Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a weekly podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.

I'm Caroline. I'm on the marketing team. And I'm Taryn and I'm a product designer. I'm Liz. I head up the creative team.

We're your host. Join the expert team at Ballard Designs for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers, stylists,

and other talents in the design world. Plus, we'll answer your decorating dilemmas at the end of each

episode. We love answering your questions, so don't forget to email us at podcast at balderdesigns.net.

Now on with the show. Today, we're thrilled to welcome stylist and interior designer,

Olga Naiman, to the podcast.

Olga started her career with a bachelor's degree in psychology, spending over 20 years,

exploring alternative healing and transformation methods, while also maintaining a flourishing design career on the side.

In her new book, Spatial Alchemy, Olga shares how she combines her extensive knowledge of psychology and transformation with her design expertise to help her clients unlock their true goals by creating a home that supports their future self. Olga, welcome to the show.

I'm so happy to be here. I can't wait to dive in with you. Spatial Alchemy was such a unique book.

We have never had a design book quite like this one. So it was a real treat to dive into.

And I have to tell you what was the hardest part about getting through it for me was that I kept getting to chapters

and being like, oh, I need to go fix this drawer. And so then I would like be, you know,

Googling what thing I needed for the drawer. And so I kept like thinking of little examples in my

own home and life that I needed to put on my to-do list.

And so then I'd be like, you know what, let me go finish the book so that I can, you know,

I can get there. I'll get there. But anyway, it was, there's so many great takeaways,

so I'm excited to get into it. Thank you. I'm really happy that it was, there's so many great takeaways, so I'm excited to get into it.

Thank you. I'm really happy that it spoke to you. And, you know, these things, you can move at

your own pace because, like, there's no pressure in, like, having to do all these, like, little

things all at the same time it's actually about doing

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