Michelle Lynne 0:02
Welcome to design for the creative mind, a podcast for interior designers and creative entrepreneurs to run their business with purpose, efficiency and passion. Because, well, every design is different, the process should remain the same. Prepare yourself for some good conversations with amazing guests, a dash of Jesus and a touch of the woowoo. And probably a swear word or two. If you're ready to stop trading your time for money, and enjoy your interior design business. You are in the right place. I'm your host, Michelle Lynn.
Welcome back to the podcast everyone. I am so glad you are here because I have a dear friend of mine, Michael Bauer, he is the vice president home and design at the Dallas Market Center here in Dallas, Texas. I've known Michael, how long have I known you guys
Michael Bauer 0:58
at least three years? I know. I think it was much longer than that. But I know really closely. I think about three years.
Michelle Lynne 1:04
Yeah, I think we met at the design influencers conference and kind of connected there, even though we were probably in passing beforehand. That's exactly I've just been so blessed by your friendship, and by your help with Dallas Market Center, and just all around. So thank you for joining me, here it is.
Michael Bauer 1:21
So my pleasure, I really appreciate you inviting me to do this. It's nice to be able to share information and actually get to talk to you. We don't get to talk like this very often. So this is a great time for us to just be together and visit. So I love it. And
Michelle Lynne 1:34
it's early enough in the day that neither of us have a cocktail. This will be easy.
Michael Bauer 1:40
And you got me right before that's gonna happen.
Michelle Lynne 1:42
There you go. Yeah. So for those of you who are listening, it's about three o'clock pm Central Standard Time. So it's almost five o'clock. It is five o'clock somewhere. So Mike, let's just dive in. Tell us a little bit about how you got started in the business within the interior design industry. Yeah,
Michael Bauer 2:01
it's so interesting. Well, I'll kind of back that up a little bit. My brother is an interior designer, and a cosmetologist and an artist and so all my life growing up, I had that influence coming my way not even realizing that it was going to impact my future, right. So I was a caterer. And as a caterer. It got to a point where I did no longer wanted to work that kind of hour I was partners in a catering company. It was quite time consuming. And it was
Michelle Lynne 2:31
exhausting. Yeah, weekend's nights and holidays weren't yours. That
Michael Bauer 2:35
was it. And you know, I would I didn't get to go to the party. I worked the party. So a friend of mine, I was working, actually working at party. And I met this guy, John Halstead, and we became friends and he and I had expressed my displeasure with the industry of catering. And he said, Look, you don't need to be doing this you I'm going to introduce you to my friend Kathy Norman. Well, Kathy Norman partners with Georgina Waddell and can pedigree at that time within detailing the mix on the fifth floor. Gotcha. Sorry, interview with Kathy Norman. And I took over the showroom manager position there for Kathy Norman. And the rest is history. I never left you haven't left the building that gets them. It gets in your blood and just cannot get it out. And that is a true sign if that's what you need. Yeah, I
Michelle Lynne 3:23
do. I believe that God, God puts you in a place. And it's just so easy and comfortable that you know that that's where you're supposed to be.
Michael Bauer 3:30
I absolutely believe that with all my heart and soul. That is fabulous. I
Michelle Lynne 3:33
don't think I knew that until I read your bio that you had started as a showroom manager at Dallas Market Center. And now here you are as a VP.
Michael Bauer 3:41
That while is disclosed, how it all has progressed, I was actually the very first showroom and the very first manager in a showroom at the Dallas Market Center to sell to interior design direct. Oh my gosh, I knew that there was a need somehow in my soul and watching this because I have friends that are designers, my brother's a designer. I saw the struggling dealers in Houston. So he doesn't have this kind of outlet in Houston, which I think we'll get to. But so when I knew that it was necessary, and I started making calls to the owners of the company saying, I have this desire who wants to buy one piece of this, and I know that they will order more, please let me buy under minimum. So I had all at that time when I worked at the mix. I have all of the minimums quashed. There were no meds. So I will
Michelle Lynne 4:25
say thank you. Yeah, in the future.
Michael Bauer 4:29
Well, you know, there's always a way to go under minimum and I kind of got it out of unbelief you go in and minimum that we're going to charge it if you don't see, well, who cares? $50 is not going to kill is not going to break the bank. And it was it worth it to the designer to get what they needed and when they needed to get it. It's
Michelle Lynne 4:43
amazing. That is that gives me goosebumps. So what is your favorite part of the work that you do?
