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The Breakdown That Became a Breakthrough — Alexandra Kidd on Rebuilding a Life and a Business
September 30, 2026 · 44 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction In a small studio above McClay Street in Potts Point, Alexandra Kidd has spent more than 20 years shaping how Australian homes can feel. What began as a solo practice has grown…
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"Energy Over Empire" — Simone Mathews on Choosing to Build Smaller
September 16, 2026 · 42 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction Somewhere along the way, ambition began to look like a larger studio, a bigger team, a longer list of projects. Simone Mathews, founder of Soul Home, decided to walk the other…
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"I Am a Creative Person, Even Though I Never Admitted It" — Antonia Perricone Mrljak's Late Awakening
September 2, 2026 · 53 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction There is a kind of artist whose career you can summarise in a paragraph: the school, the prize, the gallery, the rise. Antonia Perricone Mrljak is not that artist. She came to…
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I Woke Up to 3 Million Views — Georgina Wilson on Becoming the Internet's Architect
August 19, 2026 · 46 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction There's a particular kind of honesty that's hard to find in any industry, the kind that looks at something widely admired and says plainly, this is not good enough. This week on…
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The Room Went From One Table to Global — Grace Miller on Four Years at The Diary of a CEO
August 5, 2026 · 46 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Every beautiful thing you've ever loved was iterated into existence. This week on Build Beautiful, we're joined by Grace Miller, Head of Failure & Experimentation at FlightStory, Steven…
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Success Never Feels as Sweet as It Should — Yasmine Ghoniem on the Cost of Getting Everything You Want
July 22, 2026 · 50 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Yasmine Ghoniem's father left for Kuwait for what he said would be a couple of months. Seven months later, her mother still did not know if he was alive. He had arrived in Kuwait the day the…
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He Got a $30K Loan for a Pool Party. It Started a Global Design Brand. | Nicholas Karlovasitis
July 1, 2026 · 56 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! The bank told Nicholas Karlovasitis they could not give him a business loan. No trading history. So he called back and told them he needed $30,000 for a pool party. An epic one. Just the once…
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Your Agent Wants to Sell. Your Valuer Wants the Truth. | Belinda Botzolis
June 17, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minSend us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Your agent wants to sell. Your valuer wants the truth. And most people — designers, renovators, developers — never call the valuer. They call the agent, they trust the gut, they make decisions…