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The Trent Shelton Podcast

Design Your Life: Building Foundations That Feel Personal with Nate Berkus

The Trent Shelton Podcast

Trent Shelton

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.95.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ka'Chava: Get 15% off your next Ka’Chava order at kachava.com with code TRENTSTRAIGHTUP. MasterClass: Right now, our listeners get an additional 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/TRENT. Indeed: Speed up hiring with Indeed! Now get a $75 sponsored job credit when you go to Indeed.com/trent Shopify: Start your $1/month trial at Shopify.com/trent Today I’m talking with Nate Berkus, designer and author of FOUNDATIONS: Timeless Design That Feels Personal (drops Nov. 18). We’re breaking down how to create a home and a life that actually feels like you. No trends. No noise. Just real tools to help you be intentional, confident, and unapologetically yourself. If you’ve ever felt lost trying to figure out what’s yours, this episode is for you. Let’s build something real, together.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, rehabs across the world.

0:01.8

Welcome to Straight Up with Trent Shelton.

0:04.6

Throughout my career from the NFL to sold out stages speaking to thousands,

0:08.7

I built up a toolkit to break through negative mindsets,

0:12.0

let go what's holding you back, and start rehabbing your life.

0:15.4

Now, I'm sharing those tools with you in a whole new way.

0:19.0

I'm always going to be real with you and give you the 100% truth, even when it's going to

0:22.8

pierce your heart.

0:24.1

This is me, Trent Shelton, straight up. Fuel your day with Kachava.

0:43.2

Go to Kachava.

0:44.7

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0:49.4

That's Kachava, K-A-V-A-V-A-com, code code trench straight up for 15% off your next order. Let's get it. Hey, what up, everybody? Welcome to the Trends Show and podcast. I have a guest in the building. So fortunate to have this guy here. I'm super excited to pick your brain. Nate Berkus, how you doing? I'm great. Thanks for having me. Man, I know you've been through a lot traveling right now, man. So I appreciate you coming here and sharing your wisdom.

1:13.8

I think we're all going through a lot trying to travel right now. It's not just me. It is insane. So I'm always interested in high-level people. Somebody who takes a dream into a reality. So for you, the question is, like, I know with me, football became real at a young age. And I know everybody has a different timeline.

1:30.8

So when did. into a reality. And so for you, the question is, like, I know with me, football became real at a young age.

1:29.3

And I know everybody has a different timeline.

1:30.9

So when did design become real for you?

1:34.0

And when did you know, like, hey, I'm really great at this?

1:37.2

I knew, well, first of all, I'm really glad my thing wasn't football.

1:42.8

Yeah, as you can tell, I probably wouldn't have done very well, all five-eight of me.

1:47.1

But I think, you know, for design, it was something that I grew up around.

1:51.5

My mom was an interior designer.

1:53.6

So as a boy, on weekends and things like that, my mom used to take me to antique smalls

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