Aug 31, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 12 segments
In this episode, Audrey Havey shares her journey from freelancing to co-owning a creative studio with her husband, Justin. They discuss the challenges and strategies of running a small studio…
Audrey HaveyGuest
Matt VojacekHost
Shelby HagerdonHost
I want to get into some of the details here and understand like how things have changed.
I don't know how much you want to talk about some of the strategies that you use in these different things.
But I guess for me specifically, it's there's five hats, right? There are many more.
We'll talk about human resources, which is always a fun one with a two-person company that are married to each other.
I mean, how do you navigate that now? Like, so have things changed that much when it comes to just how you are creating anything at this point?
As of right now, no, I think that was kind of one of our bigger selling points to like, you know, we are a duo and, you know, the best kind of duo we're married, but we have like the ultimate network through our collective experiences of if we need to tap someone in to kind of create the ultimate a team.
But ideally, because of our complementary skill sets, we're able to tackle so much more together.
And, you know, we've each kind of had like, you know, projects that are more respective towards editorial and Justin's kind of manning that.
And then I've been, you know, there's some branding and design stuff that's been more of me.
But the key difference of being able to Just like ask each other, like, hey, what do you think of this? And just that second pair of eyes, not that we didn't do that as freelancers, but we are both so ingrained in both projects where like we're almost kind of like producers for each other, too, in a way.
I want to get into some of the details here and understand like how things have changed.
I don't know how much you want to talk about some of the strategies that you use in these different things.
But I guess for me specifically, it's there's five hats, right? There are many more.
We'll talk about human resources, which is always a fun one with a two-person company that are married to each other.
I mean, how do you navigate that now? Like, so have things changed that much when it comes to just how you are creating anything at this point?
As of right now, no, I think that was kind of one of our bigger selling points to like, you know, we are a duo and, you know, the best kind of duo we're married, but we have like the ultimate network through our collective experiences of if we need to tap someone in to kind of create the ultimate a team.
But ideally, because of our complementary skill sets, we're able to tackle so much more together.
And, you know, we've each kind of had like, you know, projects that are more respective towards editorial and Justin's kind of manning that.
And then I've been, you know, there's some branding and design stuff that's been more of me.
But the key difference of being able to Just like ask each other, like, hey, what do you think of this? And just that second pair of eyes, not that we didn't do that as freelancers, but we are both so ingrained in both projects where like we're almost kind of like producers for each other, too, in a way.
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