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QUALITY TIME 51 B C B U S I N E S S . C A J A N U A R Y 2 0 24 S v e t a Z i / i S t o c k you're confused about your self-worth." After Deck gave birth to her daughter four years ago, it was time to refocus on her design company, Kelly Deck Design. But in the midst of being a new mom, a stepmom and an entrepreneur responsible for so many houses and clients, she lost touch with her per- sonal outlet—yoga. She didn't have two hours to spend at the studio anymore, especially on a daily basis. Before Kelly Deck started meditating in 2019, she was white-knuckling her way through life and business. Things can get personal for interior designers, she says, be- cause it's a business of bringing people's dreams to life. "When they're happy, it's wonderful and you think their happi- ness is your happiness, and you get confusion about that. And the same thing happens when they're unhappy—then INTERIOR ZEN How designer Kelly Deck draws the line between her personal and professional lives by Rushmila Rahman / Portrait by Kyoko Fierro W E E K E N D W A R R I O R Meditation, on the other hand, seemed more doable. Deck attended an hour-long orientation session on a whim and came out of it feeling incredibly light. "There was such a difference in what I was able to personally manage, just from that simple introduction," she recalls. "If you're not tak- ing care of your mental health as an entrepreneur, then your journey is going to have a lot of limitations." Now, for her daily closed- eye practice, Deck sits on a chair at the foot of her bed, sets a timer for 15 minutes and puts on some earplugs (mom life). She starts to centre Since 2005, Kelly Deck's Vancouver-based inte- rior design company, Kelly Deck Design, has been working on luxury estates that are "almost exclusively single-fam- ily residential," says the entrepreneur. "At the moment, in the public eye, all we're doing is design service but by the end of 2024 we hope to have product." Namely, she's incubat- ing a retail company into the business and also working on a wall- paper and fabric line. "That's taking us a very long time to get off the ground, but we are doing it," says Deck. WARRIOR SPOTLIGHT