Pull The Thread

Nov 03 2023 5

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The podcast teaches you everything you need to know to be profitable at craft-based work, and dive deep on sewing as a career choice. Join your host, Krystal Douglas - a celebrity tailor, creative entrepreneur and wild mustang tamer. Krystal took a Brother home sewing machine and a $30 craigslist desk and built a six-figure sewing business that supports a life she loves… while generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year. It definitely didn’t come easy, but this podcast is meant to help others shorten their learning curve. She shares what she's learned about entrepreneurship and business building as it applies to fashion & craft-based work, and opens up about what she wishes she knew when she first started. Go behind the scenes on every tool, trick, and business process Krystal has learned from costuming celebrities, manufacturing clothing, and selling products... so that you can stop questioning your skills, and start profiting from your work.

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Self employed vs. Business Owner - Is there a difference?

Nov 03 2023 33 mins

If you're hustling for new clients all day, and working as fast as your little fingers can fly all night, you've probably been walking the fine line between self-employed and business owner for a while now.Krystal has a couple ways to tell if it's time to make the changes you need for long term stability, as well as a little advice for what's going to be expecte

You only ever have two choices. Are you willing to do what it takes?

Oct 16 2023 20 mins

Do you ever feel like people are lapping you? Like everyone else is moving forward, and your current status is... well... stationary? Episode 27 of Pull the Thread podcast is for the perpetual planner who just can't seem to pull the trigger on launching or is stuck without any growth. Because you only ever really have two choices - you can evolve or remain. Are you willing to

Starting a career in fashion? My assistant shares her insights

Oct 04 2023 51 mins

September marks my assistant, Natalyn’s one-year anniversary of working at our brick-and-mortar sewing business. I finally dragged her behind the mic to share about the past year, all the hard work she’s put in, and things she’s learned along the way.If you’re considering fashion school, or a career in the hands-on side of creating fashion, this episode is one not to miss.

9 Tools Making Me A Better CEO

Sep 24 2023 38 mins

These nine (mostly free) tools have changed the game for me in terms of automating and delegating tasks. My goal as a business owner is to not waste any human brainpower whatsoever dong things computers can do more efficiently, and in return, keeping our valuable hands busy doing work that matters for people who care. My top 9 tools for a more productive, profitable handmade busine

If there were one secret, it would be this.

Aug 07 2023 25 mins

Derek Thompson says that to sell something familiar, you have to make it surprising. To sell something surprising, you have to make it familiar. "It is in this interplay between familiarity and surprise where the strongest appeal lives.And isn’t that just it? Customers are either torn between their curiosity of new things, and also, a fear of anything too new.Hop into this e

10 Steps To Better Margins In Your Business

Jun 30 2023 43 mins

Did you know Steve Jobs was so upside down on starting Pixar that he was personally funding payroll for months on end before Toy Story was released? He couldn’t secure backing from anyone, but truly believed in the creative underbelly of what was going on inside of those ordinary offices that sat next to an oil refinery. Jobs was $50 million in the hole, but still knew he was ont

You’re Stealing From Yourself

Jun 09 2023 36 mins

The largest art theft in history happened nearly 33 years ago, in Boston, March 18, 1990. Thieves stole 13 pieces of art valued at over $500 million, from Isabella Gardner Museum.One of the pieces stolen has been valued at $250 million… A reward of $10 million is still being offered for the return of this art. Have you ever stolen from yourself? If you’re a creative trying to d

Your Idea Could Change Your Life. Introducing Project Fashion Forward

May 21 2023 36 mins

This episode highlights the pain points of well-intentioned aspiring fashion designers.If a sketch were all one needed, then anyone could be a fashion designer... But it isn't.You don't need to know how to pattern or sew - you just need to communicate with those who do.There are a lot of steps between making a sketch, and having it manufactured into wearable clothing... I

Fashion Line Launch Secrets From A Small Batch Manufacturer

Mar 09 2023 32 mins

The most expensive dress in the world was valued at $30 million dollars, and was created by Faisal Abdullah in 2009 - an incredible designer that doesn't even have a website. That speaks volumes to me - First, that someone can do $30m without a website & second, the consistent reminder that making things is expensive. The sobering reality of what launching a clothing line

Manufacturing Your Own Fashion Designs? Don’t Make These Mistakes

Mar 02 2023 27 mins

The color chartreuse has a bit of a boozy background. It was named after a French liqueur called “chartreuse” which has a greenish-yellow hue. The liqueur was first produced in 1605 by the Carthusian monks of France. François Hannibal d’Estrées discovered a secret recipe that allegedly helped its consumers ‘live a long life.’ He brought the recipe to Monks near Paris, w