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How Feng Shui, Color, and Intuitive Design Shape the Energy and Experience of Space · The iDesign Lab Podcast

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Voice Over: This is iDesign Lab, a podcast where creativity and curiosity meet style and design.
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Voice Over: Curator of interiors, furnishings, and lifestyles.
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Voice Over: Hosted by Tiffany Woolley, an interior designer and a style enthusiast, along with her serial entrepreneur husband Scott.
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Voice Over: iDesign Lab is your ultimate design podcast, where we explore the rich and vibrant world of design and its constant evolution in style and trends.
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Voice Over: Today on iDesign Lab, we're joined by Lisa Morton, interior designer, Feng Shui master teacher, and creator of the intuitive home method.
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Voice Over: With over 20 years in design, Lisa blends Feng Shui, color psychology and holistic principles to create homes that elevate health, clarity, and joy.
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Voice Over: Host of the Feng Shui Living Podcast and author of Aligned at Home, she helps us design spaces that truly support how we live and thrive.
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TIffany Woolley: Welcome to the iDesign Lab podcast.
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TIffany Woolley: Today we are joined remotely by Lisa Morton, who is a designer who has a very special philosophy that I can't wait to dive into today.
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TIffany Woolley: I'm sure you've all heard of Feng Shui or Feng Shui.
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TIffany Woolley: We're hoping you're gonna guide us on all the right things from spelling to saying it and all that it encompasses.
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Scott Woolley: Welcome.
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Lisa Morton: Thank you so much for having me.
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Lisa Morton: Um I'm really excited to talk about feng shui holistic design.
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Lisa Morton: I really see this as so important in the future of the design world.
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Lisa Morton: Yes.
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Lisa Morton: Thank you for having me.
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TIffany Woolley: I do think it's such an important philosophy that we bring into our homes and our life as well.
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Scott Woolley: But before we jump into that, you were you have you've been an interior designer for a long time, correct?
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Lisa Morton: Correct.
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Lisa Morton: Uh a little over 20 years, no.
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Scott Woolley: But and and the feng shui was not in the original aspect of your interior design when you started out?
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Lisa Morton: My goodness.
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Lisa Morton: Feng shui was not even in my vocabulary.
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Lisa Morton: I had no clue it was not in my world whatsoever.
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Lisa Morton: Um I I kind of joke that sometimes now I do the crunchy design, right?
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Lisa Morton: And that was not the type of person I was.
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Lisa Morton: Um I did a little uh residential design directly out of school and then got into I fell into my dream job or thought was my dream job at the time, designing private jet interiors.
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Lisa Morton: And I did this for several years, and it was fantastic.
2:35
Lisa Morton: I got such a unique niche, right?
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Lisa Morton: I got I got to use amazing materials and meet outrageous people, and everything was completely custom.
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Lisa Morton: It was such a wonderful experience, but it is that that led me to this work.
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Lisa Morton: I af I kind of joke I was on call for seven years, right?
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Lisa Morton: Because that was that was my my work was my life.
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Lisa Morton: Yes.
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Lisa Morton: And so I had to um I I had to overcome a lot.
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Lisa Morton: I had a lot of perfectionism creep up, um, and just general burnout hit, to be honest.
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Lisa Morton: Okay.
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Lisa Morton: It was a rigorous schedule you were keeping, meeting deadlines and and also it was a schedule of constant travel, constant international travel.
3:23
Lisa Morton: I go in on a Tuesday and go home, pack your bag, you're leaving in three hours to go to Paris.
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Lisa Morton: Okay.
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Lisa Morton: That sounds exciting.
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Lisa Morton: Right?
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Lisa Morton: It's exciting on the other side.
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Lisa Morton: Yeah.
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Lisa Morton: It's exhausting to do that nonstop.
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Scott Woolley: So, but you're you're you're doing the interiors of private jets and and and so forth.
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Scott Woolley: That's a very unique, you know, uh scope of work.
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Lisa Morton: And and also the price point, right?
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Lisa Morton: I mean, you're specing out outrageous materials.
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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Lisa Morton: Custom carpets, I'm sure.
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Lisa Morton: I mean, literally silk carpets and backlit onyx in the bathroom.
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TIffany Woolley: And yeah, monograms, I'm sure galore.
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Lisa Morton: Yeah.
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Lisa Morton: They were very special, very unique, and it was a wonderful experience, but you know, it did just take a toll on myself.
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Lisa Morton: And so then I started doing all the things you're supposed to do during a difficult time like that, doing the meditation and practicing yoga.
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Lisa Morton: I altered my diet, started walking more, exercising more, doing all the things and going back to nature.
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Lisa Morton: Yes, yes.
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Lisa Morton: I'm a nature lover, and and that was that was huge.
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Lisa Morton: Um but for me, it was really looking at my environment, and I got to thinking, well, how can I help my space support me?
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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Lisa Morton: Beyond just functioning and looking beautiful and having cool things around me, how can I help it?
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Lisa Morton: How can I set it up to support my body?
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Lisa Morton: And so then it was kind of like trial and error.
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Lisa Morton: I started studying holistic design, I started studying feng shui.
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Lisa Morton: This was 10 years ago.
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Lisa Morton: And now I've studied it, I've trained in it, learned it, and now I get to help so many other people.
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Lisa Morton: So explain to us.
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Scott Woolley: Explain to us and tell us exactly what that means, feng shui, for people who are listening or watching.
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Lisa Morton: Exactly, bingo.
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Lisa Morton: So I feng shui is actually over 4,000 years old and was first documented in southern China.
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Lisa Morton: And it's this beautiful approach to arranging your space, to aligning your space, to discovering what how your space works, right?
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Lisa Morton: How it flows, what you need in your space.
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Lisa Morton: And when we can do this, then we can we can bring everything into harmony.
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Lisa Morton: And I notice clients who, after we work together, it they might just be more joyful in their home and like their home, but other things, their nervous system is going to soften, right?
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Lisa Morton: They might be able to walk in at the end of the day and their shoulders drop.
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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Lisa Morton: They can take a bigger breath.
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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TIffany Woolley: So so if we start at the very beginning, I guess, how did you decide decide to dive into this?
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TIffany Woolley: And what was like the first step you took?
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TIffany Woolley: I mean, I can imagine reading things.
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TIffany Woolley: I've read things through the years because I randomly will have clients, you know, ask me about certain questions, and I almost feel like ignorant if I don't have the answer.
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TIffany Woolley: Like, oh, if I don't know feng shui, like, you know, what are they gonna think of me and my design expertise?
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TIffany Woolley: But there's certain little things that trickle out into society.
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TIffany Woolley: But what do you think, like, was your beginning court to basically institute it as a way of design?
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Lisa Morton: So I started reading books like so many people because I wanted to have a little knowledge to add to kind of the holistic design I was exploring with my clients.
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Lisa Morton: Um, because after I left my aircraft job, I started my own residential design firm.
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Lisa Morton: And I was working and doing this as well as studying and learning.
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Lisa Morton: And I started working one-on-one with a um with a teacher, Feng Shui teacher, and really understanding the principles and started implementing little things.
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Lisa Morton: And some of my clients didn't get it.
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Lisa Morton: They didn't, they maybe weren't even interested in it.
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Lisa Morton: And that's okay, but I still had this knowledge if I were to select a or recommend a drapery fabric, right?
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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Lisa Morton: Well, maybe I'd suggest blue versus green, right?
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Lisa Morton: If we have the option, just because I have that knowledge that blue is going to bring them more fluid and more of a sense of creativity in this specific space.
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Lisa Morton: Okay.
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Lisa Morton: So that was a really fun experiment.
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TIffany Woolley: I know.