Michael Bauer 4:50
I think probably the relationships the opportunity to be able to make relationships, the way I get to do it. So my At our CEO and president Cindy Morris allows me to do my work my way. She She understands the way I work, she understands that being in front of the design community being in front of home and design retailers. Because I know that there's so many designers that take go out of design and open a retail store. And then they have design services and retail at the same time. So she understands that so she allows me to travel throughout the United States and abroad just to work for Dallas Market Center.
Michelle Lynne 5:32
That is such a blessing when you're when your boss allows you to do things your way Oh, because she knows you get shit done. It's
Michael Bauer 5:39
absolutely incredible. To be able to get up in the morning with bright eyes and a happy smile, knowing that I'm gonna go to work and they get what I do. And I love what I do.
Michelle Lynne 5:50
That is amazing. And I'm going to give myself a quick shout out I did a podcast. I don't know which number it was, but it is all about being the leader that you want to work for. So I think that this sounds like Cindy is leading you the way she would want to be led which is no micromanagement. So
Michael Bauer 6:09
literally, she does not micromanage me. They literally allow me they I don't want to say carte blanche, because you know, we do have policy business relations. And it is a corporate industry. And we are a corporate company. We are, by the way, wholly owned by crow holdings of Dallas. We are been family owned for over 67 years. So that sets us apart. I think that's something we were going to talk about.
Michelle Lynne 6:33
Yeah. Well, I think we can jump right into that. I think it it brings it brings that feeling of welcome all the way down through you through the other leadership through the showrooms themselves, because it is a family run business. And they still have big I mean, the hunt family, they have a big enough perspective, that it's not like a small family business. They are highly successful. Oh, yes. The hunter crow. Wait, wait. Credits
Michael Bauer 7:06
Crow, crow. I mean, they are vast and they are being used ache of Dallas, Texas, you think of the crow family? For sure. You think of the Hilton Anatole hotel you think of us you think of their art collection? Oh, there we are, that we have here on our floor. Some of it is right behind me actually. So we have crow Asian art throughout this executive floor. Amazing. It is absolutely incredible to see. And we do have an archive here. We have an archive that we get to choose from. So we feel like we want to change our area a little bit. We'll go to the archive, we'll pull out artwork, we'll be able to hang artwork. rehang it. It's amazing. Yeah. It's beautiful. And the product and the artwork is unbelievable. Yeah, yeah,
Michelle Lynne 7:54
that is that is so much fun. I had no idea. I mean, it gets deeper and deeper all the time. Yeah. So let's talk about why, in your opinion and your experience. Why is access to a market beneficial to a designer?
Michael Bauer 8:09
Well, you know, I have to say there's several, I would have to kind of break that down a little bit. I do believe that the number one reason marketplace is beneficial to a designer is that they are able to purchase wholesale pricing and be able to work their business in a way where they can make money, which is the whole point. I mean, interior designer not only makes money, when they work on the job, it depends on how you sell yourself. And designers sell themselves in different ways. Some designers sell costs plus and designers sell by the job some designer, I mean, it just depends on how a designer sales themselves. And no matter how that is. buying wholesale is always going to bring you on market and be able to keep your business afloat and grow your business.
Michelle Lynne 8:52
Oh my gosh, the margins that you can make just selling furniture. And you can still pass on some of those perks to your clients if you want to. But you don't have to. But it is like we I love new construction. It's fun. But at MLW interiors group, we love new construction with furnishings. Because you'd get this big design fee and then you get a big margin on the on furnishing the home.
Michael Bauer 9:16
Yeah, we hear about retail, and you have to battle retail. Like I was kind of mentioning earlier, my brother lives in Houston, a lot of times and their design center does not compare with what we have here in Dallas. So not only do we have the Dallas Market Center, which is where I work, and that's my focus. We are part of the Dallas design district which is literally across the freeway, right? Yeah. The access this is another thing that I want to say this is another point of why it's important to work at a market or work through a marketplace, especially the Dallas Market Center because we are a five day a week Market Center. We have a million and a half square feet, dedicated home
Michelle Lynne 9:55
space and so the other markets aren't open. Well I think They
Michael Bauer 10:00
are there, they don't have the logistics are just not there for for the IMC markets, they are just not the logistics aren't there, the parking is not there, the distance is not there, the vendors that have tried to open so vendors will open and then they'll close. Because it's very difficult, you have to pay someone really good money to be a showroom manager if you want to be successful in this. So that's a real hard part for a manufacturer to work with. Because when you're talking 60 $80,000 a year for a good showroom manager, you better be able to sell everyday and have market. Absolutely.
