In this episode my design team and I are coming to you live from Dallas Market Center, in the trenches and on the hunt, talking about how to source efficiently and effectively. We want to share with you our tips on how you can source even without a market center in your backyard.  Debbie Pratt & Megan Fornes are the lead designers behind the brand of ML Interiors Group. Their award-winning designs, amazing client service, and ability to manage large projects allows Michelle Lynne the flexibility to take her business acumen to the public via her Designed For the Creative Mind® outlets. SOCIAL https://mlinteriorsgroup.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mlinteriorsgroup/ https://www.instagram.com/deb_does_design/ https://www.instagram.com/megan_fornes/ Thank you to Satanoff Insurance for their support. Please show them support by contacting them and mentioning you heard about them here.  Website: https://www.satanoffagency.com/ Phone: 610-971-2222 Check out Foyr Interior Design Software. Go to www.foyr.com  To stay in touch with Michelle, please follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/designedforthecreativemind/ and join our Free Facebook Community at InteriorDesignersBusinessLaunchpad Have ideas or suggestions (or want to be considered as a guest on the show)? Email me at [email protected] 

There is a lot of work that goes into running your own design business and you shouldn't have to, nor should you, do all of the work! If anything is outside of your zone of genius, anything other than designing, it's probably time to outsource some of the tasks that need to be done to maintain and grow your business! I promise you will be relieved! You might be good at social media and copywriting, but why not save time by hiring experts so you can focus more on your design work. Just like your an expert at interior design, social media managers, copywriters, and bookkeepers are pros too! You could even outsource your rendering. Your job is to design a beautiful space. Leave the rest to the experts. Take a listen to this episode on more tips on delegating, automating and outsourcing your business!   Thank you to Satanoff Insurance for their support. Please show them support by contacting them and mentioning you heard about them here.  Website: https://www.satanoffagency.com/ Phone: 610-971-2222   Check out Foyr Interior Design Software. Go to foyr.com   To stay in touch with Michelle, please follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/designedforthecreativemind/ and join our Free Facebook Community at InteriorDesignersBusinessLaunchpad   Have ideas or suggestions (or want to be considered as a guest on the show)? Email me at [email protected]

Jill Malouf is an award-winning abstract artist in Dallas, Texas. Her paintings evoke a sense of  calm and peacefulness through subtle custom color palettes and inspiration from nature.    Her artwork captures more than just the literal view. Jill creates a mood or an essence and lets  the viewer's imagination fill in the rest…A favorite vacation…A memory of a loved one.   Jill is self-taught and has developed her own ‘secret sauce’ for creating custom textures and translucence. Her intensive, process driven approach is built upon ever-evolving layers and  spontaneous changes. “I love the slow process of building layer upon layer. Lingering in the  moment is both the requirement and the reward.”     More About Jill: Instagram: @artist_jillmalouf www.instagram.com/artist_jillmalouf Website: www.jillmalouf.com Facebook:www.facebook.com/jill.malouf Contact: [email protected]   Thank you to Satanoff Insurance for their support. Please show them support by contacting them and mentioning you heard about them here.  Website: https://www.satanoffagency.com/ Phone: 610-971-2222   Check out Foyr Interior Design Software. Go to foyr.com To stay in touch with Michelle, please follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/designedforthecreativemind/ and join our Free Facebook Community at InteriorDesignersBusinessLaunchpad   Have ideas or suggestions (or want to be considered as a guest on the show)? Email me at [email protected]

Michelle Lynne began her interior design career after spending more than two decades working in Corporate America. She began in the home staging arena and has since built a successful, award-winning, full-service interior design firm, employing talented designers and serving clients across the country. In the summer of 2018, Michelle began focusing on a big gap she saw missing in the interior design industry: teaching interior designers how to run the business of an interior design business. She now engages in private coaching and leads an in-depth, 12-month group coaching program, both options focus on teaching designers profitable processes, systems, strategies, and mindset needed to run a streamlined, profitable interior design firm. Her motto is simple: we rise by lifting others. Get to know Michele Lynne a little better and learn how and why the “Designed for the Creative Mind” division of ML Interiors Group came about.  SOCIAL https://mlinteriorsgroup.com/ https://www.designedforthecreativemind.com/ Feel like there is never enough time in the day to do ALL THE THINGS you need to do in your business? Listen in to learn six tips I use to maximize productivity in my business. Whether your goals are personal or professional, knowing what they are and doing them are two totally different things. Get in the habit of disciplining yourself by using these time management tips and watch your productivity soar. Thank you to Satanoff Insurance for their support. Please show them support by contacting them and mentioning you heard about them here.  Website: https://www.satanoffagency.com/ Phone: 610-971-2222 Thank you to Foyr for their support. Foyr is a lightning-fast, interior design software that creates photorealistic renderings. Don’t leave your beautiful designs up to the imagination of your client, when you can show them what their space is going to look like. Find them at www.foyr.com  To stay in touch with Michelle, please follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/designedforthecreativemind/ and join our Free Facebook Community at InteriorDesignersBusinessLaunchpad Have ideas or suggestions (or want to be considered as a guest on the show)? Email me at [email protected] 

