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Zahiyya: Welcome to the Designers Plants and Coffee podcast where we discuss how to succeed as a designer

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while staying true to yourself, finding peace in the process, and making money doing what we love.

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Subscribe on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. Let's get into it. Hey.

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So we're back for the last episode of the season.

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We're gonna take a break after this.

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So we're gonna go over the highlights of this year and what we're looking forward to next year.

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So who wants to start it off? You.

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Naima: Our hostess with the most is is gonna start us off this time.

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Zahiyya: So, I mean, the highlight is we got through this year.

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We did full I mean, we didn't miss the episode.

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We went full out, so that's good. That's a good accomplishment.

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Pack yourself away in the back.

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With that said, we need to take a break.

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Naima: Yeah. Yeah. It's been a year.

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Zahiyya: We're gonna focus in on our businesses, individually.

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Hopefully, we will be back, Q2 of next year. So what's that? Around March or so?

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What I'm looking forward to next year is just dialing in on Cover Me Chic and Regent Design Lab.

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I am publishing to social media now, which is great.

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So that's still not as consistent. It's an improvement.

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So I'm just, you know, dialing in and and going hard for those 2 next year.

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LaTisha: As for me, I am working on keeping in stitches.

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I've, and I'm really looking into 3 d and AI for fashion.

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Also, just developing more 3 d assets.

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Really need to utilize LinkedIn more for, social media things. But

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Zahiyya: Yeah. Touching on what you just said, Tish, in terms of, like, using AI, I actually really incorporated

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that into what I'm doing too because it's like, how can you not I mean, I do draw, but it also

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does speed up the process because, say, I I do a sketch and then I put it through the AI, and

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I say, oh, give it, like, blue jeans and, you know, a orange top, whatever.

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And then then it renders it, like and it looks real.

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So it's just like it takes your sketch, and it makes it look real.

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So I'm using that for all the patterns for Cover Me Chic.

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So you and I, both of us, we will be doing AI

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Naima: next year. I am uninformed and uneducated, so I'm gonna pay people who are educated.

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LaTisha: But the more you use AI, the more you ask the more you feed it, the smarter it gets. So Yeah.

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Naima: Alright. I guess it's I guess it's round to me.

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I would say the highlight for me is as we have been putting ourselves out there and meeting

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people, people are recognizing us, and it's kinda awesome.

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And it's kind of between that and teaching, it's kinda made me realize that I had an epiphany. It was like, hey.

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You're really kinda good at this thing here.

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So, you know, again, kudos to us.

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I think that we go into this and we're thinking, oh, nobody's gonna listen to what we wanna say.

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And then you get that, oh my god. I love you guys.

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And you're like, somebody listen. So that's a highlight.

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For me, I wanna get back to fearless threads stuff.

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I've kinda pushed it to the side.

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I haven't been really creating things.

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I've been in this selfish, I only wanna sew for me phase.

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So I'm gonna take this hiatus and see what kind of products I wanna work.

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I might do a little revamp.

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There may or may not be a couple of pieces of clothes coming on.

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People have been asking me for years.

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I know whoever's list some of some of my regulars are gonna say, oh my gosh. She's making clothes. Not custom.

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LaTisha: We'll make

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Naima: that very clear. There will be no custom garment.

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And there may be a collab from this podcast in the works.

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So, yeah, they stay tuned. You gotta come back.

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When we come back fresh in the spring to see what we've been working on or follow our social media.

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LaTisha: Absolutely.

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Naima: We've been working on since things are coming.

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LaTisha: I have to say, also, the highlight for the podcast is getting some of the information.

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I have tons of information that I have out and then getting to discuss it with like minded creative. So it's like, hey.

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All the creative people come over. Let's talk about this.

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And then seeing people eyes light up.

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Also, stepping out of my comfort zone and going to, the frog house where it's literally normal

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to walk up to someone and say, can I touch your can I touch your your garment? And they're like, absolutely.

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Zahiyya: I look I'm I'm looking forward to doing more of that type of thing, next year because like Tish,

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that was way out of my comfort zone. Zone.

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I I usually don't do, like, events and stuff like that. Mhmm.

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But it it was cool.

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It was cool to get out and meet other creative people and having the creative people on.

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Naima: They're like, oh my god.

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They're all nerds like me.

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So, you know, they're they all love color and texture. And and so Mhmm.

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Those are those are things that are coming in our near future.

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LaTisha: And teaching, teaching, teaching, teaching.

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Naima: Yes. I am officially a professor.

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LaTisha: Yes.

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Naima: My first semester is under my belt, so more to come.

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LaTisha: Yeah. It's kinda cool when they say, professor Winston, professor Winston.

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I'm like, who are they calling to?

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Naima: It's funny for me because a lot of my students, are a little more seasoned.

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Zahiyya: Yes.

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Naima: And so I tell them to call me professor Naima and to not call me miss because it's weird Yeah.

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For me to have someone who could be my mother calling me miss.

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And I know it's the respect thing, but I'm like, that kinda weirds me out because I'm calling you miss. It's cool though.

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I mean, just to give that gift and and watch that moment happen. Thank you.

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My students are a great reflection of you're never too old, and it's never too late.

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I had, one of my students is 74.

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Another one is, like, 68.

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So I think my youngest student was probably 4 years older than me.

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LaTisha: Yeah. Yeah. But it's

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Zahiyya: it's never too late to do to start anything.

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So it's like, don't let that stop you from doing anything real.

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Naima: It's our word of wisdom to take us out.

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You're not too old, and it's never too late.

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Zahiyya: So then I guess that's it for, 2024.

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Does any last words from anyone?

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Naima: I would say happy holidays from the DPC crew.

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We want you to stay creative while we are behind the scenes making great content for you guys

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when we come back in the spring. And we're always here.

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I mean, even though you can catch our replays, you will be able to relisten to some of our favorite

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episodes in our time out, so you can always find us.

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Zahiyya: I am Zahiyya from Region Design Lab and Cover Me Chic along with

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LaTisha: LaTisha from Keeping You in Stitches.

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Naima: And Naima from Fearless Threads. Professor Naima to you.

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Zahiyya: See you next time.

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LaTisha: Bye. Happy New Year.

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Zahiyya: Happy New Year.