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Hello and welcome to episode 20 
of design curious podcast. 

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I'm your host and Mentor, 
Rebecca Ward. 

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And today we have a great 
interview with krisha Palmer. 

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She is just as another wonderful
nature going to want to hear 

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about. 
Let me tell you a little bit 

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about her before we get into the
episode. 

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Krisha is a doctor turned 
designer who left clinical 

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medicine to pursue her interior 
design degree through her 

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business house calls for 
Physicians. 

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She now helps other Izzy, women 
Physicians create inspiring 

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mindful homes so they can kick 
back, relax and enjoy life's 

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moments in them. 
You'll hear in today's episode 

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that her Niche is just really 
fun plus here from krisha. 

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You're now listening to design, 
curious a place where you 

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creative one are here to learn 
about what it really is. 

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Like, to be an interior designer
and I'm your host and Mentor 

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Rebecca, Ward, if you're worried
about how to succeed in a 

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creative career, if you're ready
to learn your next steps to 

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become an Interior Designer. 
And if you want the satisfaction

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of doing something you love 
every day, you are in the right 

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place. 
Grab a coffee, a notebook. 

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And Let's dig into today's 
episode. 

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Hi krisha, welcome to design 
curious podcast. 

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So glad you're here. 
It's great to be here. 

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Thanks for having me. 
Yeah. 

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So why don't you tell our 
listeners a little bit about 

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your company and where you're 
located and all those good 

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details? 
I'm sure. 

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So my design business is called 
house calls for Physicians and I

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do Residential interior design 
for other women Physicians, 

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around the country. 
And I also have a course where I

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I teach women Physicians, how to
be their own designer and how to

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design for themselves. 
I'm located in Little Rock 

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Arkansas, which you can probably
tell by my Southern accent. 

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I love it. 
And interestingly my, this is my

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second career. 
My first career was as a 

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physician. 
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Alright, well, let's talk a 
little bit about that. 

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Let's start there. 
So, how long were you a 

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physician? 
So I finished training, I did a 

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residency in Pediatrics and then
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and Knology. 
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years before I made the decision
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home with my kids who were 
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then decided to go back and get 
my interior design degree. 

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Okay. 
Did you always have an drawing 

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towards interior design or 
decorating and those things? 

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Like as you were growing up or I
did and I did and it's 

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interesting that you ask that 
because growing up I was always 

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very Very artistic and creative.
I was into dance and theater. 

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And so when I decided to go into
medicine, people were really 

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surprised, they're like oh we 
thought you would, you know, at 

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one point I wanted to be a 
dancer on Broadway and music 

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video. 
So it was like a big kind of 

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switch for me, but looking back,
I do remember, as a child, I 

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have a specific memories of 
being in my room and getting 

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graph paper and like drawing out
my own dream house plan. 

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Yes, and I also remember like my
favorite game to play with my 

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neighbor was we called it a 
little people and, you know, 

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those little, you know, the 
little people, they look 

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different but they used to be a 
little wooden figures. 

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Oh yeah. 
Had this big drawer full of 

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little people and all the 
furniture and just whatever we 

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could find. 
And we would I would spend hours

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creating floor plans, like, 
using rocks to outline their 

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rooms, and filling in the 
furniture, things like that, 

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that I look back and I'm like, 
oh, no, wonder I But really I 

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wasn't really exposed to 
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I didn't even realize it was a 
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until I was really a medical 
school and that show Trading 

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Spaces, came out on HGTV. 
Wow, that's what I want to do. 

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And I'm so my passion, you know,
it was just like I could put a 

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name to it. 
So it wasn't until medical 

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school that I really started. 
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and In that because I wasn't 
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took a while, but I finally, you
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that path sense. 
What made you want to go to 

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medical school? 
If you're so artistically? 

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Been yeah, well, I had a high 
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wonderful and ended up. 
I took Biology, one, two, and 

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three from her in high school 
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It was the first time that I 
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and biology interesting to me. 
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Yeah, and it made sense. 
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it and she would repeatedly tell
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You need to go to med school. 
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you know, I think that when 
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you want. 
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and I was like, well I'll do 
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Yeah, and I didn't get in that 
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So heavily invested with time 
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it's difficult to make the 
decision to, you know, turn to a

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different path. 
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I still then you decided after a
couple of years you stay at home

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with your kids and then you 
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So did you do a four-year or 
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Yeah, I went back and did a 
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I just chose the university. 
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offered that had an accredited 
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were about three and very, you 
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Yeah. 
So I wit very Lee. 