Nicole Laino is a startup Founder (Hilo CRM), brand strategist, peak performance coach, Reiki master/teacher and the host of the Limitless Entrepreneur Podcast. She spent 6 years in corporate at a Fortune 100 company before leaving her career for entrepreneurship. Affectionately referring to herself as a Type-A hippie (a free-spirit who can grow a business and meet a deadline) Nicole has found and understands that to be truly successful in business you have to be both strategic and spiritual. She combines proven marketing strategies with brain-based science, and her experience as a Rapid Manifestation Method Practitioner to help her clients overcome their limiting beliefs, develop their authentic brand, and achieve massive success.   SOCIAL: Nicole delivers free training every single week inside her Facebook community – you can join the group by visiting www.innerceogroup.com and follow her on Instagram at @niclaino. https://www.instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial/   Entrepreneurship isn’t easy. Do you show up as the powerful CEO you are? Does fear hold you back? Or are you afraid of “being too much?”    Lean into your badass-ness and hear about some key steps to developing your CEO Mindset. Hint: everything you want is already within you when you step into your power.   Business is mindset + mechanics.    Listen to business coach, Nicole Laino, as she shares her insight about how we are often the biggest obstacle in our own way and gain some tools to kick some of these excuses to the curb.   Thank you to Satanoff Insurance for their support. Please show them support by contacting them and mentioning you heard about them here.    Website: https://www.satanoffagency.com/ Phone: 610-971-2222 To stay in touch with Michelle, please follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/designedforthecreativemind/ and join our Free Facebook Community at InteriorDesignersBusinessLaunchpad   Have ideas or suggestions (or want to be considered as a guest on the show)? Email me at [email protected]

Rick Campos is a self proclaimed “recovering interior designer” with fifteen years of experience in luxury residential design. In 2019 Rick said goodbye to client relations and hello to the INFLUENCER side of the design industry with a mission to support and promote the rise of our design community. Design Biz Survival Guide is a multi faceted platform that includes a podcast, personalized business consulting services, an online community and a lecture series. Rick is passionate about sharing information and inspiration with fellow design professionals. Rick’s goal is to empower design professionals and entrepreneurs to be the very best they can be, one conversation at a time… SOCIAL https://www.designbizsurvivalguide.com/ https://www.instagram.com/designbizsurvivalguide/ https://www.facebook.com/DesignBizSurvivalGuide/     Practicing what she preaches, Michelle invites another interior design business coach and consultant to talk about why our industry needs to embrace community over competition.    Rick Campos is passionate about informing, inspiring and empowering design professionals and shares his experiences and wisdom about staying true to who you are. Finding your own lane is where happiness in business (and life) comes from, and it might not look like what you imagined.   Enjoy two of the industry’s top thought leaders discussing how  there IS room for everybody in this community.  Thank you to Satanoff Insurance for their support. Please show them support by contacting them and mentioning you heard about them here.    Website: https://www.satanoffagency.com/ Phone: 610-971-2222 To stay in touch with Michelle, please follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/designedforthecreativemind/ and join our Free Facebook Community at InteriorDesignersBusinessLaunchpad   Have ideas or suggestions (or want to be considered as a guest on the show)? Email me at [email protected]

The brand, Michelle Lynne Interiors, began as a one-woman show and has evolved into a team of talented interior designers who collaborate, challenge, and inspire each other to create personality-filled and luxuriously livable spaces our clients love. We treasure our client’s trust and believe each job is significant. We aren’t fussy and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We are a group of creatives who take pride in our portfolio and look forward to making our clients’ homes happier and more efficient.   SOCIAL https://mlinteriorsgroup.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mlinteriorsgroup/ https://www.instagram.com/deb_does_design/ https://www.instagram.com/megan_fornes/   Meet Debbie Pratt & Megan Fornes, the design geniuses behind the beautiful spaces ML Interiors Group creates. Listen to how the team has evolved and how the collaboration of this group of women allowed Michelle Lynne to create the Designed For the Creative Mind division of the company.    The synergy between the team can be felt as they finish each other's sentences, laugh and joke with each other, all while discussing how the processes, procedures and standards that dictate ML Interiors Group provides them with more creativity, time and fulfillment.   Thank you to Satanoff Insurance for their support. Please show them support by contacting them and mentioning you heard about them here.    Website: https://www.satanoffagency.com/ Phone: 610-971-2222   To stay in touch with Michelle, please follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/designedforthecreativemind/ and join our Free Facebook Community at InteriorDesignersBusinessLaunchpad   Have ideas or suggestions (or want to be considered as a guest on the show)? Email me at [email protected]