Mihana Johnston, the creator of beaded jewelry line Bizu, chats with Tiffany about her creative path. From Honolulu to Denver to Los Angeles, Mihana brought her childhood inspirations to life during the pandemic and learned how to make beaded jewelry from 'bead moms' on Youtube. See how she transitioned from her 9-5 marketing career in Denver to now a full time jewelry artist, living in Los Angeles. Tiffany and Mihana casually chat about the difficulties along their similar paths and how to keep things in perspective.

Tiffany's still out of town so Tasha and Christine are swapping seats from last week to tell you ALL about what Christine gets up to as Chunks' Operations Director. From e-commerce strategy and financial planning, all the way to shipping oversight and navigating our impact strategy. Christine does it all. She'll also share the learning curves she was faced with when she left the world of corporate medicine to direct the operations of a small baby hair clip biz of 15.

Tiffany goes into how she personally grew her social media following for Chunks, a cult favorite hair clip brand. She also shares the important things all small businesses should be asking themselves in order to grow their business using social media (hint: the question actually IS NOT 'how do I grow my social media following?') Tiffany also shares some healthy and holistic points of view about social media and how to approach it as a small business owner, a creative business owner or maker/artist.

We wrote our first impact report! In this episode we'll talk you through how we developed our goals for 2022, what we learned, and how we are approaching impact in 2023. We've come a long way, and have farther to go, but we couldn't be more excited to share this report with you!

Introducing: Chunkonomics. Are we economists? Do we have formal training in this area? No. No, not really. But we have hot takes, and we're giving you our thoughts on the possible recession (is it coming? are we in one...? whats happening? ) We're just a small baby business but we're coming out of January with some big plans and we have to take all factors into account. If you're a small biz owner or just wanna hear about the wild wild world of influencer marketing, have we got an episode for u!

Today Tiffany's chatting with our first EVER guest, Rebecca Schwartz Altholz. Rebecca studied Sustainability Management at Columbia University and now devotes the majority of her time to environmental sustainability education as well as Sustainability Consulting. She's passionate about shifting the mindset around the expectation of perfection that we hold ourselves, others and especially brands to as we're all finding our way on this sustainability journey. So..what can we REALLY expect from brands? As a brand, how can we best approach the way we talk about sustainability? What does the word "sustainable" even mean and should we still use it??! We still don't have all the answers either, and that's okay.

This one's for creators and consumers alike. 

In this episode, Tiffany and Christine talk about our experiences working with our Chinese manufacturers. Listen to how Tiffany found her overseas manufacturers and now that her team has expanded, how they approach relationship building and vetting new manufacturers as a small company. Sponsored by Chunks.

Today we are ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE. We gave Chunks a tarot reading, talked about our astrological charts, and Tiffany might have talked about Aliens. Taking a look at our team's charts, we also discussed how we approach the dynamics within our fun lil company. We can't totally remember because we were astral projecting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How do we know what's really going on with our manufacturers? Especially when we aren't onsite with them?? Today we're talking about Social Audits. These are the audits used by many companies to better understand how manufacturers' pay and manage their workers. We'll discuss who creates the criteria for audits, how they work, and what they look like for both buyers and suppliers.