The Design Business Show 033: An Honest Business Update from your host, Melissa Burkheimer, featuring Stephenie Zamora

In today’s episode of The Design Business Show, we’re flipping the script and I’m being interviewed by my new friend Stephenie Zamora, who we first met on episode 10 of the podcast. My birthday was earlier this month, so we thought it would be fun for her to ask me questions instead of me always asking questions.

We didn’t plan any of this, so grab your ear buds and get a behind-the scenes update from me. Which, btw, is super uncomfortable for me because I hate attention! So, there’s that! Leggo!

Here’s what we cover:

After being inspired by Stephenie’s interview about all of my other business ideas
Why I’m so focused on managing my energy and being productive in this season of my business
How I even started this journey of creating a better world for designers and how it’s evolved
The areas in my business that need cleaned up and how I plan to do that
The type of results that the designers have gotten from working with me
How I’m approaching systematizing my business and what projects I’m moving forward on in my business
What motivates me to get work done
How I measure my own productivity and why I don’t try to work super late at night or early in the morning
Why I’m focusing on projects that will help move my business forward
My vision for the rest of 2019 and where I plan to step up my game
What I want to create in 2020 and why I don’t really know what it is yet
Why I want to spend more time tapping into the things I’m good at
Why both me and Stephenie hate visibility and how we handle the resistance to it
What visibility looks like for me going forward
The program I’m taking to help me create content for my videos
What processes I’m working on inside of my business and who I plan to bring on help me make it all happen
How I plan to create my next movement
The evolution of how I started this movement for empowering designers and the timeline
My tips for what not to do if you want to start a podcast
Why it’s important to tweak things in your business and your offerings based on what’s working, and what’s not – for you and for your students
The pivotal moment that happened to me in April 2017 and why I needed time to process what happened
What I’m going to do that will help me move forward on the things I wanna do in my business
What it’s been like for me to offer other design services
Why you should surround yourself with other designers who are on the same journey as you