With 25 years of experience in the apparel and accessories space, Kiera Ganann is a seasoned, passionate and highly engaged Merchandising & Sales Executive with a proven track record for conceiving and implementing clear brand vision, inspiring and re-energizing organizations, forging superior cross-functional relationships and demonstrating excellent fiscal responsibility. She is dedicated to developing top performing teams, creating and improving business processes, and identifying opportunities to drive revenue and profit. She has held leadership positions for brands such as Ralph Lauren, Levi's, and, most recently, Bolt Threads where she led the sales and marketing teams for a mushroom leather brand, Mylo.

In this episode, Kiera speaks with Luke Vachon about how she's tried to create happiness in her career.

Lauren Sherman has been covering the fashion industry since 2004. She is a special correspondent at Puck, where she writes about power players in fashion, retail, and luxury. The former chief correspondent for the Business of Fashion, she began her career as a reporter at Forbes and holds a BFA in writing, literature and publishing from Emerson College. She has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, http://Newyorker.com , The Gentlewoman, and various other publications.  She lives in Los Angeles.

In this episode, Lauren speaks with Travis Paul Martin about how she broke in as a fashion reporter and how the major changes in the industry have affected fashion journalism and her career in it.

Travis Paul Martin is an experienced marketing and communications professional with more than 15 years of experience guiding communications strategies for brands in the fashion, lifestyle, and consumer packaged goods spaces. Travis currently runs the consulting firm TPM Consulting, working with brands in the fashion, lifestyle, CPG space with a focus on affiliate PR marketing.

Travis discovered his passion for helping brands harness the power of public relations and communications during his time at KCD, working with established brands like Barneys New York, Marc by Marc Jacobs, and The Gap, as well as emerging talent like Peter Som and Tabitha Simmons. While Fashion Director at BPCM, he launched brands, including Brock Collection and Draper James, to a national audience. And, most recently, Travis led the public relations team at Skoog Co. as Executive Director of Public Relations, with a diverse array of clients ranging from Rothy’s and Gucci to Method and Room & Board. Travis' clients have been featured in Vogue, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, House Beautiful, The Wall Street Journal, and more.

Travis holds a BBA in Design and Management from Parsons Paris and currently lives in Chicago, IL.

On this episode, Travis speaks with Lauren Sherman about how his winding career path, from wanting to be an actor to studying design and working retail eventually led him to follow in his mother's professional footsteps.

Yvonne has 20 years of merchandising and digital experience in the retail industry. Her career has spanned working at retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Gilt Groupe and Walmart Ecommerce.

On this episode, she speaks with Julie Kim about a series of career pivots that led from aspirations of a legal career to one in fashion all because a classmate asked her if she'd be interested in a job position she knew nothing about.

Julie is a merchandising and e-commerce leader with over 20 years of experience working for companies such as Saks, Gilt, Google and Intermix. She is highly skilled at optimizing product assortments and inventory to achieve top-line growth and profitability. She is a results-driven, creative and collaborative leader who excels at problem solving, implementing best practices and nurturing teams. And as a strategic advisor and consultant, she has a proven track record in helping to launch and scale businesses through strategic merchandising management and organizational change.

On this episode, Julie speaks with Yvonne Yip about the turns of fate that led her from a career in banking to one that mirrored that of her parents'.

Katelyn is a seasoned marketing professional known for her expertise in both brand and agency environments, with a diverse background and firsthand knowledge of brand and product strategy, consumer segmentations, creative development, marketplace trends, and media planning.

Throughout her career, Katelyn has held pivotal roles in global, matrix organizations, where she successfully led global and regional marketing strategies and ecosystems, while managing a full suite of agency disciplines. Her results-oriented approach is complemented by her collaborative nature and commitment to consumer-led thinking.

In this episode, Katelyn talks with Adeline Callanan about the life change that occurred when, not knowing exactly what she was signing up for, she accepted an offer from Converse to move to Amsterdam for a year.

Adeline Gheorghita Callanan is an Executive Creative Recruiter with boutique executive search firm Landline. With a specialty in product + brand, she recruits for brands in the fashion, retail, lifestyle and consumer goods space and has worked for Banana Republic, Athleta, Old Navy, SKIMS, Native Shoes, Wilson Sporting Goods & BRADY Brand. During her time at Gap Inc. she ran their internship & entry level design pipeline programs, partnering closely with top Fashion & Design schools across the UK & US, as well as served as a panelist for Fashion Senior Thesis Reviews for the Academy of Art University & California College of the Arts.

Most recently she became a Career Mentor and Coach with Career Contessa where she works one-on-one with individuals as they navigate the various stages of their career.

In this episode, she connects with Katelyn Nugent on how she found her way into the world of recruiting and how listening to your inner voice and taking risks have been key ingredients to her career.

Richard is a Creative Director who has spent the last 15+ years delivering best-in-class, performance-driving campaigns for global brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, and Gap Inc. Through his passion for transformative storytelling within brand design, design systems, digital products and physical customer experiences, he focuses on the data of the customer journey within all channels to develop brand-driving creative that truly resonates with its audience.

On this episode, Richard speaks with David Scott about the unexpected journey that took from Liverpool, England to Columbus, Ohio despite his initial desire to work at an agency in London.

David is a Creative Director, Designer, and frequent Copywriter focused on design for brand and marketing. Throughout his career, he's worked with in-house creative teams and agencies alike, designing for a wide range of brands in different categories from Fortune level to startups.

On this episode, he speaks with Richard Irving about how his shared passions for arts and sports formed his career path and led to one of his most memorable projects.

YURGA JUOZAPA — a true do-it-yourself native born in tiny Lithuania, has her jewelry worn by Courteney Cox and Julia Roberts.

JUNETHINGS is a hard to define concept of stories driven jewelry, helping women to have more confidence through their wardrobes, and importance on seeing value in reclaimed, repaired, mended and just old in order to curb consumption in our everyday life.

In this episode, Yurga talks with Laura Parker about how life growing up behind the Iron Curtain and watching MTV influenced her work in styling and design.