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I took one or two classes, a 
semester. 

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Okay. 
Yeah, it took me a long time to 

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complete it but you know it 
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complete my design degree than 
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Did to go to med school just 
because of spacing. 

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Yeah. 
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You put family as a priority as 
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So yeah, exactly. 
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I mean also partly probably why 
you are doing this because you 

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wanted to make sure you're 
following your passion, and 

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being happy and not frustrated 
with life so that you could be A

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better Mom home. 
Exactly. 

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Yeah, for sure. 
So, once you graduated with your

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degree, what did you start 
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So for my internship, I worked 
with a designer here in Little 

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Rock Toby. 
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her nice, and totally loved it. 
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than I did as I went through 
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Yeah. 
And stayed on is one of her 

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designers, for almost two years,
okay? 

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That, with the knowledge that I 
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be my own boss and have my own 
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Hmm, and then after a couple 
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create house calls for 
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business. 
Nice. 

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working with Toby, did you let 
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to open your own company 
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And then I did start asking her 
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like yeah. 
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eventually I want to do my own 
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But for now, I think that this, 
you know, I had so much to learn

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and, you know, she was, she's 
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And so, even just, you know, of 
course, I we talked all the time

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about her business and I would 
ask her questions, but just 

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being there and getting the 
experience of, you know, this is

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what residential design kind of 
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residential design. 
Looks like, you know, what's 

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not? 
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about, you know, all the 
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and all of that which is more. 
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what I left for a part of 
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Whereas I had always been 
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the right brain, creative, 
artistic sigh. 

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So I got to really see what it 
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I think. 
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And you still enjoyed it though.
Like you once your eyes are open

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to what it was. 
The career was really like he 

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still found that enjoyable. 
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And no, honestly, it's 
interesting because I love the 

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creative side. 
Yeah, the Design work. 

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But the part that I realized, I 
did not really care for was the 

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ordering products, tracking 
product. 

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Procuring. 

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Installations are fun. 
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between all the logistics of it.
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And so when I went out and 
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decided that I would not do that
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So I only do the Creative part 
of design for my client. 

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So I put everything together and
they give them sources. 

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Has and links where they can 
purchase the products themselves

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and then they do all the rest. 
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Is that challenging at all for 
getting portfolio photos? 

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Or is that a concern of yours at
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It can be but I'm about. 
So it's funny because I thought 

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it was going to be more of a 
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being because I'm not, you know,
almost all my projects are, you 

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know, I've never been there. 
It's there like all over the 

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country here and so a lot of 
those, you know, the end result 

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is 2. 
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getting everything in and 
executing the design. 

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Exactly. 
You know how I envisioned, which

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does it always happen. 
Usually, it does now that I'm 

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several years into business and 
a lot of these remodels and 

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projects take time. 
The photos are starting to roll 

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in okay, though. 
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It's kind of a trade-off. 
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something that necessarily I 
have a lot of control over, but 

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the feedback and now the photos 
that are coming in are I mean, 

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they're amazing. 
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So it is something where if I 
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professionally for my portfolio.
I could I was right? 

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Yeah. 
So then after a couple of years,

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you turn your focus towards this
course. 

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So tell us more about how this 
course came into being and why 

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you're hated it. 
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So there is a really large 
tightly-knit, Facebook community

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of women, Physicians, and a lot 
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There are two different Facebook
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decor and so I realized there 
was like a big interest there 

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and a lot of, you know, they 
post questions, you know what 

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kind of sofa should I put in 
this room and so there's a lot 

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of kind of back and forth 
dialogue about that. 

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And I thought, well, you know, 
why can't I just sort of take 

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what I learned about residential
interior design. 

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As I went through school and 
kind of condense that down into 

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like this is what what's going 
to be high yield. 

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This is what's going to help you
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And create a course. 
So that, you know, there are a 

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lot of people in general that 
want to hire a designer, they 

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either don't have the time or 
the interest to do it 

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themselves, but there are a lot 
of people that enjoy it and they

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want to be able to do it 
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Hmm. 
So I thought, well, you know, 

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I'll teach the women that want 
to be their own designer. 

