She Stopped Thinking Like A Designer with Courtney Petrovich

Inside First · Oct 7, 2026 · 47m

Courtney Petrovich didn’t start out thinking she would become a designer, let alone build a design firm working on hotels and high-end short-term rentals.

In this episode of Inside First, Courtney shares how she went from real estate investing to discovering a passion for design, and how one short-term rental changed the direction of her career. She talks about going from assembling furniture on the floor of her first paid project to sitting inside a hotel she was designing just one year later.Courtney also breaks down the identity shift that helped her stop thinking like a designer and start…