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The Interior Collective

Anastasia Casey

A podcast for the business of beautiful living presented by IDCO Studio. The Interior Collective is equal parts advisor, collaborator, and trusted friend to interior designers around the world. I’m your host, Anastasia Casey -- bringing in interior designers and industry tastemakers to provide you with actionable advice for your own practice from experts you already trust. Our star-studded lineup features industry-renowned names such as Heidi Caillier, Amber Lewis, Shea McGee, Marie Flanigan, Jake Arnold, Clara Jung, Carley Summers, Gail Davis, Lindsey Borchard, Lauren Liess, Light & Dwell, Victoria Sass, Megan Grehl and so many more. We’ve assigned each guest a specific topic for truly actionable, inspiring and strategic takeaways from each episode.

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S10 · E1
Friday · 1 hr 6 min
Utilizing Personal Projects as a Marketing Channel with Jean Stoffer and Grace Start
Season 10 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today two of my favorite people are back. Jean Stoffer joined us in Season 5 to talk about building a family legacy in design, and it was such an impactful conversation. If you have not listened to it, go back and start there. Today we are picking up where we left off, but going somewhere completely new. Jean and Grace were also keynote speakers
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S9 · E15
October 23 · 1 hr 2 min
Staying Hands-On as a Designer: Creative Control at Scale with Amber Lewis
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Loloi. Hi, welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey and I'm once again joined by Amber Lewis, founder of Amber Interiors, a studio that has grown from a small residential practice into a brand with hundreds of employees and a footprint that spans design, retail, and media. What's notable about Amber's path isn't just the scale, it's her signa
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S9 · E14
October 16 · 1 hr 19 min
Behind the Lens: How to Plan, Shoot, and License Your Design Work with Marie Flanigan
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Loloi. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today someone very special is back for another conversation. Marie Flanigan has been a part of this show since the very beginning. She was our first-ever guest on Season 1 of the podcast, has been on again since, and is someone whose work and industry leadership I deeply admire. For anyone
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S9 · E13
October 9 · 56 min
The Builder Advantage: Turning Contractor Relationships Into Your Most Powerful Client Pipeline with Ali Henrie
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Loloi. Hi everyone, and welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I'm sitting down with Ali Henrie, founder of Ali Henrie Interiors, based in Utah. Most designers think about builders as a logistical relationship. Someone to coordinate with, someone to negotiate around, someone to manage. Ali Henrie thinks about builders as one of t
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S9 · E12
October 2 · 1 hr 12 min
Selling Without Selling: The Strategy Behind Growing Oho Interiors with Melissa Oholendt
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Loloi. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today Melissa Oholendt of Oho Interiors is back for her second conversation on this show. Melissa launched Oho Interiors in 2019 after a career that moved from corporate finance to wedding photography to interior photography to design. She has been featured in Architectural Digest, House Be
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S9 · E11
September 25 · 1 hr 11 min
The Brand-Led Studio: How to Win Clients Before the Inquiry with Shea McGee
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Loloi. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today's guest needs absolutely no introduction - Shea McGee is back. For those of you who were with us in Season 1, you know we had Shea on back in 2022, and that episode remains one of the most listened-to conversations in the show's history. A lot has happened since then. McGee & Co. has
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S9 · E10
September 18 · 1 hr 1 min
Designing Across Residential and Boutique Hospitality with Hearth Homes Interiors
Celebrate a decade of IDCO Studio with 10 days of 30% off site-wide. Use code DECADE30 at www.idco.studio today to lock in your savings. Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I am sitting down with two people whose business model sits at the intersection of residential design and hospitality ownership. Katie Labourdette-Martinez and Olivia Wahler are sisters-in-law and co-founde
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S9 · E9
September 11 · 59 min
Collaborators, Craft, and the Path to Publication with Sean Anderson
Celebrate a decade of IDCO Studio with 10 days of 30% off site-wide. Use code DECADE30 at www.idco.studio today to lock in your savings. Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I am sitting down with someone I've really been looking forward to getting to know — Sean Anderson. Sean grew up in rural Mississippi, where his mother encouraged his love of art long before he ever thought
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S9 · E10
September 9 · 57 min
The 100 Image Exercise: Tiffany Leigh's Client Discovery Process
Celebrate a decade of IDCO Studio with 10 days of 30% off site-wide. Use code DECADE30 at www.idco.studio today to lock in your savings. Tiffany Piotrowski is back, and this time we are digging into her studio’s 100 image exercise. This episode relies heavily on the video portion of it, as Tiffany generously shows us physical examples of what she’s explaining. If you are not already watching this on Patreon or YouTube, pause, and head over there. Subscribing on Patreon gets you access to not onl
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S9 · E8
September 4 · 59 min
The HGTV Effect: What TV Competition Design Taught About Process, Pressure, and Profitability with Britany Simon
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I'm sitting down with someone whose career trajectory is genuinely one of a kind in this industry. Britany Simon grew up around construction, the daughter of a residential developer in Arizona. She earned a degree in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in business and interior design, and spent years working in some of the top des
