Elevated with Brandy Lawson

If you own a luxury design business and everything gets decided in meetings but nothing gets written down this season fixes that. Elevated is hosted by Brandy Lawson, founder & CEO of FieryFX, who has spent over a decade helping companies put software, systems & AI to work where it makes a difference. Each episode is about 5 minutes. One problem. One trap. One fix. No fluff. Season 8: Systems & Sanity with AI Meeting Notes, is for luxury residential design companies who are done running their business from memory. We break down how to put AI to work starting with your meetings using simple recording and transcription workflows you can set up with your phone. New episodes every Wednesday. 📋 Get the AI Note-Taking Guide: cabinetnotes.com 🔥 Take the Sales Superpower Quiz: fieryfx.com/superpower ⚡ More at fieryfx.com

Elevated with Brandy Lawson is a business podcast hosted by Brandy Lawson, with 210 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Brandy Lawson hosts Elevated with Brandy Lawson, a business show with 210 episodes published.

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  Episode #22

  The Perfect Hire Doesn't Exist. Here's Who to Hire Instead.

  Aug 19, 20264 minS8

  Get in Touch! Send us a message. Six months. A folder on your desktop called "Candidates" with 41 resumes in it. Eight interviews. Two hires — one left after three weeks, the other is still here technically, but you both know it's not working. The role is well-defined: someone who can run your design software, understands construction tolerances, has a natural feel for sales, and isn't expecting to get paid like a celebrity chef. You're starting to think this person doesn't exist. Here's the real talk: you're not looking for an employee. You're looking for a copy of yourself, twenty years younger, ready to work for a salary. That person isn't on any job board. The technical knowledge you're requiring as a prerequisite took you years to accumulate in a specific context with specific experiences. Nobody walks in with it. So you filter out everyone who needs training — and keep covering the gap yourself. Every week the seat stays empty is another week of work that shouldn't be yours. In this episode, we talk about what changes when you stop hiring for the skills you can teach and start hiring for the character that can't be learned — and how the recording system bridges the gap while they build the experience to close it themselves. What you'll hear: Why the unicorn job description is filtering out exactly the people who could actually do the job What to screen for instead — and what the best interview question reveals How the recording system becomes an accuracy net for new hires during the learning phase Get the AI Note-taking Guide → cabinetnotes.com Get the AI Note-Taking Setup Guide — stop relying on memory and start building a searchable record of every client meeting: cabinetnotes.com What's Your Sales Superpower? Take the free quiz: fieryfx.com/superpower Book Brandy Lawson to speak: brandylawson.com Get the book — High-er Help: higherhelpbook.com CONNECT WITH US: Website: fieryfx.com Instagram: instagram.com/fieryfx LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/fieryfx YouTube: youtube.com/@thefieryfx Facebook: facebook.com/fieryfx #KitchenDesign #BathDesign #KitchenBusiness #AITools #MeetingNotes #BusinessSystems #DesignBusiness #ElevatedPodcast

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  Episode #21

  Your New Hire Is Learning by Watching. There's a Faster Way.

  Aug 12, 20264 minS8

  Get in Touch! Send us a message. She's been here three weeks. Smart, motivated, takes notes. Her training program is apprenticing your best salesperson — catching the tail end of a close, listening to half a consultation, piecing together the playbook from fragments. You know the math. Six months before a new hire generates more than she costs you. What Jordan is trying to learn by watching isn't just the nuts and bolts of the selling process. It's the specific phrase your best closer uses to redirect "I need to think about it" into a signed contract. The tone she takes when a client walks in with a contractor-grade budget and a custom-grade vision. The pacing of a consultation that ends with a deposit. All of it is happening in the room. None of it is accessible to Jordan in any structured way. She has to wait for the right scenario to present itself, hope she's close enough to observe it, and try to absorb enough to reproduce it when her turn comes. Passive shadowing isn't a training plan. It's an expensive waiting game. In this episode, we walk through the training library: how to use recordings you've already made to cut new hire ramp time in half — before Jordan ever sits across from a live client. What you'll hear: Why the most valuable sales knowledge in your business lives in situations you can't schedule or stage How to curate your ten best consultations into a training playlist that compounds with every new hire The AI prompt that pulls the exact phrases and sequences your best closer uses — ready to study, not just observe Get the AI Note-taking Guide → cabinetnotes.com Elevated was named one of the Top 30 Arizona Marketing Podcasts (2026 Edition) by MillionPodcasts. See the full list (and some great company) here: https://www.millionpodcasts.com/arizona-marketing-podcasts/ Get the AI Note-Taking Setup Guide — stop relying on memory and start building a searchable record of every client meeting: cabinetnotes.com What's Your Sales Superpower? Take the free quiz: fieryfx.com/superpower Book Brandy Lawson to speak: brandylawson.com Get the book — High-er Help: higherhelpbook.com CONNECT WITH US: Website: fieryfx.com Instagram: instagram.com/fieryfx LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/fieryfx YouTube: youtube.com/@thefieryfx Facebook: facebook.com/fieryfx #KitchenDesign #BathDesign #KitchenBusiness #AITools #MeetingNotes #BusinessSystems #DesignBusiness #ElevatedPodcast

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  Episode #20

  You're on Vacation. Your Business Is Not. Here's How to Fix That.

