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Welcome to Day 19 of the Christmas Advent Calendar Podcast. I’m your host, Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui, Business Coach and Mentor, supporting women to build sustainable, profitable businesses through strategy, identity work, and mindset shifts that create long-term growth.

Today’s episode is a deeply important conversation around value, and more specifically, the way so many women in business misunderstand the relationship between time, effort, and worth.

This episode is an invitation to pause and reflect on how you currently perceive your own value, how you price your work, and how you invest in support as you step toward 2026.

In this solo episode, I explore why value is so often incorrectly tied to time, and why this belief keeps women undercharging, overworking, and second-guessing themselves.

We unpack the truth that experience compresses time.

The clarity you offer.
The decisions you make quickly.
The guidance you give is always the best.
The outcomes you help others reach.

These are not signs that your work is “easy” or less valuable, they are signs of mastery.

Ten minutes of guidance can save someone days of emotional labour.
One clear perspective can remove weeks of uncertainty.
One experienced conversation can prevent months of misalignment.

And yet, so many women still ask:
“Is this worth charging for?”

This episode gently but firmly challenges that belief.

Key Takeaways from This Episode

• Why is value not directly linked to time spent
• How experience allows for faster decision-making and more profound clarity
• Why ease is a result of mastery, not a lack of effort
• How women often undercut their worth by equating struggle with value
• Why investing in someone means paying for their perspective, not their hours

Your clients are not paying for your time.
They are paying for your insight.
Your clarity.
Your ability to see what they cannot yet see.

And when you truly understand that, everything changes.

Join Lisa-marie and the women in the Design Boss Diary family, follow on Instagram HERE and find more about how you can work with Lisa in 2026.

Join me in Birmingham on Friday 23th & Saturday 24th January 2026 for a luxury two-day retreat, Strategy & Soul.
Two days that will prepare you for your most powerful year yet.
Find out more HERE

This and other episodes are on our YouTube channel HERE

To celebrate Season 2 of the Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m giving away six incredible prizes:

• 4 women will join me in London for a private in-person strategy session + lunch in an exclusive location (worth £1,000 each)
• 2 women will receive a fully-paid ticket to The Visionary event in Birmingham (worth £540 each)

To enter:

1. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
2. Screenshot your review
3. Share it on your Instagram Stories and tag @Design_Boss_Diary

Every review + share counts as an additional entry, no limits.

This is your chance to begin 2026 with clarity, strategy, and a powerful reset.

And as always if you have loved this episode we would love for you to leave a review and if you screenshot this podcast and share it on your socials, tagging @Design_Boss_Diary in then we have a special gift waiting just for you.

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Welcome to Day 18 of the Christmas Advent Calendar Podcast, and today’s episode brings a beautifully creative, inspiring, and heart led conversation. I’m your host, Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui, Business Coach and Mentor, supporting women in the design industry to build businesses rooted in identity, creativity, and confidence. Today we are diving into the world of interior design, individuality, and the deep wisdom that comes from trusting your gut instinct.

Joining me is the incredible Briony Ace, a designer known for her intuitive approach, her creative boldness, and her commitment to helping people see the world through their own unique design lens. Briony brings an honest and refreshing perspective on what it means to build a career in design, reminding us that creativity is as individual as we are.

In this conversation, Briony opens up about:

• Why trusting your gut instinct is one of the most powerful tools a designer can develop
• The importance of tuning out the noise and listening to your own creative voice
• How individuality shapes the brilliance of the design world
• Why years of experience often sharpen rather than silence your intuitive sense
• The many ways creativity can be expressed
• Why using AutoCAD, SketchUp, or any technical tool is completely valid
• Why sketching in a notebook is equally valuable
• The importance of embracing who you are in your creative journey
• Owning your individuality as a designer
• How the design process can be a true wonderment when you trust yourself

Briony’s approach is a powerful reminder that there is no one right way to be a designer. Whether you rely on software, sketches, moodboards, or your intuitive read of a space, your creativity is enough. Your individuality is your strength. And your gut instinct is one of your greatest design tools.

Explore Briony’s world through her website HERE

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Join the Design Boss Diary community on Instagram HERE and explore how you can work with me in 2026.

Join me in Birmingham on Friday 23th and Saturday 24th January 2026 for a luxury two day retreat designed to elevate your strategy, your creativity, and your confidence as we step into a new year of growth.
Find out more HERE

Watch this and all Advent Calendar episodes on our YouTube channel HERE.

