Michelle Lynne 0:00
Music. 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 while 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 Woo, woo, 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, you
Michelle Lynne 0:38
Hello. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Michelle Lynn, and I want to welcome my guest Beth Porter. She is the co owner and lead artist at wet dog tile company, so I'm really excited to introduce you to her, and hopefully you guys will take a moment to go and actually see the website that we're going to be talking about her products, because they're beautiful. So Beth, welcome. Thanks for being here.
Beth Porter 1:13
Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here.
Michelle Lynne 1:16
So fun, so fun. Okay, so I want to just dive right in. No pun intended, because a lot of
Michelle Lynne 1:23
you title has to do with but tell the audience what you do and what your product is. So as we talk about it, and they're not on a website or in front of any pictures, they might be able to visualize a little bit or imagine what we're talking about.
Beth Porter 1:39
Yeah, yeah. So it's always funny when everyone asks me, like, what do you do? We make tiles, but our tiles a little bit different. You think tile, you think geometric and shapes and things, and ours is not. So ours is we call it mixed media. So we make really cool ceramic tiles. So for example, if it's a starfish, rather than being like a square tile with a starfish, like stamped on it. Ours is actually shape of a starfish. And so then we import some glass mosaics. They come in different shapes. We make these really cool crushed glass ceramic pieces. We import pebbles. We have all these different mediums that we then mix together and create these really cool kind of multi textural compositions. So we can do borders, we do murals. We can do whole floors, whole walls. And because it's in the mosaic format, it can go anywhere. We can wrap corners. It can be circles, it can be oblongs. We can do fountains, pools. So pretty much anywhere tile goes, we can put it there. And you
Michelle Lynne 2:41
seem to have so this is, it's so beautiful. You seem to have a what, but I don't wanna say a theme, but a lot of your content is very much of the beachy, oceanic vibe. How would you like? How do you describe is that what you specialize in? Do you do other types of scenes? Yeah.
Beth Porter 3:05
So, I mean, it was originally inspired by the ocean. We lived in an ocean community, and that was really where I got a lot of my inspiration from. And then we expanded. So we have, like, I'd say the ocean is our most popular collection. We have what we call ocean dog. We have Lake dog, which is leaves and animals. And then we also have pond dogs. We have some lily pads. And then just recently, over the winter, we launched our new snow dog collection. So we have vintage skis, vintage snowboards, snowflakes. So it's really kind of like a little bit of everything, and you can mix evolving. Yeah, totally,
Michelle Lynne 3:43
yep. Okay, so you call it snow dog, or you call it Lake dog, but the tiles are not actually dogs. They are the other little so for those of you listening, if you're a cat person, don't let this, don't let this scare you away. It's just staying in theme with wet dog as the name of your company.
Beth Porter 4:05
Yes, and we do have some dogs. I should say we do have dog. We have seven or eight different profiles of dogs, but yes, that is just a collection. We call them. We also do make custom dogs. So we've made me custom dogs of pictures of clients pets. They've sent us, and they've said, I want to put that in our mural, and we have a French bulldog and a black lab, and we'll do those. So
Michelle Lynne 4:28
y'all, I love that idea, and how cool, as an interior designer, that we can bring that custom to our client. Totally. Yeah. Oh, that's super fun. Okay, how did you come up with the name wet dog?
Beth Porter 4:40
So it started. This was a hobby of mine. This was never this didn't really start out as a business. I was selling tile, and I was in the retail kind of side of it. And every now and then I just get a client that would come in and want something kind of fun and colorful. This was when pebble tile was getting really popular, 1520, years. Ago, but and I didn't have anything like they wanted something free from like a dog or stuff. And I was a fine art major, and I decided I wanted to try and kind of mess around with it and see if I could do something myself. And at the time, I was involved with a number of rescue groups, dogs, cats, and so initially, any money that came in from this little kind of hobby. Went to the rescue groups, and we were in an ocean community at the time, so it just wet dog just jumped out. It was never meant to be a business. It was just fun. So, but then we stuck with it. So yeah, that's where the wet dog came from.
