The Design Business Show

Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Laura Stewart recognized her love for drawing and painting at an early age. A high school art class assignment to write and illustrate a children's book inspired her dream to make a "real" book. Luckily, she had many wonderful art teachers and professors who helped shape her into the successful design professional she is today. Eyelash Wishes is her first publi...

Ahfeeyah is a Serial Entrepreneur, Published Author + Business Strategist for Higher. If you're ready to scale to seven figures with ease, hire, elevate, automate, and delegate with authority she is your gal. Here's what we covered on the episode: Build. Brand. Design. + Programs How Ahfeeyah got started in design by helping clients with strategy, then discovering that many people didn't know what...

Emily Reagan is a mom of four, Air Force wife, digital marketing consultant and founder of vacrashcourse.com. As a scrappy military wife who moves every two years, Emily has worked in various jobs related to public relations, marketing, sports media relations, journalism and video production. Finally her random skill set paid off as a freelancer digital media "VA" (virtual assistant). Now she help...

Salma Sheriff is an award-winning Brand Strategist, Web Designer and Launch Director. She works with impact-driven creative entrepreneurs, coaches and course creators to build captivating brands, high-converting websites, and automated sales funnels to generate consistent leads and clients. She has worked with six and seven-figure entrepreneurs with tech and launch support for their high-end progr...

Michelle Martello is an award-winning designer, digital strategist and founder of Minima Designs. With over two decades of e-learning and interactive design experience, she's been around since the start of the digital education revolution. Michelle has worked with a wide variety of diverse clients including MTV, the National Park Service and Elena Brower creating hundreds of sites, courses and pro...

Co-founder of Content Bistro, creator of Ready-to-Sell ™, and co-creator of Profits on Tap ®, Prerna has worked with over 450 clients worldwide including some of the biggest and best names in the industry, such as Pat Flynn, Vanessa Lau, Kerwin Rae, Amy Porterfield, Carrie Wilkerson, Alli Worthington, and others! She is a Copyhackers-certified conversion copywriter and uses her proprietary Connect...

Licia Morelli is an award-winning and best selling author of The Lemonade Hurricane: A Story of Mindfulness and Meditation and I Am Darn Tough (Tilbury House Publishers). Her writing has been featured in Vanity Fair, Maine Media Workshops, John's Hopkins University Press, elephant journal, The Huffington Post, and more. Licia is also a copywriter and online marketing consultant who writes for some...

Big Ears Creative is a digital design studio that specializes in branding and website design for small businesses who are ready to elevate their brands with thoughtful design. Here's what we covered on the episode: MJ's Switch From Accounting to Design () How MJ and I connected through Instagram and how I asked her to be on the podcast to share her story and discuss what design means to her  Befor...

Mara is a Creativity Coach who guides artists, the creatively curious, and adults who have forgotten how to play to use art as a way to reignite their creative passionate selves so they can live a more expressed life.  She believes everyone is creative, and has the capacity to make powerful, meaningful art. YES, even YOU!   Here's what we covered on the episode:   Mara's Journey With Design () How...

An expert in digital brand building, intellectual property law and entrepreneurship, Shontavia Johnson is a recognized leader and influencer throughout the country. Twice named one of the top young lawyers in America, Shontavia's unique background makes her the perfect coach for professional women who want to start businesses that leverage their ideas, expertise and intellectual property. She is a...

Shannon Claire wants to live in a world where women don't feel shame for wanting more! As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, she is a sought-after international brand photographer for million dollar brands, mentor, and coach for women entrepreneurs who are in transition to their next level of success. She is a Mom to 4, Fiance to 1, beach lover, conversation starter, and eternal optimist. Learn more...

Sun Yi is the Founder & Principal of Night Owls, an award-winning digital branding agency in NYC. With over 20 years of experience working in digital branding, Sun has helped build growth-stage startups to Global Fortune 500 companies to personal and global brands, improving their combined revenues from virtually zero to over $1 billion. Clients of the firm include household names (Seiko, American...

Alyssa "Twist" Light is a professional speaker who helps businesses grow by utilizing the power of storytelling in every aspect of their operations, especially marketing. She does it on the spot. Right there. With business owners and sales people she's never met before, Twist asks a few questions and like magic comes up with marketing design, hashtags, positioning, value props, and branding. Her m...