Our Christmas Giveaway

To celebrate Season 2 of the Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m giving away six incredible prizes:

• 4 women will join me in London for a private in person strategy session, lunch in an exclusive location, worth £1,000 each
• 2 women will receive a fully paid ticket to The Visionary event in Birmingham, worth £540 each

To enter:

1. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
   
   
   
2. Screenshot your review
   
   
   
3. Share it on your Instagram Stories and tag @Design_Boss_Diary

Each review + share counts as an additional entry, with no limits.

If you’ve loved this episode, we would be so grateful for your review. And if you screenshot and share this podcast on your socials, tagging @Design_Boss_Diary, we have a special gift waiting for you.

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Welcome to Day 17 of the Christmas Advent Calendar Podcast, and today’s episode brings a powerful, insightful, and deeply practical conversation. I’m your host, Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui, Business Coach and Mentor, supporting women to build profitable, aligned, and scalable businesses through strategy, mindset, and identity work. Today we are diving into the truths behind business growth, scaling, and the foundations every entrepreneur needs to understand before entering her next chapter.

Joining me is the incredible Samantha Hearne, a mentor, coach, and business leader who is renowned for her grounded, strategic approach to building sustainable success. Samantha brings clarity, honesty, and real world experience to the conversation as we unpack what it truly means to grow a business versus scale one.

In this episode, Samantha opens up about:

• Why growing and scaling are fundamentally different processes
• How to identify which stage your business is currently in
• The importance of strong foundations for sustainable growth
• Why community is the heartbeat of service based businesses
• The role of market research in aligning your offers with what clients actually want
• Why scaling requires a methodical and strategic approach rather than speed
• Common bottlenecks that occur when entrepreneurs try to scale too quickly
• How mistakes become valuable data for future improvement
• The importance of intentionality and conscious choice in your business decisions
• Why your business must reflect your personal values and long term goals

This conversation is an essential listen for any woman preparing for 2026, especially if you are ready to step into growth, scale with confidence, or rebuild your foundations with clarity and intention. Samantha brings a refreshing honesty that empowers you to choose your path rather than react to pressure or comparison.

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Join the Design Boss Diary community on Instagram HERE and explore how you can work with me in 2026.

Join me in Birmingham on Friday 23th and Saturday 24th January 2026 for a luxury two day retreat designed to elevate your strategy, your identity, and your business vision for the year ahead.
Find out more HERE

Watch this and all Advent Calendar episodes on our YouTube channel HERE

Our Christmas Giveaway

To celebrate Season 2 of the Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m giving away six incredible prizes:

• 4 women will join me in London for a private in person strategy session, lunch in an exclusive location, worth £1,000 each
• 2 women will receive a fully paid ticket to The Visionary event in Birmingham, worth £540 each

To enter:

1. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
   
   
   
2. Screenshot your review
   
   
   
3. Share it on your Instagram Stories and tag @Design_Boss_Diary
   
   
   

Every review and share counts as an additional entry, no limits.

This is your reminder that you always have a choice in how you grow your business, how you scale your success, and how you lead your next chapter.

If you’ve loved this episode, we would be so grateful for your review. And if you screenshot and share this podcast on your socials, tagging @Design_Boss_Diary, we have a special gift waiting for you.

See you in the next episode, you lovely lot. x

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In this special recap episode of the Christmas Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m bringing together the collective wisdom from a powerful series of conversations with inspiring guests, each offering their own perspective on what it truly takes to build a sustainable, aligned, and successful business.

Across these episodes, clear themes began to emerge. Strategy paired with energetics. Systems that support rather than suffocate. The dismantling of limiting beliefs. And the essential role of self care, boundaries, and community in long term growth. This episode is not about doing more. It is about building better, with intention, clarity, and conscious leadership.

In this reflection, I weave together the insights shared by my guests to highlight one core truth. Business growth is never just about output or hustle. It is about creating a structure that supports your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing alongside your ambition.

Throughout the series, guests shared powerful reflections and key insights across several foundational themes.

Strategy and Structure
Guests explored how clear systems, pricing, and processes remove chaos, increase confidence, and create space for growth.

Energetics and Mindset
Conversations highlighted how limiting beliefs, fear, and resistance quietly cap expansion, and how energetic alignment and self leadership unlock the next level.

Self Care and Boundaries
Guests reinforced that sustainable success requires protected energy, clear boundaries, and intentional rest, not burnout disguised as ambition.

Community and Networking
The importance of being in the right rooms, building meaningful relationships, and growing alongside others was a recurring and powerful theme.

Storytelling and Visibility
Guests shared how owning your story, your voice, and your lived experience differentiates your brand and deepens client connection.

Manifestation and Intention
Practices around clarity, vision, and conscious intention were explored as grounded tools for navigating fear and creating aligned growth.

Pricing and Worth
Transparent, confident pricing was consistently highlighted as a cornerstone of trust, professionalism, and self belief.

