Pull The Thread

By Krystal Douglas

The podcast teaches you everything you need to know to be profitable at craft-based work, and dive deep on sewing as a career choice. Join your host, Krystal Douglas - a celebrity tailor, creative ent... more

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The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.

Pull The Thread episodes:

November 04, 2023 Self employed vs. Business Owner - Is there a difference?
If you're hustling for new clients all day, and working as fast as your little fingers can fly all night, you've probably been walking the fine line between self-employed and business owner for a while now.Krystal has a couple ways to tell if it's time to make the changes you need for long term stability, as well as a little advice for what's going to be expected of you when you change.Regardless of whether you want to scale your business, or remain a one-person operation, Krystal has t...
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34min
October 17, 2023 You only ever have two choices. Are you willing to do what it takes?
Do you ever feel like people are lapping you? Like everyone else is moving forward, and your current status is... well... stationary? Episode 27 of Pull the Thread podcast is for the perpetual planner who just can't seem to pull the trigger on launching or is stuck without any growth. Because you only ever really have two choices - you can evolve or remain. Are you willing to do what it takes? Krystal guides listeners through a series of practical questions to get unstuck a mo...
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21min
October 05, 2023 Starting a career in fashion? My assistant shares her insights
September marks my assistant, Natalyn’s one-year anniversary of working at our brick-and-mortar sewing business. I finally dragged her behind the mic to share about the past year, all the hard work she’s put in, and things she’s learned along the way.If you’re considering fashion school, or a career in the hands-on side of creating fashion, this episode is one not to miss. We talk about how she scored her opportunity, what it took to prove herself, things she found surprising, and how she wou...
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52min
September 25, 2023 9 Tools Making Me A Better CEO
These nine (mostly free) tools have changed the game for me in terms of automating and delegating tasks. My goal as a business owner is to not waste any human brainpower whatsoever dong things computers can do more efficiently, and in return, keeping our valuable hands busy doing work that matters for people who care. My top 9 tools for a more productive, profitable handmade business:Lucky OrangeChatGPTTrelloAnswer the publicHemingway appArtful agenda FlodeskSlackSheetsAs promised, ...
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39min
August 07, 2023 If there were one secret, it would be this.
Derek Thompson says that to sell something familiar, you have to make it surprising. To sell something surprising, you have to make it familiar. "It is in this interplay between familiarity and surprise where the strongest appeal lives.And isn’t that just it? Customers are either torn between their curiosity of new things, and also, a fear of anything too new.Hop into this episode to learn how to walk the line between familiarity and surprise, and to hear a really cool story about how a Russi...
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26min
June 30, 2023 10 Steps To Better Margins In Your Business
Did you know Steve Jobs was so upside down on starting Pixar that he was personally funding payroll for months on end before Toy Story was released? He couldn’t secure backing from anyone, but truly believed in the creative underbelly of what was going on inside of those ordinary offices that sat next to an oil refinery. Jobs was $50 million in the hole, but still knew he was onto something in what they were creating. He brought in Lawrence Levy to be his CFO, who documented the tale of tensi...
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44min
June 10, 2023 You’re Stealing From Yourself
The largest art theft in history happened nearly 33 years ago, in Boston, March 18, 1990. Thieves stole 13 pieces of art valued at over $500 million, from Isabella Gardner Museum.One of the pieces stolen has been valued at $250 million… A reward of $10 million is still being offered for the return of this art. Have you ever stolen from yourself? If you’re a creative trying to do business by selling the things you make, or your services themselves, most likely, I’m sorry to tell you, you ...
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37min
May 30, 2023 You're Stealing From Yourself
The most valuable piece of missing art in the world disappeared as part of a $500,000,000 art heist 33 years ago. Everyone had suspicious guesses as to what actually happened to all the art stolen by thieves dressed up as policemen, but personally, I think it may have been an inside job.

When it comes to YOUR business, how often are you stealing from yourself without you knowing? I'm willing to bet, more often than not. As business owners, it's tough to hold ourselves accountable... to ourselves. This episode goes in-depth on three ways you may be stealing from your (and your business's) future.
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30min
May 22, 2023 Your Idea Could Change Your Life. Introducing Project Fashion Forward
This episode highlights the pain points of well-intentioned aspiring fashion designers.If a sketch were all one needed, then anyone could be a fashion designer... But it isn't.You don't need to know how to pattern or sew - you just need to communicate with those who do.There are a lot of steps between making a sketch, and having it manufactured into wearable clothing... I built you a staircase. Fashion lines are expensive, but they cost even more to start if you don't know what you'...
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37min
March 10, 2023 Fashion Line Launch Secrets From A Small Batch Manufacturer
The most expensive dress in the world was valued at $30 million dollars, and was created by Faisal Abdullah in 2009 - an incredible designer that doesn't even have a website. That speaks volumes to me - First, that someone can do $30m without a website & second, the consistent reminder that making things is expensive. The sobering reality of what launching a clothing line actually costs is only topped by these five secrets that small batch manufacturers quietly wish new fashion desig...
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33min

FAQs about Pull The Thread:

How many episodes does Pull The Thread have?

The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.