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Make and Design with Carina Gardner — 584 episodes

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Episode 560 The Anatomy of A Product That Sells

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Episode 559 How To Do A Spring Edit of Your Shops

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Episode 558 4 Lessons I Learned About Design Leadership

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557 The Key 3 Things Who Are Winning Are Doing

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556 Build Your Own Defined Design Process

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Episode 555 Business Breakthroughs with Elizabeth Chappell

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Episode 554 How YOU Need to Transform To Become Who You Want To Be

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Episode 553 Real Confessions of What Is Happening With Design Suite and the University of Arts & Design

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Episode 552 The Simple Truth About Owning A Business

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Episode 551 Clarity Over Creativity

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Episode 550 Attention is Limited

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Episode 549 Dishing the Tea with Lori Whitlock

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Episode 548 Goal Setting Made Simple

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Episode 547 Real Results from a University of Arts & Design Student Brenna Powell

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Episode 546 Your Year of Intention

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545 - A Sneak Peek At Our Family Life During the Holidays

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544 - Four-C Model of Creativity

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543 - End of Year Tribute to Lindsay Bowerman

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542 - Is AI Cutting Down Idea Diversity? The Troubling Results of One Study

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541 - Abundance Thinking + A Book Recommendation

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540 - Pulling Back the Curtain on Virtual Conferences

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Episode 539 - Lessons I Recently Learned From a Plumber

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Episode 538 - Julie Thompson’s Gluten-Free Breakthrough with Foundations Built from Design Suite

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Episode 537 - Want to Crush 2026? Here’s Why I Start Planning in October

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Episode 536 - I'm A Designer. Now What?

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Episode 535 - The Startling Truth About What AI Is Doing To The Design Industry

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Episode 534 - Feeling Behind? Listen to This

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Episode 533 - The Locked Drawer

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Episode 532 - Negotiation Secrets Every Designer Needs with Carina Gardner & Susie Tomenchuk

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Episode 531- Feeling Invisible? 3 Marketing Layers You Need

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Episode 530 - Is It Too Late To Start A Design Career?

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Episode 529 - Designing While Momming - How I Built My Business With Kids At Home

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Episode 528 Design Advice I Would Give My Younger Self

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Episode 527 Why Does Creative Potential Suffer?

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Episode 526 How to Price Your Design Work When You're Just Starting Out

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Episode 525 Design Entrepreneurship & Leadership Skills You Can Learn to Do NOW with Vincent Wanga

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Episode 524 Designing for Profit: Why Some Creatives Make It and Others Don’t

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Episode 523 3 Mistakes New Designers Make (and How to Avoid Them)

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Episode 522 Income for Designers: What Really Works in 2025

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Episode 521 From Hobby to Business: Turning Your Design Skills Into Cash

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Episode 520 How to Become a Graphic Designer and Work from Home

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Episode 519 Dishing the Tea with Event Coordinator Sarah Cannon

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Episode 518 Pull the Weeds, Water the Roots: How to Grow a Business That Lasts

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Episode 517 The Marketing Dilemma for Designers

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Episode 516 Dishing the Tea with Daughter Felicity

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Episode 515 The Grasshopper and The Ant

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Episode 514 Recap of the Design Business Conference

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Episode 513 Drowning in Too Much Too Do

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Episode 512 Dishing the Tea with Daughter Felicity

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Episode 511 Simple Traffic Tricks with Pinterest with Nadalie Bardo

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Episode 510 You Were Meant to Fly

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Episode 509 5 Tips For Starting Your Design Business with the Design Suite Coaches

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Episode 508 4 Ways to Gamify Your Design Process

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Episode 507 Marketing Hacks with Susan Smith

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Episode 506 Sweet Life of A Designer

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Episode 505 The Lighthouse Keeper’s Mistake

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Episode 504 The Cobbler’s Shoes

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Episode 503 Quilting with Amy Smart

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Episode 502 AI Could Be Your Best Friend

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Episode 501 How You Are Losing Creative Power

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Episode 500 How to Time Manage Your Life Sustainably with Moda Fabric Designer Vanessa Christensen

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Episode 499 3 Products Your Should Design For in 2025

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Episode 498 Quilting on the Side with Andi Stanfield

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Episode 497 How Do I Make Money From My Art?

