Sarah Garner is the founder and CEO of the sustainable kids' clothing company, Retykle. She shares her journey, from fundraising to launching in a new market to finding new ways to innovate and improve the customer journey. Sarah is an incredibly smart and savvy entrepreneur.

• How Retykle started with a personal pain point
• Sarah’s uphill battle in educating the public about second-hand fashion 
• Expanding Retykle in Singapore and beyond
• How to maximise growth through funding and grants 
• Their new programme, ‘Buy Now, Sell Later’ and how to fuel innovation in a company
• How to hack funding as a woman

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Tony K Tan is the founder of Smthgood, a platform revolutionising the sustainable fashion industry. His website and app provide not only a new home for conscious fashion brands in Asia, but is also a social and interactive lookbook to give stylists the spotlight they deserve.

• What is SmthGood (04:21 – 07:52)
• Tony’s research journey to understand the audience of Smthgood (08:17 – 14:18)
• Their process of prioritising markets and steps including go-to market strategy and web vs app development(14:49 – 16:26/ 19:06 – 21:06)
• The decision to start bootstrapped and Tony’s expectations from future investors (16:41 – 18:22)
• What success looks like in their first year – it’s not what you would think! (21:45 – 23:28)
• The logistics and business challenges of onboarding new brands (24:33 – 29:29)

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Imagine being the founder of one of the biggest climate media platforms in the world and still experiencing self-doubt, imposter syndrome and the feeling of failure. We deep dive with Sonalie Figueiras about her inner demons and limiting beliefs, how she built Green Queen and the place for Asian voices in the future of food sustainability.

• How and why Sonalie built Green Queen (04:15 – 10:15)
• How working in disadvantaged communities changed her mindset (10:41 – 18:51)
• Her work experience before starting Green Queen (19:33 – 26:28)
• The demons and limiting beliefs that plague Sonalie (26:55 – 32:17)
• Sonalie’s love for work and how she’s able to juggle multiple businesses (33:08 – 39:48)
• The role Asia is going to play in the alternative protein market (40:20 – 43:03)

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Imagine, you’ve raised 30 million dollars and don’t have a product yet. What are you going to spend your money on? How do you ensure that operations are running smoothly and you are ready to launch? In this episode of the Good Business Podcast, we dig in with Max Rye, chief strategist at TurtleTree. It’s a food technology company that uses precision fermentation technology to create a milk replacement. We learn more about how the political landscape in Singapore has helped them scale to greater heights, why they’ve invested in continuous learning, and the importance of hiring the right people. We gained a lot of insights, so don’t miss this one!

• What is TurtleTree and how it came about (03:53- 6:18)
• How and why Singapore is a great space for food technology start-ups (06:21 – 11:07)
• Why Max and the founder, Fengru, joined an EMBA (executive MBA) programme to enhance their learning (11:18 – 14:03)
• What it’s like to be in a nascent industry (14:23 – 15:26)
• Max’s thoughts on the future of milk (16:37 – 19:33)
• The operations of TurtleTree, from funding to R&D to HR (19:54 – 26:07)

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When building her business KYND, a sustainable swimwear and activewear brand, Laure Guildbaud realised that she struggled to ensure that all parts of the supply chain were green - specifically packaging. Thus, TEORRA was born. It’s a sustainable marketplace for all your needs. In this episode, Laure talks about green entrepreneurship, from juggling multiple priorities to learning through networking. Listen to this insightful podcast here.

• What is TEORRA and its conceptualisation (03:11- 5:12)
• How her time at LinkedIn prepared Laure for entrepreneurship (05:41 – 7:22)
• How she juggles multiple priorities (08:36 – 10:19)
• On reinventing herself in the sustainability space through learning and networking (12:39 – 15:30)

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With a mission to bring and regenerative and urban farming to Hong Kong and the rest of Asia, Andrew Tsui and his co-founders created Rooftop Republic. They are city dwellers themselves who saw the impact farming can have on individuals, corporations and communities. Since 2015, they have launched over 80 projects, but that is just scratching the surface. Research suggests that Hong Kong itself has over 6 million square metres of rooftop space that could be utilised for farming, and less than 1% of that was being used. Listen to this episode to learn more about Andrew and his team’s journey and where he thinks the future of food is.

• What is Rooftop Republic and how it started (03:18 – 12:41)
• The impact of gardening and being in nature (12:57- 15:12)
• How the team is working with corporations, communities and individuals to drive involvement (15:53 – 19:23)
• Changing mindsets from focusing on yield to focusing on conscious consumption (26:31 – 33:20)
• Andrew’s experience giving a TedX talk (39:11 – 41:24)

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You’re probably familiar with Sentosa’s Tanjong Beach Club, but do you know its success story? In this episode, we deep dive with Christian Tan, co-owner and director at Tanjong Beach Club and The Loco Group. We learn how he took a risk to leave his nine-to-five tech job and invested all his savings to start the F&B spot. He also shares about his new role as a marketing advisor for Green Steps Group, a platform that helps business offset their carbon footprint by planting trees.

• The story behind how Tanjong Beach Club came about (02:48 – 06:36)
• How Christian approached corporate clients to grow the business (07:07 – 09:51)
• The secret sauce to running an F&B business (10:30- 16:23)
• More about Christian’s entrepreneurial family and how risk-taking played a key role in their success (17:05 – 20:09)
• About the Green Steps Group and how Christian became involved (22:29 – 30:39)
• The challenges in Australia’s F&B industry (30:48 – 32:27)

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We speak to Debbie Watkins in this episode about how finance and business tools can enable female entrepreneurs to grow and scale their business.

• About Debbie’s back story - from the UK to Cambodia and around the world (03:12 - 17:31)
• How most entrepreneurs miss the important step of finding a product fit (18:56 - 22:45)
• How Lucy, her company creating financial and business solutions for women, began. (23:41 - 27:28)
• The challenges of setting up a new financial business (28:27 - 34:53)
• What she believes is holding back female entrepreneurs (35:19 - 37:19)

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What does an emotionally inclusive organisation look like? Mollie Jean De Dieu is not only the General Manager at Longchamp, one of the most successful sustainably-minded retail companies, but she is also the founder of Emotional Inclusion. Through her years in corporate, she recognized the importance of having a safe and inclusive workplace that enables employees to be their most authentic selves. Under her non-profit, she works with leaders to develop wellness pillars to integrate mental health into the company’s DNA. Listen to this episode of the Good Business podcast now.

• About Mollie’s 16+ years of experience in Longchamp, a family-owned business that puts people and the planet first. (02:42 – 15:25)
• What is emotional inclusion and why it’s important in the workplace (16:10 – 19:40)
• The work Mollie is doing with emotional inclusion and how they measure success (24:12 – 26:56)
• How small businesses can do to be an emotionally inclusive company (27:03 – 31:41)
• Not making false assumptions about people’s emotional and mental health and picking up subtle cues (37:05 – 42:25)

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Tackling climate change starts with changing individual actions. In this episode, Alya Annabi, founder of GreenPush, shared how starting a neighbourhood WhatsApp group on recycling and reusing, was the push she needed to see how communities can influence views and actions. We learn why she started the community and how her business has evolved over the last year. Listen to this episode of the Good Business podcast now.

• How Alya started with building communities and why they are important (02:16- 07:29)
• That she starts not with the intention of changing minds but asking questions and having conversations to raise curiosity and awareness while encouraging reflection and action (07:53- 16:00)
• How mentorship changed the way she approached her business (24:03 – 27:18)
• How to become a conscious consumer and question greenwashing. (38:48 – 46:56)

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