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TIffany Woolley: And like to actually, I feel like to have that bandwidth to even like as you're designing, that's just such another layer that is so fascinating to me.
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TIffany Woolley: I mean, what are some of the main principles of feng shui?
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TIffany Woolley: I mean, I like like I know there's random, like what a bed isn't supposed to face a door, or I mean like there's some random like and you just mentioned color.
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Scott Woolley: So color having a big difference.
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Scott Woolley: I always heard black and every room has to have a I I remember a number of years ago, I moved my company to a new location, and one of my employees, she called me and she said, Listen, I got to talk to you about where I'm sitting.
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Scott Woolley: And I said, sure.
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Scott Woolley: And she took me over to her desk and she said, I can't sit here.
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Scott Woolley: I said, Why?
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Scott Woolley: She says, because I'm not facing the and I forget which direction she wanted to face.
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Scott Woolley: She says, I have to face, I don't know if it was north or south or east or west.
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Scott Woolley: And she's like, if I don't, Scott, I won't, I won't be able to do the do the work that I should be doing here.
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Scott Woolley: And I was like dumbfounded at the moment.
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Scott Woolley: But then I learned a little about that.
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Scott Woolley: She was very much into feng shui.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Lisa Morton: So we have uh we have a few different things we work with.
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Lisa Morton: Well, number one is balancing yin and yang.
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Lisa Morton: So something that's yin is very quiet, very still.
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Lisa Morton: Think of a spa vibe, right?
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Lisa Morton: Peaceful music, soft colors, you know, enticing aromatherapy.
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Lisa Morton: And then something that's young is kind of the opposite.
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Lisa Morton: I always joke, like a casino, right?
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Lisa Morton: Loud, active.
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Lisa Morton: It's those rooms where we have our friends over and we laugh and tell jokes, right?
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Lisa Morton: Um, so we work on balancing yin and yang.
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Lisa Morton: We also use a five-element system.
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Lisa Morton: So you were mentioning some of these fun things you hear about arranging this or moving that, or um this all stems from using the five elements system.
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Lisa Morton: Okay, right.
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Lisa Morton: So there's a right, it's not just a bunch of tips or tricks.
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Lisa Morton: There's a system.
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Lisa Morton: So we have wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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Lisa Morton: And Feng Shui describes the world in one of these five elements.
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Lisa Morton: So maybe it's not a, it's not a um you're picking out the blue sofa.
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Lisa Morton: You're picking out a blue sofa that brings in a water element and fluidity, or the green sofa that will bring in a sense of growth and renewal because it's a wood element.
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TIffany Woolley: Oh.
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Lisa Morton: And then we have a third um step with that uh includes a bagua map.
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Lisa Morton: So it's a map that we overlay over the floor plan of the home to decipher these different energy centers of your home.
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Lisa Morton: So you have an energy center that connects to your daily life, what you get up and do every day, your career, your life path, one that connects to health, right?
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Lisa Morton: All these different energy centers.
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Lisa Morton: And when we can work on one, say you're struggling with your health, you know, I have clients call me, I'm I've had this bug nonstop, I don't know what to do.
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Lisa Morton: Well, now we know where to go to look at your space.
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Scott Woolley: And it doesn't.
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Scott Woolley: So when you start with a space, let's say you have a new client, do you start with the whole house or a room?
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Scott Woolley: Or if the client only wants to do, let's say, their living room, what's the step first steps that you take?
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Lisa Morton: Well, we need to look at it holistically.
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Lisa Morton: So we won't just start with a room.
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Lisa Morton: Yeah, it was sometimes I will do a home office.
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TIffany Woolley: It'd be a whole project, would be to for success, I would think.
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TIffany Woolley: It's like you need to take the full commitment.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Lisa Morton: Yeah.
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Lisa Morton: Because one area is going to uh you know uh uh uh uh influence another area, right?
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Lisa Morton: It's it's all gonna work together.
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Lisa Morton: So it's really looking at their space and also looking at their goals.
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Lisa Morton: What are they leading in life?
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Lisa Morton: What do they what are they looking for?
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Lisa Morton: Whether it's goals like starting a new family or starting their new business.
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Scott Woolley: Um but then so that's where you start with a client from the from a standpoint of your first meetings.
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Lisa Morton: Yes.
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TIffany Woolley: And then do would you say the next step is that you'd use the overlay plan to create your furniture plan?
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TIffany Woolley: Is that because I always start with a furniture plan technically to you know start my design process.
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Lisa Morton: So it's kind of a mixture of things.
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Lisa Morton: It's not like a traditional interior design process, right?
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Lisa Morton: So we're we're gonna decipher anything, and then the way I do it is I provide them, it's like a 20-page report.
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Lisa Morton: So they have all the information about their home, and then we can dive in and then we can explore and move furniture pieces around and bring in, you know, a lot of times I'll even work with other designers.
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Lisa Morton: And I'll be like, okay, they need a mirror somewhere on this wall, they need artwork over here to draw the eye there, and we can collaborate too.
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TIffany Woolley: So are you instantly when you walk into a room, like how I can, you know, okay, this needs to go here and that needs to move this way, like in a feng shui sense versus a style aesthetic?
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TIffany Woolley: Certainly.
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Lisa Morton: It just gives you a different sense set of lenses to look at the world, right?
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Lisa Morton: So I might see something that just isn't working.
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Lisa Morton: I had a client recently that I walked into their front foyer and it was my first time meeting them, so I had to be careful.
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Lisa Morton: But I walked in and they had a uh framed photo of their children, which was beautiful, and right next to it a cactus plant, which cacti are very, very bad feng shui.
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Lisa Morton: I'm sorry, I know they're very fun looking, but they're bad feng shui.
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Lisa Morton: And I did just couldn't handle the fat the um effects of a cactus next to their beautiful children.
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Lisa Morton: So I instantly asked to move it.
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TIffany Woolley: That's so funny.
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TIffany Woolley: So go back to those five steps.
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TIffany Woolley: Tell us what they are, explain them.
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Lisa Morton: So it's the five element system.
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Lisa Morton: So we have fire, water, wood, earth, and metal.
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Lisa Morton: So we want to bring fire in when we need to lift the energy.
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Lisa Morton: You know, it's winter time, I get the winter blaz.
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Lisa Morton: So we need to lift the energy a little bit.
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Lisa Morton: So that could be through the color red, a bright fuchsia, through candles, brighter lighting, um, or even triangular shapes.
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Lisa Morton: Um, water, we talked to water a little bit.
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Lisa Morton: It's about creativity and fluidity and and um just allowing free thought flowing thoughts, ideas, emotions.
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Lisa Morton: So we can do this through water, uh, maybe a water feature or the color blue, the color black, or any type of pattern with a wavy design to it, or watercolor artwork.
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TIffany Woolley: So black is technically part of the water stuff.
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TIffany Woolley: It is.
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Lisa Morton: It is a lot of people are it is because think about this.
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Lisa Morton: If you were to go to the ocean and you jump in and the water is pale blue at the very top, it's beautiful, and you dive deeper, right?
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Lisa Morton: It gets darker.
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Lisa Morton: You dive deeper, it gets darker until the bottom of the ocean it's black.
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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Lisa Morton: So they're connected, there's a connection.
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Lisa Morton: I love to work with the wood element, especially if someone is recovering from an illness.
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Lisa Morton: Uh, the wood element is all about regrowth and renewal and moving forward.
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Lisa Morton: You can bring this in through plants, flowers, which I love to have fresh flowers in my home every week, and um the color green as well, or artwork showing um flowers, a landscape, trees, something like that.
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Lisa Morton: Um, and then any type of vertical stripe.
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Lisa Morton: Um and then we have wood.