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S9 · E7
August 28 · 1 hr 4 min
Showhouses as a Strategic Brand-Building Investment with Claire Staszak
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I am sitting down with Claire Staszak, founder and principal of Centered by Design, a full-service residential interior design studio based in Chicago specializing in the design and restoration of historic homes. Claire came from journalism and marketing before she came to interiors, and that background has shaped everything about how she ha
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S9 · E6
August 21 · 56 min· Video
Midwest to Manhattan: Earning Your Place in the Most Competitive Design Market
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I'm sitting down with Emily Del Bello, founder of Emily Del Bello Interiors, a New York City-based residential design studio known for interiors that are layered, collected, and deeply personal. Earlier this season, we had a conversation that stayed with me. A designer who made the deliberate choice to leave a major market, to build somethin
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S9 · E5
August 14 · 1 hr 5 min
The Sameness Problem: What Fashion Styling Teaches About Protecting Your Creative Point of View with Nicole Fisher
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I'm sitting down with Nicole Fisher, founder of Nicole Fisher Interiors, a residential design studio now based in New York City. Before Nicole was designing homes, she was dressing Lady Gaga.She started her career in fashion, working as a stylist under Brandon Maxwell and Nicola Formichetti. That level of intentionality around detail, charac
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S9 · E4
August 7 · 53 min
Hiring for Culture, Leading with Values: Building a Team with Diverse Backgrounds with Trish Lynn
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Hi everyone, and welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I'm sitting down with Trish Lynn, founder and principal designer of Colette Interiors, a full-service residential studio based in Chatham, New Jersey. I want to ask you something before we get into this episode. When you picture your next hire, what do you picture? Someone fresh out of a design program? Someone who's already
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S9 · E3
July 31 · 1 hr 4 min
Designing a Service Menu That Scales: How Zoë Feldman Built a Studio That Serves Clients at Every Level Without Diluting the Brand
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Hi, and welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I'm thrilled to welcome back one of the most business-savvy designers working right now — and one of the most generous guests we've ever had on this show. If you were here for Zoë's first episode, you know she walked us through her six-step design process with a level of clarity and detail that genuinely stopped designers in their tr
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S9 · E2
July 24 · 1 hr 8 min
Building A Design Firm Outside a Major Market with Emily Tucker
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Welcome back to The Interior Collective. I’m your host, Anastasia Casey, and today I’m joined by someone whose story I think is going to resonate deeply with so many of you who are building businesses outside of the obvious design epicenters. Emily Tucker is the founder of Emily Tucker Design, a full-service residential studio headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with projects across the country. With a degree in Architectu
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S9 · E1
July 17 · 1 hr 29 min
Creative Mindset: How to Do Your Best Work and Protect the Creativity of a Project from Start to Finish with Julia Miller
Season 9 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Materio. Hi, and welcome back to The Interior Collective. I'm your host, Anastasia Casey, and I'm so glad to have a returning guest with us today. Julia Miller is the founder and creative director of Yond Interiors, a full-service residential design studio based in Minneapolis that serves clients across the country. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal, RUE, Sunset, and more, and she's been re
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S8 · E16
June 19 · 46 min
The Strategic Hire: Utilizing Remote Support to Scale Your Studio with Reed Humphrey
This episode is brought to you in partnership with Dezign Assist. Today on The Interior Collective, I'm sitting down with Reed Humphrey, co-founder of Alder & Tweed, one of the largest residential interior design firms in the country, and the founder of Dezign Assist, the platform helping interior designers grow their team at a fraction of the cost. Reed built Alder & Tweed alongside his sister Heather, carved out a niche in luxury second-home and vacation destination design, and scaled the firm
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S8 · E15
June 12 · 1 hr 3 min
Vintage as a Revenue Stream: How to Source, Price, and Scale One of a Kind Design with Ashley Montgomery
Season 8 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Loloi.This episode is brought to you in partnership with Materio. Today’s guest is someone who needs very little introduction: Ashley Montgomery is the founder and principal of Ashley Montgomery Design, one of Canada’s most publicly recognized interior design studios. Her work is instantly identifiable. Layered, warm, deeply collected, and anchored in vintage pieces that feel storied and intentional rather than trendy. But what I’m
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S8 · E14
June 5 · 1 hr 8 min
What It Really Takes to Launch a Textile or Wallpaper Line with Callie Jenschke
Season 8 of The Interior Collective Podcast is brought to you by Loloi. Today’s episode is one I know so many of you have been curious about, because we’re diving into what it actually looks like to step beyond client work and into product development. I’m joined by Callie, founder of SUPPLY Showroom-a boutique fabric and wallpaper showroom-which is the hub of Austin’s design community, and whose reach extends well beyond Texas. It’s truly one of those spaces that’s worth the trip, whether you’
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