Shaun Crha

Building a business that still feels like it’s yours. If you’ve been listening to the podcast this year, you know we’ve spent a lot of time sharing our own thoughts on what it actually means to build a business that’s aligned with your values. So it felt timely in our recent conversation with Julia Miller

The Best Part of Being a Designer Has Nothing to Do With Design For a profession that’s built on collaboration, we designers spend an awful lot of time trying to do everything ourselves. We learn to draw, we learn construction, we answer plumbing questions, solve electrical problems, manage schedules, source products, build presentations, run businesses,

BECOMING A BUSINESS PEOPLE WANT TO GROW WITH As my business grows, I’ve been thinking a lot about hiring, support, sustainability, and what it actually takes to build an enduring team. And honestly, one of the most humbling parts of building a team is realizing how much growth is also requires from me as the

Time Blocking isn’t sexy, but its LOWKEY saving my NERVOUS system I’ve been quietly experimenting with time blocking since January, not in a hyper-optimized, color-coded productivity influencer way, but in a “I cannot keep living like this” way. It was actually one of the goals I set coming out of a business retreat in January

SO IT TURNS OUT THAT MARKETING WORKS Rebecca and I just spent five days in January on a business retreat with an intimate group of our design besties. Most people wouldn’t be so enthusiastic to visit the Lodi, CA wine country in the middle of winter, but we put this retreat together with some big

STOP MAKING PRETTY PROPOSALS, START MAKING LOCKED-IN SCOPES OF WORK If you caught Episode 160 with Renee Biery, you already know she came in hot with a truth bomb: designers are spending way too much time making their proposals gorgeous… and not nearly enough time making them useful. And listen, as designers we love a