The Cassandra Podcast

In this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by the inimitable Meika Hollender, founder and president of Sustain. Meika tells us all about the brand, which offers consumers shame-free and natural products for periods & sex, and highlights Sustain's latest initiative to redefine modern sex education, which you can learn more about at www.sexpectmore.com. 

On this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp recaps the three Dailies from this short holiday week: cross-industry brands offering shade-inclusive products, cacao fruit-flavored beverages, and restaurants using creative isolation techniques to protect patrons during the Covid-19 pandemic. For more information on this week's topics, visit https://www.cassandra.co/daily.

In this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by Kade Hall, Cassandra's Director of Insights and Research. Kade and Nina unpack quantitative and qualitative research around youth and Pride Month, which was featured in Thursday's Cassandra Daily.

In this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by the dazzling Marcia Kilgore, serial entrepreneur and founder of Bliss Spa, Fit Flop footwear, and most recently, Beauty Pie, for an in-depth conversation about the disruptor beauty brand and why consumers so readily turn to beauty in times of crisis. 

In this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by the brilliant Kadie Yale, Design Historian and Theorist. Kadie and Nina unpack the future of work and the future of the workplace itself, a topic that we explored in The Education, Work & Success Perspective, Cassandra's latest report in our Life Interrupted: Cassandra Special Edition series.

Listeners who want to reach out to Kadie can find her at www.designologyco-op.com, and those who are interested in Cassandra membership can email [email protected].

On this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp recaps the three Dailies from this short holiday week: telemedicine startups servicing women's contraceptive needs, wellness-oriented hard seltzers, and denim brands tackling water conservation initiatives. For more information on this week's topics, visit https://www.cassandra.co/daily.

In this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by the brilliant Lesley Eccles, the founder and CEO of relationship training app Relish. Lesley and Nina discuss all aspects of the app and why it’s so important to prioritize sustained relationship maintenance, especially right now in the era of Covid-19. Cassandra has further explored this topic in depth in our Relationship & Community Perspective report as part of our Life Interrupted: Cassandra Special Edition series, which covers youth attitudes and behaviors under Covid-19.

On this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by two of the creatives behind the 'Indoor Fashion' quarantine merch featured in Tuesday’s Daily, titled Stay In, In Style: Antoine, who is one of the founders of multi-disciplinary French creative studio Services Généraux, and Gautier, who brought the creative vision behind the merch to life.  

On this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by Melanie Shreffler, Vice President at Cassandra. They discuss Life Interrupted, Cassandra's new series of biweekly special edition reports that dispense insights, current trends, and future implications for brands and marketers in the Covid-19 era based on Cassandra's ongoing research among Millennials and Gen Z. For more information on becoming a Cassandra member and accessing these reports, please email [email protected].

On this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp recaps three Dailies from the week: brands hosting live proms, graduations, and weddings, skincare products that protect against overexposure to blue light, and new, crispy 'skin snacks.' For more information on becoming a Cassandra member and learning more about what’s explored in this podcast, please email [email protected].