns her laptop and shows us the amazing view out her window! I will post a video on Instagram stories. 

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Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

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Today we're talking with another one of my Design Biz Mastery ladies, Abbey McGrew from Wayfarer Design Studio!! Abbey travels the world for her husband'd job and she's currently living in Romania! Abbey is the founder of Wayfarer, a full-service design studio that elevates premium brands to a place of meaning, purpose, and newfound confidence.

She has become known not only for her design work, but also her openness about the struggles of freelancing. Through her course, The Designer Essentials Club, template shop and 1:1 coaching, Abbey teaches designers how to streamline their process and finally feel confident while working with clients. 

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Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

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I think you guys are going to be very excited about our guests today! This is our first interview ever with multiple guests! Today we are hearing from Phoebe and Roxy from PANDR! They create custom art installations and murals around the globe and one thing we really appreciate about them is that they are on a mission to end the starving artist stereotype. They have a plethora of resources for designers on their website and tons of helpful and fun content on their Instagram and TikTok as well. I'll link those in the show notes so have fun hopping into those rabbit holes! In this interview we talk about PANDR's origin story and how they got their start, red flags to watch out for when vetting potential clients, outreach and how important it is in landing clients, and some fun projects they have coming up! Phoebe and Roxy are fun and gracious and so generous in supporting the art community, you're going to love them!

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Phoebe and Roxy's book: Wonder Walls

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Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

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Today we're talking with Cymone Wilder from Simon and Moose. She is a full time graphic designer by day, amazing lettering artist by night. She has some really cool creative processes and uses some unique methods and materials to create her artwork, so it was really fun to hear the behind the scenes on that! 

For those of you who missed it, last week we launched a graphic design contract template! Thank you all for your support on that!!  It is thorough, peer reviewed contract, made in collaboration with my lawyer Kiersty Loughmiller. I always say hiring your own lawyer is the best option, but a contract template like this drafted by a lawyer is the next best and a super affordable option. So check that out! 

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Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

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Big announcement today!! I have been working in collaboration with my lawyer Kiersty Loughmiller who I absolutely love, to bring you a custom graphic design contract template!! This template is thorough, drafted by my lawyer, used by me, peer reviewed... I literally used this template twice today for two different clients on two completely different projects and I was able to tweak it and take things out I didn't need, leave things in I needed and I felt super great about it. Yes, hiring your own lawyer is the best option, but sometimes that's just not financially possible. So this contract template is meant to be an affordable option that's a step up from scouring the internet and panic googling "what should I have in my design contract". In celebration of the launch of this contract template, I'm going to be having a huuuuge flash sale today only! If you head to designbeatpodcast.com/contract and enter in the code FLASHSALE at checkout, you're going to get the template for $25!! At that price you might as well buy now, use it later, or even just buy it to compare to your existing contract to see if there's anything you might want to add! Again that's designbeatpodcast.com/contract code: FLASHSALE and that's valid today only! Wednesday September 22, 2021.

Today we're talking with UX designer Eva Chau! Eva actually studied oil painting in college and graduated with a graphic design degree. She did some print design working on paper products, fell into web design and now she's working as a UX designer in software. Eva is our first UX designer on the podcast so she gives us a little intro into UX, what she does on a day to day basis and the challenges she faces on the job.

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Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

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Today we're talking with Jess Levitz the other half of Shoppe Theory! So you guys remember Do-Hee, she was our very first interview ever on the podcast. Do-Hee is the web design partner of Shoppe Theory and Jess does more of the graphic design side so we're really excited to have her on and hear her perspective. You may know her from  The Creative Lady Collective Facebook group/ Instagram/ website formerly known as Freelance Wisdom. In this interview we talk about not being afraid to put your work out there, the perks of having a studio with a small team versus being a creative director managing a lot of people. She also  takes us on a deep dive into her branding process which you know I loved! So I do need to apologize for my audio in this episode.... I don't always point it out when my audio is bad because I feel like people wouldn't notice it a lot of the time if I didn't but this time.... it's pretty bad. I was at my parent's house and I wasn't as prepared as I thought so I had to use my AirPods which FYI are pretty much the worst thing you can record your audio on... so there you go if you find yourself wondering why I sound like I'm speaking through a Wendy's Drive-Thru speaker and Jess sounds really great that's why! So sorry guys... I'm not an audio engineer, I'm just a girl trying to share the stories of some pretty rad ladies. Ok! Here's Jess.

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Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle