This podcast was the first step on a life changing journey into freelancing. Heidi’s enthusiastic spirit and solid guidance have helped me, and so many others, to create a career I absolutely love. Thank you!

This one’s in my earbuds every week 🎧 I can always count on Heidi to tell it like it is and give realistic insights on freelancing in fashion. I can’t stand over-produced/fake podcasts so this one is fantastic. A genuine conversation!💃

Only glorified reviews. Reviews and opinions seem doctored. I don’t trust anything that only posts good and great reviews. Fishy

Great show for freelancers and entrepreneurs who want to learn from real stories, case studies, and overcoming challenges in the industry. The host Heidi lets her personality and experience shine while giving guests room to share valuable insights from real life (often from a surprising angle). Definitely check this one out!

Very valuable information and great guest, however the hosts frequently talks over and seems to rush the guest through by taling over them and incessant "uh, huhs and mmm's". Just wish she would let them speak and come in when they've finished the thought. It's diistracting to the listener and I'm sure distracting to the guest.

If you’re in the freelancing in fashion space, this place is for you! So much valuable information to gain here. Even though I’ve skipped around and haven’t listened to all of the episodes, it’s helped immensely in navigating how to start and what to do next. I loved episodes 107, 177, and 192 in particular as they talk about how to set up your freelance contracts, expanding your network and niching down. I highly recommend giving this a listen.

This show literally changed my life because it showed me not just that I COULD work for myself but gave me steps on HOW to do it with **real, live, bonified proven techniques from fashion freelance rockstars.** I had been working in the industry for over a decade at the time I found the show. I found the show by pure happenstance (looking for a fashion related podcast as a way of getting through another grueling day-in-the-life of a corporate designer LOLOL). I binged every episode and for the first time realized that the dissatisfaction I had in the industry was a shared burden. My freelance journey has not been 100% easy 100% of the time but it has been rewarding and full of more wins than losses. I wouldn’t have had the confidence to take the plunge if it weren’t for Successful Fashion Freelancer. I 👏🏽 JUST 👏🏽 LOVE 👏🏽 THIS 👏🏽 SHOW!!!

Great place to get informed! As someone just trying to figure things out, I have learned a ton about the fashion business. This podcast has given me the confidence to know that I can break into this business!!!

I’ve been listening to this podcast for YEARS and Heidi has definitely given me the confidence to pursue a freelance career and I’m so stoked for all her free resources and support 💯

Very informational and helpful! Thank you Heidi for helping small designers like me.

Love your podcast. It is EVERYTHING for a fashion newbie such as myself. Sending everyone to listen and than you!!!

Full disclosure, I am not in fashion design but my wife is an experienced fashion designer who has spent her entire career in corporate apparel design. After years of the grind, my wife is strongly considering a transition to freelance and all of Heidi’s episodes have been incredibly helpful to help us decide if freelance is a realistic option for her. Jumping into freelance after years of a stable job is very scary and nerve-wrecking, but the information and tips Heidi provides really helps to lessen the fear. We will be long-time listeners from now on! Thank you, Heidi!

Heidi brings amazing content from excellent interviews with real life fashion practitioners. Such great candid stories, so encouraging! Thank you!

Love this podcast, great content and resource for fashion designers out there.

This is an amazing podcast that I’ve been recommending to all of my fellow fashion entrepreneurs! I love hearing all of the stories and experiences people have working in the industry. I recently left my corporate fashion job to start my own business and this podcast has been incredibly helpful. Thank so much Heidi!

This podcast is godsent for independent designers in Fashion industry. SewHeidi presents such an amazing podcasts with a Industryspecalists & professionals and asks such important and valuble questions and gets them to answer! Basically spill the beans which is so hard to find in Fashn industry which is mostly secretive...

I’m so glad I found this lol. Even though I’m only a student as of now, this is already helping me prepare for the future!

I just love the successful fashion designer podcast. I wish it was an ending because it is so insightful and so helpful. Thank you so much for all that you’ve done. And if there’s a way that you cannot in this, keep it going!

This podcast is so insightful and inspiring I recommend it to all my fashion design friends!

I really love this podcast! I have been a fashion designer in NY for 7 years and I have learned SO much from this podcast! Also I had no idea it was a possibility for me to go freelance and get my own clients! I’m preparing myself to do that now! Heidi also has many other resources in her website to make that happen!

Inspiring, value packed and chock full of juicy bits! I’ve never come away from a podcast so jubilant. Your great energy and enthusiasm always comes across in your shows, and this show you and your guest’s excitement was uber infectious. Thank yooooo!

