A portfolio of renderings in tow, Corey Damen Jenkins began his design career with the goal of knocking on 1,000 doors to find his first client. After being laid off from his auto industry job in Detroit during the Great Recession, he pivoted to his true passion: interior design. “[If] I saw a house being constructed or I saw a hotel being renovated, I would pull up with my little satchel of sketches and drawings and color boards and knock on those doors. I would ask for the resident, architect, the homeowner, whoever,” Jenkins tells host Dennis Scully on the latest episode of The Business of Home Podcast . “I went through a ton of rejections, lots of doors slammed in my face. I had a couple of situations where people let their dogs out to chase me off the property. I had some people c

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