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Hey there, it's Rebecca. 
Before we dive in today's 

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episode, I have something 
exciting to share. 

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If you've been dreaming about 
starting your own interior 

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design business, but you're 
feeling stuck on what to do 

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first, how to set things up 
legally, or even how to find 

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your first clients, this is your
sign. 

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Doors are now open for my Launch
Your Business Boot Camp, an 8 

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week step by step program 
designed to help you build a 

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profitable design business from 
the ground up. 

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You'll learn everything from 
clarifying your brand and 

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setting up your systems, to 
getting your contracts and 

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finances in order so you can 
start your business with 

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confidence and direction. 
I'll be walking alongside you 

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the whole way, mentoring you 
through each step so you're 

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never left wondering what to do 
next. 

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And the best part? 
You'll be part of a community of

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other designers doing it right 
alongside you. 

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So if you're ready to stop 
dreaming and finally launch your

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design business the right way, 
go sign up now at our Ward 

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design.com. 
You'll also find the link in the

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show notes. 
All right, let's get into 

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today's episode. 
You're now listening to Design 

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Curious, a place where you, 
creative one, are here to learn 

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about what it really is like to 
be an interior designer. 

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And I'm your host and mentor, 
Rebecca Ward. 

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If you're worried about how to 
succeed in a creative career, if

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you're ready to learn your next 
steps to become an interior 

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designer, and if you want the 
satisfaction of doing something 

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you love every day, you are in 
the right place. 

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Grab a coffee, a notebook, and 
let's dig into today's episode. 

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Hello and welcome to episode 167
of Design Curious Podcast. 

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I'm your host and mentor, 
Rebecca Ward. 

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Today on the podcast, I'm giving
you one last overview of Launch 

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Your Business Boot Camp. 
We've had several great series 

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going on in the podcast on my 
solo episodes and this last one 

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being from Dreaming to 
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And I kind of gave you a lot of 
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Some of you who are really go 
getters could probably just take

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that and run with it, but today 
I'm going to talk about why you 

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actually need to sign up for 
Boot camp and all of the 

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benefits that come along with 
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I believe you don't have to be a
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that anybody can do it. 
You just need to have the right 

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format, the right framework to 
work off of and that you can be 

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profitable and successful doing 
it. 

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Many designers are not 
profitable, but they're still in

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business. 
And so we'll talk about that too

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because I don't want you to be 
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We talked about a few statistics
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a bad statistic. 
So we'll get into that in the 

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episode. 
And all the things that you need

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to access will be in the show. 
Note links and stick around to 

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the end. 
I have an announcement if you 

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haven't heard yet, so you'll 
want to hear of this special 

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thing that I have for you that's
free you can sign up for. 

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OK, so let's get into it. 
Have you ever struggled and 

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struggled with something and 
then finally asked for help on 

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how to do it? 
Maybe it was when you were in 

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school and you had problems with
math and you didn't understand 

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how to do the algebra. 
You finally got a tutor and then

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it all became clear. 
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like starting the business. 
I think you can struggle and 

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struggle and not make any 
headway and ultimately fail if 

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you don't do things properly. 
You can easily, though, ask for 

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help to get you to the next 
level and not fall into the 

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statistics of businesses that 
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According to the Chamber of 
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businesses fail in their first 
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Year 5. 
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Year 5. 
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percentage of failure rate for 
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And you don't have to become a 
statistic because you have the 

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resources that I'm going to tell
you about today to start your 

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business the right way. 
You are building a structure to 

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succeed by already listening to 
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And of course, what I'm talking 
about is launch your business 

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boot camp. 
The doors have just opened as of

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today when you're listening to 
this, and you can go ahead and 

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sign up for it. 
So let me tell you why you might

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want to do this if you aren't in
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designer. 
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designer, but if you're not 
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help. 
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years of my career, two or three
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you will be in eight weeks 
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So if you like to fast track 
things and learn from other 

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people's mistakes and have a 
clear path set before you that 