Michelle Lynne 5:36
Oh, I love that. I love that. So what is your background prior to jumping into this with both feet, yeah, right.
Beth Porter 5:46
So I was, you know, I started off as a fine art major, and I learned pretty quickly that wasn't really going to pay off the student loan debt. So I pivoted graphic design for a little while, and then I went to interior design, and it was a really great fit. And that was what kind of pushed me towards the tile world. I did design for a tile company, and I would put together the layouts and do scale drawings, that sort of thing. And I think it was the combo of all of that. It was like the perfect storm where I loved interior design. It always felt like this place where being clever and creative was like solving problems was, like, always that approach. And I really think that was what brought me to making tie. Was like, it was a clever way to bring in some color and texture, and then I paired that with the fine art background. And it just it worked.
Michelle Lynne 6:36
That makes sense. Yeah, keep paying me. I'll keep doing it
Unknown Speaker 6:41
exactly, pretty.
Michelle Lynne 6:44
So what do you think makes your work stand out in a field that have, there's a ton of amazing options in tile. What makes your stand out, if in regards to those selections?
Beth Porter 6:57
Yeah, so I mean, I think it goes back to we don't have just one medium we're working with. Like, we don't have ceramic, we don't have just natural stone. We don't have just glass or crushed glass. We have all these different things that we can put together and, you know, customize, obviously, but make it really unique. And we can, like I said, we can make it personal too. Yeah, we clients reach out, and I want to see my granddaughter building a sand castle on the beach, and we can achieve that. Or I my dog just passed away, and I love a tribute tile of him on the beach, and my mural behind my cooktop, so I can see him every day. So I think we bring that more customized and more personal side, yeah, but then also mixing the different textures. So that kind of too. Why do
Michelle Lynne 7:44
you think more companies aren't mixing the materials in the textures?
Beth Porter 7:49
It's complicated. It's you have to have all these different hats that you would wear, like we do. So we, I scoped all of our tiles, and we we fire them, and we produce them here, and then we have relationships with glass manufacturers, and we have a relationship with a pebble manufacturer, and we tumble a lot of our own pebbles. Here we have the equipment to do it. It's all these moving pieces, so it's, it's difficult to be able to bring all those different things to the table and then put them all together, right? In a way, yeah, sense and is easy to sell to the client.
Michelle Lynne 8:23
So how do you install it? Do you show up on every project site? Or is it prefab? In that respect, for lack of a better term,
Beth Porter 8:30
yeah. So we, we have unique process where we so from the jump, when someone reaches out to us and wants, say, a mural, we work with them on putting colors together and textures. We work with a lot of designers, and then once we have an idea hashed out, we do a scaled concept drawing of it. I'm super old school. I do it with colored pencils, but it just shows you wherever that they're beautiful. Yeah, I'll have to give you some pictures. They're very cool, and there's artistic quality, which I our clients appreciate. So that's our roadmap that shows us where everything goes. And then we glaze it all, put it all together, and then we assemble it on our fiberglass mesh backing. But we don't glue it yet. So what we do is we take a photograph of it and we send it off to you, the client, the designer, everyone involved in it, and you have another opportunity to be like, Okay, this came out a little darker than we were thinking. Can we go a lighter glaze color on this so we can still get once we've gotten it the way everyone wants it to look, then we glue it, and then we basically make it's a template. So we number everything. It's a little map you get. We draw exactly where every line is. It's numbered one to 10, or however it may be, and it shows you exactly how it goes together when you get it on site. And because everything is specific to size, showing up in the exact size it's going to fit the exact space. So then your installer just puts it in, and there's really detailed instructions on how to do it. And because it's custom, there's no custom. Or anything involved. So it just slaps right up, slap
Michelle Lynne 10:02
it up, up on the wall. Boom, done. Yep. Oh, I love that. So it's Yeah. So you've measured everything, scaled it all out, and placement is good to go. Yep, you
Beth Porter 10:13
just literally pop it right in. And we've done entire bathrooms, floors, ceilings, hundreds and hundreds of 1000s of square feet, and we've never had a problem with installation. How do you
Michelle Lynne 10:23
get most of your clients?
Beth Porter 10:25
It's vast. It's like it's everywhere, from social media, Google search results. And then we also work with retailers. We have 22 retail showrooms on both the east and west that carry our product. They have displays, they have color pilots, and then anywhere in between that we don't cover, we have a full in house design program. So we send out samples, we do the drawings and all those things. What's varied? Honestly, yeah,
Michelle Lynne 10:52
that sounds like you just bootstrapped it up to where you're at right now.
Beth Porter 10:56
Totally, yep. 100%
Michelle Lynne 10:58
Yeah. I love that. Yeah, that's that's business, and just creating something like that is something that I really love watching, I really love doing, and so forth. So yeah, it's just a matter of getting creative and consistent.
Beth Porter 11:12
Totally that one those are, like, the two biggest components, is creative and consistent. And yeah, things not working, you got to find a creative solution for it, and keep going with it until it does work. So you're done.
Michelle Lynne 11:24
Oh, that's fantastic. What are you working on these days?
Beth Porter 11:29
Oh, man, we're swamped right now. Um, trying to think so we actually have really cool one going on right now. It's a couple in Alaska hoping she won't watch this. So the wife is surprising, the husband with this really beautiful custom backsplash. We're doing everything from they have a volcano that they can see out their front window, an inactive volcano. So we're recreating the volcano. There's a lighthouse there. I believe her husband actually used to work at back in the day, in the Coast Guard. So we're creating that piece for them. And then we're doing two custom dogs, which are really sweet, and that's going to be a gift for her husband for their, I believe, 30th or 40th anniversary. Oh
Michelle Lynne 12:07
so fun. Yeah, it's
Beth Porter 12:09
really cool. I'm pretty jazzed about it, yeah,
Michelle Lynne 12:11
really digging in. And how neat that it's so personal. So I think it's fantastic. Yeah, we're redoing our kitchen and picking up my backsplash, okay, or redoing our bathroom, and I'm doing a whole wall of mosaic tile, but this is deep and special.
Beth Porter 12:26
Totally, yep, and that's her gift to him. And I just thought that was such a
Michelle Lynne 12:30
or is it her gift to herself? This is what she wants. Yeah, it's
Beth Porter 12:35
both, right? That's what you want. For an interview,
Michelle Lynne 12:39
my mother in law just gifted some art to my father in law, and I was thinking, is that really for him, or is that what you wanted in there? What's your dream project?
Beth Porter 12:52
Oh, god, that's a great question. Oh, my goodness, I love doing, like, big scale projects. I really that, but I've also discovered too, that I the smaller, more personalized ones had been approached a while back about doing an aquarium, and that was really fun, and the project got sidelined, and they ended up going a different direction. But I love sculpt, sculpting custom pieces. Oh, things that are challenging. I love when there's something that seems really hard, and you have to just break it down and figure out how to go about doing it. But, um, I Yeah, I'd love to get into more of the commercial stuff, like the museums and aquariums and, you know, so some of the really cool, like luxury hotels, I definitely start going that direction.
Michelle Lynne 13:36
I love that. And I think from a business standpoint, it's nice to be able to do the small projects and really make an impact in somebody's life, but from a standpoint of the invoice and the emotion, babe, give me a big old project, yeah, yeah. Luxury Hotel. Anybody listening? Hello. Remember you heard it here?
Unknown Speaker 14:01
Exactly.
Michelle Lynne 14:03
So you you keep saying we Who's Who do you work? Do you have a team? Is it?