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Lisa Morton: So wood is, I'm sorry, um, earth, earth is like grounding stability.
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Lisa Morton: On those days when you're frazzled trying to catch up with your schedule and do all the things, you need more earth element in your life.
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Lisa Morton: That's beige, tan, brown.
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Lisa Morton: If you're needing more earth element in your environment, I I would suggest low sofas, a low rectangular table, a big textural throw, or a chunky rug.
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Lisa Morton: And then we have the metal element, which I love in home offices because the metal element is all about precision, all about focus.
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Lisa Morton: So that's metal objects, the colors gray and white and pastels.
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TIffany Woolley: So, so the idea or the philosophy is not to have all five in one space, or is it?
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Lisa Morton: No, we want to balance those five elements for the activity in the space, right?
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Lisa Morton: So a bedroom, we want it to be more, more peaceful, more, more calm.
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Lisa Morton: We'll have less fire, right?
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Lisa Morton: Less wood element, more of those calm, peaceful elements.
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Lisa Morton: And then a kid's game room or an exercise room will bring more of those fiery, more wood elements in and less of the grounding earth.
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TIffany Woolley: Hmm.
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TIffany Woolley: And is there any philosophy behind like a floor selection that has to do with falling into any of these categories?
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Lisa Morton: Certainly.
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Lisa Morton: Um, of course, I always love to default to natural materials as natural as possible, right?
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Lisa Morton: Yeah, they just make our bodies feel better.
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Lisa Morton: But then uh a wood element.
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Lisa Morton: So if you have wood flooring, that's a wood element, right?
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Lisa Morton: But it also has horizontal lines.
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Lisa Morton: So an item in your home might not just fall into one of the five elements, it might have be a combination.
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Lisa Morton: Okay.
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Lisa Morton: So it has those long linear lines, so it's it's going to be grounding and a sense of renewal by having wood flooring.
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Lisa Morton: A tile's going to be really grounding and centering.
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Lisa Morton: Um, you know, you if you want to have a leopard carpet, which I I've seen before, right?
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Lisa Morton: Some of those wild patterns, yeah.
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Lisa Morton: That would be a fire element.
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Lisa Morton: I did a closet once and we had leather leopard carpet in there, and it was great.
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TIffany Woolley: She loved to dress fashionably and uh, you know, just wild, and it was perfect for that was probably good energy for being creative within that space.
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Lisa Morton: Definitely, definitely.
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Scott Woolley: What's the fastest way a person can feel like a shift in a room if they don't want to do a complete redesign?
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Lisa Morton: Okay.
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Lisa Morton: Well, this goes back to something you mentioned earlier about placing your body in a certain direction.
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Lisa Morton: So we have what's called the command position.
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Lisa Morton: And this is the ancients wanted to have a mountain behind you and then for protection, and then a valley below, so you can see your enemies coming.
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Lisa Morton: Right.
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Lisa Morton: And then a little protection on the sides.
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Lisa Morton: But we can mimic that in our environment, and it makes us feel so much more comfortable and at peace.
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Lisa Morton: So to do this, you want a solid wall behind you.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Lisa Morton: If you're working at a desk, you want to have that solid wall behind you, not open and exposed.
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Lisa Morton: And then you want to be able to see the door off to a side.
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Lisa Morton: This also works in your bedroom.
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Lisa Morton: You want to have a solid headboard behind you against a solid wall, and then see a door off to a side.
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Lisa Morton: I also eat, sleep, and breathe this stuff.
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Lisa Morton: So I also will take this with me to a restaurant.
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TIffany Woolley: I was gonna say, I that's exactly what I thought about when you said in a command position, because I feel like my dad growing up, my husband, like they always want to sit facing out.
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TIffany Woolley: Like that's the fatherly role, you know.
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Lisa Morton: Like But it also just puts your body at ease.
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Lisa Morton: So maybe a Saturday night I'm tired, but we're going out to a dinner.
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Lisa Morton: I will ask to have that table in the corner so I can have my back to the in the command position, and then I can feel more supported during that that time.
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Scott Woolley: I've never heard it said said that way.
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Scott Woolley: It's interesting.
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Lisa Morton: Yeah, give it a try.
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Lisa Morton: Uh I always say any of the feng shui cures that I recommend to anyone, give it six weeks, right?
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Lisa Morton: You have to experiment with it.
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Lisa Morton: Um, I always tell clients if if you don't like it, you can move things back, right?
20:05
Lisa Morton: After six weeks, but give me six weeks, and it's very rare they move things back.
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TIffany Woolley: So you created the intuitive home method.
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TIffany Woolley: Explain that in its relation to wellness and feng shui.
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Lisa Morton: So this goes deeper than designing a home.
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Lisa Morton: There's there's a coaching aspect in here because I work with a lot of people feeling stuck.
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Lisa Morton: They call me, I'm feeling stuck in life.
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Lisa Morton: I don't know what to do.
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Lisa Morton: And I know my environment is influencing me, I don't know what to do.
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Lisa Morton: So it's 30 days of transformation.
20:43
Lisa Morton: Yeah.
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Lisa Morton: Oh, it's it's powerful.
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Lisa Morton: And it we just um we look at our space with fresh lenses because we don't often, we don't often look at our spaces.
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TIffany Woolley: We're so used to being in it.
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TIffany Woolley: And and it's so true because even when I start a project and I'm referring to pictures of clients' houses and then they come in and I might have them, they're like, that's my house.
21:06
TIffany Woolley: Like you just don't even pay attention to what you're walking by every day.
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TIffany Woolley: It just becomes, you know, just becomes whatever in the corner.
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TIffany Woolley: Like it's it just disappears, right?
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TIffany Woolley: It disappears.
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Lisa Morton: But here's the thing, it's still affecting us, whether we recognize it or not.
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TIffany Woolley: Yes.
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Lisa Morton: So I actually have a practice I'll share with you that I send my clients on um when we do this.
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Lisa Morton: And I have them go on a walk, take a stroll, go around the block, come back, take a few fat breaths of fresh air, and then I have them enter their home through the front door as if they were a guest and they'd never been there before.
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TIffany Woolley: Wow.
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TIffany Woolley: I might try that myself, actually.
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TIffany Woolley: It's really fun to see.
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TIffany Woolley: Yes.
21:54
Scott Woolley: I'd love to have you come to our house and walk through the house with us.
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Scott Woolley: Showing us room by room, room by room.
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Scott Woolley: That would be how we could shift and and train.
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TIffany Woolley: Okay, well let's go back to the morning questions.
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TIffany Woolley: Go, let's go back to the method.
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Lisa Morton: Yeah, the interior development method.
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Lisa Morton: So the next step is releasing because we know we have we all have stuff.
22:18
Lisa Morton: We all have clutter.
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Lisa Morton: I even have clutter in my own home.
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Lisa Morton: Um but we know how that affects us.
22:23
Lisa Morton: We don't need to get into that.
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Lisa Morton: We know it's it's heavy, it brings on a lot of emotions.
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Lisa Morton: And sometimes it isn't clearing all the clutter from your home.
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Lisa Morton: That's what I get.
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Lisa Morton: I like to dive into with my clients.
22:36
Lisa Morton: It's not always that.
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Lisa Morton: Sometimes it is removing that one thing standing in your way.
22:42
Lisa Morton: How do we it might be a photograph of someone that you framed and put on the table and there it's not a good relationship anymore, right?
22:54
Lisa Morton: It may be a family heirloom that it just isn't feeling right, or something you brought into your space, or you're hanging on to a box of paperwork that's in the corner, right?
23:04
Lisa Morton: It's you're not noticing it, but it's still affecting you and affecting your nervous system.
23:10
Lisa Morton: So we release.
23:11
Lisa Morton: The next step then is implementation of feng shui.
