The Designer Within
Hosted by John McClain and McClain and John · John McClain
4.8from 36 ratings
- 154
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 36
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 45K
- YouTube views
About The Designer Within
Welcome to The McClain Method — the go-to podcast for interior designers who want to grow a profitable, polished, and well-run design business.I’m your host, John McClain—award-winning interior designer, business mentor, author, and branding strategist. If you want to learn how to:• price your interior design services• attract high-value clients• streamline your design process• improve your client experience• elevate your brand and visibility• run your design firm with confidence…you’re in the right place.This podcast isn’t about pillows and paint swatches.Here, we focus on the business of interior design—marketing, pricing, branding, sales, systems, visibility, mindset, and everything it actually takes to build a thriving design firm.Each episode gives you clear strategies, actionable tools, and behind-the-scenes insights you can use immediately to grow your business and elevate your clients’ experience.If you’re ready to step into your next level as an interior designer—and finally run a business that reflects your brilliance—welcome home.
- Publisher
- John McClain
- Category
- arts · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jun 2023
- Latest episode
- 30 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 154 episodes have a transcript.
30 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
102: What Dolly Parton Taught Me About Business and Life
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
101: Live From Italy: How to Get Your Creativity Back When You Feel Stuck
15 Jul 2026
100: 10 Business Lessons From 100 Episodes: What Every Designer Should Steal
Inside a recent episode
102: What Dolly Parton Taught Me About Business and Life
Published 30 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You can be generous and still charge appropriately, and you can be funny and lighthearted and still be a serious business person. Both things can be true. That's something that I think Dolly understood almost better than anybody else. And she did this in a way that seemed so effortless for her. And you almost let it fly under the radar because she did it so seamlessly and so simply as part of her daily life. So while I was thinking about this episode, something hit me really, really hard. And it was the fact that Dolly reinvented herself over and over again. She was first country music, then pop music, and then movies, and then TV, and publishing, and production, and of course Dollywood, and books, and Broadway, and business, and philanthropy. […]
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- Eryn Oruncak
- Renee Biery
- Heather McManus
- Staci Davidson
- Antonio DeLoatch
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 44,585
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 26 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 71
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Questions about The Designer Within
Who hosts The Designer Within?
John McClain and McClain and John host the show. Published by John McClain.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Designer Within take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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