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you can easily follow. 
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going to be easy. 
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some time and some dedication 
and focus in these first few 

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months of the year, but then you
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taking on clients and get going 
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We've talked before a few 
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about designing the life that 
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You are a designer naturally, or
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into this field. 
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your design skills to your life 
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Dream about what it could be and
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it. 
So here is what we're working on

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today with lunch of Business 
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I thought we'd kind of go over 
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doing in boot camp from week to 
week just to give you a clear 

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idea of what you might get. 
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also get a full year access 
membership to my Design Mentor, 

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which is already a great 
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It has 12 learning modules, has 
access to me coaching all year 

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round and the students that are 
in there have really just taken 

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advantage of all the different 
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Whether it's looking at your 
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proposal with a client, how to 
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actual design feedback. 
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working by ourselves and it's 
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take a look at our design, 
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experienced. 
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with my design mentor. 
But besides that, in Launch Your

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Business Boot Camp, first of 
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to start with why? 
Why do you want to start the 

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business? 
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to lay and we get into the nitty
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identification as a business 
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your business. 
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you're doing this so other 
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this business and be drawn to it
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is, we'll get into the branding.
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right? 
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to think they're graphic 
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look like? 
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aesthetic to be for your 
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So we get into that in Week 2 
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all the official documentations 
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in the last couple of episodes 
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to designing, like all the 
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contracts and everything you 
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I'm sending you the links and 
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the form. 
Anything that you need to become

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official as a business. 
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So then week 4 of that month of 
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catch up week so you can meet 
with me and say, oh, I'm having 

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trouble here or I fell behind 
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I know that's a lot to do your 
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It's a really big step. 
A lot of people don't take that 

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And so I think you're going to 
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path in our boot camp. 
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February, we are going to talk 
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So now you've had it all set up.
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or else you never have a client 
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You want to know how to run a 

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even if you intuitively know how
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have a system set up. 
So I'm handing you these systems

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based off of what works in my 
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adopt them, adjust them, make it
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design firm that you want to 
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So whether you're commercial or 
boutique, or maybe you just want

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to work with small spaces, maybe
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whatever your niche is, we can 
adjust the systems and they 

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should work the same every time 
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And so we're going to help you 
set up your operations and start

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running a project. 
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project, you have to take in 
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and look at your contract and 
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sure that is all set up properly
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ready to launch. 
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launching, working with social 
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So that is in week 7. 
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to like kind of follow up if you
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If you need any additional help 
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to go and you are official and 
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I really get a lot of excitement
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businesses because as I've 
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always played at being an 
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little. 
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real life and I want to help 
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excited about that prospect. 
Now, not everyone's an 

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entrepreneur and that's OK. 
I was just reading in a book 

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called Your Next 5 Moves by 
Patrick Bett David and he also 

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talks about a concept of being 
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you act as though you are an 
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safety of being within a 
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That's another path you can take
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There is risk involved. 
You might want to just take risk

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I think I'm going to add that 
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design mentor. 
We do a new book each quarter 

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that you're welcome to read 
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And so I think that one's going 
to be coming up in my Design 

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Mentor. 
OK, so now you might be asking 

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or telling me as you're 
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wherever, that, hey, I can just 
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Why don't you just give me a 
list of things to do and I will 

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implement it myself. 
Well, if you could and if you 

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want to, why haven't you done it
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Sometimes we just need that 
start date and end date to make 

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us actually do something. 
We need the accountability and 

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we need to have someone hold our
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the boot camp. 
And yes, maybe it is a little 

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more of an investment than you 
would hope to spend, but there 

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are some statistics that tell 
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One from ICF, which is the 
International Coaching 

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Federation says that the average
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which would be like this boot 
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course or sign up that you go 
to, the average return on your 

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investment spend is roughly 7 
times what the initial cost is 

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because you're saving time money
by getting knowledge fast 

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tracked to you. 
So yeah, it's true to the same 

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that you got to spend money to 
make money, but it's important 

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where you are spending that 
money and oftentimes on a 

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coaching program like this, it 
will help you to get gains on 

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your business and have more 
profitability in the long run. 

