047: Designing your website & your life with Kia Salter

Kia Salter started her career as a self-taught web/graphic designer at the age of 18. And at the age of 21, she owned and operated a web company that worked with known celebrities and notable brands. Wanting more, Kia decided to document the things she loves, life lessons, and 17 years of design experience into a blog. Her mission: To inspire readers to design their own lives and appreciate different forms of design around them. Kia, a native of Newark, N.J., currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She’s also the author of the book Dare To Rebrand and product creator of her own capsule collection of art posters. To purchase her book and her many other products, visit www.kiasalter.com. Save Transcript: Welcome to The Art of Living big. My name is Betsy Pake entrepreneur, author and personal success coach. This is the show that brings you stories and small ideas to help you live a big life. I hope this once a week podcast will inspire you, motivate you and encourage you to think differently about what could be possible for your life. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let’s go live big. Hey, everyone, thanks for listening to another show of the art of living big. I’m here today with my friend Kiera Salter Hekia Hi, Betsy, how are you? I’m good. Thanks so much for being on my show today. Excited to be here. So tell everybody a little bit. I’m excited to get into this today because there’s a lot of plus I want to pick your brain about some stuff for myself. So tell them hey, buddy, what you do? And give us the rundown. Okay, well, my name is Kiera Salter, as Betsy just pointed out and I own the blog. Key assaulted calm. I have 18 years of experience in web and graphic design. And currently, I’m focused on aspiring blog, my blog readers to design their own lives and appreciate design in all its forms. I’m also a first time author. brand, yeah, which helps bloggers redesign and fall back in love with their own brand. I’m debuting my first art poster collection, which I’m very so that’s super cool. Yeah. And later on this year, I plan on offering office hours to bloggers and companies who need web design advice. So is it busy for me? Oh, yeah, that’s so okay. So many good things. I love you. Okay. So I really love that design their own life. So you help people. So talk to me about that? Well, well, when I first started blogging, it was really a place for me to just talk about the things that I love, like most bloggers, yeah, I know, six. And that was six years ago, I had no idea that in 2017, I would now be focusing more on helping people design their lives. I think what happens is you so in a rut every day that you forget that you’re important to Yeah, and need to literally stop and smell the roses and just enjoy yourself. And a lot of people don’t do that. I’m learning myself to do that. Yeah, yeah. You know, I like that. You know, I was just saying yesterday on Facebook that I have felt in a rut. And so I decided to just do everything the opposite of what I usually do. I like even like silly things like usually, like, you know, I get up like I stick my hair in a bun and then I brush my teeth. But I didn’t do that I brushed my teeth. And then I put my hair in a bun and it sounds silly. But changing the way I do stuff. I grabbed my mug with my left hand. Like it made me see different things in the world. And I experienced the world in a different way. Because I did that. I think people get caught up a lot of the times and no,