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Make and Design with Carina Gardner — 592 episodes
Episode 566 University of Arts and Design Masterclass: What No One Tells You About Starting a Design Business
Episode 564 Don't Let Them Fool You. Everything is Always Changing.
Episode 563 Book Club From Sweet Life of A Designer Summit
Episode 562 Updates At The University of Arts & Design
Episode 561 Favorite Things From Sweet Life of A Designer Summit
Episode 560 The Anatomy of A Product That Sells
Episode 559 How To Do A Spring Edit of Your Shops
Episode 558 4 Lessons I Learned About Design Leadership
557 The Key 3 Things Who Are Winning Are Doing
556 Build Your Own Defined Design Process
Episode 555 Business Breakthroughs with Elizabeth Chappell
Episode 554 How YOU Need to Transform To Become Who You Want To Be
Episode 553 Real Confessions of What Is Happening With Design Suite and the University of Arts & Design
Episode 552 The Simple Truth About Owning A Business
Episode 551 Clarity Over Creativity
Episode 550 Attention is Limited
Episode 549 Dishing the Tea with Lori Whitlock
Episode 548 Goal Setting Made Simple
Episode 547 Real Results from a University of Arts & Design Student Brenna Powell
Episode 546 Your Year of Intention
545 - A Sneak Peek At Our Family Life During the Holidays
544 - Four-C Model of Creativity
543 - End of Year Tribute to Lindsay Bowerman
542 - Is AI Cutting Down Idea Diversity? The Troubling Results of One Study
541 - Abundance Thinking + A Book Recommendation
540 - Pulling Back the Curtain on Virtual Conferences
Episode 539 - Lessons I Recently Learned From a Plumber
Episode 538 - Julie Thompson’s Gluten-Free Breakthrough with Foundations Built from Design Suite
Episode 537 - Want to Crush 2026? Here’s Why I Start Planning in October
Episode 536 - I'm A Designer. Now What?
Episode 535 - The Startling Truth About What AI Is Doing To The Design Industry
Episode 534 - Feeling Behind? Listen to This
Episode 533 - The Locked Drawer
Episode 532 - Negotiation Secrets Every Designer Needs with Carina Gardner & Susie Tomenchuk
Episode 531- Feeling Invisible? 3 Marketing Layers You Need
Episode 530 - Is It Too Late To Start A Design Career?
Episode 529 - Designing While Momming - How I Built My Business With Kids At Home
Episode 528 Design Advice I Would Give My Younger Self
Episode 527 Why Does Creative Potential Suffer?
Episode 526 How to Price Your Design Work When You're Just Starting Out
Episode 525 Design Entrepreneurship & Leadership Skills You Can Learn to Do NOW with Vincent Wanga
Episode 524 Designing for Profit: Why Some Creatives Make It and Others Don’t
Episode 523 3 Mistakes New Designers Make (and How to Avoid Them)
Episode 522 Income for Designers: What Really Works in 2025
Episode 521 From Hobby to Business: Turning Your Design Skills Into Cash
Episode 520 How to Become a Graphic Designer and Work from Home
Episode 519 Dishing the Tea with Event Coordinator Sarah Cannon
Episode 518 Pull the Weeds, Water the Roots: How to Grow a Business That Lasts
Episode 517 The Marketing Dilemma for Designers
Episode 516 Dishing the Tea with Daughter Felicity
Episode 515 The Grasshopper and The Ant
Episode 514 Recap of the Design Business Conference
Episode 513 Drowning in Too Much Too Do
Episode 512 Dishing the Tea with Daughter Felicity
Episode 511 Simple Traffic Tricks with Pinterest with Nadalie Bardo
Episode 510 You Were Meant to Fly
Episode 509 5 Tips For Starting Your Design Business with the Design Suite Coaches
Episode 508 4 Ways to Gamify Your Design Process
Episode 507 Marketing Hacks with Susan Smith
Episode 506 Sweet Life of A Designer
Episode 505 The Lighthouse Keeper’s Mistake
Episode 504 The Cobbler’s Shoes
Episode 503 Quilting with Amy Smart
Episode 502 AI Could Be Your Best Friend
Episode 501 How You Are Losing Creative Power
Episode 500 How to Time Manage Your Life Sustainably with Moda Fabric Designer Vanessa Christensen
Episode 499 3 Products Your Should Design For in 2025
Episode 498 Quilting on the Side with Andi Stanfield
Episode 497 How Do I Make Money From My Art?
