Well Spaced

Well Spaced is a podcast for designers who build their businesses on Squarespace — it's a show about the platform itself and also about what it actually takes to run a real business inside that ecosystem.Hosted by Wayne Pelletier of Resonant Pixel and Olga Kolgusheva of Applet Studio, the show grew out of something simple: two designers with completely different business models who kept having conversations too good not to record. Wayne runs a subscription-based web design firm where clients pay monthly and never see a lump-sum invoice. Olga runs a course and template business, teaches other designers, and consults on digital strategy. Different models, different daily realities — and yet they kept finding the same friction points, the same questions, the same gaps that nobody else was talking about out loud.Because that's the thing about working in a niche platform ecosystem: the community is full of smart, experienced people, but the real conversations tend to happen in private DMs, in side chats after summits, or after something has already gone sideways. The Squarespace Circle forums are great for certain things. They're not great for talking about a client who ghosted you, a pricing decision you're second-guessing, or whether you should blow up your entire business model and start over.That's what this show is for. How do you talk to a difficult client? How do you handle discovery calls? How do you think about pricing beyond the obvious advice everyone already knows? How do you deal with AI changing the ground beneath your feet? How do you build something bigger than just you at a desk?Wayne and Olga have both been doing this for years and they're still figuring it out. This is what that sounds like in real time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.