The Daring Designers Club Podcast

Have you ever thought about how we as humans bring so much uniqueness to our businesses - our experiences, our successes, our failures, our skills and struggles, our goals and versions of success... Yet we're often given the same steps to follow to get to where we want to be. As a mentor (and as a designer!), I love to bring more human-ness into the businesses of the designers I work with and I'd love to share some of my favourite lessons that I have learnt as I've tried to build my business with myself as a key focus. All of the messiness included! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When it comes to consistency, we're told that this is a MUST DO in business. From consistent marketing (you have to post on Instagram five times a week, you have to create more video content, you have to engage with your audience every day), to showing up consistently (you should be working on your business every week, you should join more programs, you need to work on more passion projects) - we know consistency is a must. But what we're not told as much, is that you get to choose what consistency looks like for you. If your business is unique and your goals are unique, we will all also have a version of consistency that helps us reach those goals that are perfect for us and fit with our time, energy and creativity! Yes, consistency is so important. Because the consistency we can control (like marketing, visibility, engagement, development) helps us build consistency in the areas we have a little less control over (like monthly income, lead generation, project bookings and sales). So in this episode, I'm sharing some tips to help you find and develop what consistency can look like in your own business, so you can ignore the advice that isn't relevant to you! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Clubhouse is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening for this week only! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up here ✨ Today I'm chatting with the lovely Sarah from Design Gals! Sarah launched her business just over 12 months ago and has spent the entire time building her business with strategy, intention and her personal version of success in mind. After joining me in The Clubhouse, she work on not just trial and error and any old strategy, but considering the work she wanted to be doing, how she wanted to work, what she wanted from the future and how to make that happen. Less than a year on, Sarah was working with dream clients and booking up to three months in advance! In this episode, Sarah and I chat about how you can build intention and strategy into your design business right from the beginning so your business can be built on solid, sustainable foundations! We also share some amazing tips for those of you who are in the early stages of your business or want a fresh start to focus on your version of success. Head to @design.gals on Instagram to follow along with Sarah and see her amazing work :) I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Podcast production by Sonics.io Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Clubhouse is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening for this week only! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up here ✨ Today I'm chatting with the lovely Sarah from Design Gals! Sarah launched her business just over 12 months ago and has spent the entire time building her business with strategy, intention and her personal version of success in mind. After joining me in The Clubhouse, she work on not just trial and error and any old strategy, but considering the work she wanted to be doing, how she wanted to work, what she wanted from the future and how to make that happen. Less than a year on, Sarah was working with dream clients and booking up to three months in advance! In this episode, Sarah and I chat about how you can build intention and strategy into your design business right from the beginning so your business can be built on solid, sustainable foundations! We also share some amazing tips for those of you who are in the early stages of your business or want a fresh start to focus on your version of success. Head to @design.gals on Instagram to follow along with Sarah and see her amazing work :) I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Podcast production by Sonics.io Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨ I could have gone on for a really long time with this episode talking about the benefits of booking in advance! But I stopped at the twelve that I find are the most important and can have the biggest impact on your business, your wellbeing, your mindset, and your freedom. Booking my design clients in advance has been the main strategy that has helped me build my dream design business and I'd love to help you do the same ☺️ I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Podcast production by Sonics.io Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨ When you have your eyes on big goals and know you have what it takes to get there, it can be easy to focus on whatever feels like it’ll get you to where you want to be quicker. But sometimes the things that get us to reach those goals quicker are actually getting us further away from where we want to be in the long-term and further away from building a sustainable business. So how do we focus on sustainable elements in our business instead of quick results - even when we want the quicker results? Let's talk about it! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨ Ok here's a biggy - I want your marketing in your design business to be SO much easier and I know it can be too!! We have such a set idea of what marketing has to be and what we have to achieve that we sometimes lose focus of the goal - connecting with dreamy clients in a way that works for you. Not building a huge audience, not getting the most views, not posting as much as possible. Let's chat through a few of my favourite tips to help make your marketing so much easier, take off the pressure and maybe you can even start to love marketing! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨ Ok here's a biggy - I want your marketing in your design business to be SO much easier and I know it can be too!! We have such a set idea of what marketing has to be and what we have to achieve that we sometimes lose focus of the goal - connecting with dreamy clients in a way that works for you. Not building a huge audience, not getting the most views, not posting as much as possible. Let's chat through a few of my favourite tips to help make your marketing so much easier, take off the pressure and maybe you can even start to love marketing! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨ Ok here's a biggy - I want your marketing in your design business to be SO much easier and I know it can be too!! We have such a set idea of what marketing has to be and what we have to achieve that we sometimes lose focus of the goal - connecting with dreamy clients in a way that works for you. Not building a huge audience, not getting the most views, not posting as much as possible. Let's chat through a few of my favourite tips to help make your marketing so much easier, take off the pressure and maybe you can even start to love marketing! