She Designs

Welcome to She DESIGNS, a place to learn and be inspired. Hear the stories of seven women, as they share how they've designed careers based on their values + LifeSTYLE aspirations. 

Although each path is unique, they have all created businesses that incorporate a love of beautiful interiors, pursuit of travel, freedom and a well DESIGNED business & life.

This interview series includes inspiring journal prompts + special offers that will help you design or redesign your own intentional life / business. 

journal prompt workbook

To help you along your way, we created a journal prompt workbook that goes beyond being a listener to this series. If you would like to go deeper, download this journal and take some time to reflect on these stories, as well as your own.

Meet our featured speakers: 

Molly Berry:  Creative Director of Studio Collective, Luna Zorro

Lauren Bates: Founder of Wild Terrains, Group Travel for Women by Women

Christine Martin:  Holistic Online Interior Designer / Feng Shui Practitioner

Sarah Andrews:  Founder of Captain's Rest + The Hosting Masterclass

Desha Peacock:  Small Biz / LifeSTYLE Coach & Retreat Leader

Liz Kamarul: Muralist & Group Travel Host

Alison Wu: Founder of Wu Haus, a Lifestyle Brand

Molly Berry | Luna zorro

Molly Berry, a San Francisco native, has been living in Central America for over 13 years with her husband and two children. A lover of travel and a creative in all regards, she is the founder and CEO of textile and lifestyle brand Luna Zorro. Molly collaborates with local artisans to create one-of-a-kind custom textiles and designs.

Based out of her studio boutique in Antigua, Molly and her team offer weaving and natural dyes workshops and host culinary and cultural events to locals and travelers alike.

What matters most to Molly is having the creative freedom to live an impactful, inspired and adventurous life, surrounded by the people that she loves.

FIND HER: lunazorro.com and on IG @luna_zorro | @lunazorro_studio

LEARN MORE: Check out ways to travel with Luna Zorro.

Lauren Bates | Wild TerraiNS

Founder Lauren Bates always knew her most fulfilling travel experiences happened alongside inspiring women with important stories to tell, so she dreamt up Wild Terrains to share some of that magic.

More than six years and hundreds of successful trips later, Lauren and Wild Terrains have been written about in Travel and Leisure, NY Times, Elle, and Vogue Magazine.

Just this year, Lauren relocated to Boulder, CO from NYC. Because she spends so much time on the move, Lauren relishes quiet moments spent outdoors, preferably on a trail or paddle board with her pup!

FIND HER: wildterrains.com and on IG @wildterrains | @laurenbatestravel

STAY IN THE LOOP: Get on the Wild Terrain’s Trip Waitlist.

Christine Martin | The Good Abode

Christine is a Holistic Interior Designer and Feng Shui Practitioner who creates spaces with an energetic touch. A nomadic lifestyle has allowed her to create home all over the world and expand her ability to infuse designs with rich, global touches. Her approach emphasizes a profound connection between dweller and environment. She believes our homes support our lives and can be containers for whatever we want to draw in.

Christine offers online design so she’s able to #workfromanywhere. Occasionally, she works on in-person projects and collaborations as well. She lives in Baja, Mexico where the desert/ocean landscape is homebase when she is not feeding her travel cravings. 

FIND HER: thegoodabode.com and on IG @thegoodabode

OFFER: Christine has a special offer for you. Use the code ELEVATEHOME and take $100 of her Design Breakthrough.

Sarah Andrews | The hosting masterclass

Sarah is a genuinely new voice in the international interiors field. Starting her professional life as a scientist, she turns her curious and analytical eye to interiors, dissecting them to discover what does – and doesn’t – work. She’s the founder of the iconic Captains Rest, her shack on the west coast of Tasmania, which has become one of the most successful Airbnbs in the world, and widely published, it also helped launch her teaching career.

Sarah’s in-person and online masterclasses and workshops have been attended by thousands of students. In turn, these students have gone on to dominate the covers and pages of Australian design magazines.

She’s also the author of two books Principles of Style (2021) and The Poetry of Spaces (2023) and the host of The Hosting Masterclass Podcast. She is currently working on her new show based around renovating one of her properties per season – a farm, a church & a hunting lodge. Her work has quickly gained cult status and worldwide recognition. She lives in a remote part of Tasmania on the sea, but travels globally almost constantly.

FIND HER: sarahandrews.co and on IG @sarahandrews | @captainsrest | @thehostingmasterclass

LEARN WITH SARAH: Check out Sarah’s signature course, The Hosting Masterclass - recognized around the world as the gold standard in Airbnb or short stay hosting.

Desha peacock | Sweet Spot Style

Desha Peacock is a LifeSTYLE / Small Biz Coach and Retreat Leader. She’s also a published author of two books, Create the Style you Crave on a Budget you Can Afford and Your Creative Work Space. Desha invented a career that pays her to travel to beautiful places by leading lux retreats for female small biz owners.

She also partners with boutique hotels + airbnb’s to promote their brand in exchange for perks.  In 2021, she added her first Sweet Spot Style Property to her umbrella brand. It’s a 1920’s bungalow in Vermont designed for female small biz owners who work from anywhere.

Desha lives in Vermont with her husband and teen daughter. She travels to MX when the weather turns cold and returns for her favorite season, spring.

FIND HER: sweetspotstyle.com and on IG @deshapeacock

OFFER: As part of She DESIGNS, Desha has a special offer just for you. Take $500 off her next retreat to San Miguel de Allende and / or take advantage of her recent Flash Sale.

Liz Kamarul

Liz Kamarul is a follow-no-rules, go-with-your-gut, New Orleans-based designer and muralist of one-of-a-kind interiors that push the boundaries of design. A thrift shopper at her core, she’s been infusing color, pattern, plants, shapes, and envy-inducing secondhand finds into spaces for more than a decade.

Originally from North Idaho and a graduate of the University of Idaho with a major in clothing design and a minor in interior design, she’s traveled the world with her Aussie husband Tim, traveled the US in a gorgeous Winnebago she designed, and has been styling their New Orleans house with never-seen-before ideas. In recent years she’s used walls, furniture, bathtubs and more across the US and in Australia as canvases for her stunning art murals.

She has recently added travel to her endeavors where she hosts small groups of travelers in exciting locations across the globe.

FIND HER: lizkamarul.com and on IG @liz_kamarul

STAY IN TOUCH: Get notified of Liz’s next trip.

Alison Wu

Alison is the founder and creative director of Wu Haus - a holistic lifestyle brand that covers the topics of well-being, mindfulness, travel, style and design. In addition to producing content for Instagram and her weekly Substack newsletter, she loves to collaborate with brands and artists to design products made with close attention to quality and detail.

She also regularly curates and hosts events and retreats internationally and throughout Mexico, where she lives. Alison draws inspiration from nature, interior spaces, color, texture and the female form.

FIND HER: Wuhaus.com and on IG @alison_wu

AN INVITATION: Alison Wu invites you to connect more deeply with yourself and the world around you - by nourishing your WELL-BEING, exploring your INNER SPACE, appreciating the HERE/THERE and cultivating your own unique POINT OF VIEW.

Thank you

Thank you for joining us for our first She DESIGNS interview series. We sincerely hope that you’ve been inspired to think about your own business and life with fresh eyes. We encourage you to reach out to any featured guest that touched you. We know that by sharing our stories, we don’t feel so alone. We hope that by sharing the struggles + perks, that you get a sense of what it’s really like to create your own lifeSTYLE inspired business (not just the glossy bits we tend to see online).

Please let us know if you liked this series and what you’d like to see from us next.

xo Desha + Christine