Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another SLG Meetup, your host, Oliver Rott to bring you another exciting and successful guest. And I'm thrilled because today we're going to have a good friend of ours, his name is Ginger Grace. And she is a superstar when it comes to the interior design and business development in the Luxury residential space. Now, she's now working on developing her own design studio.
And I'm telling you, she's a really, really, really knowledgeable professional. And I want her to be here today to tell us more about what she's working on and a little bit more about such a saturated industry and how she's making her way to the top. So very excited to have her here with us today. And to go for everything.
Ah, that's you. How are you? Good and you? Good and you?
It's good to see you. Good to see you. I've been here for joining us today. And I got to tell you, congratulations on the new venture on taking that step forward because you've been doing fantastic as an interior designer, business developer within that industry.
And now you're taking the chance to even take a father with your own business. And tell us a little bit about it. Well, I think I always thought I was a child. I was always, you know, placing things in our harmony.
So the energy can always flow. And I noticed that every time that I put something in the right place, all the environment improved, the attitude of the people, everything was more pleasant. And then I started doing that. Of course, growing up, we all play challenges.
And what we think it doesn't happen or it will happen in our long term. And that was what happened to me when I came to this country that received me with a lot of opportunities and a lot of challenges. And I'm very happy that the luxury industry took me when I thought it was too much for me. And now I had beautiful and amazing mentors that helped me to grow and become the person that I am now.
And then I decided because in a start with a friend, a client that became a friend, they said, listen, I have this house, I need to rent it, the house is not in the best condition. I have one month. So I say, OK, we're more than anyone want. OK, let's do it.
I decided to quit to my past work. And the day that I quit, I had a car accident. This is the project for the month. But that gives me a lot of skills that I didn't know that I had opened doors to beautiful people that were very supportive of me, that they were looking at me, how I was growing, except by step in this market.
And it's been a beautiful experience so far. 100% congratulations. You definitely love a lot. Tell us a little bit about how it was for you transitioning towards taking full control on your destiny and going full motion with the business right now.
Well, I was not a person to be able to dream bored or something I was alive was driving me and I was just in survival mode. The car accident just fit me in that position to analyze what I need to do, why I'm letting life to drive me. And then, yeah, take this step. It was beautiful, not regrets.
But I also saw the old people that were smiling to me, were not really smiling to me. I faced it like the trades from my dearest friends just were a closing deal. And but, you know, I'm very excited at the same time because I know that's part of the process and trust the process and, you know, like wake up. And even if I fail on my own schedule, keeping knocking boards, I mean, very, like I have the career term that all the people that I'm talking to right now, they knew me or they saw me there at the beginning six years ago.
And yeah, like I have no regrets. Like taking that step, it's very, you realize that in my case, I realize that I don't have that big company holding my back. I didn't have the accounting, I didn't have the authority, I didn't have. But taking the risk and then figure it out and make it happen.
You know, like my, yeah, I want to touch base on a few things that you mentioned, which I find them very important. So first of all, finding that passion, right? Because you're doing something that since you were a kid, you've been passionate about. And it's very difficult to find that as a young kid.
And then you've been developing over the years. But also what you said is that in order for you to take that next step, finding the right mentors, right? And then bringing the right energy into the spaces. So let's break that down and let's go with first the spaces, because I love the concept of bringing the right energy into the spaces.
And really the passion of making people feel positive and fulfilled through the homes. So tell us a little bit about the process and how you really find the angle of making that happen. Well, I like a lot of focus on functionality, because I'm a strong believer when you place something, like let's say a sofa, that sofa will keep memories. If you place it in the right position and on the beef case in the rest of the house, it will create communications.
And everything is easier when you have a good structure to communicate. And you can do it by gestures, you can do a verbally, but you can also do it with the items are in your house. So I always start with the client. I walk very into detail of where is the light of hunting?
What did you do for daily? Is this sofa? Do you want to look? This is what it's going to be.
Do you want to work? This is the best option that I can tell you. And I always go because it's residential. It's a very emotional process.
So I have a very good team of architects that join me, depending on the scope of work or other interior designers. I like to collaborate and cooperate. I'm very open to receive any advice. But even with the client making easier, they're the activities and integrating them as a family.
