May 12, 2026
Most hard construction projects don't announce themselves as disasters. They arrive as a feeling. A low hum. A sense that something's slightly off and you can't quite name it yet.
And most of us push through it, manage around it, or work harder to compensate for it. Because that's what we do.
But in this...
May 5, 2026
When you finish a construction project feeling like you worked for free, the instinct is to assume the number was wrong.
Sometimes it is. But more often, the number was fine. What broke down was everything around it.
In this episode, I'm talking about the two specific places pricing falls apart on construction...
Apr 28, 2026
I've never told this story in full before.
The financial pressure when my husband's career collapsed. My son's medical crisis. My own Graves' disease diagnosis right when my business was finally gaining real momentum. The debt that stayed through all of it — not because I wasn't working hard enough, but because...
Apr 21, 2026
Interior design contracts are often misunderstood, not just by clients, but by attorneys who don’t understand how this industry actually works.
In this episode, I’m joined by Wendy Estela, Founder of Estela Law and Designed Counsel™, a contract template and subscription service created exclusively for...
Apr 14, 2026
So you built your fee. You did the work. You went through every phase. You estimated your hours. You accounted for your role. And you landed on a number that actually reflects what this project will require.
And then you presented it.
And then the client either said, "That's more than we expected," or "Let us...