Episode 496 New Year's Resolutions To Fill Our Cups
Episode 495 I'm Getting My Own Office Space! Updates on the New Barn
Episode 494 Morning Routines Revisited
Episode 493 Christmas Traditions and Other Thoughts
Episode 492 Caring Community with Design Suite Member Jennifer Burba
Episode 491 The Magic AND Inspiration of the Season
Episode 490 Sneak Peek Bonus Episode from Design Your Life Podcast
Episode 489 Marketable Products Designers Should Jump Into This Coming Year
Episode 488 What is Hot in 2024 and 2025 and Black Friday Deals with Heat Press Nation
Episode 487 Black Friday Deals Overview - Sneak Preview
Episode 486 Pursuing An Art Career After 40 with Jennifer Clifford
Episode 485 Sales, Sales, Sales, and the Power of Relationships
Episode 484 Halloween Traditions Evolution
Episode 483 The Strength of Weak Ties
Episode 482 Summit Building with Tracy Sundue and Heather Cameron
Episode 481 Creatives Don’t Give Up - Two Stories of Perseverance
Episode 480 The Secrets Behind Knowing If You Are Actually A Design Business
Episode 479 Design Suite Maker Conference with Jalin Bingham, Kristi Rachelle, and Emily Fish
Episode 478 Your Vision, Not Somebody Else’s Vision
Episode 477 The Lies I See on Social Media…It’s a Game of WereWolf
Episode 476 Design Suite Maker Conference with Brenna Powell, Tracey Rinaldo, and Kim Thomas
Episode 475 Idea Rich, Time Poor
Episode 474 The Multiple Streams of Income A Designer Experiences
Episode 473 Design Suite Maker Conference with Tiffani Hawkins, Viveca Chenoweth, and Jennifer Burba
Episode 472 Real Life Costly Mistakes in Business
Episode 471 Crafting Creativity Design Suite Insights with Aja Sharia Julie
Episode 470 Dealing with Unrealistic Expectations From Clients
Episode 469 How Do You Go From Novice to Ninja Designer
Episode 468 Behind the Scenes with the Leadership Team with Carina, Sarah, and Lisa
Episode 467 A Strong Designer's Journey
Episode 466 Industry Experts vs. Teaching Experts
Episode 465 How To Get The First Sale
Episode 464 Why Sales Feel So Icky To An Artist or Designer
Episode 463 What Fiction, Martha Cooks, and Mickey Mouse Do For My Creativity
Episode 462 Interiors to Patterns with Stephanie Socha
Episode 461 Design Sales Are Down, So What Do You Do Now?
Episode 460 How Do You Find Creative Balance?
Episode 459 10 Things You Can Do to Download Creative Ideas
Episode 458 Meditation and Yoga with Ann Swanson
Episode 457 What Got Me The Inside Scoop When I Had No Network
Episode 456 How to MAKE it: Lessons From the Book of 25 Creatives
Episode 455 Revitalizing Your Creative Process with the Artist's Way
Episode 454 Money and Mindset with Steve Hamoen
Episode 453 Books, Books, and More Books
Episode 452 Introducing the University of Arts & Design Business
Episode 451 Good Design is Invisible
Episode 450 Be Creative with Meilin Fields
Episode 449 Creative Block? How to Reignite Your Inspiration
Episode 448 The Business of Design: Turning Creativity into Profit
Episode 447 How Brittle Bone Disease Made Katherine Klimitas A Better Designer
Episode 446 The Business of Design: Turning Creativity into Profit
Episode 445 We Can Do Better, Surface Pattern Designers
Episode 444 Your Words Do Not Matter As Much As This Does
Episode 443 Content Creation with Whitney Cernak
Episodes 442 Middle of the Night Creative Inspiration
Classic Episode How Your Silhouette or Cricut Machine Could Be Making You Money
Episode 441 Podcasting Strategy with Doug Sandler
Episode 440 The Most Amazing Time For Creatives
Classic Episode 3 Ways to Lose Money As a Designer
Episode 439 The 15-Week Rework
Episode 438 The Struggle is Real When Your Planning Falls Through
Classic Episode 0 to $100,000
Episode 437 When I Realized That Distribution Was The Reason I Was Failing
Episode 436 3 Ways To Turn Your Hobby Into A Side Hustle
Classic Episode Two Things That Will Make You A Great Designer
Episode 435 Results from Online Courses with Shannon Boyer
Episode 433 Creativepreneur with Chelly Ontis
Episode 434 Artist vs. Marketer
Classic Episode 2 Reasons Crafters Should Design for Their Cricut and Silhouette Machines
Classic Episode Do You Have A Hobby or A Business?