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Episode 496 New Year's Resolutions To Fill Our Cups

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Episode 495 I'm Getting My Own Office Space! Updates on the New Barn

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Episode 494 Morning Routines Revisited

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Episode 493 Christmas Traditions and Other Thoughts

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Episode 492 Caring Community with Design Suite Member Jennifer Burba

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Episode 491 The Magic AND Inspiration of the Season

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Episode 490 Sneak Peek Bonus Episode from Design Your Life Podcast

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Episode 489 Marketable Products Designers Should Jump Into This Coming Year

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Episode 488 What is Hot in 2024 and 2025 and Black Friday Deals with Heat Press Nation

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Episode 487 Black Friday Deals Overview - Sneak Preview

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Episode 486 Pursuing An Art Career After 40 with Jennifer Clifford

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Episode 485 Sales, Sales, Sales, and the Power of Relationships

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Episode 484 Halloween Traditions Evolution

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Episode 483 The Strength of Weak Ties

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Episode 482 Summit Building with Tracy Sundue and Heather Cameron

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Episode 481 Creatives Don’t Give Up - Two Stories of Perseverance

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Episode 480 The Secrets Behind Knowing If You Are Actually A Design Business

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Episode 479 Design Suite Maker Conference with Jalin Bingham, Kristi Rachelle, and Emily Fish

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Episode 478 Your Vision, Not Somebody Else’s Vision

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Episode 477 The Lies I See on Social Media…It’s a Game of WereWolf

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Episode 476 Design Suite Maker Conference with Brenna Powell, Tracey Rinaldo, and Kim Thomas

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Episode 475 Idea Rich, Time Poor

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Episode 474 The Multiple Streams of Income A Designer Experiences

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Episode 473 Design Suite Maker Conference with Tiffani Hawkins, Viveca Chenoweth, and Jennifer Burba

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Episode 472 Real Life Costly Mistakes in Business

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Episode 471 Crafting Creativity Design Suite Insights with Aja Sharia Julie

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Episode 470 Dealing with Unrealistic Expectations From Clients

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Episode 469 How Do You Go From Novice to Ninja Designer

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Episode 468 Behind the Scenes with the Leadership Team with Carina, Sarah, and Lisa

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Episode 467 A Strong Designer's Journey

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Episode 466 Industry Experts vs. Teaching Experts

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Episode 465 How To Get The First Sale

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Episode 464 Why Sales Feel So Icky To An Artist or Designer

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Episode 463 What Fiction, Martha Cooks, and Mickey Mouse Do For My Creativity

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Episode 462 Interiors to Patterns with Stephanie Socha

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Episode 461 Design Sales Are Down, So What Do You Do Now?

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Episode 460 How Do You Find Creative Balance?

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Episode 459 10 Things You Can Do to Download Creative Ideas

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Episode 458 Meditation and Yoga with Ann Swanson

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Episode 457 What Got Me The Inside Scoop When I Had No Network

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Episode 456 How to MAKE it: Lessons From the Book of 25 Creatives

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Episode 455 Revitalizing Your Creative Process with the Artist's Way

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Episode 454 Money and Mindset with Steve Hamoen

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Episode 453 Books, Books, and More Books

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Episode 452 Introducing the University of Arts & Design Business

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Episode 451 Good Design is Invisible

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Episode 450 Be Creative with Meilin Fields

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Episode 449 Creative Block? How to Reignite Your Inspiration

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Episode 448 The Business of Design: Turning Creativity into Profit

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Episode 447 How Brittle Bone Disease Made Katherine Klimitas A Better Designer

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Episode 446 The Business of Design: Turning Creativity into Profit

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Episode 445 We Can Do Better, Surface Pattern Designers

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Episode 444 Your Words Do Not Matter As Much As This Does

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Episode 443 Content Creation with Whitney Cernak

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Episodes 442 Middle of the Night Creative Inspiration

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Classic Episode How Your Silhouette or Cricut Machine Could Be Making You Money

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Episode 441 Podcasting Strategy with Doug Sandler

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Episode 440 The Most Amazing Time For Creatives

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Classic Episode 3 Ways to Lose Money As a Designer

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Episode 439 The 15-Week Rework

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Episode 438 The Struggle is Real When Your Planning Falls Through

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Classic Episode 0 to $100,000

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Episode 437 When I Realized That Distribution Was The Reason I Was Failing

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Episode 436 3 Ways To Turn Your Hobby Into A Side Hustle

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Classic Episode Two Things That Will Make You A Great Designer

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Episode 435 Results from Online Courses with Shannon Boyer

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Episode 433 Creativepreneur with Chelly Ontis

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Episode 434 Artist vs. Marketer

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Classic Episode 2 Reasons Crafters Should Design for Their Cricut and Silhouette Machines

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Classic Episode Do You Have A Hobby or A Business?