Beth Porter 14:07
Yeah, so it's my partner, my husband and I, and we started this. God, we've been selling tile together now for 2530 years. But, um, yeah, we started the company together. My husband, Dan and
Michelle Lynne 14:18
I. Oh, you must have started when you were 10. Are y'all
Beth Porter 14:22
bless you. Thank you. I only wish we were, yeah, so he does, like the he does the business side of it. We have what we call it's our separation of church and state, right? He does the techie stuff, the business stuff, the invoicing, the customer service, and then my leg of it is the design and the actual execution of it, sculpting and putting it all together in the drawing side. And then we also have another couple, another married couple, that works with us. And it's funny, because the husband works with my husband, and they're both, they do the IT stuff, and then his wife works on my side of it. So we're the four full timers. Oh, I love that, or Yeah. And then we have an arrangement with the local university here that has an art program, and we have a setup where students there get studio art credit when they come and work for us. So, you know, they get paid, and it's a regular job, but they also get credit through the University. So we have a lot of dog students, and then we have some high school students that will come here, tune if we're busy, kind of seasonal help. So there's anywhere from six to 12 people here. Usually that's what we shoot for. So not huge. It's just right for us. And yeah,
Michelle Lynne 15:33
enough to get shit done
Beth Porter 15:34
exactly. I
Michelle Lynne 15:35
think that's a technical term, enough to get
Beth Porter 15:39
just enough for being too, like working over each other. And, yeah,
Michelle Lynne 15:44
it's perfect. Lots of personalities too.
Beth Porter 15:47
Totally.
Michelle Lynne 15:48
Where are you guys located? We're
Beth Porter 15:50
in New Hampshire, um, kind of like Central New Hampshire, a little town called alsted. Bunch of hippies here. We have a really sweet Lake, and we all have dogs. There's always four dogs here, minimum, at any given time in the studio. That's
Michelle Lynne 16:03
fantastic. I keep looking past you on my laptop because my dogs are standing outside my door
Beth Porter 16:11
because the UPS, man comes. It's going to be like, you think someone's like being attacked, but really they're just super excited for the UPS Exactly,
Michelle Lynne 16:18
exactly. Thanks for protecting me, dog. But I'm fine. I actually ordered this stop it Zoe. Stop
Beth Porter 16:28
was called the UPS man, the cookie guy, because he brings cookies for cookies every day for them. So it works of insight, excitement, but it doesn't sound like that to the untrained ear. So,
Michelle Lynne 16:38
oh, that is awesome. That's a good UPS guy is the best. That is fun. That is very fun. So how long have you, how long have you been doing this? Let's see,
Beth Porter 16:52
I think we're going in. We turned it into a business, and we found we were pregnant with our first daughter, and she's 13 now, so I think we've been at it about 14 years now. Oh,
Michelle Lynne 17:00
wow, that's amazing. Yeah,
Beth Porter 17:03
exactly, yeah.
Michelle Lynne 17:04
Funny how life changes direct. Some of your business changes 100%
Beth Porter 17:08
I mean, yeah, like, I was saying it was a hobby before we started this, it was just like, for funsies. And I think everyone goes through this. You find out you're having kids, it's fairly unexpected. Everything just shifted. It just changed. It was like what we wanted from life, the direction we were going with our careers. It all just like completely changed. So that was actually the point we decided, can we turn this into a business? Could this be something that could support us and not just be fun? And that was the kick in the pants we needed to, like, shift gears and actually gravitate more towards a business side and not the hobby. And it worked, and it was, Oh,
Michelle Lynne 17:44
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Michelle Lynne 19:12
What area of the business are you most proud of?
Beth Porter 19:14
So in the beginning, I was saying we it was fun and it was something anyway, I made I donated to the rescues we were working with. And then when we decided to turn it into a business, we wanted to keep that ethos of having it be for a purpose. And so we still do that this day, and we've done it from the beginning. A portion of every single sale goes towards both local and national rescues, and we have some here in New Hampshire we work with, and then really all over the country, in the world, sometimes even if there's, say, a hurricane and there's a specific rescue that's really hustling it, there really are all over the country. So we stood at that. I'm proud of that. And then when we really shifted gear and went into full legit business, being environmentally responsible is, like, a really big one for us. We just. Designed our studio so we got maximum sun exposure. So we're almost exclusively off grid. With our energy usage, we make just as much energy as we need, about 80% of the time from our solar panels.