23:15
Lisa Morton: So I do the full feng shui review of their space, tell them what they need to know.
23:20
Lisa Morton: And then the last step of this is how do we keep them moving in the right direction?
23:26
Lisa Morton: How do we stay the course and we put together plans and systems?
23:30
Lisa Morton: Wow.
23:32
TIffany Woolley: So how long does it take you to assess a space?
23:38
Lisa Morton: Uh typically I can have it turned around in about a week.
23:42
Lisa Morton: Okay.
23:42
Lisa Morton: Just depending on on workload and everything.
23:45
Lisa Morton: Right, of course.
23:46
Lisa Morton: It's but it's it's typically a week, and then you're ready to go.
23:49
Lisa Morton: We I do a video recording to share everything with you, and then we um do some follow-up sessions and everything too.
23:57
Lisa Morton: So it's it's uh, we're definitely working together.
23:59
Lisa Morton: And that's why I created the intuitive home method, because I have some clients that just want the information and they're going to implement it and do it on their own.
24:08
Lisa Morton: And then I have other clients that want to work together.
24:11
Lisa Morton: They want, yeah.
24:12
Lisa Morton: They want the support as they're doing these adjustments and shifts to their home.
24:18
Scott Woolley: So your report is like a detailed report room by room of all of the different things that should could change or should change or re be repositioned?
24:28
Lisa Morton: All all the all the recommendations following their goals.
24:31
Lisa Morton: So I dive deep into goals and a lot of times I get the goals of oh, I just want my home to feel better.
24:38
Lisa Morton: Yeah, they want the easy route.
24:40
Lisa Morton: I'm like, what do you really, really want?
24:44
Lisa Morton: Because this can feel a little woo and a little out there, but it's really powerful once once things are aligned in our space and it's truly supporting us that things can come to fruition and it just feels like magic and wild, but it's just energetic alignment.
25:02
Lisa Morton: So if you want something big, if you want the promotion, if you want to grow your family, if you want whatever, you know, we can work towards that.
25:12
TIffany Woolley: That is just so, so cool.
25:14
TIffany Woolley: It's very fun.
25:15
TIffany Woolley: Yeah.
25:16
TIffany Woolley: So when you're starting this process, I mean, do you start it with like a normal agreement?
25:22
TIffany Woolley: What is your what is your business structure in a little bit of a nutshell if somebody was wanting to bring you aboard?
25:31
TIffany Woolley: Sure, sure.
25:32
Lisa Morton: Yeah.
25:32
Lisa Morton: Um, I have a few options on my website, um, including the intuitive home method, and we just work together.
25:40
Lisa Morton: We plan uh a schedule, we put it together a system.
25:43
Lisa Morton: I can, you know, I do kind of customize a lot of things because I have a lot of clients that are going through things, uh divorce, illness.
25:53
Lisa Morton: You know, we have the great things, right?
25:55
Lisa Morton: But then sometimes there are the other things that aren't so wonderful in life, and they need a lot of support.
26:00
Lisa Morton: So oftentimes I'll customize something for them.
26:03
Lisa Morton: Uh, you know, I most of my work is virtual.
26:07
Lisa Morton: I I get to work with clients.
26:08
TIffany Woolley: Which is amazing.
26:09
TIffany Woolley: I I was gonna say though, but I think that's really amazing.
26:12
Scott Woolley: Yeah, that was a question I was gonna ask is how much of it can you do virtual?
26:17
Lisa Morton: There's amazing things I could tell you about your life from just looking at your floor plan.
26:22
Lisa Morton: It sounds wild.
26:23
Lisa Morton: I believe it.
26:24
Lisa Morton: I just believe it's a few.
26:24
Scott Woolley: So when you when you say floor plan, you mean uh just uh like a blue blueprint or photos?
26:31
Lisa Morton: Traditional floor plan drawing, or uh sometimes clients will submit their own drawings, which I have to get a little creative uh if they don't have the builder drawings, but we can we can work.
26:42
Lisa Morton: Uh Google Earth tells me so much about this as well, right?
26:47
TIffany Woolley: Because real estate websites, right?
26:49
TIffany Woolley: We do realiter.com.
26:53
Scott Woolley: So so it's a floor plan with all the position of all your furniture.
26:58
Lisa Morton: No, no, we don't even get into furniture.
27:00
Lisa Morton: That's that's like like another layer.
27:01
Lisa Morton: It's literally just looking at the arrangements, what's next to what, where the children might be sleeping, where those rooms are, where the bathrooms are in relation, how your front door is connected to the other spaces.
27:15
Lisa Morton: That alone can make huge shifts.
27:17
Lisa Morton: We might want to draw your eye in a specific direction from the front door, right?
27:22
Lisa Morton: Or we might want to draw your eye away from the bathroom door.
27:28
Scott Woolley: Right.
27:29
Scott Woolley: So it's photos that you're looking or video?
27:32
Scott Woolley: It's photos, video, and a zoom call with someone walking around with their cell phone short.
27:40
Lisa Morton: When I first started doing this, most of this virtual work, I was like, oh, I really want to do this.
27:45
Lisa Morton: I don't know if it's going to work.
27:47
Lisa Morton: But then I was like, okay, my 75-year-old mother can use Zoom.
27:52
Lisa Morton: I can teach anyone if you can use Zoom.
27:54
Lisa Morton: It's easy.
27:55
Lisa Morton: Click a button and we'll make it work.
27:57
TIffany Woolley: Isn't that the truth?
27:59
Scott Woolley: Yeah, because I realize like walking into people's houses, you walk into certain rooms and you can feel like this room is like a fun room.
28:08
Scott Woolley: This feels this room feels wonderful.
28:10
Scott Woolley: But then you walk into other rooms and it's like, oh my God.
28:13
TIffany Woolley: Or it's uncomfortable, it's cluttered.
28:16
TIffany Woolley: Like the, yeah.
28:16
TIffany Woolley: And I guess we tend to be a little more in tune since we do this for a living.
28:22
TIffany Woolley: But I would say, what are like the the first, like, oh my gosh, no, like the big no-nos?
28:31
Lisa Morton: Well, of course, clutter.
28:32
Lisa Morton: We want to limit as much clutter as possible.
28:35
Lisa Morton: But number two, which I can do.
28:38
TIffany Woolley: And when you I hate to interrupt, but clutter, like, because we live in this mass consumption world.
28:44
TIffany Woolley: So can clutter be organized or like layered properly, or is clutter like a mess?
28:54
Scott Woolley: Or just too much stuff.
28:55
Scott Woolley: Stuff.
28:56
Lisa Morton: Yeah.
28:56
Lisa Morton: Release, release, release.
28:58
Lisa Morton: I actually wrote this quote down the other day because I saved it.
29:00
Lisa Morton: It was fascinating.
29:01
Lisa Morton: 80% of the items we keep are never used.
29:04
Lisa Morton: Correct.
29:05
TIffany Woolley: Correct.
29:05
TIffany Woolley: Yeah.
29:06
TIffany Woolley: Our house is a great testament.
29:08
Scott Woolley: But our house is like everything that we have in our house is like from some place or something that we've done in life.
29:15
Scott Woolley: It's not stuff that we just bought and has really no meaning.
29:19
Scott Woolley: Everything has a meaning to it.
29:21
Lisa Morton: Well, that's what's important.
29:22
Lisa Morton: That's what's really important.
29:24
Lisa Morton: And you know, it's getting rid of the things that that don't bring you joy, that don't light you up when you look at them.
29:29
Lisa Morton: I mean, you might have your great aunt's decorative vase that was so important to her, but if it's hacked away in a box and you see it once every three years, you're not enjoying it.