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That what I learned those skills
themselves, I'll teach them how 

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to do it and so I created this 
course called Design Academy. 

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It's a 12-week online course and
it basically leads you through, 

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you know, the elements and 
principles Bulls of design, the 

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design process, they get 
feedback Forum a and basically 

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you know, learn those skills 
themselves. 

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Okay. 
So is this Design Academy? 

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I know you focus it towards the 
medical community, but could 

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anybody take this course right 
now? 

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It's just for women Physicians. 
But you know, with I've had 

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other people reach out to me and
really want to take the course. 

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And so I'm like, of course. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah. 
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You can take it. 
Okay. 

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Interesting. 
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And so then you are like helping
these ladies learn how to design

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their own house and then I have 
some of them. 

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Oh, I actually want to do a 
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house. 
Like this is something I could 

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get into and maybe even pursue 
as a second career. 

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So have you had that experience 
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Yeah I've had since I started my
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What do you tell them if they 

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need to go back because I know 
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your actions are going to depend

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on whether or not you do want to
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Time and try to replace your 
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just for the enjoyment of it. 
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sorts of Horses. 
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a lot of amazing designers that 
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get the degree like right? 
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You don't have to you. 
Don't you really don't have to. 

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You can be totally successful 
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is I tell them just start doing 
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wet, you can charge them, not 
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if you really like it, you know,
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it is but a lot of it's not just
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you know, there's always that 
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Yeah, good advice. 
So those women that you do, give

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this advice to have, they come 
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to pursue design or have they 
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me. 
I want to go all-in. 

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I've only, I've heard back from 
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several who are have actually 
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It's like a local agent hunting 
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her post on. 
Okay, sir, Graham and sharing 

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her designs and she's just what 
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that has decided to go back and 
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I don't know of any that have 
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get a degree. 
Most of them are kind of testing

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the waters. 
Earth right now. 

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community for these women that 
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been only women or is it? 
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equipment? 
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I have not actually. 

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one-on-one, quick zooms or phone
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brain and then maybe a few 
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thought it could be it, you 
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Facebook groups that were so 
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Absolutely. 
No, that's like a great great. 

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We understand each other's 
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So your business house calls for
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Tell me a little bit. 
How Specifically speak to your 

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client's needs. 
Is this? 

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Because you have were physician 
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things they can just kind of 
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need in their homes that other 
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bright. 
That's a great question. 

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what is it like is it different 

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like designing for Physicians? 
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lot different. 
I think that most of it comes in

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lifestyle. 
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high stress, you know, I mean, 
it is stressful and busy, 

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that path, I get it. 
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available, you know, if it's a 
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that's the only time you can 
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will do that because I totally 
get it. 

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I've been there. 
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That's a big part of it but also
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being involved. 
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are burned out. 
There's a really, you know, the 

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suicide rate among Physicians is
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helping nurture those women 
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that when they come home, they 
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recharge they can connect with 
their family, which is a big 

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part of physician Wellness. 
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And that's really a big part of 
anybody's Wellness, right? 

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But you know, I'm not seeing 
patients in clinic anymore but I

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can give back indirectly through
serving, those Physicians that 

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an emergency medicine physician 
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night shifts or need do 
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So they need a workspace from 
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That's completely blacked out. 
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So, you know, they sleeping and 
creating a bedroom that's you're

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not going to wake up. 
If you hear your kid down the, 

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they'll mock hallway and it's 
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sleep. 
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physician, you know, certain 
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the general population. 
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So, Did you use your own home as
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different product and you know 
Cal my gosh. 

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So yeah and he's you know, he's 
always worked almost all night 

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shift so this was even back 
before I went back and got my 

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design degree and I started 
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everything. 
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So we've been through all these,
you know, and now I've got, you 

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know, really good 
recommendations in terms of how 

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to you know soundproof and like 
proof your room that have 

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evolved over the Years and 
things like that. 

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Yeah, gosh, yes. 
Oh, so many details there. 

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That's great. 
So any other advice you have for

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someone who wants to transition 
to their second career and build

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their business that later in 
life? 

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So I think one thing I would say

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is that it and I truly believe 
this like it's never too late to

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change paths. 
Yeah. 

