What does it really take to stay strong, disciplined, positive, and performing at a high level throughout life? In this episode of The Life Optimized Podcast, elite trainer, coach, and motivator Eric McCormack joins for a conversation about fitness, mindset, discipline, and building a life that keeps you moving forward. A former police officer and fitness competitor, Eric has spent years training elite athletes, special-forces personnel, MMA fighters, and highly driven individuals. He shares ...

What does your home decor style say about your personality? 🏡✨Welcome to Design Meets Decor, brought to you by Naomi Home! Join Sue and Val as they explore two iconic interior design styles: Bauhaus and Mid-Century Modern. Discover the history, colors, materials, furniture, and personality traits behind each style, and find out which one best reflects your taste and lifestyle.In this episode, we dive into:🖤 Bauhaus Interior Design: Explore the foundations of modern design, its minimalist

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Fancy getting into your business car for a bit? Illustration Business Club doors are open until 9th October 2026, and you get lifetime access, so you can go at your own pace (pudding first, broccoli later). We'd love to have you sailing with us https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/business /// We recorded this podcast LIVE on Instagram on Friday! (So please excuse the audio if it doesn't sound 100%) Anyways, here's the replay. Katie and Helen had a nice 'n' friendly illustration business Q...

What happens when a love of mahjong meets a lifelong devotion to Halloween? Anne welcomes writer and actress Jill Kargman and Center & Spring co-founder Sandi Drucker-Wright to talk about their delightfully spooky mahjong tile collaboration.Jill and Sandi share how a vacation game sparked the idea, and how artist Kelly Lillian brought it to life with skulls, snakes, fanged lips, and jokers designed to make players smile. Sandy also tells the story behind Center & Spring’s beautiful

7 AM, Saturday, October 3, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.orgWords and design are part of our humanity: Poetry is to Prose what Beauty is to Building. Architects like me aspire to create Beauty, but we must make buildings first. Words are necessary for both prose and poetry, but poetry goes beyond the meaning of words.How words are used to create has the same elemental utility as any media – paint, clay, ink, photography – and, yes, architecture – to manifest the beauty we discover. Poetry, prose,

What does it take to create something that changes the way people experience the world? Ron Johnson helped transform Target, created the Apple Store alongside Steve Jobs, and later learned some difficult lessons from his attempt to reinvent JCPenney. In this conversation, we explore where breakthrough ideas come from, how taste and collaboration shape great creative work, why the best idea has to win regardless of who came up with it, and why creativity sometimes requires having the

Tom and Jonny announce that the Near Future Podcast is becoming Mostly Working. They explain why they're closing the consultancy to back the podcast, unveil the Mostly Working Summit at Monzo on 22 October, and go behind the scenes of a new brand built with Claude Code.In this episode:The Near Future consultancy is closing, and the podcast carries on every week as Mostly Working.We explain the three tests behind the decision: founder fit, how hard the work was to sell, and how much energy

EP 78: How AI for Interior Designers Got Started, Live from The LoftJenna Gaidusek has built a business on technology and interior design and teaching that to others in the interior design industry. In this episode, her longtime collaborator Julia Reinert flips the mic and asks the questions for once: how a girl from Vermont who didn't know "interior design" was a career ended up building the AI Social Club. This episode was recorded live in The Loft inside the AI Social Club, the first one

Welcome to season 5 of A76 called Walk Your Dog. This season I'm exploring designer's cognitive habits and in the season opener, I chat with David Kazaryan, a Senior Manager leading the revenue product team at United Airlines about a core habit often underrated—an iteration mindset. David traces his roots for iterating back to how he was raised, discusses his design education and the move from agency life into product design teams. We chat about perfectionism and setting expectations as...

In this episode of The Truth In This Art, accomplished actress, artist, writer, director, and New York Times bestselling author Victoria Rowell is here!About Victoria Rowell: Victoria Rowell is a multi-disciplinary creator widely known for her television roles on Diagnosis Murder and The Young and the Restless. Driven by an innate love of movement and a childhood immersed in the arts by her foster mother, she has built a dynamic creative life spanning classical ballet, acting, and

What's possible when partnership, trust and an optimistic mindset come together under pressure? Aurecon CEO Louise Adams and Perenti CEO and Managing Director Vanessa Torres speak about how they connected over their shared passion for the role of optimism. Learn about the role optimism played in transforming the GEMCO wharf from catastrophe to rebuilt and operational in 14 months – a process that could have taken three to five years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026Michael Frei · ARENA PhysicaMost advances in computational design focus on mechanical structure — domains we can visualize and have evolved an intuition for. But as modern hardware becomes increasingly software defined, the unseen and unintuitive world of electromagnetism is taking center stage.Conventional solvers can simulate fields, yet they cannot imagine new ones. Over the past year, our team has been building toward that capability. At

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026Sai Nelaturi · C-InfinityThe gap between digital design and physical assembly is not primarily a geometry problem. It is a reasoning problem. Engineering teams spend thousands of hours communicating assembly intent through manual CAD workflows, managing configuration complexity across product variants, and catching fitment and feasibility issues that could have been identified before any metal was cut. The cost is measured in weeks of

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Who am I? Who is Alchemy of Home?Did this episode upload a week early? Yes! Does Liz know what she's doing? No!In the first ever episode of the Alchemy of Home Podcast, host and Holistic Home Stylist, Liz, introduces herself and Alchemy of Home.She shares a bit of the backstory that led to a podcast, and the mission behind Alchemy of Home.This podcast discusses the millennial experience of life not panning out the way we thought it would, how

Time for another ramble.Recorded a week ago beneath an ancient Hawthorn at Ghostwood Down.I’m sitting with a lot of grief at the moment, so this was a spontaneous ramble from the heart.Riffing on:The sacred Hawthorn treeOn sitting with grief, loss, endings and death, the inner and outer.On the heart space and heart intelligence.On speaking more openly and honestly to the collapse of the systems, structures, stories and ways of modernityAnd asking what might emerge from that ?On imagining a UBI to

Today With LuAnn Nigara:Qualifying leads is good business. But the qualification strategy that makes sense when your interior design firm is booked several months out may not make sense when your pipeline has room or your sales skills still need strengthening. In this What Would Lu Do episode, LuAnn challenges you to look at whether your qualification process reflects the business you actually have today. Because there is an important difference between knowing a prospect isn't right for your

This week, we're back at the kitchen table after the summer holidays, and the doors to Illustration Business Club are officially OPEN! Wahoooo 🎉 A quick catch-up first: Katie trying to not-work for six whole weeks, and Tania's summer spent changing her work on a big museum project. Then there's a nice big juicy question from a listener: can you market yourself without social media if you really hate filming yourself? Timestamps, for the timestamp fans: 00:00 – Doors are open! IBC,...