Ronniesha Rivera, founder of Vetted by Design, shares her journey from interior design business owner to platform creator. After a costly bookkeeper mistake led to a government audit, she realized the need for a curated marketplace of business professionals vetted specifically for interior design expertise.
Key Discussion Points:
The specific tax filing error that triggered a government audit
Why general business experts fail interior design clients
The vetting process for ensuring professional competency
How to overcome the fear of delegation and hiring
Building trust with service providers who understand your industry
The platform economics that keep it free for designers
Guest Background:
Ronniesha owns Alder and Stone Interiors and founded Vetted by Design in January 2025. The platform features vetted business professionals across categories like bookkeeping, marketing, virtual assistance, and project management - all specifically experienced with interior design businesses.
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Ronniesha Rivera, founder of Vetted by Design, shares her journey from interior design business owner to platform creator. After a costly bookkeeper mistake led to a government audit, she realized the need for a curated marketplace of business professionals vetted specifically for interior design expertise.
Key Discussion Points:
The specific tax filing error that triggered a government audit
Why general business experts fail interior design clients
The vetting process for ensuring professional competency
How to overcome the fear of delegation and hiring
Building trust with service providers who understand your industry
The platform economics that keep it free for designers
Guest Background:
Ronniesha owns Alder and Stone Interiors and founded Vetted by Design in January 2025. The platform features vetted business professionals across categories like bookkeeping, marketing, virtual assistance, and project management - all specifically experienced with interior design businesses.
If you're an interior designer worried about AI replacing your expertise instead of recognizing how it validates your premium positioning, this episode reveals your competitive advantages.
This AI-generated podcast discussion, based on research comparing human capabilities to artificial intelligence limitations, explains how each AI weakness represents a positioning opportunity for experienced interior designers. Instead of fearing technology advancement, you'll learn how to leverage your irreplaceable human skills for premium market positioning.
In this episode, you'll discover:
How embodied spatial intelligence creates measurable cognitive advantages over AI data processing
Why tacit knowledge and intuitive judgment cannot be digitized or replicated by algorithms
The relationship management skills that command premium fees while AI handles routine tasks
How crisis adaptation and creative problem-solving become more valuable as AI automates basics
The ethical judgment and professional accountability that positions designers as trusted advisors
Whether you've been anxious about AI disruption or looking for competitive advantages in an evolving market, this discussion will transform how you position your irreplaceable expertise and help you command premium fees for the human skills AI validates as irreplaceable.
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Ronniesha Rivera, founder of Vetted by Design, shares her journey from interior design business owner to platform creator. After a costly bookkeeper mistake led to a government audit, she realized the need for a curated marketplace of business professionals vetted specifically for interior design expertise.
Key Discussion Points:
The specific tax filing error that triggered a government audit
Why general business experts fail interior design clients
The vetting process for ensuring professional competency
How to overcome the fear of delegation and hiring
Building trust with service providers who understand your industry
The platform economics that keep it free for designers
Guest Background:
Ronniesha owns Alder and Stone Interiors and founded Vetted by Design in January 2025. The platform features vetted business professionals across categories like bookkeeping, marketing, virtual assistance, and project management - all specifically experienced with interior design businesses.