Michelle Lynne 10:36
So if I understand correctly, the other markets, they are events, they are like the whole place is open certain times of the year. Whereas in comparison, Dallas Market Center is open five days a week, 52 weeks a year, well, with the exception of Christmas and stuff like that, but that's correct. That's been such a blessing to me, I oftentimes just take that for granted living here in Dallas, because we just pop down there.
Michael Bauer 10:59
So I mean, it is that way, it's just super important for us to be open five days a week we started it, and we've been doing it for years.
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Michael Bauer 11:58
okay, so when you get into market, you can park we have free valet for interior design at all times, except for during market time, which is January engine. Even on many markets, we have valet accessible to the interior design community. So they can walk in, they can come in, they can do all day long, it's all temperature control, they can go from one service to another at eat with ease. It's instead of having to come Absolutely, they can walk in and place their orders where they when they come during market, which we certainly want them to do. But at the same time, when you come during the weekend, you're able to buy through a marketplace, especially at Open daily marketplace, then you have the ability to walk in, you get immediate assistance, you get immediate immunity, you walk out and do the next one, you don't have to go get in your car, you don't have to start the car get all hot and sweaty and go to the next one, which is kind of the way it is in the design district not to knock that because they have a lot of different products and we carry here. Yeah, it's
Michelle Lynne 12:57
just a different setup.
Michael Bauer 12:59
It's just a different setup. It makes it so easy in a marketplace. Because there is a food outlet, there is a Starbucks there is that way we're and you can bring your clients here and it makes it it's comfortable. And it's cool. And it's relaxed.
Michelle Lynne 13:13
Well, and another thing that I love about, like you say going to market but it's not like going to one of the events, it's like going down to Dallas Market Center, or even the design district. But the relationships that we've developed with the vendors is just amazing. Like we have vendors that we work with that are not local, but we've met them. And so now you know who you're talking to. It's just like you and I talking about when we hopped on the podcast, it's easy to talk to you because I know who you are. And it just needs the start you keep. And that goes back to like the showrooms and the salespeople. It's like once you develop that relationship, you might be able to get something similar with another line, but because I like doing business with this particular representative, and she'll go to bat for us when something goes wrong. Or if we have questions or she'll just go out of her way to say, hey, prices are gonna go up in two weeks, make sure you get your order in. Like that has been invaluable. And I was kind of a late bloomer learning that like I was just like, oh, we can do it all online like Wow, a lot a lot. Right. But being able to pick up the phone and call Katie with designers patio is amazing because she answers questions.
Michael Bauer 14:23
Well, and that is one of the things I wanted to say my friend Dan Foley, Foley Stennett design out of Palm Springs. He says it this is a quote from him and he always allows me to steal his quote. He said, You're doing business when I'm doing business. So he can make that Yes, I'm his office and he can call the Shogun person who is knowledgeable about every product in there and every line in there without having to wait.
Michelle Lynne 14:49
Yes. And you know what I think he brings something up is I was personally so intimidated walking into market the first few times because I thought I needed to know everything. And that is just so ridiculous now that I look back, because that's what the show room experts are for. It's just like my plumber, I call my plumber and ask him questions. I'm not supposed to know that. That's right. So you lean on those experts, and they can educate you on their lines, they can, they can intervene, if there's issues, and just overall educate and help you. Yeah,
Michael Bauer 15:20
they could actually, and they work those shows, and people do work very closely with the representatives with that company. So if you're working with a rep group, so you're working with tailors or you're working with in detail, you have a particular rep for your territory, while your bed is pulled in 19 different directions. So when you communicate with a show them it is as though you're communicating, you were the rep because they make sure that that rep is taken care of during that sale, it's not the rep is not losing out there. And that's super important for everybody to know. And because it a good rep is really hard to come by and speak of those two companies, because of the representation that they have, is pretty much unmatched in the industry. Yes, but when you find a company that you can call the showroom in person, they know what your rep knows. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it
Michelle Lynne 16:12
makes a huge difference, because the rep might have 12 different lines within that showroom. Oh, absolutely. Your salespeople are there every darn day, your rep might be out trying to, you know, get new lines to sign and are not nearly as responsive. And
Michael Bauer 16:25
you don't have to be here in Dallas, you can be in Palm Springs, or you can be in New York City or you can be it doesn't matter where you are we let's
Michelle Lynne 16:31
talk about that. Because I know a lot of people that are in my interior design business bakery, my paid program in my interior design business Launchpad, which is my Facebook group that's free. But Michael, you would love the community that's developing there. It's just like, so such community over competition. But the question oftentimes come up is, how do I deal with this? When, and actually, I just had somebody the other day, they have got a client who wants to do a whole house full of furniture. And she's like, how do I get him sit on the couch? Like, I don't have something in my neighborhood? So how can people work with y'all? That is a Texas term, y'all definitely, if they're not here in Dallas, anywhere? Well, that's
Michael Bauer 17:13
how we do it. I mean, let me also say that I am available. So what I do, and I offer my service to source for the design community. And it helps me when I source with one that starts with two and three and four, I'm able to keep up with the product is in those showrooms. I may not know the line, I mean, I will pretty much know the lines that are here, if I could certainly find out. But I know which companies have what basically where their prices are, how they sell what their minimums are, if they have a minimum, I mean, I can certainly feel a lot of that for the designer that is not right here or in our region. So any of those people out of town, they can communicate me with that email. And at the end, I think we'll talk about I'll give you my email, or nobody can communicate with me this way.