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Never too. 
Old is so you know I feel like 

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I'm almost 50 and I'm just 
getting started because you 

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know, I did spend And you know, 
my priority, my kids are about 

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to leave for college now, but it
was family and now it's time for

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me to really work on my 
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So it's never too late. 
And the other thing is that I 

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think we often get wrapped up in
thinking like there's one right 

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path or one, right way to do 
things or a certain order like I

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do. 
I create my LLC, do I get my 

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business, you know, all those 
little steps and create, 

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especially if you're someone 
that's not, that's never I was 

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completely from a non business 
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doing, but I think we often 
think like there's a right way 

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and I think that realizing that 
there's no set path that you 

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have to find you create your own
path. 

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And the most important thing is 
just to continue taking action. 

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Mmm. 
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Just what is the next? 
Because I always ask myself, 

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like, when creating my business,
like, what's the next thing I 

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need to do? 
Hmm. 

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What's the next thing? 
Like, there's not a right or 

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wrong way? 
It's Just creating and finding 

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out what works for you. 
Yeah, I like that approach then 

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mindset like continuing to grow 
and expand and and, you know, 

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maybe pivoting your business to 
work for you or adding on 

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different revenue streams like 
the course. 

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Right. 
So, what's the next thing for 

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you and your business? 
Yeah. 

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So the next thing is I'm going 
to launch a podcast. 

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Awesome, yeah, coming soon. 
Call the design doctor. 

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Oh, I love it. 
And that's we will be talking 

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about. 
I'm actually a certified life 

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coach from the life coach school
also. 

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So we're going to be talking 
about a lot about the drama that

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comes up. 
When you go to renovate a space 

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and build a new house, even if 
you're just doing something as 

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simple as just giving your room 
a facelift. 

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A lot of people. 
Get stuck with decision, fatigue

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and Analysis, paralysis like, 
there's so much to choose from. 

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Where do I start? 
And so, I Feel like there's a 

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lot of middle drama that comes 
up, so we're going to talk 

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through a lot of those types of 
things gasps oh that's 

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wonderful. 
I'm going to be listening to 

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that for sure. 
Yeah I mean I just had an 

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inquiry from a client the other 
day and on her form she wrote 

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help I have analysis paralysis. 
I can't move forward with my 

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project. 
So yeah, that comes up all the 

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time. 
I'm sure everyone will be 

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wanting to listen to the design 
doctors. 

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That's right. 
I love that will definitely post

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the links for your website. 
Then, so when the podcast is 

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launched, people can find that 
there. 

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And also for your course, if 
anyone listening is interested 

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in taking that, I'll be great. 
So, okay, great. 

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And how can where do we find you
on socials? 

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And yeah. 
So you can probably my website 

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is house calls for 
Physicians.com. 

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You can follow me on Instagram 
at krisha Palmer, MD on 

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Facebook. 
If you happen to be a woman 

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physician listening to this you 
can find my Facebook group house

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calls for Physicians. 
Okay, great. 

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Well, thank you so much. 
Chris has a pleasure to talk 

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with you. 
Yeah, thanks, it's been great. 

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Thank you for having me. 
Yeah, we'll talk to you later. 

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I think Chris is Niche is so 
fun, and it just shows you how 

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your own personal experiences 
can really help you Niche down 

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into speak authentically to the 
market that you can reach on a 

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personal level. 
I mean, really understanding the

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needs of her clients because of 
her own experiences and so 

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awesome. 
You're also going to check her 

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out. 
I've been watching her on 

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Tick-Tock, she has some great 
tick-tocks that you can check 

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her out and so will put all of 
her. 

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Information in our show notes, 
you can find that at our war 

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design.com forward slash 
podcast. 

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Don't forget to leave me a five 
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about design curious. 
And if you want to reach out to 

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me, you can email me podcast at 
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I love connecting with people 
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So stay tuned for next week, 
another great. 

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Episode on design, curious next 
week, we're talking about the 

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pros and cons of residential 
design. 

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And so, you might want to stick 
around for that to discover. 

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for you and until then stay 

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creative, thanks for listening. 
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This helps me reach other 
curious creatives. 

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Like you, if you have a topic 
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me simply head over to my 
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at podcast at our Ward 
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