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Surviving Design
Episodes
42 episodes
Trade Sources
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss trade sources, and, no, we're not talking about the "retail" sources that offer 15-20% off. We're talking about the REAL sources, the ones that s...
Surviving A.I.
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss Artificial Intelligence and its current and potential effects on the design industry. We're back, baby! After a long hiatus, we were finally able...
Going Above and Beyond
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss the behind the scenes situations in the interior design industry that are rarely talked about. Have you been stuck cleaning a client's home becau...
Collaboration or Exploitation?
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they explore the collaborative process with clients during the construction and furnishing phases of their homes and offices. Text messages at all hours of th...
Get Paid What You're Worth
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss the elephant in the room: PRICE! You've heard it before. Sometimes you have to "fake it to make it" or sometimes you need to pick up work to pay ...
Be Real, Don't Steal
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Timm Dolley, and Melody Smith as they discuss a huge elephant in the design community: Taking credit for other people's work. Architectural Digest received a huge backlash when interior desig...
2024 High Point Highlights
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss the latest High Point Spring market. This episode is all about furniture and design trends, funny stories, and the highlights of market, in...
You Don't Know What You Don't Know (Vol. II)
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss the ins and outs of the interior design industry, especially as it relates to the "tricks of the trade" and lessons learned by making mistakes. A...
Disaster Preparation
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss the pitfalls that design school and your mentors never taught you. As the old expression goes, "You don't know what you don't know," and this epi...
Mind Your Manners
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss how the rules have changed when it comes to being in a client's home alone. Cameras, microphones, and other technologies are slowly seeping in, a...
Delivery Nightmares
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they take you behind the scenes in the design industry. This episode is all about receiving and delivery nightmares. Just when you thought you we...
To Hire or Not to Hire
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as we explain the WHY behind hiring an interior designer. In a world full of social media fake experts and design-build companies that are more concerned about t...
Know Your Boundaries!
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss a huge elephant in the room in the design industry: Boundaries! Sick of your clients texting you at all hours of the night and day? Sick of worki...
Literally Surviving Design
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss the various hazards of the interior design profession and why good education or experience is a must if you are going to tackle this monster of a...
Client Horror Stories Vol. II
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley in this special edition Halloween episode: Client Horror Stories Vol. II. Just when you thought it was safe to do your job, these client horror stories will chil...
High Point Market Trends 2023
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss their most recent trip to High Point, NC for the 2023 market. From discussions with vendors to current trends in the design industry, you won't w...
It's Who You Know
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Timm Dolley, and Melody Smith as they discuss how good vendor relationships can impact your business (and your sanity). Trust us. We have plenty of war stories, and we have made many mistakes...
It Takes Two to Tango
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as the discuss the gritty details of the interior design world! In this episode, we discuss client responsibilities and how they can impact the overall aesthetic...
Trend Talking
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Melody Smith, and Timm Dolley as they discuss how to incorporate current trends into your clients' designs. From what trends are driving us crazy (think shiplap) to the ones we would entertai...
The Struggle Is Real
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Timm Dolley, and Melody Smith as they spill the tea on the behind-the-scenes workings of the interior design industry. On today's episode we talk about the struggles of being an interio...
An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Timm Dolley, and Melody Smith as they discuss the extreme level of knowledge and expertise it takes to pull off a design project for their clients. What does it take? An inch deep and a mile ...
Together in Paris
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Timm Dolley, and Melody Smith as we talk about our most recent trip to Paris, how it inspired us, and how taking a break can sometimes lead to the design inspiration you've been looking for! ...
The Ups and Downs of Interior Design
Join professional interior designers Melissa Guerra, Timm Dolley, and Melody Smith as they discuss all things interior-design related. You think you know this industry? You don't know the half of it! In this special edition episode we interview...
