Title: Nick May | Pro Painter Network

In 1999 Nick May started a painting business, Walls by Design, and over the years he has worked with a lot of interior designers. Many of them have been good designers, but often time, their business skills were a bit lacking. In 2013, Nick started a series of live events in Denver with a handful of companies to educated designers on the business of interior design. They would host lunch and learns and bring in a speaker. His hope was to help them grow their businesses and in turn, they might use Walls by Design for their painting needs.

In 2014, Nick married this idea with another passion of mine...podcasting. He launched ‘The Chaise Lounge Podcast’ with the hopes to expand his impact on the interior design community nationally. Little did Nick know that they would soon be downloaded and listened to in over 100 countries and become one of the top interior design podcasts on iTunes.

In 2016, he was asked to start covering markets and live events for interior designers… The Chaise Lounge hit the road! This has to lead to increased exposure and network into the larger interior design community, and he has now interviewed some of the biggest names in interior design.

JOIN NICK MAY AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:

00:47 - Coming up with, with, with all the new, exciting, different things that the ideas

01:34 - They started that podcast like three years ago

02:01 - He remembers being in college and going down to Kinko's

02:47 - He started podcasting, eight or nine years ago. And nobody knew what the heck podcasting was

03:40 - A mix of entrepreneurs that they would read about

04:22 - Got lots of sponsorship traveled the world, went to Spain and Italy through that podcast

05:29 - He ran a painting business all through college

06:11 - What the hell is he going to do the rest of his life?

07:18 - He remembers all the tricks of the trade from painters

07:32 - That's how he got into the painting business.

19:50 - They’re doing things that haven't been done in our industry

20:40 - His wife told him in the conversations with him sometimes are torture

21:10 - There are too many, too many ideas

21:55 - They’ve really created something that's affordable

22:58 - You want to call the crazy time that we're in

23:53 - Break-even is acceptable, but there's an opportunity out there

24:29 - Everybody's chasing the same skinny rabbit

25:09 - Hi is actually going to start pulling all these triggers for these things

26:03 - Traction has been pushed in front of his face and, um, and scaling up

27:33 - All of a sudden he was afforded the opportunity

37:17 - His first introduction to a book that was teaching about business

37:48 - They actually came up with the idea to do a virtual conference

38:38 - His whole story together in one place

39:24 - He would love to do a book with Gary

40:22 - Until some other problem shows up

40:47 - Like when you're the guy it's like, you're the worst boss

41:33 - Because they have systems and processes

42:17 - Freedom to handle those problems

43:09 - Bob is the oldest one that works for Nick

44:05 - Has has already given you the solution

44:50 - They want to save the world for everybody

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Host: www.CraigBundren.com

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Title: Amelia Earhart | Creating A Flight Plan To Clear Any Goal For Take-Off

Amelia Rose Earhart, namesaked after the famed Amelia Mary Earhart who attempted to fly around the world in 1937, is one of the youngest women to fly around the world in a single-engine aircraft. In 2014, Amelia flew a Pilatus PC12-NG 28,000 miles, crossing the equator six times, through fourteen countries to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. Her parents, sharing the Earhart surname, wanted their daughter to have a name that would inspire her to live a life of passion and adventure.

Amelia is the President of the Fly With Amelia Foundation, a non-profit organization that grants flight-training scholarships to young women, aged sixteen to eighteen. The Fly With Amelia Foundation also fosters aviation and aerospace opportunities for people of all ages through aviation-based educational STEM opportunities, in partnership with Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver, CO.

Amelia has been a passionate aviatrix since her first flight lesson at the age of twenty-one, a seeker of all things adventurous, and is an accomplished public speaker, spending the last 8 years working as a television news anchor, covering breaking news, traffic, and weather in Denver and Los Angeles. Amelia was given the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award in 2013 and in 2014 was named by the Jaycees as one of the "Top Ten Young Americans".

