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❓Does your garden have interest all year round?Welcome to Tales From The Potting Bench, your go-to podcast for all things green and growing! This is where, you'll hear fascinating stories from plant lovers, experts, and passionate growers who are just as obsessed with plants as you and I.This week's guest is a real plantsman and someone who I know you're going to thoroughly enjoy listening to! Jordan Weston, otherwise known as The Bearded Botanist on Instagram is a florist, plant fanatic and now, nursery owner who is completely obsessed with plants. At the recent BBC Gardener's World Spring Fair, we had the pleasure of sharing a stage and after the show, I knew we had to record a podcast episode for you all, so here it is! We discuss the nursery, plants to keep interest in your garden all year round, and so much more. Enjoy!If you'd like to see more from Jordan then you can find him over on Instagram as @the_bearded_botanist. You can also find Jordan's nursery on Instagram too @westonsnurseryIf all this talk of evergreen plants has got you thinking about your own then why not give them a good feed with Westland's Organic Seaweed Plant Growth stimulant? This feed is designed and formulated to be the perfect mix to use around your whole garden, specifically giving your plants what they need to growth strong and healthy roots! Not only that but your plants will also benefit from increased strength against disease too! Using Organic Seaweed Plant Growth Stimulant ensures an abundance of stronger, healthier, veg, fruit and flowers!Make sure to check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gardenhealth.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ now, for more.Until next week, do have a look at my blog and website, below!✍️ Read My Blog and More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

❓Do you grow what you love or what you *think* you should grow...?Welcome to Tales From The Potting Bench, your go-to podcast for all things green and growing! This is where, you'll hear fascinating stories from plant lovers, experts, and passionate growers who are just as obsessed with plants as you and I.This week's guest is one of the most passionate vegetable growers that I have the pleasure of knowing and luckily he's happy to share that passion with us all. Rob Smith, otherwise known online as @robsallotment is a veg grower and garden writer, who takes real pleasure with sharing tips and advice on how to grow not only the best veg, but also unique varieties too! Enjoy!If you'd like to see more from Rob then you can find him over on Instagram as @robsallotment. Rob's book ‘Grow To Eat' is available in all good book shops now and via this linkIf listening to Rob talking about growing your own fruit and veg and has got you think about growing your own, then be sure to use Westland's Big Tom Super Tomato Food on your tomatoes.2Big Tom simply gives you 3 x more tomatoes vs unfed plants! As well as this you'll get tastier tomatoes, all season long. Their Big Tom Tomato Food has the unique PlantSense™ Technology. This means there is just the right amount of nutrients, and a water management system perfected to work with peat free growbags and planters. Including iron and magnesium to give you greener plants, it is also rich in seaweed for healthy root growth giving you great tasting tomatoes. Try it now, available in all good garden centres across the UK.Make sure to check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠gardenhealth.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ now, for more.Until next week, do have a look at my blog and website, below!✍️ Read My Blog and More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

❓Do you follow Anya on social media?Welcome to Tales From The Potting Bench, your go-to podcast for all things green and growing! This is where, you'll hear fascinating stories from plant lovers, experts, and passionate growers who are just as obsessed with plants as you and I.This week's guest is someone I've wanted on for a very long time and thankfully we've been able to make it finally happen. Anya Lautenbach, otherwise known online as Anya the Garden Fairy has been inspiring people online to garden, for years and is now the author of two wildly successful accompanying books. In this episode we discuss Anya's upbringing in Poland, how gardening has helped her through the darkest times and just why gardening is the thing that brings us all together. Enjoy!If you'd like to see more from Anya then you can find her across all social media platforms by searching for Anya The Garden Fairy.Anya's latest book The Money Saving Garden Year, is out now from DK and is available from all good booksellers and via this link.If you'd like to give your plants the very best chance of blooming and growing to the best of their ability then give them some oomph with Boost All Purpose Multi-Action Granules, new for 2025! These granules support your plants at every single stage of their growth and provide up to 6 months of slow-release feed, resulting in even stronger roots, greener foliage, healthier plants and you guessed it, more blooms! Simply mix them into your Boost All Purpose Compost when planting up, and continue with regular feeding using Boost All Purpose Liquid Plant feed to give your plants the ultimate boost all round!Make sure to check out ⁠⁠⁠gardenhealth.com⁠⁠⁠ now, for more.Until next week, do have a look at my blog and website, below!✍️ Read My Blog and More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Send us a textI have decided to write a BOOK! Get all the details in this podcast from why and when! Hear the book summary and a recent zoom call with Coach RB aka "The Music Man" Randy Brown on our trip to Lubbock, Texas & Clovis, New Mexico to visit the sites and sounds of Buddy Holly & The Crickets.Links Listen to the Feb. 2023 Show-The Last Dance: https://www.beforethelightspod.com/beforethelights-episodes/um3qklge6olw99o34o1q8efpeydto2Watch the Book Summary:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jPw9WKWPUQWE00T9KXz2wSS5kHYf8omz/view?usp=sharing Visit Friends of Norman Petty Website: https://friendsofnormanpetty.com/Read My Blog "Reminiscing" https://friendsofnormanpetty.com/reminiscingBefore the Lights Links:Get Tommy a Glass of Vino: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beforethelightsRATE & REVIEW THE SHOW! 5 STAR & NICE COMMENTS PLEASE!Before the Lights Website: https://www.beforethelightspod.com/Support the showFollow the show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beforethelightspodcast/Follow the show on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/beforethelightspodcast/Follow the show on Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@beforethelightspodcast?lang=enFollow Tommy on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/tcanale3Rate & Review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/before-the-lights/id1501245041Email the host: beforethelightspod@gmail.com

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#weddingplanner #weddingbusiness #weddingpros Las Vegas Wedding Planner and Educator Andrea Eppolito discusses what to do when leads are down in your business. There are a series of steps you can take to keep your business moving in the right direction even when the economy is slow. Here is what to do when the phone stops ringing. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consulting Speaking & Appearances: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/speaking Online Education: https://courses.andreaeppolito.com/ Are you a Wedding Professional?  My book, Redefining Your Wedding Business can help you learn how to redefine your own business, and possibly even your own market.  https://shop.andreaeppolito.com/books  Thinking of Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business?  The Business Blueprint for Wedding Planners is a four-hour “crash course” that I designed to help you start your very own Wedding Planning Business.  It is also used by many Wedding Planners as a “check-up” to ensure that their businesses have maximized their potential and become profitable as quickly as possible.    https://shop.andreaeppolito.com/bbwp  Do you have a Wedding Planning Business already and feel “stuck”?  I created the Wedding Planner Master Class because my business was once there.  I was busy, but I wasn't doing the business I wanted.  The Wedding Planner Master Class is a ten-module series designed to help you breakthrough and transform the business you want into the business you WANT!  https://shop.andreaeppolito.com/wpmc  YOUTUBE TIPS  *Grow Your Wedding Planning Business* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_66F9DDLtg  *Three Tips to Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EaFGc-dOxs  *Wedding Planner Masterclass Review* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnUZVlcyNo  *How to Attract High-End Clients to Your Wedding Business* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnUZVlcyNo *How to Survive a Recession & Come Out Stronger* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrk1r9oxxrw  *Should You Expand Your Wedding Planning Business* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXAy6vzHkyk  *Top 10 Apps Your Wedding Business Needs* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0oQarH2BE0 RECOMMENDED TOOLS  Ontraport: https://ontraport.com/?orid=833939  Kajabi: https://app.kajabi.com/r/v22qtLrX/t/2mizwaxl  LET'S GET SOCIAL  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andreaeppolito Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreaeppolito Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/andreaeppolito Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreaeppolito LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaeppolito TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/TfJJ5X/  Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andrea-eppolito-celebrating-life-luxury-above-all-else/id1353180121 Read My Blog: https://www.andeaeppolito.com/blog   NOTE: This description contains affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned in this video and support the channel at no cost to you. While this channel may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is in NO WAY obligated to use these links. Thank you for your support!

How many hours a day do you spend sitting at your desk? Six hours? Eight hours? Ten hours? According to a study by the American Heart Association, the average American worker spends 6.4 hours a day sitting at their desk. With stats like that, it's more important than ever to have a productive desk setup that allows you to stay focused and get your work done efficiently. Whether you work from home or in an office, having the right tools and a well-organized workspace can make a big difference in your productivity and overall well-being. With that in mind, we've put together this guide to share seven essential rules for creating a productive desk setup that will help you stay on top of your game. From ergonomic considerations to organization and lighting, we'll cover all the bases so you can optimize your workspace for maximum productivity. So if you're ready to take your productivity to the next level, read on for our top tips and tricks. Podcast Links Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

The iPad is a versatile device that can be used for much more than just browsing the internet and playing games. In fact, it can be a powerful tool for productivity in the workplace. With its large screen, portability, and numerous apps available, the iPad can help you stay organized, communicate more efficiently, and get work done on-the-go. In this episode, we will explore 10 ways to start using your iPad at work and take advantage of all its features to enhance your productivity and efficiency in the workplace. Whether you are a freelancer, a business professional, or a student, these tips will help you unlock the full potential of your iPad and take your work to the next level. Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

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If tipping dead?  In a post-Covid world many creative professionals are noticing a reduction in tipping and gratuity.  How do you handle questions about gifting?  What verbiage should you use when asked about tipping procedures?  Let's discuss.  MY SERVICESLuxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.comWedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consultingSpeaking & Appearances: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/speakingOnline Education: https://courses.andreaeppolito.com/Are you a Wedding Professional? My book, Redefining Your Wedding Business can help you learn how to redefine your own business, and possibly even your own market. https://shop.andreaeppolito.com/booksThinking of Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business? The Business Blueprint for Wedding Planners is a four-hour “crash course” that I designed to help you start your very own Wedding Planning Business.  It is also used by many Wedding Planners as a “check-up” to ensure that their businesses have maximized their potential and become profitable as quickly as possible.   https://shop.andreaeppolito.com/bbwpDo you have a Wedding Planning Business already and feel “stuck”? I created the Wedding Planner Master Class because my business was once there.  I was busy, but I wasn't doing the business I wanted.  The Wedding Planner Master Class is a ten-module series designed to help you breakthrough and transform the business you want into the business you WANT! https://shop.andreaeppolito.com/wpmcNeed a CRM with billing and project management? USE HONEYBOOK!Get 50% off with this link.share.honeybook.com/andrea YOUTUBE TIPS*Grow Your Wedding Planning Business*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_66F9DDLtg*Three Tips to Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EaFGc-dOxs*Wedding Planner Masterclass Review*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnUZVlcyNo*How to Attract High-End Clients to Your Wedding Business*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnUZVlcyNo*How to Survive a Recession & Come Out Stronger*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrk1r9oxxrw*Should You Expand Your Wedding Planning Business*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXAy6vzHkyk*Top 10 Apps Your Wedding Business Needs*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0oQarH2BE0 RECOMMENDED TOOLSOntraport: https://ontraport.com/?orid=833939 Kajabi: https://app.kajabi.com/r/v22qtLrX/t/2mizwaxl LET'S GET SOCIALFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/andreaeppolitoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreaeppolitoPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/andreaeppolitoTwitter: https://twitter.com/andreaeppolitoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaeppolitoTikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/TfJJ5X/ Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andrea-eppolito-celebrating-life-luxury-above-all-else/id1353180121 Read My Blog: https://www.andeaeppolito.com/blog  NOTE: This description contains affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned in this video and support the channel at no cost to you. While this channel may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is in NO WAY obligated to use these links. Thank you for your support!

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In this episode I am sharing 9 steps you can take to get your life organized this year! Blog Post with More Information on Each Step: https://www.strangecharmed.com/2022/9-ways-to-stay-productive-organized-in-2022/ Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/  

In this episode I am discussing how to create your own productive daily routine, how to structure it, and the essential habits you may want to consider including as part of your day for a more balanced and successful life. Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

In this episode I am sharing 3 questions you will want to write down and review each week to set your week up for success and start looking forward to Mondays again! Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

In this episode I am discussing 10 practical strategies I use to keep my life balanced and organized. Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

In this episode I am diving deep into the topic of journaling with 7 strategies you may want to consider to use the practice to improve your life and mindset! How to Journal Blog Post with Links: https://www.strangecharmed.com/2021/how-to-journal-7-strategies-for-productivity-manifestation-self-therapy/ Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

In this episode I am sharing the exactly daily journaling mindset work I do each day to help me shift my focus to get into alignment with my goals. This mindset work is simple but has the power to change your life for the better. Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ CEO Journal: https://amzn.to/3OHrvff Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

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I this episode I am reading you the introduction to my best selling time management book, The Functional Planning Handbook! Join the Pod Squad + Get Your Free Gift: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/product/from-to-do-to-done-pod-squad-gift/ Buy My Best-Selling Productivity Book: https://www.strangecharmed.com/shop/the-functional-planning-handbook/ Read My Blog: https://strangecharmed.com Watch My YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MissTrenchcoat Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstrenchcoat/

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#39: NENU PARICHAYAM CHESINA ARTISTULU, TECHNICIANLU - 2 | MANOHAR CHIMMANI PODCAST | Telugu Podcast by MANOHAR CHIMMANI, Film Director, Nandi Award Winning Writer, Blogger | Episode 39 *** Collab With Me For Micro Budget Feature Films: http://bit.ly/totalcinema Become Hero: https://bit.ly/hero10x Film Coaching Online: https://bit.ly/okkachance Script Writing Services: https://bit.ly/script10x Short Film Script in 24 Hours: https://bit.ly/short10x Content Writing Services: https://bit.ly/content10x Social Media Management: https://bit.ly/smedia10x Link-tree: https://linktr.ee/mchimmani *** About Manohar Chimmani: http://bit.ly/manutime Short AV on Manohar Chimmani: https://youtu.be/UiN7ffs2wuAss *** ONLINE COACHING: Learn Acting, Script Writing & Direction Online! Team Manohar Chimmani is accepting applications now. Serious Inquiries Only Please! Check out the details & book a call here: https://bit.ly/okkachance *** Say Hi on Social: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MChimmani Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mchimmani Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manohar_chimmani Koo: https://www.kooapp.com/profile/mchimmani *** Read My Blog: https://nagnachitram.blogspot.com *** Listen to MANOHAR CHIMMANI PODCAST here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3UP9QL5UkfVTl1XydlLzLj Anchor: https://anchor.fm/manohar-chimmani3 Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82OTNjOTRhYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIcpOvm92UoC_fO75YpNXA *** For Ads, Promotion & Sponsorship proposals, CONTACT: Whatsapp: +91 9989578125, email: mchimmani10x@gmail.com

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In today’s episode, I’m covering: + How I stumbled upon blogging and my #1 motivation to start a blog. + What happened when I started publishing content on my blog (not good!!). + The CRUCIAL mistake I was making which led me to sheer disappointment and how I turned it around to increase my readership and sell courses (profitably!). Go VIP for our challenge! http://rachelngom.com/GOVIP

Are you oh so independent and confident…until you catch feelings? I’ll help a Shalligator who finds herself morphing into a clingy girlfriend and isn’t sure how to stop it. But is there such a thing as TOO independent? I’ll break down how to stop feeling desperate in a relationship and uncover what the fear voice is telling you!  Go to FlexFits.com/GIRLONTOP and use code GIRLONTOP for 20% off Flex Disc Starter Kits—or 10% off your first Flex Cup—PLUS free U.S. shipping! Go to AnaLuisa.com/GIRLONTOP and use code GIRLONTOP for 10% off your piece! 💜GET “ESSSENTIALISM” 💜 https://amzn.to/2MuJBFN 💜READ MY BLOG 💜 https://shallon.substack.com 💜TUNE INTO XO RADIO 💜 https://stationhead.live.shallonxo 💜FOLLOW 💜 Insta/Twitter/TikTok @ShallonXO 💜ENJOYING IT? 💜 please rate and review this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the YouTube channel we’ve been talking about how to say no and set up boundaries, but sometimes bellowing NO causes more stress than just doing the thing...or, doing the person. If you’re struggling with this concept, I’ll give you some practical real world examples of how to turn someone down, and why The Ick is a terrible byproduct of a boundary-less life! 💜GET “ESSSENTIALISM” 💜 https://amzn.to/2MuJBFN 💜READ MY BLOG 💜 https://shallon.substack.com 💜TUNE INTO XO RADIO 💜 https://stationhead.live.shallonxo 💜FOLLOW 💜 Insta/Twitter/TikTok @ShallonXO 💜ENJOYING IT? 💜 please rate and review this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we’ll hear from an exasperated Shalligator Who is stuck on vacation with a complainer. When dealing with an emotional and social terrorist, do you fight fire with fire? Do you ignore them and walk away? I’ll tell you the best way to deal with a victim mentality that protects your peace—not politeness.  Best Friends with Nicole Byer & Sasheer Zamata comes out every Wednesday, on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Go to Curology.com/SHALLION for a free 30-day trial, just pay for shipping and handling! 💜GET “ESSSENTIALISM” 💜 https://amzn.to/2MuJBFN 💜READ MY BLOG 💜 https://shallon.substack.com 💜TUNE INTO XO RADIO 💜 https://stationhead.live.shallonxo 💜FOLLOW 💜 Insta/Twitter/TikTok @ShallonXO 💜ENJOYING IT? 💜 please rate and review this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I’ll help a Shalligator sort out whether or not it’s wise to have a joint bank account with a man who doesn’t respect your cash flow. And, since Shallentine’s Day is coming up, I’ll give you some pro tips on picking great (cheap!) lingerie and what guys really think when you wear it!  Go to FlexFits.com/girlontop and use code girlontop for 20% off Flex Disc Starter Kits—or 10% off your first Flex Cup—PLUS free U.S. shipping 💜GET “ESSSENTIALISM” 💜 https://amzn.to/2MuJBFN 💜READ MY BLOG 💜 https://shallon.substack.com 💜TUNE INTO XO RADIO 💜 https://stationhead.live.shallonxo 💜FOLLOW 💜 Insta/Twitter/TikTok @ShallonXO 💜ENJOYING IT? 💜 please rate and review this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Muscles do two things: they lengthen and shorten. Yes, lifting weights with your muscles causes them to become stronger, get bigger and change their appearance; however, increasing muscle size and doesn't happen by accident, it takes a lot more than just doing 3 sets of 10 reps. Hypertrophy is the technical term for increasing muscle size and is the reason why many fitness enthusiasts lift weights. Dr. Brad Schoenfeld has spent a majority of his career studying the science of muscle hypertrophy and has literally written the book on the subject. Originally released in 2016, The Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy is the first textbook that focuses specifically on the subject of what causes muscles to grow. Dr. Schoenfeld released a 2nd edition of the book in 2020 and on this episode of the All About Fitness podcast we talk about the findings of his research, what caused him to change some of his ideas on what causes hypertrophy and discuss some of the exercise techniques that can stimulate the muscle growth you want from your workouts. This is a fascinating and in-depth discussion on the topic of how exercise can change your body.   To stay up-to-date on Dr. Schoenfeld's research, follow him on Instagram: @bradschoenfeldphd  or visit his blog: Look Great Naked    To learn about the science of hypertrophy, pick of a copy of the 2nd edition of Brad's book: The Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy      Want to learn more about strength training? READ MY BLOG: 7 Things to Know about Strength Training  OR 6 Things to Know About Reps to Get Results!   Listen to my interview on the Graced Health podcast with Amy Connell    Catch the video version of this podcast on the All About Fitness Podcast channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkSEaOx8uEBksDjvcVjnizg     BRAND NEW: Follow the @AllAboutFitnessPodcast feed on Instagram!     www.petemccallfitness.com - sign up for the mailing list to receive a free chapter and workout from Smarter Workouts AND be eligible to be invited to FREE HIIT at Home workouts!    All About Fitness does not take advertiser dollars, nor will it hide valuable content behind a pay wall; purchasing content will support the podcast and help you learn how exercise can enhance your quality of life. Your purchase will make you eligible to receive exclusive content AT NO ADDITIONAL COST! Become a Fan of All About Fitness by purchasing one of the e-books: Exercise for the Fountain of Youth - $7 Functional Core Training - $7 Dynamic Anatomy - $7   Become a Supporter of All About Fitness by purchasing one of the workout programs: 8 week Dumbbell Strength Training - $12 8 week Kettlebell Conditioning - $12 8 week Functional Core Strength Training  - $12   Become a SuperFan of All About Fitness by purchasing one of the bundles: Functional Core Training and Dynamic Anatomy - $12 Dynamic Anatomy and Core Training Workout Bundle - $19 Dynamic Anatomy recorded webinar and e-book - $19   If you are a fitness professional, you can earn CECs with one of the following courses, approved for continuing education credits by the American Council on Exercise: Dynamic Anatomy: Learn how the muscles and fascia function as an integrated system and how to use that information to design the workout programs that deliver results for your clients. 0.2 CECs - $29   Glute Reboot: Learn how the most visible muscles in your body work as well as a variety of exercises to help them function (and look) better 0.2 CECs - $29 Total Body Core Training: Learn the science of exercise program design and how to apply it to build a stronger core from the inside out. 0.4 CECs - $67 Want to learn how to design your own programs to slow down the effects of the aging process? Invest in a copy of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple    Contact: Pete@petemccallfitness.com 

