Pattern Shift
Hi! My name is Saskia de Feijter and welcome to the Pattern Shift podcast. In this podcast, I support overwhelmed small business owners in the fiber and needlecraft industry, helping them set up and organize their businesses for growth and personal well-being. Together, we can be a force for good and a counterbalance to fast fashion, helping makers craft garments and accessories slowly and more sustainably. You can be part of that change and make a profit in the process.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 106
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#65 - Bending Time: How to Manage Energy for Productivity with Kim Witten
The big question on this episode is; How do we bend time our way? Can we make more of it so we can get out of overwhelm and stress. I’ve invited my friend and coach Kim Witten…
#64 - Transform Your Small Business Mindset with the Power of Decluttering
Ready to conquer that overwhelming clutter and skyrocket your small business productivity? Join me, Saskia de Feijter, as I reveal the secret to unlocking your mental clarity …
#63 - Taking yourself seriously as a business owner, with Cal Patch
Are you taking yourself seriously as a business owner, do you set boundaries, are you being professional,
It’s time to start owning the tasks that come with running your busine…
#62 - A Smaller Life is now: PATTERN SHIFT
As you might have heard in the last episode I did with my friend Zoe Edwards, A Smaller Life is evolving into a podcast that is similar but a bit different. I was always talki…
#61 - “Our podcast evolution: How Zoe and Saskia support their business and listeners + BIG NEWS”
In this episode, podcast hosts Zoe Edwards of Check Your Thread and myself discuss how we approach our podcasts and how we make it work for our businesses. We talk about how w…
#60 - Pilar Letelier of Cabeza de Alfiler - Overcoming the fear of Copy Cats, using the Power of Branding and Peer Support
On this episode of A Smaller Life, Pilar and Saskia discuss several key aspects of running a creative business. They emphasize the importance of having a clear vision for your…
#59 - "The Art of Deliberate Choice: Crafting a more Sustainable Wardrobe with a Philosophical Mindset"
You know me as a guide, mentor and teacher, but I've also set off on a new adventure, coaching. Coaching gets a bad rep sometimes, but when it's done right, it can be really …
#58 - ‘In Conversation with Kathleen’ Overcoming Obstacles and Finding Success: A Journey of Mindfulness and Crafting
In this episode we’re flipping things around. Kathleen Kettles, one of the most enthusiastic members of the Ja, Wol community and a podcaster herself is interviewing me.
Her po…
#57 - Maaike van Geijn's Rocket Launch: insights from a successful beginning knitwear designer
In this podcast episode upcoming knitwear designer Maaike van Geijn, shares her ideas, processes, hiccups, and successes as a designer like how her first three designs were im…
#56 - Pockets and Planet: a conversation about inclusivity and denim innovation with Marshall Conley
In this episode of A Smaller Life, Marshall Conley of Slø Jeans, joins the show to discuss how this sustainable fashion brand started. The values and steps they had to make be…
#55 - Leigh Metcalf @ Top Stitch Makers on starting a business with no formal business education and pivoting from sewing studio to online community
In this episode, Saskia and Leigh Metcalf, founder of Top Stitch Makers Social Community, discuss the importance of building a safe and valuable space for garment sewers.
Leigh…
#54 - Gillian Caughey @ Fearless Financials on how to be brave and fearless about your finances
In this amazing episode full of gold nuggets, you’ll hear from Gillian Caughey
Gillian is the founder of Fearless Financials, an accountancy business that offers life centered …
#53 - Zoe Edwards helps me with the foundation for a more sustainable sewing practice
#52 - Kim Witten: Yarn Over-thinking, create succes with the help of coaching, mentoring and craft
My coach, Kim Witten, teaches us the difference between coaching, mentoring and therapy. Then, we move on to topics such as the struggle we creatives have balancing structure …
#51 - New Year's Shortie Episode - taking a pledge
In this episode I talk about the Ja Wol Community pledge that has been spontaneously started by our member Kathleen.
I jumped on her idea and we had a zoom call together and m…
#50 - Milestones: Maya @ Knit With Attitude goes Big + A Smaller Life's 50th Episode
May Lin Bang (Maya) joins us from Knit With Attitude in High Street London, but not before we do a little celebrating for our 50th episode! Tune in to hear shout outs and inte…
#49 - Reporting from the Faroe Islands Gudrun & Gudrun & Snaeldan Spinnery
In this cinematic, on-the-road episode, you’ll hear all about the wool and shepherding industry in the Faroese Islands or Faroes (Føroyar). You’ll get to hear a spinning machi…
#48- Elizabeth Joy of Conscious Style explaining conscious and sustainability lingo
In this episode, you’ll hear from Elizabeth Joy of Conscious Style.
Elizabeth is a content creator that cares about fashion and style in a conscious way. We talk about green wa…
#47- Janne de Hoop @ Hollands Wol Collectief on turning local wool into product
Before The Holland Wool Collective came along, tons of wool was going to waste. There was a gap between people who had wool, people who processed it into a usable product, and…
#46 - Alice Karolina @ The Ethical Move on Ethical Marketing
We welcome Alice from The Ethical Move this week on A Smaller Life!
Alice owns a branding firm, and she runs an online community (with the help of dedicated others) that's focu…