080: Integrating Family and Business  WITH JEREMY AND CHANDLER QUARLES

On the podcast, today are Jeremy and Chandler Quarles. Together they own Peach and Pine Interiors and host the wonderful podcast, Love Where You Live. After pursuing other careers that were centered around music, they both are now focusing on building the interior and renovation business…with a little music still on the side. We are chatting today about how their business began, how they are integrating their home and business life while focusing on the foundational aspects of business that will put them in a place for future growth. With a one-year-old child and a three-year-old business, you can bet they are busy – and how they support and listen to each other is inspirational. Enjoy the podcast.  

Topics Mentioned:

• Integration
• Family
• Podcast
• Faith

Key Thoughts:

• But as the business grew, I realized there was no way for him (Jeremy) to really be involved and help because he was gone so much he wasn't really part of things. - Chandler (8:40)

• And in the past, I would have found other tours and other artists to work for and fill that time but we just kind of said, you know, we created this business with the intention ultimately of coming together on it and it is our career. - Jeremey (11:00)

• You just hear that you don't go into business with friends and family. - Michele (16:19)

• Tag team on Friday. He'll take dad duty in the morning and I'll go work somewhere. Then we'll switch off in the afternoon. - Chandler (24:15)

• Sometimes I'll wake up, honestly, on a Saturday morning, and I won't have any work to do for my clients. But because I've been rested, I want to do something for myself and my own business. - Michele (32:13)

• I mean, I was profitable from the beginning and that my overhead was super low, I was making an income, but I did not have the long term, the long game really in mind. - Chandler (51:06)

• We weren't reckless, we've always been profitable, but we were not sustainably profitable. And I think I wish that we would have just started by taking a small salary and putting more into savings, which is what we're starting to do now. - Jeremy (56:15)

• Yeah, I don't think we certainly were made to be Island. - Michele (59:39)

Contact Michele

• Email: [email protected]
• Facebook: Scarlet Thread Consulting
• Instagram: @ScarletThreadATL

Contact Jeremy and Chandler

• Website: http://www.peachandpinehome.com 
• Instagram: @peachandpinehome 
• Facebook: Peach and Pine Home 

References and Resources:

• EP. 009 with Cory and Anthea Click - Listen Today
• EP. 064 with Michele Williams - Listen Today 
• The Designers' Inner Circle - Become a Member Today