Podcast appearances and mentions of Lilly Pulitzer

As a transformative business leader, she has built a career defined by driving growth, accelerating iconic brands, and delivering unbeatable results for global retail, technology, and consumer industries.She has guided world-renowned companies to achieve record-breaking success and enduring market impact, including consumer and B2B leaders in retail, technology, and analytics. Currently, she serves as President of January Digital, The Marketing Leadership Company™, which solves business challenges through media excellence, strategic guidance, and actionable analytics for leading global brands including Kendra Scott, Carhartt, Interstate Batteries, StriVectin, and Steve Madden. Her focus on human connection, strategic excellence, and profitable growth has not only propelled business results but also fostered an ethical, high-performing, and award-winning organization.Throughout her career, she has provided some of the world's most respected brands—such as Travelocity, Lilly Pulitzer, iProspect (Dentsu Aegis), Chevrolet, ClearSaleing (eBay), and Match.com—with strategic leadership across business growth, brand marketing, creative direction, operations, HR strategy, and customer acquisition.She has served on multiple executive teams, worked collaboratively with boards of directors and guided private companies through successful funding and acquisitions as well as public companies through rapid growth initiatives.Beyond executive roles, she is dedicated to industry innovation and mentorship. Her advisory board roles with Shoptalk, Trybe, and Rebel Nell underscore her commitment to advancing the retail and tech sectors while championing opportunities for women and underrepresented voices. Her philanthropic work further reflects this passion, including support for underserved communities, families experiencing homelessness, and domestic violence survivors through nonprofit LSH in Philadelphia.

Every Friday in The Feed Megan Schinella comes on the air to talk about all the fun things happening in and around Connecticut this weekend that you can do with the kids and family.  KEVIN'S PICK: Star 99.9 Napoli Motors Project Prom Dress - Saturday 10am-2pm Vazzanos Four Seasons in Stratford. High school students with student ID pick out a free prom dress, first come first serve. Get more info HERE MEGAN'S PICKS: 1. Saxe Middle School in New Canaan Presents The Spongebob Musical! Show times are Saturday 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Gather in the Saxe Auditorium and go under the sea to see how Spongebob Square Pants does all he can to avert a volcanic eruption that could potentially wipe Bikini Bottom!  2. Orchestra Lumos presents Toy Story in Concert, Sunday @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm at the Palace Theatre in Stamford. Woody, the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear, 3. Newtown Unified Sports Polar Plunge Fundraiser. Saturday @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Wolfe Park in Monroe.  4. Splash of Pink in New Canaan new location for all you shoppers, Saturday at 11am-3pm. Lilly Pulitzer spring collection.  5. Date Night: join Milestone restaurant in Mystic for night with the Legendary George Porter Jr & Runnin' Pardners. Limited tickets available. The kitchen will be open for dinner. Show starts at 8:00 PM. Dinner Reservations are recommended and can be made on the website. Megan's Mom quote: “Teens be like this is the worse day of my life and they were just told to unload the dishwasher.”

From the citrus-hued cottons created in the 1960's by iconic bohemian Lilly Pulitzer, to the glitz and glamour of Worth Avenue today; from the magical gardens created by Fernando Wong, to the renowned Kips Bay Show House and the Palm Beach Show, homes remain a blend of bright colors and bold strokes, influenced by both free-spirited Lilly and luxury global brands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's guest is Sara Shukla, author of Pink Whales, a fun smart romp about a mom who relocates to a preppy New England beach town- think "Mean Girls clad in Lilly Pulitzer."

Grandmillennial Style has always been part of our essence and like all design and style messaging, its' unique characteristics pull from past influences and re-introduce themselves with a current POV.   You can see examples of this style illustrated in bold patterns, heirloom furniture and tableware, raffia and needlepoint.  It is not a sense of clutter or over-done style, it is well-edited and has purpose. In this episode we have one of the most noteworthy influencers behind Grandmillennial Style, Alexa Archibald from Charm Lane.  Charm Lane is a lifestyle brand inspiring grandmillennial tastemakers with finds in home décor, fashion, accessories and gifts.  Alexa has curated a brand that has created loyalty and love for a blue and white life!Alexa started Charm Lane after working in the tech industry and corporate fashion worlds.  She worked for two classic prep style brands Lilly Pulitzer and J Crew.  She then moved on to leading global teams at Facebook and Instagram.  This portfolio of experience combined with her own personal style, attributed to the creation of Charm Lane.Charm Lane has over 161,000 followers, it is apparent Alexa's influence is one that grand millennials adore! In this episode, Alexa and Anne discuss The story of Charm Lane What is Grandmillennial Style How Grandmillennial Style shows up in their Closet and Home Entertaining with Grandmillennial Style Anne's favorite discovery:  The Grand FindsYou can shop Charm Lane at charmlane.comYou can find complete show notes on styledbyark.com

Here is your Daily Disney News for Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 - Disneyland opens new security plaza in Downtown Disney, replacing the old Disneyland Hotel entrance, featuring flowerbeds and a "Downtown Disney" sign. Rollout of contactless body scanners paused due to union discussions. - Moana gets a sneak peek of Tiana's Bayou Adventure ride at the Magic Kingdom. The cast of *The Princess and the Frog* joins the fun; the ride opens June 28th with rave reviews. - Daisy Ridley visits Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and meets her character's performer. She experiences the Rise of the Resistance ride and prepares for her return to Star Wars. - Lilly Pulitzer launches a new Disney-themed collection featuring Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Cinderella Castle. Items, including bags and clothing, available for pre-order, shipping by July 5th. Have a magical day and tune in again tomorrow for more updates.

We have a special bonus episode for you today! In honor of Lilly Pulitzer's 65th anniversary, Who What Wear joined the Lilly team for a live podcast event. Senior editor Anna LaPlaca and editor Jasmine Fox-Suliaman host this live conversation, tracing the origins of the brand back to its unlikely beginnings as a juice stand. Lilly Pulitzer—both the free-spirited founder and the iconic heritage brand—share an enthralling history you won't want to miss. Of course, our editors also discuss how they'd style their favorite pieces from the current collection. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We have a special bonus episode for you today! In honor of Lilly Pulitzer's 65th anniversary, Who What Wear joined the Lilly team for a live podcast event. Senior editor Anna LaPlaca and editor Jasmine Fox-Suliaman host this live conversation, tracing the origins of the brand back to its unlikely beginnings as a juice stand. Lilly Pulitzer—both the free-spirited founder and the iconic heritage brand—share an enthralling history you won't want to miss. Of course, our editors also discuss how they'd style their favorite pieces from the current collection. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Inside Design with Kandrac and Kole, we talk with guest jewelry designer, Jane Winchester, about her entrepreneurial journey and the creation of a successful, profitable and soulful company at the age of 45. KEY TAKEAWAYS1.  No matter what happens in your business, handle it with grace so you can look back and be proud of how you dealt with difficult situations.  2.  Every successful career has tough stepping stones that became the path for you to follow.  3.  When starting a business, make sure one of the first things you do is establish your core beliefs. Those beliefs will be the foundation for how you train your team and how you deal with customers. SPONSORWe are so thrilled to let you know that we have a new sponsor for this episode – the WithIt Women's Leadership Development Network. WithIt is a leadership development network for women in the home and furnishings industry. The organization was founded as a not-for-profit dedicated to the belief that women should play a major role in the growth and future of the home and furnishings industries.  More than 25 years later, they remain dedicated to connecting and educating women at all stages of their careers — from students to C-suite executives. Their programs and events are geared to bring professional development, comfortable networking and connection-building to women working in all segments of the home industry. A few things to pay attention to when you visit the withit.org website: A. This year, WithIt has launched a new Mentor Matching Program which allows members to apply to be paired with a mentor.  B. Mark your calendars for the WithIt Annual Conference held in Greenville, SC on June 10-12th, where 175 women from across the industry will gather to learn new skills, network and be inspired by top notch speakers.  C. At the conference there will be a workshop designed for small business owners called “Transforming Your Business with EOS: The Entrepreneurial Operating System.” It's the perfect workshop for the interior designer who feels out of control in her business and wants to implement a system to help them grow.”  You can learn more about their programs and join at withit.org KANDRAC & KOLE BIOVoted one of “Atlanta's Top 20 Residential Interior Designers” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Kandrac & Kole Interior Designs is an acclaimed design firm with two decades of experience serving residential and commercial clients. Their work has been featured in leading publications across the US.  Since 2005, Joann and Kelly have built a respected partnership. They are renowned for their dynamic personalities, distinctive use of color, and unique custom designs. Frequently invited to share their insights at industry events and on design panels, they are recognized as diligent business operators who remain approachable and genuine, radiating constant positive energy.  In 2018, they used their infectious energy to launch their podcast, “Inside Design with Kandrac & Kole.” This lively, weekly conversation, where Joann and Kelly share design and industry insights, became so popular that they introduced a series of bonus episodes, “The Inside Scoop with Joann and Kelly,” in 2024. Their dedication to the power of interior design also extends to their charity work throughout the U.S. and Guatemala.  JANE WINCHESTER PARADIS BIO:Having been born in New England, Jane was raised in Georgia, attended boarding school in Massachusetts, went to college in Florida and then started her career in fashion in NYC. In 1998, Jane launched her first line of accessories, Buzz by Jane Fox. Her collection caught the eye of Lilly Pulitzer, who convinced her to move to Philadelphia and launch their accessories collection, moving up the ladder from Fashion Director to Sr. VP of Creative Communications and Marketing. In 2017, Jane realized that while she loved her job at Lilly Pulitzer, it was time to build something of her own. Something original – something from scratch and something that connected with women. From there Jane Win was born. https://janewin.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLEShttps://www.facebook.com/kandracandkole/ https://www.instagram.com/kandrackole/ https://twitter.com/KandracKole/ https://www.pinterest.com/kandrackole/ FUNNY QUOTE “Drunk girls in bathrooms are the most empowering and supportive people on the planet, and we should all be more like drunk girls in bathrooms.” - @drunkbetch SERIOUS QUOTE“When I interviewed Maya Angelou, she told me to write this sentence on my notepad and never forget it: ‘Every storm runs out of rain.' I still think of that line to this day.” – Alex Banayan  

Story time with Katie & Allie. Grab a glass and pour a drink. Let's talk Barbara Jordan and Lilly Pulitzer

In this week's episode, I'm joined fashionable lady Margo Lindauer of the podcast JustUS.  We're asking the big question: Why don't people dress better in Boston? We've got theories, we've got equivocation, we've got thoughts on Lilly Pulitzer. If you want to tell me why we're wrong about local fashion — or share your own hot takes — please DM me on Instagram, email me, or send me a voice memo. If you're a local business who'd like to advertise on the podcast, please drop me a line.For merch, head to Explainbostontome.com.Send us a Text Message.The Outback Summer Program at the Maria L. Baldwin Community Center is a high-quality summer experience for rising K through 6th graders who value creativity, culture, and community.Outback currently has openings throughout the summer. Anyone interested in enrolling can learn more on their website, agassiz.org, or by contacting registration@agassiz.org Moving + Packing Tips and Hacks, Real Estate & LifeListen to 'Life Beyond Boxes Podcast' – the art of moving with ease and confidence! Backroad Odyssey Traveling America's backroads, history lovers - Noah and Noodles - uncover...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

I was so thrilled to welcome Michelle Gable to Books are Chic. A long-time supporter and fan, I feel like I have known Michelle for years so it was so fun to finally "meet". We were there to celebrate her latest novel, The Beautiful People. A story that defines chic and take place in the jet set world with Lilly Pulitzer and Slim Aarons. We talk writing, glamour, research and so much more.

Before becoming Lilly Pulitzer's CEO eight years ago, Michelle Kelly had been with the company for 12 years. That experience helped set her up for success as the company's leader, she said on this week's Glossy Podcast. "I was able to develop a strong sense of how we operate,” she said. “For everything we've built over the past 20 years, I have some knowledge of how it was done and how we got there. And, of course, the functional knowledge of how different departments work has been really helpful. For one, it's provided confidence in knowing that we can change — because we have changed, and have been successful at it.” Also on the podcast, Kelly discussed how the recent widespread move to coastal towns has affected 65-year-old Lilly Pulitzer, which specializes in resortwear. And she shared how the brand is adjusting its marketing and distribution mixes in keeping with its customer's changing behavior. Get more from Glossy with the daily newsletter, sent out each weekday morning. Visit glossy.co/newsletters to sign up.

New York Times Bestselling author Michelle Gable joins BOOKSTORM Podcast to discuss The Beautiful People, her newest novel! We're transported to the jet-set world of 1960s Palm Beach. We follow two photographers, Margo and the real-life Slim Aarons, as they interact with their ultra-wealthy subjects. The resulting photographs are iconic - were they perhaps a respite from a troubled world? But it's what was going on behind the scenes that fascinates - depression, marriage troubles, the role of women in the business world ... and the effervescent Lilly Pulitzer! We talk a bit about people behaving badly, especially in this isolated corner of American society where there were fewer institutional confines. What a discussion! Join us! You can find more of your favorite bestselling authors at BOOKSTORM Podcast! We're also on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube!

Shopping at Walt Disney World is always a fun part of the experience and shopping for clothes at Walt Disney World has never been better than it is right now. We share the best stores to shop for clothes at Walt Disney World. The Best Clothes Shopping at Disney World (Disney Clothes and Non-Disney Clothes) Whether you're after Disney official merchandise, or non-Disney fashion, there are many great places to shop. This includes inside Disney Parks, in Disney Resort Hotels and a Disney Springs.  In this post, we share our top picks for the very best places to shop for clothes at Walt Disney World Walt Disney World Deluxe Resort Hotels: Clothing Stores Top Picks Curiouser Clothiers, Disney's Grand Floridian ResortLocated on the ground level inside the lobby of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort, Curiouser Clothiers is an upscale boutique shop that offers women's and men's designer resort wear, along with a few Grand Floridian branded items. BVG (Bayview Gifts), Disney's Contemporary ResortOne of the best Disney hotel shops for clothing, BVG has a fairly large selection of Disney and non-Disney apparel. They often feature new releases of Disney collaboration designer wear from the likes of Lilly Pulitzer and others. BouTiki, Disney's Polynesian Village ResortBouTiki at the Polynesian has a good selection of resort wear and Disney logo merchandise, along with clothing that features a tropical island theme.  Disney Parks: Clothing Stores Top Picks Disney Parks have a number of great shops for Disney clothing. In the past there were also a few good options for non-Disney apparel, but these have slowly been disappearing over the years. Magic Kingdom EmporiumBig Top SouvenirsMemento MoriEPCOTCreations Shop (World Celebration)La Bottega Italiana (Italy Pavilion)Hollywood StudiosKeystone ClothiersAnimal KingdomIsland MercantileMombasa MarketplaceDisney Springs: Clothing Stores Top PicksColumbia (Town Center)DisneyStyle (West Side)Everything But Water (Town Center)francesca's (Town Center)Lululemon (Town Center)Marketplace Co-Op and Cherry Tree Lane (Marketplace)Ron Jon Surf Shop (Town Center)Tren-D (Marketplace)UNIQLO (Town Center)World of Disney (Marketplace) Listen to the podcast episode for a complete and detailed discussion on all of these locations, including a few hidden gems you'll want to know before you shop.Thank You for Listening to the Disney Travel Style PodcastThank you very much for listening to this episode, we that you enjoyed it. If you did, we would be very grateful if you could rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (or on whichever app you choose to listen). A brief review about what you liked most about an episode truly helps to keep the show going by exposing it to new listeners. We look forward to continue producing new episodes each week.Sharing the podcast with your friends and on social media is also extremely helpful and very much appreciated.Contact 1923 Main StreetThank you for listening to the Disney Travel Style Podcast at 1923MainStreet.com.Shop unique and original Disney-inspired clothing, including t-shirts, sweatshirt, hoodies, yoga leggings, dresses, swimwear and more at 1923 Main Street.Please be sure to follow along on X, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook.Thank you for listening and have a magical day!Mike Belobradic and Amelia Belobradic--Media provided by Jamendo

Huge news... we launched a Puddles Patreon! For just $5 a month, get 4 extra episodes of your favorite podcast. Support puddles on Patreon! patreon.com/thepuddlespodcast  Welcome to Puddles. Andrew and Brenna joke about everything, mostly their own relationship. In this episode, we cover getting hit on by kidnappers, Drake Bell's dad, Montana boys, the size of Africa, mommy murderers, Andrew not defending Brenna, Lilly Pulitzer, new neighbors, Snews, imposter syndrome, and a skincare tip. We hear from our listeners on partying and offer bad advice that will probably make everything worse.  Leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/Puddles Send us questions: puddleboyandpuddlegirl@gmail.com Chapters 00:00- Cowboy Collin 03:00 - Forward cowboy 05:00 - P. Diddy 08:30 - Montana boys 11:00 - the Lilly Pulitzer curse 15:00 - New neighbors 19:00 - I like Daddy 21:00 - Andrew not defending Brenna 26:00 - Snews 33:00 - Imposter syndrome  37:00 - Mommy murderer 44:00 - Africa is so much larger than people think 52:00 - Partying 57:00 - Heath Ledger 1:02:00 - Fairfield University 45th Reunion 1:05:00 - Skincare tip SUBSCRIBE! Puddles Youtube Feed Puddles Podcast iTunes Audio Feed Puddles Podcast Spotify Audio Feed FOLLOW US: Puddles Andrew Brenna Melanie Theme song performed by: Ed Glaser Ending song written by: Andrew Collin Visuals and Graphics by: Melanie Meisner Produced by: Melanie Meisner

Today I am joined by Leigh Ann Miller.  A graduate of The Academy of the Sacred Heart, Leigh Ann moved “up” to South Carolina to attend Wofford College where she earned a BA in English while pursuing interests in political journalism and education. Her love for higher education and student success led her to a 6 year career in Higher Education marketing. However, due to the nature of education, the title of Director of Admission Marketing also encompassed recruiting students from New England's finest prep and boarding schools throughout her tenure. In 2019, Leigh Ann left her career to pursue an MBA in Entrepreneurship at Clemson University focusing on a fashion line of performance equestrian jackets. However, due to the pandemic, plans shifted and fashion design turned into fashion retail. As of 2020, Leigh Ann owns and operates Pink Bee GVL in Greenville, SC. This curated collection includes legacy brands such as Lilly Pulitzer, Barbour, and Longchamp, and also new favorites including Sail to Sable, Smith & Quinn, Vineyard Vines and more. Along with her staff of 6 “Bees,” Leigh Ann loves serving the Greenville community and beyond. When she's not at the store, you can find Leigh Ann listening to mystery audio books, trying out all the cocktail and wine places in town, or, most likely, snuggling with her pup, and #1 employee, E. Lee!  Pink Bee's InstagramPink Bee's WebsiteNeighborhood Cancer Connection

