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Episode One with Marianne Cherico

The Boring Bits is a video series where we sit down virtually with people who have run businesses in the design and trade world, and dig into the unglamorous details about how those businesses worked behind the scenes. 

About this episode
Marianne Cherico ran staging and real estate businesses, which means she's managed client pipelines, timelines, and handoffs from more angles than many of us ever will. We'll be talking through how those businesses operated day to day: the decisions that kept things moving, the cracks that showed up anyway, and what she'd handle differently with hindsight.

This conversation will be recorded with a small live audience watching (that's you!). You'll have the chance to ask your own questions near the end, so come with the things you've been wondering about.

Details
July 21, 2026
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Eastern

Who We Are

We are Dixie and Paxton Willard, the mother/daughter co-founders of Poised & Plumb, a virtual operations and workflow consultancy serving residential interior designers, general contractors, landscape designers, stagers, workrooms, and other project-based service businesses across the US.

We specialize in evaluating and streamlining software setups, helping our clients build customized project workflows, and documenting the processes that have never made it out of someone's head. Every system is specific to how that individual business runs, not how it's "supposed" to run on paper and not how someone else's business runs.