After a series of odd jobs, Anne McDonald spent a decade working as a designer at her father’s building company. While there, she was lucky enough to benefit from the structure of a business that was already up and running. She launched her own residential design studio in 2018, and quickly realized that when it came to her firm’s processes, she would be starting from square one—and that the responsibility for assembling those back-end mechanics sat squarely on her shoulders.

“Coming up with that infrastructure was really hard for me and not intuitive, and felt really clunky,” McDonald tells host Kaitlin Petersen on the latest episode of Trade Tales . “I just wanted someone else to take the reins, but when it’s your company, no one’s going to step in and save the day. I really had to fi

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