How to monetise your wardrobe and help the planet with By Rotation founder Eshita Kabra
Eshita Kabra-Davies felt guilty on her Indian honeymoon. She wanted to show her husband her culture and where she came from. But she’d noticed the textile waste polluting towns while she worried about her outfits and holiday clothes. She felt like she was part of the problem, participating in the polluting of her birthplace!Compelled to do something about it, Eshita founded the social fashion renting app By Rotation in April 2019. Since then, it’s become the U.K.’s leading rental platform. What separates it from others, though, is its’ peer-to-peer concept that allows users (known as rotators) to earn money from their wardrobe by renting other people’s items and lending out their own. Users feel good about looking good and helping save the planet at the same time.Eshita came up with the idea for the app while still working full-time in the finance world. After researching the market to see if her idea could work, she started it as a side hustle and built a close-knit community around it focused on change towards a sustainable fashion future.Today, she joins Sam to talk about her company, the importance of community building for her business, and the climate impact of fashion and what can be done about it. They unravel the story behind By Rotation and share her and her team’s mission toward changing the way people view fashion. In this episode, you’ll discover how Eshita created and transitioned away from her corporate job, what her app is all about and where she sees her business going, and the influence of her cultural background in building her business community.You’ll also hear her thoughts about empowerment through sustainable consumerism, the difference between traditional and newer business models like hers, and what governments can do to help reduce the climate impact of fashion (and other industries). Along the way, you’ll learn how Eshita has limited the carbon footprint of her company and the difference she has noticed in the consumption habits of people in the East and West.Follow Eshita:Instagram: www.instagram.com/arentyoueshitaBy Rotation: www.byrotation.comFollow Contact: Book from 800+ creative talents at contact.xyzInstagram: www.instagram.com/contact.creativesTwitter: twitter.com/contact_xyzTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@contactxyz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Managing the admin side of being a creative with Ashley Baxter, founder of freelance insurance cover With Jack
In the pursuit of doing what they love, most photographers and other creative freelancers don’t think about certain business aspects. Take insurance, for example. How do you deal with a dissatisfied client who insists you didn’t do your job to their specifications (when you did) with no contract laying out agreed-upon specifications to prove it? What about a client who goes so far as to threaten legal action against you or refuse to pay?Today, Sam is joined by Ashley Baxter: the founder of With Jack, an insurance company for freelancers in the U.K. She’s a creative whose journey started when she first picked up a camera to shoot. With her love for the lens, she found her footing as a freelance photographer and worked with a range of clients, many of whom wanted her for wedding photography. Through her work, however, she found another passion: educating and helping freelancers with their rights and insurance needs so they can succeed.For a while, Ashley had two careers running alongside each other simultaneously. One was the freelance photography business she ran for eight years, and the other was her insurance company. Then she wound down her freelance career when she began working full-time in With Jack.In this episode, she delves deeper into her career and shares some sound advice for fellow creatives along the way. You’ll hear about her struggles with juggling both businesses and how she stayed motivated in the process. Ashley also reveals the insanely complicated process of creating and running a company in a regulated industry, how she revived her love for photography when it started feeling more like a job than a passion, and offers several methods to help you recalibrate when you just want to quit.Follow Ashley:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleybaxter/With Jack: https://withjack.co.uk/Follow Contact: Book from 800+ creative talents at contact.xyzInstagram: www.instagram.com/contact.creativesTwitter: twitter.com/contact_xyzTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@contactxyz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How anyone can easily get to net zero with Joro's founder, Sanchali Pal
How did a food documentary light the spark for an app designed to address climate change? When Sanchali Pal was in college, she started tracking her carbon footprint in a spreadsheet after seeing Food, Inc. It changed her perspective on consumption and made her realize she wanted to be more intentional about it.An idea started brewing as she slowly figured out how to live more sustainably in her own life. Several years later in business school, she thought the spreadsheet idea could be something that helped other people who wanted to live more sustainably but didn’t know where to start.What if there was a tool that helped people manage their emissions, even down to zero? What if you could manage your carbon impact like you track costs or calories in a financial or weight loss app (or any other metric in life)?So the idea of Joro was born. Joro is an app that automates personal carbon emissions tracking. With it, you can reduce and offset emissions behind everything you buy.As its founder and CEO, Sanchali set out on a mission to help individuals everywhere intentionally and efficiently manage their climate