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072 Trisha Malcolm publishes a magazine for fashion forward knitters 0

Sep 20, 2017

Today Kara talks to the Editorial Director and Vice President of Vogue Knitting, Trisha Malcolm. Trisha was the very first guest on this podcast, so we're so glad to have her back again today! Trisha is a magazine publisher with a focus on fashion-forward designs that adapt to the needs of today's knitters. Listen in as we talk about the special 35th anniversary issue of Vogue Knitting Magazine!

“It's a creative job because every issue is different, and every time something new happens, it's exciting!”

-Trisha Malcolm

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Episode highlights:

Trisha started her career as a high school teacher. Then she got a job at a crafting magazine because she was a teacher who also knew how to do several crafts.
This year marks Trisha's 20th anniversary with Vogue Knitting!
Vogue Knitting started in 1932, so even though this is our 35th anniversary, the brand is 85 years old. In 1972 they stopped publishing the magazine when Conde Nast sold the pattern side to Butterick Patterns and stopped the magazine. In the 1980s there was a big knitting boom again, and Trisha's boss asked Conde Nast to start publishing the magazine again.
The magazine focuses on fashion, but Trisha feels this has become less important because fashion itself has become so much more casual in recent years.
Trisha looks at online videos and photos for fashion shows each season, and then she finds all the sweaters and bundles those images together to create a trend report.
Trisha is starting to see more shawls and wraps on the runway, and she thinks the designers are taking a nod from the knitters of the world (we love our shawls, don't we?).
Trisha redesigned the magazine a year ago to include more "behind the scenes" with designers.
Trisha has big plans to take the magazine into a broader digital environment in order to make the content accessible via phone. She doesn't envision that the print issue will disappear, though.
For the anniversary issue, they invited regular advertisers to choose a favorite pattern from a past issue, and those patterns are now available for free for a limited time on the website.
Trisha works with a small team of 8 to 10 members, and together they publish 6 issues of Vogue Knitting and also create Knit Simple Magazine together.
It's important for Trisha to work with people who are, first and foremost, nice.

Mentioned in this episode:

Trisha's first episode on the podcast

The 31st anniversary issue of Vogue Knitting magazine

Deborah Newton's cover design for the issue - her "best design ever" - and you can win a kit to make it!

The Vogue Knitting trip giveaway

Stitchucation shawls challenge

Tracey Purtscher's new book - featured in the anniversary issue

The free collection of 35th anniversary patterns

Learn more about Trisha and Vogue Knitting:

Website: VogueKnitting.com

Facebook: Facebook.com/VogueKnittingMag

Twitter: Twitter.com/VogueKnitting

YouTube channel

Pinterest: Vogue Knitting

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071 Katie Krimitsos inspires women to be their own biz superheroes 0

Sep 6, 2017

In this episode I actually got to host a live interview during the Podcast Movement conference with Katie Krimitsos, the founder of Biz Women Rock!. Katie specializes in group and 1:1 coaching to help female entrepreneurs build businesses that will enable them to have the freedom to design their own lifestyles. She is the voice behind the Biz Women Rock! podcast and the Facebook group of the same name.

“I fell in love with the idea that any individual could create this thing called a business that could really be the ticket to the freedom to design the life we really want.”

- Katie Krimitsos

Episode highlights:

As a society we tend to think you can’t make money from creative pursuits, but to Katie this is all a mindset issue.
Find three people who do what YOU want to do, so that you can see that it is possible to make money that way.
Katie fell in love with entrepreneurship while working with her husband in an organization called the Tampa Bay Business Owners.
In 2014 she decided to start a podcast to shine a light on female business owners so we can all share the journey together.
Katie’s coaching and her academy all grew out of the podcast.
You don’t have to be more than a few steps ahead of the people you’re trying to serve in order to be helpful to them.
The key obstacle to a lot of business owners is that they don’t have the confidence to believe in themselves.
Katie journals every morning to help her stay in tune with gratitude and visioning.
She often chooses a future date and writes about what could happen by then to make herself proactive in her own life.
Katie uses her journaling to give her ideas for new content to create for her audience.
Feeling discouraged or down? Use affirmations to help you “fake it ‘til you make it.”
Everything doesn’t have to be perfect; you don’t have to know everything before you begin. Just experiment!
When you start to feel overwhelmed and you feel like your business is running you, it’s time to go back to your WHY.