Episode 431 Sublimation and DTF with Angie Holden and Cori George
Episode 430 Design Suite with Emily
Classic Episode 5 Online Markets I Love to Design For
Episode 429 How Decision Fatigue is Affecting Your Design Work
Episode 428 The Creative Funk
Classic Episode How to Be A Surface Pattern Designer Without Going Back To College
Episode 427 9 Months In with Leah de Mola
Episode 426 AI is NOT Your Competition
Classic Episode 3 Ways You Can Become the Best Surface Pattern Designer (That You Haven’t Heard Before)
Episode 425 Wild About Wallpaper
Episode 424 You Determine Your Reality
Classic Episode 267 5 Online Markets I Love to Design For
Classic Episode Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?
Episode 423 Digital Trailblazers with Leah Rae and Todd Getts
Episode 422 Creative Process
Classic Episode What To Do When You Have Never Put Yourself First
Episode 421 The Accidental Entrepreneur with Mitch Beinhaker
Episode 420 The Fox and the Grapes
Classic Episode The Two Sets Of Tools You Need
Episode 419 Taking Criticism
Episode 418 Strong Women Don't...
Classic Episode Why I Love Coco Chanel
Episode 417 Illustration For Meetings with Ashton Rodenhiser
Episode 416 The Most Essential Design Skill No One Tells You About
Classic Episode 3 Reasons Your Design Business is Stuck
Episode 415 Making Money As a Designer with Simone Bowles
Episode 414 3 Things I Learned From The Artists I Studied
Classic Episode Things I Wish I Had Known Starting Out
Episode 413 The Cat and the Bell
Episode 412 Follow Your Passion with Constantin Morun
Classic Why Surface Pattern Designers Don't Need a Portfolio
Episode 411 Design Deadlines Tips and Tricks
Episode 410 Creative Mindfulness with Cynthia Hauk
Classic Four Traits of a Good Designer
Episode 409 Using Your Own Ingenuity
Episode 408 Fashion and Textile Design with Annette Lennerup
Episode 408 Fashion and Textile Design with Annette Lennerup
Classic Episode 3 Ways Craft and Surface Pattern Designers Can Sell More of What They Already Have
Episode 407 The Hart and the Hunter
Episode 406 The Precious Stone
Classic Episode 5 Keys To A Terrible Design Business
Episode 405 Can You Make Art That Sells?
Episode 404 Animal Art with Tracey Rinaldo
Classic Episode The Story of Why I Went From Physical Products to Digital Products
Episode 403 Not To Be Missed Tutorials at the Illustration And Art Conference
Episode 402 Paper Flowers with Farren Celeste
Classic Episode Seven Creativity Starter Ideas
Episode 401 Interview with Astroid City Artist David Meikle
Episode 400 Should I Listen To Your Parenting Advice?
Classic Episode Morning Routine Run Down
Episode 397 I Was So Glad To Not Have All My Eggs in One Basket
Episode 396 Deliberate New Years Goals for Designers
Episode 395 UnMasking The Myths of the Dream Design Journey Part 2
Episode 394 Unmasking The Myths of the Dream Design Journey Part 1
Episode 393 Merry Christmas
Episode 392 Transform Your Life With These 3 Design Habits
Episode 391 Exclusive Preview- An In-Depth Look at My Cutting-Edge 2024 Design Strategies
Episode 390 The Science Behind Great Design
Classic Episode Create Designs People Never Stop Buying
Episode 389 No One Cares About Your Design Business As Well As You Do
Episode 388 The Significant Design Results You Should Be Tracking
Classic Episode Regency Retreat and Other Stuff with SuiKim Friedmann
Episode 387 My 3 Favorite Design Mediums Right Now
Episode 386 The Taylor Swift Episode
Episode 385 Reinvention of the Make and Design Podcast
Episode 384 Deliberately Chaotic
Episode 383 Smart Designers Use the Tools
Episode 382 Mitigating the Downfalls of Procreate (While I Use Procreate)
Episode 381 How To Develop A Keen Sense of Self
Episode 380 Creating Your Own Designer Textures with Watercolor
Episode 379 Action Taker Versus Thinker
Episode 378 One of the UnIntended Consequences of Choosing To Be A Designer
Episode 377 99 Casts with Carina's Husband Josh Gardner
Episode 376 3 Cautions About Online Advice
Episode 375 The Power of Hope
Episode 374 The Evolution of Illustrator on the iPad
Episode 373 Watercoloring and Why We Play Small
Episode 372 Life Changing Creativity with Dawn K
