Inspiration for A Personalised and Happy Home
The Curated Nest Podcast is where creativity, home inspiration, and personal stories come together. Host Heather Moore chats with passionate business owners and creatives about what makes their homes special, the spaces they dream of, and the little details that bring joy to everyday living. Each episode blends heartfelt conversations with fun quick-fire questions, plus a peek into the guests’ businesses and creative journeys.
Whether you’re an art lover, a colour enthusiast, or simply someone who wants to create a home that feels like you (not just another passing trend), this podcast will spark ideas and inspire you to celebrate your personal style. Perfect for tuning in with a brew, The Curated Nest Podcast invites you to explore the stories behind homes filled with character, creativity, and colour.
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Episode 15: Joanne James on the joy of being able to realise your Pinterest decor dreams in a home you own.
Joanne James has a passion for colour, second-hand finds and creating a home full of personality, warmth and interest. After years of living in military accommodation, Joanne and her family finally bought their first home - a joyful mix of colour, character and vintage treasures, with their beautiful yellow kitchen at the heart of it all.
Joanne’s Instagram grid, @hap_hazzard_mrsj, is a wonderful source of joy and inspiration - a real pick me up!
Also - the candle business that I forgot was Hot Wax based in Newcastle!
In this episode:
The joy of owning a home that you can finally decorate your way
A love affair with yellow
Buying second hand and being part of a piece’s story
The importance of communal space
Compromising and/or convincing your partner your scheme will work (powerpoints at the ready)
The difficulty of creating small spaces
Episode 14: Kerry Dick on things and places that form special connections with you and move with you wherever you go
Kerry Dick is the founder of Write Junction - a freelance copywriter for brands with a visual soul. Lots of copywriters often come from journalism or English language backgrounds. They understand words in text. Kerry thinks in colour, space, texture, mood, and visual narrative. Perhaps that's rare, but with her background, it comes from her creative heartbeat. With a BA (hons) degree in textiles & surface design, and her retail background this brings even more to her copywriting skills.
In her retail Visual Merchandiser days, she sold things without saying a word. Making connections and communications from visual, verbal and written formats is a passion of hers. She still helps make those all-important connections, focussing on written content.
There's something super special when she gets to work with brands with the following industries:
- fashion & lifestyle brands
- interiors, homeware & craft
- beauty and wellness
-luxury goods
- retail & e-commerce
- brand identity & tone of voice development work.
She'll write about (almost) anything but she loves her creative heartbeat.
Episode 13: Christina Lord on creating a life and environment that pleases you first
Meet Christina Lord, founder of Authentic Action Coaching. At her core, Christina is deeply passionate about helping women reconnect with who they truly are.
Her favourite question to ask is: “Who were you before the world told you who to be?”
After years spent navigating fast-paced corporate environments, recovering from her own burnout, Christina realised she needed something entirely different. She retrained in Energy Leadership Coaching while living in Arkansas, USA, before returning home to Sunderland to care for her Dad - a chapter of her life that deeply grounded her and redefined what truly matters.
Today, through her F.U.E.L Yourself 1st model, Christina helps women move away from chasing goals that aren't theirs and discover their own formula for pure personal fulfillment. She blends growth mindset principles with embodied resilience practices like breathwork to help people regulate their nervous systems and master stress - so they can create a true sense of peace and feel genuinely at home within themselves.
Episode 12: Feeling at home away from home with Ashleigh Donald from Halo Business Consulting
Ashleigh Donald is Co-Founder of Halo Business Consulting, the award-winning hospitality marketing and customer experience consultancy that helps hotel owners, operators and teams bring their brand promise to life, strengthen loyalty, and drive sustained growth. She is also co-host of The Halo Effect: Hospitality Stories with Ashleigh & Michael Donald, a weekly podcast sharing real stories and practical insight from hospitality and travel leaders.
With more than two decades in senior Marketing and Communications leadership, Ashleigh has supported international hotel and real estate businesses across strategy, digital marketing, launches, repositioning and rebrands, working with brands including Shangri-La, The Luxury Collection, Hilton, Four Seasons, Montcalm Collection, Resident Hotels, Kew Green Hotels and Hudson Yards. Ashleigh was recognised as a winner at the 2025 Great British Businesswoman Awards. She also contributes to the sector as a Entrepreneur in Residence with Sheffield Hallam University Business School and mentoring through The Girls’ Network
In this episode:
The variety of ways that hotels make us feel at home
Celebrating experiences through decor
How homes and people adapt to life’s changes
The contentedness of loving where you live
Episode 11: Mood Boards and Multipurpose Rooms with Leann Reason (Copy)
In this episode:
The importance of pieces that are durable
Screen free dining room time
Zoning for personal space for each family member
Some of the mistakes people make with Pinterest
How mock ups and mood boards help clients understand the vision
Why Leann doesn’t follow trends
Leann is an interior designer who believes that great design isn’t just about how a space looks, it’s about how it supports the way you live every day. She works with clients to create homes that feel intentional, functional, and deeply personal, whether that means rethinking a layout, refining finishes, or bringing clarity to a renovation that feels overwhelming.
Her approach is collaborative, thoughtful, and grounded in the idea that our environments shape our habits, our energy, and ultimately our quality of life.
Episode 9: Creating a home that’s a family space first and Instagramable after.
In this episode:
How making mistakes helps you finetune your instincts
Mixing bought, found and heirloom pieces
Being bold with wallpaper
The importance of shared spaces to bring family together
Dee is a stay-at-home mum to three boys and lives in North Wales in a 1950s art deco-inspired home with stunning coastal views. She has a degree in Business Management and spent 22 years working in administration, office management and finance in the private sector and in social services and education and latterly in an online battery business owned by herself and her husband.
Interior design and decorating have always been her passion. She’s spent many enjoyable years personalising every home she’s lived in. Her current home, which they moved into in 2016, has been a work in progress ever since. The previous owner remodelled and extended it in 2009, leaving a quirky mix of old and new. It was the perfect blank canvas for her to create my own style.
After selling her business in 2025, she completely gave up her office job and now has more time for her hobbies and passions. Interior design remains a favourite, and she’s recently taken up gardening, particularly growing my own vegetables. Walking is another joy, especially in the beautiful North Wales.
Episode 8: Kim Heslip on homes that nurture our health and help us celebrate memories
In this episode:
Wanting to see the problems with a home before working with you
The difference between creating a home and staging to sell.
Feeling called back to where you grew up.
Starting from the features and collected items that you have - bringing out the story and fitting the function around that.
The importance of switching off from tech and the noise of the world.
How music and memories connect.
Kim is the founder of Nest and Flourish Interiors, a Yorkshire-based design studio specialising in inclusive, accessible environments that enhance wellbeing, dignity, and independence. After a 20-year career in nursing, 15 of those as a community nurse, she saw first-hand how thoughtfully designed spaces can transform physical and mental health. This insight led her to retrain at the National Design Academy and bring a clinically informed perspective to interior design.
Today, Kim works with clients across Yorkshire and Greater Manchester to create homes, workplaces, and community settings that support people of all ages, abilities, and neurodiverse needs. Blending healthcare expertise with creative design, she crafts spaces that are not only beautiful but deeply functional, personalised, and empowering. Through Nest and Flourish Interiors, Kim is redefining what inclusive design can look and feel like - proving that purposeful spaces can be stylish, supportive, and truly for everyone.