97 - Opportunity Thinking Episode 5 - Parenting and Owning Your Own Business
Release Date: 05/27/2018
354 - Re-release of Jean Lawes and the Jill Robson Scholarship
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Jean Lawes has been a guest on the podcast a few times, and on this episode, she shares what winning the Jill Robson Scholarship meant to her. You have until April 30th, 2023 to apply for the Scholarship. Visit to find out more.
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353 - Jeanne Henzel Swartz - We Strive for Excellence Not Perfection
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Jeanne Henzel is a creative artist with the mind of an engineer. She practices the kind of visionary magic that comes from a degree in fine art and a background in theatre design and theatrical costume crafts. Theatre requires couture-level quality with bomb-proof design — costumes that can be used over and over and modified from frog to princess and back again. It is wonderful training for a creative problem solver. Her work has appeared in the theatre, in museums, and in beautiful homes throughout California and the United States. You can see Jeanne's work here on her She is...
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352 - Michele Fugazy - Networking is Everything
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Michele Fugazy is the owner of a to the trade soft furnishings and hard treatment window coverings company in Fairfield County CT since 2000. Prior to this, Michele worked for 12 years as a fashion industry executive designing & selling accessories in NYC, making biannual trips to Europe, India, & Japan working on product development and fabrication. Her garment center experience provided the foundation for owning her own business. Michele is on Links and Resources; Some of the links I provide, specifically to Amazon and a few others, require me to let you know that if you use those...
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351 - Listener Favorite - Jean Lawes and Cindi Gray - Partnering Up!
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Jean Lawes is the owner of , a Custom Workroom to the Trade, located in Jarrettsville, Maryland. With an extensive background in Sewing and Design, Jean is thrilled to be working with outstanding Interior Designers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Thanks to Jeanelle Dech’s marvelous “Real Workroom” series, she met her “partner in crime,” Cindi Gray, owner of Manor Decorative Services. Fabricating, and collaborating together (two business ventures working in a cooperative), they truly make a Dynamic Duo! Cindi Gray learned to love sewing as a small child...
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350 - Polly Waite - We Are All Winging it a Bit!
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Polly Waite is a classically trained and qualified upholsterer and furniture restorer. She is a member of the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishing and has been working professionally in the industry for over 12 years in her business, . Polly comes from a background in design and a family history in antiques. Since the training, she has been using her trained eye to turn tired old chairs into one-of-a-kind, coveted pieces. There have been many creative and challenging commissions over the years; from double-decker buses, hand-made cloud sofas for a festival, and countless...
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349 - OT Series with Harmony Maraldo and the National Upholstery Association
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Harmony Maraldo is an upholsterer, a pricing strategist, and the current president of the National Upholstery Association. By day, she works as the Head of Pricing & Packaging for a tech company in Boston. On nights and weekends, she runs a small traditional upholstery business, while also juggling the demanding needs of directing a non-profit. Harmony believes that demand for reupholstery services will continue to rise as consumers increasingly choose sustainability over convenience. She seeks to build awareness of the craft and to develop training and career paths for those interested in...
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348 - Kelli Vitari - Money Will Come Back to You, Time Will Not
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Kelli Vitari is an award-winning owner of the window treatment store and drapery and upholstery workroom, , in Olympia, WA. She has been fabricating for the industry for the past 18 years in various workrooms across the country and has been sewing since the age of 8. Her educational background ranges from architectural engineering and interior and commercial design to biology and medicine. She lives in Olympia, WA with her husband and business partner, Willie, 3 yr old daughter, Tezra, 2 dogs, and a snake. You can find Kelli on and The Sew Much More Podcast is sponsored by;...
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347 - Denise Korynta - I Said Yes to Some Pretty Strange Jobs!
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Denise Korynta, of Smith Mountain Lake, VA, created her slipcover business, when the need arose to find a job that would give her the flexibility to work around her husband’s schedule, spend more time at their lake house, and with their 6 grandchildren. It was the perfect option that combined her love of decorating, sewing, fabric, working with people, and problem-solving. It quickly evolved into cushions, pillows, and other home decorating accents. It’s taken 40 years, 8 duty stations, and 22 homes to get here, but having her own creative business has always been on her...
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346 - Audrey Campbell - I Love to Learn New Stuff!
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Audrey Campbell is the owner of a drapery workroom located in Cincinnati, OH, servicing both retail and to-the-trade clients. She credits her start in the industry to her creative mother who loved to redecorate and was never afraid of a good DIY project. In 2015 Audrey purchased a used industrial straight stitch machine on a whim while making items for her own home and a seed was planted in her mind. She began researching the custom workroom industry and spent the next 2 years slowly learning the craft. She is also a busy mother and is grateful to have the opportunity to work from home...
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345 - OT Series - Rosemarie Garner - On Moving Her Homebased Workroom
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Rosemarie Garner comes by her sewing passion naturally. Her maternal grandparents were a seamstress and a tailor, and her mother taught her how to sew when she was in junior high school. Fast forward many years later, R Garner Custom Designs was born on the third floor of her Montclair, NJ home, where she worked for 12 years. Five years ago, she moved to a glorious 900-square-foot industrial space in Butler, NJ where there is finally space to have two tables, all four of her industrial sewing machines, a state-of-the-art industrial iron, a professional clamping system for panel...
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Jeanelle Dech, owner of The Workroom Channel, Adaptive Textiles and The Curtains & Soft Furnishings Resource Library, Christina Price, owner of Main Line Window Decor and Theda Hadden, owner of Springwood Upholstery and I talk about owning and running our businesses while being Moms and Wives.
We talk about the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Here is a link to the Digital Digest
This was such an enlightening podcast to record, I hope you found it as interesting as I did!
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We talked about Oprah's podcast with Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling