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.
Pull The Thread
Latest Episodes
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 City Sewing, will turn eight. Eight years of running a small service...
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 in MOST small sewing businesses? I'm bringing you five red ...
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? I don't believe in regularly runn...
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 be buying? Just because a product is handmade, doesn't mean it's ...
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 understand how it works, and how to clearly articulate what you wan...