“If we can’t be FOR each other, then we are not confident in who WE are and all we are confident in is questioning our success.” -Jamie Ivey. To say I was honored to interview Jamie Ivey for this week’s episode of the Business with Purpose podcast is an understatement. I have listened to Jamie’s…
Imagine a situation in which you are literally in the middle of the Gobi desert (AKA: the middle-of-nowhere OF the middle-of-nowhere) and you are carrying two million dollars in cold hard cash. Seems crazy, right? Not too crazy for Matt Scanlan and his business partner Diederik. To be honest, Matt’s story of how he ended…
This week’s Business with Purpose Podcast features Bola Sokunbi, the founder of Clever Girl Finance. Picture this: I am a year out of college and I’m having a full-blown panic attack on the floor of my room because I suddenly realize that I’m $36,000 in consumer credit card debt. I realized the gravity of the…
It’s been reported that there are nearly 40 million slaves in the world today. There are more slaves today than during the entire 400 years of the trans-atlantic slave trade. When we say the word “slaves” we are talking about men, women, and children who are caught up in the horrors of human trafficking. It’s…
What do you think of when you hear the term “fast fashion”? When I first heard it, I had zero clue what it meant. By definition, “the term “fast fashion” refers to a phenomenon in the fashion industry whereby production processes are expedited in order to get new trends to the market as quickly and…