29:40
Lisa Morton: I I suggest take a photo of it and put it on your computer screen.
29:44
Lisa Morton: Put it on your phone.
29:46
Lisa Morton: Frame it as so you can disabilitate it.
29:48
Lisa Morton: That's so cute, actually.
29:50
Lisa Morton: Make something from it.
29:52
Lisa Morton: But the next big thing is, which I think you will fully agree with me, is the toilet lids open.
29:59
TIffany Woolley: Yes, that's a huge pet peeve.
30:00
TIffany Woolley: Wait, wait, say that again?
30:02
TIffany Woolley: The toilet seats open.
30:03
Scott Woolley: Oh, that's bad.
30:05
Lisa Morton: That is bad.
30:06
Lisa Morton: I always want the first thing you see when you walk into a room to be something beautiful.
30:13
Lisa Morton: So you enter the room and your eyes go to something beautiful, whether that's a beautiful piece of artwork or a beautiful rug or something decorative, not you walk into the bathroom and there's the toilet drain.
30:27
Scott Woolley: It's so funny you say that because this pet, we have a house that we just we purchased it four months ago because we flip houses as well as decorating houses.
30:37
Scott Woolley: We just put the house on the market.
30:39
Scott Woolley: And I found myself like three days ago, they did some showings and I went in afterwards and I noticed that one of the toilet seats was up.
30:47
Scott Woolley: And I thought to myself, I gotta close that because Tiffany would close that immediately.
30:50
Scott Woolley: Yeah, that's it.
30:51
Scott Woolley: And I walked away going, That's what strange.
30:53
Scott Woolley: I closed the toilet, but it actually made the room that the bathroom like look proper.
30:58
Scott Woolley: Yeah.
30:59
Scott Woolley: Yeah.
31:00
Lisa Morton: Definitely, definitely.
31:01
Lisa Morton: I have a I've worked at a lot of yoga studios over the years, and uh, especially for one one woman who owned multiple studios.
31:08
Lisa Morton: And um, in all the bathrooms, we would put a little sign on the back of the toilet that said, for good feng shui, please close the toilet lid.
31:16
Lisa Morton: And everyone would generally have a laugh, but they do it in the end.
31:20
Lisa Morton: And that is what was most important, anyways.
31:22
Lisa Morton: Cute.
31:22
TIffany Woolley: And then they might even bring it back home, and you know, it would it might get implemented into their own life.
31:29
TIffany Woolley: I think we should.
31:30
Lisa Morton: Definitely.
31:31
Lisa Morton: Um that's a that's a big one.
31:33
Lisa Morton: Uh the next one is not using your front door.
31:36
Lisa Morton: Oh, wait, tell us about that.
31:40
Lisa Morton: This is interesting.
31:41
Lisa Morton: So the front door in Feng Shui is considered the mouth of qi.
31:46
Lisa Morton: This is where energy comes into your home, right?
31:49
Lisa Morton: New opportunities, new fresh energy comes into your own.
31:52
Lisa Morton: So true, yeah.
31:53
Lisa Morton: So if you're not using it, you're probably feeling pretty stuck or stagnant in life.
31:58
Lisa Morton: And and I know we have garages, right?
32:01
Lisa Morton: Come and go through the garage, but I want I encourage everyone to come up with a plan, come up with a reason for using your front door.
32:10
Lisa Morton: Maybe put the dog leash, you know, in on in the table next to the front door, or that's where you take your morning walk in and out of the front door, or you get the mail through the front door.
32:21
Lisa Morton: Use it, get it, get it flowing, make it beautiful.
32:24
Lisa Morton: I love that.
32:26
Scott Woolley: That's another interesting thing that you bring up because we were watching a movie the other day, and I realized that every movie that you watch, everyone enters and comes in and out through the front door of that of the house, even TV shows.
32:40
Scott Woolley: Um, but we go in and out through the garage.
32:43
Scott Woolley: And I and I realized, like in our neighborhood, everyone goes in and out through their garage.
32:48
TIffany Woolley: But you're also right in saying it is such an exciting energy using the front door because every time you do go open the front door, it's to greet a friend, greet a guest, like the girl, my girls have music, he comes through the front door.
33:01
TIffany Woolley: You know, you get your packages through the front door, Amazon comes to the front door.
33:07
Scott Woolley: So, what other interesting because those are two great good ones you've brought up.
33:10
Scott Woolley: What other ones are there?
33:12
Lisa Morton: So I have a default.
33:14
Lisa Morton: If you want to do nothing else to your home, uh-huh, but you still want to lift the energy of it, find the centermost area of your home.
33:22
Lisa Morton: So to do that, you can you can walk to what would be the center of your home or look at a floor plan drawing.
33:29
Lisa Morton: You want to find the central most location.
33:32
Lisa Morton: So using that that tool that I mentioned earlier, the bagwa map, this this specific energy center is connected to health, health and well-being.
33:42
Lisa Morton: However, with the way the bagwa is laid out, is the energy from this gua connects to all the other guas.
33:51
Lisa Morton: So if you're improving this one area, you're essentially improving your entire home.
33:56
Lisa Morton: We don't have to dig deep into every space, but if you love on this area, so that might that's those like normal things that make sure the light bulbs aren't burned out, make sure the floor is swept, the rug is clean, the glass on the artwork is clean, right?
34:15
Lisa Morton: But then how can you enhance it?
34:18
Lisa Morton: Bring in a beautiful bouquet of flowers, which is my own.
34:21
TIffany Woolley: I was just gonna say, is every room supposed to have like a living thing, or is that an old wives' tale type of I mean, I always like my references of feng shui was like a black item isn't in a in a space.
34:37
TIffany Woolley: A black item?
34:38
TIffany Woolley: Yeah, and there's I could like some teacher at one point, or like a I think it was even like in a class, was like, yeah, even if it's just a speck of black in a rug, it's important to have that black.
34:52
Lisa Morton: Well, that would be the the the wood, the water element.
34:54
Lisa Morton: So you're gonna have that that touch of the water element.
34:58
Lisa Morton: Um, but you want it I would have a speck of each of the elements, right?
35:02
Lisa Morton: You don't have to default to color.
35:03
Lisa Morton: So that can be through other things, through the shapes, through the patterns, that watery pattern for a water element if you don't like blue or black, because of course we're designing beautiful spaces and we want our client to love the colors we're using.
35:17
Lisa Morton: So when we can bring in patterns and shapes, that makes it easier.
35:20
TIffany Woolley: Yeah, and not everybody wants a lot of color, and some do.
35:26
Lisa Morton: I think the the plants are most valuable in a monochromatic scheme.
35:32
Lisa Morton: For me, texture, when you have a monochromatic scheme, texture is key and plants.
35:40
Lisa Morton: Those are the two keys to making it work.
35:45
TIffany Woolley: So what was one of your big client transformations that was like, wow, this this is this is why I'm doing this?
35:57
Lisa Morton: I had a woman reach out to me, and this was uh several years ago when I was um I'd trained in it already for several years, but I was still, I was at this crossroads where I was questioning, do I stick with traditional design?
36:12
Lisa Morton: Do I fully dive into this?
36:15
Lisa Morton: You know, just sign.
36:19
Lisa Morton: Yeah.
36:20
Lisa Morton: Yeah, right.
36:21
Lisa Morton: Trying to navigate that.
36:22
Lisa Morton: And so I went to this woman's house and she told me she needed some help with a few things, and that was it.
36:28
Lisa Morton: So I had all my samples with me, and I'm walking up to her front door and walk in, nice as can be, felt completely normal.
36:36
Lisa Morton: We did a quick walk through the house and then we sat down at the dining table.
36:40
Lisa Morton: And she sat across from me and looked me directly in the eyes and said, Lisa, I'm dying.