Michelle Lynne 18:00
Careful what you wish for.
Michael Bauer 18:04
I put it out there, I put my cell number out there and my cell numbers on my business card. So I don't hide from anything I do. I will tell you that at 7pm. In the evening, I do start taking calls. And and I do not take calls on the weekends. So I so I line that up. And I'd say right up front. So there's no disappointment there. Yeah. So the expectation stays, that during work hours, I am here for you. Well, even
Michelle Lynne 18:28
extending yourself until 7pm. That's, that's amazing. Like, I'm five o'clock, 515. I'm out.
Michael Bauer 18:34
Well, I do that for the West Coast. Because we now have a lot of West Coast buyers coming in. A lot of designers are coming in from west coast, from Scottsdale from California from Nevada. Those designers are realizing we are during the week. And we can certainly help them so that I stay that I keep that hour for the West Coast.
Michelle Lynne 18:52
I love that. I think that's and that just is an example of how you and so many of the showrooms operate is like you're at our service. That's right. That's what we'll be there when we can. All right.
Michael Bauer 19:03
One of the things that I wanted to say Michelle about a relationship with the vendor, a lot of times a designer, what if you don't have a relationship with a vendor, it's sometimes more difficult to buy through them to buy direct through them. So the better relationship you have with a vendor, and with the actual vendor itself, the manufacturer that more at a designer is to be able to buy direct. Oh,
Michelle Lynne 19:27
so be nice y'all.
Michael Bauer 19:31
place to do it. Highpoint is a great place to do it in Dallas. Those are the two best places to do that. Because of the time that you get to shop there. You know, nobody can deny what point is correct. So but I certainly don't think that we are never I don't ever feel in competition with Highpoint because they had a different business model than what we have. So
Michelle Lynne 19:51
I and that's just like, that's what we promote. It's community. It's like you know what the interior designers are not competitors. Everybody's so different. You have your own approach. Watch, I love hearing that from a from that top level or just a
Michael Bauer 20:04
no absolute macro level, we do feel that way. We don't feel like there is competition there. Of course, I MC makes that competition viable for us. So we try not to play into that.
Michelle Lynne 20:17
So we try to just what is IMC for the listeners, that's international
Michael Bauer 20:21
market centers, which would be Las Vegas and Atlanta and some high point, it is not high point market authority. Those are two different entities. So, high point market authority and Dallas Market Center. We work beautifully together we work well. I mean, I work well with everybody, I have friends and all those markets.
Michelle Lynne 20:36
Can't imagine anybody would not hang out, just try to work in in tandem with you. That
Michael Bauer 20:43
makes it so easy. You can call anybody in Atlanta or Las Vegas at any moment of the day or night. And it's just the way it is it's nice to be able to have those relationships as well.
Michelle Lynne 20:54
Well, let me also give myself a gratuitous plug here for the interior design business success summit, which we're we're recording right now, the last of July next week. I will be promoting it to the general public, but we're hosting Dallas Market Center is our host. So if you guys we've already so I introduced it to a couple different groups this afternoon. I already have five registrations. Oh, love that. And that's not amazing. Is that November, November 10 11th, and 12th. So I will make sure that that information is in the bio for our listeners, I need to make a note of that. But y'all can be Michael, he's giving us private tours.