Listened to the interview w/ shilo byrd. I love pattern making and it's cool to listen to what other PMs experience is like!

I love tuning in! So many topic that are swepy under the rug are brought up. The small things you aren't taught in school are spoken in depth here. It opened up my mind. Thank you!

Have listened to a number of interviews to date and love it! Working to launch my own shoe brand, and it’s very insightful to hear experiences from other founders who have seemingly made it. The highs, lows, watchouts, and interesting stories along the way are insanely valuable. Hopefully I can pay it back and make my way onto the show at some point. Beyond the insights, it’s well produced and highly engaging. Highly recommend it.

Ms.Heidi!as I can not stress to you enough how thankful I am for all the hard work you and your husband (Tara your assistant too!) put into this podcast. As a current Fine Arts/Architecture/ Fashion Design student I am literally swamped with textbook curriculums so it is refreshing to find sanctuary with your episodes. Listening and taking detailed notes has become a religion for me as I launch my own brand using my limited savings and sphere of influence support system. Im learning the thru these testimonies of everyday people and you as well and I honestly don’t know how I’d learn the non-academic know how’s. without this incredible platform you work so hard to deliver to your following. 1 episode per day is my goal, and I will follow that up with supporting you by enrolling in as many of the courses you have to offer because I really believe in investing into myself via the gaining of as much knowledge as possible. May you continue to stay blessed, safe, healthy and successful! I hope to one day be able to help others by sharing my journey in the near future because I live by the philosophy, “Whats knowledge if it is not to be passed along to the generation which succeeds you ?” Respectfully Submitted by Antonio Pierre Lewis

A variety of guests with great information of all sides of the industry

I’ve been in the fashion industry for 5 (ish) years, entering it without attending a four year program. I so appreciate how Sew Heidi asks specific questions and really prompts (and empowers!) guests to share specifics around marketing tactics, getting funding, etc. The devil is in the details, and this podcast is MONEYYYYY. Real actionable info paired with longer term planning and strategy tips, and that is something so many other fashion podcasts lack. Thank you, Heidi, Tara and the team. -Brianne H

Every morning, on my agonizing drive to work, I listen to this podcast and it gives me so much inspiration and truly helps me get through my busy and stressful day. I listen to an episode on the way there and one on the way back. This is a gold mine of information with profound perspectives and relevant shared experiences and insight! You need this in your life if you love fashion design as much as me! Can’t wait until the next one.

El contenido de este podcast es demasiado valioso para diseñadores, emprendedores y freelancers que quieren abrir camino en el mercado estadounidense, las herramientas que ella ofrece son muy utiles para familiarizarse con terminologia que ayuda con fichas tecnicas, hablar con compradores, showrooms etc. Juan Pablo es la prueba de eso! Nunca me canso de recomendarle este podcast a mis amigos latinos. Gracias Heidi!

SFD helped me create my tech pack and learn what I was doing correctly and needed to change... thank you!

As a new fashion entrepreneur with no experience in the apparel industry, SFD Podcast has been a lifesaver with asking the right questions and knowing what step to take next. Thank you for all of the engaging, interesting, and extremely helpful content. As someone who is currently looking to hire a freelance designer for my brand I’d love to hear something about that side of the interaction! Thank you and keep up the awesome work!!

For anyone interested in a career in fashion, this podcast is a must-listen! Every podcast serves up a insight about making it in the fashion industry. Her guests are great, but Heidi’s ability to interview are amazing. She crushes it! If I were on the faculty of a fashion design school or program, I would make this required listening. In fact, I would be teaching a class on this podcast to get students to listen and learn.

I can honestly say that this podcast has given me a more clear picture of the different ways to become a fashion designer and be in the fashion industry, whether that be through working for a large company or starting your own business. There are so many ways to work in fashion, and so many ways to get into it, it’s just not a very obvious or easy path to choose. This podcast has helped me gain some more insight into it, and I would recommend it for other aspiring fashion designers.

Just listened to an episode on Textile Design, thank you so much!

I am very appreciative for the insights and real things that are exposed through tuning into this podcast. I enjoy Heidi’s attention to detail in terms of the guests selected and the questions asked to get the perspectives of the designers. I am a new listener but nevertheless it has been valuable.

I love this podcast and I have learnt so much from it, from understanding what’s possible to achieve as a fashion freelancer designer to any technicalities such as contracts, details of the production process, etc. I have also purchased her course and I think all she gives is extremely valuable and very fairly priced.