36:46
Lisa Morton: I need your help, help to help setting up my space so when my children, so that when I'm gone, my children and my husband can go on living.
36:54
Lisa Morton: Right?
36:56
Lisa Morton: So they're they're ready to go move forward.
36:58
Lisa Morton: She'd been um battling cancer for many years and rounds and rounds, and it was just it had taken a toll and she'd made this decision.
37:09
Lisa Morton: So we did some general, just needed some upkeep, right?
37:15
Lisa Morton: Needed some new carpeting in in their in their um sitting room, needed some new furniture.
37:21
Lisa Morton: Uh, but then we did it with feng shui in mind, right?
37:24
Lisa Morton: We did these adjustments knowing they needed grounding during this this big time in their life.
37:31
Lisa Morton: They needed comfort and coziness, they needed a sense of renewal when the time comes.
37:37
Lisa Morton: So a lot of earth element, a lot of wood wood element.
37:41
Lisa Morton: And then the other thing is we created some really special moments in the house.
37:46
Lisa Morton: So they loved to go on trips and travel and had tons of photos.
37:51
Lisa Morton: We made a beautiful collage wall so they could enjoy and and look at these together as a family, right?
37:57
Lisa Morton: You know, during that time.
37:58
Lisa Morton: And then down the road when she was no longer there, they could still enjoy this collage wall.
38:03
Lisa Morton: Right.
38:03
Lisa Morton: Um for me, that just even original just even having her call me and us being put together in the same room, I was just like, okay, I I meant to do this.
38:16
Lisa Morton: Wow.
38:16
Lisa Morton: She lived for a couple more years and then passed, and I I just it was it was a very touching moment in my life.
38:25
TIffany Woolley: So how would somebody like that lady?
38:29
TIffany Woolley: How do they get to you?
38:31
TIffany Woolley: I mean, is it a referent referral most of the time?
38:34
TIffany Woolley: Is it through, you know, online?
38:37
TIffany Woolley: Is it through their own research?
38:39
Lisa Morton: Like how does somebody get to I have I actually just uh published my book last fall, Aligned at Home, which is uh a great resource to start exploring this.
38:50
Lisa Morton: And then if you do want to work together, I also have a podcast called Feng Shui Living Tips for Busy Women.
38:56
Lisa Morton: So I created this podcast because gosh, we are all so busy.
39:00
Lisa Morton: Yes.
39:01
Lisa Morton: And this there each episode is maybe 20 minutes long.
39:05
Lisa Morton: Okay.
39:06
Lisa Morton: With quick tips that you can go home and implement tonight or this weekend.
39:11
Lisa Morton: Easy adjustments to make yourself feel better.
39:14
Lisa Morton: So uh you can check out the podcast for uh what what's the name of it again?
39:19
Scott Woolley: Repeat the name.
39:20
Lisa Morton: So we have Feng Shui Living Tips for Busy Women.
39:23
Scott Woolley: And is it available out there, iTunes and for people to find out?
39:27
Lisa Morton: Wherever you get podcasts, also if you like video, it's on YouTube.
39:30
Scott Woolley: YouTube to release.
39:31
Scott Woolley: Great.
39:32
TIffany Woolley: No, it's a good place for people to I know because uh it's it's I say this a lot being in this business is uh interior design and the business of design is still such an untapped market, in my opinion.
39:46
TIffany Woolley: You know, it's now becoming more well-known.
39:50
TIffany Woolley: You know, for the last many, many years, it was like a luxury that people would have an interior designer.
39:56
TIffany Woolley: And and I feel like the create curating process, it's you know, furniture stores just can't do that for clients.
40:03
TIffany Woolley: It's a relationship.
40:04
TIffany Woolley: You're building this foundation in design, and you're really curating your home and your family's safe space and a place to be proud of and, you know, to enjoy.
40:15
TIffany Woolley: And it's such a, you know, at the same time, wellness, I mean, has to be the number one selling feature of everything in the marketplace today.
40:25
TIffany Woolley: Everybody wants to feel healthy, less encumbered in this very busy world.
40:32
TIffany Woolley: I mean, I can't imagine how awesome of a resource you are that you took this on to kind of marry these two philosophies.
40:43
Lisa Morton: It's been a wonderful experience to be able to help people.
40:47
Lisa Morton: I I've always kind of been a helper.
40:50
Lisa Morton: I I love doing, you know, supporting people.
40:53
Lisa Morton: Um and this is a deeper layer to do that and and help them through those difficult times.
41:00
Lisa Morton: Also help through the amazing times.
41:02
Lisa Morton: And and you know, it design is it's so valuable, whether it's feng shui holistic design or more just your just traditional design, like um not getting into the feng shui holistic design, whatever, it's so valuable.
41:18
Lisa Morton: Having your home make you feel good, make you feel welcome at the end of the day.
41:23
Scott Woolley: Have you ever had a project that was so challenging that when you looked at it, it you were puzzled or challenged on how you could help or assist?
41:34
Lisa Morton: I actually worked on a condo down in Miami and concrete jungle.
41:41
Lisa Morton: Well, the layout, it was literally, it was this really wild-shaped building, and the condo actually formed a triangle.
41:49
Lisa Morton: Uh-huh.
41:50
TIffany Woolley: And the lot of weird shapes in these buildings.
41:54
Lisa Morton: I know.
41:55
Lisa Morton: And it it just was, I I told him, I'm like, here's the thing.
41:59
Lisa Morton: This is telling me that you're broke, your relationships, you're not feeling supported, and all these different things.
42:06
Lisa Morton: And he's like, Yes, I just got divorced, I just moved here.
42:09
Lisa Morton: So he's agreeing, right?
42:11
Lisa Morton: And I'm like, your space is reflecting this.
42:14
Lisa Morton: You're not going to move forward if you stay in this space.
42:17
Lisa Morton: So he ended up was trying to decide between the two.
42:21
Lisa Morton: Does he stay here and move to the other one?
42:22
Lisa Morton: I'm like, move on.
42:24
Lisa Morton: If you're ready to take another step in life and move forward, you got to get out of this.
42:28
Lisa Morton: You got to get out of here.
42:30
Scott Woolley: Did he move?
42:30
TIffany Woolley: That's crazy.
42:32
TIffany Woolley: That is so crazy.
42:34
TIffany Woolley: And that's another thing I find so interesting about it too, is because even as I get calls for renovations or, you know, different architecture styles, I just feel like not studying feng shui, but you walk in and the architecture has terrible feng shui.
42:53
TIffany Woolley: Just in placement of, like as I'm trying to do what I do, just it doesn't make sense.
43:00
TIffany Woolley: What do you do in those circumstances?
43:03
TIffany Woolley: Like these crazy buildings.
43:05
TIffany Woolley: Or I feel like in the 90s, architects got tried to be super creative and they went away from the classic, you know, rectangular spaces, and now they have all these curls, there's always angles everywhere.
43:19
TIffany Woolley: I said half of what I do is really just square up spaces.
43:23
Lisa Morton: Yes.
43:23
Lisa Morton: I I have so much respect for architects.
43:25
Lisa Morton: However, they don't always think about how you're going to furnish it.
43:29
Lisa Morton: Number one, how the people are going to move through the space.
43:33
Lisa Morton: How are they going to walk through the space or move about it?
43:36
Lisa Morton: So that's where we come in to really be able to furnish it.
43:40
Lisa Morton: It can be tricky.
43:42
Lisa Morton: Um I use a lot of um, I think I mentioned a couple times, I like to use different tools to draw your eye in certain directions.
43:54
Lisa Morton: So maybe instead of the cement pillar, we'll draw your eye over to, you know, is Six feet to a plant, right?
