ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design

Are You Promotion Ready? A Checklist for Women Architects

Think you need to wait until you're "perfect" to go for that promotion? Think again. In this episode, we walk through a powerful Promotion Readiness Checklist tailored specifically for women in architecture. From project wins to mindset shifts, you’ll learn how to assess your leadership potential—and make your next move with confidence.
Whether you're eyeing senior designer, project manager, or principal, this episode helps you stop doubting and start leading.
 
Performance & Expertise: Are you delivering value that drives results?
Leadership & Influence: Are you guiding others and shaping outcomes?
Visibility & Advocacy: Are your contributions being seen and championed?
Confidence & Mindset: Are you standing in your power—or holding back?
Strategic Fit: Do your goals align with what leadership looks for?
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Marketing that Moves People: Interview with Robert Bean

Sick of marketing that feels fake? Robert Bean of IMPACT shares how ethical persuasion and purpose-driven storytelling attract dream clients - no selling out necessary. Discover how your unique purpose, not the usual list of qualifications, is your most valuable marketing tool.
Design has a unique power to heal, but we don't spend enough time talking about how the spaces we create will make someone feel
Marketing is the energy of stating "I'm here!" You have to value yourself to be valued.
Your unique story is your value, not the status quo
Always apply the "fun metric." If you aren't enjoying your work, you're stuck and so is your ability to resonate with clients and be ingenious.
The magic of attracting ideal clients lies in the story of your purpose, the BTS process of creating a design and the testimonial of user experience.
The story emerges when we listen, to ourselves and our clients. Telling that story is one of the highest forms of marketing - ethical persuasion
🔗 Connect With Robert Bean:👉 LinkedIn: IMPACT.eco on LinkedIn🌐 Website: https://www.impact.eco
 
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Songlines: Lessons on place and space from Australia

During my vacation in Australia, I’e had some incredible opportunities to connect with the landscape, geology and culture. In this episode hear about the Aboriginal concept of the songline and its use as a ritual connecting place, mythology, and the human journey through life.

Brand Therapy: Interview with Jaime Schwarz

We can all use a little brand therapy. Realigning what we do and why we do it with the people who want and need our services.  In this interview, Jaime Schwarz shares the secret sauce to authentic and resonant branding.
When you heal your business identity, you reconnect with your audience
Brand therapy is more than a rebrand or a logo refresh. It's a strategic and emotional deep dive into the soul of your business to uncover what’s been holding your brand back and what will move it forward.
Whether you DIY or work with a brand therapist, the first step is awareness. Start by asking:
What do I want people to feel when they interact with my brand?
Am I proud of how my brand shows up in the world?
What values am I willing to defend at all costs?
CONTACT JAIME:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeschwarz/
Website: https://brandtherapy.coach/
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Low Stakes Accomplishments: When Have to Do Sidetracks Want to Do

What we want to do isn't always the stuff we give ourselves permission to do. If you're noticing that the compulsories of life are crowding out everything else, take a listen to this episode and get neuroscience based strategies to flip that script.
Task lists are elastic. Since you'll never cross everything off they distort your sense of accomplishment and efficacy.
It doesn't take courage to plow through mundane tasks. The dopamine hit you get from these low stakes accomplishments masks the fear you feel at tackling those big life goals, robbing you of feeling true satisfaction, purpose or success.
Re prioritize your day by blocking off a small amount of time each day to work on advancing your career goals. This will leverage the Zeigarnik Effect to work for you instead of against you. The momentum you get from incremental but regular progress will keep you coming back for the next installment of your success saga.
Make time to savor life and have fun. This restores your creativity way more than locking yourself away in task jail.
Build restorative time into your daily and weekly routines so it gets normalized instead of feeling like one more thing to do. You get real rewards not cheap dopamine hits.
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The Art of Playing Dumb: Interview with David Carson

