Pull The Thread
The podcast teaches you everything you need to know to be profitable at craft-based work, and dive deep on sewing as a career choice. Join your host, Krystal Douglas - a celebrity tailor, creative entrepreneur and wild mustang tamer. Krystal took a Brother home sewing machine and a $30 craigslist desk and built a sewing business that supports a life she loves… while generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year. It definitely didn’t come easy, but this podcast is meant to help others shorten their learning curve. She shares what she's learned about entrepreneurship and business building as it applies to fashion & craft-based work, and opens up about what she wishes she knew when she first started. Go behind the scenes on every tool, trick, and business process Krystal has learned from costuming celebrities, manufacturing clothing, and selling products... so that you can stop questioning your skills, and start profiting from your work.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 35
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
How Owning A Sewing Business Changed My Life
5% of employees in the US are millionaires.. and 88% of millionaires are business owners. Success leaves clues, wouldn't you say?
This summer, my primary business, Music Cit…
5 Ways Sewing Businesses Waste Money
Money is the scoreboard for the impact you get to have in the world as a business owner.
You know what a red flag looks like in dating, but can you spot the ones that go up…
How Consistently Running Sales Can Bankrupt A Brand (And What You Can Do To Fix It)
Broke and anxious??
Running a sale is always the way to go to solve your problems, right?
Eeeesh.. How exactly do you plan to make more money at your craft by charging less?…
How Fashion Designers Can Tackle America's Health Problem
Have you ever wondered exactly what's in the clothes you make to sell, or how you could potentially clean up the amount of synthetic dyes and chemicals your customers may b…
3 Ways We're Using AI In Our Sewing Business RIGHT NOW
We’ve seen bad AI... in all formats, like blog & image creation, voice cloning, etc. But in order to use AI well, and benefit from its capabilities, you have to FIRST unde…
Housekeeping For Handmade Businesses - How To Kick Off The Year As An Organized Maker
We don't rise to our goals, we fall to our systems.
Last year, I was gone over HALF of the year, but solely because our business processes are practically muscle memory at …
Find Peace in Gaining Momentum (and a Recap of 2024)
After just a quick year sabbatical, we're back with Season 2 of Pull The Thread Podcast. This is mostly a recap for the past year, as to why Krystal took a break from ALL c…
Self employed vs. Business Owner - Is there a difference?
If you're hustling for new clients all day, and working as fast as your little fingers can fly all night, you've probably been walking the fine line between self-employed …
You only ever have two choices. Are you willing to do what it takes?
Do you ever feel like people are lapping you? Like everyone else is moving forward, and your current status is... well... stationary?
Episode 27 of Pull the Thread podcast …
Starting a career in fashion? My assistant shares her insights
September marks my assistant, Natalyn’s one-year anniversary of working at our brick-and-mortar sewing business. I finally dragged her behind the mic to share about the pas…
9 Tools Making Me A Better CEO
These nine (mostly free) tools have changed the game for me in terms of automating and delegating tasks. My goal as a business owner is to not waste any human brainpower wh…
If there were one secret, it would be this.
Derek Thompson says that to sell something familiar, you have to make it surprising. To sell something surprising, you have to make it familiar. "It is in this interplay be…
10 Steps To Better Margins In Your Business
Did you know Steve Jobs was so upside down on starting Pixar that he was personally funding payroll for months on end before Toy Story was released? He couldn’t secure back…
You’re Stealing From Yourself
The largest art theft in history happened nearly 33 years ago, in Boston, March 18, 1990. Thieves stole 13 pieces of art valued at over $500 million, from Isabella Gardner …
Your Idea Could Change Your Life. Introducing Project Fashion Forward
This episode highlights the pain points of well-intentioned aspiring fashion designers.
If a sketch were all one needed, then anyone could be a fashion designer... But it is…
Fashion Line Launch Secrets From A Small Batch Manufacturer
The most expensive dress in the world was valued at $30 million dollars, and was created by Faisal Abdullah in 2009 - an incredible designer that doesn't even have a websit…
Manufacturing Your Own Fashion Designs? Don’t Make These Mistakes
The color chartreuse has a bit of a boozy background. It was named after a French liqueur called “chartreuse” which has a greenish-yellow hue.
The liqueur was first produce…
Are You Ready to Start Your Own Clothing Line?
Leonardo daVinci wasn't the best painter of his time - in fact, he was better known as an engineer. The only reason the famous Last Supper painting was painted - at Santa …
At Risk? Craft A Website That Converts This Week
My exact steps for algorithm-proofing your following. If you lost your social media accounts tomorrow, would you lose your only way to communicate with your audience? If yo…
Not Earning What You Want With Your Craft? Break Your Ceiling With This Tool
Have you wondered why you can’t seem to break a pay ceiling in your own business?
The things that we did to get us to our current level in business will not get us to the n…