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Staging Sips

Staging Sips

By: Lori Fischer
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The live-workshop style business podcast helping Real Estate Staging CEO's redefine success and chase big, beautiful dreams. With mini implementation plans, expert interviews, and behind-the-scenes of my own business learning curves...you will be able to roll up your sleeves, dive in and stage the heck out of your business!2022 Economics Marketing Marketing & Sales
Episodes
  • MVP: How to Get Your CEO Time Back in Your Staging Business

    MVP: How to Get Your CEO Time Back in Your Staging Business
    Aug 22 2026
    Your brain may be the reason you can't escape the daily demands of your staging business. You hired the team. You built the systems. You finally have enough revenue to get some help. So why are you still answering every question, managing every installation detail, and stepping in whenever something goes sideways? Your brain has become really, really good at keeping you busy. When your days are filled with mover coordination, client messages, invoicing, item pulls, and last-minute fire drills, your brain adapts to that environment. Reactivity becomes its default setting. Even as your business grows, you may keep finding new ways to insert yourself into work that someone else could handle. Meanwhile, the work that actually requires you, like strengthening partnerships, refining your pricing, planning future revenue, and leading your team, keeps getting pushed to another day. In this episode of the Staging Sips podcast, I'm exploring the neuroscience behind reclaiming your CEO time and why waiting until you feel "ready" to let go usually keeps you stuck. You'll learn what happens in your brain when you operate in a constant state of urgency, why that makes strategic thinking harder, and how buying back your time can retrain your brain for higher-level leadership. I'm also sharing the two filters I want you to use when deciding whether a task still belongs on your plate: math and mission. What is your time worth, and is this task beneath that rate? Does this move you closer to your vision, or keep you buried in the weeds? Because busy is a warning light. And protecting your CEO hours is how you begin building a business that can grow, flow, and thrive without requiring you to hold every single piece together. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE: How your brain becomes wired for reactivity when your days are consumed by urgent tasks.Why waiting until you feel ready makes reclaiming your time even harder.The connection between mental space and strategic CEO-level decision-making.The math and mission filters for deciding what should stay on your plate.How to choose the first tasks and hours to buy back in your business.Why freeing the right hours matters more than finding the least expensive help.The mindset shift that moves you from short-term panic into long-term builder mode. Join the Harlowe Inner Circle Waitlist: https://waitlist.harloweco.comApply for Private Coaching: www.rethinkhomeinteriors.com/privatecoachingappEnroll in Staging Business School Accelerate Track: www.rethinkhomeinteriors.com/accelerateFollow the Staging Business School on Instagram: www.instagram.com/stagingbusinessschoolFollow Harlowe on Instagram: www.instagram.com/meetharloweFollow Lori on Instagram: www.instagram.com/rethinkhome If you want to learn how to streamline your operations so you can grow with less stress and burnout in your staging business, enrollment is open for Staging Business School Accelerate Track. I'd love to see you in the classroom! ENJOY THE SHOW? Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts so that more Staging CEO's find it. Also, include links to your socials so that more Staging CEOs can find you.Follow over on Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or Audible.
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    18 mins
  • How Harlowe's Founders Turned Frustration Into Better Business