Michelle Lynne 20:11
That's fabulous. I read some of that on your website, but that's amazing. Yeah,
Beth Porter 20:17
it is, considering we have three commercial kilns which draw a ton of energy. So that's one, and then we recycle all of our clay. We built the shop with super dense insulation. We are in New England, Northern New England. It gets real cold. Everything we do, really and even I think there's a lot of emphasis put on expanding and growing, getting bigger and bigger. And we made an intentional choice not to do that, to try and keep things small, so that we could continue to put out a really high quality product, to be mindful of the environment. So I think it's all circles back to that, like all our decisions, really, we try and lead with what's the best choice for the environment, for the quality of our products, and I'm proud of that that involves hard decisions sometimes,
Michelle Lynne 21:01
yeah, and it is hard to just tamp it back and say, We don't need to get any bigger. Or if we do scale to this amount, it's going to really disintegrate. A lot of the efforts that you've made to not leave too much of a mark. It's
Beth Porter 21:15
so true, and it's hard, because as humans, we just want more and more, right? And it's you have to be like, Okay, let's take a beat here and see is that really the best decision? So, yeah, that's challenging, for sure.
Michelle Lynne 21:27
That's very fun. Children followed in your artistic footsteps. Like you mentioned, your daughter's 13 now, so I'm really curious.
Beth Porter 21:34
Yeah, so she's super creative. And the best part is, though, is that they actually have a work ethic, which is amazing. I've been a 13 year old and 11 year old, and my 13 old is actually like one of my best employees. She's she's able to just come in and pop on an audio book and do a task and get it done, but she has that creative mindset, so she's able to figure things out without asking tons of different questions and really having to have me hold her hand, so that's been awesome. And then my young is great at glazing. She has a very steady hand. And yeah, it's been pretty cool. And bringing them into the fold, I don't think they need to see that an end game for them or anything. But, yeah, it's been fun. But I
Michelle Lynne 22:17
also think, and our audience is all designers, so it's mostly a female audience, and I really believe that as women that we're setting such a beautiful example for our children when we are out there, forging our own path, creating our own success, showing when things are not so successful and still getting up and doing it again.
Beth Porter 22:41
Oh, 100% I couldn't agree with that more. And I think being able to take it even further and show them and children in general, that you can do something creative and make a good living off of it. You're willing to work hard and take a risk and really be adamant in what you're doing that you think it's successful. And I don't think there's enough of that the creative field is just, I was a fine art major, and being able to take that and do something interesting and really turn it into business, I think those are the success stories that they need to hear for
Michelle Lynne 23:15
sure. Yeah, and you don't have to be a starving artist just because your right brain drives you
Beth Porter 23:19
exactly. No, it's true. It's so true. And
Michelle Lynne 23:24
it's neat to see you to I'm sure it is neat for your children to see you and your husband as a partnership at home, but also a partnership in business.
Beth Porter 23:33
Yeah, they might, they might disagree with you at time. You know, we don't hide anything from them. I think that when you're you work with your partner, and then you live with your partner and you care your partner. It works for us. It's what we've been doing from the beginning. But we don't keep the arguments behind closed doors, like they see all the sides. And I think that's really too but yeah, they see us, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, for sure. They
Michelle Lynne 23:59
see it makes sense. Yeah, I've had a couple of couples on the podcast that work together as dude. I don't, I just don't think my husband and I are cut out for that. I'd like to stay happily married.
Beth Porter 24:12
Are or you aren't situation. I honestly don't believe there's like, anything in between. It's either it works or it doesn't. There's no like, just getting by in the middle, and it's all we've really known. We met at the same company, and we've stayed with the same companies or COVID deal over the years. And he had his strengths and I had my strengths and worked for us, but it's definitely the exception, not the
Michelle Lynne 24:35
rule, for that, and having the defined roles totally Yeah,
Beth Porter 24:39
and your pieces like, this is yours. You're gonna stay here
Michelle Lynne 24:47
exactly if I if I see clay under your nails, you're in trouble, honey.
