For Harlowe’s founders, frustration became the catalyst for change.
What happens when business owners stop accepting scattered systems, manual follow-ups, and time-consuming workflows as “just part of running a business”?
In this episode of Staging Sips, Lori sits down with Harlowe founding members Kishah Langham and Erin Galvin to talk candidly about the frustrations that led them to search for a better way to run their staging businesses.
Kishah brings 15 years of business experience in Houston, Texas, while Erin is approaching her first anniversary as a staging business owner in Colorado. Although they entered Harlowe at very different stages of their businesses, they shared the same goal: creating systems that would make their work simpler, faster, and easier to scale.
They share how bringing scheduling, proposals, agreements, payments, client communication, renewals, reporting, and business insights into one place has changed their day-to-day operations. Erin explains how she reduced the time required to complete a consultation report and can now send a professional proposal in about five minutes, even from the pool with her children. Kishah shares how Harlowe helped streamline her staging services and educational events while eliminating the need to chase registrations and payments across multiple platforms.
You’ll also hear how their real-world feedback helped shape Harlowe. Kishah’s staging school inspired Harlowe’s event functionality, while Erin’s workflow inspired new ways to use project images within proposals. Their experiences reveal what it truly looks like to help build a platform while actively using it to run a business.
Kishah and Erin also share the human side of adopting a new system: finding bugs, suggesting improvements, trusting the process, and watching their ideas become features that can serve staging businesses throughout the industry.
Their stories show what becomes possible when technology fits the way you actually work. Fewer disconnected tools. Faster proposals. Smoother payments. Clearer business information. More time to grow your company and live your life.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Why Kishah and Erin prioritized better systems at two very different stages of business
- How bringing scheduling, proposals, agreements, and payments into one place simplified their workflows
- How reusable templates helped turn proposal creation into a five-minute task
- How automation created a faster, easier experience for their clients while reducing manual follow-up
- How Harlowe gave Kishah and Erin more time for business growth, passion projects, and family
- How their real-world feedback and beta-testing experiences helped shape Harlowe’s features
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Kishah Langham
Texas Stagers
https://www.stagingtexas.net/about-us
www.instagram.com/texas_stagers
Erin Galvin
Finishing Touch Interiors
https://www.finishingtouchinteriorsco.com/about
www.instagram.com/finishingtouchinteriorsco
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