Michelle Kelly, CEO of the incredible, iconic brand, Lilly Pulitzer, shares all about the brand known for its imaginative prints and lively colors. In our interview, she discusses her career trajectory and the unexpected path that led her to her current role. She highlights the importance of staples and collaborations in the business, as well as the challenges and resilience required in the fashion industry. Michelle emphasizes the value of retail stores and offers advice for aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs. Plus what does it take to scale a brand like Lilly Pulitzer? You are going to love this episode and I can't wait for you to hear it. Now on the #TheKaraGoldinShow. To learn more about Michelle Kelly and Lilly Pulitzer:https://www.instagram.com/lillypulitzer/https://www.lillypulitzer.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-mcquality-kelly-b837b06Sponsored by Rosetta Stone: Get Rosetta Stone's Lifetime Membership for 50% off! Visit rosettastone.com/TODAY today.Enjoying this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow? Let me know by reaching out to me at karagoldin@gmail.com or @KaraGoldin on all networks.Check out our website to view this episode's show notes:https://karagoldin.com/podcast/514

Michelle Kelly, CEO of the incredible, iconic brand, Lilly Pulitzer, shares all about the brand known for its imaginative prints and lively colors. In our interview, she discusses her career trajectory and the unexpected path that led her to her current role. She highlights the importance of staples and collaborations in the business, as well as the challenges and resilience required in the fashion industry. Michelle emphasizes the value of retail stores and offers advice for aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs. Plus what does it take to scale a brand like Lilly Pulitzer? You are going to love this episode and I can't wait for you to hear it. Now on the #TheKaraGoldinShow. To learn more about Michelle Kelly and Lilly Pulitzer: https://www.instagram.com/lillypulitzer/ https://www.lillypulitzer.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-mcquality-kelly-b837b06 Sponsored by Rosetta Stone: Get Rosetta Stone's Lifetime Membership for 50% off! Visit rosettastone.com/TODAY today. Enjoying this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow? Let me know by reaching out to me at karagoldin@gmail.com or @KaraGoldin on all networks. Check out our website to view this episode's show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/514 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the RETHINK Retail podcast, Julia Hare sits down with Michelle Kelly, CEO of the iconic fashion brand Lilly Pulitzer. Kelly's leadership has been instrumental in guiding Lily Pulitzer through a transformative phase, transitioning from a wholesale-only model to a multi-channel retail approach. With a strong focus on customer-centric strategies and personalized marketing, Michelle's expertise has significantly contributed to the brand's success. During their conversation, Kelly shares her inspiring journey to becoming the brand's CEO and highlights the brand's timeless commitment to making customers happy, preserving their unique hand-painted prints, and balancing trends with a focus on quality and longevity. “And isn't that the beauty of retail? There's always another season, there's always another collection. There's always another day to open the store.” - Michelle Kelly Resources: Nominate the next Global Retail Leader: www.globalretailleaders.com/membership Connect with us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/rethink-industries/ For more retail insights visit www.rethink.industries If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Goodpods! – – – – – – Hosted by Julia Hare Produced by Gabriella Bock Research by Maggie Schwenn

Today I am joined by Alexa Archibald! Alexa is the blogger and content creator behind Charm Lane and mom of 2 living on the East Coast. She has spent the last seven years building and leading teams at Facebook/Instagram and has roots in corporate fashion working at the headquarters for J.Crew, Madewell, and Lilly Pulitzer. In the last decade, she has worked in major U.S. cities including New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Alexa has always loved building her own businesses outside of her 9-5 as she's moved around and is now transitioning to run her business full-time.Charm Lane InstagramCharm Lane WebsiteDr. Susan Love

Step into the world of niche mastery with 'Leading Ladies: 3 Women Entrepreneurs Redefining Niche Success.' This episode is a tribute to the trailblazing women who've uncovered untapped markets and carved out their own success stories. From Sara Blakely's revolution with Spanx to Laura Geller's authenticity in makeup and Lilly Pulitzer's vibrant vision in resort wear, learn how these powerhouses transformed their industries by tapping into specialized markets. As a real estate agent, what can their journeys teach us about identifying and dominating our niches? Dive in to gather inspiration, strategies, and the push to find your own niche goldmine. Plus, don't forget to snag our '50 Real Estate Niches You Need to Know About' guide. If they can do it, so can you. Let's explore together!"Join us for our next events - Click here to get on the email reminder list!Free To You! 50 Thriving Real Estate Niches Waiting for YouTrainings, Courses and Social Media Done For You Posts Crush the Competition - 100+ Social Media Posts for Your Real Estate Niches1:1 Niches Coaching SessionProbate Real Estate Boot Camp Training About Michele Bellisari ⬇️ Michele Bellisari - Real Broker, LLC - Boca Raton | South Florida

“Creating sunshine” is a phrase that Michelle Kelly is undoubtedly familiar with. CEO of Lilly Pulitzer, one of the most renowned heritage brands in the country, Michelle has led with infectious joy and boundless optimism since 2016, and has been able to push the company forward while still never losing sight of its core vision: helping women feel as good as they look. In this episode of Claim Your Confidence, we talk about the various positions Michelle has held at Lilly Pulitzer over her twenty years with the brand, the responsibilities of a CEO on the micro and macro level, and what it means to “see the success” of a business. Don't miss this interview where we discuss:The story behind the Lilly Pulitzer, its values, and how Michelle balances honoring the brand's heritage while also continuing to innovate How sometimes careers are spiral staircases, not laddersThe importance of taking things one step at a time, and Michelle's advice to young women trying to navigate balancing their careers with their personal livesHow Michelle was first introduced to the Lilly Pulitzer brand, and the path that led her to eventually becoming CEO of the companyThe ways in which Michelle plans to lead Lilly Pulitzer into the future, and her focus on helping customers create their own sunshine  Find Michelle Kelly:www.lillypulitzer.comIG: @lillypulitzerLinkedIn: Michelle McQuality KellyFollow Lydia:www.lydiafenet.comIG: @lydiafenetLinkedIn: Lydia Fenet

“Creating sunshine” is a phrase that Michelle Kelly is undoubtedly familiar with. CEO of Lilly Pulitzer, one of the most renowned heritage brands in the country, Michelle has led with infectious joy and boundless optimism since 2016, and has been able to push the company forward while still never losing sight of its core vision: helping women feel as good as they look. In this episode of Claim Your Confidence, we talk about the various positions Michelle has held at Lilly Pulitzer over her twenty years with the brand, the responsibilities of a CEO on the micro and macro level, and what it means to “see the success” of a business. Don't miss this interview where we discuss: The story behind the Lilly Pulitzer, its values, and how Michelle balances honoring the brand's heritage while also continuing to innovate  How sometimes careers are spiral staircases, not ladders The importance of taking things one step at a time, and Michelle's advice to young women trying to navigate balancing their careers with their personal lives How Michelle was first introduced to the Lilly Pulitzer brand, and the path that led her to eventually becoming CEO of the company The ways in which Michelle plans to lead Lilly Pulitzer into the future, and her focus on helping customers create their own sunshine   Find Michelle Kelly: www.lillypulitzer.com IG: @lillypulitzer LinkedIn: Michelle McQuality Kelly Follow Lydia: www.lydiafenet.com IG: @lydiafenet LinkedIn: Lydia Fenet Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Business Tips I Learned from Fashion Icon, Lilly PulitzerThis week, Reena shares some great business tips from fashion icon Lilly Pulitzer along with some interesting facts about the evolution of her career.Lilly not only loved what she did, but her excitement to learn new things and continue to evolve is really how a fashion line grew from oranges to one of Jackie O's latest styles.Lilly's story is so inspiring, so follow along as Reena shares business tips from Lilly's impressive career.•••Mentioned:Book: https://www.amazon.com/Lilly-Tropical-Glamour-Fashion-Legend/dp/1620458152•••Contact Info:@reena.philpot.sales.coachingMore Info: ReenaPhilpot.comWays to Work with Me: HereQuestions, please reach out: Reena@ReenaPhilpot.com•••#podcast #sellingwithcharm #sales #salestips #salescoaching #coaching #mentor #training #reenaphilpot #reenaphilpotsalescoaching #businesstips #business #marketing #success #balance #goals #creativity #inspiration #lovewhatyoudo #continuelearning #expand #evolve #style #fashion #jackiekennedy #lillyPulitzer

This week, on the podcast, host Eva Hartling speaks with Tanya Taylor — Founder, Creative Director and CEO of the independent, New York-based fashion label by the same name, which you may very well have spotted at retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, or on celebrities like Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama, Beyonce and more. Hailing from Toronto, Tanya launched her brand in 2012 after graduating from the Parsons School of Design. At the time, the line was described as “the fashion girl's answer to Lilly Pulitzer.” In 2017, the brand started offering sizes up to a 22, and still focuses on size inclusivity to this day. Tanya Taylor quickly became a fashion editors' favourite, and celebrity buy-in followed. If you've ever wondered what it takes to start a fashion house from scratch, and what it takes to keep it going and growing in a highly competitive and ever-changing market, you'll enjoy hearing Tanya's journey.........This season of our podcast is brought to you by TD Canada Women in Enterprise. TD is proud to support women entrepreneurs and help them achieve success and growth through its program of educational workshops, financing and mentorship opportunities! Find out how you can benefit from their support! Visit: TBIF: thebrandisfemale.com // TD Women in Enterprise: td.com/ca/en/business-banking/small-business/women-in-business // Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/thebrandisfemale

Welcome back! This week we are chatting with Amanda from @NorthCoastStyle. Amanda is a full time reseller and stay at home home who is the community's Lululemon, Rothy's, and Lilly Pulitzer guru. Join us as we get to know Amanda's journey into reselling, her reselling business model, and lots of friendly banter in between! We will see you at the table! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thriftersvilla/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thriftersvilla/support

Today's guest Jane Winchester Paradis is the founder of Jane Win Jewelry! After working in fashion design and marketing for 20 years Jane left her corporate job with a dream to design beautiful jewelry with meaning. Starting a company at age 45 is not the path that many take. Jane had a robust career in design and fashion marketing, working for brands such as Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Barneys New York, and Lilly Pulitzer. Jane decided to create a collection made up of 8 amulets symbolizing an abundance of positivity, strength, hope, and luck. When she started researching this gorgeous antique coin jewelry, she realized that wealth is not shown in money, cars, or fancy homes…wealth comes from life experiences both good and bad. Jane and her team take great care to work with the first American craftsmen to cast high-quality pendants that we then plate in 14k gold with ‘the best in the business'. Last but not least, customers love their attention to detail. They package each piece in a beautifully printed box and are invested in delivering something special to every customer. It truly all comes from a LOVE of what they do and want to connect with those who wear their jewelry. Listeners will fall in love with Jane on today's Valentine's Day episode! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howdshedothat/support

Danielle Langton is a business strategy consultant who's spent more than a decade working with brands such as Heinz Company, Dick's Sporting Goods, Vineyard Vines, and Lilly Pulitzer on product development and strategic selling. In her last role as the VP of Global Strategies, she successfully retained $20 million in revenue before trading in her corporate title to help six and seven-figure CEOs as they streamline and scale their businesses. Her mantra for her own life and those she partners with is to create a life, not just a living, which she achieves through detailed customer business plans that simplify operations while improving profitability for her clients. There is a lot of value that I think you can take from this episode today that will not only help you in business but also overall life fulfillment. *Follow Danielle on all social media platforms @danielle_langton_ *Check out the founders club at https://daniellelangton.com/the-founders-club *Connect with me on IG @corene.phelps

Jeffrey Mattia is a fine artist and designer working with many mediums including acrylics, water colors, ink and pencils. Known for his work with preppy brands like Lilly Pulitzer, Sail to Sable and more. Learn more at http://jeffreyjmattiastudio.com 

Episode 65: Revisiting Episode 014: Growth by Collaboration  Our Summer Series continues this week with another back-to-the-basics episode from Pixie Dust's past! As you might already know, we've been spending the summer revisiting some of our favorite episodes and also providing some much-needed updates from a 2022 perspective!  This week, we revisit Episode 014, where we discussed the successful collaborations that Disney has created — with some unexpected brands. We dig into Disney's versatility and ability to leverage any and all opportunities, while also providing some insightful information about how to make brand collabs work for YOUR biz. Minnie Vans: Disney + Lyft If you've visited Disney recently, then you might have seen the world's cutest car cruising around Disney property – the Minnie Van! These red buggies, decorated adorably with Minnie's well-known white polka dots, are Disney's answer to skipping long bus lines at the end of a long day and receiving faster transport back to your hotel. But, no, it's not actually Minnie's car. The Minnie Vans are a collaboration between Disney and Lyft Services. Disney knew that they didn't need to build their own proprietary system for this, but they also knew they had a really strong brand that could attach itself to something already established. Enter: Lyft!

OMG: Our “Very Best Gay of the Podcast,” Mr. Nolan Meader, is BACK this week!    Since it's summer and everyone is sending us “Out of Office” replies (RUDE!), Holly and Nolan decided to shoot the shit about what they have been up to lately, what fashion adventures they will be having next – and for the first time ever – a list of Holly and Nolan's Personal Fashion Crimes!!   Yes, it can happen to even the best of us.    As Nolan loves to say: “Style is a journey. We are constantly evolving our style and tastes, and that is OK. However, it is still fun to make fun the of dumb stuff we do sometimes.”   This week's episode starts with a recap of Nolan's fabulous fashion life. He is a busy working gal about town (NYC), styling people near and far (Milan), managing fashion events, eating desserts… you know, important stuff!   LISTEN HERE!!    Of course, along the way, they do get a bit side-tracked here (look, a squirrel!) with a story about a trip to one of Nolan's favorite designer showrooms: Markarian.    This designer combines timeless design with modern grace, and her clothes are TO.DIE.FOR. They are very dressy designs, and once Holly was in the door, it was game-over shopping!   Other fun events of recent weeks include celebrating up-and-coming designers at the NYC Fashion Group International (FGI) annual “Rising Stars” event. One of our Podcast Besties and past guests, Julie Lamb, was awarded the Rising Star Award for Jewelry Design.    (If you missed that episode, jump over to EP 93 | Julie Lamb NY.)    This daytime event, and dinner afterward with Fashion super stars like Global Fashion Ambassador Ken Downing and more, was a spectacular celebration with the true fashion insiders of NYC!    Finally, Holly and Nolan finally move on to their own Personal Fashion Crimes of late, poking a lot of fun at themselves. What are Fairy Gay Mothers for anyway?? Amiright??   In the words of the legendary Joan Rivers: “When you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you.”   Nolan's Top Personal Fashion Crimes:   A bronze/rust colored silk trench coat with crystal trim embellishments. Drinking 8 glasses of cognac when you don't drink cognac and have an 8:00 a.m. styling appointment the next day. Shopping drunk resulted in a very expensive purchase. As a reminder for fans of the podcast, Nolan has a “Coat Problem.” (Not a Coke Problem!)   “The moral of the story is: do not irresponsibly spend money while you're still drunk from the night before unnecessarily on a distressed leather trench coat, because how many times am I really going to wear that?” – Nolan Meader, Coat Addict   Splitting the crotch out of some very expensive pants at a fashion show, and having to continue on to other events afterward, literally with his ass hanging out. Buying something that everyone has - and that you think you must have - but it looks like shit on you. His crime was a Marine Serre Half-Moon turtleneck. Holly also tried multiple times to call Nolan out on his favorite green sequin turtleneck which might or might not make him look like Aquaman, but he would not have it. At all.  Constantly buying new dress shoes when he only wears his one favorite pair. Don't buy shit you will never wear, or do not need… Like his “Eiffel Tower” rhinestone black blazer, maybe!?   Holly's Personal Fashion Crimes:   Wearing an amazing sequin trench coat combined with too many other statement pieces: she wore it with a patterned dress from Japan, printed Gucci boots AND a fringe leather piece all at the same time. TOO MUCH. A hot pink and black bandage dress (a style from the 80s) with a cut out detail reimagined by Proenza Schouler. Damn- hate to see this go. Nolan insists it will be sold on The RealReal asap.  Gucci Horsebit Clogs. Nolan says: “You look like a Mennonite working on a farm.” No. Her ostrich feather BCBG eggplant purple vest. We can't even find an example of that one. Nolan said it was too chicken-esque. Her honeymoon travel outfit: a bright pink Lilly Pulitzer suit with gold lame trim. It had so much gold thread that she couldn't even get through the metal detector at the airport. (TBH: Nolan was only in the 7th grade at the time, and Holly didn't have a stylist yet.)   Lessons learned today? Everyone has their own style. What we wear in fashion. A fashion crime occurs when your individual style has a trainwreck with fashion.    (We know that feels like a math equation. Try to keep up.)   So, what is next for our favorite personal stylists? A lot of fashion events, and a lot of travel to Europe: London and Paris to start.    Stay tuned for these adventures and more!! And don't forget: our 100th episode is coming up and we have a mind-blowing special guest. NOT KIDDING!   FASHION CRIMES PODCAST “The Best Fashion Friend You Never Knew You Needed!”   Hosted by your favorite personal stylist Holly Katz, with guest host Nolan Meader. www.fashioncrimespodcast.com

Jane Paradis left her job as Senior VP of Marketing at Lilly Pulitzer to start Jane Win Jewelry. She shares her story of transitioning from the corporate life to entrepreneurship and building a wildly successful jewelry business from the ground up.   Here are the resources mentioned in the show:   Jane Win Jewelry

Eleni McCready leads community-driven strategy for social media, public relations, collaborations, promotions, influencer marketing, and social impact for Lilly Pulitzer, the iconic American Resortwear brand born in Palm Beach over 60 years ago.

"Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing." We're wrapping up Wedding Month with one of the greatest rom-coms of all time, My Best Friend's Wedding. It stars Julia Roberts as Julianne, a 27-year-old food critic who made a pact with her dude bff (Dermot Mulroney) that if they aren't married by the time they turn the ripe old age of 28, they'll get married to each other. Surprise, though—he's engaged to a 20-year-old Cameron Diaz, so now Julianne must sabotage the wedding! Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland (Oceans Eleven, Tenet, Erin Brockovich) put Roberts in custom-made masculine silhouettes in muted hues, while Diaz is in colorful, uber preppy, Lilly Pulitzer-esque looks. We also discuss favorite perfumes (Fenty), this wild season of Atlanta, Blaire's obsession with haupia pudding, and coin a new handbag trend: BPE (Big Purse Energy). Sources: 1997 LA Times interview with Jeffrey Kurland 2019 Cast Reunion on EW Alternate ending clip on YouTube

This week on The Renaissance Podcast, we welcome Natasha Stoneking, founder of Hello Happiness Blog and major life and style influencer to the show! Get ready for a value-packed episode on all things digital marketing, blogging, entrepreneurship, building a personal brand, forming collaborations, and so much more.Based here in Nashville, Natasha has been authoring her blog, Hello Happiness, for almost 14 years. In the episode, we talk about how Natasha is an ‘OG' in the blogging world having started hers in 2008. We talk about how she built her massive online following and what tools she uses to drive traffic to her successful blog. We also discuss her love for collaboration, supporting small business, and product design, and learn her method for creating content and working with massive brands like Soma, Homegoods, Walmart, and more. About Natasha:With a mission to bring you all the happy you can handle, she incorporates fashion, fitness, family, travel, beauty and home decor into her daily musings, along with her daughters, Caroline and Carson as well as her husband Jeff. She has a fondness for all things colorful and bright and celebrating the good in everyday . She has had the opportunity to partner with hundreds of household brands, including Walmart, Disney, Homegoods, Evereve, Lilly Pulitzer, and Hilton among others and loves to present social media marketing tips to conferences for other small businesses and entrepreneurs. Follow Natasha on Instagram @nashvilletash and check out her blog                                                 www.hellohappinessblog.com About Renaissance Marketing Group:Renaissance Marketing Group is a full-service social media marketing agency based in Nashville and Atlanta. The Renaissance team is made up of a talented group of passionate creatives and marketers, committed to the success of their clients and passionate about helping business owners succeed. Founded by Sydney R. Dozier in 2014, RMG delivers proven social media marketing results. Their services include social media management, content creation, paid digital advertising, email and SMS Text marketing, influencer marketing, graphic design, branding, professional photography and videography, TikTok and Reels creation, marketing strategy, and more. Renaissance is committed to influencing optimal revenue and online growth, while exceeding their client's expectations.In 2021, Renaissance announced the launch of their nonprofit, The Mona Lisa Foundation. The Mona Lisa Foundation was created from a love and passion for supporting women on their entrepreneurial journeys and focuses on offering mentorship, marketing, and business education, grant money, and community to Nashville-based female business owners.Learn more:www.renaissancemarketinggroup.com www.monalisafoundation.org 

When Michelle Kelly started at Lilly Pulitzer in 2004, her business card read “Major Stores Development Manager.” Now, it says “CEO.” Kelly has held 8 different titles across at least 4 different departments at the company — from retail, to merchandising, marketing, to e-commerce. So in this episode, we chat with Michelle about the art of the pivot. Started from the bottom, now we here.  In this episode, Michelle shares:  How she got her bosses to let her switch departments How to tell your boss you want to try something new What it was like to take on growth roles and “start over” on new teams What it's like to manage your friends and peers  How she thinks about balancing trying new things and moving up the ladder

info@podcastone.com6d08b10b-7b8f-4161-9187-963311ea20a8Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:18:39 PST00:05:18The South Florida Sunday Podcast

Thousands of Floridians received overpayment notices from the state with minimal information. Also, a discussion on the opioid epidemic in South Florida. Plus, a Key West artist finally gets recognized for designing many Lilly Pulitzer textiles.

In business but can't seem to attract that ideal client? Tune in as Gabi Garrett, journalist, speaker and coach shares strategies so you can manifest your ideal client. Gabi Garrett is an award-winning journalist who has been published over 500 times, Gabi's piece on Business Clarity was ranked Top 5 of 2020 by entrepreneur.com and read 400,000 times in the first week it was published. Her articles have covered some of the biggest names in the business, from executives at Google, to Million Dollar Listing's Ryan Serhant, her name has become synonymous with success. Gabi now spends her time coaching women on 90-day success plans, directing insane media campaigns for some of the biggest founders and products in the world, and writing for several different outlets. Gabi is passionate about women in power and development of leadership in entrepreneurs, she speaks on organization, confidence and messaging around the world and is currently working with incredible brands such as Lilly Pulitzer, Aerie, Draper James, Ilia Cosmetics, Furtuna Skin and APL, to name a few. Following is a link to Gabi's Class she mentioned in the podcast From Overwhelmed to Overflow How To Shift Into Clarity. If you need help getting organized to better manage your time and life click the following link to learn how I can help you Strategize and Organize. Check out my Amazon Shop to create a Functional Home Office. mentioned in this episode. This episode's book selection is Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk. Join my FREE Facebook Group For Women Ready To Live Life Totally Organized. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/janetmtaylor/message

In today's conversation I talk to Holly Guertin about working as an artist in a secular environment and how to continue approaching art with a God-centered lens even if your space doesn't encourage it. ​​Holly is a fiber artist who studied Fibers at the Savannah College of Art and Design and now lives and works outside of Philadelphia, PA, with her husband and their four sweet boys. She loves tickle fights and rolling laughter with the boys, anything that lets her work with her hands. Holly loves to create sculptural, textural art pieces to add dimension and interest to beautiful spaces. She explores the qualities of wool by mixing different textile processes to create one of a kind pieces. By investing great time into these laborious processes to develop such unique surfaces, the art pieces become treasures to behold. Holly has designed for companies like Lilly Pulitzer, Marie Oliver, Lilies and Loaves, HIHO, and Sail to Sable, collaborated with Anthropologie, has written for Verily Magazine and Style Me Pretty, and assisted in photo styling for Martha Stewart Weddings and BHLDN. Holly's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ernieandirene/?hl=en

In this episode, David Lenok, senior editor at WealthManagement.com, speaks with Barbara Archer, managing director and partner at Hightower. David and Barbara speak about Barbra's story of researching, purchasing and preserving art that can be shared with the world. Today's celebrity example begins with Lilly Pulitzer. Lilly quickly grew to fame through her fashion and … Continue reading Ep 51 – Preserving Your Inherited Collectibles with Barbara Archer →

You're listening to the Westerly Sun's podcast, where we talk about the best local events, new job postings, obituaries, and more. First, a bit of Rhode Island trivia. Today's trivia is brought to you by Perennial. Perennial's new plant-based drink “Daily Gut & Brain” is a blend of easily digestible nutrients crafted for gut and brain health. A convenient mini-meal, Daily Gut & Brain” is available now at the CVS Pharmacy in Wakefield. Now, some trivia. Did you know that famous singer and actor, Nelson Eddy was born in Rhode Island? He was an American singer, baritone and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. Classically trained, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he co-starred with soprano, Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby soxers and opera purists, and in his heyday, he was the highest paid singer in the world. It's Friday and almost the weekend. Tomorrow, there's a food truck event from 3pm to 5pm at the Lilly Pulitzer boutique at 31 Bay Street in Watch Hill. Stop in and enjoy sample items from Ocean House and Weekapaug Inn's seasonal dining experiences, served from their “Off the Menu” Food Truck parked outside the boutique. Next, We're continuing our series of great weekend hikes in and around Westerly. Find a quiet spot to go for a hike with the Westerly Land Trust. Whether you head to the Avondale Farm Preserve, Barlow Nature Preserve, or other great places to take a walk, you can find maps and directions at westerlylandtrust.org. Lastly, it's a new year and we've seen just how important journalism is over the past few years. Remember that reporting the local news is an important part of what it means to live here. Head over to Westerlysun.com and help us tell the stories of our community each and every day. Digital access starts at just 50 cents a day and makes all the difference in the world. Are you interested in a new opportunity? Look no further, we're here again with another new job listing. Today's posting comes from Mohegan Sun. They're opening up again and looking for event security guards, event marketing representatives, ushers, and ticket takers.  If you're interested, you can read more and apply by using the link in our episode description. https://www.indeed.com/l-Westerly,-RI-jobs.html?vjk=26d99a5d35f1087c Today we're remembering the life of David J. Riley III of Niles Street, beloved husband of Faith Riley. David was born in Westerly in 1953, and was a 1972 graduate of Westerly High School. He later worked at  and retired from Foxwoods Casino. David will be deeply missed by his son, daughter, his sisters), his nephews and their sons and their children as well as his extended family.  Thank you for taking a moment with us today to remember and celebrate David's life. That's it for today, we'll be back next time with more! Also, remember to check out our sponsor Perennial, Daily Gut & Brain, available at the CVS on Main St. in Wakefield! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to the Westerly Sun's podcast, where we talk about the best local events, new job postings, obituaries, and more. First, a bit of Rhode Island trivia. Today's trivia is brought to you by Perennial. Perennial's new plant-based drink “Daily Gut & Brain” is a blend of easily digestible nutrients crafted for gut and brain health. A convenient mini-meal, Daily Gut & Brain” is available now at the CVS Pharmacy in Wakefield. Now, some trivia. Did you know that famous technology journalist and Rhode Island Native, Walt Mossberg, was born in Warwick? From 1991 to 2013, he was the principal technology columnist for the wall street journal/ He then founded AllThingsD, ReCode, and associated conferences. He hosted a weekly podcast called Control-Walt-Delete and has announced that he would retire in 2017… though he still tweets. It's Friday and almost the weekend. Tomorrow, there's a food truck event from 3pm to 5pm at the Lilly Pulitzer boutique at 31 Bay Street in Watch Hill. Stop in and enjoy sample items from Ocean House and Weekapaug Inn's seasonal dining experiences, served from their “Off the Menu” Food Truck parked outside the boutique. Next, We're continuing our series of great weekend hikes in and around Westerly. Find a quiet spot to go for a hike with the Westerly Land Trust. Whether you head to the Avondale Farm Preserve, Barlow Nature Preserve, or other great places to take a walk, you can find maps and directions at westerlylandtrust.org. Lastly, it's a new year and we've seen just how important journalism is over the past few years. Remember that reporting the local news is an important part of what it means to live here. Head over to Westerlysun.com and help us tell the stories of our community each and every day. Digital access starts at just 50 cents a day and makes all the difference in the world. Are you interested in a new opportunity? Look no further, we're here again with another new job listing. Today's posting comes from Mohegan Sun. They're opening up again and looking for event security guards, event marketing representatives, ushers, and ticket takers.  If you're interested, you can read more and apply by using the link in our episode description. https://www.indeed.com/l-Westerly,-RI-jobs.html?vjk=26d99a5d35f1087c Today we're remembering the life of Neil C. "Pop" Place, Sr., who passed away at home surrounded by his family. He was 89 years old. He was the husband of the late Abby) Place. Neil worked at Posi-Seal International in North Stonington before retiring. He also was the Chief of the Richmond Police Department for 18 years. He was a Life member of the Hope Valley Ambulance, Richmond Carolina Fire Department and the Hope Valley - Wyoming Fire Department. He enjoyed fishing and hunting trips. He loved to watch his New England sports teams and Woodmansee Insurance softball team. He leaves behind his life partner, Angie Lacey, his son Keith and daughter in law Jean, and daughter in law Lulu as well as one granddaughter, Stacy in Stockholm, Sweden. He was predeceased by his son Neil Jr. and his siblings Pauline, Larry, Charles and Skip He also leaves behind several nieces and nephews. Thank you for taking a moment with us today to remember and celebrate Pops life. That's it for today, we'll be back next time with more! Also, remember to check out our sponsor Perennial, Daily Gut & Brain, available at the CVS on Main St. in Wakefield! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What’s the sexiest medical device you can think of? I recently discovered that eyeglasses are technically considered a medical device. And that puts them squarely in the crosshairs of style and fashion. Marissa Cundiff is the vice-president of marketing for Kenmark Eyewear, a manufacturer that supplies some of the most recognizable sunglass and eyeglass collections in the world. Vera Wang. Lilly Pulitzer. Gemma Styles and the list goes on. They do both their own brands and collaborations like all of those. They have a direct to consumer play in Baxter & Bonnie, but mostly sell through eyeglass retailers. That sets them up to have an interesting approach to influencer marketing. Yes, they have the big celebrity product lines, so that’s one segment. They gift eyewear to micro and nano influencers which is another. They also participate in some paid partnerships with mid-tier and mega influencers which is a third. But since they primarily sell via channels—they’re mainly a B2B brand—they use the influencer content to supply their retail partners with inspiration, as well as to create awareness that might lead to sales. Marisssa and I caught up recently to dive into her and Kenmark’s experiences, learnings and approach to influencer marketing. They seem to have carved out their own pathway to leverage influencers in effective ways for them, rather than following the industry trends and hype. And it’s working for them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk to Associate Administrator for Good Samariatan Medical Center, Austin Champoux, about the newly designed Lilly Pulitzer Birthing Suites for expectant mom's.

Amy Littleson is the influencer behind the blog Amy Believes in Pink. Amy shares her journey from being accepted to her favorite school the University of Richmond (after being waitlisted) to landing her dream job at Lilly Pulitzer and finally taking a leap and blogging full time. She aspires to live out, and inspire a positive and colorful life! Learn more at https://www.amybelievesinpink.com

Sarah Slutsky is a New York-based stylist. She got her start in the industry in the editorial department at Vogue before venturing out on her own with many industry vets and well-known brands such as Tory Burch, Madewell, and The Editorialist. Slutsky has dressed clients including Maya Hawke, Ella Hunt, Emma Watson, Elizabeth Olsen, Cynthia Erivo, Julia Schlaepfer, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Sara Bareilles, Anna Baryshnikov, and Jessica Williams. She has collaborated with brands Lilly Pulitzer, Givenchy Beauty, Welovecoco, Origins, Aveeno, Clairol, Wella, Sachin + Babi, Behno, Fenty x Adidas, and Maje. In addition to styling, Sarah also helped launch Cinematique, a tech startup that makes videos touchable, explorable, and shapeable for clients including Net-a-Porter, Nowness, Gap, Stella McCartney, and more. Follow us on Instagram @https://www.instagram.com/cocktailsovercoffee/ (cocktailsovercoffee) Music by https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/better-days (LAKEY INSPIRED)

What truly separates legendary stylist Edward Tricomi from his peers is his signature cutting technique. Precision is his trademark, and watching Edward cut hair is much like watching an artist move his brush. One person who instantly recognized this exceptional talent was famed Vogue editor Polly Mellon, who introduced the world to Edward and was instrumental in jumpstarting his career. Edward's work can be seen in magazines around the world including Vogue, French Vogue and Italian Vogue, and on the runways during New York City's 7th on 6th Fashion Week. Recent collaborations have included work with designers such as J. Mendel, Ann Bowen, Lilly Pulitzer, Anand Jon and Rosa Cha, just to name a few. He has also shared his expertise on television shows like The View, Good Morning America, Live with Regis & Kelly and more recently America's Next Top Model. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissabillieclark/support

I wanted to share my podcast with past guest Janie Winchester Paradis, the owner and founder of Jane Win Jewelry. I interviewed Janie exactly 3 years ago in October 2017 when she had just left Lilly Pulitzer and was weeks away from launching her company.

Wait. What. We finally welcome a guest that is not my mom. Tune in to hear the many layers of this fierce lady, college athlete, attorney, "homemaker," and fashionista.

Jessica Cameron is the owner of Pink Colony, Vermont’s largest selection of Lilly Pulitzer. The boutique is known for ski, sun and preppy fun, based in Stowe, VT. What makes this interview so interesting is the fact that this isn’t Jessica’s first store, she actually opened her first at age 16! Learn about Jessica’s transition from beauty to fashion, her entrepreneurship advice and more. Shop at https://www.pinkcolony.com

Katie and Dawn discover a new "Design Hero": Suzie Zuzek, the textile designer behind the original Lilly Pulitzer brand.

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today Rick and I send our love and prayers to everyone during this global pandemic of coronavirus. Rick grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rick’s consciousness was raised by the region’s great ethnic restaurants and local farms. He began in the food business in high school, and after graduating in Theater from San Francisco State University, Rick moved to New York, where he was instantly immersed in the restaurant and catering world. His catering firm, Cuisine Américaine broke new ground when, as a young American chef, he created events for the Services Culturels of the French Embassy’s offices in New York City. It was there that he initially entertained the food editors and executives who would commission his first books and recipe development jobs. Through his work as a personal chef to Jerry Stiller and the late Anne Meara, he met and catered for many of New York’s show business elite. These relationships paved the way for his career helping celebrities and chefs tell their own stories. A number of Rick’s projects have landed on The New York Times Best Seller list or gone on to win Beard, IACP, and Gourmand Awards and nominations. In addition to his own book such as Comfort Food, Big Book of Side Dishes, Thanksgiving 101, and Kaffeehaus, Rick has worked with many renowned personalities including chefs Alfred Portale (Gotham Bar and Grill), Richard Sandoval (Maya), and Jeffrey Nathan (Abagael’s). He counts iconic baker Dan Leader and the late fashion guru, Lilly Pulitzer, among his clients, as well as Oprah Winfrey’s former chef Art Smith and two “Real Housewives” from the Bravo TV series. Things We Mention In This Episode: Rick Rodger’s Website Thanksgiving 101 Big Book of Sides Apply for next session of Hungry For a Cookbook Mastermind Group Download a copy of my Cookbook Writing Roadmap Please join our Confident Cook and Writer Facebook Group Let’s connect on Instagram @greenapron    

Everything on a garment that isn't fabric is trim. That covers the gamut of buttons, fringe, zippers, tags, emblems and more decorative components. Ever wonder who supplies your favorite designers with cutting edge trim and notions? Meet Shantell Richardson, Co-founder of TrimKnowtions, LLC! She counts designers like Alexander Wang and Laquan Smith, and Lilly Pulitzer as clients. Learn how she entered the fashion industry, how her career evolved, and if you watch the video version of this interview here: https://youtu.be/3i9YMjbtDk4 stay tuned until the end for a fab little DIY jewelry design project! Keep up with Shantell Richardson on IG at @trimknowtions https://www.trimknowtions.com. Visit my blog at www.terinanicole.com for more fashion business insights, DIY projects and to view my work.  Thanks for tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/terina-nicole-hill/support

Amanda interviews Natasha Stoneking. Natasha reveals how she has built her online community and her Instagram strategy (she has worked with Nordstrom, Lilly Pulitzer, & Home Goods), and why she responds to every DM. Natasha Stoneking is a wife, mom, and lifestyle blogger out of Nashville, TN. She loves to travel, entertain, bake, and live a healthy lifestyle. Natasha is passionate about connecting with other women in the same season of life, inspiring people to make the most of their time, and savoring the joy and happiness that each day brings.