JOIN AMELIA ROSE EARHART AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:

00:40 - Fantastic story about a girl who was given the name

01:06 - Authentic person that you're going to want to spend some time

01:52 - Your actual name is Amelia Rose Earhart

03:00 - Amelia Mary Earhart left behind such a legacy

03:20 - Amelia can grow up and be whatever she wants

03:51 - The fact that Amelia Rose Earhart is not related to Amelia Mary Earhart. And for a long time, she thought she was.

04:35 - They think there's a lot of people in the world that look to for things to criticize

05:07 - It's not a lack of resources. It's a lack of resourcefulness.

06:39 - Amelia gets chills because she thinks how on earth did she pull that off?

07:56 - Amelia had to save up and she would work five jobs at a time

10:11 - When Amelia flew about 10 hours a day with her co-pilot Shane Jordan

12:08 - That was the first time Amelia was crossing any ocean where you have no option to land

15:04 - Amelia is starting to break down her survival gear as she starts to work towards publishing her book

17:15 - Amelia’s co-pilot allowed her to be the true pilot and command of that journey

20:02 - The real benefit of flying around the world.

58:40 - Helping people become artists in the same way that Amelia did

39:18 - Putting the logos of 28 different corporations on the outside of an airplane that needs to fly through crazy changes in air temperature.

1:01:32 - Having a weird name puts you in weird situations

1:03:I4 - Amelia got these 16 paintings and I'm going through the lobby

1:05:04 - As it catches the light and it changes and it's dynamically moving.

CONNECT WITH AMELIA ROSE EARHART:

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Wadden began her career as a color expert at Sherwin-Williams in 1998, as an interior designer and color marketing specialist. Today, as director of color marketing, Wadden is the face and voice of color for Sherwin-Williams, responsible for the company’s overall vision and philosophy of color leadership.

With over 20 years of color marketing experience, Sue is an expert in color development, palette strategy, consumer, specifier and commercial color insights, color styling and trend forecasting. Wadden serves as editorial advisor to

STIR® magazine for design professionals and takes an active role in interfacing with consumer and trade media on topics surrounding color.

JOIN SUE WADDEN AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:

00:46 - The role of Director of Color Marketing - responsible for strategy of color for Sherwin Williams

01:31 - Getting to name colors

01:51 - No, it’s not like naming nail polish colors

02:05 - The color names are permanent

03:00 - There are 30,000 colors in the database and they each have to be unique

04:40 - Getting an internship at Sherwin Williams

06:32 - People don’t realize how many paint brands Sherwin Williams is responsible for

07:37 - How do all the different people look at color? The paradox of choice

09:20 - As a paint contractor you’re an applyer of color, the client chooses

11:26 - They don’t want people to be angry they can’t find the right color

12:45 - Sending free color chips directly to the consumer

12:53 - We keep learning, but we’re not sure where it’s going to go

14:28 - 157 Shades of white paint

17:40 - Sue uses her own house as a canvas to test out the colors

19:06 - Sue sees complexity in color - a combination of thousands of pigments

22:00 - Sponge painting and crazy color combinations of the 90s

23:00 - Craig’s dad’s office was Hunter Green

23:30 - The one thing you can count on in design is that you’re going to see it again

25:24 - The importance of grey and white

26:24 - We’re seeing more color come in

29:29 - Commercial and residential are on the same color cycle

30:30 - The colors are based on a ton of research

31:50 - Being held accountable to metrics and tracking

32:48 - The greatest influence on the direction of color

34:30 - Moving toward comfort colors

36:00 - Technology has an impact on our color choices because of the blue light from the screens

42:00 - Some colors range from popularity of 5 to 10 years

44:10 - People are starting to have a deeper emotional connection to color

46:15 - Relying on fan favorites but still try to keep it fresh

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SHERWINWILLIAMS.COM

SWCOLORFORECAST.COM

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Bundren Painting: www.Bundren.com

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