Somewhere between the school bags, the “quick” client emails that are never quick, and making supper… a lot of creatives are quietly waiting for work to just… arrive.

And babe, I get it. I’ve done it too.

In this episode, I’m sharing a very unglamorous but very effective truth:

Before you go looking for new clients… check your inbox.

Because the clients you’re praying for aren’t always strangers.
Sometimes they’re already sitting in old emails… warm leads… past clients… the “let’s chat after the holidays” people.

We’ll talk about why the inbox feels so heavy (it’s not just admin, it’s feelings).
How to follow up without sounding awkward or desperate.
And how to create a simple little rhythm so you stop guessing and start moving again.

You’ll walk away with a calm plan you can use this week — even if it’s already February and your “fresh start” only arrived now.

✨ I also made a free Starter Planner to help you do it: Inbox to Clients
👉 Download it here: www.kunshuis.com/inbox

🎧 Listen to the episode + show notes here

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.

Somewhere between the school bags, the client emails, the dog walk, and making supper… a lot of creatives are quietly burning out.

In this episode, I’m sharing the simple rhythm that’s helping me hold client work and build what’s next — without losing myself halfway through the week.

We’ll talk about why the problem usually isn’t time… it’s transitions.
How to protect your mornings like a studio.
And how to use weekly themes + monthly batching so your podcast/course/products don’t become another stressor.

You’ll walk away with 5 practical takeaways you can use this week — even if life is full and your energy is not unlimited.

👉 Show notes + the full article version are on my blog (and you can read it even if you don’t listen): https://kunshuis.com/2026/01/21/design-your-days/

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.

If you're in that weird space between wanting to rest and still wanting to feel inspired — this one's for you.

In this episode, we’re talking about how to stay creative during the holidays without forcing it. Because let’s be honest — your brain might be fried, your to-do list is a bit of a joke, and inspiration doesn’t exactly strike between school concerts and shopping lists.

I’m sharing what I’ve learned about letting creativity play (instead of pushing it), what that actually looks like when you’re tired, and why your best ideas often show up when you stop trying so hard.

→ Show notes, 🖤, and links mentioned are waiting for you : https://kunshuis.com/2025/12/09/stay-creative-during-the-holidays/

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.

If December is the only time you finally breathe, this episode is for you.

I’m talking about the moment I realised the life I was designing — the one I thought looked “successful” — was actually exhausting me by the end of every year.

This one’s not about productivity hacks or how to squeeze more into your day. It’s about learning to pause on purpose. Daily. Not just during the holidays.

Let’s talk about why rest is not a reward. Why slowing down doesn't mean falling behind. And why we need to stop designing lives we constantly want to escape from.

→ Show notes, 🖤, and links mentioned are waiting for you here: https://kunshuis.com/2025/12/04/stop-designing-lives-we-constantly-want-to-escape-from/

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.

Let’s be honest — running a freelance design business can feel like a mess. And no, it’s usually not the design work that’s the problem… it’s everything around it. The emails, the timelines, the feedback loops, the invoices, the “wait, where did I save that thing?” moments.

In this episode, I’m walking you through the real reason I created the Designers’ Playbook Desk — not as another Notion template, but as the system I needed to survive and actually enjoy running my business again.

This is the full story: what’s inside, how it works, and how it supports both your creative flow and your mental load. If you’re tired of holding your whole business in your head, this one’s for you.

→ Show notes, 🖤, and links mentioned are waiting for you here:

https://kunshuis.com/2025/11/27/creative-business-system/

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.

Clients don’t come with a manual — and neither do we.
So when a project goes sideways, it’s usually not about the design… it’s about the gap between what we know and what our clients think happens behind the scenes.

In this episode, we dive into one of the most overlooked parts of our job as designers: educating our clients.

Not blaming them.

Not rolling our eyes behind the scenes.

But guiding them with clarity, simple language, realistic timelines, and boundaries that make the whole process smoother for both sides.

If you’ve ever wondered why clients “don’t get it,” or you’re tired of repeating the same things on every project, this conversation will feel grounding, honest, and a little freeing.

We talk about:
• why clients don’t automatically understand design
• what we actually owe them before, during, and after a project
• how better education creates better collaborations
• and the mindset shift that changed my whole business

→ Show notes, 🖤, and links mentioned are waiting for you here: https://kunshuis.com/2025/11/20/educating-your-clients/

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.

Let’s be honest — being a “top-rated” creative isn’t just about having talent or pretty work on your feed. It’s about how you run your freelance business. How you communicate. How you lead a project. How you carry yourself when no one’s watching.

In this first episode of the Playbook Series, I’m sharing what actually makes a designer truly trusted — the stuff that turns one-off clients into long-term ones, and stress into structure.

We’re diving into the business side of the Graphic Designer’s Playbook Planner — the part most people skip, but the part that honestly changes everything!

→ Show notes, 🖤, and links mentioned are waiting for you here:

https://kunshuis.com/2025/11/12/what-makes-a-top-rated-creative/

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.

Feeling creatively drained… but also kinda excited for what next year could be?

In this episode, I’m talking about that strange end-of-year feeling we creatives know too well — tired, worn out, low on ideas… but still catching little sparks of inspiration for the year ahead.

From what I wrote in VISI Magazine to the real-talk reset I’m doing in my own studio, this is a soft, honest conversation about creativity, burnout, faith, and what it means to finish the year gently — not perfectly.

I’m also sharing 3 small, real things I’m doing right now to protect my creativity (and nervous system) through December. So if your spark feels dim, this one’s for you.

→ Show notes, 🖤, and links mentioned are waiting for you here: https://kunshuis.com/2025/11/05/creatively-tired/

Thanks for listening to BEYOND Design ✨

If this episode spoke to you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

Website & Resources → kunshuis.com
Shop creative tools → The Kunshuis Collective
Show notes & blogs → kunshuis.com/blog

Free support for creatives:

• 21-Day Creative Reset Challenge
• Download: Asking Better Questions (Client Guide)
  
  

🖤 My favourite tools for life + business:

• The Playbook Planner
  — your creative sidekick for focus + flow
• The Playbook Desk
  — a Notion-powered space to run your freelance business with ease

Let’s connect & stay inspired:
📸 Instagram
Join the Beyond Design Room on Facebook

Because design is only 20%… the rest is life.
Thanks for being here, friend. You’re not alone in this journey—let’s design it together.