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Episode 431 Sublimation and DTF with Angie Holden and Cori George

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Episode 430 Design Suite with Emily

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Classic Episode 5 Online Markets I Love to Design For

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Episode 429 How Decision Fatigue is Affecting Your Design Work

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Episode 428 The Creative Funk

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Classic Episode How to Be A Surface Pattern Designer Without Going Back To College

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Episode 427 9 Months In with Leah de Mola

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Episode 426 AI is NOT Your Competition

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Classic Episode 3 Ways You Can Become the Best Surface Pattern Designer (That You Haven’t Heard Before)

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Episode 425 Wild About Wallpaper

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Episode 424 You Determine Your Reality

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Classic Episode 267 5 Online Markets I Love to Design For

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Classic Episode Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?

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Episode 423 Digital Trailblazers with Leah Rae and Todd Getts

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Episode 422 Creative Process

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Classic Episode What To Do When You Have Never Put Yourself First

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Episode 421 The Accidental Entrepreneur with Mitch Beinhaker

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Episode 420 The Fox and the Grapes

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Classic Episode The Two Sets Of Tools You Need

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Episode 419 Taking Criticism

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Episode 418 Strong Women Don't...

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Classic Episode Why I Love Coco Chanel

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Episode 417 Illustration For Meetings with Ashton Rodenhiser

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Episode 416 The Most Essential Design Skill No One Tells You About

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Classic Episode 3 Reasons Your Design Business is Stuck

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Episode 415 Making Money As a Designer with Simone Bowles

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Episode 414 3 Things I Learned From The Artists I Studied

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Classic Episode Things I Wish I Had Known Starting Out

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Episode 413 The Cat and the Bell

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Episode 412 Follow Your Passion with Constantin Morun

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Classic Why Surface Pattern Designers Don't Need a Portfolio

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Episode 411 Design Deadlines Tips and Tricks

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Episode 410 Creative Mindfulness with Cynthia Hauk

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Classic Four Traits of a Good Designer

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Episode 409 Using Your Own Ingenuity

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Episode 408 Fashion and Textile Design with Annette Lennerup

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Episode 408 Fashion and Textile Design with Annette Lennerup

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Classic Episode 3 Ways Craft and Surface Pattern Designers Can Sell More of What They Already Have

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Episode 407 The Hart and the Hunter

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Episode 406 The Precious Stone

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Classic Episode 5 Keys To A Terrible Design Business

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Episode 405 Can You Make Art That Sells?

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Episode 404 Animal Art with Tracey Rinaldo

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Classic Episode The Story of Why I Went From Physical Products to Digital Products

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Episode 403 Not To Be Missed Tutorials at the Illustration And Art Conference

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Episode 402 Paper Flowers with Farren Celeste

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Classic Episode Seven Creativity Starter Ideas

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Episode 401 Interview with Astroid City Artist David Meikle

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Episode 400 Should I Listen To Your Parenting Advice?

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Classic Episode Morning Routine Run Down

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Episode 397 I Was So Glad To Not Have All My Eggs in One Basket

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Episode 396 Deliberate New Years Goals for Designers

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Episode 395 UnMasking The Myths of the Dream Design Journey Part 2

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Episode 394 Unmasking The Myths of the Dream Design Journey Part 1

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Episode 393 Merry Christmas

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Episode 392 Transform Your Life With These 3 Design Habits

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Episode 391 Exclusive Preview- An In-Depth Look at My Cutting-Edge 2024 Design Strategies

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Episode 390 The Science Behind Great Design

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Classic Episode Create Designs People Never Stop Buying

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Episode 389 No One Cares About Your Design Business As Well As You Do

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Episode 388 The Significant Design Results You Should Be Tracking

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Classic Episode Regency Retreat and Other Stuff with SuiKim Friedmann

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Episode 387 My 3 Favorite Design Mediums Right Now

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Episode 386 The Taylor Swift Episode

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Episode 385 Reinvention of the Make and Design Podcast

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Episode 384 Deliberately Chaotic

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Episode 383 Smart Designers Use the Tools

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Episode 382 Mitigating the Downfalls of Procreate (While I Use Procreate)

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Episode 381 How To Develop A Keen Sense of Self

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Episode 380 Creating Your Own Designer Textures with Watercolor

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Episode 379 Action Taker Versus Thinker

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Episode 378 One of the UnIntended Consequences of Choosing To Be A Designer

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Episode 377 99 Casts with Carina's Husband Josh Gardner

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Episode 376 3 Cautions About Online Advice

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Episode 375 The Power of Hope

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Episode 374 The Evolution of Illustrator on the iPad

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Episode 373 Watercoloring and Why We Play Small

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Episode 372 Life Changing Creativity with Dawn K

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Episode 371 Giving Your Mind Time for Ideation

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Episode 370 What We Will Be Talking About At Summit

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Episode 369 Why AI Will Help The Right Designers

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Episode 368 Design Summit Sneak Peek with the Coaches

