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Simone Mathews

Simone Mathews

Australian interior designer and founder of SOUL Home, known for coastal design projects like Soul of Gerringong, The Bower, and The Pause.

Sep 16, 2026

Build Beautiful

Build Beautiful

"Energy Over Empire" — Simone Mathews on Choosing to Build Smaller

Sep 16 · 42m

Linda HabakHOST
17:17
Mm.
Simone Mathews
Simone MathewsGUEST
17:18
Following on from the whole Gerringong chapter, then client work just went crazy.
Simone Mathews
Simone MathewsGUEST
17:22
So all of a sudden I had, for me, a team of six at one stage.
Simone Mathews
Simone MathewsGUEST
17:27
At one time we had nine projects going.
Simone Mathews
Simone MathewsGUEST
17:30
And I just was like, I just turned around one day and said to my husband, Ben, "What am I doing?" Like, I have never had this goal to, like-

7 MINS LATER

Linda HabakHOST
24:46
Yeah.
Simone Mathews
Simone MathewsGUEST
24:46
So I was just like, "Oh, okay." So that was the purpose of sharing things.
Simone Mathews
Simone MathewsGUEST
24:52
It wasn't the build side of it.

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