192: Life By Design with Kelly Donougher, Founder of 13 Interiors

I’m thrilled to welcome Kelly Donougher, Director and Founder of 13 Interiors to The Debra Shepherd Podcast this week. 

With over 20 years business experience across a range of industries, Kelly founded 13 Interiors in 2017. Since then, the business has grown to operate on a national scale with studios in Perth and Melbourne. 

Kelly is a speaker, mentor, author and one of Australia’s leading interior designers. Kelly regularly features across a range of media publications and outlets, including Adore Magazine, Home Beautiful, The West Australian, Perth Home Show, Channel 9, Snooze Australia, Summit Homes Group, 6PR Radio, Business Chicks, Domain.com.au and News.com.au and regularly presents workshops and demonstrations at design and styling events. 

In 2025 Kelly published her first book, No Fence, No Limits which is about Kelly’s unconventional path to success and the journey of challenging the status quo and perceptions of what life should look like for a woman. No Fence, No Limits shares the raw and emotional ups and downs of Kelly’s path to creating 13 Interiors which she hopes will inspire others to take the leap into the unknown and embrace their path on their own terms.  

 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Kelly talks about her story and how 13 Interiors evolved.  
• Kelly’s book, No Fence, No Limits focuses on the expectations of women and how you imagine your life going in a certain direction and what happens when things pivot or change direction.  
• What it was like moving from the mining industry to interior design. 
• How creativity was a constant theme in Kelly’s life. 
• Kelly opens up about success. 
• The importance of having a support network and the right people around you. 
• Why it’s never too late to change. 
• Comparison can creep into everyday life, but you are the only one who can change that and how it affects you. 
• Kelly talks about what creating a meaningful life and business means to her. 
• Through the greatest adversity amazing things can still happen. 
• The importance of mindset, boundaries and how to move forward through challenging and difficult times. 

 

SHOW NOTES  

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Instagram @13Interiors

 

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