This week, the Retail Gets Real team gathers around an open fire with chestnuts and a microphone to reflect on their favorite moments of 2019, featuring: Chip Bergh of Levi’s, Mary Beth Laughton of Sephora, Elie Donahue of Rothy’s, Michelle Kelly of Lilly Pulitzer, Becky Waddell of Take Care, Rachael Gruntmeir of Black Scintilla, Ed Stack of Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Lisa Bradley and Cameron Cruse of R.Riveter.   Learn more at retailgetsreal.com.

Today, Charli Bevan-Singh shares the story of her Lilly Pulitzer-themed Wishes ceremony and cocktail hour at Sea Breeze Point, reception at Ariel’s and dessert party at UK Lochside and Imagination Lounge in Epcot. Charli talks about planning her event from the UK, which was extra challenging because Lilly Pulitzer merchandise isn’t sold there! She discusses how she and Mark chose their venues, including meeting an extra food and beverage minimum to guarantee Ariel’s as the rain backup for their original reception location, Shipwreck Beach. She also talks about how they decided to have Mickey and Minnie come to the cocktail hour AND the reception, and how her DJ saved the day when the party started to wind down.  Click here to see all the photos!

A piece of Lilly Pulitzer apparel is immediately recognizable; its vibrant prints and inimitable energy have been delighting customers for 60 years. President Michelle Kelly joins this episode of Retail Gets Real to talk about how the iconic Florida brand stays relevant and uses “the love of Lilly” to bring people together. Learn more at retailgetsreal.com.

