Build Beautiful

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! In a design industry that increasingly rewards the photogenic — the perfectly lit, perfectly staged, algorithm-optimised interior — Tammy Miconi has chosen a different measure. She believes a home should tell the story of the people who live in it, not the taste of the moment. That belief isn't just a philosophy. It's a business risk. Because...

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Alix Helps breaks down interior design business foundations: profit , pricing , process , and pipeline—how to keep a design studio profitable through feast and famine. We cover P&L, Xero reconciliation, procurement markup, boundaries , and more.  Alix has spent 12 years proving that beautiful interiors and smart business sense aren't mutually e...

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Twenty years ago, if you were a woman who wanted to practise architecture and have a family, the industry had a clear message: choose. The structures, the hours, the culture — none of it bent for you. Eva-Marie Prineas heard that message, and instead of adapting herself to a world that didn't want to make room, she built her own practice from the g...

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! There was a moment, three or four years into building The Local Project, when Aidan Anderson sat down after running payroll and looked at his bank account. He had $1,500 left. Not: oh God, is this going to work? But: this is going to work. What's the plan? That distinction — between crisis and clarity — is what separates this story from almost ever...

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! When Sally Dan-Cuthbert walked into a gallery opening she'd never been invited to, called a director she'd never met, and asked if she could help — she had no formal art training, no plan, and no safety net. She just had a deep sense that this was where she was supposed to be. She was starting over in her 50s, when most people she knew were th...

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! At some point in her career, Meryl Hare made a decision that most designers would find terrifying. She walked away from the volume, the busyness, the spread, the validation of being in demand and chose depth instead. She went from 37 clients to 7. Not because things were falling apart. Because she knew they would if she didn't. Meryl Hare OAM is th...

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Build Beautiful is Where Design Meets Depth . This podcast is about the journeys of creative entrepreneurs - architects, designers, developers, artists, and cultural voices, who are building lives and businesses shaped with intention. Hosted by creative entrepreneur Linda Habak , each conversation looks beyond the surface of beautiful work to uncover th...