Beth Porter 24:53
He would never
Michelle Lynne 24:56
that's funny. So what are your biggest. Challenges.
Beth Porter 25:00
There's a lot for sure,
Michelle Lynne 25:01
yeah, being a small being a business owner, I say small business, but oftentimes, like our businesses are not small to us, being a business owner is tough. Yeah,
Beth Porter 25:11
no, in a small business owner, that's definitely a struggle. Me, personally, it always and this is something I struggle with, like daily. And I think this is a general everyone in this creative field, interior design and artists, whatever it may be. I think I have this when I create something, I do it the way that I would want to see it in my head. When it's same for design or any other field, and you have the client that comes to you with, here's our ideas and what we're looking to do. And you're like, okay, great, I can do that. And you come up with this plan, and you take everything they've said into consideration, and you present to them, and they're like, We want to make some changes. And that's the moment there. I have to check myself and be like, Yeah, of course. You're living with this. You're paying for this. It might not exactly so taking that back seat and guiding and not so much being the one that's like calling the shots and saying, No, that's gonna look terrible. We need to do this, right? That's my struggle, for sure. Is just collaborating. I'm a collaborator with you, the client. That's my daily struggle, and I'm getting better. But I'll
Michelle Lynne 26:11
bet you a lot of our listeners feel the same thing. What do you mean? You want to change? It is perfect,
Beth Porter 26:19
yes. And being like, kind and like, cool about it. And like, when you get that feedback being like, Okay, I'm going to take a beat and we're going to process this, and I'm not going to be reacting about it. And that's definitely I'm working on that every single day.
Michelle Lynne 26:32
Like, yeah, it's not Yeah, because it's not personal, no, of course
Beth Porter 26:36
not. Of course not. But it feels that way sometimes, right, like you're putting in heart and soul to this work, and you try not to take it personally, but that's always
Michelle Lynne 26:46
I bet you. I'll bet you our listeners enjoy hearing that, because I think so many of us feel that way. Yeah, I can change it, but you're wrong.
Beth Porter 26:58
You're putting your name on it right. Love to see a photo of this, maybe not, but I Yeah,
Michelle Lynne 27:03
well, and not everything's going to make the portfolio. Exactly. Yeah, no, I think that's something to remember as well for everybody. It's, there's some designs that I did when I was starting my business. I'm like, we'd
Beth Porter 27:20
be like, really glad you're happy with it. But yeah,
Michelle Lynne 27:22
the clients love it. It's not even social media, 24 hour stories. No. Thank you. Yeah. So what do you think you would be doing as a career if, if you weren't, if you didn't have this business,
Beth Porter 27:38
you know, I'd probably be interior design. I think I did that for a few years. I did some apprenticeships, and I was out on my own for a couple years, and I really loved it. It just didn't quite check, like all the boxes for me. But I think if I hadn't gone down this path, I think I would have been very happy staying there. I love that. It is just always evolving. Everything is different. It's never exactly the same thing day in and day out. I love being able to have that kind of clever mindset of, okay, there's this funky trunk in the kitchen, and how are we going to make that look pretty? Okay, we're going to do custom cat. I love kind of things from that direction, and I like the interaction with the clients too. So I think, I think I'd be very happy and content still doing that. Honestly,
Michelle Lynne 28:22
that makes sense, but don't my hands is dirty. No, you
Beth Porter 28:26
don't, and that's not like fun. I mean, I wish I had something like, I want to be in like Cirque du Soleil, but there's no way that was more exciting. But I'm very basic.