Have you ever wondered why bodybuilders and powerlifters look so different? Bodybuilders have large, well-defined muscles while powerlifters are often extremely strong but lack the same definition as their sculpted counterparts. The fact is that not all strength training is the same; this Quick Fit Tip reviews the different outcomes of strength training and provides suggestions for how to use them so you can achieve an optimal level of fitness. Time Under Tension (TUT) and the rate of force development (RFD) are two of the most important factors that influence how muscles adapt to different types of strength training; after you listen to this Quick Fit Tip, you'll know what those phrases mean and how to apply them to your workouts.    Want to learn more about strength training? READ MY BLOG: 7 Things to Know about Strength Training  OR 6 Things to Know About Reps to Get Results!   Listen to my interview on the Graced Health podcast with Amy Connell    Catch the video version of this podcast on the All About Fitness Podcast channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkSEaOx8uEBksDjvcVjnizg     BRAND NEW: Follow the @AllAboutFitnessPodcast feed on Instagram!     Join Pete for 30 min. HIIT Workouts from the comfort of your own home! Wednesdays and Fridays at 12pm pacific / 3pm eastern, only $10 FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR DETAILS  (NO burpees)  www.petemccallfitness.com - sign up for the mailing list to receive a free chapter and workout from Smarter Workouts AND be eligible to be invited to FREE HIIT at Home workouts!    All About Fitness does not take advertiser dollars, nor will it hide valuable content behind a pay wall; purchasing content will support the podcast and help you learn how exercise can enhance your quality of life. Your purchase will make you eligible to receive exclusive content AT NO ADDITIONAL COST! Become a Fan of All About Fitness by purchasing one of the e-books: Exercise for the Fountain of Youth - $7 Functional Core Training - $7 Dynamic Anatomy - $7   Become a Supporter of All About Fitness by purchasing one of the workout programs: 8 week Dumbbell Strength Training - $12 8 week Kettlebell Conditioning - $12 8 week Functional Core Strength Training  - $12   Become a SuperFan of All About Fitness by purchasing one of the bundles: Functional Core Training and Dynamic Anatomy - $12 Dynamic Anatomy and Core Training Workout Bundle - $19 Dynamic Anatomy recorded webinar and e-book - $19   If you are a fitness professional, you can earn CECs with one of the following courses, approved for continuing education credits by the American Council on Exercise: Dynamic Anatomy: Learn how the muscles and fascia function as an integrated system and how to use that information to design the workout programs that deliver results for your clients. 0.2 CECs - $29   Glute Reboot: Learn how the most visible muscles in your body work as well as a variety of exercises to help them function (and look) better 0.2 CECs - $29 Total Body Core Training: Learn the science of exercise program design and how to apply it to build a stronger core from the inside out. 0.4 CECs - $67 Want to learn how to design your own programs to slow down the effects of the aging process? Invest in a copy of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple    Contact: Pete@petemccallfitness.com 