EP182 - Amazon Q2 Earnings and News  Recap of Amazon 2019 Q2 Earnings. Starbucks productizing Mobile Order & Pay UPS/FedEx go to 7 day delivery FedEx quits Amazon Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 182 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 182 being recorded on Wednesday July 31st 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your code Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners, Jason has been a while since we were able to get together with given the holiday season 2 vacations going on and then we had some guests in there that that's important topics you on the cover so we thought it would be a good time to go and catch up on some news there's been a fair amount going on in the world Lee Commerce as you haven't been at this for feels like forever kind of Summer's kind of quiet and then here in this kind of Q3. Is where it gets really newsie as we head into the house so we thought we'd go over some of that before we do Jason you have been a busy traveler I'll tell us about some of the tricks you been on. Jason: [1:26] Yeah yeah I have been on a couple trips full disclosure a number of them have been vacation and so I'm I'm a little proud I feel like you probably beat me on quality of summer vacation but I feel like I at least meet you on quantity of summer vacation. Scot: [1:41] Yeah yeah you were able to get a couple weeks in there and I'm I can go further because I don't have to carry a 8 lb 80 lb espresso machine with me I think that that kind of limits our options but so fly over to Europe and stuff so we're going to free you from the shackles of the espresso machine. Jason: [2:00] Exactly I don't know if you think you're joking or not but I did I took two vacations I visited my family in in San Diego for the 4th of July and I went to Upper Lake Michigan with my wife's family and the Upper Lake Michigan lake house is remote enough that I did have to bring my own espresso machine. Scot: [2:20] Oh I know I know I'm familiar. Jason: [2:22] But I'm calling it a big win I actually consumer protip. Years passed I bought the new Nespresso which is called the virtuoso which is this fancy or system and I was never actually that happy with the shots. Into this year I retired it and bought the older Nespresso original system. And much happier with the shots there's a much greater diversity of coffee available for its was actually able to buy. My Starbucks pods to go in that coffee shop by my lattes were both much better and this little town we we stay in North Point Court last year head Giro expresso machines in the town and they sure they had to poop so I feel like. Like it was all green light. Scot: [3:07] Nice nice you're you're making America better. Jason: [3:11] But so in between all of that Leisure activity I took the opportunity during the Heatwave to go to Las Vegas. For a new show that interact has launched this year called in RF next and they cleverly spell it like the Hipster kids NXT. Scot: [3:31] It's very cool to drop any kind of owls so kudos. Jason: [3:35] Exactly it sweet speak. And they the. Important to me because it's somewhat of the spiritual successor to the shop. Org annual Summits when shop.org used to be a separate entity from NRF. Into this was the first year of this new format it's in Las Vegas in the summer it's at the Four Seasons hotel which is like a kind of cool luxury hotel inside of Mandalay Bay. And it's less of a trade show there's no exhibit hall and more of a a conference with. Certain interesting approach to content curation what they do is they they have. Key notes that everyone attends on a topic and then they have breakout sessions which are deeper Dives on the topics from the keynote and you sort of picked the. The specific tactic that you're most interested in for the deeper dive so you might have liked. Akina ain't no bunch of good retailers that did Keynotes Zulily DSW Shoes untie. [4:42] Dick's Sporting Goods Peapod. Lilly Pulitzer to Value H&M JustFab I think with all the main presenters and you know you might see that the CMO giving a presentation on the keno to set up high-level case study about what they're doing and then you might have the. The director of email marketing doing a breakout session specifically on on Dick strategy around a b testing emails for example if that was what was interesting to you until you both you got a mix of kind of high-level. Strategic content and like you do more Hands-On tactical button-pushing contents as well which I like. Scot: [5:22] Brickell what were what were your your your most and least favorite topics. Jason: [5:30] Yep so there you know. Everyone is tackling different aspects of what I call the next best dollar problem that like. [5:43] A lot of the traditional tactics that repairs of used to drive traffic and drive conversion like. Either aren't working as well as they used to or are becoming more expensive and more competitive and so you know our readers are challenge with like what is the right mix of tactics and you know how do we evaluate what tactics to do and then you know how do we optimize and get the best bang-for-the-buck for all of those. Like primarily traffic generation tactic so a lot of. Surf interesting examples of how to tackle influencer marketing an email marketing and. Bike shopping cart abandonment campaigns and in topics that we talked about for a while but like kind of what the the latest state-of-the-art is in optimizing those tactics out. You know there's a bunch of General stuff there and then the 1st came out of the day was sort of a. A much more overview of the market Keno which is from an acquaintance and former colleague of yours Pascal finette who's. At Singularity University but I think you hired him a channel advisor at one point. Scot: [7:00] Yeah that's goes way back Pascal is a super smart person in here and Germany for us for a while he's a great guy and we stayed in touch so hopefully he gave give a good presentation there. Jason: [7:14] So I thought he did a really good job and his his whole presentation, is there an interesting angle on something we've talked a lot about about bifurcation in retail and he had an interesting Paradigm for it like he he talked about traditional retail being a pyramid and at the bottom of the pyramid you had, very high-volume low-margin transactions. And at the top of the pyramid you had much of lower volume higher margin transactions and so you know for the most part it's like. [7:51] Discounters and super high efficiency stuff at the bottom of that pyramid so that's that's Walmart T.J.Maxx dollar stores things like that and at the very top of the pyramid. It's typically luxury brands, and you know then there are a bunch of retards that are historically a compromise of those two things right and so that's, that's all I like the mall based apparel companies that's that's gap that's Bed Bath & Beyond its Staples it's all these these different retailers and his premise was that for most of the history of retail. The best place to be was that compromise in between the two extremes and that as a result of our our current disruption in the marketplace like what's fundamentally happened is. The customers have all bifurcated to either the the super high efficiency retailers at the bottom and the super high-value read you know High luxury retailers at the top and the the segment of retail that's getting decimated are all those retailers that are trying to live in the middle and so he takes his pyramid and he he takes the bottom and the top and puts him around and it's it's sort of. Like an hourglass so that the pyramid has become an hourglass don't kick in in the the the. The dramatic conclusion being don't get stuck in the middle. Scot: [9:18] The sands of time are running out. Jason: [9:20] Yeah it was a little awkward that I'm sitting next to a little Gap team is he pops up beside that says and the Gap is in the middle. Scot: [9:26] They without the computers to start working on the resumes. Jason: [9:30] I don't think it was news to any of them that that was a challenge they had to overcome. Yeah but so that was a good conference and of course like, cuz it was a little smaller to maybe about four hundred attendees the networking you know is one of the highlights you know I got to see a lot of old friends of yours and mine and meet meet some new friends share a couple adult beverages and and make fun of people. Scot: [9:55] How about where are digitally native vertical Brands their represent. Jason: [10:01] There were so like JustFab was one of the presenters they were number of, the DMV be sort of in attendance so they they definitely had some some representation that it it's it was a pretty interesting mix of. Frankly you know all all portions of that of that parent of Pascal's pyramid. Scot: [10:28] Cooper another one of the takeaways can you share with us. Jason: [10:33] You're grilling me I mean like those are the the big ones that we have time to talk about right now because I heard a rumor I know you have this whole separate gig in the automotive industry that you're cheating on me with and I heard you were at an auto event while I was here so did you did you get a new cars. Scot: [10:57] I did not but it was fun because this was an event that was actually in my backyard the one of the Publishers and autospace I didn't even know this until Teresa Lee is based out of Cary North Carolina which is in the Research Triangle Park area and they put on an annual kind of it's not funny how things once you've done this in several Industries It's relatively similar to kind of are e-commerce road so they have kind of like the big show their one goes to this kind of like you know the current stage and then they have the more forward-looking show that they kind of do the smaller and we're in a hot soak. Kind of like interests next for Autos this was in Raleigh so it's actually nice to get to drive to the conference house by 2 so I was invited to speak about. [11:43] Changing car ownership landscape which is not the topic of our podcast but it is kind of fun you know there's an in the my world my e-commerce World in my Auto World are all colliding so we we talked a lot about these new models the most popular ones are there's two companies ones true and ones get around the CEO of truism eBay dude and then the get around my folks are both marketplaces into takes time for at least learn to talk about all the time and see it seeping into the Auto World another interesting company in that space is called ACV auctions where there's all these physical car auctions require acres and acres of land in kind of silly because you ship all the cars there and then if people fly there and then walked around and and bid on items and then they blow to back up and shut them somewhere else there's two shipping's in there there's this ACV auction company has gone and it just on a digital marketplace around that so very kind of eBay 1.0 asks to be in a different industry but then see the the similarities the other fun thing is a lot of the presentations were you how do we make it like easy for people to buy cars the carvana has really disrupted that World by effectively taking e-commerce. [13:03] Stuff that we know well and applying it to used cars so now all the dealers are trying to figure out your pay if Jason walks in on a on a Sunday afternoon in Chicago how can I sell him a car in less than 8 hours so that it's kind of funny they're trying to figure out you know. [13:21] The basic blocking and tackling of that that we had knee Converse for a long time but but it's funny to watch them, figure that out and there's a different set of vendors different set of players so it's a lot of fun. Jason: [13:32] Yeah I know it is it's funny when I get teased a lot from my tenure at Blockbuster entertainment which is now kind of a joke but we sold the company for a bunch of money and a lot of the management team and that the founder of Blockbuster took that cash and started AutoNation in the hole the whole premise even back then was, like the inventory in any given used car dealership is the local inventory in that one dealership so you know a very small assortment free Chopper but what you really need to do is aggregate the assortment across the whole the whole country right and that's that sounds like that's essentially what's happening with these options as well. Scot: [14:14] Yeah yeah and then yeah so they'll traditional models are all changing to the CarMax has the realtor now adding digital and it just kind of funny to watching. The same waves we were kind of in the end of the sixth inning or whatever you want to say I guess Amazon would say they won but you know if we've been that day one for 20 years daughter Ministry of feels like it's way earlier in that and it's going to go faster because we don't, we don't have all the new waiting for people to trust payments and smartphones broadband and all that it's all all here today so it's just feels even more chaotic to the folks that are in the middle of it. Jason: [14:49] Sure I will say and I've been falling carvanha a little bit as a start a digital shopping experience and there's a bunch to admire their butt from the commercials like you get the impression that if you bought a car on your mobile phone from carvana it would get delivered in this cool carvana delivery vehicle. Or you go to a vending machine and the car would come out of the vending machine and I was kind of disappointed to find out that like. Yeah in most cases some dude just going to drive the car you bought to your house. Scot: [15:17] Sure we'd moessmer delivered on the little flatbeds they don't have the commercial tissue this really big one but they bring them on these little flatbeds. You by Ada price on so many cars in Chicago that there haven't. Jason: [15:32] Got you okay good I'm glad I'm glad to hear that cuz that felt a little bait-and-switch e and I'm hoping they've all been detailed by gets 50 before they get to. Scot: [15:40] That's what we're going on there's a lot of lot of cars to clean up their thanks for bringing that up. Jason: [15:45] Hey I'm here for you man. Scot: [15:47] What's one of the big news items we wanted to talk about is last week Amazon revealed their second quarter earnings since they came out the stocks been a down about 10% feel a little bit of pressure and what would happen there is it's kind of mixed quarter so it's Amazon you look over the long Arc since it went public I was at a whiteboard I would draw these kind of stairsteps there and and see what happens is the, they'll invest will bits the stair goes sideways and her words, like what's happening this is going to work out and then do that that's what cycle Revenue growth will accelerate in the woods happy on Wall Street and then the Amazon will say well we need to go through another investment cycle so they've been pretty used to this the telegraph this if you want if you remember that's when they took the auctioneer to announce next day Prime so that's the real theme of the quarter is the mixed aspect of it so positive camaco season of the quarter was one day Prime really increased demand that was that was good and exceeded while she text Haitians pretty handily on the top line but at the same time I'm delivering on one day Prime really shoot away at probability so you know I can have this mental image of they press the button on the website and then the. [17:08] Total chaos happen to the Fulfillment centers in there just kind of getting their arms around that also you throw Prime day in there that wasn't a cute too but it's kind of body language was that it was a lot of little bit harder and more expensive to implement one day Prime I'm too we're going to dig in the next level down is and we thought we kind of cover on positives and negatives we drew straws and I got the positive side Jason sits on the positive side Revenue accelerated so Revenue at Amazon grew 21% year-over-year excluding in any kind of benefit or hadwin from a foreign currency that exceeded expectations by about 3% pretty material at Amazon's you know billions and billions of dollars to exceed by 3% hundreds of millions of dollars kind of come out of that one area that everyone looks that pretty closely is within the Commerce business or what they called the online unit the there's a unit growth so that's effectively no to the number of things sold so paid units that it's kind of slow down over the years to about 10% that. [18:16] That metric which is kind of a forward-looking metrics that popped up to 18% so that's probably the best signal that the one-day Prime is working really well and then I think imma call Amazon did call out that you know that that was driven that salvation was driving by the introduction of 1-day Prime one-day Prime's benefit was largely centered around North America because in most of it to go to 2 UK for example it's such a small little island are that pretty much prime has been one day for awhile since you out a lot of Europe they're already kind of at one day Prime. [18:52] So it has a business impact on their National side so a lot of this growth came from the North America side so North America Revenue accelerated to 23% year-over-year compared to 19% q1 that's a 4% bump due to one day Prime and then the other thing that made Wall Street excited was you know whenever Amazon releases a quarter they talk about the next quarter so. [19:17] Ouachita been projecting Q3 to be no X and then Amazon guided that pretty significantly ahead kind of keeping it this mid-20s growth rate at the mid, another kind of interesting kind of in this we get kind of inside baseball here on the call Amazon talked about Amazon is very methodical in these autometrix Sue on the call they revealed that they have about 10 million items right now that are in this kind of one day Prime so think about these concentric Rings where you have at the center at the same day you have Prime now and then some cities have car that same day delivery that's Prime now is like was like 5,000 skews and then I think maybe you get up to 10,000 20,000 skews for same-day so then the next thing out which is next day is now 10 million and then the next train out which is I think there's about 30 to 40 million Prime eligible products total supposed to be like the next thing out which is 2 days going to probably have caught 30 to 40 million so they're really kind of focused on this this kind of ring that is that one day Prime so you know theoretically I think they could get you know. [20:37] 4 * 40 million items that are effectively available to put into that one a prime will it get it all there I don't know I have to kind of wait and see how they go but ten millions not a not a bad start so it's it's going to be interesting and now they've revealed that number will get a slide about it we'll try to track it on the show here for you guys so you got to see if I was if I was them I would kind of try to get that up to 20 million die holiday I think that would be no cuz pretty material holiday bumps and then what you begin. [21:07] Last couple things within third-party that segment of Revenue grew 23% year-over-year which was a nice little acceleration retail subscriptions which is kind of our Prime lives that grew 37% and then one thing we watch on the show really closely is the Amazon ads now they put in this other category in blush and Rose have a way of kind of looking in there and pulling out the ads business so so the ads business was up 37% year-over-year really nice growth and then the estimates are that this is that about a 13 billion dollar run rate, I'm going 42% year-over-year so the projections have kind of been edging up we talked about this for a couple years that they were there you're pretty high now I think they're raising them so I'm seeing a north of 30 billion from Amazon ads by 2024 that would you're the ad guy that would definitely put them up into the the Facebook kind of snow level certainly that would exceed I think Twitter and Snapchat it might stay singers and they're not growing as fast as is Amazon's business so don't put them up in that kind of elite air with Facebook and Google if I'm remembering by my ad. Jason: [22:21] Yeah they're they're clear third they're like you. They still have a significant amount of ground to make up on on Amazon and Facebook and Google but they also have like a pretty good Gap ahead of everyone else. Scot: [22:34] Yes those are the positive sit in the question is why was the stock kind of down and I'll turn it over to our curmudgeonly Jason to give you the negatives. Jason: [22:44] Yeah I think it's because I'm such a positive guy that it it just feels better getting the bad news from me, 11 seidman on the advertising I saw a new and interesting datapoint today that I thought was kind of fascinating there's this company out there jumpshot we've talked about them before they have tricked a bunch of consumers in the stall installing there plug-in in their browser. Variety of utilities but then whether means is they get to collect data about how all those consumers are our shopping and their web browser and they, they sell that industry data so they get they claim they can watch millions of Shoppers in North America on Amazon and they said that in January of last year. 6.6% of all product detail page is the people looked at on Amazon where clicks from a sponsored at. [23:42] So by December it was 10.5% of all quicksand so there's this like they have monthly data and you just see this daddy step up that like, Amazon has essentially double the amount of page views as a result of these. These paid placements in that this very much follows a trend you see on the other big advertising platforms that you know originally. You know Facebook had a lot of organic Google had a lot of organic content in overtime as they. They've you know optimizing monetization on their platforms or less and less of the the content with C on their platforms is is organic and Marvis paid so where. We're seeing a very similar progression happening For Better or Worse on Amazon. [24:30] That Flippin to the the negatives from the earning report the first one was that their AWS growth rate was slightly below expectations so. [24:43] To put this in perspective. The growth rate was still 37% so it's a very fast growing business it's a wildly profitable business in Amazon has by far. The the largest share of that business and I would say you like one other positive about that business is that there's still a ton of growth left in that business so you know by most people estimate something like 5 to 10% of all the. Computing jobs in the world are done in the cloud and the rest are all still done in local data centers and things like that so there's still a huge amount of growth as. Compute my grades from from the local to the cloud and Amazon you know has this this clear commanding lead but the rate of their growth is starting to slow down and particular Microsoft and Google. Wow much more than Amazon are now growing faster than Amazon so that's like not unexpected but it's interesting to see that play out and obviously there's, a lot of mistaken Impressions out there that the. That the revenue from AWS like pays for the unprofitable retail business for Amazon and hopefully our listeners. I have learned to debunk that but be that as it may the AWS revenue is is very beneficial to Amazon. Scot: [26:09] Giannis this is not a cloud computing podcast but Microsoft actually their Cloud Revenue just passed their non-cloud revenue and that was really well-received by Wall Street they are now in that that Elite Trend dollar market cap where Amazon has kind of Fallen well below that due to the headwinds from this investment cycle. Jason: [26:31] Yep yep so it's it's super interesting to see this this Microsoft Resurgence they also announced that they're going to invest more than a billion dollars in this openai platform that they're going to accelerate via. Azure which is their Cloud platform so I say interesting stuff happening in the cloud space I like to think we're all the beneficiaries because the the tools and services that these guys are all offering. Like they're they're so competitive with each other that they keep wildly improving and expanding every quarter so. So it's a fun space going back to the retail side of Amazon's business a little bit more overall gross profit decelerated Amazon so is, 22% versus the last quarter was 27%. [27:22] As you mention like they took a little hit because they had a good quarter last year and then their guidance was that they were going to. Make more Capital investments in the subsequent quarter and expected things to go down and that's that's kind of how it it played out but they. You know still still it's no fun to tell people that you you made less profit than you you did in the previous quarter. Their