'Being Home With Hunker' is a podcast for people who crave transformation and inspiration within their homes. Each week, host and producer Laurie Gunning Grossman (Editorial Director at Hunker.com) talks with interior designers, artists, DIYers, and industry insiders around the concept of home. Topics include home design tips, home decorating tips, renovation ideas, feng shui, home organizing, and how to create spaces that reflect and support our identities.
If you love home design and decor, if you’re curious about how people live, or if you’ve been transitioning or transforming your own home, you’ll love these helpful conversations.
Being Home With a Biophilic Designer, Feng Shui Expert, and Interior Designer (Alejandra Brady)
Episode 97
Monday, March 13, 2023 • Duration 35:24
Today on the show we have Alejandra Brady, a biophilic designer, feng shui expert, interior designer, and author.
Alejandra explains how these three modalities — biophilic design, feng shui, and interior design — support each other in the world of home design and decor.
In this conversation, you’ll learn about biophilic design, which Alejandra describes as the modern feng shui. It’s about bringing nature back into the manmade environment.
She shares actionable tips on how to implement biophilic design within your home — no matter your budget or where you live.
Alejandra also shares tips on how to amplify the wealth and career areas of our homes through the trifecta of, you guessed it, feng shui, biophilic design, and interior design. She has great ideas on how the items we use in these spaces can do double or triple duty, covering all the bases of these three modalities. Also, you’ll want to hear what she doesn’t recommend we keep in our career center; she shares ideas for beneficial crystals to place under our pillows or beds; plus, she tells us her top three favorite feng shui cures she uses wherever she goes.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded, edited, and mixed at Night Shift Audio. Jonathan Grossman is BHWH's audio producer.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.
ABOUT HUNKER
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Being Home With a Home Organizing Expert (Megan Golightly of Simplified)
Episode 96
Monday, March 6, 2023 • Duration 26:58
Today on the show we have Meg Golightly, home organizing expert, and founder of Simplified.
For Meg, home organizing is not just about putting things in their place.
She says, "My interest in home organization has evolved from a lifelong fascination with how our brains work reinforced by my degree in psychology and my ongoing interest in neuroscience.”
She believes we all have reasons as to why we hang on to things. And everybody struggles with clutter. Everybody. However, there’s a cost to clutter.
And that we can’t get to where we want to be until we let go.
And so, Meg does more than just show us how to organize — she goes deeper. There’s one important step she believes we all must do before we organize, and she shares it in this conversation.
She also offers tips on where and how to start in the organizing process, as well as the three questions she has her clients answer before starting the organizing process.
We also talk about how find her favorite organizing tools; why she creates “towns” for her stuff at home; and finally, she shares expert ways to organize a pantry. We all know how much we love seeing a well-organized pantry!
If you’re ready to make space in your home — both literally and figuratively — this conversation for you.
On the Being Home With Hunker podcast in January host Laurie Gunning Grossman talked about the one room in the home that is deemed to be THE most important; astrologist Ophira Edut of The AstroTwins shared 2023 predictions; Teri Fisher of Spoon Fork Bacon talked about one of our favorite subjects: recipes; Aya Kanai of Google Shopping spoke of innovative tools to help us shop for home decor; and we highlighted some ways that we can all elevate the energy of our work desk.
We’re giving you short clips from each conversation, basically a taste of who we had on the show and the topics we talked about.
So, enjoy this recap. If you’re interested in hearing the full episodes, you can find them right here on the Being Home With Hunker podcast or click below.
Your Work Desk Needs These Feng Shui and Aromatherapy Ideas
Episode 86
Monday, January 30, 2023 • Duration 08:46
If you’re someone who spends a lot of time at your work desk, it makes sense that you would want your desk to be set up in the most supportive, creative, and prosperous way.
Of course, you want to consider the ergonomics of your desk so you can feel comfortable and keep your neck, back, and wrist pain at bay while working.
But this conversation is not about the ergonomics of your desk – it’s about the energy of your desk and workspace. Specifically, energy that’s created by employing feng shui and aromatherapy.
First, I talk with feng shui expert Amanda Gibby Peters about using feng shui when setting up your work desk.
Then, I talk with aromatherapist Amy Galper about how to use therapeutic essential oils at our desk.
At the end of this episode, you’ll have some concrete ideas to try when setting up your desk so you can create the most positive, supportive, and dare I say lovely energy while working.
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODES WITH AMANDA GIBBY PETERS AND AMY GALPER
2023 Shopping Trends in the Home Space According to Google (BHWH Quick Tip)
Episode 85
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 • Duration 04:47
This is a clip from our recent conversation with Aya Kanai, Head of Editorial and Creative for Google Shopping.
