Forging your own path will make you happier than listening to what anyone else thinks you should be doing That’s a major takeaway from my interview with Meg Summerfield, the founder of Summerfield Delight and SquareSpace Design Guild. Meg and I have had similar journeys in our careers, even attending the same design school although she studied online and I was in the in-person program. She shares so many powerful insights for staying true to your own path and designing a career that makes you happy. I’m so excited to share it with you!
— Meg’s journey of enrolling in architecture for practical reasons to realizing that her heart was in graphic design and following that path
— Why Meg decided to go to grad school and why her circumstances might be different from other designers
— Our experiences of traveling on very tight budgets
— Meg’s first experience of working with a client and the fundamental lessons it taught her
— Her career path from working corporate jobs that weren’t quite the right fit for her to starting her own business
— Tips for choosing a school program that will support you in establishing the career you desire
— Why Meg initially started her food blog and how it evolved to become a bigger part of her career
— Reflecting on what you’ve liked about your career and what you haven’t so that you can get intentional about finding (or creating) your design job
— How Meg revolutionized SquareSpace design and really focused in on that area as her niche
— Learning code as the key to working with SquareSpace in a really dynamic way
— Working to deadlines while also honoring your creative cycles
— Hiring a VA not just to delegate tasks to but to expand your knowledge base and generate new ideas in your business
— The importance of being able to take a critique for growing in your creative work
— Using your Myers-Briggs personality for better understanding your own working needs
— Staying true to your own path rather than getting caught up in what other people think about it
— The course about food blogging that Meg is developing
— The importance of stopping work at a specific time each day
— Don’t forget to go to Audibletrial.com/PinegateRoad and sign up for your free trial
— The Slight Edge
— SACI College of Art & Design Florence
— Florence University of the Arts
— Savannah College of Art and Design
— Myers Briggs http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/
— Local is Lovely
— My Open Kitchen podcast
— NOPI: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi
— A Modern Way to Cook by Anna Jones
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— Summerfield Delight
— SquareSpace Design Guild https://www.squaredesignguild.com/
— Instagram
— Instagram: I’ve been LOVING sharing some daily happenings with the new stories feature — hope you’ll follow along there!
— Pinterest
— Facebook
— Twitter
— Are you interested in becoming a client? Get in touch about working with Pinegate Road to build your brand foundation!
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