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Tags: 2019 fashion trends 2019 fashion trends forecast spring summer trends fall winter trends millennial fashion trends top spring 2019 trends stripe trends 2019 2019 trends home decor 2019 trends fashion 2019 home design trends lauren lesley studio design tribe textile design textile designers surface pattern design surface pattern designers 2019 color forecast trend report 2019 gift and home furnishing market atlanta market atlanta market show   Transcript: Speaker 1: 00:01 Hey, what's up fools? Speaker 2: 00:03 This is your house. Lauren. Lesley, the design tribe podcast based out of beautiful Atlanta. This is the podcast version of my webinar series. You'll find on my website at Lauren Lesley. Lesley is spelled with an e-y. We'll be discussing all things related to the design side of your online business and interviewing creative entrepreneurs. If you'd like to join my webinar series, you will be able to follow along with awesome slides that I made super Pretty and you'll get to interact with me on live video. I'll also be live streaming to youtube and in the design tribe Facebook group. If you'd rather tune in there to sign up for the live webinars, go to laurenlesley.com/webinar-series or if you'd like to join our Facebook community, check out facebook.com/groups/designtribelaurenlesley. Thanks for connecting with the design tribe. Let's start the conversation. Speaker 1: 01:07 Okay. Hi everyone. I'm Lauren from Lauren Lesley Studio and today we have special guest, Elizabeth Silver on to talk about 2019 trends for surface pattern designers. So Elizabeth is an amazing surface pattern. Boss. She's a licensed artist and knows all about trends. She does 10 tons of trend research and has a really cool, um, newsletter for you guys that we'll talk about in just a minute. I'm Elizabeth, would you like to kind of introduce yourself and give everyone a little bit of background about who you are and how you got started as a surface pattern designer? Speaker 3: 01:43 Yeah, definitely. Thanks so much for having me, Lauren. Um, I have, I studied surface pattern design in college actually. And um, when I graduated I was living in New York City and I designed for bedding and then table linens and finally for baby apparel for baby gap. And then I wanted to leave New York City. I'd been there for about nine years. And so, uh, my husband and I moved down to Raleigh, North Carolina and I went into freelance. So I have been freelancing for about six years now. And I, um, have a lot of different types of clients, do a lot of client work, um, for party paper so you can see my work in party city, um, for like wrapping paper and gift bags, a lot of stuff in different, I'm like Tj Maxx and Marshall's and target and kind of all over the place. And I also licensed my artwork, so greeting cards and rugs and also give bags and wrapping kind of stuff, a lot of stationery. Um, and so that is kind of a Speaker 1: 02:53 me in a nutshell. Awesome. And for those of you who don't know me, I'm Lauren. I have been a senior textile designer for the past 10 years. Um, and I'm really excited because my outdoor rug designs are selling at target this season. So if you're in need of our raw, go check that out. Um, but now, uh, starting as of February 1st this year, 2019, I'm starting as an independent surface pattern designer. So I'm really excited to go to blueprint in New York and meet a bunch of other surface pattern designers. Um, but yeah, so let's get into some of the trends. So first we're going to start talking about, um, Elizabeth Atlanta Gift Market Trend PDF. So if you sign up for her newsletter, you get all sorts of really great trend insights that she puts together and kind of does all of the research ahead of time for you. Um, so to get the free pdf, you can visit her website and sign up for her email list. I'm, the link is here and I'll also link it in the description below. Um, so let me pull up whore, uh, here is her pdf. Okay. And so Elizabeth, um, if you don't mind going ahead and kind of explaining, um, what is important about America's mart gift and home show? I'm, why is that important for surface pattern designers? Speaker 3: 04:15 Definitely. Thanks so much. Um, yeah, so I went to, uh, in Atlanta, um, they have a two times a year is America's mart gift and home show. And they have like three buildings in downtown Atlanta that have showrooms of gifts, companies, home decor companies, uh, rug companies, um, apparel companies, all kinds of like giftable things stationary. And they have a permanent show rooms down there. And so they have different shows throughout the year. But the gift and home show is a time when they also, people who don't have permanent show rooms can also come down and kind of set up a temporary showroom and they're all showing their wares for people, uh, for buyers who mmm. Who buy for their stores, you know, for their gift stores or their home decor stores or their both teaks all that kind of stuff. So it's a all in one place to, it's basically like going to 150 gift show, uh, gift shops at once. So it's like a perfect, you know, opportunity to see what's going on in the gift world, in the stationary world, in the home decor worlds. So, um, I had gone since 2013 and so I wanted to check it out cause I'd been going to Sirtex every year and this year I decided to skip Sirtex and go to America's mart. Speaker 1: 05:43 I see. Okay, cool. So for those of, um, for designers who are kind of new at discovering trends or finding trends, how did you, out of, you know, you said this is like going through hundreds and hundreds of gift shops. How do you decide what's a trend Speaker 3: 05:58 versus something that's not a trend when you were just kind of overwhelmed by seeing so many days for art and gifts patterns, you figure out what is a trend actually quite overwhelming I have to say. Um, and also I would note that like this is the stuff that's like going to be in stores shortly. You know, they're selling their current line, but it was designed probably a year ago at least, you know, six months to a year ago. Um, you know, and then it had to be produced and then it's, you know, the samples are ready and they're hoping people are ordering it and it's going to go into stores. Right? So this isn't necessarily like the cutting edge things that are coming. Right. You know, out of, uh, you know, very trend for a person's brain necessarily. It is stuff that's probably a little bit older, but still it hasn't fully gone into stores and trends kind of do tend to last at least for a couple of seasons are a couple of years. Speaker 3: 07:00 And one thing I noticed is there is, you know, there was definitely a lot of stuff that we've seen before, stuff that, you know, wasn't brand new. Um, one wrap up or like roundup that I read, uh, you know, kind of hypothesize that the reason for that is that people are, you know, a little bit nervous that, um, you know, they want to see something that has sold already and it is a proven, you know, good bestseller or whatever. And so they're a little bit scared maybe to jump into new things. The wrap up that I was reading was talking about, you know, like for economy reasons, but I don't, you know, I don't know. But there is a lot of stuff that we've seen in before. So like the farmhouse trend with a lot of like home decor stuff with, you know, big script lettering, brush script lettering, um, and sort of like the, uh, like galvanized metal and wood, you know, whether it would, and sort of that, that sort of style was, you know, really prevalent, um, saw a lot of stuff that I'm sure you could recognize like flamingos and llamas and Unicorns and mermaids and all those kind of like a fantastical creatures that we've seen a lot of, you know, in, in the, in the market. Speaker 3: 08:20 Um, and the big thing that we see at all these places, all these gifts shops are a Christmas trends, right? Christmas is a big, big seller. And so, yeah, you can see, I'm kind of talking about some of the things that we've seen already. Um, Christmas Pharm House was a big thing. And, um, you know, buffalo plaid, I say that green buffalo plaid was a little bit newer, but red buffalo plaid was definitely still in there. And lots of chemicals. Um, some really, you know, things that we've seen in past Christmases, the kind of like vintage red truck with the Christmas tree is still out there. Um, but to find, to figure out what is, you know, a trend, I think that for me it's just kind of what pops out, like, um, you know, as something a little bit newer that I've, that I see, uh, you know, a couple times more than more than just like one little interesting thing. Speaker 3: 09:19 So he having, you know, studied trends for the past couple of years with my newsletter, it's like, I feel like I've seen it all. So if it's something that kind of like perks my interest and says like, oh, that's kind of weird, or like, oh, I haven't seen that. Like, even if it's just one like animal off to the side, it's like, oh yeah, you don't usually see like, you know, I don't know what animal, but that if I then see it again later in the day and then again, then I'm like, Hey, okay, that could be something. And so I try to highlight trends that are, um, that could, you know, spark something sparks some creativity basically. And that aren't necessarily like everywhere. Um, you know, I'm not going to feature unicorns because everyone has seen a million unicorns and it is still trending, but that's not really what I do. Speaker 1: 10:10 Right. I think that as a designer, once you sort of get into that process of researching trends, it's almost sort of intuitive. Like something that does, like you said, kind of perk your interest or you are kind of responding to innately then you know, and especially if you start to see it over and over again, you know, they say that in order to buy something you have to see it seven times. And so I think that as, as designers it's like, well, you know, we are sort of picking up on an evolution of thing is too, like one design trend could naturally evolve into something else or it could marry with another trend. Um, I don't know. Like I remember just in rugs, um, the trellis and lattice patterns were so big for a long sort of the two color. And now they're sort of starting to be a little bit dated, but it's like, okay, how, you know, how can we evolve that trend? How can we maybe make it three collar or multicolor or, um, maybe make it a little bit more global, you know, there's different things you can do to a trend once it starting to kind of get some age on it, I guess, um, to make it evolve and grow the I agree. Okay. Okay. So, Speaker 3: 11:27 so this first page, um, just for fun was kind of things that I couldn't make a full like trend board out of, but I just kind of want to call it out because again, I kind of pricking my eye and I thought they were sort of interesting. So, um, last year for 2018, um, I did a trend guide of a roundup of SIRTEX and a national stationery show and one of my trends was called anatomy class and it was sort of about a female anatomy, uh, you know, like naked ladies boobs. Like, literally, there were cards out there with like, you know, like the whole, like female anatomy, like, like a real, like ovaries and stuff like that. So, um, so that is, you know, has been trending. The female form has definitely been trending, but, uh, this little, um, this first image with the like really, really happy jumping around naked ladies just made me smile. Speaker 3: 12:22 And so I just wanted to kind of call it out because it's sort of, you know, it reminded me that that trend is still going and they just seem like they're loving life so much that I was happy about it. Then the second one is I had also recently in my newsletter sent out a, a trend about floral crowns on animals being so huge in illustration and greeting cards and things like that. And one interesting thing that I saw, um, it was a green box, uh, which also like it's kind of owns oopsy daisy and they do wall art, right? And so one of their artists, actually a couple of their artists, um, had, you know, floral crowns was still big with the animals, but one sort of like evolution of that, again as talking about how to make it something newer and different and kind of bring it forward was I'm having sort of dessert and food items as crowns on animals. Speaker 3: 13:15 So I thought that was interesting. Take. And then the last thing that I showed there, it and that I saw a couple call outs of at the gift show, but couldn't really find enough reference to say it was a trend was the sort of the idea of pills and pharmaceuticals as like a little bit of a joke or just like something, something kind of interesting. So that card says hope they give you the good drugs and get well card by Lionheart prints. Oh, cute. Cool. Okay. So my first trend that I, um, wanted to call out as called plant ponds. And um, as I say here, uh, food ponds have been around for a while. We've seen, you know, Tacos and Sushi and pizza and give me a pizza, my heart and that kind of thing. Um, but I saw a big, uh, you know, a big showing of plant ponds because house plants have been a really big trend. Speaker 3: 14:13 Um, and now that's sort of evolving. So now we're getting sort of the two things together. The food ponds or the ponds I should say. And the house plants are coming together and these planters and different products have all these kind of, you can see, oh yeah. And here to make fronds and just like all these kind of like silly little ponds on plant life. So that was my first, um, call out. I left Penn. So this is making me really happy, you know. All right. My second one is called masters of Maine and this was a trend that actually I think it started probably in the home decor worlds. Um, and maybe with your rug experience, you've kind of been seeing it around, but I sort of pay more attention to gift and stationary because that's sort of my, um, you know, lane for what I designed. Speaker 3: 15:06 So I hadn't really noticed it necessarily, um, until it sort of started seeping into what I do. Um, but you know, I guess are ready in home decor is seeing these kind of, um, Ming vases and these, uh, uh, Chanel Zari vases with this, you know, like traditional Chinese look to them. The blue and white, um, has been, you know, those vases have been, you know, a decorative item that you can get for your home for a while. And now sort of it's becoming a surface pattern thing where you could see their feature featured is like, you know, uh, a tray that has those vases and, you know, Napkins and prints were those vases are being drawn out and illustrated and use for, you know, for artwork. And, um, I also liked the kind of the take on it where it's like sculptural pumpkin's up in the top right. Um, where yeah, they use the kind of imagery, but they put it on a pumpkin. And so that's just kind of, you know, something a little bit different. So I thought that was, I noticed a lot of that around, um, markets. Speaker 3: 16:15 Cool. Yeah, I've definitely seen this in home decor and um, there have been trans in rag with a kind of related to this more bent, a little bit more like Shibori or teak or things like that. The indigo thing is definitely been around and yeah. Shit. Yeah, you're right. I agree. And then the last one is sort of, I think it's, I think it's going to kind of emerge. I sort of hedge my bets when I talk about it and uh, in the uh, intro, but it's been sort of a graphic design trend for a little bit. Um, Paper Cup progress is what I'm calling this. And so it's sort of these paper cut paper sculpture, um, flowers which are really beautiful. And you can buy something like this on Etsy. The very center image is like an Etsy image that you can buy this kind of decor for your wedding or your party or whatever. Speaker 3: 17:10 Um, and the top, uh, center. And then the top left are both sort of the graphic design, um, versions of it where, you know, it's a, um, poster for one of the gifts companies and the center one was an invitation and that's where the, that kind of imagery was used. But then going around the show, I was seeing a lot of the home decor companies had these sculptural wall are that looks like Paper Cup florals, you know, they were made out of ceramic or resin or whatever, but they kind of looked this 3d paper cut look and then kind of looking it, I saw a couple other references, a wallpaper like that looks like a foe. Um, the bottom left is like a wallpaper that looks like cut paper. And, um, and I, I'm seeing it a lot per like decoration, um, decoration items. So I think that if there's a way, I'm not sure because I mean, I'm an illustrator, I'm not, you know, uh, paper sculptures. But you know, if there's a way to sort of give that cool flat flat turning 3d look to some of your flowers in illustration or whatever, it could be a really cool technique. Speaker 1: 18:26 Yeah, the dimension there is really interesting. I haven't seen that. Speaker 3: 18:30 That's cool. So those were my three big trends that I took away. Now I wouldn't necessarily say those were the biggest trends of market because like I said, some of the biggest trends, the farm house look and you know, um, I, I still saw a lot of lamas and that kind of thing. Um, those were, you know, bigger trends, but those are ones that we've seen before. So what my trend book kind of highlights is that, you know, hopefully something that's a little bit new and kind of sparks your creativity and you know, makes you ready to design some new stuff for your clients and for your portfolio. Speaker 1: 19:05 Did you see any spots? Yup. Yup. Definitely. Still off Speaker 3: 19:12 Kenny and not quite as many. I think that one might be fading, but, okay. Speaker 1: 19:16 Well, I don't know. Hopefully, if that's my opinion, it's, I'm going to Costa Rica on Saturday for my honeymoon. So I'm going to get in to see some real slots. Awesome poster. He gives the best. You've never been. So I'm excited. So fun. Okay, so next we're going to get into the trend of the month, um, which if you're a part of Elizabeth's newsletter, then you're going to get this every month from her. So we are in March and she recently released a new trend called sunshine day. So Elizabeth, can you explain this trend and kind of the impact that that has also on surface pattern designers? Speaker 3: 19:52 Yeah, definitely. So, well, we're all ready for spring, right? I mean this is, it's still, yeah, today here and rainy in Raleigh, North Carolina, but we're ready for spring and I had been seeing a lot of sunshine lately. I've, uh, in on gift products. So you can see from this board, there's a whole array of like rugs, reading cards, mugs, wall are all kinds of things here. And there are all kinds of sporting that, um, bright sunshine. Uh, look with the rays coming out of it. A lot of wordplay and puns. I'm not on here, but I on this board, but there was one that I saw the girls just want to have sun, which I love. And um, I think it also goes back to uh, we'll be talking, you can see there's some, you know, orange and pink and like it's got that living coral vibe and the top, but also mustard yellow is so huge. So it's kind of perfect. Um, that this, this ties right into that too. Speaker 4: 20:51 Cool. Speaker 1: 20:53 All right. So, um, also, and those of us newsletter, she mentioned that apartment therapy has just released a pattern of the year, which they've never done before. So I was really intrigued by this and had to look at APP. So I'm going to actually pull up there web Speaker 4: 21:11 Paige. Speaker 1: 21:13 Um, we can start on that for just a minute. Um, because I was really intrigued by this and good job for Elizabeth for finding it. Speaker 3: 21:23 Cool. It's, I'm happy because, you know, we've, of course we've been hearing color of the year for a long time, but as they explained in this article, they were just, you know, they're like, all right, enough with his color of the year, we're ready for the year. And I'm like, as a surface pattern, I'm totally for it. So, um, they kind of described, I mean definitely a link to the article, you know, hopefully, but check it out because they talk about their process of kind of narrowing it down and some of the other contenders, which were, uh, I think did, they said blush botanicals was a big one that they thought about. Um, and trying to remember what other things, but basically the pattern that they named was, uh, animals, but not the animal prints that we think of in a traditional way, but the full animals. So leopards, zebras and a Cheetah's kind of, you know, walking around. Speaker 3: 22:15 And I've definitely, I agree with this. I have seen this for the past year or two at featured, a couple of these, um, in my newsletter. In fact. Uh, so I, I definitely agree that this is, this is up and coming. I've seen it as wallpaper, it looks to me and saying, and um, when I was at America's mart, I didn't necessarily see that many cats kind of like walking around necessarily, but there were still a lot of like animal prints more than I was really expecting for the gift world. So I was kind of seeing, um, you know, a part of that, a version of that. Speaker 1: 22:52 Yeah. I'm really loving this and I've been seeing a lot of, um, like big cats as well. Like whether it's like tigers or leopards or 100%. Yeah, I've seen this a lot. So it's really interesting that apartment therapy called this out, especially because they have such a big focus on home decor. Um, I dunno, like coming from a rug that, and obviously we, you probably wouldn't put this on her drug. Um, I dunno, you know, Speaker 3: 23:17 crazy. It is crazy, but it's also not, you know, I don't know how scalable it would take a minute for like, you know, everything takes a while to kind of seep into like what people are going to put. Like a rug is a big investment. Right. Speaker 1: 23:31 Right. Could probably pull it off. But other than that, Speaker 3: 23:35 yeah. But it's not going to be, you know, definitely your trellises or you're kind of more safe option, but right. Some of those more trend forward places might start featuring this and you know, as it, if it has legs, we'll have to find out, you know, we won't know until next year or the year after that if it's still kind of around. But it, I could see it seeping into, you know, some rug fashion. Speaker 1: 23:57 Hmm. Okay. So yeah. Apartment therapy saying, but it's a big maximalist but we're seeing a shift away from the stark minimalism, which, I mean, that kind of resonates with me as well because I have a little bit of a hoarder too. I think every artist is with all their supplies and whatnot. Um, but yeah, I love maximalism. I love kind of that Boho global feeling. So, um, but yeah, they're saying that, you know, even in pattern and I'm like surface design that it is a bit maximalist and [inaudible]. MMM. I think also the idea of kind of layering patterns together, coordinating patterns together in the home is going to kind of be a big trend coming forward to definitely. MMM. Yeah. So here is this, um, other big cat on like the bathroom wallpaper. It was really cool. Um, and I'm sure we'll see it in like throw pillows, like that'll be kind of an easy way for people to incorporate this trend. Oh yeah, definitely. Um, but yeah, they kind of just talk about like, you know, why a pattern of the year, like you said, we've always heard about the color of the year. Um, and I will link this article in the description below so you guys can check it out on your own. But Speaker 3: 25:11 yeah. And it has some good, uh, when you read it as some like suggestions of kind of like I said, what they were there other contenders were. So those are other kinds of big things that are happening. Um, so yeah, little hint as to what's going on in the home decor world and also, you know, it translates to gift and stationary and, and kind of everywhere. Speaker 1: 25:33 Yeah, definitely makes sense. Then gift in stationary for sure. Um, but I love seeing it. I love seeing home decor, get more creative like this too. So it's fun. Definitely. All right. Um, okay, so, um, I'm going to touch a little bit on living coral because it is the pillar of the year and we just talked about the pattern of the year from environment therapy. So I couldn't leave out living coral and I do have a nother youtube video, the owl, um, I'll put the slide up for you guys. Um, so this is also in my youtube channel if you want to watch the full video, but I'm just going to give like a really quick summary over living coral. MMM. So living coral kind of embodies our need for a playful expression. I see it as a very happy color. Um, it's very bright and fun. Speaker 1: 26:24 Um, and representing the fusion of modern life. Pantone and coral is a nurturing color that appears in our natural surroundings. So when I first heard this, I thought, what natural, like, you know, when I think of nature, I think of Greens and kind of Browns, but maybe that's just because of where I live, but then when I started to think about it, yeah. Was kind of like, oh yeah, like I guess coral really does exist in the sea, but I'm not in the seat all the time, or it's in a sunset and things like that. So, um, Elizabeth, do you agree with this? Who would you think of coral as being like a natural color? Speaker 3: 26:57 Uh, yeah, I think I'm on the same page as you. Yeah. I wouldn't necessarily think that it's, to me, it's sort of like that pop of color, you know, w um, a little bit different than what I, what I normally see in my actual surroundings, but I guess depending on, yeah. You know, sort of in the Caribbean or wherever, they have a lot brighter colors, um, around them. So it sort of depends, I guess. Speaker 1: 27:22 Yeah. I mean, I definitely see it, like you said, Caribbean. I see it as a happy, like beachy color and it, I, it even reminds me of weddings, like I feel like bridesmaids dresses and things like that, but I just don't usually associate this well or with nature. But again, yeah, I mean it could be, um, a flower, you know, color for flowers, things like that. But I just generally, I think of like more neutral stones and, Speaker 3: 27:45 um, I think we just need to leave the east coast and moved to Hawaii and then we would be living the living coral lifestyle that we all dream for. Speaker 1: 27:57 Ah, I like that idea. Let's do it. But yeah, this is kind of how I traditionally see coral being used. Um, just like in, you know, kind of beachy weddings or as prom dresses, things like that. But, um, when I started to do, so I'm trying to research, I did see how living coral was starting to influence home decor, which was really cool to see. So again, this is kind of how I traditionally imagined coral being used in the home, if at all. Um, and again, I am on the east coast, so I kind of saw it as, uh, you know, in southern coastal homes, kind of a little bit of a preppy vibe. But, um, as I was doing my trend research, I was beginning to see it being used in these like fresh, modern ways that still looks like very sunny in tearful, but kind of gives a thorough back with a mid century modern looks or just kind of like the modern art on, which I thought was really fun and new. Speaker 1: 28:49 It felt very fresh. Ooh. And then also seeing it as kind of this smart and fluid evolution from millennial pink, which has been so big over the last, you know, two to three years. Um, it makes it a very commercial choice as well, which we don't always see pantone making a commercial choice, but you can see it even in, you know, this rug or a pillow or dishes. Um, it's just, it seems like it's a very kind of easy color to incorporate with colors that people and consumers have already been buying over the last couple of years. Definitely. Um, it also looks great and an outdoor patio space. If you're, you know, not this bold inside, then your patio is a perfect place to kind of bring some personality and some pop in it. It's, I'm going really well Speaker 4: 29:42 with soft textiles. I like drapery as well. That gives your indoors a little bit of a pop if you're, um, feeling a little bit bold and want that bright coral color inside, uh, in the navy and indigo blues can a pair really well with the coral as do teals. Okay. Speaker 1: 29:59 And also I was noticing some exterior uses, um, bringing some vibrancy and some personality to the outside of that home. And again, it kind of depends on, I think where you live, where this would be suitable. But, um, even if you just painted your door a fun pop color. Yeah, that can be great. Yeah, that can be really fun. Okay, so to watch the full video, I'm going to leave or I'm linking this other video here so you can just click on that to watch the full video of living coral. Okay. So next I wanted to let you guys know about my trend guide for 2019 so I did a ton of trend research and I'll let you know kind of what I was finding in terms of colors and then we'll touch on a few other things. So this is my ultimate 2019 trend guide that I'm giving away for free. So you can download the pdf and I will link that in the