Michelle Lynne 28:37
Oh no, I can appreciate that. So okay, so what one of my favorite questions, and it's a selfish question, because I keep a list, is, what book do you recommend reading? And it doesn't have to be professional. It can be fiction, or it can be autobiographical. It could be self help, it can be business like, whatever. What floats you both these days, the
Beth Porter 29:02
one I want to say then it's super duper cliche, but it was, was one of the first books I really loved and wanted to read again against cliche. So cliche alert, but loving a Time of Cholera by Gabrielle Garcia. Marquee says that, but I just really got me thinking about quickly life goes by and just and then the one I have guilty pleasure reads many of those big Sarah J Maas fan love the court of Throne, Court of Thorns and Roses. It's Oh yeah. It's kind of fantasy, yeah, which is not normally my jam, but I read it for a reading group, a book club, and I, like, loved it. So it's
Michelle Lynne 29:39
funny. I was talking to actually, my stepson about that his girlfriend's reading that. Yeah, that's the genre she likes. It's
Beth Porter 29:46
like crack. It's just like, it's one of those books you pick it up and if you're looking to just escape life and tap out for a couple hours, good one. It's pretty fast paced, and it's not profound, you're not going to learn anything borderline. Ashy, but it's delightful looking to escape for just a hot minute. Now,
Michelle Lynne 30:04
I think I go back and forth with my reading. Sometimes it is just the escape. Sometimes it's historical fiction, so I'm learning something. Sometimes it's business, but it's like TV. Do I want to watch a documentary tonight? Or do I want to watch something that is completely brainless? Exactly?
Beth Porter 30:21
Yeah, I find myself, my kids just started school, and it's like that chaotic time of year, and you just want to allow just tired, give me a give me my book in a glass of wine in the screen. Just leave me alone for a couple hours. That's my jam. I
Michelle Lynne 30:35
I've got those written down. And what's funny is that I've never read Love in a time of cholera, oh, and he's, it's the same author that wrote 1000 years of solitude, right? Exactly, Years of Solitude? Yeah,
Beth Porter 30:47
he's just got this really beautiful and I'm that's why it's a cliche, right? Because it's just such a beautiful writing style. It's a little slow, but once you get into it, it's just very like, almost meditative.
Michelle Lynne 30:59
I have it on my bookshelf upstairs.
Beth Porter 31:02
You gotta do it. I love that solitude, too. But loving a time of cholera was like, Yeah, my first and my absolute favorite. That's fun.
Michelle Lynne 31:10
I love that Beth. I think I'm sure our audience has loved everything that you've shared with them, and if they want to learn more or get connected with you, how can they do that? Where can we find you? Where can people? Fan girl,
Beth Porter 31:23
we have a brand new, fancy website, wet dog, title.com, and all new and has all the things on it. We have a daily blog that we do, or, I'm sorry, not daily usually, oh, I was
Michelle Lynne 31:33
gonna be really impressed. That's a lot
Beth Porter 31:37
like suspect of people that do daily blogs to do. We're on all the socials we have. We're on Tiktok, we're on Instagram, we're on Facebook. So the website is wet dog tile.com, if it didn't already say that, and then there's links to all the socials on there. And I try to post once a day on the socials, but that doesn't always happen.
Michelle Lynne 31:55
So so that whole work thing gets in the way sometimes
Beth Porter 31:58
God in life. Yeah, all of this. Appreciate that. Awesome. I
Michelle Lynne 32:03
will make sure that those are in the show notes. Awesome.
Beth Porter 32:05
I appreciate it. This has been so fun. Thank you so so much.
Michelle Lynne 32:10
Oh my gosh. Absolutely, absolutely. And for those of you who are interested in learning more, make sure you do check out the show notes and click through to follow all of the beauty that Beth is creating. And for those of you who want to stay plugged in, join me over on Facebook. And yeah, yeah, I know y'all. It's Facebook. It's not my favorite platform either, but it is the best to host a private group. So the interior designers business Launch Pad is my private group. It's where I go live almost once a week, and then it's where we hold our workshops, and it's a very supportive group. So cruise on over to the interior designers business launch pad on facebook and join us there and follow Beth on her Instagram profile and make sure you stop and say hi and tell her where you learned about her. So Beth, thanks for being here. It's been so much fun. Yes,
Beth Porter 33:08
same likewise, I had a really good time. Thank you again.
Michelle Lynne 33:12
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 pad. 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 you.
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