Make and Design with Carina Gardner
Carina Gardner unravels the everyday joys and dilemmas of design, making, and business. This inside scoop into fabric design, paper design, die cut design, and crafting will help bring more creativity and joy in your life. Carina Gardner has a Ph.D. in Design and was the Creative Director of Cartabella Paper Co. and MiniLou. She has designed everything from dishware to bracelets under her brand. She currently designs fabric and die cutting files while teaching other designers how to create meaningful design work while making a residual income online.
Episode 307 Advertising with Jackie Ellis
Jackie Ellis owns a Digital Agency and talks today with Carina about advertising. Jackie is Carina's Facebook Ads Manager and helped change the way Carina has done business. Learn more in today's episode.
Visit her podcast at
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/so-worth-it/id1601111286
Episode 307Â Advertising with Jackie Ellis
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Episode 306 Obsessing Over Product
Carina talks about how obsessing over products leads to greater results in the future. She explains what things propel designers and why so many have flat line sales.
Episode 306 Obsessing Over Product
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Are You Scattered? Here's What It Is Costing You
Carina lays out how you are losing money on the chalkboard (check out youtube.com/carinagardner if you want the visual of the numbers). Being scattered is affecting your bottom line more than you realize. Find out just how much money you are losing and how you can insure profitability.
Episode 305 Are You Scattered? Here's What It Is Costing You
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Episode 304 The Perfect Design Business
Carina talks about the 5 things that can create a "perfect" design business. If you want success as you create a design career, think about how you can incorporate these five important things!
Episode 304 The Perfect Design Business
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Episode 303 The Two Sets Of Tools You Need
Carina talks about the two hurdles you can jump at once as a designer. From her new book Design Profit & Prosper, these two hurdles will help you succeed as a designer. Learn more in today's episode.
Episode 303 The Two Sets Of Tools You Need
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Episode 302 Sage Tax Advice for Designers with Kimberly Tara
Taxes and bookkeeping are sometimes scary things for designers. Carina talks with Kimberly today about getting started and finding a CPA for your design business.
Episode 302 Sage Tax Advice for Designers with Kimberly Tara
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Episode 301 Two Hurdles You Can Jump At Once As A Designer
Carina talks about the two hurdles you can jump at once as a designer. From her new book Design Profit & Prosper, these two hurdles will help you succeed as a designer. Learn more in today's episode.
Episode 301 Two Hurdles You Can Jump At Once As A Designer
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Episode 299 A Quilty Podcast with Paula Chamberlain
Paula Chamberlain hosts the A Quilty Life Podcast and we talk about the stories she hears from quilters every day! Paula has a great love of spreading the stories of the lives of quilters. You can find her podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts.
You can check her website at https://aquilterslife.com/
Episode 299 A Quilty Podcast with Paula Chamberlain
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Episode 298 Which Designer Are You? 4 Types of Designers Revealed
Do you know what kind of designer you are? Carina walks through the four types of designers in today's episode. Learn which type you are as well as your strengths and weaknesses!
Episode 298 4 Types of Designers Revealed
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Episode 297 3 Ways You Can Leave Them Wanting More
Carina talks about three ways to help customers come back and buy your products. She loves repeat customers and you should too! Learn more in today's episode!
Episode 297 3 Ways You Can Leave Them Wanting More
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Episode 296 Behind the Scenes of Quilting Magazines with Tracy Mooney
Join us in this episode with Tracy Mooney, Editor of Quilt Maker Magazine and Quilt & Easy Quilts, as she takes us behind the scenes of creating each issue. Tracy also shares her experiences and tips for overcoming the challenges of pursuing your passion.
Episode 296 Behind the Scenes of Quilting Magazines with Tracy Mooney
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Episode 300 Behind the Scenes of Quilting Magazines with Tracy Mooney
Join us in this episode with Tracy Mooney, Editor of Quilt Maker Magazine and Quilt & Easy Quilts, as she takes us behind the scenes of creating each issue. Tracy also shares her experiences and tips for overcoming the challenges of pursuing your passion.