description below, so be sure to check that out. Okay. So some of the color trends I've been finding for 2019 include this blush and forest green combination. And like I mentioned earlier, millennial pink has kind of been out and about for quite a while now, but we're kind of seeing these muted tones coming into the blushes and seeing it kind of contrasts really nicely with [inaudible] this, sorry. Um, is really beautiful. So that's in one color combinations. Speaker 3: 31:30 Sorry, I love this combination. This is, this is kind of, yeah, like a new look. Um, that I think is really pretty. I think, um, what I was seeing a lot of last year as the stationary show was um, sort of millennial pink and like cobalt and this is just kind of pushing it a little bit farther towards the, you know, obviously towards the green and then the pink is a little bit deeper and it's kind of again, like a nice evolution but really a unexpected. Speaker 1: 31:59 Right. And um, what was it two years ago that pantone is called the green? Um, it wasn't this crane but it was a green. So I think it kind of got everyone thinking about Greens a little bit more seriously because we didn't see, especially in home decor, we didn't see a lot of Greens. But also the house plant trend I think has kind of influenced us to think about yeah. Speaker 3: 32:18 And tropical, all that tropical patterning that we've been seeing for years. Speaker 1: 32:23 Yeah. So shades of green I think are definitely going to be here for a little while. Speaker 1: 32:29 Okay. So the next slide is hello yellow. So I'm a, I'm a lover of yellow anyway, but I was really excited to kind of see some different of yellow coming out, whether in clothing they, we have sort of some muted like butters and mustard colors, but also even in these hair trends you're seeing this like really, really bright fluorescent yellow almost, which was really fun. Yeah. So iridescent Schein is the next color trends. So this isn't exactly one color, but you're kind of this mother of Pearl. Look, we're seeing everywhere whether it's in these hair trends or um, and clothing or indifferent like kind of home decor accents. Um, Speaker 3: 33:14 it's really a hundred percent. And in the gifts in the gift market and stationary market, hologram foil is so huge like that. A couple of years ago that was like the new thing and it's still holding on like the metallics of like gold and silver and copper are still big, but the Hologram foil and that you a destined look is, is big in those markets. Speaker 1: 33:34 Oh, so fun. I love it. I feel like I've even seen it and I'm a silverware. Speaker 3: 33:40 Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah. I had a trend like this a couple of like a last year called oil slick and it was sort of the like rainbow effect on and the same thing. I had some silverware featured as well. Those sort of like a deeper version of this. But I'm similar. Speaker 1: 33:54 Yeah. Cool. I'm really pretty. Okay. So the next color trend is lavender loves. So again, I think that millennial pink has been so big for the last two to three years and this is sort of another evolution of the millennial pink. It's kind of the softer lavender's, um, and kind of soft purples. And again, last year was ultra violet for the 2018 color of the year. Now, this isn't ultra violet, but I do think it is a spin off of that to get people thinking again about purples. What purples are people excited about? What do they want to see on their clothes or their shoes or in home decor or in you know, stationery and gift. Um, so I think that these colors are a little bit softer and they're kind of easier to use. So here is millennial pink that we have been talking about that a lot and I don't think it's going anywhere quite yet. Again, we are kind of seeing these evolutions and kind of be spinoffs of millennial pink, but I think these colors also kind of playback and work well with millennial pink and I don't really think it's going away yet. Like I think that pink is still big, big, big. Yup. Speaker 3: 35:06 Agreed. And like now a hot pink is coming into, into play. I think after like award season, right. There was so many dresses out there. I don't really follow fashion too much and you have a lot of like fashion inspiration and home decor inspiration. Whereas my trend boards tend to be really like gift and stationary and a little bit of home decor. So that's kind of like my, my perspective on it. But I, um, from award season, I know that all the like dresses where this like hot pink Fuchsia. So that's, you know, another thing kind of mix in there. Speaker 1: 35:38 Cool. Yeah, I love seeing all the different shades of pink and I love the bright colors too. This is a little bit more soft and muted, but um, yeah, I think especially in home decor, we were seeing sort of the blushes come through a lot. But I'm hot pink. I love, so that's exciting. Okay. So pastel perfection. So I feel like pastels have been out for a few years. It's not like the most new thing, but I do think that some of these color combinations in the pastels are a little bit new and different. Um, so I was really loving just the softness of this and love seeing it. Also on kind of more winter items like this winter coat for example, or more long sleeve thinking. The pastels. Traditionally we, I guess we think of pastels as being associated with Easter time or spring. But yeah, seeing these pastels being applied and like totally different ways as exciting. Speaker 1: 36:37 So peach perfect is the next color trend. And I think that this is sort of related back to live in coral. It is a lot softer and more pastel. Again, I'm going to say it again, but I think it is related kind of to another evolution of the millennial pink seeing kind of what plays with that or how it could shift and change a little bit. But I think these soft peachy colors are just on point and I really love it. They play nicely with a lot of other colors. Okay. So the pink, green and gold is just another sort of color combination I was seeing over and over again. Yeah. Speaker 1: 37:18 And the, I called this royal blue sign because I felt like the cobalt blues, the Royal Blues, we're mixing really nicely and having that amazing contrast with these really bright sunshine colors, these yellow colors. And I feel like, yeah, we're seeing it in all different ways, whether it's in fashion or in an artwork or um, in these bottles or stoneware, whatever's at the bottom left. I can't remember exactly what that, what product that was. But yeah, I feel like we were just seeing it all over. It looks gorgeous. Yeah. Okay. And soft sage. I feel like what we were just talking about earlier with all the Greens, the house plant trends, um, the tropical trend and greenery being the 2017 pantone color of the year, it's just really gotten people thinking about Greens in a different way and really paying attention to Greens more. Um, so I was noticing this kind of soft sage trend come up all over the place, whether it's in house, how paints or sofas and home decor or fashion. Speaker 1: 38:25 Um, and just again with these, um, succulents, they kind of have that exact same color. So I agree. I have heard that stages is trending as well. And I feel like I haven't seen it as much in my work, but it's probably just a matter of time cause it's probably starting in fashion and home decor and that it's going to kind of filter in. Gotcha. Yeah, I think it feels really fresh. So I love it. But yeah. Okay. And so the next one is called spice turmeric earth. And I think this is just sort of a new, a new neutral if you will. I think that gray is starting to finally kind of make its way out and we're turning towards these really hot neutrals. Um, I don't really see the chocolates coming back in yet, but I think that's kind of where we're headed. But I think first it's going to be more of these kind of like spicy colors, um, that you would see in your kitchen. Um, but it is coming into fashion. I think first most of these images are fashion images. We kind of tried to play with this in home decor. I don't think they were quite ready yet because everyone's at this point bought a gray sofa. So it's not going to matter. Speaker 1: 39:39 But I do think this is where it's heading and you know, it's a great color for like leather furniture, things like that. So I think we are going to see it coming up more and more over the next few years. Okay. So you got all of my color trends, but I wanted to go over some of the other trends that I've included in my free trend guide. So I've included illustration trends that are not going to share with you. You'll have to go download the pdf in the description below to get these trends. But I am also included a section on print and pattern trends and surface design trends and textile design trends. So definitely go check that out. Yeah, a lot of great stuff in there. Thank you. So this is my website. If you want to get my free trend guide 'em you can either go into the description or you can go to my website@lauraandleslie.com slash friend. Speaker 1: 40:35 Um, and you can download it there. Definitely share a comment or share any ideas. If you see some trends coming up in 2019 that we didn't mention, let us know in the comments below. We would really love to hear from you. If you have any questions, just let us know. Yeah, definitely. All right, so your assignment for today is to go ahead and research trends in your niche, so whether you are more in the gift and stationary like Elizabeth or if you're in home decor or fashion, whatever it is, start researching some of the trends in your niche and create a one page trend board for a new trend that you discovered because there's no way that we can possibly see every single trend that's coming out this year. These are just ones that we've noticed and we've shared with you. So create a one page trend board and upload it to the design tribe Facebook group and share it with other designers. Speaker 1: 41:32 That way we can all mutually benefit from each other's research and save time. So to join the Facebook group, go to the design tribe, Lauren Lesley, you can see the link below on this slide and you'll have to answer a few questions and just make sure that you are actually a designer, um, and is a private group, but we would love to have you, so please go over there and join. Um, and if you liked this video, uh, to get notified, please hit the little bell, subscribe to my channel, give this video a thumbs up. We'd really appreciate it. And in the future if you want to listen in the car as you're driving or whatnot, um, we do have a podcast version and I'm putting all the audio on the podcast of these conversations. So go ahead and subscribe to the design tribe podcast. You can listen on iTunes and Spotify. Um, I'm at Lauren Lesley studio on Instagram and Elizabeth, do you want to give your Instagram? Speaker 3: 42:33 Yeah, definitely. I'm at east silver design and um, yeah, you can subscribe to my newsletter@elizabethsilver.com uh, slash fresh. 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Speaker 1:                    00:04                I'm Lauren, of Lauren Lesley studio and today I want to introduce you to special guest, uh, Amanda Brady and she's here to talk to us about her very first experience showing her pattern and designs at Surtex. So we're about to dive into 11 questions and Amanda is going to honestly answer all of these questions so that moving forward, if you're thinking about showing at Surtex, you'll have a great idea and know what to expect in 2019. So before we jump into the questions, make sure to like this video, leave a comment or question below and we'll try to answer those to the best of our ability and definitely subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. All right. So Amanda is a founder of Green Hound press and I'm at her very first Surtex show she was on print and patterns blog, which is incredible. Not sure how she did it, but she's very talented and amazing. So here's just a little snapshot at her Surtex, um, with her artwork. And um, I've been uh, rubbed designer for the last seven years and I'm excited to say that some of my rugs have ended up in anthropology, so that's like any designer's dream. Um, so that's just a little bit of my background and we will jump into the questions. So Amanda, can you tell us how did you become a designer in the first place? Speaker 3:                    01:27                Um, well in high school I was on our journalism staff and discovered photoshop and I loved it and I went into college, going to be a journalism major because I didn't really know graphic design was a thing, so I was like, I'll just be a journalism major and then I can lay out the like, newspapers even how little I knew about anything. And then my cousin is a graphic designer in Maine and she flew out for a wedding and she was like, oh my gosh, I'm a graphic designer because our families aren't really super close because we live so far apart and I'm. So yeah, she showed me all of her stuff, gave me all these magazines and I like changed my major the next day. So that's how I became, that's the very beginning of how I became a designer. Okay, cool. Speaker 2:                    02:19                Okay. So what inspired you to go to Surtex in 2018? Like how did you get from deciding to be a designer to ending up at Surtex? Speaker 3:                    02:28                So back to my cousin Aaron in college, I will flow out to her house and she showed me all of these patterns she had made and it never had dawned on me like, oh, people actually make these. I mean it's just one of those things you don't think about them because they're still part of our lives and I'm so I became obsessed with making patterns in college, but I kinda just did it as a hobby, you know, I'd have files in my computer and I did that for like four or five years and my husband was always like, what are you gonna do with those? I was like, uh, put them on instagram. Some, of course I'd heard Surtex. So I, in February of 2018, I emailed Surtex to ask about the 2019 show and the woman who runs the show called me and she was like, why would you wait til 2019? Why don't you do it for 2018? I was like, I don't know because I don't know. And she's like, you're totally ready. And so I just like made kind of like an impulse decision. It was like, alright, I guess I'll sign up for the 2018 show. Speaker 2:                    03:24                Oh that's so cool. I can't believe that happened. I didn't realize it was that spontaneous and Speaker 3:                    03:29                it was. I mean I've been kind of checking in on this show, like for a year or two, but like, oh yeah, I'll give myself a year and a half to get ready for the show and myself three months basically. Speaker 2:                    03:43                I know I would feel like I needed at least a year to get ready. So when you signed up kind of last minute, did you feel ready once you were there or were you like, that's okay. Like I could have had more, but I'm, I have enough. Speaker 3:                    03:55                No, actually I am glad that I didn't have a year because I think I would have waited till close to the last minute anyways, and since I had such a short amount of time, there was no time to really stop and second guess anything. It was just like I had to go on pure instinct. Like this looks good to me. This is what I'm doing. I like this, this is what I'm doing because I didn't, I didn't have the time to debate it. Really? Yeah. So, um, especially like with the booth design and stuff, because you have to have so many weeks to get that stuff printed and shipped to you. And then I wanted a little wiggle room in case something was wrong to get a reprint. So it was just boom, boom, boom. Speaker 2:                    04:33                I kind of love that Speaker 3:                    04:36                actually for me it worked really well. Good. Okay. Well, what can you tell us about art licensing? I'm still not that much. I didn't know what to expect when it came to the actual, like selling a patterns at the show. And I brought like order form sheets and I couldn't find anywhere in anyone's blog or anyone who had talked about Surtex about the actual selling of the patterns. Oh, okay. So I came prepared if people wanted to buy them. And then I just, what I've been doing now is I got, oh great number of contacts from tags. So I started like an e-blast basically that I send out when I make a new collection and I will send it to these people first so they get, before I even put it on instagram or anything, I'll show it to them to give them an opportunity. So that's just what I've been doing since the show. But I haven't actually done any licensing deals yet. So that's why I don't, I'm, I'm still not sure how that works. And I'm really curious to see in the future how that goes. Speaker 2:                    05:47                Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that um, sort of the path that you want to go down with showing your things at Surtex or do are you wanting to do more like client work? Work? Speaker 3:                    05:57                I'm really anything I, I would definitely love to get some licensing deals, but since I'm still so new I'm not, I'm not sure if like I'm going about getting the licensing deal the right way or yeah, I'm still, that's very murky waters for me still. I understand that side of stuff. I'm like, can someone else just take care of this for me? I know I think so many artists are like that and I think that art school doesn't really prepare you well for the business side of things or there's not like. I Dunno, I mean it seems like some artists out there have a agents and work with agencies and that seems like one way to do it, but you don't really even know how to make those connections in the first place. And so my next question was going to be, are you working with an agent? Speaker 3:                    06:49                I'm like, are they trying to get you licensing deals or are you still looking for an agent or are you going down that route at all? So the first time I ever even thought about an agent was at Surtex and an agent came up to me and was like, I would love to work with you, here's my card, um, and she's like, reach out to me at such date and it was a couple months after and I don't even think I've reached out to her yet because I'm still deciding if that's what I don't want to waste her time. So I didn't want to reach out to her until I researched more like, okay, this is what I want to do. I'm an agent or um, yeah, I'm still trying to figure out just where I want to take this and where I want to go with this. And I think I've been kind of waiting to see something that naturally happens. But since I'm probably gonna have to like really, you know, start working a little harder at figuring out which direction I want to go with this, you know? And so I would not be opposed to using an agent. I just don't know if that's like, I just don't, I can't commit to that yet. I got Ya. So always. Speaker 3:                    07:57                Okay, well my next question is how did you prepare for Surtex, and I think you kind of answered this with them, you know, just talking about how last minute everything was, but are there, um, is there any advice you would maybe give to someone who is thinking about going to Surtex in 2019 and what are some, like kind of practical steps they could take to get prepared for this show? Um, well I did a lot of research and I, I tried to track down any blog, anything on pinterest I could find of people's booths. Um, you know, what they did for Promo items, just anything I could get my hands on. So, and then I spent probably a couple weeks, you know, when you get in that zone where you, you're trying to, hard things aren't flowing naturally. So I was definitely there. So once I got through that and I was like, you know, just stop thinking so much in doing what I naturally know to do. Speaker 3:                    08:53                It went a lot smoother. But I um, I definitely looked at a lot of booths and was like, okay, what's, and I was really kind of harsh thankfully, like it was just in my head, but like what's working with this booth, what's working with this booth, how can I incorporate that into my booth, you know, and then I noticed like how did people actually showcase their patterns and a lot of people had that big portfolio books are like printed large pieces of paper and I, I don't know why I just did not want to do that. So I made an actual catalog of like a magazine spread of all my patterns and I took that and I made like 100 copies and gave those out so people could take my portfolio with them. I'm not smart. It worked really well. I was in um, yeah, the magazines weren't super expensive to print because that was one of the reasons like I didn't want to like print this super expensive portfolio or even like the sheets of paper. Um, because like they'll print like these big sheets of paper. Yeah. Speaker 2:                    09:55                Where did you use to print? Um, your magazine? I've heard of like blurb and I don't know, Speaker 3:                    10:01                I used a company called overnight prints. Okay. Yeah, it's decent quality, especially for what I wanted it for and it was pretty inexpensive. Um, and so yeah, that worked out really nicely for me. So yeah, was like, well was traveling. What's the question again? Speaker 2:                    10:23                I know I kind of got you off topic, but yeah, just getting or any advice to get people. I'm kind of like a checklist of things that they might need to feel prepared for their tax going into 2019, like obviously your, you did a lot of research on your booth and kind of what that is because like you could have all your designs, but if you don't have a way to showcase them then you're not really going to be able to show at Surtex. So you know, you can go in with an ipad and be like, here's my staff. Um, Speaker 3:                    10:52                I definitely think you have to think about the whole picture. Um, when I was at Surtex one woman, I forget who it was, she was a buyer and she goes, I love your booths. Set up and she goes, I love that you even matched your booth. Like, my outfit matched my booth. I didn't plan that. That's just colors. I'm kind of gravitated towards the details. Do matter so much. Like I would have never even thought to match my clothes to my booth, but it made sense if like, you know, you have a muted color Palette that's kind of your aesthetic, but you're wearing like neon bright clothes, like you're kind of like presenting yourself as a brand almost. Yeah. I would definitely say think about the entire package from setup to what you're wearing to what your promo items are. And then I also had printed fabric samples and I had pillows made. Oh cool. Brought them down. But um, yeah, my cousin made me these cute little pillows with my patterns on them and I had them up on the behind me so people had things they can touch and hold as well. And I think adding just a little element of like, oh this is where so people could see were these patterns could live I think really helped. And I got a really positive response. Awesome. Yeah, people want to go grab them. I can like pause our recording. Yeah, I'll go grab them real fast. Hold on. Speaker 3:                    12:19                I grabbed all my stuff. Okay, cool. They're up in my kid's room so I had to go track them down. So yeah. So I made this pillow while at my cousin made this fabric I just had made at spoonflower and then I had this little pillow and so these were like setting up on a little shelf so it kind of looked like a mini store. Love it. And then I printed off some fabric samples that I had hanging off my booth so people could come up and touch it and look at it and look through the fabrics. Okay. And that was a very um, especially for it because, you know, a lot of my stuff is very childlike and sew fabric would be like a very ideal. So, um, that was like created some huge talking points. So did all of the fabric you get printed on spoonflower and is it all digitally printed? Speaker 3:                    13:21                It is all digitally printed. I um, I actually just like made squares and then made this huge file of like each square and then uploaded that one file and then to save on costs and then just cut like each fabric. Oh, that's so smart because like, it's so expensive to go. So it's like you don't want to like, you know, break the bank on all this stuff, but at the same time you want to like, you know, the details do matter. So of course my little catalog that I made for the show did some mock ups, like I found some nice photoshop ups online and like, you know, because I really wanted to show people like here's what you could do with this pattern. So. Right. Um, but yeah, this was like a big hit because people could just take it and then, you know, like a business card gets lost. But this is like, yeah, you're not going to lose that. Yeah. So, and I'm sure buyers are meeting with so many different artists at Surtex that they probably have a hard time remembering who they met with or you know, it's like even with a business card, they're like a kinder, remember, but maybe not. But with that, they, there's no way they're going to forget like your style and. Oh no, because I put everything in here that I showed. So yeah, they were. Speaker 3:                    14:44                So yeah, it was um, this was like, like I said, it was supposed to be like a cheaper decision is why I initially it and then it just ended up, I had a lot of success with it. So that's awesome. Speaker 2:                    14:58                Yeah. There's only kids pillows. Okay. Did you focus on a particular medium when you were creating your patterns for Surtex? Like did you focus on more like digital drawing or like watercolor or. Um, and tell us a little bit about your, more about your style and kind of what you focused on and if you kind of noticed what other artists were doing as well. Speaker 3:                    15:22                Um, so I am very vector art. Like that's my thing. That's what I love to do. Um, so everything I do is vector. I'm like 98 percent of my work I do as an illustrator. So that's what I know. That's what I love and that's what I stuck with at the show. I noticed every style under the sun at the show you see a lot. I saw a lot of watercolors, a lot of, a lot of digital art. Just. Yeah, there was. I'm trying to think. Speaker 2:                    15:55                Any new trends that you noticed? Like in terms of like medium, I'm like, did you see more hand drawn? Things are more like graphic or modern style. It's got clean styles. Speaker 3:                    16:08                I would say watercolor was probably the style that I saw the most that it actually stuck out in my mind. Like, oh, there's another watercolor. Oh there's another water color. But they were still so different. So I'm, I'm guessing that that was kind of trending at this show a lot, a lot, a lot of Christmas art. Speaker 2:                    16:28                Oh, okay. I bet that's a huge. Um, I know, I just feel like, yeah, the seasonal businesses is really huge. I interviewed with um, international greetings at one point and I ended up deciding not to take the job, but they were saying that they would need me to come in like every week for their Christmas season and for Valentine's Day it wasn't like that all year, but it was an app like that enough where I was like, I don't know about this. Speaker 3:                    16:58                Oh, a whole booth. That was just Christmas. Like that's all he did, that's all these women did was Christmas stuff. And I mean I knew it makes sense that the holiday market is the biggest. But one of the big agents that I talked to, um, she told me that it's like 80 percent of surface design is florals or Christmas or like. Yeah, it was like, yeah. So that was, that was eyeopening. Speaker 2:                    17:26                Yeah. So then it's like, what do you do? Because you know, if that's 80 percent of the business you want to be a part of it. But then the competition, I'm sure it was also so high that you're like, you, I should focus on something more niche. Speaker 3:                    17:38                It is. Well, I think because like buyers know that that's the stuff that sells, like florals are always going to be in florals are always going to sell, so it's like a safer by to buy a floral as opposed to like a Llama were only like a few people like llamas or you know. Speaker 2:                    17:53                Right. It's funny though, I will say that in rags and this is so nice and specific, but I'm a rug designer for those of you who may not know. And I mean they have been like anti floral for like a long time. I think just because the lattice designs and even like Persian designs more like oriental, unlike