Designing Success

39:53

2025 Aidan & Rhiannon (replay part two...)

Designing Success ·

2026/09/30

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Six Years In: Business, Family Seasons, and Using AI as a Support Tool (with Aiden) Host Rhiannon Lee introduces a 2024 catch-up conversation with her husband, Aidan, reflecting on how their family and her business have evolved into its sixth year, including the pressures of supporting other designers through her framework. She shares a new small-group live business-planning series for six women starting late October, focused on quarterly strat...

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46:16

replay from 2023 part one of my conversation with my...

Designing Success ·

2026/09/24

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. revisiting one of my most popular chats over the school holidays - part one of mt chat with my husband, tune in for part two next week and an all new part three the week after. Behind the Scenes of Oleander & Finch: Real Talk on Business, Marriage, and Boundaries (with Aidan) Host Rhiannon Lee replays a candid 2023 conversation with her husband, Aidan, about the behind-the-scenes realities of growing Oleander & Finch from a COVI...

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38:15

Should you run your FF&E past a low-tox consultant?...

Designing Success ·

2026/09/16

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. You can smell it the second you walk into some budget stores. Then we bring the occasional chair home, pop it in the corner and call it styled. Susie from Casa Flair Interiors has run her design studio in Sydney's Hills District for six years. Before that, she taught creative arts. Now she's niched into low-tox consultations, which means looking at a space through what's actually in it. Off-gassing floors. Fire retardants in fabric. The glue hol...

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36:33

Finding your creative voice, pricing your work &...

Designing Success ·

2026/09/02

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. What happens when the thing you started doing for yourself quietly becomes the thing you want to build your life around? In this episode of Designing Success, I’m joined by fibre artist Kasia for a conversation about creativity, business, motherhood, visibility and what it actually takes to stop treating your creative work like a little hobby and start backing it properly. Kasia’s work began during motherhood as a way to slow down, process emoti...

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24:35

Before You Use AI With Client Work: 7 Things Every...

Designing Success ·

2026/08/26

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Explore the AI safe policy KIT here Check out Studio Build HERE If you’re using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or other AI tools inside your interior design business, there are a few decisions worth making before client information starts casually finding its way into AI. Because “is AI safe?” isn’t actually the right question. The better questions are: What information are you uploading? Whose intellectual property is it? Do you have permission to use...

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19:00

The Instagram Strategy That Added 4,500 Followers in...

Designing Success ·

2026/08/20

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. If Instagram has felt like you’re posting into the void lately, Trial Reels might be worth your attention. In this episode of Designing Success, I’m sharing the Instagram growth strategy I’m actively testing in my own business — and the results have been pretty hard to ignore. In the last 30 days, I’ve added around 4,500 Instagram followers, had a Trial Reel reach 300,000 views, and while recording this episode, five Trial Reels posted across on...

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39:30

AI in Design: Client Data and IP Policy's

Designing Success ·

2026/08/12

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Clients are starting to ask interior designers how they use AI with their private information — floor plans, budgets, family details, meeting transcripts. Rhiannon Lee, AI strategist for Australian interior designers, breaks down what actually happens to uploaded data, why your account type changes the answer, and how to build a simple studio policy so you can answer with confidence instead of stumbling through it. Register for the free webinar...

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31:02

What I told a room of designers about AI at The...

Designing Success ·

2026/08/05

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Register for the AI Safe Webinar, HERE Join the weekly email list HERE learn how to build out project management in Notion HERE Interested in my speaker fee card and customising a talk for your business or group? email me at hello@rhiannon-lee.com and I'll point you right to it. Thanks for listening to this episode of "Designing Success: From Study to Studio"! Connect with me on social media for more business tips, and a real l...

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63:38

20 years and beyond with Mandie Wright, of Infinite...

Designing Success ·

2026/07/29

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Thanks for listening to this episode of "Designing Success: From Study to Studio"! Connect with me on social media for more business tips, and a real look behind the scenes of my own practicing design business. Grab more insights and updates: Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/oleander_and_finch Like Oleander & Finch on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/oleanderandfinch For more FREE resources, templates, guides...

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33:17

why interior designers keep landing $4k jobs, not...

Designing Success ·

2026/07/22

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Thanks for listening to this episode of "Designing Success: From Study to Studio"! Connect with me on social media for more business tips, and a real look behind the scenes of my own practicing design business. Grab more insights and updates: Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/oleander_and_finch Like Oleander & Finch on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/oleanderandfinch For more FREE resources, templates, guides...