Episode 371 Giving Your Mind Time for Ideation
Episode 370 What We Will Be Talking About At Summit
Episode 369 Why AI Will Help The Right Designers
Episode 368 Design Summit Sneak Peek with the Coaches
Episode 367 Employed Full Time and Creating a Design Side Hustle with Tiffani Hawkins
Episode 366 A Unique Maker and Designer Conference
Episode 365 The Retired Creative with Viveca Chenoweth
Episode 364 Developing An Eye For These Things
Episode 363 Doing Something Long Enough To Be Amazing At It
Episodio 362 A Look Into Design Bootcamp
Episode 361 Free Profitable Designer Starter Guide
Episode 360 The Design Suite Experience
Episode 359 Why You Should Be Done With Halloween By The Time October Hits
Episode 358 2023 Design Suite Live Retreat
Episode 357 Design Profit and Prosper
Episode 356 Increased Experience
Episode 355 Belief Plays A Big Part In Our Decisions
Episode 354 Carina's Advice on Making Money with Ryan Leacock Part 2
Episode 353 Carina's Advice on Making Money with Ryan Leacock Part 1
Episode 352 Development of Design Style
Episode 351 Carina's Workshop to BYU Idaho Department of Art Part 2
Episode 350 Carina's Workshop to BYU Idaho Department of Art Part 1
Episode 349 Personal Lessons Learned on the Comparison Game
Episodes 348 Finding the Sweet Spot in Santorini
Episode 347 Rest and Renew to Focus - Lessons From My Trip to the Greek Islands
Episode 346 It's All in the Details at the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London
Episode 345 Leveraging Your Most Important Activities As A Designer
Episode 344 The Mouse, The Bird, and the Sausage
Episode 343 Getting Your Sewing Patterns to Industry Standard with Elizabeth Chappell
Episode 342 Delight in Our Design Work
Episode 341 Lessons Learned From Miyazaki's Spirited Away
Episode 340 Bringing Your Husband Home with SuiKim Friedmann
Episode 339 Getting Intentional About Our Design Work
Episode 338 The Summer Slump Is Over
Episode 337 Overcoming Doubt
Episode 336 200 Sales In A Month with Julie Thompson
Episode 335 Big Actions Lead to Big Results
Episode 334 Outwitting the Devil
Episode 333 Profitable Freelance with Hayley Barry
Episode 332 From Vacation Mode to Work Mode
Episode 331 I Need a Hero
Episodes 330 The Slow and Steady Work
Episode 329 Ask for Support Not Permission
Episode 334 Outwitting the Devil
Episode 328 Why Not You?
Episode 327 Sales Not Skills
Episode 326 Every Day Sales with Sharia Morton
Episode 325 What Design Level Are You At?
Episode 324 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming A Surface Pattern Designer
Episode 323 Book Review: 3 Books I Recently Read
Episode 322 Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?
Episode 321 The Flaky Vs. Dense Croissants
Episode 320 Expensive But Powerful Decisions with Wendy Bertagnolli
Episode 319 Looking Over the Costco Cart
Episode 318 Adjustments For When You Get Slightly Off Course
Episode 317 3 Assumptions You Should Not Make
Episode 316 From 3 to 4 Figure Months with Aja Fillmore
Episode 315 The Possibility Conundrum
Episode 314 The Last 45 Days of Success with Lisa Baldwin
Episode 313 What To Do When You Have Never Put Yourself First
Episode 312 4 Figure Months with Diane Rooney
Episode 311 Why You Are Doomed If You Aren't Adaptable
Episode 310 Creative People with Ryan Leacock
Episode 309 Why Success Is Within Your Grasp
Episode 308 Uncovering Why You Aren't Making Money
Episode 307 Advertising with Jackie Ellis
Episode 306 Obsessing Over Product
Episode 305 Are You Scattered? Here's What It Is Costing You
Episode 304 The Perfect Design Business
Episode 303 The Two Sets Of Tools You Need
Episode 302 Sage Tax Advice for Designers with Kimberly Tara
Episode 301 Two Hurdles You Can Jump At Once As A Designer
Episode 299 A Quilty Podcast with Paula Chamberlain
Episode 298 Which Designer Are You? 4 Types of Designers Revealed
Episode 297 3 Ways You Can Leave Them Wanting More
Episode 300 Some Thoughts After Teaching at BYU Idaho
Episode 296 Behind the Scenes of Quilting Magazines with Tracy Mooney
Episode 295 Building Momentum to Drive Your Designs
Episode 294 From Broadcast to Podcast with Meg Goodman
Episode 293 Do You Have (Or Even Understand) Marketing Vehicles?