traditional designs have kind of come back into style. Um, but I think we're just now starting to like get back into florals. Even an outdoor, like I design outdoor rugs and I'm like, come on, like I think we can do some florals now. Now that you said that, it's like, oh yeah, I don't ever see floral rugs anyway. Yeah, I think it'll come back, but it's like fitness. All right, well my next question is what kind of collection did you present? Um, and I know you just kind of showed us your products, but if you want to tell us kind of what was your thought process in terms of making a collection, like were you trying to focus on kids products or some other kind of audience or niche Speaker 3:                    18:58                market? So like I talked about earlier, I really struggled the first couple of weeks and I was just overthinking it over trying and just everything I came up with was like, so forced that you could just to me it read is like forest. So I went to a couple parents, I created a year or so before that I loved and never did anything with and it was a farm theme. And so kids, um, the kids stuff is what I really love and, but I, I try not to be too babyish. Like I like kind of like the kids stuff that like you could turn it into an adult thing and it still totally work. Um, like go for anyways. So yeah, so I kind of went with this whole, like farm theme farm. Like there's like a little farm truck and a cow in some corn. This was like a coordinate to go with it. And I had this little, I had this little pig everywhere, a little pin of him. And so yeah. So, you know, when I made these patterns it was just for fun. I didn't have any shows lined up. I was like, maybe I'll put this on instagram, but it's, I, it was just for fun. And so to me they appeared more natural of my style. Speaker 2:                    20:14                Yeah, yeah. That's interesting that you were able to kind of go back into the archives and pull out, you know, things that were just you like that you did for fun and they ended up standing out a lot and getting onto the print and pattern blog, which is incredible. Speaker 3:                    20:26                I mean, I'm a doubt. I didn't even know I made it up there. I just was like, because, you know, I check that blog all the time and I submitted my stuff and I was like, man, you know, good luck. Go out into the universe and about it again until I'm scrolling by and I see this armadillo pattern that I did and I was like, yeah, Speaker 2:                    20:44                oh Speaker 3:                    20:48                yeah. That was like that. I mean, that alone makes it worth going to certain texts. Like the fact that I made it on that blog. Speaker 2:                    20:56                It was crazy. It's amazing. Yeah. Congrats. Thanks. So how much did Surtex cost in total and do you feel like it was worth the cost? Speaker 3:                    21:08                Oh, this is where it gets tricky. So by the time was between flights, hotel food and the booth and all this stuff. I bet I spent between 4,505 grand. Yeah. So it was a very huge investment so far. I would say it has not paid off financially, but that being said, I also am so new to this world that I feel like I needed to take a very crucial step like this to keep going forward and to figure out, okay, this is what I need to do to make money at this. And so since the show, I've just been doing things to keep working towards getting a licensing deal and making money at this. But um, yeah, it was, it was very expensive. Speaker 2:                    21:59                Right. So yeah. My next question was going to be, um, did you walk away with any licensing deals, which we already sort of touched on? Um, yeah. So you're, you're not doing that yet, but it sounds, I don't know, I follow you on instagram and it looks like you are working on some, you know, client work, some illustration. Speaker 3:                    22:19                I did. I have one client that came out of nowhere and I think the fact we talked about me going to Surtex and I think that gave me a level of um, the word, um, my credibility. Credibility. Thank you. And so I do think it helped me get some other gigs but not in surface assigned, but yeah, so I have been getting a lot of um, I have been in client work, um, illustration client work, which is really exciting. So um, yeah, no it was, I wouldn't say it was a waste of money, but it definitely, it was a, it was a nice chunk of it Speaker 2:                    23:02                change. Yeah, it's enough to make you maybe second guess. Are you planning on going back to Texas in 2019? Speaker 3:                    23:13                No, and I was never planning on going back unless I like knocked it out of the park. I wanted to make my money and like double it before I would commit to going back because since I was a first time showcase or you get like an intro discount and you get a really small booth which is awesome because I mean the bigger the booth more expensive it is not only in terms of like it jumps I think from 3000, I think it was 3000 for the intro booth and it jumps up to $5,000 for one of those big boost. So not only did you have the $5,000 but then the banners and stuff to fill this space is more. And so I was never, like, it wouldn't have, I would have to make so much money to commit to going to Surtex 2019 because I wouldn't be a first time show buyer or show her. Speaker 2:                    24:10                Would you have gotten the same amount of space or would you have like you're required to be bumped up to that next? The bigger booth. Speaker 3:                    24:17                I mean they might've changed it because I think they changed a lot for the 2017 show. But yeah, you just had to go up to the next size. Like you couldn't get that intro space again and get like someone like me that's just because those spaces are really for like the agents who have like multiple artists. So it's really easy to fill. I mean because the blues are like the size of a room. They're huge. So it's like little old me in this like, you know, I just, I couldn't justify that yet. So yeah, I never had plans to go back as bad as that is. I like, yeah, I made like a ton of money but I didn't. So I was like, well, Speaker 2:                    25:00                yeah, I mean, I don't know, it makes me wonder, you know, like how many times would you have to go before I did start to pay for itself? Um, because I read some blog posts by some other artists who felt like they had gotten enough gigs out of it to justify the cost. But I mean at the same time, I don't know, like I have to wonder, I don't know, like you're still like, yeah, you're maybe justifying the cost, but do you really want to give that portion of your earnings to a show like that? And would you maybe still be okay without the show? Like do you really need this show? Are People gonna forget about you. Do you have those relationships with buyers where they're still gonna come back to you year after year, um, for work or maybe is it that you go every other year or something like that? Um, I don't know. Like what was the general feeling that you got from other designers at the show? Speaker 3:                    25:56                So that was really interesting because the general vibe, everyone was like super pumped. I'm hearing from people who had gone to the show multiple times that like there was no one there, like it was really slow show your buyers know, buyers. I think the show itself have how many designers were. There was so much smaller than in past years. And um, I heard from a couple people that were also went to the blueprint show. Have you heard of that? Speaker 2:                    26:27                I heard about it from you. You had mentioned it to me before. Speaker 3:                    26:30                Blueprint was taken at the time I last year. Blueprint took place. Like it kind of overlapped with Surtex like a day or two. So it was like Blueprint's show and then right into Surtex show and there was a ton of people that showed at blueprint and Surtex and they were talking about how much better blueprint was in terms of how many buyers were there. The atmosphere was different. So I signed up for blueprint show coming in May, you did a third of the cost and everyone was talking about how much better of a show it was. So it was like, well I hate to totally give up on shows yet, but I, you know, so I wanted to try this show before I, you know, make a final decision on Speaker 2:                    27:16                these Speaker 2:                    27:18                surface design shows. Yeah, that's really interesting to hear that. It's a third of the cost. So do you feel like Surtex is, um, I dunno, I mean, do you feel like they need to come down in price? Do you feel like the price is justified? Do you feel like they just need different tiers or different options because it's like can't get the artists to the shows and the buyers aren't going to come because what's the point? The buyers aren't going to spend a week or three days or whatever it is if they don't have a good selection of artists to choose from. Like their job is to buy the best artwork possible. Right. So it's just kind of a ripple effect. Speaker 3:                    27:55                Well, once I got there, you know, and hearing all the thoughts and people talking about shows in general, it's like people go to instagram to find new artists now and they go to flower to find new artists. So it's like these companies aren't paying to send buyers out when they can just have their buyers scroll through their phones and so that totally makes sense. I still think there is something about meeting the artists and seeing their work. Um, so I think there's still a place for them, but I wouldn't be surprised if in like 10 years there isn't any of these trade shows. Speaker 2:                    28:34                That's interesting. I've heard people say that before, um, just even in the rug industry, which you would think with their rug, you would need to touch it and feel it more so than maybe with a pattern because the pattern can go on anything. But that's interesting. Yeah, it is nice to have kind of a meeting place for, um, yeah, like you said, like for the buyer to actually meet the artist and cultivate that relationship. But at the same time, at the end of the day, like there's a little bit of personal in it, but for the most part it's business and they're just going to want the best artwork. Speaker 3:                    29:06                Exactly. And what I learned from, you know, like the big fabric companies like Birch and um, cloud nine they want. This is just like some things I've heard from the show, so this isn't like factor or anything but that I heard that they want to see that you have a following before they sign you to a big fabric deal. Oh, that's interesting. That totally blew my on instagram specifically. Grant, they want you, they wanted, you know, to. I don't, I don't even know what the magic number is. But before, yeah, they want to make sure you have so many followers, you know, because then they know it's safer, you know, because they're like, oh, they have fans already. So these fans. Yeah. So that really was eye opening and it was like, man, I really need to focus on instagram. Speaker 2:                    29:56                No, I'm fine. I mean, this is kind of a tangent, but I find instagram to be so difficult to, um, I guess to gain a true audience on because there's so many people using bots and like on follows and follows and like even when people comment, it's like, you know, I love instagram for the visual aspect of it. Like I'm being an artist. Like I mean I really do love it and I love stories. I love using it, but I don't know, like I went in terms of growth they say to like focus on one platform and I really liked the SEO qualities that pinterest and youtube have because people can search and then the content that you made is evergreen, you know, like as long as you have the key words in there, like it can be found over and over again. Whereas instagram, it's only really relevant for like a day. Um, and he just is so much work. How do people do it? I don't know. Speaker 3:                    30:50                I talked to one woman, her name was Erin and she was, I'm writing an article so we had like a nice little talk about this and she was talking about how like not only do they want like instagram followers, but they want to see how many likes. So because like anyone can, like I could go by in theory a million instagram followers, I'm posting something and there's two likes that's like, oh, there's something off here. And it was just like so many things that I just never thought about like that. And then leaving the show I was like, Oh wow, you know, so. But it gave me a good thing to focus on like you said, because it is hard to like which platform do you focus on? But Speaker 2:                    31:30                yeah, I mean I definitely think instagram is a good one to focus on because it seems like that's what buyers are going to be looking at more so than like they're not going to go to your pinterest and say like, oh, how many people are following her on pinterest? Like maybe they should. Because once you actually look like there are some people that have hundreds of thousands of followers on Pinterest, but it's just not as popular, especially on your phone. Um, as instagram is, Speaker 3:                    31:53                it's so funny because I feel like I use pinterest as a tool for myself and like forget that it is another, like it is another media platform like that. Speaker 2:                    32:02                Yeah. Well, if you're trying to drive traffic to your website, it's really good too. That's what I've kind of found with it is that it's slow, but it's very steady growth. So I feel like when I first got serious about my pinterest strategy, I had about like 300 followers. It was just like my friends from when I first signed up for it, like back in South Carolina when I still lived there and we first met. Um, I mean, yeah, that cod, that was like 10 years ago. I don't know, I'm so old, but um, yeah. But then I started to implement like a more serious pinterest strategy and now I have over a thousand followers on pinterest and it's driving traffic to my website which should lead to sales. You know, so Speaker 3:                    32:49                okay. Speaker 2:                    32:50                You know, but if, if a bigger buyer seeing your stuff on instagram and you get a licensing deal that way, I mean you can go about it obviously multiple ways Speaker 3:                    32:58                but can't hurt to have. Especially because pinches, I feel like it's like you can link instagram to pinterest so you can close on instagram posts on pinterest. Same time completely given up on facebook though. I will say, yeah, well the business, I was like no things. Speaker 2:                    33:15                No, they suck with their algorithm. I think that's what scares me too is that they own instagram. So that's a little scary for me. I'm like, what if they do the same shit? They did the facebook and businesses spent so much time trying to get people to like their business page and I mean facebook owns it and they just took away the. Took it away with the algorithm. It didn't even show up in people's feed. Even if they liked your business page. Speaker 3:                    33:40                I found that and I get annoyed just with like your friends and like you know, so because they did that a couple months ago with instagram where they changed it where it wasn't in chronological anymore. It was like based on what they thought you wanted to see. Yeah. So frustrating. Like I'll make that decision as a woman. Like I will make choices of who I want to follow. Speaker 2:                    34:06                No, it's, it's messed up. I don't really don't like it. You should at least be able to toggle, you know, whether you want to see things and like recent in like chronological order or if you would rather see it based on their algorithm. Like you should be able to choose I think. Speaker 3:                    34:19                Yes. Speaker 2:                    34:23                Yeah. So, sorry for the tangent, but my next question was going to be a, do you think February will be good or bad for Surtex because they, I think they realized that they need to change something. So they've changed it to February, but do you see it as like a good or a bad thing? Speaker 3:                    34:39                I can't Surtex, or not Surtex, is national stationery show moving to February as well. I don't know about that. See, that's the part I should have researched that because certain texts is in this huge, huge convention center and there's Surtex on one side. National Stationery show was right on the other side, so it's all in one big room. And honestly most of the traffic I got was from national stationery show. They didn't realize I had so many people were like, what do you guys do? Like, what are you selling? And they were like, oh, we're part of the like, what's that, you know. So um, I'm wondering if like they're separating them if that is going to hurt them, but it definitely tells me that something is not going right to make because it's been in may forever. Right. So, um, yeah. So I just googled that. And the national stationery show is February third to sixth in 2019. So maybe that does have something. So is that, is that when Surtex is the beginning of February Speaker 2:                    35:45                and I know it's in February. Let me see when the exact dates are because that is an interesting point. Did were any of the artists talking about. Yeah, the dates are the fifth or sorry, the third through the fifth. So they are overlapping. So that's good at their key to they're keeping them together. Yeah, I definitely thought that was interesting. Speaker 3:                    36:12                Um, but I kinda just ignored it because I already knew I wasn't going back. So it was like, well good luck. Hopefully it works out better, but I know there was a, a general vibe in the air of like the artists were not particularly happy Speaker 2:                    36:27                about February, have less than a year to like make their new collections. Right. Speaker 3:                    36:33                Just that like people were like, where is everyone? Like what is this like, you know? And so it was, it was interesting for sure. There's a lot of gossip going on. It was kind of like high school but with pattern designers. Oh Gosh. But that's it [inaudible] like I hate to say I had a bad experience because I didn't cause it was so cool to get to like hang out with likeminded people, you know, how many, how many times have you like hung out with like another pattern designer? Like not very often, you know, so Speaker 2:                    37:09                I will say like my best experience was probably when I studied abroad because I was only with other artists and it was so fun. I loved it and I like grew so much just from being in that environment. Speaker 3:                    37:20                You really do. So that's why like, you know, because people have, I've had people message me on instagram asking about would you do sir again? And um, you know, I never know what to tell them because it's like, oh, financially did not pay off, but personally and like Speaker 2:                    37:36                you just point them to this video Speaker 3:                    37:40                because like typing on the ground, like I hate that. So yeah. Um, Speaker 2:                    37:47                okay. Well, okay. So the next question which we kind of touched on is if you wanted to approach a career in art licensing without attending shows, how would you do it? Speaker 3:                    37:57                Social media. And I heard from several people there, spoonflower, which surprise me because there's a lot of, um, I guess I just never thought of using. I'm sorry, my dogs whining at me. I never thought of using spoonflower as a platform. I just always used it for my personal projects or stuff like this. Um, and so that was really eye opening to me, but it totally makes sense that if you're going to do a fabric collection, you'd go to a place like spoonflower to see. Speaker 2:                    38:31                Right. And I've heard designers also complained that they don't make a lot of sales from spoonflower, but if people are using it in a different way and it's more to get found, that's an interesting point as well. But I correct me if I'm wrong, but when you upload a pattern or designed to spoonflower, they technically own it. Like you can't then go put it on creative market or another platform. Is that right? Speaker 3:                    38:54                I don't think so. I think you still own the rights to it, but if you put it up for sale, like anyone could print that fabric and do whatever they wanted with it or a paper or, you know, make, make their own stuff from it. So that kind of, you know, it was a little unsettling way because you have no control. Right. Right. But yeah, so there's definitely some flaws with it. But like, I have so many patterns that are just sitting in technique, like I also heard at the show that buyers want patterns that nobody's seen. They want to be the first, they want exclusive rights. So basically it's like you put it on Instagram, it's like you, what can you do with that pattern now? Which is so discouraging because it's also how you get found. So it's like this weird double digits. Speaker 2:                    39:44                So much work. I like what you did, but now do something just for us and you're like, okay, then I don't know if you're going to like it. Speaker 3:                    39:52                Exactly. So um, you know, so I've been struggling with that as well because like, yeah, you're trying to build an instagram following but you can't post stuff on instagram because they want exclusive rights. And so a lot of my old patterns and when I say old, I mean they've been out, people have seen them, so they're not exclusive. I had been putting on spoonflower because they're just sitting in my computer. So you know, no one I know for a fact, no one seeing them in my computer. So if I can at least try to get them out, maybe it will lead to more licensing deals. Was my thought process. Speaker 2:                    40:25                Yeah. That's a really interesting point. So is it kind of stuff that maybe you've used as like a piece of a design back in the day and you're like, well I could actually use this and put it out there and like people can see it or maybe it'll sell on spoonflower. Um, is that kind of your thought process? Speaker 3:                    40:42                Basically? Like, so these, I waited, I waited until actually, like last week I started putting on still fire. I wanted to see if I got anything from the show for these particular patterns that I showcased. If I didn't hear anything I was going to put him on spoonflower so I hadn't heard anything. Um, so now I'm starting to upload them and sell them on spoonflower just to know, try to build that following. Yeah. Have you tried, um, pattern bank, just out of curiosity? I haven't. I think you told me about that awhile ago and then I think I looked at it and then it was one of those things that I never followed up on. Speaker 2:                    41:20                Yeah, I mean it, it's hard to, to know which platform to beyond like their spoonflower, which is kind of more for fabric and then there's pattern bank and they both want exclusivity to your work. Not that they own it, but just that you're not selling it on another platform. But it's kind of hard to be like, well, I mean if you're not attracting their customers, I should be able to sell it somewhere else. No, Speaker 3:                    41:45                I actually wanted to sell my patterns on create like places like creative market though for some reason, like, especially like the vector files would make me so nervous. Like if I think if I designed something with the intent that like, okay, this is a vector file, they can do whatever they want. But um, yeah, I. because I do have small fears of being ripped off even though like I had like no followers, instagram, but it's still a legit, legitimate fear when you put artwork out there that someone's going to rip you off. Speaker 2:                    42:19                Oh, they definitely. Well, especially like when you do get big and you will. I mean it's gonna happen. Like do you listen to the honest designers podcast? No. Okay. Well it's really great and I'm. Lisa glands is one of the designers and she's huge. She's like made a really nice living on creative market and kind of inspired me, but she's talked about getting ripped off is a huge problem and I think it's just kind of inevitable. I hate to say that, but unless you want to actually get a lawyer and sue people like Orla Kiely did and she almost went bankrupt to doing that by the way. Um, and she got her point across, but like, I don't know if it's really worth it. Like you could spend all that energy creating new designs rather than like being in court Speaker 3:                    43:06                all the time. A rifle, paper company sued Walmart to Ooh know I need to follow up because that would be a huge. That'd be huge if like she won that for all artists really because it is so, such a prevalent problem in our industry. Speaker 2:                    43:21                It is, it's a huge problem. Yeah. And sometimes like, I dunno, I'm the first drug company that I worked for, they didn't even have designers for awhile so they would just buy things from vendors overseas. So they were working with Chinese vendors, Turkish vendors, Indian vendors, Egyptian vendors, Belgian vendors, like vendors from all over the world. And so if these guys, the vendors you were looking on pinterest or wherever and getting inspired by some someone like rifle paper, Co, they may totally have knocked them off and the sales guy who is just buying stuff wouldn't even necessarily know that because they're not an artist or designer. So it's, it's a problem everywhere. It's hard to control. It's hard to control. But um, anyway, well, Amanda, do you have any kind of final thoughts on Surtex or any final advice for aspiring surface designers? Speaker 3:                    44:16                So I'll tell a quick story from Surtex, um, it was kind of slow afternoon and this woman walked in front of my booth and she was looking at my booth and I could tell she was like, you know, like she's not admiring, but she was definitely like intrigued by is the right word. And I kept looking at her. I was, I know this woman wired, I know her from and it was Elizabeth Olsen and I was like, oh my God, when I realized I was like forever, blah, blah blah, and she can't even talk to me for like 10 minutes. And it was amazing and she was like, she told me, she's like, the biggest mistake new designers make is they give up too easy. And like, I don't even really remember all what we talked about, but that has really stuck with me because, um, I could definitely see how it would be like it'd be so easy to quit after my first cert tech show. Like I think get any art licensing deals. So it'd be like, well, I guess I'm not good at making patterns so I'm going to move on. But it did the exact opposite. Um, and so that would be my advice I guess is a. Speaker 2:                    45:16                I Love that advice. Did you know that um, when I was at genealogy I felt like that because Michael, I don't think it was intentional but he wanted me to just recruit artists instead of like actually work on anything creative. And so I kind of felt like what? Like do I suck, you know? Um, but yeah, I dunno, I got some freelance gigs on the side and that kind of helped boost my confidence. But it is, I mean when you're an artist you're putting your heart and soul out there and it is really easy to get your confidence crushed if you don't have some kind of reassurance. But yeah, I mean you just have to keep going, keep working and you will get better. Like the more you do it, like with anything, Speaker 3:                    45:54                it's just practice especially like on instagram or you know, if like you post something that you really love and it gets like Ken likes this is how we make money. So like, you know, it sounds superficial but like likes are important because that means like, oh, people would be interested in buying us, people would want this. So it is so easy to like Speaker 2:                    46:12                get so discouraged. And then you also think, well, I mean on a platform like instagram, you're like, well, did I just posted the wrong time of day? Is that why nobody is. No one's seeing it in the feed or you know what's happening? Speaker 3:                    46:29                Yeah. So it's been A. Yeah. So don't give up because like you said, like you get better as you go along. You learn things and prove your skills and. Speaker 2:                    46:41                But Hey guys, I'm definitely leave a comment down below and let us know if you have any further questions about Surtex or about becoming a surface pattern designer. Um, we will definitely try to answer those as best as possible. Um, and definitely subscribe to my channel like this video and click the little bell so that you get notified the next time I come out with a new video, you can find me on my website at LaurenLesley.com. Lesley's with an E-Y. And also look into description for a little Freebie pdf that I have for you guys. Amanda, will you tell everyone where they can find you on instagram and on your website? Speaker 3:                    47:23                Yes. So I am at Green Hound press on both my instagram and website. So greenhoundpress.com. And My instagram handle is @greenhoundpress. And so awesome your thing. Speaker 1:                    47:36                And I'm @LaurenLesleyStudio on Instagram. Lesley's with E-Y and um, we're also going to have a podcast version of this video so that if you want to kind of listen along to the next episode, you can subscribe on itunes or spotify and that way you can listen in your car. You don't necessarily have to meet. We also have a facebook group. 