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Thrive by Design was developed to support designers and makers with business, marketing and lifestyle strategies to help them reach the full potential of their brand.

Host Tracy Matthews loves to share her experiences, success and failures of building a successful jewelry brand. She also really has a blast interviewing major players in the jewelry industry and beyond -- from well-known designers to famous bloggers to store owners and PR mavens.

She’s on a mission to break down the barriers of the tight-lipped jewelry industry and strongly believes in community and collaboration over competition.

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Latest from the Podcast

Episode #578: The Sales Rhythm Your Business Is Missing (And Why Willpower Won't Create It)

March 12, 2026 |

You Don't Have a Sales Problem. You Have a Rhythm Problem. If you've been showing up, creating, learning, and still staring at inconsistent sales numbers, let me offer you a reframe: the problem probably isn't what you know. It's the gap between knowing and doing. In episode 578 of Creatives Rule the World, I'm sharing…

Episode #577: How to Scale Solo: The Business Model That Took Pia Silva from $40K in Debt to $500K in 12 Months

March 6, 2026 |

What if the key to a more profitable business wasn't more clients, more offers, or more hours, but fewer of all three? That's the counterintuitive truth that Pia Silva discovered after building a branding agency that was generating $250,000 a year and still landing her $40,000 in debt. The fix wasn't working harder. It was…

Episode #576: Why You're Posting Consistently But Still Not Selling Consistently

March 4, 2026 |

You’re showing up every day. So why does your bank account tell a different story? You’re posting and engaging. You’re doing every single thing the marketing world told you to do. And yet the sales are inconsistent. Unpredictable. Frustrating. If that’s you, I want you to know something important: it is not a you problem.…