Episode 292 Why Struggle Equals Reward
Episode 291 Paper Planner Club with Mim Jenkinson
Episode 290 Sometimes I Want to Cry When I Work Out
Episode 289 Successful Storytelling with Carriece Jefferson of Crafty Hands Club
Episode 288 Simple = Profitable
Episode 287 Are You Addicted to the Vision?
Episode 286 Refusal to Get Help
Episode 285 How Are You Losing Money?
Episode 284 Are You Building Or Maintaining A Design Business?
Episode 283 Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA
Episode 282 Why Digital is So Profitable
Episode 281 0 to $100,000
Episode 280 3 Reasons Confusion Happens
Episode 279 Your Words to Clients Matter
Episode 278 3 Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Early in My Design Business
Episode 277 If You Are Frustrated, You Are Missing This One Thing
Episode 276 If You Want To Be A Famous Designer...
Episode 275 Two Things That Will Make You A Great Designer
Episode 274 Why You Are Not Winning As A Designer
Episode 273 Why Design Should Not Be All Lollipops and Rainbows
Episode 272 Stop Taking Bad Advice
Episode 271 Why the Software is Hurdle #1
Episode 270 Stop Doing the Same Things But Expecting Different Results
Episode 269 Learn About the Design Process Model
Episode 268 Another Big 2023 Announcement
Episode 267 5 Online Markets I Love to Design For
Episode 266 Why Scary Things Make Us Stronger
Episode 265 How You can Use Color in Your Every Day Life
Episode 264 The Two Things In My Life I Changed The Most For
Episode 263 Why I Wrote a Book
Episode 262 Why You Are Powerless If You Aren't An Action Taker
Episode 261 Do You Have A Hobby or A Business?
Episode 260 What Prevents You From Creating
Episode 259 3 Ways to Lose Money as a Designer
Episode 258 The Evolution of a Designer
Episode 283 Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA
Episode 256 Why I Love Coco Chanel
Episode 255 Creative Crisis with Mari Reisberg
Episode 254 3 Things That Make A Design Different
Episode 253 Drama Free Design
Episode 252 What's New At Bernina with Meg Goodman and Michaelynn Rose
Episode 251 What Does Success Look Like to You?
Episode 250 Regency Retreat and Other Stuff with SuiKim Friedmann
Episode 249 A Designer's Most Powerful Tool
Episode 248 Four Traits of a Good Designer
Episode 247 Bernina and Family Business with Meg Goodman and Michaelynn Rose
Episode 246 How to Become A Money- Making Designer
Episode 245 My 15 Year Old Got A Job!
Episode 257 Gifts to Future Me
Episode 244 Your Etsy Shop with SuiKim Friedmann
Episode 243 My One Word in 2023
Episode 242 Dreaming Big in 2023
Episode 241 Your Vision for 2023
Episode 240 Design Identity with Mindi Huebner
Episode 239 A Day After Christmas Reflections
Episode 238 A Little Christmas Cheer
Episode 237 Easy vs. Effort
Episode 237 Easy vs. Effort
Episode 236 Why Great Design Matters
Episode 235 New From Riley Blake with Cindy Cloward
Episode 234 When Life Gets In The Way
Episode 233 Is Being An Artist An Innate Talent?
Episode 232 The First Year As A Designer
Episode 231 Getting Started with Alcohol Inks with Faigie Kobre
Episode 230 Understanding How to Create Icons
Episode 229 Doing Things We Don't Like Doing
Episode 228 Create Designs People Never Stop Buying
Episode 227 Digital Fabric with Raspberry Creek Fabrics
Episode 226 Customer Service Prevention
Episode 225 Why I Am Okay With Failing
Episode 224 Are You the Hero in Your Own Story
Episode 223 Quilting and Creative Business with Susan Smith
Episode 222 Past Mistakes I Wish I Hadn't Made
Episode 221 The Art of Doing Hard Things
Episode 220 From Artist to Designer
Episode 219 How to Stitch An American Dream with Jenny Doan
Episode 218 Bet on Yourself
Episode 217 One of the Secrets to My Success
Episode 216 Special Design Suite Get Together at Garden of Quilts
Episode 215 Halloween Traditions Our Family Loves
Episode 214 5 Things That Make Me Crazy During the Holiday Season
Episode 213 How to Design a Stellar Fabric Collection Plus Sneak Peek at Ciao Bella
Episode 212 Embrace Being A Designer
Episode 211 Why Your Unique Style is Needed
Episode 210 An Update on my Designing My 2023 Fabric Collection
Episode 209 From Digital Scrapbooking to Paper with Jennifer Wilson
Episode 208 Why Your Design Business is Like A Garden
Episode 167 How to Be A Surface Pattern Designer Without Going Back To College
Episode 207 Criteria For Selecting An Exceptional Online shop
Episode 206 Creative Quilt Business Persistence with Emily Hogg
Episode 205 5 Keys To A Terrible Design Business
Episode 204 2 Reasons Crafters Should Design for Their Cricut and Silhouette Machines
Episode 203 Christmas Fabric Trends with Pine Needles Quilt Shop
Episode 202 5 Ways to Find Freedom in Your Design Work
Episode 201 Why Changing to Meet Your Members' Needs is So Powerful with Bonnie Garby and Diane Rooney
Episode 200 What Is Negative Space in Design?