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Another statistic I heard from 
SCORE, which is a organization 

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that helps small businesses, 
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I could get on my high horse 
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do this because they love it 
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They can't even cover their 
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They can't make a living off of 
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business set up correctly so 
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I cannot say enough about this 
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there. 
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about it so you can go back and 
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But it is so critical that you 
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interior designer. 
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unless you're like, you know, 
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company, you know, helping other
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make money at the same time. 
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making a living and being 
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So I want your business to start
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You want your business to start 
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wouldn't be listening to 
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So I highly encourage you if you
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and sign up for Launch Your 
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We'll have the link directly for
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There is going to be some pre 
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we get started in January and I 
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possible to kind of get your 
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started. 
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approaching. 
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of the year and so it's hard to 
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reflecting in December about 
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and how I want to change it for 
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It's not in January after the 
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You want to be already set up to
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right? 
So by making intentional time to

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understand what it is you want 
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then you will actually make 
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designing the future that you 
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Peter Drucker said that whenever
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someone once made a courageous 
decision and you can make that 

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decision today also. 
Nelson Mandela said it's always 

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seems impossible until it's 
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I know starting a business is 
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this program. 
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Many people have done it and 
failed, and you are going to do 

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it and succeed by having all the
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If you have any questions about 
all of this, please reach out to

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me. 
You can e-mail me or message me 

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on Instagram and I would love to
chat with you more to help you 

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get reassured that you are 
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the future that you love. 
I would love to have you in the 

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program, tell a friend about it 
who might be thinking about it, 

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and just make this something 
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If you had a friend, both of you
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business and you could do it 
together and be on the same 

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steps together, how much more 
support would you have going 

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along as you get started? 
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community over competition. 
There are enough clients for 

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everybody. 
There's going to be enough 

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businesses can't have too many 
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So you want to make the world a 
better place through design, and

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so we can take all the designers
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So yeah, think about it. 
Then sign up and make 2026 the 

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most intentional, beautiful and 
exciting year that you have had 

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to date. 
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convinced already by listening 
to the episode, I do have a 

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webinar that you can register 
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It's free and it is on this 
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If you're listening to this in 
real time when the episode comes

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out December 1st, then you can 
sign up to go to the webinar and

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we'll talk about going from 
passion to purpose and some of 

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the five steps that you need to 
get your business started so you

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can get some more information 
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If you're still not convinced 
about working with me to start 

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your business, just go ahead and
sign up for this free webinar 

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and we'll have the link for the 
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And you'll also find it on 
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I would love to have you join me
on the webinar, join me in the 

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boot camp, join me in my design 
mentor and just listen along to 

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the podcast. 
There's a lot of great 

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information that I give you 
through these last 167 episodes.

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So I'm so glad you're here. 
I'm really grateful for you, if 

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I haven't said that already, 
just for taking the time to 

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listen to this. 
And so I would love to see you 

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in there. 
Buy yourself this Christmas 

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present. 
You know the of boot camp 

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because I know that it's an 
investment, but it's not going 

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to be the last investment you 
make. 

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And you will see immediately 
about how much return you get 

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for this investment. 
And you are going to love being 

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a business owner. 
I absolutely love the life I've 

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designed. 
I love the flexibility I have. 

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I love the autonomy and I love 
having me be the face of my 

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brand and being out there and 
helping people and having them 

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be attracted to that. 
You're going to get all of those

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things too when you launch your 
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That is all I have for you this 
week. 

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Next week we'll have another 
great episode and until then, 

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stay creative. 
Thanks for listening. 

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If you love this episode, please
leave a rating and a review. 

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This helps me reach other 
curious creatives like you. 

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If you have a topic request or 
would like to contact me, simply

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head over to my website 
arworddesign.com or e-mail me at

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podcast@arworddesign.com.