I like to build memories, beautiful memories, and owners, the investment of my clients. So I always go for functionality and then we go for shapers and textures that is the comp part. I love that. I'm so important.
That's so important. And you mentioned that in order to speed up the process and feel a little bit more prepared when taking that legal faith and start your own business after working with many successful businesses and doing all the project management and business development. Tell me a little bit about the importance of the mentorship. Because you said you've had some mentors that have helped you.
Yes, I will say, I never really pay attention to the value of a mentor because I had mentors that talk me through experiences that were character development. But you know, those mentors that they be sold to you and then you have to build yourself from nothing. But then I had the beautiful experience of having these mentors want to me. Chinder success is not doing 100 times one time.
It's doing the same thing 100,000 times. So that is taking my brain. And that's something that I use when I don't want to do anything else. When I'm feeling weak.
And also, for example, your book was a guy saying, you know, and I'm, you know, because I say, yeah, I say like, wow, you know, sometimes people see the pretty face, but they do not think that we are, some of us are in the same process of, you know, like trying to find ourselves and making things work when you don't believe in yourself. Or people doesn't believe in yourself. So the mentors for me to shadow someone. I just, I just have to like their voice, their values.
And then I shadow like a puppy. Yeah, like it helped me to, to have discipline, to keep moving forward, to be persistent when people tell me quits. And I'm like, no, that's, that's for me. What a positive mentor.
Right. By the strength. And the reason that we touch base on this and it's so important is because you come from different country, different language, different background. And then you come into the US aiming to go towards your dream.
And then a lot of different obstacles are coming your way. That's not an easy thing. And that's why I believe your story is so empowering for so many, because sometimes, hey, it's taking that leap of faith and go for it and find the right people that can support you in that journey. Now, what's the, I guess, biggest failure you've ever had?
And what did you learn from it? Wow. It gives enough my power because I thought I did not have the experience of my partner and the project class. Now I still recovery because I'm very persistent, but giving up my power.
Don't give up your power. Power I hear from the young, I'm always listening out of goals or our YouTube as we don't say so much time and also say, but me, like, power is not given to you, you have to take it. Now, on a positive side note, what is something that will you share with the world? That is like, wow, this is one thing that definitely I love doing that helped me through the process.
I was eight years because I love science very deeply. And I will say it's trust God, faith and the living God. You're God. It doesn't have to be because I read about multiple religions and, you know, philosophers like that and everything.
And I grabbed what I thought that was a pure, not beautiful, a lot of my feeling. And I still build my own God, but that for me was a game changer. I found strength. I found faith.
I found a great gratitude. Like it was there were elements that I couldn't find anywhere else that I found with that for sure, like 100 percent. Wow, that's deep. That's very powerful.
Thank you for sharing that amazing. So look, we always ask the same question and I would love to know your answer. The word luxury, what does it really mean to you? For me, luxury is the extra we all want.
We all desire. Well, the extra. I like that extra. It's an extra.
You really, you're not going to die if you don't have it, but we all want it. We all desire that everybody that is doing the name, listening, watching, please follow Ginger, follow her through the journey because she's a very successful professional at the same time, an amazing human being. But to wrap it up, Ginger, tell us out of everything that you're doing, what is something that makes you smile in the morning? You know, I had, I had a few opportunities that were bigger than my dream that are happening right now.
It takes a lot of energy, a floor commitment for service, you know, like taking my power, but it's wholesale. We were literally high rise and wholesale for hospitality. So that is the key. It's like a roller coaster, but I'm very grateful and I'm more humble to see how I'm manifesting that.
And you have to know the door. You have to make mistakes. You have to lose in order to win. So that is and watch like a client that use Ginger.
I have this because I like to honor their investments. That's for me, my first thing. So what is my all having that? You're like a moment when they are happy with that beside and I'm like, wow, you know, that is that's.
I love that. I love that. And it is true. Right.
You're making a positive impact on someone's life. You're being grateful for what you have and what you're aiming for. So very beautiful, well said. Please, as I said before, everybody follow Ginger.
Thanks again for everything. I don't know if there is any emails that you would like to share before we run this up. No, no. I'm very happy with all what we talk about.
Well, thank you so much. Thank you for everybody watching this. And thanks again for everybody tuning in today. We hope you enjoyed it.
I remember embracing beautiful success in life. My name is Alvaro and I'll see you next time.