  Aug 5, 20264 minS8

  Get in Touch! Send us a message. Day three of vacation. Somewhere warm. You've been trying to take this trip for years — the install schedule finally cleared, the timing was right. You glance at your phone. Voicemail from Maya, your lead designer. Client sitting in front of her, complex kitchen remodel, and she can't remember how you handle the markup on a custom range hood. You call her back and walk her through it. She says she'll write it down. An hour later: different question via text. Then another. By dinner you've sent seven responses. You are on vacation. The business is not. Twenty-some years of context, judgment calls, and shortcuts are stored in exactly one place: your head. How you price a custom hood. How you handle the vendor when an order comes in wrong. The words that keep a difficult client calm when the timeline slips. The software workaround that saves twenty minutes on a spec sheet. None of it written down. It transfers by proximity — by watching you long enough, or by calling you when nobody in the showroom has the answer. You didn't build a business. You built a high-paying job you can never leave. In this episode, we walk through the talk-through SOP: how to get the knowledge out of your head and into a system — without sitting down to write a single word. What you'll hear: Why familiarity isn't systemization — and what it actually costs you when a key employee leaves How narrating your work while you do it builds the manual without a single hour of documentation The AI prompt that turns a recorded workflow into a step-by-step checklist your team can actually use Get the AI Note-taking Guide → cabinetnotes.com Get the AI Note-Taking Setup Guide — stop relying on memory and start building a searchable record of every client meeting: cabinetnotes.com What's Your Sales Superpower? Take the free quiz: fieryfx.com/superpower Book Brandy Lawson to speak: brandylawson.com Get the book — High-er Help: higherhelpbook.com CONNECT WITH US: Website: fieryfx.com Instagram: instagram.com/fieryfx LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/fieryfx YouTube: youtube.com/@thefieryfx Facebook: facebook.com/fieryfx #KitchenDesign #BathDesign #KitchenBusiness #AITools #MeetingNotes #BusinessSystems #DesignBusiness #ElevatedPodcast

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  Episode #19

  You're Still at Your Desk at 6 PM and You're Not Even Working. Here's Why.

  Jul 29, 20264 minS8

  Get in Touch! Send us a message. It's 6:05 PM. You're still at your desk. The showroom closed over an hour ago. Your team left. You have not left. You're not exactly working. Twelve browser tabs open. An email started this morning, minimized at the bottom of the screen. A text you've read three times and haven't answered. A sticky note from last week you can no longer fully decipher. Every time you try to stand up, something else surfaces. Did you confirm the Garcias' install date? What was that vendor thing you were going to follow up on? You had a thought in the car this morning — what was it? So you sit there. You're not stuck because you're inefficient. You're stuck because your brain doesn't trust the system to hold what's still open. There's no place where the unfinished things live — so your brain is holding all of them, at once, on an internal loop. Because if it stops, something gets dropped. In this episode, we walk through the end-of-day brain dump: the three-minute recording that gives your brain permission to stop holding everything — and gets you out the door. What you'll hear: Why you can't leave your desk even when you're not working — and what's actually keeping you there The three-minute recording that moves open loops out of your head and into a system How the brain dump compounds over time into a pattern map of what's actually weighing on your business Get the AI Note-Taking Setup Guide — stop relying on memory and start building a searchable record of every client meeting: cabinetnotes.com What's Your Sales Superpower? Take the free quiz: fieryfx.com/superpower Book Brandy Lawson to speak: brandylawson.com Get the book — High-er Help: higherhelpbook.com CONNECT WITH US: Website: fieryfx.com Instagram: instagram.com/fieryfx LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/fieryfx YouTube: youtube.com/@thefieryfx Facebook: facebook.com/fieryfx #KitchenDesign #BathDesign #KitchenBusiness #AITools #MeetingNotes #BusinessSystems #DesignBusiness #ElevatedPodcast

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  Episode #18

  You've Explained Inset vs. Overlay Five Times This Week. Record It Once Instead.

  Jul 22, 20263 minS8

  Get in Touch! Send us a message. It's the fifth time this week you've explained inset versus overlay. Different client each time. Same question. Same explanation — rebuilt from scratch each time, on whatever energy you have at that moment in the day. Sometimes you use the door analogy and it clicks immediately. Sometimes you're running late and the abbreviated version gets a nod that isn't actually understanding. This morning it's the Garcias. Site call at noon. You sketch it out on the back of a spec sheet. She nods. He nods. You can tell from the way they're nodding that they don't quite have it. Here's what's also true: your best version of that explanation — the one where the analogy really lands — you gave that one Tuesday afternoon to a different couple. Nobody was recording. It's gone. Every new client starts from zero. Inset, overlay, semi-custom, framed versus frameless — these terms are native to you and completely foreign to them. The quality of the explanation varies by the day, your energy, and how much time you have. None of it the same twice. In this episode, we walk through the recorded glossary: how to capture your best thinking once and let it do the work every time after that. What you'll hear: Why rebuilding the same explanation from scratch is costing you showroom time on every single consult The one-hour recording session that creates a client resource your whole onboarding process can use How clients who arrive with the vocabulary change the quality of every conversation that follows Get the AI Note-taking Guide → cabinetnotes.com Get the AI Note-Taking Setup Guide — stop relying on memory and start building a searchable record of every client meeting: cabinetnotes.com What's Your Sales Superpower? Take the free quiz: fieryfx.com/superpower Book Brandy Lawson to speak: brandylawson.com Get the book — High-er Help: higherhelpbook.com CONNECT WITH US: Website: fieryfx.com Instagram: instagram.com/fieryfx LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/fieryfx YouTube: youtube.com/@thefieryfx Facebook: facebook.com/fieryfx #KitchenDesign #BathDesign #KitchenBusiness #AITools #MeetingNotes #BusinessSystems #DesignBusiness #ElevatedPodcast

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