We're talking shopping trends. Here Aya shares what people are searching and shopping for on Google in the home design and decor space. Ever heard of jewelry for the home? Learn more from Aya on this episode.
Being Home With the Head of Editorial & Creative at Google Shopping (Aya Kanai)
Episode 84
Monday, January 23, 2023 • Duration 31:24
Today on the show we have Aya Kanai, Head of Editorial and Creative for Google Shopping.
Did you know that people shop with Google more than 1 billion times per day?
This is one of the many reasons why I was thrilled to talk with Aya (formerly an editor/director in fashion and beauty) because she has an inside look at shopping trends and habits for 2023 in the home decor and design space, and beyond. It’s interesting to hear what people are searching for right now – and what’s important to them when deciding where they want to put their money (especially for Gen Z and Gen Alpha).
In this conversation, Aya offers insight on the Google shopping experience, including Google’s tools and filters such as 3D imagery and AR. Doesn’t the idea of taking 3D imagery of furniture and putting it in your space to see how it looks in your home or backyard before you buy sound so helpful?
Aya shares some personal thoughts on her own home, including her decor style; what she can’t live without and what brings her great joy when she’s at home; and what she loves most about New York City.
Aya and I agree that how we shop for ourselves – what we choose to put in our homes or on our bodies – is not just about buying things to amass stuff; it’s about purchasing products that help express who we are in the world. Every shopping decision we make is an opportunity to create, support, and tell our personal stories.
Make Your Kitchen More Efficient: Tips From a Food Blogger (BHWH Quick Tips)
Episode 83
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 • Duration 04:39
Teri Lyn Fisher, food photographer and co-founder of Spoon Fork Bacon, a food and recipes site, shares her top tips for creating an efficient kitchen. If space is an issue in your kitchen, you’ll especially love these ideas!
Being Home With Spoon Fork Bacon on Recipes, Cooking, and Food Trends (Teri Fisher)
Episode 82
Monday, January 16, 2023 • Duration 35:24
Today on the Being Home With Hunker podcast we have Teri Fisher, a co-founder of Spoon Fork Bacon.
If you’re into recipes and cooking and food inspo, chances are you’re familiar with Spoon Fork Bacon. It’s a site created by Teri and Jenny Park, offering easy recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner … and beyond.
In this podcast conversation, food is a main topic. Teri shares the recipes that their audience have loved the most, she also shares the recipes that people are usually searching for every January, and the ingredients that she thinks will be trending in 2023.
We also talk about how we can set up a kitchen to make it feel more efficient – and Teri has a lot of opinions on this, thankfully!
She also shares her must-have kitchen tools, the best pans to have, and her favorite kitchen appliance staples.
Oh, and you won’t want to miss her go-to recipe at home. I suspect you might try making it this week.
LEARN MORE ABOUT TERI, JENNY, AND SPOON FORK BACON
ICYMI: Home Organizing, Cheese Boards, and Herbalism (December 2022 Recap)
Episode 81
Friday, January 13, 2023 • Duration 12:03
On the Being Home With Hunker podcast in December, host Laurie Gunning Grossman spoke with Cass Aarssen from Clutterbug on clever ways to help keep our homes feeling organized; sisters Sarah and Boo, owners of the Los Angeles-based cheese shop, Lady & Larder offered tips on how to build a cheese board; Lauren Hayes from Wooden Spoon Herbs shared ways to boost our wellbeing; and we featured a recap from my chat with Leanne Ford on giving ourselves permission to create.
We’re giving you short clips from each conversation, basically a taste of who we had on the show and the topics we talked about.
So, enjoy this recap. If you’re interested in hearing the full episodes, you can find them right here on the Being Home With Hunker podcast.
The AstroTwins are professional astrologers and twin sisters, Ophira and Tali Edut. As authors, the official astrologers for ELLE magazine, and the matchmakers on Amazon Prime Video’s show “Cosmic Love,” their work reaches millions. They have a very approachable and fun way in which they offer information on our horoscopes.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded, edited, and mixed at Night Shift Audio. Jonathan Grossman is BHWH's audio producer.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.
ABOUT HUNKER
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded, edited, and mixed at Night Shift Audio. Jonathan Grossman is BHWH's audio producer.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.
ABOUT HUNKER
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded, edited, and mixed at Night Shift Audio. Jonathan Grossman is BHWH's audio producer.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.
ABOUT HUNKER
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded, edited, and mixed at Night Shift Audio. Jonathan Grossman is BHWH's audio producer.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.
ABOUT HUNKER
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded, edited, and mixed at Night Shift Audio. Jonathan Grossman is BHWH's audio producer.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.
ABOUT HUNKER
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded, edited, and mixed at Night Shift Audio. Jonathan Grossman is BHWH's audio producer.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.
ABOUT HUNKER
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.
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