    How Harlowe's Founders Turned Frustration Into Better Business
    Aug 12 2026
    What happens when business owners stop accepting scattered systems, manual follow-ups, and time-consuming workflows as "just part of running a business"? In this episode of Staging Sips, Lori sits down with Harlowe founding members Kishah Langham and Erin Galvin to talk candidly about the frustrations that led them to search for a better way to run their staging businesses. Kishah brings 15 years of business experience in Houston, Texas, while Erin is approaching her first anniversary as a staging business owner in Colorado. Although they entered Harlowe at very different stages of business, they shared the same goal: creating systems that would make their work simpler, faster, and easier to grow. They share how bringing scheduling, proposals, agreements, payments, client communication, renewals, reporting, and business insights into one place has changed their day-to-day operations. Erin explains how she reduced the time required to complete a consultation report and can now send a professional proposal in about five minutes, even from the pool with her children. Kishah shares how Harlowe helped streamline her staging services and educational events while eliminating the need to chase registrations and payments across multiple platforms. You'll also hear how their real-world feedback helped shape Harlowe. Kishah's staging school inspired Harlowe's event functionality, while Erin's workflow inspired new ways to use project images within proposals. Their experiences reveal what it truly looks like to help build a platform while actively using it to run a business. Kishah and Erin also share the human side of adopting a new system: finding bugs, suggesting improvements, trusting the process, and watching their ideas become features that can serve staging businesses throughout the industry. Their stories show what becomes possible when technology fits the way you actually work. Fewer disconnected tools. Faster proposals. Smoother payments. Clearer business information. More time to grow your company and live your life. LEARN MORE ABOUT STAGING BUSINESS SCHOOL HERE! WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE: Why Kishah and Erin prioritized better systems at two very different stages of businessHow bringing scheduling, proposals, agreements, and payments into one place simplified their workflowsHow reusable templates helped turn proposal creation into a five-minute taskHow automation created a faster, easier experience for their clients while reducing manual follow-upHow Harlowe gave Kishah and Erin more time for business growth, passion projects, and familyHow their real-world feedback and beta-testing experiences helped shape Harlowe's features LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE: RESOURCES: Connect With Our Guests Kishah Langham Texas Stagers https://www.stagingtexas.net/about-us www.instagram.com/texas_stagers Erin Galvin Finishing Touch Interiors https://www.finishingtouchinteriorsco.com/about www.instagram.com/finishingtouchinteriorsco Join the Harlowe Inner Circle Waitlist: https://waitlist.harloweco.comApply for Private Coaching: www.rethinkhomeinteriors.com/privatecoachingappEnroll in Staging Business School Accelerate Track: www.rethinkhomeinteriors.com/accelerateFollow the Staging Business School on Instagram: www.instagram.com/stagingbusinessschoolFollow Harlowe on Instagram: www.instagram.com/meetharloweFollow Lori on Instagram: www.instagram.com/rethinkhome If you want to learn how to streamline your operations so you can grow with less stress and burnout in your staging business, enrollment is open for Staging Business School Accelerate Track. I'd love to see you in the classroom! ENJOY THE SHOW? Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts so that more Staging CEO's find it. Also, include links to your socials so that more Staging CEOs can find you.Follow over on Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or Audible.
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    45 mins
  • The Truth About Credit Card Fees and Getting Paid Faster

    The Truth About Credit Card Fees and Getting Paid Faster
    Aug 8 2026

    Let's talk about a topic that sounds boring but isn't: how you get paid.

    I started this episode wanting to talk credit card processing fees, but the deeper I went, the more I realized the fee is the smallest part of the story.

    The real question is what it actually costs your business to collect money, most of which is invisible. Checks, e-checks, Zelle, Venmo, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay; every payment method has a price tag, even the ones that look free.

    I'm walking through the hidden labor behind manual payments, the legal side of credit card surcharges you need to know, the exact math for building card fees into your pricing instead of tacking them on, and a policy lesson from my mom's very hot, very expensive 4th of July weekend. If you've ever resented that 3%, this episode is for you.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why a payment with "no processing fee" often costs you more in time, follow up, and delayed cash flow than the fee itself
    • The real tradeoffs between checks, e-checks, ACH/PAD, Zelle, Venmo, and Apple/Google Pay for a staging business
    • The exact percentage to add to your prices if you want to build card fees into your pricing instead of surcharging clients
    • Why holding firm on your payment policy even when a client has a great excuse protects your business

    RESOURCES:

    • Join the Harlowe Inner Circle Waitlist: https://waitlist.harloweco.com/
    • Apply for Private Coaching: www.rethinkhomeinteriors.com/privatecoachingapp
    • Enroll in Staging Business School Accelerate Track: www.rethinkhomeinteriors.com/accelerate
    • Follow the Staging Business School on Instagram: www.instagram.com/stagingbusinessschool
    • Follow Lori on Instagram: www.instagram.com/rethinkhome

    If you want to learn how to streamline your operations so you can grow with less stress and burnout in your staging business, enrollment is open for Staging Business School Accelerate Track. I'd love to see you in the classroom!

    ENJOY THE SHOW?

    • Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts so that more Staging CEOs find it. Also, include links to your socials so that more Staging CEOs can find you.
    • Follow over on Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or Audible.
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    27 mins
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