Norah had been designing for people she knew for a long time — always properly, almost never for money. Six months after finishing the Academy she had a consultancy, a client list, and an invoice trail.
Six months after finishing the program i launched my own design consultancy and hit my first $10,000. Doing something i actually love. If you have the passion, this course gives you everything else you need.
Read it on Trustpilot →For years Norah was the person people called when a room wasn't working. A friend's living room. A sister's nursery. The neighbour who'd bought a house and had no idea where to start. She'd give it a weekend, get it right, and hand it back.
Nobody ever paid her, and it never really occurred to her to ask. What she had was the eye and the patience. What she didn't have was any sense of how to charge for it — how to scope a job, what to quote, or how to say a number out loud without immediately talking it down.
She'd thought about doing it properly for a long time. What stopped her was never the design. It was everything around it. Where do clients come from once they stop being friends? What do you actually send someone? What happens after they say yes?
She wanted structure more than she wanted inspiration — and the Academy was the first thing she found that treated the business half as the point rather than an afterthought.
She finished the program and launched the consultancy. The first paying client was terrifying in the way first paying clients always are: the same work she'd done a dozen times for nothing, with an invoice at the end of it.
Six months later she'd passed ten thousand dollars — not from one large project, but from a run of them. The work she'd always done, finally priced like work.
For years Norah was the friend you called when a room wasn't working — the sister's nursery, the neighbour's first house, the living room that never quite came together. She'd give it a weekend and get it right. She had the eye and the patience. What she'd never needed to learn was any of the part that turns it into a business.
Not learning to design — she could already do that. Learning what to charge, how to scope a job properly, where clients come from once they stop being friends of friends, and how to say the price out loud without cutting it in half first.
“If you have the passion, this course gives you everything else you need.
You already have the eye. We'll help you build the business around it.
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