888: Brittany Steptoe-Wright: How Consciously Curated Interior Design Sustains the Planet and Your Business

A Well-Designed Business® | Interior Design Business Podcast

LuAnn Nigara

Arts, Design, Business

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Today With Brittany Steptoe-Wright: Today on A Well-Designed Business I am joined by Brittany Steptoe-Wright, owner of BSW Design. BSW Design is a certified Vegan Design Firm. Brittany holds design, animals, and the environment near and dear to her heart, so everything they source is cruelty-free and animal friendly. BSW Design also focuses on Sustainable Sourcing, whether it be a renewable product, a sustainable manufacturing process, or highly recycled content, Brittany’s aim is to bring ethically sound products into her client’s home. Tune in to learn more about this important and ever-growing topic, so join in and make our world a better place one client at a time. Pick It Apart [1:00] Brittany gets right into what inspired her to take Deborah Resenberg’s course. [8:42] How Brittany believes what you put into your home promotes a certain energy and karma. [19:15] How Brittany navigates when pieces that are cruelty-free aren’t sustainable as well. [27:00] Lessons that Brittany discusses on her podcast, The CEO Podcast. [32:50] How Brittany’s construction firm and design firm work together. [43:35] What Brittany does if a client comes to them thinking they don’t need a designer. LuAnn Nigara and Brittany Steptoe-Wright's Ah-Ha Moments “You don’t have to use animal by-products in your home design. You can eat meat, but it doesn't have to be black and white. You can have a cruelty-free home and not be vegan.” - Brittany Steptoe-Wright “This is the essence of creating the core of a highly successful business because you are living and breathing what you believe.” - LuAnn Nigara “When the luxury consumer pushes the designer or builder back and says that they don’t need a designer in the middle, explain why you think they do need one and then let them make the decision.” - LuAnn Nigara More About Brittany Steptoe-Wright As a designer, I feel my job is first and foremost to make the home a better place for living. I always start the design process from a place of function and lifestyle before moving into aesthetics. Our motto, Consciously Curated Interiors, encompasses both our attention to the family’s lifestyle, as well as our personal commitment to the environmental impact of everything we do. My love for design, animals, and the environment has fostered a unique sense of purpose in my business. We are a certified Vegan Design firm, meaning that everything we source is cruelty-free and animal friendly. We also put a large focus on Sustainable Sourcing, whether it be a renewable product, a sustainable manufacturing process, or a high recycled content, we attempt to bring ethically sound products into the home for the families we work with. Knowing that the pieces you surround yourself with have a story that is supportive of humanity, animals, and the environment brings a loving and high vibe energy into the home, which makes it all the more magical to live in. Connect with Brittany Steptoe-Wright Website Carpentry Website Instagram Pinterest Podcast What’s new with LuAnn Nigara LuAnn Live 2023 luannuniversity.com http://www.luannnigara.com/cob A Big Thank You to Our Keynote Sponsors: Nancy Ganzekaufer Traci Connell Duke Renders Get The Goodies! For checklists, resources, and extra goodies from A Well-Designed Business sign up for free here. To Get on LuAnn’s Email List, text the word designbiz to 444999! Purchase LuAnn’s Books Here: Book 1: The Making of A Well – Designed Business: Turn Inspiration into Action Audiobook: The Making of A Well – Designed Business: Turn Inspiration into Action Book 2: A Well-Designed Business – The Power Talk Friday Experts Pre-Order Book 3: A Well-Designed Business – The Power Talk Friday Experts Volume 2 Connect with LuAnn Nigara LuAnn’s Website LuAnn’s Blog Power Talk Friday Like Us: Facebook | Tweet Us: Twitter | Follow Us: Instagram | Listen Here: Podcast Other Shows Mentioned: AWDB: #82: Deborah Rosenberg: Tailoring Your Interior Design Firm to Your Core Beliefs #117: Power Talk Friday: Deborah Rosenberg: Cruelty Free Design Certification is Here #137: Michele Williams- Scarlet Thread Consulting- Actionable Tips for Time Management #180: Power Talk Friday: Michele Williams Talks About Profit First and Why it Matter to You #218: Marketing & Resources for Cruelty Free Design #395: Power Talk Friday: Michele Williams: Financial Health Checklist for Your Interior Design Business #580: Brad Leavitt, AFT Construction: The Two “B” Words: Budget and Builders #615: Power Talk Friday: Brad Leavitt: Overcoming Resistance in the Design-Build Process #649: Power Talk Friday: Brad Leavitt: Understanding Design-Build from the Builder’s Perspective #809: Power Talk Friday: Michelle Rohrer-Lauer: Turning Eco-Friendly Design into a “Green” Bottom Line WTFP: Vita’s Tip in 10 With Vita Vygovska: An Easy Tool to Increase Your Productivity Vita’s Tip in 10 With Vita Vygovska: You Are the Leader in the Room Vita’s Tip in 10 With Vita Vygovska:Entrepreneurship is Hard: Do this to Make it Easier

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0:03.0	Maybe you're hosting and you're busy getting all of your dishware organized and your menu organized.
0:08.0	Or maybe you're like me.
0:09.0	You're at the season where you just get to ring the doorbell with a pie in your hand, right?
0:14.0	Either way, I hope you are planning to spend some quality time with friends and family,
0:19.0	whether that means it's a big,
0:20.9	raucous crowd and lots of carrying on or downtime. Either way, I'm wishing you a happy
0:26.4	holiday season. And, you know, what happens after Thanksgiving, we have Black Friday.
0:31.6	And on Black Friday, Luann University is officially opening registration. And here's the thing. Because it's Black Friday,
0:39.2	we got some Black Friday deals for you. All right, first of all, let me explain this. Early Bird for
0:43.9	Luann University is open from November 29th through December 31st, 2024. So that is the entire early
0:52.1	bird period. And during the early bird period, you get two bonuses.
0:57.1	Number one, you get the early bird pricing.
0:59.1	But you also get, if you buy, whether you buy a five-week course or a three-hour intensive,
1:05.1	if you purchase and register during the early bird period, you are going to be enrolled in the workshop that
1:13.3	Amber Delagarza and I are hosting together live. It's called Success by Design. Strategic
1:20.5	Goal Setting meets Time Mastery. Okay. So this is going to be a live workshop. It is going to happen in real time on January 2nd,
1:30.5	2025. And we're going to spend part of the time mapping out. How do you set your goals? What do you do?
1:38.5	How do you decide if it's a legitimate goal? If it's a reach goal, if it's too easy of a goal,
1:43.7	what should your goals be?
1:45.4	And then Amber will take over and she will help us figure out how to carve that time in our
1:52.8	work life to work on our business. Okay. So it's managing the expectations of the hours you
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