Episode 199 3 Insights About Growing Your Design Business
Episode 198 Scrapbooking Creative Directors Private Chat with Lindsay Bowerman
Episode 197 How Your Positive Thoughts Produce Creative Actions
Episode 196 Profits and Digital Design
Episode 195 Mastery Proceeds Money and Success
Episode 194 When Your Health Deters Your Design Dreams with Bonnie Garby and Diane Rooney
Episode 193 Learn To Become A Profitable Designer
Episode 192 How You Add Value As A Creative Business Owner with Kiley Ferons
Episode 191 What is the Difference Between A Surface Pattern Designer and Craft Designer
Episode 190 Halloween Fabric Trends At Pine Needles Quilt Shop
Episode 189 Stop Ignoring This In Your Design Business
Episode 188 Learn More About How to Design Smart
Episode 187 Don't Judge Your Drawings with Danny Gregory
Episode 186 3 Ways to Earn Money As A Surface Pattern Designer
Episode 185 What Can You Do With a Design Degree with McKenna Blanthorn
Episode 184 Is It Hard To Start A Surface Pattern Design Business?
Episode 183 Three Steps To Achieving Your Surface Pattern Dreams
Episode 182 An Inside Look at Peer Led Mastermind Meetings with Diane Rooney
Episode 181 Diagnose Your Design Journey/Business
Episode 180 Sawgrass and Sublimation with Sarah Cannon
Episode 179 Three Simple Things to Help Your Creative Mojo
Episode 178 Design Suite Secrets
Episode 177 The Design Summer Slump is Real with Diane Rooney
Episode 176 What's Standing Between You And Your Dream of Designing?
Episode 175 A New Approach to Design Education
Episode 174 Things I Wish I Had Known Starting Out
Episode 173 How to Start Your Design Business Right
Episode 172 Getting Ready for the Best Season Ever
Episode 171 Building Resilience As A Designer
Episode 170 8 Things You Must Have to Be A Designer
Episode 169 3 Tacky Mistakes Surface Pattern and Craft Designers Make
Episode 168 Is Surface Pattern Design Recession Proof?
Episode 167 How to Be A Surface Pattern Designer Without Going Back To College
Episode 166 What is Coming To Design Suite in August 2022
Episode 165 Why Surface Pattern Designers Don't Need a Portfolio
Episode 164 What Surface Pattern Design in 2022 Looks Like
Episode 163 How to Start Your Surface Pattern Design Business
Episode 162 Summer Motivation for Designers and Cycles in Our Business
Episode 161 Why Your Designs Aren't Selling
Episode 160 3 Ways Craft and Surface Pattern Designers Can Sell More of What They Already Have
Episode 159 Short Term Vs. Long Term Strategy for Surface Pattern and Crafting Designers
Episode 158 What is Coming Up For The Accelerated Designer Workshop Series
Episode 157 Do You Wake Up Every Day Excited?
Episode 156 What Helped Me Get Organized with My Design Ideas
Episode 155 3 Reasons Your Design Business is Stuck
Episode 154 What is the Bare Minimum You Can Do to Become a Surface Pattern or Crafting Designer?
Episode 153 For the Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Who Wants To Do It All
Episode 152 The Story of Why I Went From Physical Products to Digital Products
Episode 151 Why You Should Be Selling Your Designs NOW
Episode 150 How Your Silhouette or Cricut Machine Could Be Making You Money
Episode 149 Why Surface Pattern Designers Need to Stop Thinking About Contracts
Episode 148 Getting Over The Idea of Perfection
Episode 147 Are You Designing Everyday?
Episode 146 Why You Should Be Designing in Batches
Episode 145 Why the Market Isn't As Saturated As You Think
Episode 144 What Is The Most Valuable Thing That People Hate Paying For?