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Episode 367 Employed Full Time and Creating a Design Side Hustle with Tiffani Hawkins

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Episode 366 A Unique Maker and Designer Conference

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Episode 365 The Retired Creative with Viveca Chenoweth

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Episode 364 Developing An Eye For These Things

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Episode 363 Doing Something Long Enough To Be Amazing At It

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Episodio 362 A Look Into Design Bootcamp

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Episode 361 Free Profitable Designer Starter Guide

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Episode 360 The Design Suite Experience

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Episode 359 Why You Should Be Done With Halloween By The Time October Hits

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Episode 358 2023 Design Suite Live Retreat

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Episode 357 Design Profit and Prosper

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Episode 356 Increased Experience

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Episode 355 Belief Plays A Big Part In Our Decisions

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Episode 354 Carina's Advice on Making Money with Ryan Leacock Part 2

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Episode 353 Carina's Advice on Making Money with Ryan Leacock Part 1

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Episode 352 Development of Design Style

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Episode 351 Carina's Workshop to BYU Idaho Department of Art Part 2

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Episode 350 Carina's Workshop to BYU Idaho Department of Art Part 1

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Episode 349 Personal Lessons Learned on the Comparison Game

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Episodes 348 Finding the Sweet Spot in Santorini

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Episode 347 Rest and Renew to Focus - Lessons From My Trip to the Greek Islands

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Episode 346 It's All in the Details at the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London

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Episode 345 Leveraging Your Most Important Activities As A Designer

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Episode 344 The Mouse, The Bird, and the Sausage

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Episode 343 Getting Your Sewing Patterns to Industry Standard with Elizabeth Chappell

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Episode 342 Delight in Our Design Work

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Episode 341 Lessons Learned From Miyazaki's Spirited Away

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Episode 340 Bringing Your Husband Home with SuiKim Friedmann

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Episode 339 Getting Intentional About Our Design Work

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Episode 338 The Summer Slump Is Over

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Episode 337 Overcoming Doubt

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Episode 336 200 Sales In A Month with Julie Thompson

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Episode 335 Big Actions Lead to Big Results

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Episode 334 Outwitting the Devil

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Episode 333 Profitable Freelance with Hayley Barry

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Episode 332 From Vacation Mode to Work Mode

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Episode 331 I Need a Hero

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Episodes 330 The Slow and Steady Work

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Episode 329 Ask for Support Not Permission

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Episode 328 Why Not You?

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Episode 327 Sales Not Skills

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Episode 326 Every Day Sales with Sharia Morton

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Episode 325 What Design Level Are You At?

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Episode 324 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming A Surface Pattern Designer

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Episode 323 Book Review: 3 Books I Recently Read

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Episode 322 Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?

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Episode 321 The Flaky Vs. Dense Croissants

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Episode 320 Expensive But Powerful Decisions with Wendy Bertagnolli

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Episode 319 Looking Over the Costco Cart

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Episode 318 Adjustments For When You Get Slightly Off Course

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Episode 317 3 Assumptions You Should Not Make

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Episode 316 From 3 to 4 Figure Months with Aja Fillmore

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Episode 315 The Possibility Conundrum

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Episode 314 The Last 45 Days of Success with Lisa Baldwin

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Episode 313 What To Do When You Have Never Put Yourself First

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Episode 312 4 Figure Months with Diane Rooney

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Episode 311 Why You Are Doomed If You Aren't Adaptable

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Episode 310 Creative People with Ryan Leacock

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Episode 309 Why Success Is Within Your Grasp

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Episode 308 Uncovering Why You Aren't Making Money

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Episode 307 Advertising with Jackie Ellis

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Episode 306 Obsessing Over Product

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Episode 305 Are You Scattered? Here's What It Is Costing You

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Episode 304 The Perfect Design Business

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Episode 303 The Two Sets Of Tools You Need

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Episode 302 Sage Tax Advice for Designers with Kimberly Tara

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Episode 301 Two Hurdles You Can Jump At Once As A Designer

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Episode 299 A Quilty Podcast with Paula Chamberlain

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Episode 298 Which Designer Are You? 4 Types of Designers Revealed

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Episode 297 3 Ways You Can Leave Them Wanting More

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Episode 300 Some Thoughts After Teaching at BYU Idaho

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Episode 296 Behind the Scenes of Quilting Magazines with Tracy Mooney

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Episode 295 Building Momentum to Drive Your Designs

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Episode 294 From Broadcast to Podcast with Meg Goodman

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Episode 293 Do You Have (Or Even Understand) Marketing Vehicles?