44:02
Lisa Morton: So that goes away, and that's not something you're visually experiencing, but you the green plant, which makes you feel renewed, is where your eye is going, if that makes sense.
44:11
Lisa Morton: So just getting creative, using artwork, using all the tools we can.
44:15
Lisa Morton: That's so interesting.
44:17
Scott Woolley: Are there conferences or conventions that people can go to learn more about this?
44:24
Lisa Morton: Um, I actually do my own, I do some trainings, I offer certification that I don't know of any.
44:30
Lisa Morton: There are some online um things.
44:33
Lisa Morton: I there are also some great books.
44:36
Lisa Morton: Um YouTube videos, go explore.
44:40
Lisa Morton: Here's what I will say what I struggled with and why I wrote my book is because when I first started studying this, I would read one book and I'd kind of get it.
44:51
Lisa Morton: And then I'd read another book and I was thoroughly confused.
44:54
Lisa Morton: I'm like, wait a minute, the other one.
44:55
TIffany Woolley: Well, I would say that's me too, whatever I have read.
44:59
TIffany Woolley: Like I don't know where it begins and ends and then how to actually make it work.
45:04
Lisa Morton: Exactly.
45:05
Lisa Morton: So then this is my my goal in writing my book, and like I want it easy to understand.
45:11
Lisa Morton: So Feng Shui, like so many other things, over years has shifted into different schools or sects.
45:18
Lisa Morton: So I'm also a yogi, right?
45:20
Lisa Morton: So you might practice binyasa yoga, and then your friend might practice ashtanga, right?
45:25
Lisa Morton: It's similar to that.
45:26
Lisa Morton: Uh so there's there's multiple different schools of approach.
45:31
Lisa Morton: Yes.
45:32
TIffany Woolley: Okay.
45:32
Lisa Morton: And so that's kind of the key is to find out that person, maybe how their approach works, and then continue studying that approach versus just random books, because that's what will get you confused.
45:46
TIffany Woolley: Yeah, it is like I would think it's, you know, like yoga or like most things, like the practice has to be continual and has to be in harmony versus like you don't want to be putting that little speck of black in the room that you're not supposed to.
46:05
Lisa Morton: Well, I think it's important to recognize too, we don't live like they did 4,000 years ago.
46:09
Lisa Morton: Yes, exactly.
46:10
Lisa Morton: We need to live in our current house and with a melting pot of people and different traditions and practices and materials at electronics.
46:21
TIffany Woolley: And it's I was yeah, I was gonna ask about electronics and all of that.
46:27
TIffany Woolley: I actually recently have a client who's very into health and in wellness.
46:32
TIffany Woolley: She's a yogi as well, and she found this company locally here in South Florida that comes in and basically puts all these little objects in places to, I can't even think of the right word, but take all that technology.
46:48
TIffany Woolley: EMFs.
46:49
TIffany Woolley: EMFs, yes.
46:50
TIffany Woolley: Yes.
46:50
TIffany Woolley: So I mean, is that a part of this?
46:53
TIffany Woolley: I mean, in this new as you grow with techno, I mean, what we're like you said, how tell us about this.
47:00
Lisa Morton: Like so these electromagnetic frequencies, we have electronics everywhere, and uh, you know, it we can't really escape them.
47:08
Lisa Morton: Uh internet, you know, wireless signals and things.
47:11
Lisa Morton: Um, so we can use different things around our space.
47:15
Lisa Morton: Now, this is, I would say this is more of a, this is something I do with my clients, but not everyone in Feng Shui might get into EMFs, right?
47:24
Lisa Morton: Um, but it's important to um recognize uh there's different things you can do to support yourself.
47:31
Lisa Morton: One of my favorite things, probably the most wonderful thing I ever bought, I'll say it, is a grounding sheet for my bed.
47:39
TIffany Woolley: Uh with the child who has one.
47:42
Lisa Morton: I since we bought that, it's amazing.
47:47
Scott Woolley: That's so so people listening and watching, a grounding sheet for their bed.
47:52
Lisa Morton: What is grounding sheets for your bed?
47:54
Lisa Morton: They're different.
47:55
Scott Woolley: Is this the blankets that really, really heavy?
47:58
Lisa Morton: No, it's actually a sheet that has um metallic threads woven, tiny screen woven through, and then you plug it into the ground, only the ground outlet.
48:07
Lisa Morton: There's just a one little nub that plugs into the ground in your in your home.
48:10
Lisa Morton: And um, you can you there's this can be a really deep dive looking into this, but even just being aware are there several electrical outlets near your head where you're sleeping.
48:22
TIffany Woolley: Yeah, I had a client who didn't want her son's headboard on one wall because all the uh what do you the electric boxes were on that box in the garage?
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
48:33
Lisa Morton: That's it's definitely important.
48:34
Lisa Morton: And people will notice if you're being affected by this, you might feel foggy headed, you might just be always sleepy, you're not resting well.
48:43
Lisa Morton: That would be me.
48:44
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
48:45
Lisa Morton: It's it's interesting to look at and just look at where where you're spending long periods of time.
48:50
Lisa Morton: So that could be in bed, that could be at your desk, that wherever you're spending long periods of time, and what's around you.
48:57
Lisa Morton: So what does the grounding sheet do?
48:59
Lisa Morton: Does it like ward off all that electricity?
49:03
Lisa Morton: So it actually plugs into the uh a ground, the ground wire that goes down into the earth from your home, right?
49:09
Lisa Morton: And so it it it mimics that that connecting to the earth.
49:15
Scott Woolley: Wait, what how does it do that?
49:17
Scott Woolley: It it's like a ground, so it I don't know how to best explain it, but it kind of pulls the electricity.
49:26
Lisa Morton: Yeah, because everyone every home has a grounding rod, right?
49:30
Lisa Morton: And it's built.
49:31
Lisa Morton: Yeah.
49:31
Lisa Morton: And it connects to the electrical that then connects to your sheet.
49:37
Lisa Morton: And this is just one, there are grounding mats.
49:40
Lisa Morton: Um, yes, I've seen that.
49:42
Lisa Morton: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
49:43
Lisa Morton: I've seen that.
49:44
Lisa Morton: So this is just just one little way to get into um supporting your body.
49:52
Lisa Morton: I mean, that's really what all this work is about.
49:54
Lisa Morton: There are different things you can do if you want to get lean a little more woo, uh, rocks and crystals, right?
50:01
TIffany Woolley: They're they're chunks of she did too.
50:04
TIffany Woolley: She and then these triangular crystals.
50:07
TIffany Woolley: We could talk for days.
50:10
TIffany Woolley: There's so totally options.
50:12
TIffany Woolley: That's what I mean.
50:13
TIffany Woolley: It's such an untapped, it's just beginning, I feel like.
50:17
Scott Woolley: For the average person who would like to learn more about this, how much time does it take to really fully understand and and bring this into your life?
50:27
Scott Woolley: Um Is it as easy as is it is it as easy as reading your book and then closing your own.
50:35
Lisa Morton: No, but reading your reading your book and close and then finish reading it and really have a full great sense of I think you'll have a great understanding and your you will feel reset in how you look at your space, right?
50:49
Lisa Morton: You will have you will have different lenses to view your space, right?
50:52
Lisa Morton: And you'll be able to see things you didn't see before and realize, oh, well, that's why I never felt comfortable sitting in that chair before.
51:00
Lisa Morton: Things go quick and things will make sense.
51:02
Lisa Morton: If you want to, I mean, I've studied it for over 10 years.
51:06
Lisa Morton: Um, I think you can you can go deep and it takes a long time, but you don't you can make great, amazing, wonderful shifts for your home, your life, your family, just with a few easy adjustments.
