Taylor Apolonio: What If Comfort Is the Trap?
About this episode
Taylor Apolonio discusses their journey in improving workplaces and the challenges faced when their ideas were not welcomed, leading to the creation of Habitat Interiors Co.
Taylor Apolonio spent years learning how to make workplaces better for the people inside them. A first degree in interior design, then a graduate degree in workplace psychology, all rooted in one simple belief: systems should support humans, not the other way around. Taylor had the training, the tools, and the heart for the work. And then Taylor landed inside a workplace that didn't want any of it. The questions that should have made things better, why are we doing it this way, how could we support people more, turned out to be the wrong questions to ask. The backlash came quietly. A glowing six-month review became a lackluster one a year later, with almost no honest feedback in between. Taylor started to feel pushed out of a place they had come ready to give everything to. So Taylor walked away. Not to another job, and not from a dramatic blowup, but from the most money they had ever made, to bet on themselves instead. Today Taylor is building Habitat Interiors Co, blending interior design and behavioral psychology to help people create homes that actually support their wellbeing. And they are doing it on their own terms, including the choice to build a business almost entirely…
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