Episode 143 3 Ways You Know You Are Thinking Like A Designer
Episode 142 What Does Surface Pattern Design Look Like in 2022?
Episode 141 Only 24 Hours in a Day - How Do I Fit In the Design Work?
Episode 140 Why You Should Be Making the Surface Pattern Trends, Not Following Them
Episode 139 How Freelance Can Supplement Your Design Business
Episode 138 Surface Pattern Design for Beginners: How to Get Started
Episode 137 Why You Aren’t Getting What You Actually Need from the Free Stuff
Episode 136 The Difference Between Surface Pattern Design and Just Design
Episode 135 Why Flirting Isn't Enough
Episode 134 How Your Small Habits Hinder or Help You
Episode 133 What Level of Designer Are You?
Episode 132 Strategic Thinking with Crista Grasso
Episode 131 Why Imposter Syndrome Is Just Comparison Syndrome
Episode 130 Who Was the Best Mr. Darcy with SuiKim Friedmann
Episode 129 3 Powerful Design Strategies You Don’t Want to Miss
Episode 128 The Difference Between Photoshop and Illustrator
Episode 127 Shine a Light on Opportunity with Susie Tomenchok
Episode 126 Tiny Steps to Create Something Really Special Over Time
Episode 125 Can You Make a Full Time Living as a Surface Pattern Designer?
Episode 124 Creating (Not Finding) Your Flow
Episode 123 The One Thing You Can Do to Explode Your Growth as a Designer
Episode 122 What Should You Look for in a Good Community?
Episode 121 Surface Pattern Design - 3 Mistakes You Need to Avoid
Episode 120 Creative Thinking - Five Ways to Generate New Ideas
Episode 119 From Designer to Business Owner with Annette Walter
Episode 118 3 Ways You Can Become the Best Surface Pattern Designer (That You Haven’t Heard Before)
Episode 117 How to Become a Designer (At Home)
Episode 116 How to Spell SuiKim
Episode 115 My 3 Favorite Tools For Designing Right Now
Episode 114 Why Staying Motivated is Easy When You Have a Community
Episode 113 Why Your Digital Preview is As Important As Your Design Work
Episode 112 Time Management for Creatives with Megan Sumrell
Episode 111 How to Use Fear as A Tool with Katie Ann Powell
Episode 110 How to Batch Your Design Work
Episode 109 A Simple Strategy for Designers When Setting Started in Instagram
Episode 108 Submitting a Fabric Line with Melanie Collette
Episode 107 The Power of Letting Someone Else Hold Your Hand Through Difficult Software
Episode 106 Why You Need a Deadline
Episode 105 Coming Soon with Jill Finley
Episode 104 Loving Your Style
Episode 103 How I Have Used Journaling To Take My Design Work to the Next Level
Episode 102 5 Favorite Softwares I'm Using Right Now
Episode 101 Why It Isn't All About the Glory
Episode 100 It's My 100th Episode! Let's Talk About Milestones
Episode 99 First We Have to Crawl to Walk
Episode 98 Morning Routine Run Down
Episode 97 Why Liking A Lot of Different Mediums Can Make You Win Faster
Episode 96 Broadway and Mini Quilts with The Tattoo Quilter Christopher Thompson
Episode 95 Why You Need to Accelerate Yourself As a Designer
Episode 94 Why You Have to Make Mistakes to Move Forward
Episode 93 Take More Risks Not Less
Episode 92 3 Unintended Consequences of My Design Business
Episode 91 Quilt Pattern Design with Melanie Collette
Episode 90 Real Life Example of Making Time to Help Your Kids With Their Big Dreams
Episode 89 Modeling Creativity For Our Kids with Bonnie and Audrey
Episode 88 The Ink Club Style Movement
Episode 87 The One Thing Your Design Business is Missing
Episode 86 3 Ways to Hit Our Goals
Episode 85 My One Word for Next Year
Episode 84 Sampler Quilt Block Queen with Gracey Larson
Episode 83 You Are Where You Are Suppose To Be
Episode 82 Wishing you Happy Holidays!
Episode 81 3 Ways to Cut Down Your Design Time
Episode 80 Focus on the One
Episode 79 Permission to Be in The Present
Episode 78 3 Reasons You Might Be Experiencing A Creative Block
Episode 77 We Are What We Consume
Episode 76 Embroidery with Bev McCullough
Episode 75 Three Crafts I Recommend You Try This Holiday Season
Episode 74 Why The Aha Moments Can Change Your Life
Episode 73 Creative Memberships with Elizabeth Chappell
Episode 72 Permission to Celebrate the Way You Need To
Episode 71 Beneath the Western Skies with Gracey Larson
Episode 70 Attitude of Gratitude
Episode 69 Gobble Gobble Thanksgiving Traditions
Episode 68 Build A Better Workflow For Your Design Business
Episode 67 5 Ways to Deal with Burn Out
Episode 66 Quilting Retreat Insider Scoop with Jill Finley
Episode 65 Does The Design World Need Your Style?
