🌟 What is Hothouse?
Hothouse is an interior design business accelerator, designed to help you grow your business faster through collaboration, intentional action, and goal-setting. Each month, we focus on strengthening a key area of professional performance, tracking progress as we go.
⏳ February Intentions and Focus
As ever, this month we’re setting goals, building new habits, and using accountability to drive progress. Members are using Hothouse to focus on a range of priorities, including:
✔ Exam studies
✔ Social media planning & content creation
✔ Business development
✔ Website building & launches
✔ Blogging and writing
As a group, February’s core focus is Time Management (read more below), with four structured lessons rolling out weekly. Each builds upon the last, helping you establish powerful, practical time habits.
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⏰ The Focus for February is Tick, Tick, Tick… Time Management!
In January, our focus was AI, helping us reclaim time that can now be used more productively. (You can still watch the course ‘Integrating AI into your Interior Design Business’ CLICK HERE).
Now, February is all about time management—a life-changing skill when done well! We’ll build strong time habits in four stages:
✔ Week One – Two Life-Changing Perspectives on Time
Two simple but transformative mindset shifts that will permanently change how you view time. Try them, I promise they work!
✔ Week Two – Systems That Bring Time into Line
Practical tools: to-do lists, time-blocking, non-negotiables, and work sprints.
✔ Week Three – Prioritisation Mastery
How to logically rank the demands on your time. A place for everything, and everything in its place.
✔ Week Four – Big Picture Time Control
Not just time, but your entire business. How strategic planning translates into daily habits.
🎨 Branding & Rebranding – Finding Your Identity
Branding is a hot topic in Hothouse, especially for new designers establishing their identity. But even experienced designers in the group are revisiting and refining their brand as their business evolves.
I recently caught up with Bootcamp graduate Rachel Jones to chat about her rebranding experience after several years in business. The process gave her clarity, confidence, and a fresh new look that aligns with her ideal clients.
The blog comes with a warning to brand new designers that spending time developing your branding could well be procrastination. It's an attractive tangible activity when you're overwhelmed...if you feel overwhelmed, ask in the group. We can start a chat about productive next steps for your business.
👉 Read more & see the outcome on the blog.
🖋 My Week in Hothouse
As always, my big goal for 2025 is to grow my mailing list to 1,000 names.
✅ January win: I launched my first-ever Meta Ads!
⚠ Last week’s challenge: Our internet was down for six days—a serious disruption, both technically and emotionally - in the time management course I encourage you to adopt a 'mind like water'. I need to take my own advice!
But, I’m refocusing now, and working on Time Management is helping. My February goals are:
✔ Deliver the Time Management course (alongside implementing it myself!).
✔ Research & test a new initiative for March—announcement coming soon!
✔ Prepare to optimise Meta Ads in March, based on what I’ve learned.
✔ Hit 1,000 Instagram followers before our next Social Media Strategy Group meeting in early March.
I truly believe that consistent data tracking is my most powerful motivator—I’d love for more of you to try it!
🎯 Your Goals for February!
🚀 POST YOUR FEBRUARY GOALS UNDER THE ‘FEBRUARY GOALS & TARGETS’ THREAD IN THE GROUP!
It’s one thing to think about your goals—but writing them down and sharing them? That’s where the magic happens.
📅 Dates for the Month
📅 Wednesday 12th February @ 2PM (UK) – New Designers’ Meeting.
This meeting will be in Zoom - I'll post the link in the group.
📅 Friday 28th February @ 9:15AM (UK) – Bootcampers’ Board Meeting.
A goal-setting and monitoring group meeting for graduates of Recipe For Success Bootcamp - private, by invitation only.
📅 Monday 3rd March @ 6:30PM (UK) – Live Wrap-Up for February & March Kick-Off!
🎓 Bootcamp Returns – April & May 2025!
🚀 Recipe for Success Bootcamp is back this spring, from 22 April until 22 May.
Who is it for?
🔹 Interior designers with 3+ years running their own practice.
What’s included?
🔹 Five one-to-one strategy sessions with me - defining the unique qualities that set your business apart.
🔹 A deep dive into your business, branding, and services. Ensuring that everything about your business is streamlined and joined-up.
🔹 A clear business & marketing plan for 2025 and beyond. So you don't have to think about next steps, you just need to action them.
🔹 New & existing revenue streams mapped out.
🔹 Exclusive monthly Board Meetings - each month you'll meet live with fellow graduates to discuss challenges, share expertise, and set goals. We'll do it every month for the rest of the year.
✨ There's a SPECIAL OFFER coming later in February! If you’d like to chat about whether Bootcamp is right for you, just let me know!
✨ Final Thought
Creating the habit of being attentive to your business is powerful.
This year has only just started—but we’ve already built incredible momentum. Imagine where we’ll be after another 10.5 months of this level of focus!
🤝 Let’s Grow the Group Together!
Hothouse works best as a supportive community. If you know an interior designer who would benefit from being part of this space, invite them in!
👉 Click here to join the Hothouse Facebook Group.
Together, we’re learning, growing, and succeeding—and the more of us working towards success, the better!
Warmly,
Julia
Founder, Hothouse
P.S. Share this newsletter with a friend or colleague who’s ready to take their interior design business to the next level. Let’s grow our community and make 2025 extraordinary!
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