7 Myths About Your Designer

If you know my mom at all you know her personality is pretty out there. She’s crazy and quirky, yet wildly creative and passionate about what she does. Trying to tame her ENTP personality is like trying to teach a cat to fetch. As impossible as it is, I’ve often tried to embark on this endeavor. In fact, we often joke that the parent-daughter roles are reversed as I’m always trying to discipline her and keep her focused by setting clear boundaries. At Trader Joe’s, for example,  I’ll say, “Fine. You can have five minutes in the wine aisle. But after that we’re leaving.” And often when she’s talking a million miles a minute, switching from one topic to the next, then going back to the original topic five minutes later, assuming I was following along with her whole train of thought, I have to reign her in to decipher her actual point. Over the past 24 years I’ve gotten pretty good at this. But the truth is, while my mom’s über curious and impassioned nature may make her seem a bit nutty at times (which she undoubtedly is), it’s also what makes her so good at what she does. It’s also this 24 years of experience that gives me both the resources and liberty to dispel the following myths and unveil facts about my mom, the woman you know as the Vice President and Designer at Northland Build, you may have otherwise never known. Continue reading →