Midnight Meets Emma's Universe
In August 2022, I had the pleasure of speaking with Emma DiGallo and being on Emma's Universe. Her podcast is about life, spirituality, business, and fun stories. Something we can all relate about. New Episodes are released Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. She also has collaboration with other podcasters and guests; those episodes are released during the week as well. She started a new series called Business Breakthrough which is focused on CEO/business owners that will share their insights. That is where I come in. I hope you enjoy watching it and below are some excerpts.
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She's Everywhere and Many More Places Then This!
Hello and welcome to Emma's podcast. In today's podcast I have someone amazing and I love. I will let you know why. You're going to discover why in the name of her company. Oh my God, I would wish to have that name. Seriously. So we're gonna get started by saying this is Kristin Kodenski started as a designer first, then she moved on to sales and marketing administrator, then marketing director. Very nice. Then moved to be a manager, trainer, webmaster and print designer. Which is pretty cool because when you're thinking about the webmaster and print designer, it's like oh my goodness, creativity at this best. Then move to be a pre-media director and then a director of positive thinking. I like that. To finally what she does today. She is the owner of Midnight design and Promos, LLC. That's what I said, Midnight Design. I love that name. It's beautiful.
How did you came up with the name Midnight Design?
Well, I have a thing for the moon and the Renaissance personally. But I went to college for Communication Design and I got a job in a big ad agency in Baltimore called Axiom Communications. They were nice enough to give me some of their smaller clients. So I freelanced at night and so I was like Lady Midnight working at Midnight Design. Even when you have your own company, I still work late at night. It was basically burning the midnight oil. And I put my love for the renaissance and the night in the name and Midnight Design came about.
Did you always wanted to be a designer, a creative person or how did you get started and why did you take that path?
Well, some people change their minds and don't know what they want to do. But I've always loved the arts. In the high school I went to had a very special art program. I saw extra outside art classes at the Maryland Art Institute and then I went to Syracuse which has an incredible art program. And I knew I wanted to do communication design, but just in case I decided to do surface pattern design or illustration. There was a world of other choices in the art field. I got an airbrush kit from my parents when I was really little and I was selling airbrush t shirts to my swim team, I was very young. Some of my family is artistic and a lot of them are entrepreneurs, they own restaurants and their own business. So I got both the entrepreneur business gene and artist gene. A lot of time people are surprised about me, is a lot of artists don't have the business or sales sense along with the artistic talent.
There's nothing against someone who's just purely artistic and there's artists that can do stuff that I can't do. So I admire all types of artists but that is one thing that makes me unique and a combination of the marketing side with the artistic side.
I do direct mail, websites and a whole spectrum of services. My social media is exploding. I have a platform and I have added digital holiday products. So you just learn from your failures. It wasn't a huge failure, but yeah, that's why my company has changed. You got to be able to pivot in life.
Where can people find you?
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