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Designing a rebrand can feel overwhelming and complicated, and if you get it wrong, your business takes a hit. This is exactly the challenge facing Mickaela Allison-Aliifua. She launched “Avie Daisy Designs” in 2020 as a hobby. Her custom beaded pet collars are inspired by traditional beadwork from her Navajo heritage. But as business picks up steam, she wants to grow bigger and bolder - and she feels like the Avie Daisy brand doesn’t quite capture her vision. She wants to rename, redesign, and relaunch — but worries her customers won’t follow. How can design help her execute this rebrand without starting from scratch?

Hangover Coffee’s branding is pretty slick, but it’s missing a personal touch. Founders Natalie Ma and Melody Jung have focused most of their design efforts on marketing their pour over coffee pouches with bold product shots and videos, but as a result, their social content doesn’t say much about who’s behind the company. They want their design to share more of their story to connect with customers and stand out from the pack. But how can they design a more personal brand?

Jon’s business, Plant Man P, is a melding of his two passions: streetwear and houseplants. It’s a unique combination, but it means that Jon’s audience is fractured: the houseplant crowd don’t resonate as much with his streetwear posts, and vice versa. As a result, Jon is stumbling through efforts to design great content. Should he try to please everyone, all the time? Or can we help him find a design strategy to hone in on his target audience?

Therapist Adriana Alejandre is great at helping patients refresh their mindsets and improve their mental health. But when it comes to her own branding, she feels stuck in the past and just stuck creatively. Her mental health org, Latinx Therapy, has grown in leaps and bounds since it was founded in 2018, and it’s time for a branding update. Khoi’s challenge today is helping Adriana feel inspired to create a new look that represents the breadth of the Latinx population and herself, so Latinx Therapy can move with confidence and clarity into its next stage.

Juliana’s social media content is, as she says, a mess. The color, typeface, and style are inconsistent, and her message is getting lost. As a realtor, she finds great satisfaction working with first-time homebuyers, and she wants to be an educational resource for her clients online, making the process of home ownership less intimidating. But the process of designing engaging educational content on her social feeds overwhelms her. If Juliana wants to teach her clients about the market, she needs lessons on how design can help.

Will Humphrey, aka Will on a Whim, grew up in foster care where none of his foster parents knew how to care for his natural hair. So he’s on a mission to change that for the next generation, creating funny, lively hair content on Youtube and Tiktok. And he’s really good at it - to quote one of our guests from this episode, Will’s content is “fire.” But his website, where he sells the merch to fund this mission, is a different story. Or, rather, it doesn’t tell much of a story at all. It’s functional but sparse, and doesn’t properly represent Will’s brand, energy, or purpose. So the challenge today is to help Will see a new vision for his website - and then build it himself.