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Episode 292 Why Struggle Equals Reward

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Episode 291 Paper Planner Club with Mim Jenkinson

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Episode 290 Sometimes I Want to Cry When I Work Out

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Episode 289 Successful Storytelling with Carriece Jefferson of Crafty Hands Club

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Episode 288 Simple = Profitable

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Episode 287 Are You Addicted to the Vision?

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Episode 286 Refusal to Get Help

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Episode 285 How Are You Losing Money?

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Episode 284 Are You Building Or Maintaining A Design Business?

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Episode 283 Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA

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Episode 282 Why Digital is So Profitable

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Episode 281 0 to $100,000

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Episode 280 3 Reasons Confusion Happens

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Episode 279 Your Words to Clients Matter

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Episode 278 3 Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Early in My Design Business

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Episode 277 If You Are Frustrated, You Are Missing This One Thing

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Episode 276 If You Want To Be A Famous Designer...

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Episode 275 Two Things That Will Make You A Great Designer

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Episode 274 Why You Are Not Winning As A Designer

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Episode 273 Why Design Should Not Be All Lollipops and Rainbows

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Episode 272 Stop Taking Bad Advice

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Episode 271 Why the Software is Hurdle #1

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Episode 270 Stop Doing the Same Things But Expecting Different Results

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Episode 269 Learn About the Design Process Model

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Episode 268 Another Big 2023 Announcement

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Episode 267 5 Online Markets I Love to Design For

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Episode 266 Why Scary Things Make Us Stronger

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Episode 265 How You can Use Color in Your Every Day Life

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Episode 264 The Two Things In My Life I Changed The Most For

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Episode 263 Why I Wrote a Book

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Episode 262 Why You Are Powerless If You Aren't An Action Taker

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Episode 261 Do You Have A Hobby or A Business?

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Episode 260 What Prevents You From Creating

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Episode 259 3 Ways to Lose Money as a Designer

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Episode 258 The Evolution of a Designer

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Episode 256 Why I Love Coco Chanel

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Episode 255 Creative Crisis with Mari Reisberg

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Episode 254 3 Things That Make A Design Different

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Episode 253 Drama Free Design

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Episode 252 What's New At Bernina with Meg Goodman and Michaelynn Rose

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Episode 251 What Does Success Look Like to You?

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Episode 250 Regency Retreat and Other Stuff with SuiKim Friedmann

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Episode 249 A Designer's Most Powerful Tool

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Episode 248 Four Traits of a Good Designer

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Episode 247 Bernina and Family Business with Meg Goodman and Michaelynn Rose

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Episode 246 How to Become A Money- Making Designer

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Episode 245 My 15 Year Old Got A Job!

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Episode 257 Gifts to Future Me

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Episode 244 Your Etsy Shop with SuiKim Friedmann

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Episode 243 My One Word in 2023

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Episode 242 Dreaming Big in 2023

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Episode 241 Your Vision for 2023

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Episode 240 Design Identity with Mindi Huebner

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Episode 239 A Day After Christmas Reflections

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Episode 238 A Little Christmas Cheer

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Episode 237 Easy vs. Effort

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Episode 236 Why Great Design Matters

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Episode 235 New From Riley Blake with Cindy Cloward

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Episode 234 When Life Gets In The Way

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Episode 233 Is Being An Artist An Innate Talent?

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Episode 232 The First Year As A Designer

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Episode 231 Getting Started with Alcohol Inks with Faigie Kobre

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Episode 230 Understanding How to Create Icons

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Episode 229 Doing Things We Don't Like Doing

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Episode 228 Create Designs People Never Stop Buying

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Episode 227 Digital Fabric with Raspberry Creek Fabrics

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Episode 226 Customer Service Prevention

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Episode 225 Why I Am Okay With Failing

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Episode 224 Are You the Hero in Your Own Story

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Episode 223 Quilting and Creative Business with Susan Smith

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Episode 222 Past Mistakes I Wish I Hadn't Made

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Episode 221 The Art of Doing Hard Things

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Episode 220 From Artist to Designer

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Episode 219 How to Stitch An American Dream with Jenny Doan

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Episode 218 Bet on Yourself

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Episode 217 One of the Secrets to My Success

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Episode 216 Special Design Suite Get Together at Garden of Quilts

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Episode 215 Halloween Traditions Our Family Loves

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Episode 214 5 Things That Make Me Crazy During the Holiday Season

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Episode 213 How to Design a Stellar Fabric Collection Plus Sneak Peek at Ciao Bella

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Episode 212 Embrace Being A Designer

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Episode 211 Why Your Unique Style is Needed

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Episode 210 An Update on my Designing My 2023 Fabric Collection

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Episode 209 From Digital Scrapbooking to Paper with Jennifer Wilson

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Episode 208 Why Your Design Business is Like A Garden

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Episode 167 How to Be A Surface Pattern Designer Without Going Back To College

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Episode 207 Criteria For Selecting An Exceptional Online shop

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Episode 206 Creative Quilt Business Persistence with Emily Hogg

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Episode 205 5 Keys To A Terrible Design Business

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Episode 204 2 Reasons Crafters Should Design for Their Cricut and Silhouette Machines

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Episode 203 Christmas Fabric Trends with Pine Needles Quilt Shop

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Episode 202 5 Ways to Find Freedom in Your Design Work

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Episode 201 Why Changing to Meet Your Members' Needs is So Powerful with Bonnie Garby and Diane Rooney

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Episode 200 What Is Negative Space in Design?