Michael Bauer 21:32
Yeah, I will give a private tour, I have goodie bag for you as well. It's gonna be so much fun, I'll be able to actually set up and it's so interesting, we did this last time because of course, this is not the first time so I'm so thrilled that you have faith in us and faith in me to be able to have so
Michelle Lynne 21:48
much fun, everybody had such great feedback. So
Michael Bauer 21:51
then, so I will make sure that I have the menu, the show rooms that we will be touring to, will be prepared for us with the refreshments and those kinds of things.
Michelle Lynne 22:01
And oh, you were fantastic. Last time. Last time was the middle of COVID. And we still had some good attendance but I'm gonna blow the doors off this year. Yeah. We're
Michael Bauer 22:11
super excited about it. I get asked about it. They, you know, my my CEO says, Okay, Michael, what events do you have planned. And if I don't have events planned, then we're Simon hot waters. But my job is to plan these events to be there and to support the community. And
Michelle Lynne 22:27
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Michael Bauer 23:58
Any?
Michelle Lynne 24:04
What's your favorite superhero?
Michael Bauer 24:05
Superman,
Michelle Lynne 24:06
beach or mountains? Beach? What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Michael Bauer 24:12
I wanted to be in the music industry. I wanted to be a music, PR. Find the musicians and create them and promote them. That was what I had always dreamed to be. To do. I just felt like that was I see that music runs my life that wakes me up in the morning. It takes me home in the afternoon to sleep at night. So that's
Michelle Lynne 24:33
awesome. So what is your morning routine?
Michael Bauer 24:35
So I wake up probably an hour and a half ahead. I'm not a big planner to get up in the morning because I'm not a great morning person. Isn't that funny? Is that because I was always a morning person and the older I get I am less of a morning person and I thought that was supposed to go the other way. So same way I get up about an hour and a half I get up and I turned my music on. First thing when you listen to what's your favorite genre. I listen to pop or country I'd take pop or country in the morning depending on that mood that I want to set for the day. So I know what my schedule is for that next day I live by my calendar. So I know what that is. So if I need a low key day then I started off with the country music because it puts me in a in a mode of sitting at my desk with my air pods on dedicated to my computer, which doesn't always work. Trust me.
Michelle Lynne 25:25
It's a good theory though.
Michael Bauer 25:26
That yeah, so it's either proper country. That's
Michelle Lynne 25:29
fine. I don't think I knew the country part. Yeah, no, you're Texas born and bred.
Michael Bauer 25:35
You can't get away from it. I mean, to me why Ned and Dolly Parton? I
Michelle Lynne 25:38
mean, but you know, you're old school country.
Michael Bauer 25:41
I am old school country I like to like So Kelly Clarkson is my favorite female artists because she not only does great pop, but she does great country as well. So that's kind of my she's my favorite. Yeah,
Michelle Lynne 25:52
I'm an 80s. Country Girl. Oh, yeah, I grew up in a small town in New Mexico for high school and totally introduced me to it and I learned how to to step and I just go back to such happy times. It
Michael Bauer 26:02
does. It brings happy to me too, even though even though the lyrics are not always very happy. It's that mood it's that
Michelle Lynne 26:12
there's a there's my Okay, back to rapid fire. favorite ice cream flavor. Chocolate. Last movie you watched
Michael Bauer 26:19
about embarrass myself here? It was just a for yesterday. What's Legally Blonde?
Michelle Lynne 26:24
Awesome.
You answered the in your outie belly button. Easier than that legally. So funny. Let's see here. What was the last time you took a nap?
Michael Bauer 26:43
Oh, Lord, I have no idea. I can't tell you. I'll nap when I'm dead.
Michelle Lynne 26:49
That sounds well, when was the last time you you've laughed until you almost peed yourself
Michael Bauer 26:54
yesterday.
Michelle Lynne 26:56
That doesn't surprise me. Always, always have a smile on your face. What is your favorite book?
Michael Bauer 27:02
So I'm going to start I think probably the Hobbit was one of my most favorite books that I read. It was a series that came out a Lord of the Rings, which I also read. But it was I don't know, it was just took me to a completely different place in my life. I know you did not expect that at all. But it is it was one of my most favorites because it takes me to a whole different part of life that in migraine, what could really happen? Right?