Heidi is amazing and knows just how to get good info from the really knowledgeable guests on the show. I am only 20 episodes in and I have learned so much, I've even recommended episodes to some of my freelance clients who are new to the industry so they can get a better understanding of manufacturing processes. Insanely valuable. I wish I knew about it sooner.

I’ve been listening to the podcast and following SFD for about 2 years now. I kick myself every day for not discovering Heidi’s resources sooner. Had I know about her guides for Illustrator, industry abbreviations and terminology, and the overall advice given in her episodes, I would’ve saved myself a lot of stress and defeat at my first design job out of college. It’s been said a billion times but they just don’t teach you these critical things in design school. ❤️ Thank you for sharing your wisdom Heidi!

So grateful for all that Heidi does for the creatives who want to be involved in the fashion industry! Seriously. Amazing resources, awesome podcast. I have learned so much and feel like I can really pursue my dreams in the industry with Heidi in my life!

Heidi does such a wonderful job at capturing what it is really like to work in the fashion industry and I’ve been listening to her podcast for YEARS now. It’s been so great to hear of her guests experiences with their careers and learn and better myself for my own career in fashion (coming up on 5 years now in the industry and love it!)

Happy Birthday to your podcast. It is amazing and thank you for it. It is rare to see someone who shares this much useful informations for free. Keep going.

As someone who has a BFA in Fashion Design, I can say with confidence that Heidi’s podcast is full of insider info that she gets from friendly amazing sources because let’s face it, this industry is so tight-lipped, it is rough to make it anywhere. Anytime I listen to this podcast, I feel like I can make it (and her courses don’t hurt either😉)

Thank you, Heidi, for your generous spirit- it is contagious and has your guests opening up on their failures as much as their successes.

HI Heidi, I'm relatively new to your podcast, and I wanted to leave my feedback because I think it's important to support designers like you who want to focus on helping other designers out there who are looking to make a positive change in the fashion career. Your content is highly valuable to me and I feel thankful because most of your content has helped me as a guidance of where to go and what to do. Thank you for your hard work you put into this. BTW I listen to your podcasts on Spotify, this how I got here.

If you are in the fashion industry (or a related industry) or looking to get into it, this podcast will quickly become your guidebook, inspiration, motivation, fountain of knowledge and go to library. To me, this is as real as it gets. What the industry is really like and how to succeed in it....or even just how to define what success is. My favor episodes focus on sourcing...i’ve literally listened to the episode with The Sourcing District four or five times. This, coupled with Heidi’s online and tutorials or templates easily make her the patron saint of the real fashion industry.

I learned about this podcast from a friend of mine. From the first show I heard, I was completely hooked. I think I listened to every episode. This is so informative. Heidi has amazing energy and each week I look forward to what knowledge will be shared. I have learn a great deal of information and I am apply it to my business. Thanks so much for this. And I will continue to spread the word of this amazing podcast. @dejohnea_bianca (day-john-nay)

I just stumbled upon this podcast but Heidi’s work is SO AMAZING! She doesn’t just touch on fashion, but literally every nook and cranny of the industry is being covered in her episodes and tutorials. I’m in product design school and almost finished when I found out I actually love apparel and the outdoor industry. I’ve tried everything on my own time to build my portfolio but i has no idea what I was doing. Thanks to her podcasts, I’ve had direction, I know how to speak the lingo, and I was able to get an internship that is leading to a dream job! I hope this podcast never ends, I love learning and feel like I’m learning everything I would’ve learned in fashion design school through this podcast and on the job. THANK YOU HEIDI!! Amazing work

I very much value Heidi’s insight, tips and interviews covering the fashion industry. I really like how she focuses on equipping you for the industry—it’s a valuable complement to what I’ve learned in fashion school. Very grateful for what she does.

Im an Apparel Tech Developer at a Global Apparel/Footwear company. I recently downloaded Heidi's podcast again to listen...again. The networking podcast was such a good reminder. Im currently looking to leverage the corporate matrix. I recently went to the site that Heidi mentions all time. Im really looking forward to diving into some of the free resources. Please continue kicking butt! Love this podcast!

I have really been enjoying this podcast as it is giving me so many insight's into the fashion industry. I'm so thankful that Heidi has dedicated so much time and effort in conducting these interviews, really breaking bariers and going beyond to discover exactly how people are making it in the industry. I really recommend this podcast to all people in the industrie, as there is always something new to learn. Thank you so much Heidi!