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Episode 199 3 Insights About Growing Your Design Business

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Episode 198 Scrapbooking Creative Directors Private Chat with Lindsay Bowerman

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Episode 197 How Your Positive Thoughts Produce Creative Actions

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Episode 196 Profits and Digital Design

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Episode 195 Mastery Proceeds Money and Success

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Episode 194 When Your Health Deters Your Design Dreams with Bonnie Garby and Diane Rooney

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Episode 193 Learn To Become A Profitable Designer

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Episode 192 How You Add Value As A Creative Business Owner with Kiley Ferons

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Episode 191 What is the Difference Between A Surface Pattern Designer and Craft Designer

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Episode 190 Halloween Fabric Trends At Pine Needles Quilt Shop

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Episode 189 Stop Ignoring This In Your Design Business

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Episode 188 Learn More About How to Design Smart

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Episode 187 Don't Judge Your Drawings with Danny Gregory

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Episode 186 3 Ways to Earn Money As A Surface Pattern Designer

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Episode 185 What Can You Do With a Design Degree with McKenna Blanthorn

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Episode 184 Is It Hard To Start A Surface Pattern Design Business?

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Episode 183 Three Steps To Achieving Your Surface Pattern Dreams

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Episode 182 An Inside Look at Peer Led Mastermind Meetings with Diane Rooney

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Episode 181 Diagnose Your Design Journey/Business

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Episode 180 Sawgrass and Sublimation with Sarah Cannon

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Episode 179 Three Simple Things to Help Your Creative Mojo

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Episode 178 Design Suite Secrets

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Episode 177 The Design Summer Slump is Real with Diane Rooney

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Episode 176 What's Standing Between You And Your Dream of Designing?

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Episode 175 A New Approach to Design Education

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Episode 174 Things I Wish I Had Known Starting Out

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Episode 173 How to Start Your Design Business Right

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Episode 172 Getting Ready for the Best Season Ever

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Episode 171 Building Resilience As A Designer

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Episode 170 8 Things You Must Have to Be A Designer

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Episode 169 3 Tacky Mistakes Surface Pattern and Craft Designers Make

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Episode 168 Is Surface Pattern Design Recession Proof?

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Episode 167 How to Be A Surface Pattern Designer Without Going Back To College

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Episode 166 What is Coming To Design Suite in August 2022

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Episode 165 Why Surface Pattern Designers Don't Need a Portfolio

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Episode 164 What Surface Pattern Design in 2022 Looks Like

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Episode 163 How to Start Your Surface Pattern Design Business

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Episode 162 Summer Motivation for Designers and Cycles in Our Business

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Episode 161 Why Your Designs Aren't Selling

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Episode 160 3 Ways Craft and Surface Pattern Designers Can Sell More of What They Already Have

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Episode 159 Short Term Vs. Long Term Strategy for Surface Pattern and Crafting Designers

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Episode 158 What is Coming Up For The Accelerated Designer Workshop Series

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Episode 157 Do You Wake Up Every Day Excited?

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Episode 156 What Helped Me Get Organized with My Design Ideas

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Episode 155 3 Reasons Your Design Business is Stuck

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Episode 154 What is the Bare Minimum You Can Do to Become a Surface Pattern or Crafting Designer?

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Episode 153 For the Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Who Wants To Do It All

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Episode 152 The Story of Why I Went From Physical Products to Digital Products

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Episode 151 Why You Should Be Selling Your Designs NOW

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Episode 150 How Your Silhouette or Cricut Machine Could Be Making You Money

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Episode 149 Why Surface Pattern Designers Need to Stop Thinking About Contracts

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Episode 148 Getting Over The Idea of Perfection

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Episode 147 Are You Designing Everyday?

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Episode 146 Why You Should Be Designing in Batches

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Episode 145 Why the Market Isn't As Saturated As You Think

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Episode 144 What Is The Most Valuable Thing That People Hate Paying For?

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Episode 143 3 Ways You Know You Are Thinking Like A Designer

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Episode 142 What Does Surface Pattern Design Look Like in 2022?