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7 minutes with - Episode 6 Welcome to the sixth episode of “7 Minutes With,” brought to you by DoSomeDamage.com. As always, Jedidiah Ayres brings his movie picks, Holly West chats about the small screen, and Chris Holm talks music. Hosted by Steve Weddle. Chris picks NEW STUFF (NOTHING ALBUM LENGTH THIS TIME): “Deterritory” by Young Jesus The first single from their upcoming (10/12) record on Saddle Creek, The Whole Thing is Just Here. (Streaming, YouTube, iTunes.) boygenius s/t Three-song EP, out 11/9 on Matador Records (currently streaming). “Blue Again” by Weakened Friends They just announced their first full-length record, Common Blah (out 10/19 on Don Giovanni Records), and debuted a video for “Blue Again” on NPR (also streaming and on iTunes). OLD STUFF (FAVORITE FALL SONGS): Yo La Tengo “Autumn Sweater” Billy Bragg and Wilco (lyrics by Woody Guthrie) “Remember the Mountain Bed” The Shins “The Past and Pending” Neil Young “Harvest Moon” Holly picks Sharp Objects, quickie update: https://www.hbo.com/sharp-objects?pid=googleadwords_int&c=Google%7cSearch%7cMKL%7cIQ_ID_106268475-VQ16-c&camp=Google%7cSearch%7cMKL%7cIQ_ID_106268475-VQ16-c GLOW https://www.netflix.com/title/80114988 THE STAIRCASE https://www.netflix.com/title/80233441 Additional discussion: DEAR ZACHARY https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/ THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH AUNT DIANE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2011325/ Jed picks LOWLIFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woIwA1SXsM4 PERDITA DURANGO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5rnTBASPo -- Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In this episode, we hear from special guest, Tyrone Webb Jr, on the importance of spiritual scripting for your creative online business or design business.  FREEBIE: Guide to Spiritual Scripting Get the PDF download!   Is your freelance design business growing slowly online...or...worse, is it not growing AT ALL?!? Your limiting beliefs surrounding money could be holding you back! Be sure to subscribe for more design LOVE! Business tips + creative strategies:  http://bit.ly/2LGqRNE ..................................................................................... 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This is lauren or Lauren with Lauren Lesley Studio and today we have special guest, Tyrone Webb Jr and I'm super excited to introduce you guys to him. He. I'm Tyrone and I met about two and a half years ago and he introduced me to this practice called spiritual scripting and it basically completely changed my life and it's really encouraging for Solopreneurs and entrepreneurs to have this type of spiritual journaling practice. So Tyrone if you'll go ahead and introduce yourself, I just tell everyone a little bit about your background in how you got into scripting. Speaker 3: 01:10 Sure. Thank you for having me. Lauren, and my name is tyrone Webb Jr and I've been doing spiritual scripting for about four and a half years now and I got into this because I was searching for something more, something deeper and always knew that I had power in me, but I was always afraid to tap into that power. And one day I went to this church called the spiritual living center of Atlanta and I saw Joyce Reynolds speak and she offered us to go to a class on Tuesday where you can learn about spirit description, which is all around the law of attraction. Speaker 3: 01:47 And so I'll stop there and I'll give the audience a little bit of my background. I moved here six years ago from New Jersey and I had no friends. I had a little bit of family but not panel that I was close to. And during my time of not scripting and to scripting four and a half years ago in my life has changed tremendously too. Buying a home, having a car. I want the career I went traveling, the financial well, the friends, the family, even giving and being grateful. Even that whole aspect has changed my diet, what I eat, how I see the world, how I view the world. And I can say fast forward to 2018, my life has completely transformed with the mixture of spiritual scripting and taking ownership of my life. And I just have to say it's a beautiful thing. Speaker 2: 02:38 Yeah. So awesome to hear you say that, and I can say similarly for me like it's really impacted my life and I'm also like in a my career, I would say for sure and just for those of you who may not be as familiar with what scripting is, tyrone, will you tell us what is scripting? Speaker 3: 02:56 Sure. So scripting is this unique, cool way of, I don't want to say journaling, but it's really owning your life and you write up your life the way you want it, the way you see it, all your desires and everything that you want to manifest. So a great example wouldn't be Speaker 3: 03:14 if you want to buy a home in Inman Park and you'll free something as divine right action or you can say divine right order divine God, whatever you call your God divine right order. It's taking place in my life right now for me to buy the right and perfect comment. Inman Park. And then from there you have to embellish for what you want. That's going to be the color, the price, how many bedrooms, how many bathrooms. Um, if you want a lawn, if you want to swing, if you want a porch or whatever you want, if you want to satellite TV script down to my neighbors and I even take it so far too when I'm getting on a plane, I had the opportunity to travel for work and for pleasure that a week or two or sometimes three days before I get on the plane, I'm scripting for what I want my plane neighbor to be like and I'm scripting out that entire detail of the conversation. I'm scripting with the flight we'll leave on or before time that I land owner before time that the weather's perfect and it completely changes your entire outlook on life and it allows you to just have control and not have that worry or that anger or that fear, which is what this world really instills to us. Speaker 2: 04:29 So are you writing in the future tense or how are you writing on your plane ride? Speaker 3: 04:37 I'm doing everything now. And you don't do anything in future tense because if you do future tense, it's always going to be. I'll eventually get there. So it's like one day I went to buy a house and it's like, okay, well that one day could be in 20, 25. Don't set your intentions out. Two stopped the delay of the universe for what she went now. So everything is now. So I'm buying that house to him in park, now I'm having the right and perfect flight. Now everything is in the now because time and time isn't an illusion. It is an illusion and we get caught up on, oh, I want to have kids by 29, I want to be married by 28 and I would have my first house by 32 and I want to do this by 35. And it's everything's now. And people always say, you can't have it all. I disagree. I think you. I believe you can have it all. It just might not be at the same time because you're going to outgrow things. You're going to outgrow your career and your job. That opens up the door for entrepreneurship. That opens up the door for door for kids and the list goes on. But everything that's in the now Speaker 2: 05:39 that's really cool. So tell me a little bit about how it works, like how are you taking this idea of what you want in your life and manifesting it, like how that sounds kind of, you know, I'm just going to come from, you know, a place of someone who maybe has never of it, um, or some, maybe some questions I would have asked in the very beginning, but how it sounds kind of like magical or you know, like, like praying or something. How does it, how does it actually come to fruition? Speaker 3: 06:16 Oh, the age group. Speaker 3: 06:25 Sorry, say that again. I think we were breaking up a little bit. Do you remember the infomercial? Set it and forget it. I don't. Okay. All right. So it was this guy like back in the early two thousands. He created this device almost like a George foreman grill, but you were able to roast turkeys in there and it was set it and forget it. So you said it, you prepare your food, you throw it in this device, you set it and you forget about it. You set a timer, you don't think about it, you just clicked automatically. Scripting is very similar to that. You write out what you want, the way you want it, Speaker 3: 06:59 put it out into the universe, out into the atmosphere, and you just watch it manifests and t is not your job to worry about how it's going to happen or when it's going to happen. You just have to believe that it is going to happen and once you change your thoughts, you start to open up your mind to new beginnings and new things that you've never seen before. So a good example would be my first scripting story was I an unexpected income. People were taking me out to eat. People were um, I had to free mileage points from delta. I was able to expense certain things through work. And in my mind I'm thinking, well, that money is going to come in my hand from someone given me gifts, but no going out to eat. That's a free meal. That's unexpected income. Being able to expense things through my job as unexpected income are those costs anymore? Like my cell phone bill, being able to travel and have points that's unexpected income because I'm not paying anything except for $13 in taxes. So once you open up your mind to a new way of thinking, you'll start to see how automatically manifesting which you really want to live. So it's almost like set it and forget it and you just have to believe in you. Have that be Speaker 2: 08:08 cool. Yeah. I would add onto that that um, the way Joyce describes it and I kind of, um, yeah, that's made a lot of sense to me when she described it this way, but that everything in the universe is energy. Everything is made up of energy. So whether, you know, like you said that time isn't real, it's just sort of something that we all subscribe to you. Um, and you know, the thoughts that you're thinking, the actions of what you're saying with your mouth. All of these things are energy that ended up kind of telling the universe what your reality is or what you, your reality should be or what you want it to be. So if you're constantly putting out negative thoughts or negative, um, you know, you're saying negative things than the universe is like, oh, that must be, you know, what you want or what your life is. Speaker 2: 08:54 I don't know. I feel like you have to get specific about what you really want, what your goals are. And then, like you said, writing it out, embellishing it. I'm talking about it as if it's already happened and already like it's already real. I'm like, there's the story of Jim Carrey and him doing a lot of visualization where he was literally living out of his car, but he knew deep down that he was talented and that this goal was going to come true of him being a famous actor. And so he wrote himself a check for a million dollars. Um, I can't remember the exact number, but I think, yeah, a million dollars. And he dated it like two years in the future. And at this point he was literally living out of his car and struggling and not getting jobs. And he kept getting rejected over and over and over again. Speaker 2: 09:46 But he would just sit in his car and imagined himself and seeing himself being this famous person being successful, um, having the career that he really wanted and that he knew deep down was his truth. I think that's part of, you know, related to having the faith is just knowing that deep down like this is my truth. It just hasn't happened yet. Um, and putting those thoughts out into the universe. It's all energy. It's all coming back. It also makes me think of the scientific study that was done that showed that praying for people in the hospital actually had an impact on them becoming better and healing. Like people healed at a faster rate when they were being prayed for rather than people who were not. Um, and the catch or what I think is really interesting, and obviously people are going to have all different beliefs. But what I thought was really interesting was during the study it had, it didn't have any impact on which religion people were subscribing to it. They had people from all different religions praying for people in the hospital and it still had the same results. So to me that's saying like, okay, well you really are putting that energy out there, even if you're just thinking good thoughts for someone that also makes a difference. Speaker 3: 11:03 Absolutely. And I totally agree with everything you said and I just wanted to add on one thing that Joyce talks about his, I forgot which article it is, a science journal article, but when you're writing and when you're writing about your life in a positive way, you're creating new neurological cells in your brain to help you reprogram how you think. Because anyone who listening or watching this, you are not who your mom, dad and uncle, teacher, pastor, sibling, you're not homeless. People say you are. And it goes back to exactly to what you said about your truth. You know your truth and your truth may not be the same as mine or Lawrence or your parents or your friends or even your neighbors. But you have to know your triggers, know your truth, own your truth Speaker 2: 11:51 and believe in it. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. That's awesome. So, okay, so the next question is what kind of results have you received from your scripting practice? I know you kind of just talked about your, um, wanting to receive finances from unexpected sources, but is there anything else that you can kind of describe more specifically? Speaker 3: 12:14 Yeah, I would say the House that I'm living in, I think maybe three years before I bought the house, I scripted exactly what I want it, how many floors, bedrooms, the type of neighborhood, two car garage, town hall. I scripted everything will enable pools and everything and I even scripted that I want in my mortgage to be less than my rent. Speaker 2: 12:44 Oh cool. Speaker 3: 12:46 I wanted to detail right because it's you can get the house, but then it's like you don't want to upset, you don't want to forget anything when you script and you want to script out every single detail and it's okay to talk about the finance part because I think a lot of times as people were afraid of that, money can sometimes be a touchy subject. So the more that you just bring it out into the light and be more comfortable with it, the easier it will be free to talk about. But in this home I've got this whole new. It was a short sale way below market value. My mortgage is way below the rent that I was paying when I lived in Brookhaven, Georgia. I have awesome neighbors. I have. I mean I love this house. I had everything that I never want it from this house. Speaker 3: 13:26 And another scripting opportunity that came to me was starting my own business and learning what I, what I've been doing in incorporating, incorporating that into a business, on helping companies with brand strategy of doing photography and that's more unexpected income that's coming my way. And it's also given me the confidence to become an entrepreneur and to script that out and see what that's gonna look like. If I want to be an author or international speaker, a motivator, I'm going to write that out. I'm going to be speaking in China now and I'm going to be able to motivate people from all around the world and I just watched all of that coming together. Speaker 2: 14:01 That's so awesome. So do you also practice visualization or is it mainly scripting Speaker 3: 14:10 or do you say that's kind of an integral part of your scripting practice? Scripting is part of your spiritual regimen and for me, I meditate. I script my vision board, I read, I read a lot of books around Deepak Chopra, even some of the books over. Right. And I also attend the class with joy. So those are my five, I think four or five regimen that I do to keep me in that spiritual practice. So scripting is just part of your prayer, but also with prayer and at this is where meditation comes in because scripting has basically telling the universe what you want and in meditation you're listening to what the universe is telling you. Gotcha. And what you have to make sure you don't want to just tell, tell, tell. Because you also have to listen. Speaker 2: 15:02 Yeah, I like that, I love that. Okay. So, um, how has scripting impacted the creative side of your business? I know that, um, you know, you have worked in corporate for a while and then you just explained how you've gone out on your own and sort of you're interested in becoming more of an entrepreneur and you have your own business now and you also do photography, which is really cool. Um, so can you explain some of the creative side of what you do and how scripting has impacted that specifically? Speaker 3: 15:36 Absolutely, and I'll even take you to the creative side of how I even created my website and what I want it to look like. And I wanted it to be me. I didn't want it to be what other photographers are doing or other people are doing rob branch energy. I wanted something unique and if it wasn't for scripting, I don't think I would have had the confidence to do that. I think I would have mirrored what other people are already doing out there. And I've gotten feedback from some people that have that seeing my website and they said, oh well this part seems a little childish, or this part should be like this and this just seemed like this and this is who I am and that's what you believe in that thank you for the feedback, but my mind's made up and I stand strong in my truth and this is what I believe in. Speaker 3: 16:21 I don't mind telling the world that I have a fear of spiders, you know, as I don't mind people knowing who I am. And I think that's one of the key things scripting does help with and even with the creative side, because then you feel empowered as you start to see how as you manifest smaller things, you start to manifest a bigger things and it just increases your creativity in your mind, in your power. So now when I'm scripting, I'm scripting for fun clients and I'm scripting for clients, I think outside the box because we always tailored towards what's comfortable and why do we do that? So again, what I was saying earlier about the Science Journal article that Joyce talked about, it creates new cells in your mind, your catch like, Hey, I want to be involved. It creates a new cells in your mind to help you just think differently as a team and to think bigger and better and I wouldn't be as creative as I am today or as colorful. Um, actually I would be, but I wouldn't be as proud to show it. And scripting has helped me with that. That's interesting. Speaker 2: 17:22 So you feel like scripting has given you the confidence as well to like kind of unleash that creative side of you and without apologizing or without feeling like, okay, I have this corporate side of my career but I don't have to necessarily implement everything corporate into my business or the way I speak to my customers. Speaker 3: 17:42 Exactly. I was terrified of started my website and talking about it at work because I felt like, oh well they're going to let me go. Like, what does this mean? I have a safety net. All different types of negative thoughts went through your mind that before too. Yeah, it's scary and it's when you script and when you know and you believe in your truth and you know that the universe has your back, all bets are off. That's awesome. So we've talked about scripting but just to kind of break down exactly what it is for people. Um, will you kind of go through what are the different pillars of scripting? Like how do you create balance in your scripting practice so that your life isn't, you know, your career doesn't take off, but your relationships are totally falling apart, you know, like you want to keep that balance and the different aspects of your life. Speaker 3: 18:37 Um, so what are some of the pillars of scripting? And before I get into that, I just want to say because when I start to explain, some people may think, oh, what about work life balance? My belief is there is no work life balance. It's all life. You have to balance everything because it's work life, family, friends, career, technology, TV, relaxation, vacations is everything. And with scripting, the first thing I do is I normally script in the morning. So when I wake up, I think God for waking me up and then I'll do some stretches and do some yoga and then I script and the first thing I scripted, thank you for waking me up. The second thing got script is I set my intention for the day so that truly important. So today we'll be back and then I go into what's happening throughout the day. Speaker 3: 19:26 So I skipped it for this podcast to go. Well, I'm playing tennis later, asked me and my friend have a great tennis match. So it's scripting about in the beginning being thankful is setting your intention for the day and this is just how I do it. It's there's no right or wrong way. And then I'd go into my pillars. So the six pillars would be spirituality, relationships, career, health and wellness, a fitness and wellness, financial finances that the other one, the fifth one is finance. And then the sixth is being grateful, just giving things and just being grateful. And then sometimes there is. Well there is also a seventh which is fun. So you want to make sure you script funnier life, which is all about that balance, right? Because then we can get so focused on career, career, career, and then we forget about everything else. Speaker 3: 20:17 And I think for a lot of people to travel comes up, which could fall under the fun category, but that was something you scripted for as well. Right? Right. And then, so I scripted for travel is a great example. I traveled through work. I didn't have to pay for that. That's awesome. So you know, you may script for travel and you're thinking, well my bank account doesn't allow me to travel, but then you might get a job that does have you travel all around the world. You just have to be open. And that goes back to my beginning of my opening statement. When you script it opens up your mind to something that you never. So there's five. There's seven pillars. You script things the way you want it, what you want to have in your life. You embellish, you go into detail, you believe it, and you can build on your details, but give yourself two to three days, five days Max, and then you forget about it. You don't really script about that Pacific thing anymore. And then you just move onto something else that you want in your life. In one day you may be inspired to be a poet. You script around that. Then you move on. And again, it's about you can have everything, just not always at the same time. Okay. Speaker 2: 21:21 Yeah, totally. And I think the way I do it, I try to structure it so that I'm not leaving out something that is really important. Um, so that my life just stay balanced. But I'll do different paragraphs for the pillars. So I'll title it, you know, like finances or spiritual growth or health and wellness, you know, and I'll kind of write out my little paragraph. Um, and I try to do it daily, but sometimes it's more like weekly, um, but I do try to keep it a consistent practice. Um, but you know, sometimes there's only 24 hours in a day and you have to sleep and things to do, but as long as you're consistently like coming back to it and keeping that focus, putting it out into the universe that hey, like a, I am, I eat healthy. You know, I eat plenty of vegetables. Speaker 2: 22:08 I drink eight glasses of water a day, I get eight hours of sleep per night, I exercise three times a week and I feel amazing, you know, describe how it makes you feel to be keeping you know, your ideal health and wellness routine. And then, you know, talk about your spiritual growth. You know, I feel more patient today. I am closer to God. I am grateful. You know, I feel these things in my body and I'm able to be more loving to people. You know, you can script all of these things. Um, and at the end of each little paragraph, for each pillar, I sign it like, thank you God or thank you universe. You know, you can do it. Like you said, it doesn't have to be exactly one formula. You can tailor it for what makes sense for you, but I think that being grateful aspect of, you know, feeling like you're healthy or being healthy, being feeling like you're growing spiritually, like just being deeply grateful for all of those things for your relationship. Speaker 2: 23:03 You know, I have an amazing partner. I'm in love with my partner, you know, like describing, you know, we talk about everything. We have amazing sex, you know, he looks amazing meal, you know, whatever you feel like you need and that's important to your relationship. Scripting that out as if it's already there and I swear this shit works great. It feels magical even though it's not, you know, we can explain it as energy and all of that, but it feels magical because when I started scripting it was like holy shit, like all these things are really coming true. Like everything that I've. It was really important to me and I'm still. It's always a work in progress, but I feel like Speaker 3: 23:44 there's certain that happened where I was like, wow, I did not expect it to happen this soon. Or like the House that I want it to be able to buy a house as well and Speaker 3: 23:54 you know, I had some ideas about what I wanted but I thought it was going to be in a certain area of town that was more in my price range. And then I got the area of town that I'm currently renting in, um, and I, it was just to buy. I felt like it was way out of my price range and I was kind of thinking, oh, I'll script for it, but that'll be one day, like 10 years from now I'll be able to live there. And it just, I don't know, just magically happened really fast. It's really important for people to know. You have to be careful for what you say because it can happen really fast and it also can to really slow. But what's important is when we say things and it's really important and scripting, and I forgot to mention this, try to use positive words only and not saying no. Speaker 3: 24:49 Don't say what I won't do not, don't care nothing with you. Do not want to have any nose or not doing your scripting. If you are, let's say your manager makes you file paperwork and you dislike doing that and you can say, okay, even though I dislike filing paperwork for my manager, he or she recognizes my true potential and I am working on bigger and better projects that served me and my purpose. Now you turn it into a stepping stone instead of a box kind of thing. Exactly, and that's a great point, right? Because we're great at playing victims and you can say, I now have the courage to speak up to my manager and say, I prefer to work on something more meaningful because a lot of times people don't know they're giving us something they don't know if we do or don't like, we have to speak up. Speaker 3: 25:50 Right, right, right. Yeah, and the scripting again goes back to that confidence that you can find in scripting and taking ownership of your life. I think that's a huge thing is when you said the word victim, that really clicked in for me because I feel like a lot of people are kind of caught in this web of pain and they do see themselves as a victim and they feel like they don't have control, but when you start a scripting practice, it gives the control back to yourself and that you really are in charge of your life and you are creating the best life for yourself and your power. Yeah. Taking back your power and even if it hasn't happened yet, believing that it's gone to. Absolutely, and it was something you mentioned too. I don't want people to feel ashamed. Remember, this is your God so you can script about in the thing, and I mean you mentioned that you script for a grade six. It took me a long time to do that because I felt it was the, the past religions where it's like, oh, you can't tell. There is still taboo. And it's like, well, wait a minute. This is my guy. This is what I believe. Why won't about that? And it's, God has created us to have fun and to live the life that we want to live. Speaker 3: 27:00 And it's okay to talk about those taboo things. Speaker 2: 27:04 Yeah, of course. I mean, I would say too that when you're in the habit of scripting, you're wanting things that are healthy for yourself. Right? And so again, like if you feel like waiting until you're married is the healthy thing for you to do, then that's what you should script for. For me, that's not my personal choice. Um, but I, you know, yeah, I wanted that relationship that did have great sex. I mean, you know, who wants to be in a relationship with, Speaker 3: 27:34 right. There are still many people, men and women out there that are. And they haven't taken back their power yet. Speaker 2: 27:40 Yeah. And what, and yeah. And then you feel like a victim when it's like, well, what can you do when you start scripting and imagining these situations where, you know, maybe you do love your partner, but maybe their sex drive isn't where yours is, you know? And maybe it's just like cultivating, you know, that environment where it is going to be able to spice things up or get them in the mood or you know, just change your relationship, you know, there's certain things in relationships are so complicated, but changing that dynamic to getting to a place where you know or that you're just, yeah, that you're happy and you feel grateful and fulfilled for all the positive things that are happening, but also not being complacent, like actively scripting for the things that you want more of or that can just be better even if it's already good. Speaker 3: 28:30 Absolutely. And you also want to script in this case for your partner. And I think a lot of people need to realize that that's okay too. You can script for your mom and your cousins and you could even script for the cashier at the grocery store and it goes back to embellishing. I'm going to have a perfect experience in kroger now. I'm going to find everything I need on sale. It cashier process is going to be easy. They're, they're, uh, no one will be aligned. I mean you can, I mean really go in and embellish is just watch it happen. I will have the right and perfect parking space right there by the door. I mean going into detail, it's really important. Speaker 2: 29:11 How much time do you spend scripting Tara? Speaker 3: 29:15 I would say between five to seven minutes. I usually know what I want to go directly into. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 2: 29:23 So you probably aren't writing like a long thing for each pillar every single day. It's just more of like what's on your mind? Speaker 3: 29:32 Control my mind and what? Yeah, what comes to me that day and what's been I guess bothering me, but I am going to try your technique on each pillar. I am going to try that a day and I script every day because you went, oh, and that's another point. You want to continue with the energy. You want to keep your vibration high and continue to manifest and to attract great things to you. The moment you fall off and fall off for weeks, months, years, use your legs. Turn right back to where it was. He'd be back to being the victim. You'll be backed in that job. You don't like your back into living with your parents, which you dislike. You just get back into that low level of negative flow. Speaker 2: 30:15 Yeah, totally. I hope I never do that because ever since I've met you and started scripting, I got to keep that up. Okay. Has it. How has scripting helped add balance to your life and if yes, how? Speaker 3: 30:35 Because it allowed me to pay attention to areas that I was neglecting and as you're scripting out those pillars and what I used to do, I used to pick a pillar a day, but now I think I just have so much going on. I need to really do what you do, but it's just, it just allowed me to focus more on family and anytime I go back home to New Jersey, carve out time for those who matter and before I would just go up there and see my friends hang out at my cousins who wanted to hang out. I'm like, I can't. Sorry this. Then you realize that you just can't see everybody, so you have to really set your intention as to who you want to see and spend time with and that helped me target who is important to me, who I am important too. Speaker 3: 31:20 So is that to a balance? Yeah. Scripting also helped me balance, been great with finances, but it even increases my balance with finance and it helps me build my wealth which is what I want and it allows me to say why I should have an account where I'm just traveling and focusing on that allows me to save and then I should do what I want. Same thing with the house. Okay. I have a house account. Let me just. Now I can go and get. I don't know my laundry done or buy new plants and garden. We're buying a refrigerator and it's you're building your wealth and you're spending your money for what you want to spend your money on it. And the smart thing Joyce taught me on day one, never say you're saved. You're saving for a rainy day because if you say that you're automatically assuming that that negative day is coming, you saved just to save. You save for what you want to say for he set goals and you just watch it happen. Speaker 2: 32:15 That's really interesting. I don't think I've heard her say that, but I like that. Yeah. You don't want to put that rainy day out there. Like it's like you're ready for it and it's in the universe. It's like, okay, like here's your rainy day that you asked for it. Did you Speaker 3: 32:29 not? I have a coworker I used to work with at one of my my first job ever and we still communicate with texts and I'm saving for rainy day. I kid you not Lauren and viewers. Every mom, she had something going on with their home, her car or something at work which has a takeoff and ms pay and have to use that much. He's like, all the money is gone and her exact words are, but that's my rainy day money. And I told her, you should stop saying that. And she said, no, it is a rainy day, and she's so caught up in victim, right? It's like, no, like I have to say is a rainy day because that's what it's for. And I'm just like, well, if you think about it from a positive view of saving, I said, well, if you didn't have the money then you would have been able to get your car fixed. So good thing you did have, you know, it's not a rainy day, you're just preparing and your preparation for your car, you're ahead of the curve. Because then if you couldn't, if you didn't have the money, if you couldn't get your car fixed, then how would you have been able to work to make money to save it? And she's like, no, this is all for rainy day. I'm just like, okay. Speaker 2: 33:34 Yeah, I have kind of a funny story as well. And it goes back to when I was doing my yoga teacher training and my yoga teacher said that she had this and she's from South Africa. So she was still living there. Yeah. But they would still talk and she said her aunt's favorite line was. Oh, I just feel like I've been hit by a bus, you know, and she would say it all the time and I kid you not. She's, she lived. But she hit. She was hit by a bus. She got hit by an actual bus. I know. It's like my yoga teacher was like, seriously, be careful what you say, your words matter. Because if you say it that much then I mean it's just like you're manifesting your reality and it's just. I don't think that as human beings, you know, we're so used to or we're so disconnected I would say from nature sometimes and I don't think we realized how powerful our words are that we're putting out there and that our intentions black top. But I think it's really awesome that you set your intention every morning and that you're so, you know, I don't have a better word, but intentional about how you're going about your day. Speaker 3: 34:42 You know, I just want to add on for your viewers, think about what lauren just said around the woman who says she gets hit by a bus. She feels like Steven hit by bus. She was so connected to that feeling and what it might've felt like that she really manifests and that's how you have to get when you think about marriage or the house or the car, you'd have to feel in, visualize yourself having it and she visualized herself being hit by a bus and like being in the hospital and the trauma to rebuild yourself back up and the pain you really felt addicted to that pain that she had every day. And she really brought that to life. And that's a great story because now switch that around. Two, I want to be ceo of JP Morgan Chase. Visualize yourself as a CEO. Think about the money that you'll be making, you know, create and enjoy this really well. Speaker 3: 35:41 She creates this time. She tells you to create this fake that. Well, I don't want to say big. This, um, manifestation balance sheet where you say, okay, I'm making $10,000,000 a month, I'm going to spend money on yard, I'm going to buy a house over here, get comfortable with spending money because again, it's back to the taboo. Finance is a taboo. People are like, oh no, I have to save, I have to do this. No, get used to spending money because what scripting has also taught me let go to receive what's supposed to be. So let go of money and get back and you can get more money back. Speaker 2: 36:15 Right? Money is a flow, right? It's not something that you have to hoard. Isn't that money if you, I mean obviously you want to be responsible and have your savings account and have your retirement account and those types of things. But after that, you know, like you just have to believe that the money is coming back to you. The money is coming back to you and like you're only gonna get more of it or like you know, that flow is only going to get stronger. That stream is only going to get stronger. Um, but yeah, I think a lot of people are afraid they have that. Um, again, this is kind of going back to my yoga teacher training, but that root Chakra fear where they're afraid that, you know, it's the security things, the basic needs, the food, shelter, house, all those things. Um, and you know, when you, when you have that deep fear in your root Chakra, then you never feel comfortable no matter how much money is in your savings account, you never feel like you have enough and you never feel like you have enough to be okay, that you're safe enough. Speaker 2: 37:15 And so I think that it's getting into that zone where you do feel safe, you know, and obviously you don't want to. Yeah, you don't want to be stupid about it and like blow all your money on gambling or you know, go to Vegas and like would enjoy your money. Speaker 3: 37:29 Enjoy it, take yourself to the spa. Yeah. You know, hiking or go on a weekend, new vacay, a solo, you know, spend your money, enjoy it. Don't be careless, but enjoy it. Life is meant to be enjoyed. Speaker 2: 37:43 Exactly. Okay, so that's kind of funny that we came up with this topic because my next question was actually going to be, are you making more money since you started scripting and if you'll want to go into that a little bit more? Um, I'm happy to refer to that as well. But Speaker 3: 38:00 working at the company I work for I've never had to ask for an increase has always been given to me and it's always been, and I'm talking the annual increase and then promotion wise it's always been higher than what I thought I was worth and that's just the universe show me amy ain't even higher next time and it's just now. It just blew my mind. So yeah. So more money at my corporate job, money flowing in client's phone and for my photography and my empowerment businesses, I have a few friends that do public speaking. They are, we set up a contract to where if I get them a speaking engagement, I get a percentage from that. Excellent. Um, I have someone else who, she's actually my career coach helping her with her business. Um, I get a percentage from that. So it's money just comes in left and right, and then I even include interest. So I used to use, I don't want to say basic savings accounts, but I guess that's what they are, bigger America Stevens or I'm not going to be a goodness. Wells Fargo, Speaker 3: 39:17 td bank. And then I opened up my eyes to high yield savings. Accountants, um, Goldman Sachs. I mean it's one of the highest interest rate that the country has that's bringing in more money. So I mean, and again, that opened up my mind to something new. That interest is unexpected income. Um, taxes when you file your taxes. I've never, until I got the house was never a recipient of receiving money back. Just, I don't know why, I just, I guess the government felt like I made so much money at whatever, but now I'm even getting money back from that. So everywhere you turn I'm making more money, I'm getting more money and I'm also spending more money. I mean, now I can support my watch habit, my jewelry habit and know I told myself 20, 19 I'm going to only start flying first class flights. Awesome. And I want to start doing that. I have now, I have a few people where I get my clothes made so I'm spending more money. I'm spending it on the higher conscious level because this is what leaders do. So if I want to become CEO or somewhere this is fire, they only fly first class. They only get their suits handmade. I have to start living in that world and living lack that person. Yeah, exactly. Speaker 2: 40:34 Yeah. So it's interesting because I think that as human beings we do to kind of discount ourselves a lot. Or if even if we're like, oh, I want to go for that promotion. Kind of like you said, you were always valued by your company more than you maybe would have valued yourself. Especially in the beginning. And I think that that's definitely been true for me as well. And I mean we tend to go after the thing that feels reachable. I Dunno. I think it's, that's really interesting too because once you start scripting and once you're in that flow then things start happening and you, you know, things become real that you have manifested and then you're like, oh shit. Like I could have asked for more. Like I could have manifested something more like. And for me, I'm financially, I'll just kind of lay it out there for you guys. Speaker 2: 41:24 I was making about $60,000 a year. I was 31 I believe, and I'm a textile for those of you who don't know me and portrait illustrator, um, that's kind of my etsy shop side business. But in my day job I'm a textile designer, so that was my salary and I was scripting for, in my job I wasn't really planning on leaving my job, but I was definitely scripting for that next here, salary and I was scripting for about $75,000 a year. Um, and that felt very much within reach. It was still like a very big raise from where I was at, but I was envisioning it happening within my own company. And then it was really crazy because December came and all of a sudden all these recruiter started calling me and I had two different offers that weren't quite that much, but they were in that same ballpark. Speaker 2: 42:19 And then I accepted a new job and now like, I'm not going to say my exact salary because I know I'm probably not supposed to, but it's definitely in that range. Um, and then it made me think, oh, well, you know, I could have maybe manifested even more than that. And so then I would say for the last year or half a year, I said, no, like, my goal is to make like 2:50 a year. And then the universe is kind of, um, I don't know, like, I don't know if that's how it's going to come, but I do believe that it's going to come. And it may be, you know, different layers of passive income streams. Like I've, you know, I do so much more than just my day job, which I really love my day job. But I'm, I'm layered in, you know, I started selling clip art, like I started selling um, different like portrait builders online, like, and there's all these ideas are coming to me of other things that I can sell that once the work is done it can just continue to sell over and over again. Speaker 2: 43:24 And so I'm really excited about that and we'll see like, like you said, it may take longer and make happen really fast. Like you don't really know. But I see at some point in my future, you know, me making that amount of money, whether it's 10 years from now, whether it's next year, I don't know. But that is kind of my next goal. And like when I first started scripting, I never would have scripted for $250,000 a year. You know, like I would have never, never, never believe that. And I think especially to kind of being a designer and being an artist, it's sort of ingrained by society that you know, you're a starving artist or that if you choose to have a creative career that you can't make money. And so I think that, that has unfortunately held me back in the past, um, you know, not that I was ever starving, but I don't think I realized, you know exactly where my career could go, but then you start to look around and you're like, oh, I mean, this is top of mine just because of her tragic death recently that people like kate spade, you know, she did it, you know, she's made plenty of money in her life and I am really, really, really sad for what happened to her. Speaker 2: 44:39 But, you know, when you start just thinking of people that you, maybe you idolize or that you look up to, like there are plenty of designers and creative people out there that have made a lot of money. Um, so the fact that the whole starving artist story is so ingrained into us, it's, it's just sad and it's just not true. Um, I was at a work event with my fiance, mark the other, like maybe a couple of months ago. And this woman I was telling her about, she's like, oh, what do you do? Blah, blah, blah. I said, Hey, I'm a textile designer, this is what I do. I designed rugs, they sell to target this and that, and she thought it was cool and then she was talking about how her niece was an art major, but that in the same conversation she went back to, but you know, you can't make money with that, so she ended up going to nursing school and it just made me so sad. I was like, what? Like wow. I mean hopefully she'll enjoy nursing, but I'm just like, no. Like I feel like, well it could be something greater to nursing but not creative Speaker 2: 45:41 being an artist. Yeah. And it just made me feel like she gave up this dream because she accepted this lie that I don't know. Speaker 3: 45:51 Yeah. That she needs to go on and she might be the person she brings in. She can start her own art business Speaker 2: 46:06 and have six Speaker 3: 46:07 patients paint in the hospital and maybe nursing degree will give her that, that thought and that possibility we should, could actually marry the two ideas together. Speaker 2: 46:16 Right. Hopefully it'll be the right path for her. It just made me sad that that was kind of the belief around it coming from her aunt saying, well, you know, she couldn't have made money as an artist, so she went to nursing school instead. Um, and again, hopefully that there's a greater plan out there and that she'll be able to loop those two things back together and feel like she's in her purpose. But Speaker 3: 46:39 even before scripting, gosh, what year was that? That had to be 2009. My uncle who taught me all about business said, oh, you have the demeanor to be a lawyer. You should be a lawyer. In my head. And I studied for the LSF was shadowing law classes. I took the LSAT and as I was getting ready to apply, I said, this is not what I want to do. It just didn't feel right. It felt. And I knew I would have been miserable and I said I just wanted to get my Mba and work at a corporation and in travel the world and do cool things like that. And just be CEO level and the path that I'm on. It's very easy for people to get into our minds. And again, it goes back to what we were saying earlier. You are not who your parents uncle passed, her grandmother's siblings, friends say you are, you are who you are. Speaker 2: 47:35 Right? Right. Thank you for saying that. I think it's so true and so important for people to hear. Um, okay. So my last question is going to be if someone is skeptical about scripting, what would you say to them Speaker 3: 47:52 in a nutshell? Start small. Speaker 3: 47:57 Start small. And I say that because when you hear about scripting and you're like, oh well I want, you know, the 14 bedroom house, start small. Start with something that you believe you can obtain. Because when you said you never thought you can think about $250,000 per year, you had to grow into believing that yes. And people have to grow into believing and being comfortable and being prepared for what they. If you were making $250,000 a year 10 years ago, you probably would've spent your money on so much stuff you couldn't even. You couldn't even tell me where you spent your money on. So we have to constantly be at a level to accept and to receive what we're asking for. And that's also part of the energy and the vibration, making sure that you're on the same vibrational level as what you want. So start small. Speaker 3: 48:51 Start with, okay, I love a favorite muffin that kroger sells publix and it's been sold out for the past two weeks. Stay that a will be there when you go back into the gas station, gas prices going up and people are worried about the prices script that gas is going down in script that there's no line at the gas station gap. You know, just start small and watch it happen. You know, script for expected income and you might find a dollar change on the ground. You just never know a script. Someone may take you out for your birthday. So start small and build on it. And then that's how you build your confidence. That's how you build your power. Speaker 2: 49:31 Yeah, I love that too. And I think it makes me think about my sort of health and wellness pillar because I feel that when I'm writing it out like, Oh, I exercise three times a week. Like I got eight hours of sleep, I, you know, drink plenty of water. I just find that I am naturally doing those things and that's not, you know, it's funny because as much as you try to like beat yourself up that you're not working out enough or you're not eating healthy enough, you know, like that kind of doesn't work. Like it just kinda feels shitty and you like don't want to, you know, go for a run, you know, you want to sit on the couch and just because you feel shitty in here, like ah, but it is exactly, that's exactly what it is. But when you are talking about it in a positive way, you almost feel more motivated to get out and do those things. Speaker 2: 50:20 So I would say that's another one that's kind of like easy to do and like scripting it out isn't anything you don't feel like asking for a pot of gold, you know, you're just like, oh, this is my health routine. I'm going to write it out and I'm going to be grateful for it and I'm going to talk about how awesome it makes me feel. And then before you know it, you're like, oh yeah, I did. I did do really good this week, you know, like I feel great. Um, so I would say that's one that's been really helpful for me and like it's easy to see more immediate results. Just I guess to feel good about, you know, that you stuck to it. Speaker 2: 50:55 Even when you change your thought process, another way of starting small, you may not have a good relationship with your manager or change your thought process. Again. Stop playing victim. Yeah, yeah. Try to understand them or I don't know, I feel like when I've been in more managed management roles, um, I'm like, oh, this shit is really hard. It's not easy to manage. And it's all around compassion and script and has taught me compassion to taught me that people have trauma that they haven't gotten over. They have, everyone has something or somethings and you learn to really have that unconditional love for all of those around you. Have you heard of the buck? Reclaim your power in someone? I feel like I've, he's been on a couple of podcasts that I listened to recently and I'm going to definitely check it out, but his main thing is dealing with our trauma. Speaker 2: 51:56 Um, and that's kind of his, I don't know, he's definitely like a business coach and wants people to live their best life especially, you know, all the way around. But when it comes to business. But I think that dealing with that trauma, he said kind of, you know, doing the yoga or doing the meditation. Sometimes it's more of a bandaid because we're not calling out. We're kind of. I mean those are great practices to have, but if you're not getting to their root of why something is holding you back sometimes. I don't know. I haven't read the book, so I'm really interested maybe in maybe next quarter we could talk about this book if you read it to. That'd be cool. Yeah, definitely added to my list and I think relationships and that's when you script your relationships in your pillars. For anyone who's listening and watching, you want to script that relationship for yourself too, not just for your family or your marriage or your or your romantic relationship. George relationships at work are you. How do you treat yourself? What are your boundaries? Because you have to have boundaries would, will you and will not put up with and once you script and have a healthy relationship with yourself, everything that you just said, what you have to connect with, conflicts will come into the light. I love that. That's something that I haven't done, but I feel like I definitely need to do that. Be Really helpful. You know, to talk about, oh, I like this about myself or you know, I'm, I'm pretty cool. Speaker 2:  So easy to beat ourselves up. That being intentional about that practice and then starting to actually feel like it. You know, Speaker 3: you like yourself more. I put, I put that I'm gorgeous. I turned heads when I walk into a room. Like I say, all that stuff. You have to believe in yourself. Right? So it's. Speaker 2: Oh, that's great. Yeah, I think we're just trained to be like, oh, that's bragging or that's, you know. Speaker 3: And if it is, it is, but somebody has to brag for us and why not us? Why Not Yourself? I know it starts with you. I love it. Speaker 2: All right. Tyrone, is there anything else you want to touch on or talk about anything like tell us a little bit more about your business and services you're offering. Speaker 3: So my business, you can find my website on my website is www.tyronewebbjr.com. That's t y r o n e b b jr. Com. And iT's around two things, right? So one is photography, which I do head and do events. Right now I'm doing real estate photography and my other is empowerment coaching. So I'm doing speech, I'm doing puBlic speaking. Uh, that's when a part of the empowerment coach. And the other part is I'm helping folks transitioned careers and also helping students who are leaving undergrad and they trying to get into corporations, I know how all that works and I can coach them on getting into some of the corporations. Speaker 3: And then lastly I'm helping smaller Businesses with brand strategy and marketing and communications, what their bio's and how to really set themselves up as a professional business when it comes to networking. And I'm also actually writing a book around networking and I'm giving myself to labor day, memorial day, labor day and I'm Just writing around network and how you do it. And, and, um, some other things that came to me in meditation that I'm working on and I will love to see. Well, whiCh will manifest. But again, it's going to be when it's meant to happen. But yeAh, the thing is new. And I'm definitely interested in happy that I'm writing this because I have a lot of friends. Even people at work asking me, well, how did you get that role without applying? And how did you do this without a network that asked? I know who the movers and shakers are like, well, explain to me how. Let me just write a book Speaker 2:  can just help everybody. Businesses. I'm excited about your book. I didn't know. Uh, what's your instagram handle? I do not have answered because Speaker 3:  yeah, managing that and everything goes right now. His interest. So I do have twitter still, but it's at tyrone webb. Instagram will most likely come back in the future, but right now I had so many moving parts where instagram will actually be abandoned. And twitter. Then for those of you, you can drop me a line on my website. You can send me a note and we can email my email. Is email and web as with two b's? Yep. Yep. Okay. Excellent. Thank you So much for coming on. This was a good for having me and thanks for introducing me to scripting. All right, see ya. Bye. Bye.  

