EP 084 | Mindset Lessons for Interior Designers with Beth Halstead

What role do mindset, intention, and self-awareness play in building a successful interior design business?

In this episode, Kimberley Seldon speaks with Beth Halstead about the personal and professional qualities that support long-term success. While systems and business practices remain essential, Beth explores how integrity, confidence, reflection, and intentional decision-making can help designers navigate challenges and create more fulfilling careers.

For interior designers seeking both business growth and personal alignment, this conversation offers valuable perspective on balancing ambition with well-being.

In this episode, we learn:
• Why equilibrium may be a more realistic goal than perfect balance
• How difficult business lessons often become the most valuable ones
• Why clear expectations create stronger client relationships and smoother projects
• How setting intentions helps guide decisions and focus your energy
• Why most design challenges are not true emergencies
• How confidence, reflection, and integrity support long-term business success

Take Aways

“Lessons are expensive”, Beth Halstead

Design Intervention

Take time for regular reflection (inventory) to assess how systems, procedures and behaviors are working for you.

With over 20 years in the decorative painting and interior design field Beth Halstead, owner of The Studio of Halstead & Company, is still inspired by the opportunities new projects present. Halstead & Company provides extraordinary plaster finishes, custom hand painted designs that emulate wallpaper, faux interpretations of natural elements such as wood, marble, metals and sky as well as silver, gold and copper leafing. Murals are a speciality. Inspired by travel, Beth infuses projects with worldly sophistication has been featured in print through Style at Home, Chatelaine, Canadian Living and on television through CityLine, Design for Living, This Small Space and Home To Go.

Website: www.halsteadandco.com