Hot Young Designers Club | Interior Design Business Podcast

This week the Hot Young Designers welcome Kachet Jackson-Henderson who you may recognize from her lifestyle blog The Kachet Life. Kachet shares how her broad background in marketing and advertising has helped her sustain a successful business in content creation and business coaching. She talks about discovering your own special sauce and how to use it to sell our services. Kachet offers her advice for finding your target audience and shares her experiences working with brands and partners. You won't want to miss her tips for how to get noticed online!

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Shaun's projector for outdoor movies

Rebecca's Air Quality app

Kachet's Level Up Coaching

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This week the Hot Young Designers dive into Meeting 3 of Hot Young Book Club with Chapters 5 & 6 of Gay Hendricks' book The Big Leap. Spoiler Alert: if you haven't already listened to the first two meetings, it's a good idea to head back to catch up. Rebecca and Shaun welcome Claire Jones of Etch & Ivy Design to join in the discussion. Join them in two weeks to talk about the final chapter, our closing thoughts, and our action items.

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The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

Stuart Smalley Daily Affirmation SNL Skit

The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

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This week the Hot Young Designers welcome Maegan Blau of Blue Copper Designs. Maegan talks with them about how she experiments with her design business model to make it work for her. She also shares her home renovation experience to accommodate her abilities and how it lead her to a new career in interior design. Maegan helped Rebecca and Shaun break down some of the differences between adaptive and universal design. You won't want to miss Maegan's tips for how to incorporate accessible design elements into every one of your projects.

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Crip Camp on Netflix

Universal Design Toolkit book

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This week the Hot Young Designers are continuing their Process Party series and tackling proposals. Converting leads to new client projects is all about how we sell our value to clients. Rebecca takes us through the systems she uses to automate proposals, contracts, and collecting retainers. Shaun shares how he's using proposals now and how he wants to get better. Grab a pen and paper for this episode, because they're getting into the nitty gritty!

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Rebecca restyled her Zoom background and uploaded it to her Instagram reels

Shaun loves referring to his Investment Guide so clients know what to expect. The Identité Collective has a great post about how to get started on your own.

Consider capturing clients faster by including your contract after your proposal. We explored Contracts For Creatives in Episode 12.

Rebecca has used Dubsado to automate her proposal process.

The Hot Young Designers dive into Chapter 3 & 4 of Gay Hendricks' book The Big Leap in Meeting 2 of the Hot Young Book Club. Rebecca and Shaun welcome Claire Jones of Etch & Ivy Design to join in the discussion and explore vulnerable impacts that fears have on their personal and business growth. If you're reading along, in two weeks they'll be sharing their reactions to Chapters 5 & 6. Email your reactions to the reading for a chance to hear them on the next episode!

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The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

The Road Back To You: An Enneagram To Self Discovery

How Full Is Your Bucket

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This week the Hot Young Designers are talking about how to develop an online community within the design industry. They're bringing you this episode as part of a Trade Talk hosted on Instagram Live by Jaipur Living. Rebecca shares how the One Room Challenge brought her together with other designers. Shaun reveals how he uses the signature Crha Slide and voice messages into DMs. Now's the time to connect with other designers and partners in a real and authentic way.

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We met while designing rooms for the Fall 2019 One Room Challenge

Rebecca's Fall 2019 ORC

Shaun's 2019 ORC

We love staying connected with our own community of designers on the Marco Polo app

This week the Hot Young Designers are breaking up... with all the things they don't want to do anymore. They discussed how as business owners just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do something. It's all about when to start delegating, referring, and sometimes breaking up with the wrong clients and projects. This is a powerful episode about releasing yourself from what's holding your business back from reaching new levels of success.

This week the Hot Young Designers also announce their first workshop called You Better Werk, Pitch. It's all about confidently pitching for brand collaborations and partnerships. Be sure you're subscribed to their newsletter for the official launch.

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We started the Hot Young Book Club! Get the book now to start reading: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

The Hot Young Designers dive into the first two chapters of Gay Hendricks' book The Big Leap in Meeting 1 of the Hot Young Book Club. Rebecca and Shaun welcome Claire Jones of Etch & Ivy Design to join in the discussion and explore vulnerable impacts that fears have on their personal and business growth. If you're reading along, in two weeks they'll be sharing their reactions to Chapters 3 & 4. Email your reactions to the reading for a chance to hear them on the next episode!

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The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

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Zone of Genius worksheet Rebecca found

The Hot Young Designers sit down with Clara Jung of Banner Day Interiors to chat about her transition from her first career as an attorney into her successful design business. They also learned how Clara defined her own success as a creative despite growing up with traditional career expectations. She shares how she takes bold risks in her projects, but is cautiously optimistic with financial decisions. Things get real as they talk about signing a new lease right at the beginning of quarantine and systems to help run their businesses on a daily basis.

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We started the Hot Young Book Club! Get the book now to start reading: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

We talked about software we use in our businesses. Clara uses Asana, Ivy, and Slack. Shaun recently started using Dubsado after Rebecca recommended it.

This week the Hot Young Designers are talking about how they set boundaries in their businesses. Shaun is a big fan of using tools and handouts with clients as a pre-emptive strike, and Rebecca loves using automated scheduling techniques. They're breaking down how to keep your sanity, avoid resentment, and how to protect your time. Because no one needs to be answering client texts at 9 o'clock at night! Rebecca and Shaun also play a fun Kiss/Marry/Kill challenge - Boundaries Edition.

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Stuff they mentioned

We started the Hot Young Book Club! Get the book now to start reading: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

Creating a Client Welcome Kit using Creative Market

Taking control of your schedule using Acuity

Using a Google Voice phone number to separate your business and personal life