This episode is a grounded reminder that success is created through clarity, alignment, and conscious leadership, not pressure, comparison, or constant hustle. It is an invitation to reflect on how you are building, and whether your business is supporting the life you want to live.

Join the Design Boss Diary community on Instagram HERE and explore how you can work with me in 2026.

You can also join us in Birmingham for Strategy and Soul, a two day luxury retreat designed to support aligned growth, conscious leadership, and sustainable success.

Join me in Birmingham on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th January 2026 for a transformational two day experience created to prepare you for your most powerful year yet.
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Welcome to Day 15 of the Christmas Advent Calendar Podcast, and today’s episode brings a deeply transformative and empowering conversation. I’m your host, Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui, Business Coach and Mentor, helping women build unapologetically powerful businesses through strategy, mindset, and identity work, and today we are diving into subconscious coaching, affirmations, and the inner rewiring required to create real, sustainable change.

Joining me is the incredible Natasha Clark, a subconscious coach whose work integrates identity transformation, emotional regulation, and energetic empowerment. Natasha brings a refreshing, grounded, and highly practical approach to mindset work, helping women shift from self-doubt to deep inner certainty through tools that genuinely reprogram your subconscious.

In this episode, Natasha shares powerful insights on:

• Why affirmations alone don’t work unless your belief system supports them

• How reframing statements into questions can hack the subconscious instantly

• The role of discomfort in growth, and why embracing it accelerates expansion

• Why worthiness is an internal state, not something you earn through achievement

• Awareness as the foundation of all mindset work

• Using breathwork to regulate anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional intensity

• The power of Natasha’s ACI Method, Awareness, Clearance, Identity, for reprogramming the subconscious

• How energy, mindset, and playfulness can transform your business outcomes

This conversation is a powerful reminder that your subconscious mind is your operating system, and when you update it, everything else in your business shifts. If you’re ready to expand your capacity, rewrite your inner dialogue, and build a business from a place of grounded worthiness.

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Join me in Birmingham on Friday 23th and Saturday 24th January 2026 for a luxury two day retreat designed to elevate your strategy, your energy, and your identity.

Find out more HERE

Watch this and all Advent Calendar episodes on our YouTube channel HERE

Our Christmas Giveaway

To celebrate Season 2 of the Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m giving away six incredible prizes:

• 4 women will join me in London for a private in person strategy session, lunch in an exclusive location, worth £1,000 each

• 2 women will receive a fully paid ticket to The Visionary event in Birmingham, worth £540 each

To enter:

• Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
• Screenshot your review
• Share it on your Instagram Stories and tag @Design_Boss_Diary

Every review and share counts as an additional entry, no limits.

If you’ve loved this episode, we would be so grateful for your review. And if you screenshot and share this podcast on your socials, tagging @Design_Boss_Diary, we have a special gift waiting for you.

See you in the next episode, you lovely lot. x

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Welcome to Day 14 of the Christmas Advent Calendar Podcast, and today’s episode brings another powerful conversation with another incredible guest. I’m your host, Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui, Business Coach and Mentor, guiding women through strategic growth and soulful personal development, and today we are exploring identity, shedding, and what it truly means to evolve into your higher self as we enter 2026.

Joining me is the wonderful Siobhan Mears, a woman whose work is rooted in authenticity, transformation, and the courage required to step into your next level identity. Siobhan brings a grounded yet expansive perspective on personal development, mindset, and the deeper shifts required for women in business who are ready to grow beyond who they’ve been and into who they are becoming.

In this conversation, Siobhan opens up about:

• Why shedding is essential for personal evolution
• Letting go of outdated identities, beliefs, and even services that no longer serve your higher self
• How journaling helps uncover the beliefs keeping you stuck
• The power of visualization in accessing your next level identity
• Why business relationships must evolve as you evolve
• Creating space for what lights you up rather than what drains you
• Stepping into 2026 with clarity, intention, and authenticity

This episode is your reminder that what got you here won’t carry you into the next chapter, and that shedding is not loss, but expansion. Whether you’re redefining your services, releasing old patterns, or stepping into a new version of yourself, this conversation will give you permission to let go and rise.

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Join the Design Boss Diary community on Instagram HERE and explore how you can work with me in 2026.

Join me in Birmingham on Friday 23th & Saturday 24th January 2026 for a luxury two-day retreat designed to elevate your strategy, your mindset, and your identity.
Find out more HERE

Watch this and all Advent Calendar Podcast episodes on our YouTube channel HERE.