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Episode 141 Only 24 Hours in a Day - How Do I Fit In the Design Work?

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Episode 140 Why You Should Be Making the Surface Pattern Trends, Not Following Them

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Episode 139 How Freelance Can Supplement Your Design Business

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Episode 138 Surface Pattern Design for Beginners: How to Get Started

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Episode 137 Why You Aren’t Getting What You Actually Need from the Free Stuff

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Episode 136 The Difference Between Surface Pattern Design and Just Design

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Episode 135 Why Flirting Isn't Enough

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Episode 134 How Your Small Habits Hinder or Help You

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Episode 133 What Level of Designer Are You?

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Episode 132 Strategic Thinking with Crista Grasso

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Episode 131 Why Imposter Syndrome Is Just Comparison Syndrome

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Episode 130 Who Was the Best Mr. Darcy with SuiKim Friedmann

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Episode 129 3 Powerful Design Strategies You Don’t Want to Miss

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Episode 128 The Difference Between Photoshop and Illustrator

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Episode 127 Shine a Light on Opportunity with Susie Tomenchok

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Episode 126 Tiny Steps to Create Something Really Special Over Time

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Episode 125 Can You Make a Full Time Living as a Surface Pattern Designer?

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Episode 124 Creating (Not Finding) Your Flow

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Episode 123 The One Thing You Can Do to Explode Your Growth as a Designer

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Episode 122 What Should You Look for in a Good Community?

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Episode 121 Surface Pattern Design - 3 Mistakes You Need to Avoid

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Episode 120 Creative Thinking - Five Ways to Generate New Ideas

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Episode 119 From Designer to Business Owner with Annette Walter

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Episode 118 3 Ways You Can Become the Best Surface Pattern Designer (That You Haven’t Heard Before)

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Episode 117 How to Become a Designer (At Home)

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Episode 116 How to Spell SuiKim

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Episode 115 My 3 Favorite Tools For Designing Right Now

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Episode 114 Why Staying Motivated is Easy When You Have a Community

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Episode 113 Why Your Digital Preview is As Important As Your Design Work

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Episode 112 Time Management for Creatives with Megan Sumrell

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Episode 111 How to Use Fear as A Tool with Katie Ann Powell

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Episode 110 How to Batch Your Design Work

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Episode 109 A Simple Strategy for Designers When Setting Started in Instagram

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Episode 108 Submitting a Fabric Line with Melanie Collette

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Episode 107 The Power of Letting Someone Else Hold Your Hand Through Difficult Software

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Episode 106 Why You Need a Deadline

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Episode 105 Coming Soon with Jill Finley

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Episode 104 Loving Your Style

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Episode 103 How I Have Used Journaling To Take My Design Work to the Next Level

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Episode 102 5 Favorite Softwares I'm Using Right Now

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Episode 101 Why It Isn't All About the Glory

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Episode 100 It's My 100th Episode! Let's Talk About Milestones

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Episode 99 First We Have to Crawl to Walk

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Episode 98 Morning Routine Run Down

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Episode 97 Why Liking A Lot of Different Mediums Can Make You Win Faster

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Episode 96 Broadway and Mini Quilts with The Tattoo Quilter Christopher Thompson

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Episode 95 Why You Need to Accelerate Yourself As a Designer

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Episode 94 Why You Have to Make Mistakes to Move Forward

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Episode 93 Take More Risks Not Less

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Episode 92 3 Unintended Consequences of My Design Business

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Episode 91 Quilt Pattern Design with Melanie Collette

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Episode 90 Real Life Example of Making Time to Help Your Kids With Their Big Dreams

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Episode 89 Modeling Creativity For Our Kids with Bonnie and Audrey

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Episode 88 The Ink Club Style Movement

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Episode 87 The One Thing Your Design Business is Missing

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Episode 86 3 Ways to Hit Our Goals

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Episode 85 My One Word for Next Year

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Episode 84 Sampler Quilt Block Queen with Gracey Larson

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Episode 83 You Are Where You Are Suppose To Be

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Episode 82 Wishing you Happy Holidays!

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Episode 81 3 Ways to Cut Down Your Design Time

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Episode 80 Focus on the One

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Episode 79 Permission to Be in The Present

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Episode 78 3 Reasons You Might Be Experiencing A Creative Block

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Episode 77 We Are What We Consume

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Episode 76 Embroidery with Bev McCullough

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Episode 75 Three Crafts I Recommend You Try This Holiday Season

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Episode 74 Why The Aha Moments Can Change Your Life

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Episode 73 Creative Memberships with Elizabeth Chappell

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Episode 72 Permission to Celebrate the Way You Need To

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Episode 71 Beneath the Western Skies with Gracey Larson

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Episode 70 Attitude of Gratitude

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Episode 69 Gobble Gobble Thanksgiving Traditions

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Episode 68 Build A Better Workflow For Your Design Business

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Episode 67 5 Ways to Deal with Burn Out

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Episode 66 Quilting Retreat Insider Scoop with Jill Finley

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Episode 65 Does The Design World Need Your Style?

