May 28, 2024
What’s the difference between a hobby and a profession? Well it’s as simple as boiling it down to making money. I hear a lot of designers undervaluing their services and having anxiety about marking up procurements on construction projects. So today, we are having a frank discussion on this topic!
After listening...
May 21, 2024
After talking to and hearing from many designers and hearing all of their questions, I started noticing this underlying theme in most of the questions the designers were asking.
I thought it couldn’t all boil down to this one similarity, but it did—and that was pain points. Almost every question I read involved a...
May 14, 2024
Spring is a busy time of year! Today, I want to talk about how to manage these really busy months but also how to prepare for the summer months ahead by leaning in on your systems, getting schedules sorted out, now for all involved in a project, how to communicate this clearly with your clients and potential clients,...
May 7, 2024
Today, I’m covering a topic that has been coming up in conversations I’ve had with designers lately: the aversion to risks.
I am hearing from designers like you about all of the risks they are trying to avert—financial security, reputation damage, and legal risks—and they are normal and to be expected....