The iDesign Lab Podcast | Where Design, Business, and Culture Shape How We Live and Build

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  Your Beautiful Home Could Be Making You Sick with Whitney Walker 17.09.2026 1t 5min

  Send us Fan Mail Your home can look beautiful and still be part of the problem, unless you know what it’s made of. We’re joined by Whitney Walker, designer, entrepreneur, and author, for a candid look at sustainable interior design that goes way past “eco chic” and straight into the real-world details: VOCs, off-gassing finishes, toxic dyes, and why indoor air quality should shape every design decision we make. We talk about what Whitney learned by building products at scale, from hist...
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  We Didn’t Just Raise Our Kids—We Designed Their Future 17.09.2026 16min

  Send us Fan Mail Your home is not the only thing you design. Today we get personal about the design that matters most to us: the life we build with our kids. Scott and Tiffany Woolley skip the guest chair and share a rare, real-time family moment: our oldest daughter turns 20 and begins college, and our three daughters release their first music single worldwide across streaming platforms. It is exciting, emotional, and also a clear example of how long-term creativity is built, not wished into...
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  Why Custom Drapery Can Make or Break a Room | Leslie Excell Reveals the Secrets of Luxury Window Treatments 03.09.2026 1t 1min

  Send us Fan Mail Drapery isn’t just fabric on a rod. It’s acoustics, light control, privacy, proportion, and that instant shift from “nice room” to “finished home.” We sit down with Leslie Excel, founder of Excel and Design Group, to unpack what’s really happening behind the scenes of custom window treatments and why the best designers treat their drapery team like true design partners. Leslie shares her path from working next door to a drapery workroom to building a nationally recognized fa...
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  The Art Market Bubble Just Popped — Fine Art Advisor Breck Kling on What's Still Worth Buying 27.08.2026 1t 10min

  Send us Fan Mail Art can be intimidating until someone finally explains the parts nobody says out loud: what collectors actually look for, how prices really move, and why the best art is often about an idea more than a “pretty picture.” We’re joined by Breck Kling, a fine art consultant and longtime collector, to talk about the real intersection of art, passion, interior design, and investment and how to approach it without getting lost in hype. We dig into Breck’s path from art history and ...
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  Will AI Become Your Best Friend? Erik Simons on the Future of AI, Jobs & Human Connection 20.08.2026 1t 3min

  Send us Fan Mail AI is moving so fast that it’s hard to tell what’s hype, what’s helpful, and what’s genuinely risky. That’s why we brought in Eric Simons, a serial entrepreneur who helped pioneer affiliate marketing and has spent more than 25 years working with artificial intelligence and automation. He’s seen one world-changing wave up close already, and he believes the AI wave looks a lot like the early internet, only faster and more personal. We talk through the early days when “search” ...
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  Luxury Interior Design Secrets: How Nikki Levy Built One of South Florida's Top Design Firms 13.08.2026 59min

  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Learn more at: https://twinteriors.com/podcast/ https://scottwoolley.com
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  How Houzz Is Using AI to Transform Interior Design & Home Remodeling | Liza Hausman 06.08.2026 51min

  Send us Fan Mail Your next client might walk into a design meeting with a third voice: an AI chatbot. That’s where our conversation with Liza Hausman, VP of Industry Marketing at Houzz, gets real. With Houzz connecting more than 65 million homeowners and 3 million design professionals, Liza has a rare, front-row view into what’s changing in home remodeling, interior design, and construction and what still never changes. We talk about the new baseline homeowners expect: a clear renovation tim...
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  Why You Buy More Than You Planned: The Psychology of Retail Design 30.07.2026 6min

  Send us Fan Mail You walk into a store for one thing and walk out with a bag full of extras. You are not alone, and you are not “bad at shopping.” Tiffany and Scott Woolley pull back the curtain on the retail design and consumer psychology that quietly shapes what ends up in your cart, from the moment you step inside to the moment you hit checkout. We talk about why most buying decisions are emotional first and logical second, and how smart merchandising turns “I’m just here for milk” into a...
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  Customer Experience Design: Why People Keep Coming Back 23.07.2026 13min

  Send us Fan Mail Some places feel “magical” the second you walk in, and it’s not because they got lucky. It’s because someone designed the experience on purpose. We’re Tiffany and Scott Woolley, and we’re unpacking the invisible decisions that shape how customers feel, what they remember, and why they come back. We explore customer experience design through brands that deliver it consistently: Disney, Apple, Chick-fil-A, and Ritz-Carlton. From Disney’s storytelling and anticipation to Apple’...
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  The Secret Behind Building a Global Luxury Furniture Brand with Eduardo Perez, Sr. 16.07.2026 56min

  Send us Fan Mail A luxury brand is not built by taste alone. It is built by decisions you keep making when nobody is watching: how you handle setbacks, how tightly you protect quality, and how clearly you define your point of view. We’re joined by Eduardo Perez Sr, President and CEO of AHC Group and a driving force behind the global success of Adriana Hoyos Furnishings, to talk about what it really takes to scale a high-end furniture and interior design business across continents. Eduardo ta...
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  Can Design Make You Happier? The Science Behind Great Spaces 09.07.2026 14min