operating income was also down a little bit and you know you meant I think you already mentioned their there. There's a third quarter guidance was also a little lower as a result of this slightly lower profitability and I look at all three of those things and that to me those are all symptoms of. They made the shift to one day Prime and it was a little more expensive and difficult and messy. Then maybe they they anticipated and sew-in you know I think as we talked about in the past. [28:28] Any inefficiency you have when you accelerate everything they they get Amplified in exacerbated and so you know the the. Putting the accelerator on a lot of these processes if you don't have the exact right inventory in every fulfillment center instead of having expedite a shipment from one for filming Center to a customer now you're having to expedite shipments from to fulfillment centers to a customer things like that so. Like this doesn't seem like a horrible shock to me and I I feel like I have a pretty high degree of confidence that. That Amazon is going to operationally get this stuff all squared away and you and me talk about this in in other news later in the Shell but like however much pain it's causing Amazon to do one day Prime delivery a bunch of other retailers have already announced that they're going to match the one day service and others probably will and I can virtually guarantee you. It will cause more pain to all those other retailers to try to hit that service level than it's causing Amazon. Scot: [29:30] Yeah absolutely yeah some of the Wall Street folks are kind of saying it's a knockout punch in there there's a lot of interesting kind of language around that that the the demand they're seeing from it. Is there a tributing just to really kind of is going to, if it stays in Amazon and get the cost down it is going to be late to away at the the sheriff not only online but the offline folks will moved on Lancaster. Jason: [29:56] Yeah I know you have talent follows Amazon pretty closely and they they. They have a pretty sophisticated model for how much opportunity think there is for hims on how quickly they'll grow and then they do this big consumer survey every quarter until right after Amazon announced this last quarter they surveyed all the customers about how their shopping behaviors might be different if they could get stuff in one day and they had enough Confidence from that survey that they had to dramatically increase the addressable Market in their in their model and therefore like the the amount of Headroom for growth Amazon had because I felt like, offering one day delivery was going to change a lot of shopping habits and and help Amazon capture a lot more wallet chair. Scot: [30:43] Yeah one final announcement they made that's near and dear to your heart as they talked about adding two more go stores which will bring the total to 13. Jason: [30:52] Yeah and it depends on how you read the announcement but there's two to four that are currently scheduled to open so maybe two of those they had already announced, and they added two more but two of them are in Chicago, and we have a number of ghosts tours I want to say we have three or four here now but one of the new ones that's opening here in Chicago is actually opening in one of the buildings I have an office and so it's at the merchandise mart. [31:21] So that that'll be fun this was not Amazon news but there was a sort of interesting article. That that came out that someone had done an analysis of the, the shopping carts one of the credit card companies of the like spend in the Amazon go stores and they reported that the average ring in the Amazon go store is. Much lower than the average ring in a traditional convenience store so so they were saying that like. A typical consumer visits a ghost or like two to five times a quarter and a typical consumer visits a 7-Eleven like. 427 x 1/4 so they get 7-Eleven get slightly more visits then I go store but then the average ring in the convenience store was like $25 and then the go store it was like $14 and so the. The takeaway from this is that you know people are tending to buy one item or just a couple items in the go store in a slightly bigger card in it. Typical convenience store in it adds to the the the high-level speculations that the C's go stores at the moment are wildly unprofitable so it's, it's very interesting and typical Amazon that like in spite of the fact that the the unit economics don't don't seem to work at the moment. You know that's not curtailing Amazon's ambition to keep keep scaling and growing and learning. Scot: [32:51] Have you tried the the coffee that I have seen some of the newer ones have the coffee thing have you tried the. Jason: [32:57] Yeah they do have a coffee bar I confess I have not because I have very goofy specific tasting coffee but I will I will have to try the coffee when they open one in the merchandise mart. Scot: [33:08] Well we need you to take one for the the podcast team and even if it's sub below your standards we want to kind of hear you're all the Gory details. Jason: [33:16] Yep. I'm embarrassed I'm embarrassed to say that that I haven't I mean I think two things you think of when you think of the retailgeek are Amazon go stores on coffee so somewhat embarrassing to me. Scot: [33:27] You can just walk out without paying this can be even more fun. Jason: [33:30] Yeah yeah as I was like to say they they invented just walk out but they broke just walk in. Scot: [33:35] What if you go in and get your coffee drink it and then fill the cup again will they charge you for lunch test that Force. Jason: [33:43] Yeah well yeah that it is funny that there is a little bit of a history of background like you think you're joking but this this ties into this so I kind of broader theme that there was some news about these last couple weeks which is about Amazon's overall grocery Ambitions and that the reason I say this that ties into coffee ago stores is because there's an interesting recode article about the history of the ghost or in the evolution of it and, it started out as a full-service grocery concept and in fact the idea was that you chop all of the. The perishables. In a live store that use Go technology to just let you grab whatever you want and leave and that you'd buy all your consumables, I just ordered them on your mobile phone and they'll all be packed enough for Film It Center that was attached to the store and they be waiting for you as you walked out of the store. And somewhere along the line it was deemed too complicated and one of the biggest reasons it was too complicated was. [34:54] All of these items in a grocery store that have variable quantities that you have to weigh or count, or you don't have different sizes of the same thing we're tricky for the camera to recognize and so, the camera knowing whether you have 12 or 16 oz of coffee in your. In your cup and your point whether you drink half of it and refilled it is a tricky Edge case that apparently Amazon aspire to do originally and then kind of avoided when they rolled out. The ghost or so. But it's interesting how Amazon handles that in these go stores but they they there is now construction going on in the original. 10000 square foot lease that Amazon took in Seattle when they thought they were going to open a grocery store and so there's lots of speculation that in the not-too-distant future we're going to see a new grocery concept. That that may include some of the Amazon go visual search capability computer vision capability but but the Amazon may be stepping back to that more ambitious original. Original Vision so we're all eager to see what happens when they they peel the paper off the windows of the storm Seattle. [36:19] So that is kind of interesting in the grocery space another interesting tidbit of news I saw recently from Yuna from the the Seattle corner of our country. That kind of feels very Amazon asked to me is Starbucks made an interesting announcement. They did a partnership with a POS company to sell a product ties version of their mobile order and pay two other restaurants. Scot: [36:52] So are they now it's any who's going to be taking the outer or how's it going. Jason: [36:57] Yeah so I did not see in the in this original article. Who like it may have already been pre-sold to. But essentially this was like the chief digital officer Starbucks that help build mobile order and pay left Starbucks to start this new company called Brighton, and now fast forward a year later Starbucks has done a deal with him at bright room, to sell the the technology stack in the software stack to other retailers and to me that feels very. Amazon AWS cuz it like you you build something to solve an internal problem and then you say like. You know rather than keep it as a proprietary manage for us we're going to scale it and monetize it by by selling it to the rest of the industry. Scot: [37:53] You'll be interesting to see who takes out or not. Jason: [37:57] So I'm up interested to see if other people up take it there a lot of categories that maybe aren't directly competitive with Starbucks but want this capability and so, you know I it is easy to imagine it being successful motor mobile order and pay the huge deal in the in the restaurant space right now and and something with a credibility of the Starbucks offering would be interesting when I'm super interested to see is. Included in this deal would they ever consider using Starbucks as a payment method. So can I buy my Five Guys burger on my Starbucks card for example. Scot: [38:36] Yeah yeah so be interesting to see how if it's a universal payment system ER or just kind of you know a complete private label into another brand. Jason: [38:44] Yeah I kind of suspect the first version will not include payments but it's interesting to think about and you know it could also open the door we seen a little bit of this like Kroger's it has invented some in-store technology that they're trying to sell the other retailers I get just going to be interesting to see if this is a play that becomes a more you know Common part of the The Playbook going forward where I would argue historically whenever a retailer meant anything proprietary they they want to keep it as far away from the rest of the market as possible and keep it as a sort of, unique competitive advantage. But there was also a lot of logistics news in the last couple weeks have you been following all this cotton. Scot: [39:26] I have a few yeah. I kind of use it that Amazon is caused so much destruction or one's kind of working to keep up have what what do you think about it. Jason: [39:36] Yeah no for sure and some of it very directly so this is slightly old news at this point but like in the beginning of July. FedEx add their earnings and either during their earnings call or within a day of that earnings called they announced that they were not renewing their contract to provide Express services to Amazon. And when you first hear that you go oh my God that's a huge deal. Be reminded FedEx have the smallest chunk of Amazon's delivery and FedEx has a couple. Products that they sell the Amazon only one of which is this this are delivery and so this is really FedEx walking away from one piece of Amazon business, and you know if your regular listener the show hopefully it wasn't a total shock to you because I've said for a long time. [40:27] The carriers are having trouble rapidly scaling their capacity and in so if you have a finite capacity. Do you want to sell that capacity to the highest volume user that you don't have the most negotiating power and pays the least or do you want to sell that capacity to eat or smaller retailers with more with less Leverage, they will have to pay more for that and then you know apparently FedEx answer was. Yeah we we can make we can better product profitize are our capacity by selling it to other retailers and walking away from from Amazon who presumably. You know as a Biltmore more of their own capability or you know where we're turning the screws for a better and better deal from FedEx. So that was big news at the same time in that earnings call they did acknowledge than Amazon is a potential competitor in the space which like that also should not be. Shocking but like you know up to this this point like FedEx had consistently said that that Amazon is a great partner and not a competitor so it's kind of funny that they finally acknowledge that. Scot: [41:37] I think they've all slipped it into their or their 10 case there's this guy competitor kind of category in everyone's going to start it but Amazon in there. Jason: [41:46] Yeah and I think I got triggered first by Amazon listing them which is never never good news, the FedEx and UPS are doing some interesting moves the going back to the capacity problem they are both going to seven-day-a-week delivery so they've added Sunday as a delivery day, that is going to be interesting to watch out you know Amazon was just a lot of their own deliveries here in Chicago already like has been delivering on Sunday for some time and Amazon has a u.s. postal deal with. For Sunday delivery so like and I feel like the consumer expectation is it is is expanding the seven days and now we're seeing the other carriers. Trying to figure out an offering in that space and they're also doing some interesting things about reverse Logistics and so. UPS and FedEx have both like greatly expanded the their locker program and their pickup locations and I think. Last week UPS announced that they had done a deal with CVS Michaels and Advance Auto Parts to use those 12,000 stores as. Pick up locations for UPS packages in my mind that the CVS one is particularly interesting because. CVS I believe is also a pickup and return location for Amazon so you know. [43:12] It seems like as the healthcare industry is getting more challenging and and the prescription drug business getting more challenging like CVS is doing some interesting things to repurpose some of the the square footage in their stores. Scot: [43:24] Have you is there any anecdotal evidence how these return programs are doing it for everybody like is Kohl's benefiting from the Amazon thing or are people just kind of like. Jason: [43:33] So the 3rd party traffic monitors feel like holes traffic was up and Kohl's claim that their traffic was up, demonstrably in the pilot stores when they first when I first started taking returns and so Kohl's is totally Double Down they've expanded the returns to all their stores and Colts is really improve the logistics around the return so you cannot walk in a Kohl's with just a unpackaged item that you bought from Amazon and your order on your smartphone and Kohl's will take it back box it and do the whole thing for you a CVS will take that package back but they don't do all of that boxing Logistics portal you have to bring the package, can a ready to go in a CVS store and I know people always say like Josh kaul poses in bed with their competitor I actually think this is the smartest partnership I've ever seen a retard do with Amazon because, this this partnership is not giving Amazon access to Kohl's customers in any way this this partnership is really exclusively giving Kohl's access to Amazon's customers. Scot: [44:43] Yeah yeah I guess I'll never announce it let you know there's some percentage shopping in the store which. Jason: [44:52] Yeah exactly if you have to walk through that store you're going to serendipitously discover something and closes protected well suited for that because they're a little bit of a treasure hunt store anyway and that you know they tend to have a thin inventory you know of that turns regularly with lots of deals and so if you are Kohl's shopper and that triggers a couple extra visits when you're returning something you know you're very likely to discover something and if you're not a Kohl's Shopper it's even a bigger win for Kohl's if they get you to come in that store for the first time. Scot: [45:23] And then I'll give you the privilege and then you every time I go to Kohl's I get in line behind someone that's optimizing their their triangulation between like some kind of cash back thing Kohl's cash and something else and it's crazy like. Jason: [45:41] Yeah we call it doing a leveraged buyout on a t-shirt. Scot: [45:45] And then invariably they'll like walk away from a cart full of stuff to run and get like this was it's not BOGO but you know if I bought this and this I got double Kohl's cash and I can apply them in this and then they want to split the transaction with their significant other and it's like no they did a line for people that don't like just want to buy stuff and get out of store. Jason: [46:08] So for sure that's a common complaint in a number of retailers and Kohl's in particular like the more sophisticated those those reward programs are in the greater percentage of customers that are in those reward programs and take full advantage the more acute that problem is in the case of the Amazon returns it doesn't hurt you though because the Amazon returns as a separate counter within Kohl's so you're not waiting in line behind any of those people to return your Amazon package at Kohl's and a bunch of other retailers like Macy's a big part of their answer for you, is if you're not that super high Rewards customer that's doing that really complicated transaction there they're trying to get you to do mobile, Scan & go and check out without standing in line because they know that check out is a big a big pain point for them. [47:05] Yeah I'm not sure that the average Kohl's Shopper Macy Shopper has, then as early in the Doppler that technology as you probably are but like I I do think they're going to continue get more more traction we're seeing more and more stores. Go that way and that's that such a perfect segue to. Something we'll talk about in in just a minute but I had one more news topic I wanted to touch on before we get there. [47:31] So there's this awesome quote I use all the time that I think Andy done originally used maybe four or five years ago e-commerce is awesome. As long as you don't care about anybody off and the sort of ominous you know message there is customers are loving it it's a it's a better customer experience in many ways for a lot of use cases boat but when things you shouldn't lose sight of is the the unit economics of e-commerce are almost always unfavorable versus traditional retail unit economics and, two big reasons for that are shipping and returns and it's it's just been interesting I've seen some some. Not optimal news for eCommerce sites on both of those those costs this this month so you know one thing there's a report every year that comscore does called the state of the online retail industry and they share a bunch of data and Trends the Desi from there you know millions of customers that shop in their panel and one of the staff they always share every year is what percentage of sales every quarter were sold with free shipping. And so for holiday this year 85% of all e-commerce orders had free shipping. [48:56] And like three years ago it was 65% of all Commerce orders had that had free shipping so increasingly this is probably isn't surprising customers expect free shipping and they only by when they get free shipping, and that that's currently you know ramps up the the profitability challenge for retailers and then you know when you, you talk about like you know Amazon stepping on the gas and Walmart and Target quickly following them with one day shipping you know when you not have to give away free 1-day shipping, that's a real challenge to to e-commerce profitability and then. For many retailers the double whammy is returns tend to be much higher online and I saw a horrific stat this month, there's a logistics company called optoro that did a study and I'm not sure if I told you this I haven't been able to look in their methodology but they are claiming that the average rate of returns for e-commerce orders over the last five years has essentially doubled so the percent the percentage of returns at every e-commerce retailer twice as high today as they were in 2014. [50:12] And I don't know if that exact number is accurate this came from a Vogue article I'll put a. Lincoln the show notes but but even if it's just directionally accurate your returns are going up. That that's a huge stress to profitability in the example I was like to use when revolve had to disclose their Finance his revolve is a Edition Ada vertical Brandon the apparel space in 2018 they had almost a half billion dollars in online sale they sold 499 million online and on their books they they wrote down 531 million dollars in costs associated with returns. Scot: [50:59] Wow that's not skilled. Jason: [51:02] No nosso the unit economics on that suck. Scot: [51:06] It's a minus 20% or something. Jason: [51:09] Exactly and so obviously there's a ton of people working on, the problem of returns and there's a lot of you know interesting things that the people are doing above make it less expensive to do returns and diminish people's, interest in return but like early on an e-commerce industry you know everyone encouraged you to buy multiple sizes and send back what you didn't need I think I've sort of Zappos has. You'll be one of the first big retailers to really do that and now they're desperately trying to untrain all those customers to stop doing that. So not so you know that's going to be interesting stuff to watch as more and more of a sales volume shift to e-commerce were going to have to figure out these. Scot: [51:53] I'm not sure how you entertain people out of free shipping and returns so sweet. Jason: [51:59] Yeah I haven't seen it done in general it's very hard to unring a bell. So wrapping up as we're coming up on time here I have a couple upcoming trips that I'm excited about and we'll get to talk more about some of them but I'm actually headed to. Indianapolis and Dallas next week and the one of the reasons I'm excited about dialysis there's a couple stores, that haven't been to yet in the Dallas Market so one of the sources Neighborhood Market that this is one of the physical Marketplace stores. [52:34] Like merchandise a bunch of degenerative Brands and others in a physical space in the, the the store essentially collects rent from all the other brands in the Brand's keep all the the prophet of there or their sales so it's sort of a digital Marketplace. [52:48] In a physical manifestation they're going to be opening a store New York soon but I'm going to get to visit their original Plano store next week. [52:55] And then also in Dallas Sam's Club has a store called Sam's Club now which pair are skin and go conversation Sam's Club now, doesn't have a traditional check out so the only way to get out of the store is to scan and go and ask him super interesting virtual reality feature or augmented reality feature is to let you get better product information and wayfinding and stuff in the store so it's up a store that's totally designed around using your mobile phone while you're in the store so I'm I am, excited to see that and then, a little later in the month on August 20th I'm going to be at Eataly East which is a long-running e-commerce show in Boston and I know you can't join me but, I will be sure to take good notes and do a trip report there and we may be able to put down a couple of interesting interviews from some of the set from some interesting retailers that are attending that show so hopefully more on that and then if any of our our listeners are in Brazil or are familiar with Brazil I'm going to be doing my first trip to Brazil ever at the end of this month and I'm excited that Mercado Libre has invited me to come speak at their customer conference so, looking forward to checking out some of the the Brazilian retail and I'm eating a bunch of the sellers on that platform. Scot: [54:23] Hope you can screw them on marketplaces. Jason: [54:26] I have a feeling they already know a fair amount about marketplaces but I'll certainly try to add my spin but it won't be in Portuguese. Scot: [54:34] Yeah talk slow to the translators and keep up the I learned that the hard way. Jason: [54:40] Well that's that'll be easier because I'm such a slow talker just naturally oh wait nevermind I'm allowed talker that's what I am. Yeah so that is all the news we have for this week I apologize probably little longer than we hoped but that's part of the ramification of us not laying down a new chauffeur for a little longer than usual. Scot: [55:02] And thanks for joining somebody. Jason: [55:05] Yep and as usual of you enjoy the show we sure would appreciate that five star review on iTunes if you do have any questions or comments about any of the news from the show feel free to hit us up on our Facebook page or on Twitter and until next time, happy commercing.

