The Pride Road Architects Podcast

There’s no doubt that we’ve all spent more time at home in the past 12 months, whether home working, home learning, self-isolating, shielding or caring, and in the process changed what ‘home’ needs to do for us and how our cities operate. This podcast is a conversation about what makes a healthy home, how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we relate to cities, and why it’s more pressing than ev...

To make money as an architect you need to find out what’s important to your clients, then explain how you can solve their problems. And this starts with knowing your clients; who they are, what they do and what their pain points are. Tune in to hear top tips and tech tactics from two expert marketeers – host Lisa Raynes Founder and CEO of Pride Road Franchise and Su Butcher Director of Just Practi...

Lisa is joined by Alessandra Upton, podcaster and recently qualified architect to discuss the importance of mentoring during the process of becoming an architect and beyond, and how to access mentoring either formally or informally. Professionals are only as good as their training, and in the UK architecture is one of the longest and costliest routes to a professional career. It’s tough to become...

Lisa Raynes, Pride Road Founder and CEO, chats to Chicago based Lira Luis RIBA. Both Lisa and Lira – the former based in Manchester, UK the latter based in Chicago, US – are joyful networkers and members of the RIBA which in 2020 was acknowledged as a Superbrand. Hear them chat about how networking skills – used both in online and offline communities – have helped them to develop their own practic...

Tune in to hear Lisa and Jason, from the perspective of being mentors and mentees, discuss the powerpack that is self-confidence. So you’ve got your own architecture practice, and there’s a multitude of responsibilities resting on you, some play to your strengths, others not so much. Common challenges can be networking effectively, confidently expressing your value to clients, or fielding criticis...

In the second of our series Pride Road Architects, the team we will be meeting Rachel Moses, David Johnson and Kris Allen. Rachel is talking about how to get your marketing strategy right, David is talking about which social media platforms architect should use and then Kris is talking about how to manage clients once you've got them.   meet the team https://www.prideroadfranchise.co.uk

In this series of podcasts our host Lisa Raynes introduces you to members of the Pride Road technical team and explains the building blocks for setting up your own architectural practice. In this episode she talks to IT manager Darren Gibbon explaining the importance of domain names and platforms as well as talking to Adam Pritchard about the fundamentals of web design and SEO, so customers can fi...

Lisa and Ben talk about resilience and why this quality is so important to build into your practice. During the best of economic times startups have a high failure rate, often tripped up by undervaluing your work or badly structured fee proposals. The truth is that these also are valuable lessons, and working through to find solutions helps to build entrepreneurship. Looking back on the last ten o...

This episode is about what it takes to make change happen – starting with the decisions you make about the value of the work you do, applying that into your architecture practice, and then rippling out the benefits of having a solid business model to others in the profession.  It all seems like small steps, but the result is disruption, literally tearing down the ways we do and make architecture....

Join in to hear Lisa and Rion’s tips for avoiding common mistakes and growing a successful business doing work that you love – and find out why Lego makes an appearance in the Pride Road marketing mix. Pride Road Franchise’s vision is to provide businesses for ambitious, time-poor architects that can sustain rather than strain family life. We do this by innovating how to deliver architecture in th...

At Pride Road Architects we’re passionate about architecture and know that good design can transform daily life. Lisa Raynes is Pride Road’s Founder, CEO and podcast host. Architecture in the Den is a monthly podcast about inspiring ideas, topical news and innovative thinking about architecture – with maybe a few giggles too as life’s not always serious!  Join in the conversation at one of our rec...

Pride Road Architects in the Den - Lisa Raynes chats to RIBA 2020 Presidential candidate Valeria Passetti   www.prideroadfranchise.co.uk

Pride Road Architects in the Den - Lisa Raynes chats to RIBA 2020 Presidential candidate Jude Barber   www.prideroadfranchise.co.uk

Pride Road Architects in the Den - Lisa Raynes chats to RIBA 2020 Presidential candidate Sumita Singha www.prideroadfranchise.co.uk

Pride Road Architects in the Den - Lisa Raynes chats to RIBA 2020 Presidential candidate Simon Allford, Allford Hall Monoghan Morris   www.prideroadfranchise.co.uk https://www.prideroadfranchise.co.uk