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42:16

Emergency meeting - Fable 5 for designers

Designing Success ·

2026/07/09

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Want to watch this and see the screen share version of the apps? chek it out on YouTube here https://youtu.be/LHPePe1tDMQ?si=78-Y9S-9glV8-V54 Fable (Claude's most capable model) is free until July 12th. Rhiannon Lee used hers to audit 40+ AI skills, build a private boardroom of business advisors, create a marketing analytics dashboard, develop an AI-readiness quiz for interior designers, and map out her entire September launch strate...

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63:02

Natasha, Emily and Oula, tell it how it is.

Designing Success ·

2026/07/01

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Oula, Em, and Natasha all said the same thing: they didn't expect the business structure side of it, they thought it was going to be more about the AI tools. If you've been on the fence about Studio Build what's the actual question you'd want answered before you'd feel ready to commit? Emily Bere — Musa Studio Emily is the founder of Musa Studio, based in Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains. She works across residential and commercial projects, wit...

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35:27

EOFY - tips for interior designers

Designing Success ·

2026/06/03

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Most interior designers hit 30 June without ever looking down. This episode covers the end of financial year financial habits solo interior design studio owners actually need — from reading your P&L without panic, to auditing subscriptions, pre-purchasing annual software, and having a planning meeting that changes the next 12 months. Practical, no-accountant-jargon, built for Australian designers running their studio like a business. → Get ...

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57:59

Ewa Doherty on starting and scaling with an exit...

Designing Success ·

2026/05/27

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Starting an interior design business with an exit strategy — rather than building it to keep forever — is one of the most overlooked approaches to studio setup. In this episode, regional NSW designer Ewa shares how she built her supply selection and B2B builder service with saleable IP in mind from day one: documented systems, transferable processes, a packaged service model, and zero dependence on her personal creative genius to deliver results...

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23:05

The client who says: "I just need someone to execute...

Designing Success ·

2026/05/20

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. When an interior design client says "I just need someone to execute my vision," they've already decided they're the designer and you're the logistics coordinator. Rhiannon Lee explains what's actually happening in those moments, how to catch it early in the discovery call, and how to use the parachute cord method to realign — or exit — a project that's drifted into fulfillment-only territory. → Join the Studio Build July cohort http...

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28:28

Are you over-delivering in your proposal?

Designing Success ·

2026/05/13

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Interior designers often over-deliver at proposal stage — sharing mood boards, design direction, and creative strategy before a client has signed or paid a deposit. This episode asks whether that's genuinely good service or anxiety dressed up as process. Rhiannon Lee, AI strategist for Australian interior designers, unpacks where the habit comes from, what it costs you, and why simpler proposals might actually convert better. → Join the Studio B...

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47:53

Why AI is making hourly billing dangerous for...

Designing Success ·

2026/05/06

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Value pricing means charging for the outcome your client gets, not the hours it took you to deliver it. In 2026, that distinction matters more than ever — because AI is making designers faster, and if you're still billing by the hour, that efficiency is going quietly to your client's pocket, not yours. Rhiannon Lee, AI strategist for Australian interior designers, breaks down exactly how to calculate, set, and communicate value-based project fee...

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25:47

“You’re Behind” Is the biggest lie in AI right now.

Designing Success ·

2026/04/29

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. AI is not replacing interior designers — it's replacing average ones. Rhiannon Lee, AI strategist for Australian interior designers, breaks down why "AI killed my industry" is lazy marketing, how pattern recognition software produces sameness not taste, and what designers need to document right now before AI flattens the industry. Practical, operational, and built for real studios — not theory. RESOURCES MENTIONED → Pre-AI documentation ...

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36:48

Where to actually start with AI in your design...

Designing Success ·

2026/04/22

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Interior designers who feel overwhelmed by AI typically don't have a tool problem — they have a prioritisation problem. Australian AI strategist Rhiannon Lee recommends three starting points: spend four minutes meeting Claude, do a five-minute audit of your most repetitive business tasks, and invest time in free AI literacy resources. Chasing AI image generation is the biggest time drain to avoid. EPISODE OVERVIEW The noise around AI is loud ri...

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16:16

Stop charging for the process (and other things I'm...

Designing Success ·

2026/04/09

Text me and tell me what you think of this ep. Join the email list to get the business restructure challenge, 'Studio Build' updates HERE The kids are on school holidays, there's a triple bunk being installed, and I'm stealing 20 minutes here and there to talk about the pricing shift that's quietly happening in the interior design industry and why you need to get ahead of it. This one's recorded live from the chaos: paint swatches, tent pitching, and small people interrupti...

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