Episode 64 How Will You Show Up for The Holidays?
Episode 63 Saturday in Paris with The Tattoo Quilter Christopher Thompson
Episode 62 The crazy way I got A Fabric Contract
Episode 61 Do What You Like in Your Niche with April Cobb
Episode 60 Why I Created My Design Bootcamp and Design Suite Programs and How They Can Help You
Episode 59 How Creatives Can Use Time Management to Their Advantage with Megan Sumrell
Episode 58 The One Question You Can Ask If You Want to Know if You Are a Creative
Episode 57 Transformation with Diane Rooney
Episode 56 All You Need is....
Episode 55 Primrose Hill with Melanie Collette
Episode 54 3 Questions I Ask Myself When the Panic Sets In
Episode 53 The 70-20-10 Rule with Emily Taylor
Episode 52 Finding Creative Time As a Mom with Bonnie and Audrey
Episode 51 Get Your Holiday Crafting and Quilting Gifts Done Now
Episode 50 Stardust and Christmas Fabric with Bev McCullough
Episode 49 What if I Cant Draw?
Episode 48 How She Designs Fabric with Amanda Niederhauser
Episode 47 When was the Last Time Someone Told You How Valuable You Are?
Episode 46 My Halloween Traditions Including the Movie I watch on October 31st
Episode 45 First Steps with April Cobb
Episode 44 To Do Something Great, There Must Be Sacrifice
Episode 43 You Are Enough with Diane Rooney
Episode 42 My 5 Favorite Things to Make on My Silhouette Machine
Episode 41 Tips and Tricks in Free Motion Quilting and Weight Loss with Dara Tomasson
Episode 40 Borrow A Little Confidence From Someone Who Believes in You
Episode 39 Why Mental Health is Important to Creatives with Melissa Esplin
Episode 38 Your Last 90 Days of the Year
Episode 37 Why We Are Not a Product of Circumstance but of Decisions
Episode 36 Favorite Paper Crafts Projects with Kelly Wayment
Episode 35 Strive For More So That Falling Short Feels Like a Win
Episode 34 How Design Process Can Get You Through The Hard Times with Jeanie Dickinson
Episode 33 Why I Created Ink Club
Episode 32 3 Ways to Convey Feeling in Your Projects, Art and Design
Episode 31 Why Social Media Can Leave You Feeling Empty
Episode 30 How Long Does It Take To Design A Fabric Collection
Episode 29 Building a Quilt Book Proposal with Amanda Niederhauser
Episode 28 Why Writing Things Down is Important Even For Designers
Episode 27 Two Ways You Can Be Supported in What You Do
Episode 26 Collage Quilting with Emily Taylor
Episode 25 All Things Silhouette with Terri Johnson
Episode 24 What is Holding You Back
Episode 23 The One Word That Will Transform Your Daily Life
Episode 22 A Little About Color
Episode 21 From Painting to Calligraphy with Melissa Esplin
Episode 20 What Those Negative Thoughts Are Doing To Your Creativity
Episode 19 Free Motion Quilting with Dara Tomasson
Episode 18 Seven Creativity Starter Ideas
Episode 17 Four Books That Made Me More Intentional
Episode 16 How To Find Your Art Style with Jeanie Dickinson
Episode 15 We Are What We Do
Episode 14 Paper Crafting with Kelly Wayment
Episode 13 The 3 Best Ways to Level Up Your Designing
Episode 12 Our Philosophy with Getting Started with Social Media with My Sister Kim Friedmann
Episode 11 What 3 Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself Every day
Episode 10 Mod Meow Fabric with Amanda Niederhauser
Episode 9 Books That Helped Me Save Time
Episode 8 Juggling Kids and Summer with My Sister Kim Friedmann
Episode 7 What Design Flows Looks Like For Me
Episode 6 Are You Using Your Planning Season Wisely?
Episode 5 How Committed Are You To Doing What You Say You Are Going to Do?
Episode 4 Can You Tell If Your Work is Good, Better, or Best?
Episode 3 Three Ways to Trade Money for More Time with My Sister Kim Friedmann
Episode 2 Why Wanting is Different Than Belief
Episode 1 Hello!