An expert in digital brand building, intellectual property law and entrepreneurship, Shontavia Johnson is a recognized leader and influencer throughout the country. Twice named one of the top young lawyers in America, Shontavia's unique background makes her the perfect coach for professional women who want to start businesses that leverage their ideas, expertise and intellectual property. She is a...

Hey friends! Melissa Burkheimer here. I'm your host and as always, I'm grateful that you're here. I'm back with a quick solo episode today to talk to you about one of my favorite things, and the main bread and butter to my business: sales page design.  I talk a lot about sales page design on this podcast and on Instagram, but after doing a connection call last week with a friend who works in the b...

Maggie Patterson is the editorial director at Scoop Studios and the creator of Small Business Boss. With two decades of experience, Maggie has spent her entire career in client services and has been a successful entrepreneur for 15 years. Today, she works with freelancers and agency owners to help them implement smart strategies for business growth using proven marketing, sales, and client experie...

Nadine N. Bone lives, loves, and works in Paris, France. She is a "by-referral-only" web designer & "by-application-only" brand consultant who facilitates the breakthroughs her clients need to create the visuals that represent their brand. Most of these clients want to show up as leaders and thought leaders in their community. They come to Nadine because their web designer is about to fire them! H...

Krista is a WordPress developer, co-host of the Get Back To Design Podcast, and creator of the Simply Profitable Designer Summit. She specializes in collaborating with passionate designers to craft websites that directly support their clients' goals, while helping them simplify their businesses to spend more time doing what they love - design. Here's what we covered on the episode: 01:25 Listen to...

Jordan Gill, operations consultant and founder of Systems Saved Me , helps overworked one-woman shows become streamlined solopreneurs. Her jam is creating a cohesive operating system for managing your tasks, files and inbox. She's been on podcasts like What Works and CEO Vibes sharing her love of replacing monthly retainers with one day virtual intensives. She currently lives in Dallas, TX with he...

Kristen Westcott is a business growth strategist and founder of Kristen Westcott Media ( www.kristenwestcottmedia.com ) who has spent the last decade in the legal and education fields supporting leaders and students in the areas of goal setting, productivity and project management. After recognizing her true passion, that lies in serving entrepreneurs, she honed her skills as a Director of Operati...

Eman Zabi is the founder of The Scribesmith - a launch copywriting agency that specializes in research-based strategy and conversion copy for digital products. As a part of The Scribesmith's umbrella, she created The Conversion Kits, brainstorming decks to help entrepreneurs raise conversion, and Terrain, a curated course marketplace for entrepreneurs. Eman graduated with a degree in International...

Hey friends, Melissa Burkheimer here and I'm so excited that you're here for Episode 127 of The Design Business Show. Today's episode will be pretty short and sweet, but I wanted to let you know two things before we get started. First, starting today, Friday, January 22, 2021, and you can get free access to my free sales page course between now and February 1, 2021. Just go to https://melissaburkh...

Hillary Weiss is a brand consultant, speaker, copywriter, and founder of Statement Piece Studio @ hillaryweiss.com. She's also the co-host of the cult-favorite Youtube marketing talk show Hillary and Margo Yell at Websites (#HAMYAW), and has had her work featured on Business Insider, The Next Web, The Observer, and more. Since 2011, she's helped thousands of brands all over the world get seen and...

Anahitta Mian is a US based multidisciplinary Creative. She's have been a freelancer for a while now. A few of her recent projects includes; Aqua Mat (Amazon best seller) for a U.S. company, the book "Three sisters" on Amazon (where she was featured and was an illustrator!) and multiple artworks in Canton Fair 2020. Check out her Disney Princesses in Pakistan Series below! Here's what we covered o...

Matt's a conversion design consultant who helps businesses solve human problems. Here's what we covered on the episode: The story of how Matt and I met at Copywriter Club TCC IRL Event and have since connected and chatted about partnering up because Matt is also in the conversion design realm  As a child, Matt loved art and shares that his interest in creating something and telling a story visuall...