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Abbey is hilarious, and a vintage clothing expert. She finds the most amazing pieces for her shop, The Peach Vintage and is designing original pieces that are beautiful for all body types. If you haven't seen her reels yet, run don't walk. She is one of my favorite content creators on Instagram and she even created a Reels Course! The Peach Vintage Website The Peach Vintage Instagram Graphic Design Contract Template Get 40% off an annual Skillshare membership here!!! designbeatpodcast.com Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co  Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

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Kiersty Loughmiller from the legal formative shed some light on all the legal things creative business owners need to know. We talked about copyrights, trademarks, contracts, and what to expect when working with a lawyer. 

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Kiersty's Instagram 

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Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

Introducing Jaz, the 6 figure Design Superwoman turned Pricing Queen. Jaz is an Aussie creative teaching pricing through courses, resources and tomato sauces… ok maybe not the last one. Passionate about pricing, pie and puns, shes all about helping transform her students from Starving Artists to Hungry Creatives. In this episode we talk about all of that plus Survivor, Australian maternity leave (mind blown), and what her 14 years in the industry has looked like!

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Easy as Pie Pricing Calculator 

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

This week we're talking with Katie Johnson and Ilana Griffo from Loomier! Loomier is the ultimate resource for artists who mean business. Katie and Ilana are artists who have been in the industry for a long time and decided to start Loomier to help people turn their artistic passion into a sustainable business. In this interview we talk about finding your passion, following your passion, romanticizing your life and we even have a really great conversation about mental health.  Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and connecting with you guys!

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Ilana's Instagram 

Katie's Instagram

Loomier.co

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

Joy is an Illustrator, artist and maker based in New Jersey and she was such a delight to chat with! She illustrates puzzles, she has paint by number kits and she's got a painting book coming out! I loved how joy was sharing specifics on her process and the tools she uses. We talked about finding your artistic voice through creating work in large quantities and drawing from inspiration, and the challenges of being an artist on Instagram right now. You're going to love this one!

Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and connecting with you guys!

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Joy's Website

Pretty Simple Painting Book!

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

This is a short and sweet Halloween episode where I (Lauren) tell some listener submitted stories and a few of my own. Let me know if you'd like to hear more episodes in this format! 

Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and connecting with you guys!

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

Today we're talking with traveling muralist Sarah Meitler. We were honored that Sarah took a break from her painting day in North Carolina to have a quick chat with us. We talk about finding clients, her mural process, insurance... She even turns her laptop and shows us the amazing view out her window! I will post a video on Instagram stories. 

Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and connecting with you guys!

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Sarah's Website

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

Today we're talking with another one of my Design Biz Mastery ladies, Abbey McGrew from Wayfarer Design Studio!! Abbey travels the world for her husband'd job and she's currently living in Romania! Abbey is the founder of Wayfarer, a full-service design studio that elevates premium brands to a place of meaning, purpose, and newfound confidence.

She has become known not only for her design work, but also her openness about the struggles of freelancing. Through her course, The Designer Essentials Club, template shop and 1:1 coaching, Abbey teaches designers how to streamline their process and finally feel confident while working with clients. 

Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and connecting with you guys!

Abbey's website

Abbey's Instagram

The Designer Essentials Club

The Designer Essentials Kit

Other links:

Graphic Design Contract Template Use code: LOYALLISTENER for 50% off!!

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Get 40% off an annual Skillshare membership here!!!

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

I think you guys are going to be very excited about our guests today! This is our first interview ever with multiple guests! Today we are hearing from Phoebe and Roxy from PANDR! They create custom art installations and murals around the globe and one thing we really appreciate about them is that they are on a mission to end the starving artist stereotype. They have a plethora of resources for designers on their website and tons of helpful and fun content on their Instagram and TikTok as well. I'll link those in the show notes so have fun hopping into those rabbit holes! In this interview we talk about PANDR's origin story and how they got their start, red flags to watch out for when vetting potential clients, outreach and how important it is in landing clients, and some fun projects they have coming up! Phoebe and Roxy are fun and gracious and so generous in supporting the art community, you're going to love them!

Tag us and share your thoughts on social media if you're listening and resonate with anything we or a guest have shared lately—we LOVE seeing and connecting with you guys!

PANDR Website

PANDR Instagram

Phoebe and Roxy's book: Wonder Walls

Ladies Who Paint Website

Ladies Who Paint Instagram

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Get 40% off an annual Skillshare membership here!!!

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle

Today we're talking with Cymone Wilder from Simon and Moose. She is a full time graphic designer by day, amazing lettering artist by night. She has some really cool creative processes and uses some unique methods and materials to create her artwork, so it was really fun to hear the behind the scenes on that! 

For those of you who missed it, last week we launched a graphic design contract template! Thank you all for your support on that!!  It is thorough, peer reviewed contract, made in collaboration with my lawyer Kiersty Loughmiller. I always say hiring your own lawyer is the best option, but a contract template like this drafted by a lawyer is the next best and a super affordable option. So check that out! 

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@simonandmoose on Instagram

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Design Beat Instagram: @designbeatpodcast

Lauren's website: laurenkunz.com Instagram: @laurenkunzzz

Steph's website: martelloandco.com Instagram: @martello.co 

Intro/Outro music: Mark Carlisle