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm back with an episode all about confidence! One of the areas I see as the biggest drain in a designers confidence is IN your projects - getting feedback, waiting on clients, missing deadlines, and desperately wanting your work to be approved. I know this was one of my biggest areas of the old confidence wobbles - until I started working through the tips I'm sharing in this episode! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm back with an episode all about confidence! One of the areas I see as the biggest drain in a designers confidence is IN your projects - getting feedback, waiting on clients, missing deadlines, and desperately wanting your work to be approved. I know this was one of my biggest areas of the old confidence wobbles - until I started working through the tips I'm sharing in this episode! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm jumping into money chat this week and pairing it with my other favourite topic - confidence! Confidence and money are so wrapped up in each other and it can be so hard to set your pricing, quote your pricing, and raise your pricing, confidently. It sometimes feels like you're just plucking numbers out of thin air, seeing what other people charge and following the lead or even just agreeing to whatever your clients say their budget is. But being more confident with your pricing allows you to reach higher, dreamier income goals which can support so many other goals. I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, I'm talking about a few things you don't have to do in your design business (if you don't want to!) There are so many strategies, tasks, platforms etc that we're told we need to use in our business and I'd love for you to just do the things that work perfectly for you as a creative and a business owner. Just because they work for one person doesn't mean they work for everyone! I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Join the waitlist for The Clubhouse my 12-month group mentoring program Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this first episode back, I'm sharing a little story from my week and the analogy I built from it all about consistency and how we hold ourselves back from consistency by making huge plans, comparing ourselves to others or trying to be perfect. I really hope you enjoy the episode! As mentioned in the episode, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below: Sign up for The Confident Creative Expert I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm talking sustainability again this week, and why wouldn't I, it's my favourite topic! Today I'm talking through four unsustainable business practices that you may be experiencing in your business that we need to evolve away from to have a sustainable, consistent and joyful design business. After sharing my own experiences in the last episode, I really wanted to chat about areas you can focus on to build more sustainability in your own business and create long-lasting foundations for your incredible business. I really hope you enjoy the episode! As mentioned in the episode, my group program for designers, The Clubhouse, is launching again in September and the waitlist is now open! Head to the link below to find out all about the program, take a tour behind the scenes, and learn about everything the designers who are currently in The Clubhouse have achieved! Find out more about The Clubhouse and join the waitlist here! I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Sign Up for My Fortnightly Postcard Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As of this year, I have been running my design studio for ten years (!!), and in that time have managed to build my dream job which has been my most sustainable and secure job so far. We're so often told how working for yourself isn't sustainable and isn't secure that I just wanted to share a few lessons that I've learned in building my business with sustainability, consistency, and joy as my main priorities. This is more of a chatty episode where I talk through a few pivotal moments and lessons that have allowed me to have sustainability as a foundation in my business over the past 10 years! I really hope you enjoy the episode! As mentioned in the episode, my group program for designers, The Clubhouse, is launching again in September and the waitlist is now open! Head to the link below to find out all about the program, take a tour behind the scenes, and learn about everything the designers who are currently in The Clubhouse have achieved! Find out more about The Clubhouse and join the waitlist here! I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Sign Up for My Fortnightly Postcard Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we move through summer, get ourselves rested and start feeling inspired by our business, you may be thinking about your business and what works and what doesn't. And you may be feeling like something doesn't quite fit right at the moment - if this is the case, you're ready for change. I know change can be scary, but I like to look at it as moving to the next step and evolving your business to get it even closer to where you want to be. Change is good and necessary! Listen to this episode to figure out whether you're ready for change and what that can look like for your business. Want to step into being a Confident Creative Expert? Join my weekly email series and get the next email in your inbox next Monday! I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Sign Up for My Fortnightly Postcard Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time off is so important and I really want you to be taking restful and restorative breaks from your business so you can come back feeling rejuvenated and inspired! No checking your emails when you're away, no panicking about clients getting in touch, no worrying about switching off - just enjoying your rest and allowing yourself to come back as your best creative self! In my business, I take at least 12 weeks off a year (without any client dread!) and I'd love to help you create more space in your design business schedule. Here's a link to the free workshop I mentioned in the episode to help you schedule your time off in advance: How I Book Design Clients 4-6 Months in Advance I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Sign Up for My Fortnightly Postcard Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you find that you're being more consistent with your marketing but don't seem to be attracting dream clients? There are a few shifts you can make to make sure you're allowing yourself to shine to the right people and getting more enquiries from those dreamy clients - so I wanted to share three small tweaks you can make right now. These tips will allow you to stand out more and be magnetic to those perfect people who give you a steady flow of dreamy projects! Want to step into being a Confident Creative Expert? Join my weekly email series and get the next email in your inbox next Monday! I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Sign Up for My Fortnightly Postcard Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want to step into being a Confident Creative Expert? Join my weekly email series and get the next email in your inbox next Monday! I hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect with The Daring Designers Club more: Follow Me On Instagram Sign Up for My Fortnightly Postcard Join the Free Community Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.