51:19
Lisa Morton: I love that.
51:20
TIffany Woolley: So, what's one easy adjustment that you'd like to leave our listeners with today?
51:26
Lisa Morton: Oh, well, um, I I made up a word.
51:30
Lisa Morton: It's called nestoration.
51:34
Lisa Morton: So I love it.
51:35
Lisa Morton: I wrote about it in my in my book, and it's all about tending to your nest, right?
51:40
Lisa Morton: Tending to this beautiful nest that's our home.
51:43
Lisa Morton: And it doesn't always have to be big little things.
51:45
Lisa Morton: It can be, you know, an example of a nestoration is just it's slowing down and taking an extra moment to to infuse your home with a little love.
51:56
Lisa Morton: So that could be making your bed and instead of quickly making it, take an extra minute, smooth out the blanket with love, adjust the trim on the pillow.
52:08
Lisa Morton: So when you wake up at night, it feels really good to do that.
52:10
Lisa Morton: I do all that.
52:11
Lisa Morton: I do all of that.
52:12
Lisa Morton: Just little, just slow down, take one extra minute as you're doing an everyday thing.
52:20
TIffany Woolley: I do that too at night before I go to bed.
52:23
TIffany Woolley: I like it to wake up and you feel, you know, like your house was taken care of.
52:29
Lisa Morton: Exactly.
52:29
Lisa Morton: Exactly.
52:30
Lisa Morton: And I allow it.
52:31
Lisa Morton: And it's also that that energy and time that you're putting into it.
52:35
Lisa Morton: It's just a brief moment, but it's it's it's implement, it's infusing your home with love and care for it.
52:41
Lisa Morton: And it will tend to come back.
52:44
Scott Woolley: So putting flowers into the house every week, would that be part of that?
52:50
Lisa Morton: I I'm one of those people I struggle with the winter blaz.
52:53
Lisa Morton: So I started this a few years back and I call it the flower challenge.
52:57
Lisa Morton: And I encourage all my clients to do the same.
53:00
Lisa Morton: To every week bring in flowers, and it it can even be just like a small little bouquet or just even a clipping of a houseplant from a neighbor, right?
53:11
Lisa Morton: Every week bring in plants or flowers into your home as a gift to your home.
53:17
Lisa Morton: Not to you, but to your home.
53:20
Scott Woolley: Tiffany's been doing that forever in our house.
53:22
Scott Woolley: There's six rooms in the house every week.
53:25
Scott Woolley: I'll go to Costco.
53:27
Scott Woolley: You better make sure you bring the flowers.
53:29
Scott Woolley: Like bring the two bouquets of flowers.
53:31
Scott Woolley: Trader Joe's is there.
53:32
Scott Woolley: Trader Joe's is the best.
53:35
Scott Woolley: I know.
53:36
TIffany Woolley: That's why we got it.
53:38
Scott Woolley: And our kids, but you know, they the girls they cut the flowers and six rooms every single week.
53:43
Scott Woolley: There's fresh flowers.
53:45
Lisa Morton: That's fantastic.
53:46
Lisa Morton: That's fantastic.
53:47
TIffany Woolley: And I feel like in our professional.
53:49
Scott Woolley: But you've made me feel so much better about it because I always look at it spending the money on flowers, you're just gonna die by the end of the week.
53:56
Scott Woolley: But she's insistent, and my kids are now too.
53:59
Scott Woolley: And it does make a nice difference.
54:00
Scott Woolley: It does.
54:01
Lisa Morton: So that's that wood element, the energy of renewal and regrowth and moving forward and taking that next step.
54:07
Lisa Morton: So it's a beautiful thing to bring in, worth every penny of your investment.
54:12
Scott Woolley: So do you ever do classes with groups of people?
54:14
Scott Woolley: And I do.
54:16
Lisa Morton: I do offer some classes.
54:17
Lisa Morton: I have a really fun one that is my favorite to do.
54:19
Lisa Morton: It's called color mastery.
54:21
Lisa Morton: And we dive into color because I feel like color appeals to so many people, whether you're into design, whether you're into fang shui, whether you're just like an artist or curious about color.
54:33
Lisa Morton: Um, we talk about a little history about color, um, some color theory, but then we get into uh color psychology, which is so fun to do.
54:44
Lisa Morton: It's huge too.
54:45
Lisa Morton: That's just another big yeah, it is.
54:49
Lisa Morton: Yeah.
54:50
Lisa Morton: So color, we get into color psychology and then we talk about putting together a rough palette.
54:55
Lisa Morton: Like if you're not working with a designer and you're like, I'm lost, here's how you can start, right?
55:00
Lisa Morton: And think about the things that you're selecting, right?
55:02
Lisa Morton: I love to get into a little bit of trends in this as well, because trends are fun.
55:07
Lisa Morton: And I I always say, people, you you don't have to follow a trend, right?
55:12
Lisa Morton: It's use it as inspiration, but you need to know prior to implementing that trend, how it's going to affect your body.
55:19
Lisa Morton: For example, the deep moody colors that have been so popular, right?
55:25
Lisa Morton: They're great, but you need to know that that is going to put being just surrounded by the burgundy, the charcoal, the chocolate brown, the navy, it's gonna put your body into a feeling um kind of like like the winter season.
55:40
Lisa Morton: Okay.
55:40
Lisa Morton: You kind of want to curl up with a cup of tea.
55:42
Lisa Morton: It's cozy.
55:43
Lisa Morton: Yeah, it's a cozy.
55:44
Lisa Morton: You're not gonna be super motivated to go get on the treadmill.
55:47
Lisa Morton: So you just need to be aware of that.
55:50
TIffany Woolley: Yeah.
55:51
TIffany Woolley: So that's one of my favorite classes.
55:53
TIffany Woolley: I really think that's fascinating.
55:56
TIffany Woolley: Well, there's so much to learn and tap into.
55:59
TIffany Woolley: We're so grateful for sharing your information with us today.
56:04
TIffany Woolley: And I wanna read your book.
56:06
TIffany Woolley: I'm gonna definitely I would love to send you a copy.
56:08
TIffany Woolley: It's it's uh I was it's I think it's a it's something I feel like I'm doing subconsciously.
56:15
TIffany Woolley: So I'd love to understand why I'm, you know, kind of connecting to some of those philosophies in my own, you know, design process.
56:25
Scott Woolley: We appreciate you joining us today.
56:27
Lisa Morton: Thank you so much.
56:28
Lisa Morton: And and I have to say, I think being uh in the design world, I think you start practicing these things naturally without knowing.
56:35
Lisa Morton: But once you have a a word to put with it or a description, it all clicks and you're like, aha, I understand that.
56:40
Lisa Morton: Yeah, and I would love why you're doing things.
56:43
TIffany Woolley: Absolutely.
56:44
TIffany Woolley: I would love to, you know, understand more.
56:47
TIffany Woolley: I do think it's so important.
56:48
TIffany Woolley: And especially in, as we said, this world where everybody's eating healthier, they're making healthier lifestyle choices.
56:55
TIffany Woolley: Like, why not connect that to your home?
56:58
TIffany Woolley: I mean, that's just one more step of alignment.
57:03
Scott Woolley: And what's your website?
57:05
Scott Woolley: Let our audience know.
57:07
Lisa Morton: Sure, it's Pure Living with Lisa Morton.com, and it's spelled M-O-R-T-O-N Pure Living with Lisa Morton.
57:15
Scott Woolley: All right, we appreciate it.
57:16
Lisa Morton: Aligned at home.
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Scott Woolley: Stay with us, don't leave as we wrap up.
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TIffany Woolley: Thank you.
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TIffany Woolley: Thank you for listening to the iDesign Lab today with Lisa Morton.
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