Nerissa von Helpenstill is the Store Director of Tootsies in Dallas. Through her leadership, Tootsies doubled its business despite ups and downs and everything in between.

In this episode, we speak to Polly Wong of Belardi Wong about the state of DTC marketing and how to grow a DTC brand in 2022. If you are growing, scaling, or building a DTC brand, this is an episode you are not going to want to miss.

In this episode, I sit down with Dane Cohen to talk about how boutiques can be thinking about their inventory planning going into Fall - How should be planning my inventory? What should I be thinking about going into market? What do in-person trade shows mean for my business?

In this episode I had a drink with former Barneys menswear buyers Cliff Rodriguez and Chris Beadle to talk about what it took to build thier careers and their take on the changing state of menswear during and post-pandemic. It got wild.

Retail has changed a lot over the last year, and this was especially seen throughout COVID has stores quickly looked to their technology providers to help them get online, launch curbside pickup, and numerous other initiatives to continue to connect with customers. Michele Salerno of Celerant technologies had a front row seat to this and shares her insights of what changed in the operational technology stack over the last 12 months.

8 years ago 2 co-workers set out to redefine what custom dress shirts meant to men, and fast forward until today Kirk Keel and his Co-Founder Matt Hornbuckle are changing the definition of custom menswear as they continue to grow with already 400 stores of distribution.

Although the podcast has been on a brief hiatus Retail Coffee Break is back to take on the post-COVID fashion and retail world one Gucci sneaker at a time. With bigger, badder, funnier, and almost always more and more entertaining guests, this is something you are not going to want to miss.

2020 has been a tough year for men's tailored clothing wholesale. Arguably one of the hardest since men's stopped wearing top hats or powdered wigs, and the wholesalers still needed to try to sell them. In this episode, I sat down with Connor Dickson of Boglioli to dig into exactly where men's tailored clothing is.

On this episode I sat down with Krista Raymer and Leandra Reid of Vetrina Group to talk about what they saw retailers adopt or implement into their business during the first round of retail lockdowns.

This episode is a re-air of a guest appearance that I had on the Retail Revolution Podcast with Christopher Lacey where we dove into how you can use clienteling to drive sales and an amazing customer experience this year (and all years).