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The Trend Report

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Welcome to The Trend Report, your inside look at the people, products, and ideas shaping the future of workplace design. This podcast takes you behind the scenes of the office furniture industry and the broader interior design community. Hosted by industry veteran Sid Meadows, each episode dives deep into the conversations, trends, and strategies shaping the future of our industry.

From insightful interviews with industry innovators, brand builders, design leaders, CEOs, and changemakers to real-world discussions on workplace trends, sales strategies, and furniture design, The Trend Report delivers the knowledge and inspiration you need to stay ahead. Whether it’s exploring how workplace design impacts the future of work, uncovering innovations in commercial furniture, or understanding the connection between real estate and design, this is your inside look at the ever-changing world of contract interiors.

If you’re an architect, interior designer, manufacturer, dealer, or simply passionate about the office furniture and design industry, this podcast is your trusted guide to what’s now and what’s next.


To learn more, please visit https://www.sidmeadows.com/podcast

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    • The AI Basics You Need in Your Business with Hunter Jensen
      Feb 16 2026

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      Hunter Jensen of Barefoot Solutions, and Sid unpack why AI is moving so fast and the important basics leaders skip during implementation and use: data quality, governance, and a focused strategy that targets real ROI.

      Hunter shares practical use cases across support, HR, and sales, plus how to deploy secure, private LLMs with RAG for reliable answers from your own data.

      • Three Cs of data: clean, current, complete
      • Difference between generative AI and legacy machine learning
      • Strategy vs policy vs plan vs governance
      • Risks of public LLMs and data exposure
      • Practical use cases: documentation, support, HR, sales
      • RAG explained for secure document search
      • ROI modeling to pick a killer use case
      • Hunter’s pivot to product and Compass platform
      • Staying current with daily newsletters over books

      References:

      Rocky Mountain Marketing Podcast Ep 410 -Is Your Team Putting Business Data at Risk with ChatGPT with Hunter Jensen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-your-team-putting-business-data-at-risk-with/id1506956667?i=1000727063525

      The Rundown AI Newsletter - https://www.therundown.ai/

      Connect with Hunter:

      Barefoot Solutions - https://www.barefootsolutions.com/
      Barefoot Labs - https://www.barefootlabs.ai/
      Email - hunter@barefootlabs.ai

      The workplace is changing faster than the conversations guiding it. We’re stepping up with a sharper plan for Season Seven: weekly episodes designed to spark action, challenge assumptions, and give you practical tools to build spaces and businesses that actually work.

      Connect with Sid:

      Home Page: www.sidmeadows.com
      Podcast Website: https://www.sidmeadows.com/podcast

      Sid on LinkedIn
      Sid on Instagram
      Sid on YouTube

      The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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      43 min
    • Hot Takes with Doug Shapiro
      Feb 9 2026

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      Join Doug Shapiro and Sid as they tackle the biggest sales and showroom challenges in the contract interiors industry — from outdated cold calling and bid-driven selling to training that fails to stick. Learn how leading teams are shifting to targeted outreach, story-led sales training, and micro-learning tools that support today’s mobile, fast-moving workforce.

      They explore application-based showrooms that simulate real workplace environments, smarter approaches to RFPs and pricing strategy, and how to move from pushing products to delivering workplace solutions. The key takeaway: ask better discovery questions, build trust faster, and sell outcomes that improve how people work — not just furniture and finishes.

      References:

      Use coupon code FIRSTIN at checkout to get 50% off your monthly membership at sidmeadows.com/community

      The Trend Report Ep. 151 - Love What You Do with Doug Shapiro - https://www.sidmeadows.com/episode151

      Connect with Doug:

      LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/doshapiro/
      JSI Furniture - https://www.jsifurniture.com/
      Imagine a Place Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/imagine-a-place/id1506501256

      The workplace is changing faster than the conversations guiding it. We’re stepping up with a sharper plan for Season Seven: weekly episodes designed to spark action, challenge assumptions, and give you practical tools to build spaces and businesses that actually work.

      Connect with Sid:

      Home Page: www.sidmeadows.com
      Podcast Website: https://www.sidmeadows.com/podcast

      Sid on LinkedIn
      Sid on Instagram
      Sid on YouTube

      The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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      22 min
    • CEO Chat with Bryce Stuckenschneider of Loftwall
      Feb 2 2026

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      We kick off season seven with Bryce Stuckenschneider, CEO of Loftwall, to explore how privacy-first design, flexible architecture, and AI-forward practices can reshape the workplace while keeping people at the center.

      We also unveil DesignStage, a new on-demand CEU platform built to fix the broken continuing education system.

      • doubling down on privacy as a product, not just partitions
      • why speed, flexibility and human support win dealer loyalty
      • lessons from Orgatec and Clerkenwell to guide product roadmaps
      • freestanding architecture that scales without mega-manufacturer friction
      • leadership through turbulence using conviction and legacy as filters
      • AI as a force multiplier for product launches and enablement
      • people-first, AI-forward service with human verification
      • DesignStage as studio-quality, on-demand CEUs for designers
      • podcasts we recommend for practical AI learning

      References:

      The Trend Report Ep 7: CEO Chat with Bryce Stuckenschneider - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ceo-chat-with-bryce-stuckenschneider-ceo-of-loftwall/id1507944776?i=1000475248980

      Design Stage - https://designstage.com/

      Big Technology Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLADd6sStSis77HKfbf4KCY6SvthfxeUgn

      The Artificial Intelligence Show - https://podcast.smarterx.ai/

      Connect with Bryce:

      Loftwall - https://loftwall.com/
      Email - bryce@loftwall.com


      The workplace is changing faster than the conversations guiding it. We’re stepping up with a sharper plan for Season Seven: weekly episodes designed to spark action, challenge assumptions, and give you practical tools to build spaces and businesses that actually work.

      Connect with Sid:

      Home Page: www.sidmeadows.com
      Podcast Website: https://www.sidmeadows.com/podcast

      Sid on LinkedIn
      Sid on Instagram
      Sid on YouTube

      The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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      52 min
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