We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Duy Tran a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Duy, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.
They said in architecture that every building design has been done at least once. For me, it’s important to realize that architecture can expand the same design idealogy with my own perspective, creativity, and problem-solving skills to create a unique building or space.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Being a first-generation business professional allows me to share my own experiences, knowledge and lesson learned with building the business from the ground up. Most successful businesses were already backed financially by the previous era, but this only encourage me to work harder and to achieve the goals to make my business not only grow now but most important for future generations.
Being culturally diverse help bridge the gap of offering insights and expanding my client’s single-minded design ideology but help them integrate the etiquette and expectations of other culture and environment.
With that being said, this allows me to work with clients from multiple nationalities and allows me to use my skills to design projects from high-end homes to boutique commercial spaces.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
1) Mentorship since there is always something to teach you how to be more efficient in your business 2) Being culturally impactful- learning from other people’s culture will not only help you but it shows that you care about them.
3) Skill development- Technology and technique are always changing so why not learn some new tricks along the way.
How would you describe your ideal client?
Open-minded and ready to write checks.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.studioone.space
- Instagram: duy.d.tran
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duy-tran-16217632/
