Overdose & Chill: Live

Today on Chill, we will be joined by Jamie Sutton of Omnisend.

An absolute legend in the ecommerce tech ecosystem, Jamie is the General Manager of the Americas at Omnisend, an all-in-one omnichannel ecommerce marketing automation platform that is disrupting the status quo in the space.

Please join us as Overdose’s Director or Global Partnerships Andrew Potkewitz chats with Jamie about the ecommerce ecosystem, growth, tech challenges & successes, market trends, and holiday prep.

Today on Chill, we’re being joined by Lachlan Bradford and exploring the lad's epic journey on the Funny Business Podcast, driving engagement, hustling LinkedIn, learnings from some of the legends they’ve interviewed… and general good chats.

Today on Chill, we are joined by the great Heiko Eckert.

(Please note: Broadcast is in German.)

Heiko is the Head of Digital Marketing at CYBEX—an innovative leader in car seats, baby carriers, kids furniture, and strollers that enable parents to keep their little ones safe in style. CYBEX has become not just a leader in child safety but is also an innovative lifestyle and fashion brand for parents.

Today on Chill, we are joined by the incredible Brianne West.

Brianne is a pioneering Kiwi entrepreneur and the founder of Ethique – the world’s first zero-waste, full-range beauty & lifestyle brand.

Today on Chill, we’re kicking off pushing out live across LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube with John Ball at Google, Managing Director ANZ of Customer Solutions.

John is an intrepid explorer as well as a digital savant, and he will be sharing some life stories, and his insights around digital acceleration, resilience, and leveraging the Google product suite.

Today on Overdose & Chill, our CEO, Todd, will catch up with Alex Cleary, Founder & Director of Alpha60. They discuss some epic insights on growing a market-resilient fashion brand, some great digital pivots, and watch out for their virtual in-store treasure hunt soon.

Today on Overdose & Chill, we’re catching up with Emma Mcilroy, CEO of Wildfang.

Emma walks us through her incredible story around purpose-driven brands, consumer connections, earned media, uniforms, finding 20k customers in your first 30 days, and our favourite new quote, “high potential bandaids.” One of the best.

WILDFANG is a US-based women’s apparel company featuring clothing that offers menswear inspired styling, breaking gender norms in fashion and society. The company was founded in 2012 by Emma Mcilroy, Taralyn Thuot, and Julia Parsley, who previously worked at Nike, Inc. 

WILDFANG began in a studio apartment in Portland, OR. With equal parts nerve and naivety, the founders cashed in their savings and quit their corporate day jobs to build the now successful brand. The team had grown tired of asking “Are real pockets revolutionary?,” “Is it too much to ask for a button up without boob gap?,” and “Why is the fashion industry still clinging to outdated gender norms that serve no one?”

In answering these questions, WILDFANG was born, and ever since, the brand has been on a mission to rethink gender norms and how they show up in fashion. The brand embraces masculine, feminine, and everything-in-between.

Since WILDFANG started, they’ve given back over $500k to admirable causes and learned how to make some damn fine blazers. (With real pockets!)

You can visit them online or swing by one of their stores in PDX or LA.

In the ninth of our Overdose & Chill live Instagram interviews, our CEO, Todd Welling, chats with Kellie Burbidge, General Manager at Eat My Lunch, about her journey, the challenges of scaling a business,  managing change, and what’s on the horizon for the enterprise.

Eat My Lunch

Eat My Lunch’s mission statement is “to ensure that no child at school goes hungry, starting with kids right here in our own backyard,” and the idea was conceived in response to 28% of Kiwi kids living in poverty and thousands going to school every day without food. For every lunch bought, this Social Enterprise gives a lunch to a Kiwi kid in need.  With a good lunch in their tummies, the kids do better in so many ways, from being better focused on learning to simply just putting a smile on their faces.

As a direct result of not kids going hungry, 62% of schools saw improved attendance, 69% saw improved behavior, and 89% saw an improvement in student health & wellbeing.  June this year marked Eat My Lunch’s 5th birthday, and they are proud to have given away over 1.5million lunches to Kiwi kids in need to date.

The Eat My Lunch team believes that clever business solutions can help solve social issues, so they created an innovative business model that intrinsically links a social objective into the heart of a for-profit business. The model is sustainable, scalable, and enables Kiwis to help other Kiwis.  With the help of award-winning chef Michael Meredith, Eat My Lunch offers individuals and workplaces fresh, healthy lunches delivered across Auckland, Wellington, and Hamilton combined with the knowledge that they are helping to make a difference locally.

Kellie Burbidge

Before joining the Eat My Lunch team, Kellie had gained a myriad of valuable management experiences across the corporate world and in corporate banking.  After taking some time to improve her work/life balance, Kellie found her current role at Eat My Lunch, which speaks to her social conscience, allows her to share her experience in supporting small enterprises, and integrates her passion for kids and making a difference.