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A Well-Designed Business® | Interior Design  Business Podcast

273: Dixie Willard: Visibility and Your Interior Design Firm

A Well-Designed Business® | Interior Design Business Podcast

LuAnn Nigara

Arts, Business, Design

4.9810 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to today's show! We have Dixie Willard, of Dixie Willard Design in Tennessee, with us today. Dixie is a co-host of the Design and Style Podcast with Rachel Moriarty, of Rachel Moriarty Interiors and today we will be talking to her about the  Design and Style Community and about how her partnership with Rachel and their podcast came about. Today, Dixie also discusses her own business and she talks about the Community Projects that she's involved with too. Listen in, to find out more. Dixie got her Design Degree at the Chaminade University of Honolulu, where she graduated with honors. She has worked for an Architecture Firm as well as having worked as a Designer and a Bookkeeper, for a high-end furniture store and she has done e-design for Pottery Barn Kids, PBTeen, and West Elm. In the middle of all of that, she also managed to earn her NCIDQ Certification. After traveling around the world, Dixie and her Air Force husband have finally settled down in their forever home, in East Tennessee. Dixie loves taking continuing education classes for fun and reading Design Blogs, to keep up with all the latest trends. Listen in today, to find out more about Dixie, her Podcast and how she's really changing lives, out there, one Designer at a time! Show highlights: Dixie talks about what it took for her to obtain her NCIDQ Certification. Dixie's work with Ethan Allen. Dixie's experience of being a Bookkeeper for a high-end furniture store. The skill she's learned from first being an Air Force brat and then an Air Force wife. Their move from Oklahoma to Tennessee, where they knew absolutely no-one. Dixie talks about how she and Rachel met, at a Mastermind in Oklahoma. How the Design and Style Podcast came about. All about Rachel and Dixie's Visibility Challenge. To join the Visibility Challenge, go to Design and Style on Facebook and ask to join. The hardest part of the Visibility Challenge and the fantastic results that inevitably ensue, as a result of doing it. What's going to be happening in Dixie's community, at The Visibility Lab. The very exciting and special episode planned for the first Visibility Podcast for 2018, on the Design and Style Podcast. Moonshine tasting in the Smokey Mountains with Rachel. What happened at the Visibility Conference. The fantastic Community and Service Projects that Dixie does and how she assists, design-wise, at the Restoration House of East Tennessee. How you, as a Designer, can get involved with the Dwell With Dignity The service work that Dixie does, for Kingdom Design Ministries, for children who have suffered a trauma, or tragedy in their life. What it takes to rappel down a twelve story building! The awesome gains that you could enjoy, as a result of being a part of a networking group. Links: The Design and Style Podcast website: www.designandstylepodcast.com Design and Style can also be found on: Instagram Facebook Pinterest iTunes Youtube Previous shows mentioned in this episode: Remya Warrior #266

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Have you heard about the exciting new exhibit by the Black Artists and Designers Guild,

0:05.6

which was commissioned by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City?

0:11.1

Big news, right?

0:12.6

The Cooper Hewitt's exhibition is called Making Home, Smithsonian Design Triennial.

0:18.2

Now, the batch designers exhibit is titled the Underground Library,

0:23.8

inspired by the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is the clandestine network

0:28.6

established in the early 19th century through which many enslaved African Americans

0:33.6

traveled in search of freedom. This library installation represents a 21st century sanctuary surrounded by art, objects,

0:43.5

artifacts, and books of black legacy.

0:46.9

In reimagining and repurposing the Andrew Carnegie Personal Library,

0:52.7

badge invites you to examine the power of home libraries

0:56.1

and the significance of literacy, remembering that African Americans were denied the right to read

1:02.3

under slavery. I'm honored to share that Window Works in Livingston was asked by badge to create

1:08.7

the flat panels for the windows. We used a custom design fabric

1:12.5

by badge members, and the fabric was fabricated by Stacey Garcia's team at Libatex. So please make a

1:20.0

point to visit this inspired space the next time you are in New York City. The exhibition runs

1:25.5

from November 24 all the way through August 10th, 2025.

1:31.1

So you have plenty of time to get this on your calendar.

1:34.0

We will put links in the show notes.

1:51.7

Welcome. Welcome to a well-designed business with your host, Luann Migara.

1:57.2

Luan has a lifetime of experience building a multimillion-dollar business with her husband and cousin,

2:01.0

and she knows the challenges you face faced in your interior design business.

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