impact. Through the app, her team works hard to make a Net Zero lifestyle possible and establish an accessible community of like-minded individuals worldwide. Though it hasn’t been easy, they’ve already made strides in the U.S. and have plans to expand this year to Canada and the U.K.In this episode, she talks with Sam about creating the app, starting the company amidst the beginnings of the pandemic, the challenges she faced with funding, and how Joro helps consumers not only reduce their carbon footprint but save money in the process.Joro:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joroapp/?hl=enDownload: https://www.joro.app/Follow Contact: Book from 800+ creative talents at contact.xyzInstagram: www.instagram.com/contact.creativesTwitter: twitter.com/contact_xyzTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@contactxyz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How to build a creative studio with PLAYLAB INC's co-founder, Archie Lee Coates IV
Imagine the thrill of getting to work in a creative business with no set boundaries. You form a studio that has its hand in designing incredibly diverse projects from floating swimming pools and gigantic floatable devices to museum apps and toilet paper rolls. And you do so while throwing yourself into everything with other people’s trust and belief thanks to the potential they see in you, despite your lack of experience in their specific market.Today’s special guest has done it for over a dozen years now. So what’s it like to run a creative studio with, in his words, “no focus”? In this episode, Sam is joined by PLAYLAB, INC. co-founder Archie Lee Coates IV. Archie started the company in 2009 with his business partner Jeff Franklin. They describe it as a multidisciplinary creative studio that covers everything from arts, architecture, graphic design, and apps.Based in Los Angeles, the studio has gone from a team of two to nine and has worked over the years with a broad range of clients. Most notably, it has created immersive designs for creatives and artists like Louis Vuitton, Reese Cooper, Reuben, Selby, and Virgil Abloh, to name just a few.But the world of PLAYLAB is way larger than any one project. So today, Archie immerses you deeper into their world. He discusses the inspiration for the company, the role models who helped form its philosophy along the journey, and how he approaches being an entrepreneur in general. You’ll also hear about what it’s like for him to operate in opposition to the conventional wisdom about niche marketing, and discover some of the unconventional projects he and the team at PLAYLAB have undertaken since its launching.The entire episode is a must-listen! So be sure to stick around to the end where Archie provides several pieces of incredibly valuable advice that’ll leave you inspired to get started on your next creative project (if everything before that hasn’t already)!Follow Archie:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ottomilo/ and check out PLAYLAB INC online: https://www.playlab.org/Follow Contact: Book from 400+ creative talents at contact.xyzInstagram: www.instagram.com/contact.xyz & www.instagram.com/contact.modelsTwitter: twitter.com/contact_xyzTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@contactxyz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Establishing yourself as a multimedia artist with Alexander James
Today, Sam welcomes Alexander James onto the show! Alex is a British-born multimedia artist with a practice spanning diverse media such as video, painting, and sculpting. From 2012 to 2015, he studied illustration with animation at the Camberwell College of Arts in London, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree there. He’s worked with a multitude of different brands and creatives to deliver some exciting projects, and his work has been showcased all over the world--from New York to Berlin.Alex believes that the spark to follow your passion for art can come at any point in your life. His spark came early. Growing up, his dad was an engineer and thus creative in a different context. But his mother was heavily involved in fashion, and his grandfather always used to draw with him whenever he visited. It was really the school environment that pushed him on his current path.In this episode, Alex breaks down his journey and discusses a bit more about his work. You’ll hear about how he gets inspired with new ideas, overcomes creative blocks, and works with different mediums. Alex also reveals what it was like to do his first exhibition, offers his best practices for using social media, and discusses the highlights and milestones of his career thus far.Follow Alex:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexanderjamesxView his work online: https://www.alexander-james.com/Follow Contact: Book from 400+ creative talents at contact.xyzInstagram: www.instagram.com/contact.xyz & www.instagram.com/contact.modelsTwitter: twitter.com/contact_xyzTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@contactxyz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Just like our talent roster; our community is full of real people with real stories - each unique, inspiring, and waiting to be told. This couldn't truer for the creative minds of the world, where the 'simple' movement of A to B, just isn't that simple.Behind your favourite photograph, piece of clothing, or artwork, is a tapestry of culture and experience unlike any other. With Creative Paths, we step off the beaten track to explore the ups and downs of being a creative; dissecting the distinctive journeys that shape our passions to learn, share, and inspire....because we believe there is no "right way around"; sometimes, it's best to go left. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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