Bari Schorr has 30 years in the industry starting at Bloomingdales, and most recently as SVP GMM at Rue Gilt Groupe. She's known for her performance excellence in high volume businesses through strategic planning and implementation, an extensive background in online marketing and user experience. She's also a strategic and data driven decision maker, an expert at selling a sales and marketing platform for brands and a skilled leader of large high performance teams through mentoring, as well as peer to peer relationships in highly matrixed organizations.

Listen as Bari speaks with Beryl Solomon about how she becmae, in her words, "the luckiest girl in retail."

Susan Joy is a regenerative strategist and fashion brand advisor, with a background in fashion media, brand and design consulting, and a master’s in sustainability.

She has a background in fashion media, brand and design consulting, having worked with a broad cross section of designers, brands and magazines, including contributing to the New York Times for a decade. 

Susan is committed to building a just and regenerative world in which business gives back more than they take from the communities and ecosystems they touch, creating only products that add value to the world around them, and are produced in healthy, respectful, and responsible ways.

Listen as she talks with Gayle Robbins about what brought her from Australia to New York, and how motherhood changed her career perspective and helped inspire a career pivot to working in regeneration.

Gayle has more than 20 years of experience in product development, creative direction, cross-functional collaboration, intellectual property expansion, strategic foresight, and trend analysis. 

She is a smart and passionate optimist focused on working with mission-driven brands supporting the well-being of people, the planet, and creating long-term value. Gayle is scheduled to complete a Master's degree in Business for Social Impact and Sustainability in Spring 2022. Her passion is working with companies to develop sustainable products and practices and building consumer trust to inspire brand loyalty.

Listen as she chats with Susan Joy about a career spent serving a purpose to develop products as problem solvers.

A former magazine stylist for Harper’s Bazaar, Nicole’s quest to find the perfect pair of jeans inspired her to co-found Habitual, a cult denim brand which won the Vogue/CFDA Fashion award. On the back of that success Nicole was appointed co-Creative Director of Helmut Lang and is lauded with the brand's successful relaunch. Nicole, along with her husband Michael, then launched their own sustainable fashion label, Colovos, which won the 2019 International Woolmark Prize for Womenswear. Nicole is currently working on a new startup launching in 2022.

Join us as Nicole describes her journey from fashion editor to fashion stylist to launching her own startup, while simultaneously moving from New Zealand to Australia to New York.

New York based Aussie Natasha Silva-Jelly  has worked for renowned media brands like Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, GRAZIA, The Guardian Life & Style. A long time journalist and editor specializing in fashion, beauty, lifestyle, she started her career at Australian Vogue, run the fashion round at The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper and worked for Vogue in London. She moved with her family to NYC in 2014 and joined Harper’s Bazaar as Features and Fashion News Director. 

Listen as she describes what drew her to New York from Australia, and how she's navigated the engine room during every phase of the changing media landscape.

A brand marketer with more than a decade of experience in fashion and community-building, Libby leads marketing for Nickel & Suede, an accessories brand dedicated to inspiring confidence in women. Previously, she oversaw PR, Partnerships, and Social Impact at Stella & Dot, a global lifestyle brand known for accessorizing everyone from Selena Gomez to RBG. In 2019, Libby launched her own consulting business helping brands engage new audiences and build brand loyalists. Libby also leads the Co-Lab's monthly Marketing Lunch Hour covering everything from green-washing to brand evangelism.

Join us as Libby describes her winding path of a career, from finance to jewelry to fashion, and the lessons she learned from those experiences about career mobility and not being pigeonholed.

Meg Barr has a passion for understanding consumer behavior and is currently working as a product marketing manager in the skincare industry. In her current role, Meg is setting business strategy for the North America region and working to bring new products to life and drive sales. When she is not working, Meg is preparing to run her second marathon in London, UK next year (hopefully!). In this episode, Meg explains how studying psychology led her into a career in marketing, and also how she benefitted in her career through a variety of different roles and experiences in marketing and strategy at Estée Lauder.

Naomi Mishkin is an artist and designer making things in Brooklyn, New York. Trained as a glassblower, she spent a decade making sculpture before founding NAOMI NOMI in 2018. The conceptual themes of her sculpture ring true in her clothes: love your materials and put meaning in the making.

A Boston native, she could knit since before she could read and decided to become a designer when she was 13. She attended Cornell University for design school, and then moved to New York, where she temped briefly in a knitting factory before joining the design team at Oscar de la Renta as a knitwear product development assistant. 

After four years as a product developer, she left to go to MIT Sloan School of Management to study business and operations. 

Join us as Laura describes her journey from learning to knit at a very early age to participating in MIT's startup accelerator to start Fit for Everybody, focusing on consistency, accuracy, and representation in fit and sizing from the design stage.

Catrina Reingold has spent the past 15 years of her career in the fashion industry. She is an innovative creative strategist adept at transforming brands through insightful product strategy in order to create long-term brand value.

Her experience includes trend forecasting & marketing at Jones apparel, Director of Licensing for Isaac Mizrahi, Vice President of Design at C.Wonder for QVC, and the Creative Director at Lori Goldstein.

Listen as Catrina describes her career journey and how her experience at QVC both enabled and influenced her decision to pursue brand storytelling through ethics, culture, and sustainability.