Abbey is hilarious, and a vintage clothing expert. She finds the most amazing pieces for her shop, The Peach Vintage and is designing original pieces that are beautiful for all body types. If you haven't seen her reels yet, run don't walk. She is one of my favorite content creators on Instagram and she even created a Reels Course! The Peach Vintage Website The Peach Vintage Instagram Graphic Design Contract Template Get 40% off an annual Skillshare membership...

Kiersty Loughmiller from the legal formative shed some light on all the legal things creative business owners need to know. We talked about copyrights, trademarks, contracts, and what to expect when working with a lawyer.  Kiersty's Website  Kiersty's Instagram  Graphic Design Contract Template Get 40% off an annual Skillshare membership here!!! designbeatpodcast.com Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz Steph's website:...

I had the loveliest chat this morning with Annabel Wrigley! Annabel is a fabric designer for Windham fabrics and a teacher with Creativebug. One of our listeners requested that we reach out to Annabel and she did not disappoint! She was hopeful and light and happy and I think you're really going to enjoy this episode. Annabel's Website Annabel's Instagram Graphic Design Contract Template Get 40% off an annual Skillshare membership here!!! designbeatpodcast.com Design Beat Instagram:...

Michelle Gifford is an expert at helping women business owners message and market their business, inspiring women to take action, and delivering the tools to make it happen. As a business coach, podcaster, speaker, and founder and CEO of Michelle Gifford Creative, she guides women through creating and maintaining a business that lasts through creative content and online strategy. Her agency, Michelle Gifford Creative, cultivates brand strategies and content for influencers and creatives. A...

**Disclaimer: This was literally just a conversation with my friend and was not planned or curated to provide helpful info.** Very different episode this week! My friend Shaylie I used to work with has been wanting to get into graphic design and while scheduling a Zoom call with her I though it might be fun to just record an episode. I feel like the questions she had are questions everyone has when they're starting out. Hopefully I cut out enough of my rambling for this to be useful! This...

Sonia is the CEO of Wildly Creating, a web and brand design agency passionate about creating, designing, and developing strategy-infused brands for high-performing entrepreneurs ready to change the world and who are not afraid to go big! I had a great time chatting with Sonia about having an abundance mindset, the van life in Australia and what it's like to be a traveling entrepreneur.  Sonia's Website Sonia's Instagram Wildly Creating Instagram Graphic Design Contract Template Get 40%...

This was a fun one! Shailey is an interior designer, video production company owner and co-host of one of the first podcasts I ever listened to: “Shailey and Katie’s Lemonade Stand”. In this episode we talk about running her interior design business, her video production company, raising her two children and renovating her amazing house! I was so excited when she agreed to come on the podcast and loved chatting with her hilarious self! Shailey’s Website  Shailey’s Instagram  Shailey and...

Today we're talking with Elizabeth Silver. Elizabeth is a professional surface pattern designer who's been working for the last 2 decades in the industry. She teaches beginner surface pattern designers the clear steps to find clients, pitch their designs, and create a profitable business with confidence and ease. You will definitely hear some of that in this interview. Elizabeth shares a ton of advice from her time in the industry which I was grateful for as you know I've been venturing in to...

Welcome back!! I've wanted to be friends with Tayler for a long time so I decided to use the podcast as an excuse to get her to hang out with me!! She actually lived nearby so she just came over and we chatted in my living room for a bit. I absolutely loved talking to Tayler and I think we could have kept going for hours if I didn't have to pick up kids from school! We talked about creating your own definition of success, believing in yourself, finding your style, and she even tells us her...

The day has finally come. After two failed attempts at recording an episode with my husband Clint, we finally completed an episode! We may not be experts on goal setting, but we do enjoy it and think it's fun to talk about! This is a quick final episode before taking the month of December off, but don't worry we'll be back in January and already have an amazing lineup for the beginning of next year! I'm going to miss you guys this month, let's stay in touch on Instagram!! How Will You...

Introducing Jaz, the 6 figure Design Superwoman turned Pricing Queen. Jaz is an Aussie creative teaching pricing through courses, resources and tomato sauces… ok maybe not the last one. Passionate about pricing, pie and puns, shes all about helping transform her students from Starving Artists to Hungry Creatives. In this episode we talk about all of that plus Survivor, Australian maternity leave (mind blown), and what her 14 years in the industry has looked like! Jasmine's Instagram Easy as...

This week we're talking with Katie Johnson and Ilana Griffo from Loomier! Loomier is the ultimate resource for artists who mean business. Katie and Ilana are artists who have been in the industry for a long time and decided to start Loomier to help people turn their artistic passion into a sustainable business. In this interview we talk about finding your passion, following your passion, romanticizing your life and we even have a really great conversation about mental health.  Tag us and...