  Send us Fan Mail Your mood might be getting edited by your surroundings every single day, and most of the time you never notice it happening. We’re Tiffany and Scott Woolley, and we’re digging into a deceptively simple question: can design make you happier? We talk through the moments everyone recognizes, like walking into a hotel lobby, coffee shop, or friend’s home and instantly feeling calm, welcomed, and like you want to stay. Then we break down what your brain is actually reacting to: l...
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  From Moms To Design Moguls - The powerhouse team behind Widell Boschetti 02.07.2026 1t

  Send us Fan Mail They met at a park with their kids and walked away with that rare feeling that something big was about to happen. Barrett Widell and Christina Boschetti join us to share how that friendship became Widell Boschetti, a luxury interior design firm that grew fast, learned in public, and still refuses to chase trends just to make things easier. We get into the real mechanics behind high-end residential design: pivoting from kids events and nurseries into full-home interiors, buil...
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  Why Everything Looks the Same: The Hidden Cost of Algorithm-Driven Design 25.06.2026 20min

  Send us Fan Mail You know that moment when you walk into a coffee shop you have never visited and still feel like you can predict the chairs, the lights, the plants, and even the “selfie corner”? We are digging into that creeping sense of design déjà vu and asking the bigger question behind it: why are so many interiors, brands, and spaces starting to look the same, even when the design is genuinely good? We start with what we call the coffee shop test and the “Pinterest living room” effect,...
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  Parenting Teens, Sobriety & Real Motherhood | Keesha Scott on Teen Mental Health + Family Healing 18.06.2026 1t 3min

  Send us Fan Mail Cake for dinner sounds like a joke until you live it. We talk with Keesha Scott, parenting coach, recovery advocate, and host of the Cake for Dinner podcast, about the nights when you are doing your best, your kid is melting down, and you still have to show up like everything is fine. Keesha shares the personal meaning behind the name and why moms are done with curated perfection and ready for honest motherhood. We get into the real mechanics of her journey: getting so...
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  How Hillary Musser Designs And Sells Palm Beach Trophy Homes 11.06.2026 59min

  Send us Fan Mail A luxury home is easy to admire and hard to execute, especially when you are the one signing the checks, choosing every finish, and then standing at the front door as the listing broker. We’re joined by Hillary Musser, a Palm Beach powerhouse who blends development, interior design, and real estate into one high-stakes craft, shaped by equal parts taste, timing, and grit. We trace Hillary’s path from early entrepreneurship and bold projects to the moment a Nantucket bu...
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  Meet The Hosts Behind iDesign Lab And Why Design Touches Everything 04.06.2026 18min

  Send us Fan Mail We’re climbing the Arts charts, the downloads are growing fast, and we realized something: a lot of you know iDesign Lab, but you don’t really know us yet. So we’re stepping out from behind the guest chair to reintroduce ourselves and share how this design podcast came to life, why it’s evolving so quickly, and where we want to take it next. We talk about the origin story, from Tiffany’s years of learning through podcasts during long drives to project sites, to the moment we...
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  How to Build a Brand People Instantly Trust with Blaire Brown 28.05.2026 1t 5min

  Send us Fan Mail Your brand might be doing the work, but your website and social presence may not be proving it. We’re joined by Blaire Brown, founder of Visionary Advantages, to talk about the moment “good enough” branding starts costing you leads, trust, and pricing power and what to do about it with a clear, modern brand strategy. From logos and brand guidelines to website redesign, copywriting, and content systems, Blaire shares how she helps established businesses look as powerful as the...
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  Interior Design Trends 2026: The End of Cold Minimalism 21.05.2026 9min

  Send us Fan Mail Perfect rooms look great in photos, but do they feel good to live in? We’re seeing a real shift in interior design trends for 2026, and it’s all about creating homes that feel warmer, softer, and more human. Tiffany and Scott Woolley break down what’s changing, why it matters, and how you can bring these ideas into your own space without chasing a fleeting trend. We talk about “quiet color” and the move toward rich earth tones like terracotta, olive green, deep brown, ...
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  “This Interior Designer Says Your Home Is Controlling Your Life! Here’s How” 14.05.2026 1t 2min

  Send us Fan Mail Your space is doing something to you, whether you’ve named it or not. We sit down with Gala Magrina, an award-winning holistic interior designer and the host of Going Beyond Spaces, to talk about the hidden ways a room can support your clarity or quietly drain your energy. We get into the real mechanics of wellness interior design and design psychology: how ceiling height can nudge creativity or focus, why certain colors can overstimulate a home, and how sharp angles versus ...
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  Inside a Top 200 Architect’s Mind: How Design Shapes the Way We Live | Jay Reinert 07.05.2026 1t 17min

  Send us Fan Mail A beautiful house can still fail you on day one if there’s nowhere to put the trash can, nowhere to set the shampoo, and no plan for how you actually move through your morning. That’s where this conversation goes fast: past surface-level style and into the real mechanics of residential design that make a home feel effortless. We sit down with Jay Reinert, founder of J Reinert Architecture and a Forbes Top 200 residential architect, to talk about the uncommon advantage of bei...