Kerrie Kelly Welcome to our "Weekend With" series of podcasts featuring interviews with guest alumni where we chat about how they approach their time away from the office. Today we're speaking with Sacramento California based, award winning designer and entrepreneur Kerrie Kelly. Here's the transcript of our conversation: James:                          Join me as I chat with Kerrie Kelly and discover what her life is like when the weekend comes. Kerrie, great to have you back with us. Welcome to the show.   Kerrie Kelly:               Thank you so much. Great to hear your voice.   James Swan:               Thank you, thank you. So, for our listeners who may not have caught our earlier interview, Kerrie. Give us the 411 on Kerrie Kelly and what you, and your business, and brand are all about.   Kerrie Kelly:               Well, I’m an interior designer, I’m an author, and company owner in northern California. We have an over our chain creative agency that’s called the Kerrie Kelly Companies. And that’s made up of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab which is a residential and commercial design firm. We also have 42nd Street which is a fully customizable case good furniture company along with lighting, and rugs, and accessory lines that our team has designed. And Loft Media Group which is a digital marketing firm for the interior design industry that specializes in social media and editorial content.   James Swan:               Wow. So, you stay busy, right?   Kerrie Kelly:               We love our industry. We love interior design for sure and the areas we get to work in because of it.   James Swan:               Absolute. So, I’m curious then with all of those things going on and clearly a large team around you. How do you think your staff views you?   Kerrie Kelly:               Probably driven. I know they often feel the effects of that character trait or quality. But I think they also enjoy the ride and the dedication that the things that we’re able to be exposed to offer. So, driven. But they get to have their weekends too which is a good thing.   James Swan:               That is a good thing, always. How do you think your clients view you, Kerrie?   Kerrie Kelly:               I think they see all that’s going on with our companies and the various facets of that. But I also think that they think that our team is very approachable. I walk to work often, and I have clients pull over, and chat design, and I think they feel very comfortable in texting me. And we celebrate each other’s projects in the community and support one another. So, I think there’s an approachability that comes along with that.   James Swan:               Nice, nice, nice, nice. How about that handsome husband of yours and your extended family? How do they view you?   Kerrie Kelly:               Yeah. The silver fox – he and my dad were just talking at a Sunday night that we always have at our house – and they described me as giving which I found as a big compliment. But I think they see me with my team, and the people that we mentor, and having friends, and family over to entertain. Maybe that’s where that perception has come from.   James Swan:               So, it’s a big part of success in this world is giving back, don’t you think?   Kerrie Kelly:               Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And the older I get, the more I realize that, and the more fun that what we’re doing becomes. We’re actually headed down to San Luis Obispo. My alma mater is Cal Poly and we have two scholarships there. One for this innovation and entrepreneurship team. We have an accelerator team of these students that are digging into all these new projects, and we’re able to mentor, and support with them with scholarships.   And then, we also have a construction management scholarship, and it’s just so rewarding to see the light in their eyes, and be able to share a little bit what we’ve done in our c...