Joy is an Illustrator, artist and maker based in New Jersey and she was such a delight to chat with! She illustrates puzzles, she has paint by number kits and she's got a painting book coming out! I loved how joy was sharing specifics on her process and the tools she uses. We talked about finding your artistic voice through creating work in large quantities and drawing from inspiration, and the challenges of being an artist on Instagram right now. You're going to love this one! Tag us and...

This is a short and sweet Halloween episode where I (Lauren) tell some listener submitted stories and a few of my own. Let me know if you'd like to hear more episodes in this format!  Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and connecting with you guys! Links: Graphic Design Contract Template code: LOVETHEPODCAST gets you 40% off! Get 40% off an annual Skillshare membership...

Today we're talking with traveling muralist Sarah Meitler. We were honored that Sarah took a break from her painting day in North Carolina to have a quick chat with us. We talk about finding clients, her mural process, insurance... She even turns her laptop and shows us the amazing view out her window! I will post a video on Instagram stories.  Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and...

Today we're talking with another one of my Design Biz Mastery ladies, Abbey McGrew from Wayfarer Design Studio!! Abbey travels the world for her husband'd job and she's currently living in Romania! Abbey is the founder of Wayfarer, a full-service design studio that elevates premium brands to a place of meaning, purpose, and newfound confidence. She has become known not only for her design work, but also her openness about the struggles of freelancing. Through her course, The Designer...

I think you guys are going to be very excited about our guests today! This is our first interview ever with multiple guests! Today we are hearing from Phoebe and Roxy from PANDR! They create custom art installations and murals around the globe and one thing we really appreciate about them is that they are on a mission to end the starving artist stereotype. They have a plethora of resources for designers on their website and tons of helpful and fun content on their Instagram and TikTok as...

Today we're talking with Cymone Wilder from Simon and Moose. She is a full time graphic designer by day, amazing lettering artist by night. She has some really cool creative processes and uses some unique methods and materials to create her artwork, so it was really fun to hear the behind the scenes on that!  For those of you who missed it, last week we launched a graphic design contract template! Thank you all for your support on that!!  It is thorough, peer reviewed contract, made in...

Big announcement today!! I have been working in collaboration with my lawyer Kiersty Loughmiller who I absolutely love, to bring you a custom graphic design contract template!! This template is thorough, drafted by my lawyer, used by me, peer reviewed... I literally used this template twice today for two different clients on two completely different projects and I was able to tweak it and take things out I didn't need, leave things in I needed and I felt super great about it. Yes, hiring your...

Today we're talking with Jess Levitz the other half of Shoppe Theory! So you guys remember Do-Hee, she was our very first interview ever on the podcast. Do-Hee is the web design partner of Shoppe Theory and Jess does more of the graphic design side so we're really excited to have her on and hear her perspective. You may know her from  The Creative Lady Collective Facebook group/ Instagram/ website formerly known as Freelance Wisdom. In this interview we talk about not being afraid to put your...

You guys... Hayley is absolutely incredible. She has been hand lettering professionally since she was in high school and has pretty much been hustling non-stop ever since. She's worked with a lot of amazing clients, if you live in Utah (specifically Provo) you've definitely seen her artwork in a store window,  a mural, a logo or even on a billboard. And you've most likely pointed it out and talked about how cool it was! Something that we didn't discuss in the episode is that Hayley has been...

Today we're talking with Allison Colledge!! You may know her as @hey.thankmelater on Instagram sharing all her favorite things and taking you behind the scenes in her design business. She does branding, workbooks, patterns, she was really fun to talk to because she has a really unique job where she travels to workshops, spends 20 minutes with several different business owners in one day and sends them a semi-custom branding suite at the end! I was really excited to ask her all the questions...

Some call it a funk, others a creative rut. Whatever you call it we all experience it, and it always passes! Every 10th episode of the podcast we like to switch it up and do something special. For this episode, we've combed through all 19 of our past episodes and compiled advice about what to do when you feel stuck from our amazing guests!! You'll hear from (in this order): Do-Hee Kim Betsy Petersen Jenna AKA Lady Bright Tanya Shyika Racheal from Banyan Bridges Michelle...

Today we're talking with Melissa from Sweet Daddy Designs! Melissa is a very cool brand strategist and designer from Texas. In this interview we talk all about strategy and how she learned to start offering brand strategy as a service by itself, how she uses what she learned getting her marketing degree in strategy, and how applying strategy simplifies the design process in a big way. We also talk about value based pricing and how to uncover what is and isn't valuable to a potential client....