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Six Years In: Business, Family Seasons, and Using AI as a Support Tool (with Aiden)
Host Rhiannon Lee introduces a 2024 catch-up conversation with her husband, Aidan, reflecting on how their family and her business have evolved into its sixth year, including the pressures of supporting other designers through her framework. She shares a new small-group live business-planning series for six women starting late October, focused on quarterly strategy, revenue goals, and building AI-supported tools like calculators and admin workflows. In the interview, Rhiannon and Aiden discuss boundaries, empathy, imposter syndrome in creative work, shifting away from daily social media toward podcasts, Pinterest, and referrals, and navigating family demands, including their eldest’s autism diagnosis and increased admin. They explore AI as a practical supplement to reduce menial tasks, including Rhiannon’s custom support assistants for students.
00:00 Welcome to the Show
00:59 Annual Check In Setup
01:44 Live Planning Sessions
04:33 Introducing Aiden Again
07:32 Six Years In Business
10:32 Imposter Syndrome Talk
12:39 Social Media Burnout
14:17 Family Diagnosis Shift
16:55 Tag Teaming Parenthood
21:36 Market Changes and Pivots
24:24 AI as a Business Tool
29:37 Building AI Assistants
33:39 Future of Oleander Finch
36:17 Seasons and Sustainability
38:43 Final Outro and Thanks
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