Today we take a look at some lifestyles of the rich and famous, and their playground, Palm Beach, Florida. Stacie has the incredible story of a 20th century titan, Marjorie Merriweather Post, who was a four-time-divorcee and one-time richest woman in America. Then Alicia brings us the decidedly more laid back lifestyle of Peter Pulitzer and his wife Lilly Pulitzer (nee McKim), who lived an oddball lifestyle among Florida’s orange groves that led Lilly into fashion design. Promo this week: Grab your ticket for our live Atlanta show with Erica Kelley of Southern Fried True Crime on August 25 at Venkman’s!

In which the messy orange-eating of a runaway heiress creates a colorful new summer look for American women, and Ken goes way too far with his Kennedy assassination theories. Certificate #12306.

In this brand new episode of The Bloom and Grow Show I discuss the best ways to effectively market your business without it taking over your life. I offer up some ground rules that you should implement in order to simplify your day and have more fun with your business. I also answer your top questions about marketing online and via social media. So grab your sweet tea, a pen & paper, and listen in! Highlights Why understanding your audience and knowing the brands they follow will help you to find the right platforms to market on. How my love of Lilly Pulitzer fits into my business and offers me inspiration

By the early 1970s, when the fabrics and designs of Lilly Pulitzer were retail and media darlings, Tony Falcone started coming to Key West with his partner, Bill Conkle. Eventually, they decided to open up a store. It was called Fast Buck Freddie's and it was on Key West's main drag, Duval street. They opened at a time when many other stores on Duval Street were closing. They tapped into the new chic money that was just starting to discover Key West, with it's fabulous old houses built in its late 19th century heyday, and supplied housewares for all of those renovations. But in the summer all the business died and Falcone says they would not have made it through except for local matriarch, Mary Spottswood. "She would come in and buy everythin - wine glasses, placements and tons of housewares that she didn't even need." She did it only to try and keep us alive. Falcone said, "she would come in, we had a long table and a big fan chair behind it, and then some stools in front of it. And she would just come in and just sit and talk to us for hours." Well, that was classic Mary Spottswood. Mary and her husband John lived at 531 Caroline Street in what is known today as the John M. Spottswood House. They moved into the house in the 1940's and she raised her three sons and a daughter there. Mary's grandchildren are now seventh generation conchs! Mary was active in the community. She was involved in the Montessori School and was always taking on charitable endeavors. She was a member of the Laureate Delta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi and she opened her home to many other charitable organizations and social events were continually being held at the Spottswood home. The society pages of the newspaper during the 1980's were full of mentions of all the charitable deeds of Mary Spottswood. She was a longtime friend and supporter of Bayview Manor. She was a hospitable woman and she loved doing things for other people. She was constantly involved in fundraising for organizations in town that were closest to her heart. In the 1960's John Spottswood began his first foray into real estate development with the purchase of the Casa Marina and La Concha hotels. John and Mary Spottswood also became friends with Harry and Bess Truman. You'll remember that Harry Truman spent many vacations as president in Key West and John s and Mary Spottswood were some of the people that were frequently at dinner together with Harry and Bess Truman. It's not every day that you can live on a tiny island and yet still be friends and dinner companions with the most powerful man in the world. You can find reminders of Mary Spottswood all over Key West and even at the Mary abnd John Spottswood Waterfront Park located in the city. And it was today December the 20th, 1996, that Mary Spottswood, the island's grand dame, matriarch and First Lady died at the age of 73. Her late husband John had been Sheriff of the county, a state senator, and also started Cable Vision, one of the first cable systems in the country. And that's what happened today in Key West history. Today in Key West History is brought to you by 43 Keys Media. If you want to learn more about Key West history and the people who put it on the map, visit http://43keys.com. You can get this program as well as others as an Alexa flash briefing. Just tell Alexa, "Play today in Key West history as my flash briefing."  

When she first joined Lilly Pulitzer over a decade ago, Michelle Kelly was a huge fan of the brand and in search of the best way to get to know the fashion industry. Her mentors suggested she get her start in sales, which Kelly said taught her one of the most important lessons of her career. Now, as President and CEP, Kelly never forgets what she learned in those first few years-- the customers are in charge. In this episode of The Glossy Podcast, Kelly discusses what it's like to have a truly loyal following, how Lilly Pulitzer approaches capsule collections and how influencer marketing is a natural extension of the brand.

April 24, 2013. That’s the day that the Rana Plaza Building in Bangladesh collapsed. 1,138 people died and another 2,500 were injured. It was the fourth-largest industrial disaster in history. There were actually five garment factories in the Rana Plaza--all manufacturing clothing for big, global brands, and the victims were mostly young women. The thing is, is that the fashion industry is actually the second-largest global industry after oil. People and the environment are suffering as a result of the way that fashion is made, sourced, and consumed. So back in the ‘40s and ‘50s and ‘60s, back when our parents, or our grandparents, or maybe you listening--when you were growing up, you owned maybe 20 to 30 articles of clothing. There were 4 seasons of clothing: Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer. Brands that were manufacturing (and 98% of clothing was made here in the United States at that time) were coming out with new things once a season. Well sometime in the ‘90s, let’s say early to mid ‘90s, that began to change. Over time, brands started coming out with 52 seasons of clothing. Yes, that is new clothing every single week. When you think about it, when you go from 4 seasons of clothing to 52 seasons of clothing, obviously the amount of clothing that is being produced every year, is a whole lot more than it used to be. Then on January 1, 1994, NAFTA, or the North American Free Trade Agreement, came into effect, and that basically began an outflux (if you will) of production of our clothing leaving the United States. So it kind of reversed, where as 98% of our clothing was made here in the United States, it flipped and now about 90-98% of our clothing is now made overseas. I’m not going to get political, I’m not going to go too much into the whether I think NAFTA was good or bad or anything like that, but, these are just facts. These are just facts about our clothing production and how it’s impacted people and the environment. Because let’s think about it, the way our society is now, we want fast, cheap fashion. And that comes at a price. That comes at a price of the people who make it, and the environment that it’s made in. This week is a little different. This is something that I am introducing to the podcast: Solo Episodes! This week your host and guest is, me. No, I’m not going to be weird and interview myself. After my 100th episode, I got a lot of questions. As a result, every 10 episodes I will be doing a solo episode: content you really want to hear and things you really want to know. For this first episode, I wanted to answer the most common questions I get from bloggers and readers: Why I started shopping ethically? Why I think shopping ethically is important? And how do I make the choice to purchase from a brand (how can I tell if a brand is ethical or not)? A GATEWAY TO ETHICAL FASHION In 2011, I took my first trip to Kenya for a missions trip. As an activity, the group I was with stopped at the Kazuri Bead Factory for a tour. It was here that I was able to see firsthand what stable employment could do for a community and for a person. This group works to hire primarily single mothers--a group that really struggles, everywhere, but even more so in the developing word. It was really eye-opening for me. I started to think more about where the things I bought were made, so I started to do research. I had heard the term “fair trade” before but had only thought of it in the context of coffee or tea--not in terms of anything else. That was the catalyst that got me interested in ethical fashion. MY CONSCIOUS CHECKLIST -Are they a member of the Fair Trade Federation? The Fair Trade Federation has a set of standards and requirements that their member companies must meet. You can pretty much guarantee that if they are a member, this is a company you want to buy from. -Are they a Certified B Corporation? These are socially conscious, social good organizations that have, again, met a set of standards and requirements. -Do they have their Global Organic Textile Standard certification? This means that their fabric is composed of at least 70% organic fibers. -Do they market themselves as an ethical brand? Here, you have to use your judgement! Some smaller ethical brands choose not to be members of these groups or receive these certifications because of the fees involved. One great example is Elegantees. At the smaller level, these businesses will take the expense they would be putting towards these memberships and certifications, and they’ll invest it back into their business and their makers. -Are they a small business? I love to support small businesses! It helps lift up local employees and economies. -Are they manufactured in the USA? This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are an ethical company, but it is a good indicator. Look at their costs and how they are marketing themselves! -Do they state anywhere on their website about their manufacturing company? Is this something that they are proud of? I don’t fault companies that don’t meet this qualification. It may not be something they want to market front and center, even if it is something that is important to themselves as a brand. ASK: WHO MADE MY CLOTHES? If you can’t find these qualifications anywhere on their website - email them! You can find out for yourself if your favorites companies are ethical by reaching out to them directly to find out about their manufacturing processes. What measures are they taking to make sure that their workers are treated fairly and like human beings? Here is the link to the blog post I wrote with the Letter to Lilly Pulitzer that I mentioned in the podcast. Special thanks to CAUSEBOX for sponsoring this week’s Business with Purpose podcast. Use coupon code MOLLY for $15 off! Join my Purchase with Purpose Facebook group and let’s continue the conversation! https://www.facebook.com/groups/purchasewithpurpose/ Subscribe to the Business with Purpose podcast (and I’d love it if you left a review** on iTunes!) Subscribe on iTunes** Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Radio Public Subscribe via Podcast RSS Feed **Want to know how to leave a review of the Business with Purpose Podcast on iTunes from your iPhone or iPad? Launch Apple’s Podcast app. Tap the Search tab. Enter “Business with Purpose“ Tap the blue Search key at the bottom right. Tap the Blue album art for the podcast. Tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom. Enter your iTunes password to login. Tap the Stars to leave a rating. Enter title text and content to leave a review. Tap Send.  

Knowing when to stay quiet or speak up when you love someone who drinks too much or suffers from addiction takes practice. Today Michelle is going to teach you when keeping quiet is your best choice. Here are some of the topics we cover in this episode: Does nagging work?  Should I wait until they're sober to speak to them?  How should I handle an abusive situation?  Read our blog at https://loveoveraddiction.com/stay-quiet-or-speak-up-how-to-make-the-right-choice-when-dealing-with-addiction/ If you want to learn more about the Love Over Boundaries program, visit us at https://loveoveraddiction.com/love-over-boundaries/   Hey there. For those of you that missed last week's episode, you might be wondering, "Wait a second, what happened to the Wife of an Alcoholic Podcast?" We changed our name. And there is a lot of reasoning and a lot of thought behind that change. I encourage you to listen to last week's episode if you missed it. Speaking of change, there is quite a bit of change going on, y'all. I have been so excited to announce this, and you might have seen this on the Love Over Addiction Instagram account or the Facebook page. And if you don't follow us, then please do. Because we have so many announcements and lots of wonderful tips, and we have some great ideas that are going to be posted on social media. You can find us at Love Over Addiction on Instagram and Facebook. But, if you missed our posts, I want to tell you a quick story. And I'm going to warn you, this is a bit of a longer episode than normal. I promise that I will get to your free helpful tip, and I have a surprise for you at the end of this episode, so make sure that you stay tuned. But I want to tell you a story first. I've been doing this for six years. No, maybe seven. I don't know, you guys. A long time. And I love it. I love it so much that I started to feel overwhelmed. I began to get to the point with this community where I really wasn't able to grow it the way that I felt like it needed to grow. So I decided with my husband that either I would have to scale back, or I would have to blow it out. And we have a woman in our community named Kate who approached me several months ago and said, "Look, I work for a union, and I think that my members would really benefit from Love Over Addiction." This is the second largest union in the United States and Canada. Might even be the world. And when she told me that, I got, a) really nervous, and b) really excited. But I knew that I couldn't even fathom that idea unless I had some help. Because you know how we always talk about self-care here? I knew that if I were to entertain the idea of helping that many women, on that kind of scale, I would no longer be able to have any sort of self-care or life, for that matter. I'm already working really long hours per day, and there just wasn't enough margin. So when I was in the kitchen, talking to my husband about this, he said, "I know a guy you need to talk to." And he set up this meeting with this amazing man who is so full of wisdom and been part of the behavioral health and healthcare industry for many, many years. Super intelligent guy. He's retired and does a lot of consulting for multi-million-dollar businesses. So my husband, who is your biggest supporter and advocate, as is mine, set up this meeting with the three of us. And this guy sat across the table from me, and he said, "Look, I've read almost every single thing on your website, and I have to tell you, what you are doing is wonderful and could be very big. So you need to figure out what is the end game. Where do you want to take this? Jump to 10 years, 20 years from now. Where do you see this going?" And I never had thought about that. For me, it's more like, I'm just going to take it day by day. And whatever you guys need and whatever I hear you talking about, I'm going to react to that. So I left that lunch with thoughts swirling and swirling and swirling. Then I sat down with my hubby and said, "Okay, what do you think we should do?" And he encouraged me. He said, "Michelle, I know the idea of growing this business is scary to you, and I know this opportunity with this union is really, really big, or could be really, really big. But think about all of the women that you could reach." And then he asked me, "Did you ever figure out what your goal was?" And I said, "You know what, I kind of did." I was a little scared to tell him, but I said, "I want to be the number one brand that women think of when they think of addiction. I want to be the number one brand in the world." And not me, not Michelle, but Love Over Addiction. Our community. Our movement. I want women all over the world who are in pain, who are suffering, and who are feeling alone like I did over 10 years ago in my kitchen, looking at my husband, passed out, and going where, where are all the other women that are going through this? What are they doing? How can we bond and share tools and tips and laugh and not get depressed, and not talk badly about the ones we love? How can we find hope, and how can we find laughter and friendship through this? How can we turn addiction into something that is the best thing that ever happened to us? Where is that? And so that's what I want. I want every woman in the world to know about us and that she has choices. That she is not powerless over this disease. I want us to become a giant movement. And that feels really scary to put out there to you, because it makes me feel really vulnerable, but that is my heart. That has always been the heart. That's what keeps me up at 2:00 in the morning when I'm thinking about what we need to learn, how we can improve, what we need to teach, and what we need to bring to light. So he said, "Great. That sounds amazing. Write that down, first of all." Which, of course, I didn't. Because it's implanted like a tattoo on my heart. And then he said, "All right, then you need to get a company. You can't grow this off of you." And that even sounded better to me, because again, I'm being so real with you right now and I did not plan on sharing all of this with you before I started, but why not? We're a sisterhood. You're through the front door with me. So as soon as he said a company, I felt a weight lifting off my shoulders. You know how when you make a really good decision, and it just feels perfect? And all of a sudden, you feel lighter. I have never, ever been comfortable with being the brand. Let me rephrase this because I don't want to make it sound like I'm lacking self-confidence. I'm definitely a feisty person that, when it comes to addiction, will speak up to anyone and talk about it with anybody. But I've never been really comfortable having the spotlight just on me. And building a business off of my name just doesn't sound right with my personality. It doesn't sit right with me. Now, for people like Tory Burch, absolutely. I don't know if there is a Lilly Pulitzer. I think there is. I think that's a real woman. Great. Those authors that you probably follow on Instagram, that works for them. But for me, that's just not been my personality. So as soon as he said a company, I started to get excited. Because I knew that would mean taking the shift off of one person and really building a team. And really building a brand. So, where does this leave us? I went away from that conversation with my hubby and thought about a team. And the more I thought about it, the more excited I got. Now, you all know Megan, and I love her to death. She's been with me for a couple months now, and she's fabulous. She manages the community, and she manages all my content. The most important thing she does is spell check everything because you know I have dyslexia, so yeah, when spell check doesn't recognize your words, you know that that's bad. So I started to think about the women that I know in business, and the women that I admire in business. And there are two women in particular that I have worked with that I brag about all the time with Brian. These women are rock stars. They are powerhouses. They are probably the two most respectable businesswomen I have ever met. And they are wiser than me in so many areas. The problem was, one of them had her own business and had done an amazing job building up her own business. The second one worked for that other woman. And I said to Brian, "These two women are the only women I can think of." And he said, "All right, why don't you ask? Why don't you see if they will come do this with you, to build this movement together?" So I flew one of them down. Her name is Brittany. And she had no idea that I was going to ask her for this. She thought I was bringing her down to help me talk business strategy. And she said yes. So she stepped away from her business and brought Jo with her. And Jo is one of my heroes who is truly the most organized, type A (in such a good way) woman. So Brittany is our new CEO. And Jo is our Director of Operations. I am so excited because it feels real. Because it is. And it feels right. If we are going to really integrate ourselves in the world of addiction, we've got to have a team. So these are your new team members. These women love you. They've been working very closely with me for years. They know this business, and they know you inside out. They're inside our programs, and they're inside our community. And so it wasn't this huge process for them to get to know you guys, because they already had. They believe in our mission. And they believe we can actually make this happen. So that is the big news. Now, what does this mean for you? Nothing. It doesn't mean anything. I'm still going to be hosting this podcast because  my favorite thing to do is talk to you. I'm still going to be writing programs. I'm actually working on Love Over Addiction 2 right now. Now that they are on board, taking care of all of the operations and the back end, I am now free to write and dream up new content and research for you. So I will become even more available to you and coming up with all these great ideas for you because they are there taking care of the business side of business. So that's what it means to you. And I really, really hope that you are as happy and as proud that two other amazing women are willing to join our movement and our team. 2018 is turning out to be a huge year. I have so much more to tell you, but I am going to try and sprinkle it throughout the process because I don't want to overwhelm you. And I need to get to your helpful tip, because of course, I would never just talk your ear off about this and not give you a helpful tip. And I told you, I promised you a surprise at the end of this podcast. So today, we are going to be talking about whether you should you be quiet or speak up. That's a big topic, isn't it? So keeping a quiet mouth—can I tell you how impossible that feels to me at times? I have a reputation in my family as the one who isn't afraid to speak up. To call BS when I see it. I used to feel really ashamed of being very verbal. Or let me rephrase that. I was taught to feel ashamed for having a personality that someone could be considered too opinionated. For years, I would wish I was the kind, quiet girl who agreed. Who was more laid back, and worked things out in her head in her personal time, instead of confronting or having difficult conversations. But that, my friends, is not how God made me. Although, I am 40 years old, and I have learned over the last 10 years, that being outspoken is good, but not all the time. Sometimes, it's necessary, and it serves us and others to have the courage to speak up. Look at the amazing examples of Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou. What if they had not used their strong voices? History would not have been made. Freedom would have been denied. And yet, I read that Rosa Parks, a seamstress, known to be the mother of the civil rights movement, for the most part, was a very quiet woman. And that's how I learned you can move mountains when you choose to use your voice in specific situations, and you can also be powerful and quiet. When you love someone who drinks too much or suffers from addiction, there will be times when you need to use your strong, convicted voice. And we have many examples of that in the Love Over Boundaries program. But we also need to learn when keeping a quiet mouth is the best choice. For example, nagging the one you love is a waste of your breath. Keep quiet. Your nagging will not change anything. It doesn't help them get sober, and it won't help you feel better. In fact, nagging probably does more harm than good. Another example when keeping a quiet mouth is a good thing: If the one you love is on drugs or drunk, they aren't sober, so don't even bother spending a single ounce of your precious energy when they are not going to hear a word you are saying. And one more example of when it's best to keep a quiet mouth: if they're being abusive. Now I know this is a hard one to hear. And a couple weeks ago, we talked about what verbal and physical abuse looks like. But we talk on this podcast about the issues that no one else wants to discuss. So hang in here with me, because this might apply to you. If the one you love is being verbally or physically abusive, some of us might be tempted to fight back. I know I did for many years until I learned this technique. But that is like adding more gasoline to the fire. The best thing that you can do in an abusive situation is to leave. Get out of the house. Hang up the phone. Try to walk out of the room. Lock yourself behind a door if you can. Exit, and don't engage. Retreat to a safe place. If you fight back with your hands or your words, you are putting yourself at great risk. If you know they are in a foul mood, give them space. Back away. Refusing to fight back is not being submissive or passive. It's being smart and mature. By learning when to keep a quiet mouth, you are growing into a wise woman. Biting my tongue, disengaging, and getting busy doing my own thing helped me keep a calmer, more stable environment for my kids and my marriage. Each one of us needs to use the courage that lies within us to speak the truth and call BS when we see it. But, let's make sure we are thoughtful, intentional, and not reactionary when we do. If you are interested in learning when and how to approach the one you love, join our Love Over Boundaries program. We will walk you through the exact steps and give you the sentences you can say in case you feel stuck. Literally, the sentences. We have them all on several pieces of paper. You can print them out, and you can practice in your bathroom, looking in the mirror. Now, I promised you a treat for staying with me that whole time. We have a freebie. So in the beginning, when I first started recording the podcast, I would give away freebies. You guys have spoken up, and you want more freebies. And we really want to please you. So we put together some freebies for you. It's not going to be every podcast, but this particular one. This is a guidesheet prompting you to create a list of things that you can do when you disengage from a situation and keep a quiet mouth. In order to get your freebie, take out your phone, or maybe you're listening to this on your phone. And I want you to text POPQUIZ, all capital letters. POPQUIZ to the number 4-4-2-2-2. Okay, so, I'm going to explain this because I needed someone else to explain this to me because I'm totally bad with technology. So instead of putting the name of the person you're going to text, you put the number, which is 4-4-2-2-2. And wherever you write the message, that's when you put in all caps, POPQUIZ. And please don't worry, we don't store your numbers or anything like that. This is just a way for you to get your free guide sheet. Okay. I love every one of you. Make sure you subscribe, and please, will you please do me a favor? Will you please review this podcast? I love hearing from you. You don't need to use your real name or anything like that. You can totally hide that. I read every one of them, and they help us rank on iTunes. And it's not about being number one, but it is about getting the word out that this is a resource for other women. Right now, I think we're in the top five percent of podcasts on iTunes, so we want to maintain that. We want to grow even more. And also, the more popular a podcast gets, the more I can get great guests on for you because guests want to be on popular podcasts. So I love you, and I hope you'll join me in welcoming Brittany and Jo to our team. And I hope you find that as good of news as I do. I'll talk to you next week.

