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
Making Less Than $30K From Your Craft? Steal My Strategy.
everyone starts at zero sales... Bill Bowerman started out as a high school track coach, became a WW2 vet, and managed to find time to cofound the household name Nike. But …
Attract More Dream Clients With These 3 Tips
In 1777, On America's first Fourth of July celebration, fireworks were only one color: orange. There were no elaborate sparkles, no red, white, and blue stars -- nothing mo…
Burnouts, Boundaries, and Breakthroughs, with Jenna Kutcher
Success is only success if it feels like success - so how do you know you're setting the right goal of what success looks like?
Jenna and I explored so many beautiful though…
Why NFTs Will Shape Creative Businesses This Year
By the late 1920s, Coco was just in her forties, and the Chanel industries were reportedly worth millions- employing more than 2,000 people, between the couture house, the …
The Real Reason Your Creative Business Isn't Selling
I talk to boutique designers and owners of small fashion labels on a regular basis. Conversations start to all look the same, and patterns in their branding behaviors begin…
A Candid Conversation About Mindset & Scaling A Creative Business with Koos Klooster
In July of 2020 I was interviewed by a dear friend, Koos Klooster on his podcast, Confused Confucius. This episode is an exciting one for me because most entrepreneurs neve…
Episode 9: The ONE Thing Designers Should Do Before Hiring Help
Doing this one thing before ever hiring help will:
- prevent you from repeating yourself
- keep you from wasting time fixing mistakes
- set clear expectations for quality & desired…
Episode 8: How Diversifying Your Brand Can 10x Your Business
What if Levi Strauss had decided it wasn’t a good idea to begin offering jeans as a product in his supplies store? What if he’d passed on the idea, simply because the blue …
Episode 7: Strategic Secrets Behind My Most Profitable Year Ever
Episode 6: How To Build Your Own Supply Chain
Everything that could ever go wrong with getting your customers their product comes down to not building a scalable supply chain.
What would it look like if by this time nex…
Episode 5: Marketing Your Small Business Like A Chess Player
Chess is the smartest game ever invented. With 64 squares and 32 pieces, there's 10,120 unique games that could possibly be played... which is more than the number of atom…
Episode 4: Four Things I've Learned From Four Years In Business
When I first started my sewing business, I thought my biggest struggle would be finding paid work.
I doubted that I could find enough clients to pay me to sew for them, whic…
Episode 3: 5 Things I Wish I Did When I Started My Sewing Business
Just a few years before sewing the first American flag, Betsy Ross ran away across the river to get married in a bar against the wishes of her entire family. She sat near G…
Episode 1: Reverse Engineering Success
As we move into 2021 (and away from 2020 as quickly as possible), it’s the perfect time to define what success looks like as a creative, and set your three most important g…
Episode 2: Are You Good Enough? How Bra Makers Put a Man On The Moon
If you’re an Astronaut, the process of getting dressed for work is labor intensive. You might have known the spacesuits Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong wer…