Tara Mangini on staying true to your design journey
Photography by Jillian Guyette
Is it possible to create a career you love, but do it on your own terms? And not follow the conventional path of growing and scaling a business? But instead stay in that sweet spot of doing the work that you love, and getting paid for your time and the value you create.
THIS EPISODE FOCUSES ON
Having creative tendencies as a child
Studying Visual Communications
Leaving her job in advertising to travel
Navigating a period of uncertainty & overwhelm
Meeting her husband Percy and renovating their first home together
Their first client project
Learning on the job
How their business Jersey Ice cream Co grew
Realising that scaling their business didn’t bring them joy
How her & Percy divide up their renovation work and collaborate to make design decisions
Using plasters within their projects & tips for working with them
Tempera pigments & what they are
How their show ‘The Story of Home’ came to be & their unusual approach to design
The power of trusting your intuition
FEATURED ON THIS EPISODE
Tara & Percy’s business Jersey Ice-cream Co
Interview for Country Style Magazine
Their show ‘The Story of Home’ on the Magnolia network
Old Chatham farmhouse project
Farrow & Ball paints
Book Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Book Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
TV show Fleishman is in Trouble
Book The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Film Stutz on Netflix
Podcast production: Yaga Media