Episode 296 Behind the Scenes of Quilting Magazines with Tracy Mooney
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Episode 295 Building Momentum to Drive Your Designs
You have to take the actions each day to build momentum in your design business. Carina talks about how she drives her own actions with excitement in today's episode.
Episode 295 Building Momentum to Drive Your Designs
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Episode 294 From Broadcast to Podcast with Meg Goodman
Carina's guest today is Meg Goodman who owns a podcast production company and hosts the Sew and So Podcast for Bernina. She talks about going from broadcast at the age of 13 to not getting around to retirement because of her current creative pursuits. Learn more about Meg and the stories of quilters in today's podcast!
You can reach her via Instagram @flintrockllc
Email her at megoodman@theflintrock.com
Website sewandsopodcast.com or www.theflintrock.com
Episode 293 Do You Have (Or Even Understand) Marketing Vehicles?
Carina talks very candidly about Marketing and Sales Vehicles. If you have never heard this language before, Carina breaks down why these are so important and how you can start thinking about using them in your surface pattern and craft design business.
Episode 293 Do You Have (Or Even Understand) Marketing Vehicles?
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Episode 292 Why Struggle Equals Reward
Carina talks in depth about what it took to get her Ph.D. Her struggles led to satisfaction in a field of study she loves. She talks about the rewards that come to those who are willing to do hard things. Learn more on today's episode!
Episode 292 Why Struggle Equals Reward
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Episode 291 Paper Planner Club with Mim Jenkinson
Are you doing the right simple things your business to be profitable? Learn the one question you need to ask yourself to make sure you are implementing the right things.
Follow her instagram @paperplannerclub
Episode 291 Paper Planner Club with Mim Jenkinson
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Episode 290 Sometimes I Want to Cry When I Work Out
Carina came directly back from a workout to tell her experience of weight lifting and how it relates to becoming a designer! She talks about getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. Learn more about how it's okay to do hard things and not like it when you are getting started!
Episode 290 Sometimes I Want to Cry When I Work Out
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Episode 289 Successful Storytelling with Carriece Jefferson of Crafty Hands Club
Carriece Jefferson from Crafty Hands Club is on the podcast today talking about how storytelling has become a focus for her magazine and membership. Learn more about this creative business in today's episode!
You can reach Carriece Jefferson inÂ
Instagram @craftyhandsclub
Or her Website https://craftyhandsclub.com/
Episode 289 Successful Storytelling with Carriece Jefferson of Crafty Hands Club
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Episode 288 Simple = Profitable
Are you doing the right simple things your business to be profitable? Learn the one question you need to ask yourself to make sure you are implementing the right things.
Episode Simple = Profitable
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Episode 287 Are You Addicted to the Vision?
Sometimes we can get a little out of balance with our ideas of what it is like to be a designer. If we can balance our ideas and our implementation, we are building a great design business. Learn more on today's episode!
Episode 287 Are You Addicted to the Vision?
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Episode 286 Refusal to Get Help
Today Carina talks about her early career as a designer and how she refused help. It took her longer to reach her goals because of it. She talks about ways she got help and what she let go of to have the business that she has today. Learn more in today's episode.
Episode 286 Refusal to Get Help
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Episode 285 How Are You Losing Money?
Carina goes over some of the ways you might be losing money in your design business. Learn more about how you can make some changes that will make you more profitable in today's episode.
Episode 285 How Are You Losing Money
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Episode 284 Are You Building Or Maintaining A Design Business?
Do you know the difference between building or maintaining a design business? Carina goes through the different ways you might be building or maintaining your design products in this episode.
Episode 284 Are You Building Or Maintaining A Design Business?
