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Designing Success

by Rhiannon Lee

Designing Success from School to Studio by Rhiannon Lee is dedicated to filling in the gaps in your design course to encourage you to build a sustainable business that supports your dream lifestyle. Are you searching for strategy, systems and support? Looking for a community to bounce industry issues around in?  In this podcast, we will cover the interior design business infrastructure you need to supplement your design school curriculum with practical insights and actionable advice. We also cover all things marketing, product innovation, client acquisition, and more. Go beyond the theory, filter through the stuff that doesn’t serve you and get on with creating. You will find real talk with industry professionals, practical tactics from business realists that leave you reenergised and focused on exactly how to improve the current landscape of your own business. For more behind the scenes of the interior design industry, check out oleander and finch in Instagram https://instagram.com/oleander_and_finchor head to www.oleanderandfinch.com

Latest episodes

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Should you run your FF&E past a low-tox consultant? With Susie from Casa Flair

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. You can smell it the second you walk into some budget stores. Then we bring the occasional chair home, pop it in the corn

Sep 16
38 min

Finding your creative voice, pricing your work & actually putting yourself out there, with Kasia

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. What happens when the thing you started doing for yourself quietly becomes the thing you want to build your life around?

Sep 2
36 min

Before You Use AI With Client Work: 7 Things Every Interior Design Studio Needs

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Explore the AI safe policy KIT here Check out Studio Build HERE If you’re using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or other AI too

Aug 26
24 min

The Instagram Strategy That Added 4,500 Followers in 30 Days

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. If Instagram has felt like you’re posting into the void lately, Trial Reels might be worth your attention. In this episo

Aug 20
19 min

AI in Design: Client Data and IP Policy's

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Clients are starting to ask interior designers how they use AI with their private information — floor plans, budgets, fam

Aug 12
39 min

What I told a room of designers about AI at The Design Show, Sydney.

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Register for the AI Safe Webinar, HERE  Join the weekly email list HERE  learn how to build out project management in N

Aug 5
31 min

20 years and beyond with Mandie Wright, of Infinite Interior design and renovations.

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Thanks for listening to this episode of "Designing Success: From Study to Studio"! Connect with me on social media for mo

Jul 29
1 h 03 min

why interior designers keep landing $4k jobs, not $40k ones

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Thanks for listening to this episode of "Designing Success: From Study to Studio"! Connect with me on social media for mo

Jul 22
33 min

Emergency meeting - Fable 5 for designers

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep.  Want to watch this and see the screen share version of the apps? chek it out on YouTube here  https://youtu.be/LHPePe1tD

Jul 9
42 min

Natasha, Emily and Oula, tell it how it is.

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Oula, Em, and Natasha all said the same thing: they didn't expect the business structure side of it, they thought it

Jul 1
1 h 03 min

EOFY - tips for interior designers

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Most interior designers hit 30 June without ever looking down. This episode covers the end of financial year financial ha

Jun 3
35 min

Ewa Doherty on starting and scaling with an exit strategy

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Starting an interior design business with an exit strategy — rather than building it to keep forever — is one of the most

May 27
57 min

The client who says: "I just need someone to execute my vision," This is why I don't work with them anymore.

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep.   When an interior design client says "I just need someone to execute my vision," they've already decided they&apos

May 20
23 min

Are you over-delivering in your proposal?

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Interior designers often over-deliver at proposal stage — sharing mood boards, design direction, and creative strategy be

May 13
28 min

Why AI is making hourly billing dangerous for interior designers

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Value pricing means charging for the outcome your client gets, not the hours it took you to deliver it. In 2026, that dis

May 6
47 min

“You’re Behind” Is the biggest lie in AI right now.

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep.  AI is not replacing interior designers — it's replacing average ones. Rhiannon Lee, AI strategist for Australian in

Apr 29
25 min

Where to actually start with AI in your design business (and what to stop doing)

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Interior designers who feel overwhelmed by AI typically don't have a tool problem — they have a prioritisation probl

Apr 22
36 min

Stop charging for the process (and other things I'm yelling about while the kids trash the house)

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Join the email list to get the business restructure challenge, 'Studio Build'  updates HERE  The kids are on s

Apr 9
16 min

Posting AI slop isn't saving you time, it's costing you clients.

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. AI adoption jumped dramatically in the first quarter of 2026 ... and so did the slop. In this episode Rhiannon gets into

Apr 1
49 min

The AI data conversation nobody in the design industry is having... but should be.

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. You've probably pasted a client brief into an AI tool this week.  Maybe a site visit transcript. A proposal draft.

Mar 25
38 min

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