Tara Mangini on staying true to your design journey

 

Photography by Jillian Guyette

Is it possible to create a career you love, but do it on your own terms? And not follow the conventional path of growing and scaling a business? But instead stay in that sweet spot of doing the work that you love, and getting paid for your time and the value you create.

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THIS EPISODE FOCUSES ON

  • Having creative tendencies as a child

  • Studying Visual Communications

  • Leaving her job in advertising to travel

  • Navigating a period of uncertainty & overwhelm

  • Meeting her husband Percy and renovating their first home together

  • Their first client project

  • Learning on the job

  • How their business Jersey Ice cream Co grew

  • Realising that scaling their business didn’t bring them joy

  • How her & Percy divide up their renovation work and collaborate to make design decisions

  • Using plasters within their projects & tips for working with them

  • Tempera pigments & what they are

  • How their show ‘The Story of Home’ came to be & their unusual approach to design

  • The power of trusting your intuition


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Podcast production: Yaga Media

 
Natalie Walton