What happens when a 13 year old budding interior designer suddenly begins to experience that metamorphosis from child to woman, with all its constraints and heightened emotions, and she has just been granted her own bedroom? Meet my special guest this week; Sandra Funk, CEO and Creative Director of House of Funk - an interiors and build/renovate design firm in Franklin, Tennessee. Sandra’s award-winning design work has been featured in publications such as Elle Decor, House Beautiful, The Huffington Post, Aspire Design & Home and Luxe Interiors + Design. When Sandra was 13, she was awarded ..read more

What happens when an award-winning interior designer, #1 Best Selling Author, Style Expert,  Color Expert and Patternista suffers a personal loss? Where does she go to grieve, self nourish and heal? My special guest today is Rachel Moriarty, Chief Creative Officer at Rachel Moriarty Interiors in San Diego, CA. On today’s episode, Rachel and I dive deep into what nourishment looks like from Rachel’s internal empathic lens, and how she grieved the sudden loss of her beloved Grandfather during a redesign of her bedroom for a One Room Challenge event! How did Rachel’s new bedroom help heal he ..read more

What does it mean to be a homebody in today’s world, and why is there such a negative connotation with that word?  My special guest today is Melinda McCoy, Founder and President of The Homebody Fellowship–a Community for Fellow Homebodies. Melinda runs an online membership for those of us who love to be home, and find joy in the simple comforts that center around our homes.  Lean in and listen to this self-professed homebody (and yes, I’m one too!) share all the goodness and nourishment that comes from decorating your own space from the season that is most resonant with your personal ..read more

My special guest today is Andi Yablonski, Principal at Studio Yablanska in San Francisco, California. Andi is also a painter of exquisite oil paintings and believes art is the soul of the home. Andi shares, “Art and accessories make a space feel soulful. I have been slowly working my way toward getting to a place by picking the art first in the beginning of a project so that it informs the space.”  Learn why picking the art first in a project is important and how this fits into Andi’s design philosophy of creating deeply nourishing spaces for her clients. To learn more about Andi Yablonsk ..read more

What does it mean to be a “Space Shaman” and why is it so dang important in today’s crazy world? Join me on today’s episode where I go on a deep and oh-so-fabulous dive with Angela Mazzi, Principal and Senior Medical Planner at GBBN Architects. Angela is the first architect I’ve met who is also a Feng Shui Practitioner and a Career Coach who often uses the phrase, “Space Shaman.” Learn more about Angela Mazzi and GBBN here: https://www.gbbn.com/. Subscribe to Angela’s podcast, ARCHITECTING, here: http://architectingpodcast.com/ Learn more about Angela’s coaching programs here: http://architect ..read more

My special guest today is Heather French, Co-founder, Principal, and Lead Designer of French & French Interiors in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico. Learn how Heather went from being a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and an acupuncturist for a decade to designing soulful and nourishing spaces for her clients in beautiful Santa Fe.  What does Heather means when she says, “Homes are for connections and memories and a soft place to land and for healing. If that's not right, then you're not healthy." There’s so much Heather and I unpack today on today’s episode including how living in Santa Fe ..read more

Ana Pinto Alexander had been enjoying a long, multiple-award-winning career in design before she became pregnant with Kiara. Her doctor told her that her baby daughter had a large cyst on her right lung.   Ana spent the next several months at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Indiana where she became the parent of a sick baby. How did this deeply challenging time in Ana’s life awaken something deep within her soul -- something that would change her life forever?   What does it mean to be a compassionate and empathetic designer in the field of healthcare? How does this deep ..read more

In the summer of 2008, Kim Nadel suddenly lost her husband. In an instant she became the single mom to her two young teenage boys. Living in Brooklyn, New York, Kim found solace in a special corner in her backyard where she had placed a giant daybed under a weeping birch tree. This old, wise tree held and nourished her through this dark time.   Little did Kim know that this special tree would plant a seed in her heart for her work as an interior designer. Kim moved to southern California where she opened her firm and began to specialize in biophilia -- the love of nature and all living t ..read more

What happened when my special guest today, Jaime Kowal, went on a family trip to Palm Springs in 2013? She followed her intuition, of course, and bought a run-down apartment building and transformed it into the wildly successful boutique hotel, The Amado Inn and, later, developed more boutique accommodations in that town including The Junipero, The Ferg and The Wilk. Jaime is a designer, author and freelance photographer for The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, Delicious Magazine, among others. Hear the full story and learn how Jaime applies her design principles of “Where Spirit + Space ..read more

When Jessica was 15, her parents divorced and her life turned upside down. She went through the process of grieving while steadily redesigning her bedroom, moving furniture in and out during that time to create her oasis. This was Jessica’s first introduction to how vital the built environment was to the well being of the humans living in them. My special guest today is Jessica Lynn Williams--Principal Interior Designer at Hendley & Co, based in New York City and Newburgh, New York. Learn how Jessica views history and heritage as core values in her design work with her clients, and what ha ..read more