Michelle Lynne 27:28
Yeah. You know what is funny? I am a total bookworm. When I was in junior high, the girls and I and my friends on the street, we actually had library cards in our books and check them out to each other. I was a total a total nerd. Right. But I have never read that series. I haven't read that series at all. It's
Michael Bauer 27:52
interesting. I don't know why. I think I find it so interesting. Because it is so bizarre. And I think the other reason I find that because I've tried to look into a little bit deeper than that, how close these these different people were, it was like an inclusive, all inclusive. So I'm really a big proponent of inclusivity. Yeah, it's huge. For me, I grew up this way, I grew up with someone that was not that way. And I made it a point in my life to say, Hey, I'm not going to be that way. Amen. And it just, it just, it helps me, it helps me move through my life. I
Michelle Lynne 28:27
love that I'm gonna, you know, as an adult, maybe I'll read The Hobbit, and it'll just give me a different perspective.
Michael Bauer 28:32
It's a huge perspective of inclusivity
Michelle Lynne 28:35
Yeah, well, I That, to me, is is easy, but just being able to see this fantasy world would be a lot of fun. And especially because my daughter will probably end up reading it. And then you know, in a while Oh, yeah, she's 30 Now,
Michael Bauer 28:49
all kinds of all kinds of exciting things, that maybe you could take something that they've done and use it in real life to your imagination,
imagination, it's about imagination, that and that at my
Michelle Lynne 29:01
age, there's not a lot of imagination. You know, so it's kind of fun to be taken away into those little, you know, the, the fantasy lives that science fiction or just whatever. So, thank you. That's, um, I always learn something when I have these conversations, and it's such a blessing. Okay, so last question is one thing that most people don't know about you? Well, so
Michael Bauer 29:23
I'm gonna say what we talked about. I was a deputy sheriff and Harris County. Just me when you told me that today.
Michelle Lynne 29:31
Lot of just set that up today. That was one
Michael Bauer 29:34
that nobody ever expects. And I actually carry my permanent peace officer license with me at all times, because when people tell me how you're so full of crap, I'm like, wait a minute, here you go. And it's official. It's from the state of Texas and I could go I could take 15 hour course it'd be a policeman tomorrow. So backup, right? You got to always have some kind of backup but what I have actually lots of backup Take one. That
Michelle Lynne 30:02
makes sense. Well, it's better that you're carrying that card versus your gun and whipping that out on people. And that backup isn't the police force because you're running into danger. Yes, that is so awesome. Well, Michael, thank you again, for being on the show. I just have so much fun chatting with you. And this was such a benefit, because I get a chance to introduce you and Dallas Market Center to our audience and just share the resource that has been such a blessing to me and my team. So I know they've loved everything you've shared. So can they reach? I'm gonna put this in the show notes, but how can they find you? Okay,
Michael Bauer 30:40
so I am Instagram and I am at M O, B, D. MC. So that would be Michael o of our Dallas Market Center at M OB DMC. I am Michael Bauer on Facebook, my email address is m Bauer be a UVR at Dallas market center.com. all spelled out. Perfect.
Michelle Lynne 31:05
And I'll make sure we drop those in the I'll make sure we drop those into the show notes so that our audience can hear it
Michael Bauer 31:12
awesome, thrilled to be able to communicate with anybody that wants to. Yeah, you're so amazing.
Michelle Lynne 31:16
All right. Well, for those of you who can benefit from even more resources surrounding the business of running your interior design business, I referred to it earlier, but join the growing community on Facebook, on my Facebook private group. It's called the interior designers business Launchpad. I think we have almost 3000 people there. But it is such a welcoming community. And I do hold some free five day workshops there on a regular basis. And I also hop in once a week on Wednesdays at 12 o'clock Central Standard Time to offer just a quick mini training. So I'd love to see you there. And when you're here listening to the podcast, please don't forget to leave a review anywhere you're catching this podcast because it definitely helps us keep relevant. And were found in the searches. So until next time. Thanks again, Michael.
Michael Bauer 32:04
Thank you again, so much, Michelle.
Michelle Lynne 32:08
Hey, y'all. If you love the show and find it useful, I would really appreciate it if you would share with your friends and followers. And if you like what you're hearing, want to put a face with a name and get even more business advice. Then join me in my Facebook group, the interior designers business launch pack. Yeah, I know it's Facebook, but just come on in for the training and then leave without scrolling your feet. It's fun. I promise you'll enjoy it. And finally, I hear it's good for business to get ratings on your podcast. So please drop yours on whatever platform you use to listen to this. We're all about community over competition. So let's work on elevating our industry, one designer at a time. See you next time.
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