Magnolia Cloyd Is Building a Life First Business in the Margins of Her Day

Magnolia Cloyd wanted to be a chef. Then she heard that only one in four restaurants makes it, decided she would be one of the three that fail, and went to study marketing and entrepreneurship instead because it felt safer. Fifteen years later she runs her own design studio. She is building it in the margins of her day, around homeschooling two children and a husband who works ten to fourteen hour days. Which sounds like a limitation, right up until she does the arithmetic out loud. We talk about the planner she made for herself in the middle of young motherhood, the three words she built her whole studio around, why she spent years afraid to name the clients she actually wanted, and what it takes to keep going when growth is slow and gradual. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome to The Scenic Route: meet Magnolia Cloyd 03:14 She Wanted to Be a Chef: the plan before design 04:08 The Statistic That Changed Her Mind About Restaurants 05:04 Teaching Herself Graphic Design on the Job 06:26 Coming Home in 2020 06:55 The Planner She Made for Herself 09:41 Where Beauty, Strategy, and Ease Came From 14:40 Catching Yourself Forcing It 20:41 Why She Was Afraid to Name the Clients She Wanted 24:57 Regret, and Every Earlier Version of Herself 29:29 Building in the Margins 36:14 Building in the Quiet Before Anyone Is Watching 42:43 Be, Do, Have 44:41 How an Hour a Day Compounds 46:29 Building a Life First Business LEARN MORE ABOUT MAGNOLIA Her two signature services: The Grace Edit, for books, devotionals, journals, and planners, and The Strength Edit, for brand design for founders and nonprofits.Get Magnolia's Freebie Here!! Website In the Margins with Magnolia on YouTube On Instagram On LinkedIn ABOUT VICTORIA Victoria Steward is a Corporate Exit and Financial Empowerment Coach, helping senior corporate women stuck in the "one-more-year" loop, build the self-trust and financial clarity to leave corporate on their own terms, their own timing, their own scenic route. Curious? Book a Pivot Clarity Call. RESOURCES The Can I Pivot Yet? Exit Roadmap The Engineer’s Exit Decision Toolkit The 5-Minute Grounding Reset Website FOLLOW On LinkedIn On Instagram🎙️ This show is recorded with Riverside, the easiest way to run a professional podcast and livestream simultaneously. Thinking about starting your own show? Try Now!