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Episode 283 Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA
Carina dives into how adding Live Retreats to Design Suite happened. She recaps January 2023 in Hamilton, Missouri at the Missouri Star Quilt Retreat Center. Learn about the activities, tours, and workshops Design Suite enjoyed while they were there. Watch the youtube channel for excerpts of the event at www.youtube.com/carinagardner
Episode 283 Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA
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Episode 282 Why Digital is So Profitable
Carina dives into how digital designing gave her stability that her contracts did not. Learn why digital is such an amazing way to become a profitable designer in this episode.
Episode 282 Why Digital is So Profitable
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Episode 281 0 to $100,000
Carina talks about starting her design business and what it took to get to $100,000. Learn more about the differences between contracts, digital designs, and so much more.
Episode 281 0 to $100,000
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Episode 280 3 Reasons Confusion Happens
If you are stuck somewhere in the design process, learn more about why that confusion is happening and how to fix it!
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Episode 280 on the Make and Design Podcast: 3 Reasons Confusion Happens
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Episode 279 Your Words to Clients Matter
To be a good designer, we also have to be able to explain why we designed something the way we did. Learn why words matter for a designer.
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Episode 279 on the Make and Design Podcast: Your Words to Clients Matter
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Episode 278 3 Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Early in My Design Business
Hindsight is 20/20 and there are many things Carina would have changed early in her design career. Learn about some of these things so that you can evaluate your own design business practices.
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Episode 278 on the Make and Design Podcast: 3 Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Early in My Design Business
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Episode 277 If You Are Frustrated, You Are Missing This One Thing
Are you super frustrated right now in your design business? Are you having trouble making money? Maybe you are missing this one thing. Learn more in today’s episode.
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Episode 277 on the Make and Design Podcast:Â If You Are Frustrated, You Are Missing This One Thing
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Episode 276 If You Want To Be A Famous Designer...
Carina runs into aspiring designers whose main focus is the notoriety around being a designer. Learn more about what Carina has to say about fame.
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Episode 276 on the Make and Design Podcast: If You Want To Be A Famous Designer...
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Episode 275 Two Things That Will Make You A Great Designer
What are the two things that will make you a great designer? Learn about it in today’s episode!
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Episode 275 on the Make and Design Podcast: Two Things That Will Make You A Great Designer
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Episode 274 Why You Are Not Winning As A Designer
Design isn’t just about design. It’s about a lot of different things that make your business grow. Learn more about winning in your design business in today’s episode.
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Episode 274 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why You Are Not Winning As A Designer
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Episode 273 Why Design Should Not Be All Lollipops and Rainbows
Design shouldn’t be magical and easy all the time. If it was, everybody would already be doing it! Instead it is the designers who role up their sleeves and get down into the hard work and strategies that make things really happen.
Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper
Episode 273 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why Design Should Not Be All Lollipops and Rainbows
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Episode 272 Stop Taking Bad Advice
Learn to take advice from those you are modeling your design career after, not those who do not! Learn more about asking less of those who aren’t designers and more from those who are profitable the way you want to be profitable!
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Episode 272 on the Make and Design Podcast: Stop Taking Bad Advice
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Episode 271 Why the Software is Hurdle #1
In Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper she talks about the three hurdles a designer must jump over to be successful. Learn more about hurdle number one in this episode!
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Episode 271 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why the Software is Hurdle #1
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Episode 270 Stop Doing the Same Things But Expecting Different Results
Carina talks to designers weekly and is astounded to see designers continuing to do the same thing that is not getting them results. Learn more about changing behaviors so that your results also change.
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Episode 270 on the Make and Design Podcast: Stop Doing the Same Things But Expecting Different Results
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Episode 269 Learn About the Design Process Model
Carina’s new book goes through several models meant to help aspiring designers see where they can improve so that they can become profitable. Carina’s Design Process Model will help you see if you are making it through all the steps of design.
Get the new book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper
Episode 269 on the Make and Design Podcast: Learn About the Design Process Model
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Episode 268 Another Big 2023 Announcement
Carina already announced her new book, but she has another big announcement! In just another month you will see a new series of videos hitting her youtube channel that you will not want to miss. It includes new collections from her in a new format. Learn more in today’s episode!
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