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FREEBIE: How to brand your creative online business or blog Get the PDF download!  http://bit.ly/2MgwuDo  This episode is all about why Designers need an Email List.  I see amazing designers focus their energy, time, and attention on social media while ignoring their email list... and while social media is important to growing your business...  it has nothing on email!  Listen to find out why. Is your freelance design business growing slowly online...or...worse, is it not growing AT ALL?!? Allow me to teach you today how to effectively brand yourself online and GROW your design business on autopilot. Be sure to subscribe for more design LOVE! Business tips + creative strategies: http://bit.ly/2LGqRNE    READ MY BLOG: http://www.laurenlesley.com/blog #laurenlesleystudio   JOIN MY FREE FB GROUP: http://facebook.com/groups/DesignTribeLaurenLesley    Wave at me on social:  Instagram: http://instagram.com/laurenlesleystudio #laurenlesleystudio Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/laurenlesleystudio Facebook: http://facebook.com/laurenlesleystudio   ..................................................................... LISTEN TO THE DESIGN TRIBE PODCAST: ..................................................................... iTunes: https://apple.co/2xZIPsy Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LHe2TB  TRANSCRIPT: Speaker 1:                    00:00               Hey, what's up fools? This is Lauren with Lauren Lesley Studio and today we're going to be talking about why every designer needs an email list. Now you may be thinking, what is an email list and why does it matter? And if you're wondering that you are in the right place. Today we're going to go over why you need an email list in the first place. Why an email is different from social media, how to choose a provider and how to get subscribers on your list and how to craft your newsletter. Speaker 1:                    00:35               So the problem with social media, okay, so although social media is very important to growing your business online, you don't own it. So a few years ago, every business was trying to get as many people as possible to like their facebook page because then they would show up naturally in their facebook newsfeed. Well, facebook decided to change their algorithm because they own facebook, you don't. And now business page or pages are basically dead. So business has spent all this energy, all this money marketing, um, and everything trying to get people to like their facebook page. And then in the end, it didn't really make a whole lot of sense. It was totally useless because they didn't actually own all of these likes. I mean, facebook was, could just change it at any minute. Um, another reason why social media is a little bit harder than email is because it's difficult to contact your tribe directly if you're putting a ton of energy and a ton of money into social media, uh, especially a platform like facebook or instagram, you just Kinda have to cross your fingers and say a little prayer and hope people see your stuff in their feed. Speaker 1:                    01:55               Like what if they're not on their feed that day or they're, you're posting at the wrong time or you're posting at a time where there's too much competition. So it's difficult to contact your customers or get your leads directly. Speaker 1:                    02:12               Email lists, on the other hand, bomp bomp bomp allow you to contact your customers and leads directly in their inbox. So it's intimate. Um, you're contacting them directly on social. You're posting for the whole wide world. So that means something to your potential leads or customers. I'm a thoughtful email is a lot. It's just, it's more intimate, it's like chatting with a good friend and it's intentional, you know that someone sat down and crafted this email very intentionally where sometimes social just kind of looks like, Oh, here's a pretty picture. Hope you like it, you know? Cool. Also email subscribers are way more likely to become customers and existing customers are more likely to become repeat customers. Can I get a hell yeah?! Also with email lists, conversion rates are high. According to opt in monster article on May 29th, 2018. So this is very recently guys, there are 2.6 billion - billion with a b email - users versus 1.7 billion facebook users. So email is pretty much like double, Speaker 2:                    03:29               um, Speaker 1:                    03:31               the amount of facebook users are. So you just have a bigger audience to work with in the first place. Not everyone is on facebook. My cousin who's in his twenties is not on facebook. My fiance, who's, you know, 35 has a facebook account, but he literally never ever, ever, ever logs in. Unless I tell him, hey, you need to go contact this person or there's an event we're going to, you need to respond to. Some people just aren't that active on facebook, but everyone is on email for 58 percent of people email us their first check of the day so they may wake up and grab their phone and immediately what do they do? Look at their email or maybe they have breakfast, have their coffee drive to work, and then what do they do? They look at their email first thing, Speaker 2:                    04:20               um, Speaker 1:                    04:22               and only, I mean that's versus only 11 percent of people who look at facebook first part of the day. Um, and you also have to take into account different age groups, like what's your target audience? This and that. I'm someone checking facebook first thing in the day. They may be out on school break or may not have, you know, a huge to do list that day. So that kind of factors into also who you're trying to target. Okay. So 77 percent of people find promotional material acceptable in email. What that means, Hey, if you're sending a promotion, people aren't gonna be offended if you send them an email about it. They're like, yeah, that's cool. That's what email is for. This is where I want to look up sales and coupons and deals. Like I don't want to see it on my social media feed. I'm only four percent of people find it acceptable to see promotional material on facebook that's supposed to be this intimate time for their friends and family. That's what facebook was originally. It was supposed to be connecting with first your college friends. Um, and then it kind of extended and it's more of your family now and whatever, but that's opposed to be social. It's not supposed to be where you're shopping. Like you don't want to get on facebook to shop. Um, you want to get on facebook to see who had acute new baby or um, you know, who went to the beach last weekend. Speaker 2:                    05:51               Um, Speaker 1:                    05:53               so emails deliver an excellent Roi which is return on investment for those of you who might not know, um, which has 21 percent of the time versus a facebook and twitter ads are about 15 percent Roi. So get this guys, 66 percent of consumers have made a purchase because of a promo email. How cool is that? Sixty six percent. I think that's pretty good. Uh, versus only 20 percent has made a purchase based on a facebook promotion. So that Kinda shows you, hey, like people are kind of turned off by seeing, you know, promotions and ads on their facebook newsfeed. They're kind of like, Ugh, gross. Like I don't want to see that here. Um, but you know, in their email it's totally acceptable. Speaker 1:                    06:45               Email reaches 79 percent of the people you send it to 'em and this is the average global inbox placement rate. Just Fyi, facebook's organic reach. Get this guys, this is crazy. It's declined to about one to six percent, one to six percent. How crazy is that? What does Mark Zuckerberg doing? I mean, really, really? So you put all this effort and energy into, you know, posting something on facebook or instagram and facebook's organic reach, like they're literally, they're trying to force people to buy ads so that your stuff even get seen, which is crazy. Like they should not, I mean in my opinion, and this is my opinion, but I don't think they, I understand they have to get paid. Okay? Like, yes, everyone has to get paid, totally get that, but it's just not fair. It's just not fair to, you know, basically fuck with the algorithm that much to try to force people into paying for ads just to be seen on facebook. Speaker 1:                    07:47               Like, Hey, facebook, guess what? You're not that important email as a way better. I'm a statistics than and reach and effectiveness than you do. And so you're only hurting yourself. You're only hurting yourself. Facebook declining the organic reach, you know, maybe you could say, oh, ads have a boost that organic reach doesn't, but don't fuck with it and make it, you know, totally obsolete. That's just not cool. Like, no one's going to be on a platform if they can't, um, you know, share the cool things that they're doing. Um, yeah, so that means if you're, your pays, blah, blah, blah, I can't talk. That means if you're posting on facebook, only one to six percent of your facebook fans will actually see your posts, which really totally blows. So the bottom line is email has far greater reach than social media if you couldn't figure that out already. Speaker 1:                    08:47               So you're probably thinking, how do I get started? Well, I'm glad you asked. I'm here to tell you. So the first thing you want to do is choose an email service provider and I'm going to recommend three different options for you guys. So the first one is convert kit. Now I can't personally recommend convertkit because I've never used it, but I hear people rave about it all the time. So it may be one that you want to look into. Some of the pros are that it allows you to tag customers so that you can target them more effectively. And bloggers love it. Um, it's really helpful for small businesses and um, and sending like a content upgrades for your blog posts. It's easy to send those downloads and that kind of thing. Uh, some of the cons are it's $29 a month for the bottom tier guys. Speaker 1:                    09:40               So they have zero freemium option. There's no free option for if you're just starting out and it's not the most user friendly in the beginning. Um, I've heard people complain that, you know, um, they had a little bit of a hard time figuring out at first it's not as intuitive starting out, uh, the next email service provider that you could work with is mailchimp. Now, some of the pros of mailchimp is it's free for your first 2000 subscribers. That's pretty cool. I mean, you got to get mail chimp credit for this. Um, it's only $10 a month after that and then the tiers kind of increased from there. And one of the reasons I like mailchimp is because it easily integrates with squarespace. So I use squarespace for my, um, my website. And so mailchimp really easily integrates with them. So it's just like smooth sailing to collect emails from using mailchimp. Speaker 1:                    10:40               Um, and one little other pro is, it's an Atlanta guy, so like come on, we have to support them a little bit. Um, okay. So some of the cons, I will be honest about the cons. Uh, it's, there's no tagging. They have like groups in segmentation, but honestly like it's, it's very hard to, for me at least to figure out, I don't find that very user friendly or easy to manage. And I have heart. I've heard other bloggers complain, um, and really not recommend mailchimp because once they have a really large list, the functionality is not great. So that's something that also think about. They're like, hey, if I could have started with convert kit and I would've saved myself this huge headache once my list kind of exploded because then they had to go back and fix everything and like Redo a lot of their sequences and whatnot. Speaker 1:                    11:32               So that is just word on the street. And then the other Ma, a mail service provider that I do very much recommend and I have used them is mailer lite. Um, they are also free for your first 1000 subscribers, so it's not as many as mailchimp, but it's still great, like your first 1000 subscribers totally free. Um, and then after that it's only $10 a month as you incrementally increased here. So like for the first 1001 to 2,500 subscribers, it's only an extra, it's only $10. And then the next tier is only $20, et cetera. Um, so just as your subscribers increase, your fees increase. Um, the really awesome thing about mailerlite as well is that you can tag your lists to send more targeted emails. So let's say for example, um, as a designer, I, I work with a lot of real estate agents and I also work with bloggers I work with, um, I worked with like financial advisors, et Cetera. Speaker 1:                    12:37               So I might not want to send the same emails to my real estate agent customers as I do to my bloggers because they might have totally different needs and I might even be telling them about a product. Like I came out with this really awesome product. I'm God the real estate portrait Creator and it basically allows you to pick and choose some pre made options, literally over 70 faces and I'm adding more guys like if this is like a mega pack, awesome. 14 different houses and scenery. There's male realtors, there's female realtors on and on and on, different outfits. Um, and anyway, I would want to let my real estate customers know about that, but if I send an email to my entire list, then my, you know, blogger, customers are going to be like, I'm not a real estate agent. Why is she sending me this? Speaker 1:                    13:31               Like this is annoying. So like tagging your list is, is important. So that's the really awesome thing about mailer lite. I love them and I do use them in conjunction with mailchimp. The only con I can see so far is that it doesn't directly integrate with squarespace, which is the website I use, website hosting. I use and I think you can get around this with I'm doing a Zapier, a doing a zap, um, and it Kinda. Zapier basically connects different apps together. Um, and I tried to do that with mailer lite and I wasn't successful then I just kind of gave up because I didn't have time to spend hours trying to get it to work. So anyway, I'm still using mailchimp and as I'm a, I'm just in order to basically, uh, remember what customers are who are signing up for my email list. I'm just creating different lists in mail champs so I just have so many different lists in mailchimp. So eventually I can bring those over to mailer lite and just tag them. Um, and then I can target my audience really easily. Okay. So Speaker 1:                    14:42               after you choose a provider, convertkit, mailchimp, mailer lite, it's your choice. You have to decide what's best for you. I'm, you're gonna want to create a list for your email subscribers and you could just do like a basic one for now if you just have something very generic like a blog post that has, um, I dunno, organization tips or something that could be useful for anyone. Um, you could just make a subscriber's list will do for now. And then the next thing you want to do is you want to create newsletter signups all over your website. Now you want them to be strategically placed so that they're not too annoying, but at the same time like you want it to be seen. I feel like as as um, designers especially, but as any creative entrepreneur, we'd get a little bit nervous about, you know, annoying people, we don't want to annoy people, but I find that there's a healthy balance between pushing yourself a little bit out of your comfort zone and feel like you're being a little bit annoying. Speaker 1:                    15:44               That's probably the right amount because honestly guys, like people just get bombarded with everything. Email, social media, whatever everyday. So if you just send or you know, like anyway, you get the point, you do need them all over your website or nobody's going to see them and nobody's going to sign up. I'm so you're going to feel like slightly annoying probably if this is new to you, but don't worry about it, you're really not. And that's, you know, that's the way people are going to sign up if they want to. If they don't, they won't. Um, so you'll kind of be able to see if it's working or not. And so you may be thinking, well, okay, so I put these all over my website, but what if no one signs up? Okay, so sometimes you do have to entice people to give you their email address. Speaker 1:                    16:34               Why would they just, you know, people get bombarded with emails every day, so they're going to be a little bit hesitant, but what you can do, and this is a strategy that tons of people use and it's very highly effective. I'm offer a crazy, awesome freebie in exchange for their email address. Now, sometimes this feels like you're working for free, but if you can see the longterm picture, it's really totally worth it because you need leads coming into your business every single day. So you need to offer a really crazy, awesome Freebie, something that would probably you would normally charge for, but you just do the work once and people get to download it. It needs to be something downloadable. You don't want to sound like a hat because then you have to like pay for shipping every time someone gives you their email address, so you don't need to do that. Speaker 1:                    17:24               You just need to spend a few hours and create a really valuable pdf checklist. Um, she, she, um, as a designer I have offered for free real estate logos, so that's something that, uh, is really great for people that are just starting out and I hope I can help them out with that. Um, and then I hope they also see like maybe once they start earning some good money, they get some commissions, then maybe they want to come back and get kind of the full branding package, um, instead of just like a little house icon logo. Um, but that's a great starting point for my real estate agent customers. Okay. So you'll see here an example of my for, for your real estate logos, and the button says, give me for free logos and so they have to click on it and then enter in their name and email address. Speaker 1:                    18:18               Now, uh, this new law recently went into effect, uh, the GDPR, which I'm sure you got a million emails about, but you need to make sure every email signup that you have on your website is gdpr compliance. Uh, this is important, so it's not that hard. It's not that big of a deal, but what you do need is a privacy policy on your website and you can google, you know, how to do that for your business and just kind of like copy a template or something like that. Um, and then you need a disclaimer. Every time you ask for someone's email address, basically you just need transparency and telling them what you're doing. And so my disclaimer says, by signing up for this freebie offer, you agree to join our email list and receive occasional updates, we will never give your information to a third party and you can unsubscribe at anytime. Speaker 1:                    19:09               Please read our privacy policy here and I have a hyperlink to have my privacy policy so that everything is very clear and transparent. Um, and then if you're using mailchimp, I'm especially, you can do a double opt in, which is an even kind of an extra safety check. So you know, when people do sign up with your to get your free offer, your Freebie, they have to double opt in, which can sometimes be annoying because sometimes it goes to their junk folder and they don't see it and then they never get their freebie and are kind of wondering what happened. But you can try to follow up with those people, especially in the beginning. Speaker 1:                    19:46               Here is also an example of my landing page. So when you first go to my website, you'll see, um, what's up fool. I'm Lauren, Leslie, portrait, illustrator and designer. And then the very next thing you see at the bottom of the landing page is grab your free surprise and I'm asking for their first name and email address. So you know, people might not do that right away, but there is a little trick in sales that says people have to see things seven times before they buy. And I would be willing to bet the same thing is true with giving you their email address, so you just want to kind of make it very easy for them to sign up for your email address and put it all over your website. Okay. So the next thing you want to do is write a freaking email. It's gonna be weird. Speaker 1:                    20:33               At first it was weird for me. I didn't know what to say. I just was kind of blabbing on and then I was telling people about my new products and a few people on subscribed, which is always disappointing. But now I feel like I'm in a much better rhythm and I'm telling people that they actually want to hear about. Um, and I feel like I've really gotten comfortable with my own voice when I'm writing emails. Um, instead of sounding too quote unquote professional or Stoic, you know, you want to really put your personality in your emails, but the only way to get to that point is to start. So you just have to start somewhere. Don't worry about it, don't stress about it. And don't worry if people unsubscribe because new people are going to start subscribing everyday. Hopefully once you get that really awesome freebie up. Speaker 1:                    21:21               Okay? So your subscribers obviously signed up your email list for a reason. They love you and they want to hear from you and you don't want them to forget about you. So you know, if you, I mean, how many times have you gone to, you know, pinterest and then you ended up on some blog and it maybe it was a cool recipe or maybe it was something and you ended up subscribing for their email list, but then you never heard from them again and you totally forgot about them. But in contrast, maybe you did the same thing, but you hear from this person regularly and you were like, oh yeah, like if I need a recipe, I know I can go to this Vegan blog or whatever it is. Um, and it just like, Speaker 1:                    22:01               it just makes sure that you don't forget who they are. So you don't want your customers to forget about you. You spend a lot of time on this Freebie. Make sure that you are emailing them at least once a month. I would say like people say once a week, but at least once a month. I would email them when they first get their Freebie you want to send them, I would say three to four emails and you can space it out if you are scared about being annoying you, you could send the first email and then two to three days later a setup, a sequence where another email sends to them and then two to three days later another email sense to them and then you can kind of cool it and maybe email them once every week, two weeks, three weeks or once a month. But definitely keep emailing them because they're going to forget who you are if you don't and then you just wasted all this time and you know your potential lead is Kinda gone. Speaker 1:                    22:51               So you definitely want to do that. I'm not rules in next steps. I mean this is pretty obvious guys, but just don't spam people. I mean obviously that's probably the opposite of what you're thinking. You're probably scared to send an email in the first place because you don't want to seem spammy, but for those of you who are a little bit more ambitious, just, you know, don't spam the hell out of people like people hate that they're going to unsubscribe. Just bring value and be yourself and people will like getting your emails. That'll be fun. Oh, I'm going to be something they can kind of check when they're first getting out of bed or when they're sitting in a doctor's office kind of bored. Um, okay. So you. And then you want to set up an ongoing email sequence that's on autopilot so that way you're not having to like, scramble and Think, Oh my God, what am I going to email everyone this week? Speaker 1:                    23:43               You just want to set up a few at, I would say at least five to six initial emails just to get started. Um, and then you can tweak them later if you want to kind of change what they say or whatever. At first, do you want to thank them for signing up? Second, you want to give the full their freebie. They signed up for a reason, give them their Freebie, next, tell them your personal story. So we don't want to get personal all the time, like we don't want to be like, here's a picture of my dog today for like 30 days in a row because people are like, I don't, I don't get it. I don't care about your dog, like whatever. But if they are interested in something like getting a real estate logo from you or you're interested in their, um, recipes and maybe eventually you're going to buy their cookbook. Speaker 1:                    24:28               They want to know your personal story. They want to know who they're buying from and they want to really be able to connect with you. So share with them. Everyone has a story and everyone has been through something really shitty in their life but hopefully has a positive outlook on it. I mean, for me, like when I tell my personal story in my emails sequence, I want people to know, you know, that I'm not perfect and I'm not. I don't have this perfect life. Like my dad took his own life when I was six years old. And that really sucked, you know, and it still sucks, but I was really able to like dive into my art and in a way I think that my creativity kind of saved me. It was my strength, it gave me strength. Um, and then I kind of talk about, you know, my steps in my career, you know, how I was an art major in school. Speaker 1:                    25:17               And then I had my first job as a t shirt designer. I decided I wanted to do graphic design and not fine art full time. So that's what I did. And then, you know, that wasn't really a great fit. So I got my first or my second big girl job. I say my big girl job as a textile designer at a home decor company in Atlanta. And that's when I finally got to kind of say peace out Spartanburg, Spartanburg. It's my home. But I mean it just wasn't a good fit for me long term in terms if I want it to be a designer. Like I would have not been able to progress like I have in a big city like Atlanta. So that was just such a better fit for me and I'm so I really flourished here in Atlanta, so that's something that I tell my customers and they love it. Speaker 1:                    26:04               Like I've had people respond and be like, wow, thanks for telling me this like, and it hopefully makes them want to do business with me because they know that I'm a real person and I have struggles, but I also have successes and we're more alike than we are different. Um, so another idea for an email in your sequence is to share your best resources and tools. So if you use a program like a sauna or Trello, you can say how wonderful it is at project management. It helps you play in your blog posts or whatever your projects are in your business. You can talk about that. Um, you can talk about what kind of equipment you use, what books are you reading, if you have some cool business books that you're reading. I read entrepreneurial you by Dorie Clark who loved it, wrote a blog post about it. That's awesome. Um, recently read or I listened to the audio book, Anna Kendrick, scrappy little nobody. Oh my God, she's a freaking hilarious. You guys have to listen to her audio book. Don't read the book, listen to the audio book because she is so perfect in it and she's, her personality really comes through her voice and with her narrating the whole thing. It's just, it's pretty great. So that's another idea for your email list. Just share some cool resources and tools and like things that have inspired you in your business lately. Speaker 1:                    27:24               And then, um, at the end of your email sequence you can offer our prayer a, sorry, a paid product that is relevant to the Freebie that they wanted. So like my example of the real estate agents I'm giving for free real estate logos. But what I can do at the end of my sequence is say, hey, like I also have this paid product that's so much better than the four Fri logo. So like whenever you're interested, here it is. I hope you'll buy it Speaker 3:                    27:53               sometime at some point Speaker 1:                    27:56               and then you just want to make sure to remind them of how to find you on social. So I know this whole kind of videos about why email is so much better than social, but that's not to say that social isn't important. You still want to be able to connect with people on social. They want to be able to see your pictures. See that again, it's just another way for them to see that you are a real person for them to get inspired. It's just another point of contact. So while email is number one, you definitely also want to connect with your customers and leads on social, especially if they maybe a little hesitant to give you their email address. Maybe that's, you know, the second best thing you can do. Speaker 3:                    28:36               Um, Speaker 1:                    28:37               so, uh, I wanted to also let you guys know where to find me in case you ever want to work with me. My website is Lauren Leslie Dot Com a l a U R e n l e s l e y Dot Com. Lauren. Leslie Leslie as my middle name. I like the alliteration, that's why I chose it. Okay, so a click the link in the show notes to get the link to your email providers. And these are affiliate links guys. Um, but it's, that's great. It's a win win for you and me because with the affiliate links I can make a little bit of money, but still keep these videos totally free for you guys. So help us out. Speaker 1:                    29:19               Okay. So if you guys have any other ideas on why you love an email list or if you have any other email hosts, providers you want to recommend or any other ideas for an email sequence, please leave a comment in the notes below. And that way we can all share ideas. That'd be really great. And don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel. Click the little button in the right hand lower corner and to get notified, click the little bell so that way you won't miss the next episode. And if you are on facebook, you can definitely join our facebook group. It's called the design tribe. So you can go to facebook.com/groups/design tribe. Lauren, Leslie, um, and I will also be live streaming videos in the facebook group, so that's a great place to find me. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you next time. Bye guys.  

On today's episode of the Encouraging Health Series, we're going to heat things up a bit just in time for Valentine's Day. Join me as I talk with Natalie Hjelsvold. You can connect with Natalie and find out more about her at the following links: Follow me on Twitter: @vivaciousvixens; Read My Blog: http://www.vixennatalie.blogspot.com; Phone 403-618-9463

On today's episode of the Encouraging Health Series, we're going to heat things up a bit just in time for Valentine's Day. Join me as I talk with Natalie Hjelsvold. You can connect with Natalie and find out more about her at the following links: Follow me on Twitter: @vivaciousvixens; Read My Blog: http://www.vixennatalie.blogspot.com; Phone 403-618-9463