191: Seeing What is Possible in Your Design Business

Systems & Strategies
Written By Michele Williams

191: Seeing What is Possible in Your Design Business

WITH Katie Menon

Joining me today is Katie Menon of Stephenson House in Edmonton, Canada. Katie has had impressive growth and has been willing to take some risks to do things, perhaps, before their time. Listen in as she shares her business trajectory.

 Topics Mentioned:

  • Risk

  • Growth

  • Team

  • Business Journey

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Key Thoughts:

  • It's more common nowadays that people are coming to career paths in multiple ways. Starting a business later in life or not following in your family footsteps and inheriting a family business but starting your own instead. Katie Menon (6:49) 

     

  • What's also interesting is the idea of triage, which is what happens in the ER, you're looking at all these things happening at one time; what's most important now? What's the next right thing to do? How do you keep calm when everything around you is going out ahead? There are so many lessons to learn. When you walk into a job site or a construction site where things are happening, and lots is going on, and you've got to immediately take all that information and parse it out and kind of form a plan of action or calm down somebody on the other side. Michele (9:23) 

     

  • I think the concept of going into another winter, as the fall was, approaching was still so much uncertainty around COVID. People not being able to get away to Hawaii or Mexico or Florida. They were saying, let's go, this is the perfect opportunity to, not stare at that living room wall any longer. Katie Menon (20:23) 

     

  • There's something really exciting about bringing on team members. But there's also something really weighty about bringing on team members. Michele (25:10) 

     

  • Once you catch sight of what's possible, wow, that's where the dreaming really starts to happen. Michele (31:25)

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