Our Christmas Giveaway

To celebrate Season 2 of the Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m giving away six incredible prizes:

• 4 women will join me in London for a private in-person strategy session + lunch in an exclusive location (worth £1,000 each)
• 2 women will receive a fully-paid ticket to The Visionary event in Birmingham (worth £540 each)

To enter:

1. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
2. Screenshot your review
3. Share it on your Instagram Stories and tag @Design_Boss_Diary

Every review + share counts as an additional entry — no limits.

This is your opportunity to enter 2026 with clarity, strategy, and a powerful identity reset.

And as always, if you’ve loved this episode, we would be so grateful for your review. If you screenshot and share this podcast on your socials — tagging @Design_Boss_Diary — we have a special gift waiting for you.

See you in the next episode, you lovely lot. x

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Welcome to another inspiring episode of the Christmas Advent Calendar podcast. I’m your host, Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui, Business coach and mentor, supporting women through business strategy, identity work, and the soulful mindset principles that allow you to grow with clarity and confidence. Today’s episode is a powerful, emotional, and deeply reflective conversation with a gorgeous friend and powerhouse Nicola Cloherty-Parigger, a woman whose work sits at the intersection of strategy, energetics, emotional intelligence, and feminine leadership.

This conversation is an invitation to pause, breathe, and look honestly at your year, the wins, the lessons, the challenges, the moments you stretched, and the moments you resisted stretching. Nicola brings such grounded wisdom on what it truly means to grow, to fail forward, to rise, and to navigate entrepreneurship as a whole human being, not just a business owner.

Together, we explore the intricate relationship between failure and growth, and why the fear of failing holds so many women back from stepping into their fullest potential.

In this episode, Nicola and I explore:

• Why failure and growth are inseparable, and why avoiding failure stalls your progress
• How to recognise the difference between fear and true misalignment
• Why embracing discomfort is essential for personal and professional expansion
• How reflection helps you uncover valuable lessons hidden in difficult seasons
• Why success must be defined on your terms, not the industry’s
• The importance of removing emotional “weeds” so you can create space for new growth
• The emotional energy work women must integrate into their business

This conversation is heartfelt, grounding, and thought-provoking. It invites you to drop the armour, let go of perfectionism, and see failure not as a flaw, but as a vital, even beautiful part of your evolution.

Explore Nicola’s world HERE

Her Reclamation FREE self-guided eBook HERE

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Join me in Birmingham on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th January 2026 for a luxury two day retreat designed to elevate your strategy, your creativity, and your confidence as we step into a new year of growth. Find out More HERE

Watch this and all Advent Calendar episodes on our YouTube channel HERE.

Our Christmas Giveaway

To celebrate Season 2 of the Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m giving away six incredible prizes:

• 4 women will join me in London for a private in person strategy session, lunch in an exclusive location, worth £1,000 each
• 2 women will receive a fully paid ticket to The Visionary event in Birmingham, worth £540 each

To enter:

1. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
2. Screenshot your review
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Each review + share counts as an additional entry, with no limits.

If you’ve loved this episode, we would be so grateful for your review.

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Welcome to another episode of the Design Boss Dialogue Christmas Advent Calendar Podcast, and today’s episode is a foundational one, the kind every interior designer needs as we move into a brand-new year.

I’m your host, Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui, Business coach and mentor supporting women through business strategy, identity work, and the mindset required to build powerful, profitable, and aligned design businesses.

Today, we’re exploring something I call the perception gap, the space between what many designers think they need to grow their business and what is actually required to build a sustainable, confident, scalable studio.

It’s a conversation that will challenge you, ground you, and give you a fresh lens on your business foundations as we step into 2026.

Because the truth is…

You don’t need more followers.
You don’t need more aesthetic perfection.
You don’t need to reinvent everything.

You need clarity, structure, systems, boundaries, identity, and messaging that reflects who you are and the transformation you offer.

And in this episode, we dive deep

• Why designers regularly overlook the business side of their work
• Why strong service structures give you clarity, confidence, and authority
• How pricing must shift from emotional decisions to data-driven strategy
• Why systems are essential, not just for big studios, but for every designer
• How boundaries protect your energy and prevent resentment
• Why your identity as a designer shapes your business success

This episode is your grounding moment, your reminder that creativity builds your brand, but foundations build your business.

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Explore how you can work with me in 2026 and elevate your business through strategy, identity work, and mentorship by emailing the team on teamdesignbossdiary@gmail.com

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To celebrate Season 2 of the Advent Calendar Podcast, I’m gifting six incredible prizes:

✨ 4 women will join me in London for a private in-person strategy session + lunch in an exclusive location (worth £1,000 each)
✨ 2 women will receive a fully-paid ticket to The Visionary event in Birmingham (worth £540 each)

To enter:

1. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
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No limits — enter as many times as you’d like.

This is your moment to step into 2026 with clarity, confidence, and a powerful reset.

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