The smartest people aren't trying to convince you of that.  Instead, they're willing to be dumb...asking questions or trying things that others would dismiss. David Carson a creative CEO and visionary shares his insights on what it really takes to drive innovation and the story behind his Dumbify project and book.
You have more fun when you can let go of the need to know everything and take time to let other tell you things.
Being open to exploring the dumb idea leads to innovative thinking
"Merchandise" your ideas to a friend to get feedback and build on the concept
Recognize that you get smarter by being dumber: expertise can be ossifying.
Some strategies to try are making an idea worse, removing restrictions and embracing failure.
Lean into the pain points to build your creative muscle.
CONTACT DAVID:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcarson2/
Website: https://www.david-carson.com/
 
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Restless and Reckless: The Hidden Cost of Perfectionism

Getting rest isn't reckless, it's trying to push through that is. That constant drive to demonstrate productivity is virtue signaling of the toxic kind.  Root cause: perfectionism. Tap into this episode to learn about the hidden traits of perfectionism that are making it so hard to calm down.
You might think perfectionists are tightly wound OCD types. Not true. If you have any of these traits - competitive, controlling, indecisive, judgemental, overproducing, procrastination, underconfident - you suffer from perfectionism
Perfectionists abandon their big dreams focusing instead on details and procedures. Task completion masquerades as accomplishment.
Done is always better than perfect. Embrace forward momentum knowing you can course correct as you go.
Challenge yourself to do less so that you can rest and recharge your creative energy.
Get things done by leveraging these practices: delegate/hire support, say no to more things, make self care your highest priority.
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Earth Day 2025: Practice Models for Public Health Interview with Molly Scanlon

What's considered sustainable from a public health perspective? Not necessarily the same things that we might otherwise uphold. We celebrate the 2025 Earth Day theme of Our Power, Our Planet with architect and integrative environmental specialist Molly Scanlon who shares insights on a new model for architecture practice.
Adjacent industries hold the key to practice innovation. Seeing the issues through another point of view moves us past the constraints of business as usual.
Advocacy requires having a flexible perspective and taking initiative to build your expertise and avenues of impact
Things don't change unless you do.
Buildings can become a non-pharmacological intervention in the world of public health as we add additional research related to safety and sustainability.
Architects can provide a holistic vs. a traditionally component based understanding common in public health.
Pick the right opportunities and keep your schedule open so you have the time and energy to get involved with what matters to you.
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Loyal too Long? How sunk cost fallacy impacts your career

When are determination, loyalty, persistence not virtues? When you're deploying them in a no-win situation. There are more landmines like this than you might think in your career landscape.  In today's episode, you'll learn how behavioral economics is keeping you stuck in situations that are aging like milk. Know when having grit is worth the payoff and when it's wasting your time.
The more time, money or effort you invest, the more you feel responsible for achieving  success, and the less likely you are to abandon what's not working.
When you feel like you should keep trying, also consider the cost of a missed opportunity. What didn’t you do, explore, discover because you’re pouring resources down the drain? What did you put at risk in terms of your stress level? Your health, your well being?
Make sure that your expectations are realistic and clearly communicated
Don't get so emotionally invested that you can't walk away. Think about milestones and success measures and have a plan for what happens if they aren't met.
Ask "what's the best that could happen?" Then decide if that answer is good enough.
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Urban Healthonomics: Martin Prince-Parrott Talks with Architects as Healers: Buildings as Medicine.

In this crossover episode, you'll hear the conversation we had on Architects as Healers: Buildings as Medicine with Martin Prince-Parrott about his new book Urban Healthonomics. You'll learn practical strategies to build for health, well being and economic vitality.
The economics of sustainable healthy cities in an interconnected web of downstream (consumer) and upstream (policies/incentives).
Look at change from multiple viewpoints: citizen, architect, engineer, developer, policy maker, stakeolder
There are tangential economic impacts to poor air quality urban heat islands, water pollution, and social isolation. Addressing them requires forging uncommon public and private partnerships.
Cities are multi-generational
Preventing despair is our imperative. In hope, we believe solutions are possible and work towards them.
CONTACT MARTIN:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-prince-parrott-founder-sci-fi-infrastructure-builder/
 
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