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Episode 64 How Will You Show Up for The Holidays?

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Episode 63 Saturday in Paris with The Tattoo Quilter Christopher Thompson

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Episode 62 The crazy way I got A Fabric Contract

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Episode 61 Do What You Like in Your Niche with April Cobb

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Episode 60 Why I Created My Design Bootcamp and Design Suite Programs and How They Can Help You

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Episode 59 How Creatives Can Use Time Management to Their Advantage with Megan Sumrell

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Episode 58 The One Question You Can Ask If You Want to Know if You Are a Creative

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Episode 57 Transformation with Diane Rooney

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Episode 56 All You Need is....

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Episode 55 Primrose Hill with Melanie Collette

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Episode 54 3 Questions I Ask Myself When the Panic Sets In

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Episode 53 The 70-20-10 Rule with Emily Taylor

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Episode 52 Finding Creative Time As a Mom with Bonnie and Audrey

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Episode 51 Get Your Holiday Crafting and Quilting Gifts Done Now

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Episode 50 Stardust and Christmas Fabric with Bev McCullough

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Episode 49 What if I Cant Draw?

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Episode 48 How She Designs Fabric with Amanda Niederhauser

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Episode 47 When was the Last Time Someone Told You How Valuable You Are?

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Episode 46 My Halloween Traditions Including the Movie I watch on October 31st

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Episode 45 First Steps with April Cobb

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Episode 44 To Do Something Great, There Must Be Sacrifice

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Episode 43 You Are Enough with Diane Rooney

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Episode 42 My 5 Favorite Things to Make on My Silhouette Machine

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Episode 41 Tips and Tricks in Free Motion Quilting and Weight Loss with Dara Tomasson

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Episode 40 Borrow A Little Confidence From Someone Who Believes in You

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Episode 39 Why Mental Health is Important to Creatives with Melissa Esplin

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Episode 38 Your Last 90 Days of the Year

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Episode 37 Why We Are Not a Product of Circumstance but of Decisions

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Episode 36 Favorite Paper Crafts Projects with Kelly Wayment

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Episode 35 Strive For More So That Falling Short Feels Like a Win

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Episode 34 How Design Process Can Get You Through The Hard Times with Jeanie Dickinson

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Episode 33 Why I Created Ink Club

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Episode 32 3 Ways to Convey Feeling in Your Projects, Art and Design

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Episode 31 Why Social Media Can Leave You Feeling Empty

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Episode 30 How Long Does It Take To Design A Fabric Collection

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Episode 29 Building a Quilt Book Proposal with Amanda Niederhauser

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Episode 28 Why Writing Things Down is Important Even For Designers

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Episode 27 Two Ways You Can Be Supported in What You Do

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Episode 26 Collage Quilting with Emily Taylor

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Episode 25 All Things Silhouette with Terri Johnson

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Episode 24 What is Holding You Back

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Episode 23 The One Word That Will Transform Your Daily Life

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Episode 22 A Little About Color

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Episode 21 From Painting to Calligraphy with Melissa Esplin

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Episode 20 What Those Negative Thoughts Are Doing To Your Creativity

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Episode 19 Free Motion Quilting with Dara Tomasson

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Episode 18 Seven Creativity Starter Ideas

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Episode 17 Four Books That Made Me More Intentional

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Episode 16 How To Find Your Art Style with Jeanie Dickinson

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Episode 15 We Are What We Do

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Episode 14 Paper Crafting with Kelly Wayment

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Episode 13 The 3 Best Ways to Level Up Your Designing

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Episode 12 Our Philosophy with Getting Started with Social Media with My Sister Kim Friedmann

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Episode 11 What 3 Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself Every day

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Episode 10 Mod Meow Fabric with Amanda Niederhauser

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Episode 9 Books That Helped Me Save Time

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Episode 8 Juggling Kids and Summer with My Sister Kim Friedmann

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Episode 7 What Design Flows Looks Like For Me

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Episode 6 Are You Using Your Planning Season Wisely?

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Episode 5 How Committed Are You To Doing What You Say You Are Going to Do?

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Episode 4 Can You Tell If Your Work is Good, Better, or Best?

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Episode 3 Three Ways to Trade Money for More Time with My Sister Kim Friedmann

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Episode 2 Why Wanting is Different Than Belief

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Episode 1 Hello!