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Joanna is currently the Vice President of Marketing at WeWork, a seven year old real estate-meets-technology-meets-community start-up, originally founded as a shared office space provider - now on a mission to transform the way we work, live and play.  Before WeWork, Joanna spent over 10 years in the fashion world at brands like J.Crew, Lilly Pulitzer and Vera Wang, working across retail and digital marketing.  Joanna also did a brief stint on Wall Street, working on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs right out of college.  She did her undergraduate degree in French and Political Science at Georgetown University, and has a Masters in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design.    In this podcast Michael and Joanna discuss: How Joanna’s eclectic background is her greatest strength. What makes a great leader. How to stay focused in a fast-past, rapidly growing business. When and how you know it’s time to scale your team. How to turn your customers into evangelists for your brand. The challenge of scaling culture and community. The role design can play in creating community. The promise and peril of close friendships at work. How millennials are driving new expectations in the workplace.

EP121 - Shoptalk 2018 Recap Part 1 ShopTalk is an annual trade show held in Las Vegas focused on retail and e-commerce innovation.  In it's third year, it has become the fastest growing can't miss event in our industry.  This year 8,400 industry professionals attended the event (up from 5,400 last year).  The 2018 version took place March 18-21, 2018 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. There is so much content at the show, that we've divided our recap into two parts.  In Part 1 we cover: Macy's Keynote Target Keynote Amazon Go Keynote Future of Grocery - Moderated by Jason Goldberg Zia Wigner Keynote (Global Chief Content Officer for ShopTalk) Ulta Keynote Nike Keynote Ocado Keynote Pinterest Keynote Fresh Direct Keynote Facebook Keynot Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 121 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, March 19th 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this episode is being recorded on Monday March 19th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:38] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason and rare time when we're together and this is actually the second week in a row so pretty exciting where live live live here from the Venetian in Las Vegas. Jason: [0:53] I know I feel like I have won the lottery getting to hang out with you this much. Scot: [0:56] I know you're you're a very lucky man that's all I can say. Show listeners we are we recording this at the end of the day on Monday consumed 2 out of 4 days of content so I can call this the shoptalk halftime show. And the show this year is really dense and we thought it be important to give you guys, real-time update of what we're learning about the show some of the more interesting ass, so that we can kind of have at least have two updates with me actually put a third depending on what kind of content comes out in the next couple days so. Just a quick overview of the show this year it looks like the attendance is about double I think we decided Jason is that right, so I think they're saying somewhere north of 8400 attendees definitely feels like it the show outgrew the Aria and is now at the Venetian, I'm in I guess it used to be called The Sands conference in your butt and now they caught this fancy Palazzo or whatever it is Conference Center. And another thing that's really interesting this year is they've added a couple of new tracks there's there's a grocery talk track which I know is near and dear to your heart so there's this kind of acknowledgement that groceries undergoing digital change really kind of in a bike. Not only that but actually on the show floor and then there's a whole track around Ai and machine learning which is been one of our favorite topics. The the big me coming from the vendor world the show floor is absolutely huge this year last year there was like these little mini meeting room kind of things and this year they went full show room and they've done it I don't know the square footage of that but it is as big as. [2:32] Shoptalk it's as big as shop.org it's his maybe half the size of a retailer I would say. But for a shows for sure you're having an exhibit floor it's pretty impressive I would say that. You know they've done a really good job with that another thing I really like is it under that they've done is a lot of the food and then to get to the general Keynotes you have to walk through the exhibit floor, I and the vendors are well aware of that and they are lined up and ready for ready for action that's who hugs so that's that's interesting and any other kind of, the macro things you want to talk about that you notice this year before we go into the details. Jason: [3:12] I mean just said the one interesting thing the way they were arranged the the exhibit floor is in these sort of subject-matter Pavilion so there's like. AI Pavilion that you know is largely companies focused on a and a grocery Pavilion so if. If you're looking for a particular type of vendor they've sort of Consolidated those all together which I like I think it makes it easier to find relevant stuff. And then. If you're a retailer you could come to the show for free if you agreed to take a certain number of meetings with vendors so the program that other shows have done that I've never seen it done on the scale they've done here so they. Paid for a bunch of retailers to fly here in the end their hotel rooms they arranged a bunch of meetings with vendors and as big as the trade show floor is there's a whole huge back half of the trade show floor, they just all these meeting tables that are like speed dating between exhibitors and vendors and it's it's a little bit like Tinder, the vendor had to say they wanted to meet with this particular retailer in the retailer had to say they want to meet with this particular vendor. Scot: [4:23] Double opt-in. Jason: [4:25] Exactly. Scot: [4:26] Swipe left swipe right. Jason: [4:27] Yeah and so the the BD people for my company we did several those meetings and felt like they were all all valuable in in favorable so. It's approximately. Scot: [4:38] Does that come with the exhibit space or is it kind of separate. Jason: [4:40] Yeah there's a bunch of bundles you could buy that were like this amount of space in this mini meetings. Scot: [4:45] Is there a popular in Europe I know are European Folks at Channel visor participate in these meetings and always felt weird from the US perspective that you were kind of like. Paying for the vendor to meet with you but I. They've always worked worked out pretty well for your PIN folks it's interesting to see them kind of bring that over date they did just do their European show shoptalk I wonder if that's something a best practice they brought over as part of that. Jason: [5:09] Actually it does appear so they did a Europe shoptalk last year and it and they cancel that show so I didn't get to go I assume it wasn't. Quite as well adopted as the u.s. won and now they're calling this the global show and they're trying to get all their European attendees to come here. But you're you're absolutely right like they could have definitely lifted some of those best practices and I frankly I came here a little skeptical about the meetings because. There there were some logistic hiccups weeding up to it like if a vendor opted-in and we opted in but it didn't fit in one of the time slots they had available. I think we bought more meetings than we got so they had to give us some credits back and and not to sound too vain but where. Better known brand than a lot of vendors on that floor so if they struggled give us the meetings we bought you could imagine some smaller lesser-known vendors. Scot: [6:03] But it seems like the space was constrained not the demand. Jason: [6:07] Exactly yeah and then like once we got here it sounds like it went real well so agree with you like this feels like one of the few shows in our space that's vibrant and growing. Scot: [6:19] Yeah yeah and that's what sticking to some of the content highlights I got in late Sunday night super late and then you were here all day so why don't you could get off and tell us some of the highlights from Sunday. Jason: [6:30] So I am in back taking residency here in Las Vegas I'm here for 16 days. In the hotel room that you and I are sitting in right now so that's a new experience for me and Sunday night had some good key notes that I was looking forward to hearing the first one was Jeff can that who's the CEO of Macy's. And so he was talking about some of their progress they had their first. Favorable quarter and I want to say like 11 consecutive quarters and and so you know he was very optimistic that that they're there. Turn around program that they called the North Star is starting to work since we talked about a couple of the the upcoming initiatives they have a program they're calling growth 50 which is essentially. They selected these 50 Macy's store. The Dare going to. Put all of their best practices and capex investments into in 2018 in the idea is to see which of those things work best and deploy them into all there the rest of the Macy's Fleet in 2019. So it'll be interesting to figure out what those 50 stores are and keep an eye on them. Scot: [7:40] What does 50 stores are and keep an eye on them and it goes Herald Square. Jason: [7:45] Seems to be somewhat shocking of that was not one of them. Scot: [7:48] Does that mean like the giving up on the other 50 is at Macy's shutting stores. Jason: [7:54] Closed a bunch of stores but they're still in business will check me on this but I don't want to say that it's going to be like 2000 store so that it's still a lot of stores and what you don't do is just. Do a bunch of expensive things and I'll mm hope they work so so picking 50 stores as Pilots kind of makes sense. Scot: [8:11] , complex offline av-test. Jason: [8:14] Yeah as we caught a match Panel test actually but that's sort of the original Navy test. So that's interesting they announced that they are deploying mobile scan & go check out to all their stores by the end of 2018 so what that means is. You've installed at Macy's mobile app you you scan the items you want to buy. For it on the mobile app and you walk out without ever having to get in the checkout line if there's loss prevention tags on the apparel which there is on a lot of the apparel. You have to walk by a security desk show on a digital barcode on your on your phone and they'll remove your tags but that potentially eliminate. What date Macy says is the number one complaint about Macy's which is hard to find a cashier or too long a wait in line. So they were they were pretty bullish on that. Scot: [9:13] Surfin you're doing that or that's just like part of their point of sale and stuff. Jason: [9:16] They did not disclose that they were partnering with the vendor to do it it seems like something they built or not ganic Lee you are you are absolutely right there are third-party vendors that you can hire to facilitate that for you but. I somewhat suspect that Macy's is not using a third-party to implement it another one that was interesting to me and I haven't seen the meteor really pick up on this year. But he talked about their desire to clean up their promotional calendar and. Scot: [9:43] Sounds familiar. Jason: [9:44] That's retail code for we want to get away from all of the crazy promotions were doing and he specifically said we want to eliminate the need for a Shoppers to do quote on quote Macy's math. To figure out how to get the best deal. Scot: [10:01] This is longtime listeners will know this is kinda killed JCPenney right. Jason: [10:04] Even more more funny it it absolutely kills Ron Johnson's 10-year JCPenney they were highly promotional he tried to dramatically clean up their promotional calendar and. Just didn't work. A time a lot of us criticize Ron Johnson because we were pointing out that retailers like Macy's had tried this in the past and it didn't work for them so it's even more ironic. That Macy's that has frankly past experience trying to move away from from promotional pricing models is going back to it and we we talked on listener question shows about the fact that. Everyday low prices seems like the future pricing and because of transparency these promotions aren't as appealing as they once were. But it's really hard to shift once you have a customer base that used to promotional pricing. Scot: [10:53] Now so Terry Lundgren so he is transition. His big thing was to add that discount store inside of Macy's but I didn't hear you saying about that is that stole, is that the kind of makes sense if your have this discount like Dollar Store jammed inside of Macy's or TJ Maxx is probably more appropriate analogy then I think it does make sense to then you could have at least kind of a, a way of balancing out the promotional things is that still tragedy but or or is that off the table. Jason: [11:21] I I think that still is a strategy Macy still does have these off-price stores that I think the most Perfect Analogy is that are you notice or to Nordstrom Rack equivalent but they were mentioned it all in the keno. So either you like they didn't double down on it or say they're moving away from it you can interpret moving waste and promotional calendar that you know they're there. Trying to Jack the margins up in the main line Macy's stores but you're exactly right like they could be to differentiate it from the discount concept Moore, so we'll have to see how that plays out the next keynote was Target so this is Brian Cornell is the CEO of Target there another retailer that you could kind of say is in the midst of. Turnaround strategy and he spent he did a couple interesting things about his was a little more. West tactical in the Macy's keno and he talked a lot about. The their migration to digital and how they've embraced digital and he he talked about this he didn't called The innovator's Dilemma. That's essentially what it is he's like you know there's this natural inclination when you have all these stores in the stores are profitable in these new shopping behaviors come in to say you like why would I ever invest things that discourage. Customers from going to the store that that's just your natural instinct. And he claimed that like Target had overcome that instinct and was now short of embracing. [12:55] Digital and they were largely converting the stores in to fulfillment hubs and that they they ship something like 70% of all their eCommerce orders from the store. Brought on stage with in the CEO of shipped which is a logistics company they just bought. You said that they bought them specifically because they wanted to be the first national retailer to offer same-day delivery in all markets. Scot: [13:19] And then just last week they announced they're growing that out and more stores. Jason: [13:24] So I think their intention is to get eventually get it in all stores that are also experimenting with curbside pickup which we've talked a lot about here. So a lot of interesting things there and then he pivoted to another topic that I think is going to be very common this year which is there they're doubling down and reinvestment in owned brands. And this used to be the thing we call private label the the purple an hour when they talk about own brand they're talking about Brands they created offense. That in some cases they even sell it other other channels of distribution I'm so potentially sell on Amazon. And target has been very successful own brand they're also talking about brand exclusives so we'll sell stuff from National Brands but. Excuse that are only available in our store and will sell limited edition stuff so the stuff you know that there's a constrained Supply Target some what famous for that with promotions they've done for people with Lilly Pulitzer in others. So that is one of their big plays that's most retailers big play against Amazon has to sell stuff that Amazon can't sell. So that was kind of his big talking points. Scot: [14:42] So I know they room essentials is there like furniture brand and then what is a jack and. Kids one cat jacket are there any examples where they sold those other places. Jason: [14:59] So I haven't as Machine Target sell their own brands in other places. Scot: [15:04] Costco has. Jason: [15:06] Costco very famous he does there's more Kirkland on on sold on Amazon than on Costco.com I think. Scot: [15:12] Yeah but there are other. Jason: [15:15] I'm trying to remember if Target invested in or owns method but method is sold elsewhere so there's. Scot: [15:20] I swear Dakota velvet with that a designer Michael Graves Sr. Do one of our interns to research them. Jason: [15:28] Yeah yeah yeah let me know how that works out for you so that was an interesting keynote and then. Sort of the perfect transition the third keynote on Sunday night was to VPS from Amazon that are responsible for the Amazon go store so this is Gianna Parini. Responsible for who started the. The business leader for Amazon go and then dilip Kumar who's responsible for all the technology used in the Amazon go store and is also responsible for the Amazon bookstore. So the very first thing they did which was just I thought hysterical after both. Target and Macy's had mentioned kind of Scan & Go. Amazon of course came on and threw shade at what a pain in the neck skin and go is and how we really built the store just because customers don't want to have to scan each item as their. As their shopping. Scot: [16:29] Is that a learning from the book store cuz that's how the bookstore model works. Jason: [16:33] Yeah well I don't know specifically I mean. Scot: [16:35] Typically the kind of throwing shade at the bookstore. Jason: [16:38] Yeah and I would argue the bookstore is in many ways the worst version because you like literally can't find out the price without. Scot: [16:44] Face can't even find a price there's more scanning you would even get it at Macy's. Jason: [16:48] I told you it was not a very hostile interview so let me just say that question was not asked. Either of them but it was a little bit funny this was the keynote I was most looking forward to Amazon Prime now was at the show last year and I felt like. They shared a lot of new information about the prime now program that they least I wasn't previously aware of. It was less through this time so I didn't do was not a lot of like major new disclosures normally trying to figure out his. How to get a roll go out to more stores are you getting to put it in Whole Foods your new announcements like that at this it is Keynote. They did talk about what some of the best sellers in the store was and apparently there's this chicken sandwich that's been there Perpetual number one seller but it is a lot of food stuff so that Amazon makes their own meal kits in that store in the doors are top sellers. Fresh fruit is a top seller there's an odd thing about Amazon and fresh fruit. This store is in the corporate headquarters in this corporate headquarters Amazon has way less employee amenities than almost any other big company. So the rare amenity that that Amazon liked out a lot is. Did they give free bananas to all the employees and apparently this has killed the market for bananas in downtown Seattle. The smoothie shops used to charge to put bananas in the Smoothie now they let you bring your own smoothie your own bananas in to put in a smoothie because everyone in downtown Seattle gets free bananas from Amazon. Scot: [18:22] Does the banana thing so when Prime took on Arrested Development there was a big. What is running jokes I'm not a huge Arrested Development person but there's a banana stand thing in there and I think they started it as kind of like to celebrate that it's kind of kept going is that is that true or did I make that up in my head. What decimal burx Amazonian Institute election. Jason: [18:43] Or just is this odd fruit thing with Amazon so then I found it funny that like this. The store which is largely the employee cafeteria is really what the Amazon go store is the number one seller is fruit so it made me wonder if they're going to stop by the bananas. They can monetize the bananas in the ghost. Scot: [19:00] How we don't sell a lot of bananas in the guest room. Jason: [19:03] No I imagine that it's fresh fruit other than bananas but there were a couple other interesting things so delete was talking about like. The ghost are we talked about a lot it's based on. Very Advanced machine learning around computer vision so this is mostly done with cameras and the interviewer asked why they chose cameras there all these examples in Europe in elsewhere of people trying to do similar concept with RFID tags. And they they felt like aspirationally a store model where they have to constantly apply tags and sensors to all the Shelf some product. Wasn't very interesting to them they felt like that the much more scalable long-term solution was to invent this computer vision model. Scot: [19:49] Now I know you're very passionate about RFID tags how do you feel about that. Jason: [19:52] I think he's right I think RFID tags are item level RFID tags for products in a store. Is a pain in the neck and unless we get to this thing called Source tagging where all the manufacturers put the RFID tag on in the factory it's it's never going to take off. Scot: [20:09] Can you do RF IDs for like a fruit and stuff. Jason: [20:13] Potentially yes so at the moment. Scot: [20:15] Yeah at the moment. Jason: [20:19] Yeah it there's a man. Scot: [20:21] RFID on my app. Jason: [20:22] So there's a sticker on every one of your apples now and that sticker could essentially be an RFID tag. That sounds like a Farfetch'd example like there's an argument in the future of food that you're going to want to know a lot more about that Apple before you buy it like how many, days ago was picked and all these other things and so like you you could imagine them wanting a tag each individual apple for a variety of reasons. All that aside it was just interesting to hear them talk about how they debated tags versus cameras and went with the cameras. Scot: [20:55] Another nice thing with with cameras is once you get on digital then more law should kick in where RFID tags rising to this manual. Process that is not going to change the scale and will always be subject to let you have a robot that can put the tags on her which. Jason: [21:12] What kind of software vs. Hardware really like an unlike General lease offers I have a lot more profitable because as as you scale at the the normal cost is very well. Scot: [21:22] Yeah then you have the the nurse's other acceleration I don't know so Moore's logic we all understand that you don't processing power gets doubled every two years but then, you know I wonder if there's some correlated to that with machine learning like the system get smarter every X things that sees Pride another there's some pretty interesting thing there that also is. Jason: [21:43] Yeah I mean there's a couple examples of that like the the. Accuracy of computer vision which is this specific subset of artificial intelligence this towards using has been improving faster than more as wise as a noun yeah. Scot: [21:56] You think it would yeah and then I hit some kind of like. Jason: [22:00] Resume wait I had some flat toe because it's unlike chips which could always get faster at some point your computer Visions perfect. Scot: [22:09] How do they tell like a chicken sandwich in a tuna sandwich but do they have to put different containers on it to help her. Jason: [22:16] So that was a good question that wasn't asked but there was a similar one that was kind of interesting so because there no sensors on on the items the camera has to recognize every skew in the reporter said like. Do you struggle the tell sugar-free Red Bull from regular red bull. And he's like yes we do it right like that those are the the the really difficult edge cases and I thought about that before they like different flavors or or subtle differences your chicken versus tuna sandwich being up in exacerbated version of that. Would be really hard and then he pointed out of part of the problem I haven't considered before. Not only do we need to tell sugar-free Red Bull from regular red bull the moment when we need to tell them is the exact moment when you picked it up and probably block the word sugar-free with your thumb. And so those sort of obfuscate abused that they get is obstructed views they get in the product is also a pretty tricky problem. Scot: [23:12] No Amazon in kind of the play but they've done with frustration free packaging you can almost see them going back to the manufacturing kind of having you know, air visionfriendly packaging where you make this one purple in this one yellow or something other than a small kind of text word for sugar. Jason: [23:29] And you've hit on one of the reasons like this works for ghost or the potential and other things everyone keeps calling at the ghost or a more accurate turn might be Go restaurant because they're actually is a big kitchen in the majority where they sell is food that is prepared. In that store and search your point they can solve their own problem by using square boxes for the chicken and round boxes for the tuna or whatever whatever they want to do. A minority of the skews in the store are National Brands so for their own Brands they can make the packaging distinctive enough. It does have that problem where has much harder to do a whole food store or something like that. Scot: [24:11] Wonder if they could even do have seen some examples this in retail, I want to take an overlay some kind of a machine readable but not human-readable thing on the packaging to write so the chicken in the tuna come in the same package but the machine can see maybe the UV level or something you know that something that very clearly you know, 2 blinking circles versus a red boxer and things in. Jason: [24:35] They can build cameras that seen in the infrared Spectrum or something like that yeah absolutely not discussed but interesting things to think about. Scot: [24:41] Did they talk about when they first launched we did a deep dive on that the. They had a room right there in the store where people were kind of like both checking the AI and then also you know I'm sure they are kicks out and says does not compute and there's some air right there in a human has to go, like figure it out. Do they talk about that at all but the air raid and. Jason: [25:04] Omelette no only very indirectly so they did not talk about how well the machine learning the Machine Vision is working or the Air Raids they were asked how many employees work in the store for any Dodge that question 2. She talked about. Three big classes of employees that they're like you seen how you been to the store you seen how many people are in the kitchen you seeing how many people on the floor helping and you've seen how many orange shirts there are. An orange shirt is if you been to the store is code for these employees that are working in the back room looking at the video displays and training the AI in so the implication was there still. An army of orange shirts watching a lot of people shopping and refining though I'll grow them. Scot: [25:54] It's a nurse and they don't use Mechanical Turk for that because I'm a janaz be real time so after like you. Jason: [26:00] Videos welcome to the store I bet you that video isn't like it was in real time going I mean it's a lot of cameras so even even Amazon would like love the 8 of us bills for doing that. [26:12] So that was interesting I would have like to hear some. Scot: [26:14] I'd like to hear some way you should have been the interviewer on that one but Amazon negotiates these things very carefully so I imagine there's a reason so that things didn't go to where we would like to see. Jason: [26:27] And then the only other thing that kind of came up with a bit that was interesting to me. Scot: [26:29] I put a bet that was interesting to me as they did talk about. Jason: [26:32] They did talk about the fact that. You have to have an app to be in the store cuz you you have to have the go app to register you so to walk through like a Subway turnstile to get in in one of the. The peripheral benefits of that is did they allow Shopper feedback to be given real time in the. And so unlike almost any other store went to Shoppers in the middle of the shopping experience and something doesn't go how the Shopper wants they can in real time. Give feedback and that feel it feedback is tagged with a contact that Choppers in so that shows she said that that's been a surprisingly valuable. Data stream for them to improve their operations in the store which. Scot: [27:19] You are using beacons they know where you are too or that the machine that visual stuff are knows where you are better than any bacon they don't. Jason: [27:25] Visually light and again it's a tiny store so I you're in front of one of three gondolas so like so it's like probably tagged with with that kind of contact information. Scot: [27:35] Now Jason Delray overtree code that you Commerce reporter he is kind of heard rumors are dug up some some data that indicates there's a plan to open for 5 more the stores and then did they talk about Whole Foods at all. Jason: [27:49] Only in that context that they said they have no intention of deploying this Whole Foods right now and said two ways to introduce. Usually win on Amazon and play emphatically says they have no intention of doing something you should sort of assumed they're going to do it right like because they have no intention of offering a shipping service they have. There's a lot of history of them denying something right up until the moment they do it in this case I think there's a lot of logistical reasons that Amazon go dozen. Legacy Whole Foods Fleet of stores particularly well so I sort of do believe them. Scot: [28:27] Let's talk about this I think it's interesting so why why doesn't it work in a Whole Foods is it just the cost or what. Jason: [28:32] So in this very smart 2000 square foot store there's more than 50 cameras to make sure that they have complete coverage on the store and. What they need to do is from the time you walk through that Subway turnstile they have to maintain line of sight on you at all times and have to maintain line of sight on every skew in that store. I'm so there can't be any blind spots where no camera can see you in there camping spots where every camera in the store loses track of you momentarily because then even when they saw you again. They don't know that you're the same person that had the app when you walked in the store right so this store was designed from the ground up. The perfect lines of sight it's a very boring square store with no displays in the middle of the store in a traditional store you have this thing. And those Donna was in the aisle obstruct your ability to see certain angles you have lots of displays that. You know for fruit and things that like tree blind spots in the store you have vendor provided displays that aren't even provided by Whole Foods that block lines of sight in the store. The amount of cameras you would need to eliminate every blind spot in a 25000 square foot Whole Foods is. Almost mind-boggling and then you still have another problem you can't let a customer go into an elevator where they wouldn't be on a camera you can't let a customer to go to a bathroom there's a whole host of things that you know just taking off. [30:06] The Whole Food stores that are D exist and retrofitting them with this technology doesn't feel very likely to meet could they build new Whole Food stores. They're intended to be more compatible with this yes could they use this technology in The Limited ways in that whole food could they use this technology to make you not have to get your wallet out when you pay and just charge your Amazon account. Scot: [30:29] Or the most popular part of a Whole Foods is the prepared section in a lot people just go and have lunch at Whole Foods so you could see I'm kind of like yeah. Jason: [30:36] Panda Express portion you can have an Amazon go store inside of the the Whole Foods or for sure. Scot: [30:43] I bet that's kind of what he's hitting at because he said he also said something like stay tuned yeah we have no plans to put in Whole Foods but stay tuned with a lot of people took to mean either there an open more stores are there was some plan to do something at Whole Foods it's kind of like different than the question. Jason: [30:57] And to me the most valuable thing that you can do with this computer vision that they could very easily do it at Whole Foods is just putting the camera at forget tracking the customer. Just putting the camera to see the shelf and to accurately track the inventory on the Shelf is hugely valuable. For the store stores are have very poor inventory and they spend a lot of money to maintain that poor inventory and leveraging the computer vision system to have more actor and inventory. That alone could be super valuable to Whole Foods. Scot: [31:32] That's the really bad part of the delivery so I'm a big instacart I've tried I use them all over it regularly now because because it's a maintained DC, so you're having cameras that then watch them and Tori and see the last apples been picked by in-store customer so that me the delivery customer. Or that apple and then get a stock-out you know that you're some really big wins on all side of the equation there I think you're right that's it. Jason: [31:58] Absolutely and I think that's going to come up again and some of the other Keynotes we're going to talk about as well. Scot: [32:03] Cool so that any other highlights from Sunday you don't hit any crazy off the hook parties where you were dancing on the table. Jason: [32:09] None that I'm contractually allowed to talk about. Scot: [32:12] Or that you recall that takes us to Monday and then I got in late late late Sunday night so I was able to hit some stuff Monday, the way it works this morning is you had two tracks in the way they're running these tracks as there's five parallel tracks as a, 20/20 build these events and always frustrate people that that event planners do this but they do it for a reason it's designed so that you'll bring, five people you in for friends from your company so and then they there they're very somatic this year I don't remember being as the Mac last year so they're there was a grocery track for example. I was, I attended the first track it was really interesting it was about Brands as in the grocery track that could have been anywhere and there was a VC there that invest in kind of nascent brands. Consumer Brands 7-Eleven was there and and then another investor of his rule was entirely clear to me but he's really all about subscription kind of products. I think there is when we hit on the show a lot where, you notes create a brand used to be like a PNG level event where you would have to go spend $92 to kind of say here's this idea for a swifter and it can be this or going to watch on TV with a 50 million dollar campaign to do the Super Bowl ad now, the world is swimming in Brands and in fact this panel was there so many Brands out there that, everyone's really struggling to kind of like figure it out one of the more interesting things I thought you would like is you know the interviewer has 7-Eleven is all this digitally need a vertical band saw it bother you that she said no it's great because. [33:50] Those companies you know once they get to certain scale we know they, control like it's when I have to test it in our store and then we can help them because most times if they're doing well digitally against the cpg they're selling cases and large volumes, they can help them a lot with itches and how to how do you single serve package these things and they talked about some they give a case that they wouldn't say the name of the brand, kind of the vibe it was. They are buyer how he said that one that they had a lot of insights Wednesday packaged it at 7-Eleven it did really well because the, the consumer they picked up a whole nother set of consumer because, there's folks that wanted to try it and they also wanted it served cold for their commute back home were or what not so it's really interesting kind of things there of they actually view the digitally native thing very positively because it actually kind of, you know already jumped the hurdle didn't have to build the brand in their stores pre-built and it made it easy for them to cherry-pick it down into the storm, then track two came along and that was your tracking for today I had a meeting and had to miss it but tell us about what you talked about. Jason: [34:56] So you made an excuse not to not to support. Scot: [34:58] Well I figured we would talk on the podcast I don't want to spoil it. Jason: [35:02] Got it okay fair enough so I did one of the the panels in the grocery track in this was called sort of. The future of grocery our grocery Reinventing itself until I had three panelists the first was. Kind bars and so that was a Jared who's the VP of e-commerce there and and this is a very. Interesting traditional case for me that's a traditional. Cpg brand that that mix products and very successfully sells them through wholesale so kind bars are you not very successful there in every Starbucks store and a Whole Foods and Amazon, and they hired Jared and experience e-commerce gaido launch their direct-to-consumer offering. And we talked a lot of brands that are interested in doing that in the big question is always why would a consumer want to buy from you cuz generally. You have the worst with just sticks in you're the worst price for your product and so it's interesting to hear kinds of you about that. The a big component is. Assortment so they're offering exclusive flavors and skews that the wholesale Channel. Doesn't want to carry or is out of our limited editions their heavily relying on a subscription program that a lot of the wholesale Channel doesn't offer and they feel like they have. Unique brand promise and there's a subset of the kind consumers that buy into the be kinder to each other. [36:41] Serta brand ethos in want to buy from the brand even though they're not going to have as good of a Justice or prices Amazon. Scot: [36:50] Yep I think kind is one of these, classic examples of a new newer brand that's really kind of leveraging that assortment packaging everywhere you go it's different from a consumer sometimes it's like frustrating because you want to go to Costco and my wife likes a certain one and then, either can't find it at one of the wholesale clubs are bundled with like some really crappy flavor you're not going to eat so there is very clever on the brand side but but I do think sometimes, be a little too clever on some of that stuff that makes it really hard from a consumer to get what you want. Jason: [37:20] And I feel like there's a bunch of brands that think they have that position with a consumer and they really don't kind I think probably does sit in the next episode. Scot: [37:30] Did they say how much as directed like do they give you any indication is that like 5-10 15% of their business. Jason: [37:35] They didn't but I I suspected the last than that right now it's it's it's it sounds like meaningful Revenue but it's still pretty nascent compared to their wholesale Revenue. So I would imagine it's it's south of 1% of their other two other total sales at the moment. The next company with Chef which that spelled Chef apostrophe D and they are. And some meal kids are at sort of an interesting part of the grocery echo system at the moment. A lot of people that think it's a fat and then it's not really going to be a thing or a lot of people think it's the future shopping whenever you say meal kids Denny when they immediately think of blue apron and Blue Apron famously. Has like apparently no business plan to ever be profitable. Scot: [38:27] But earlier go sits when their top sellers right now so I'm in there Snoop the Timbers like these things. Jason: [38:32] And shut his actual interesting that they do offer their own meal kits but what they mostly are. Form from young cats so they're actually the private label provider for a lot of grocery stores that are now offering their own meal kits and they have a lot of Big Brand Partnerships to offer Brandon meal kit so I, Campbell's is a major investor in Chef for example. Inside there you know there are so so that was interesting he had a lot of. Understanding and familiarity with that market. He talked a lot about the pros and cons of home delivery of meal Kids versus grocery store pick up a meal kits and the two takeaways I I had from his his. That were kind of new to me. She's very anti subscription in meal kits and he thinks that you know he's a fundamental flaw with most of these meal kits and most notably Blue Apron is you cantilever a meal and then reorder which is exactly opposite of how most of us. What are the spines in particular things we like and we repeat those over and over again. And he also believes that we all need a lot more personalization than the mule. Currently allow and so a big part of their platform is an infrastructure that allows highly personalized male cats and he eventually envisions. The distance can be highly personalized even. In the store on demand so you can get the the spaghetti with a lot of garlic or a little garlic and a lot of onions are all those all those sorts of. Scot: [40:09] And deserve their delivery remix. Jason: [40:15] They do have a a chef branded meal kit that they delivered recta home but mostly what they. Scot: [40:21] On demand not subscriptions. Jason: [40:25] Mostly what they do is facilitate a regional grocery store offering their own meal kit or someone else selling a meal kit through grocery store so it sounds like more of their stuff is in store pickup meal kids then home delivery. Scot: [40:39] And my regional it kind of makes it seem like they haven't cracked into the top five or six big guys is not like a Kroger or Harris. Jason: [40:45] So I think there is. I think it is pot like he was not completely transparent about who is Partners were so it's possible that he is white labeling for a big one and that part of their agreement is that they that they don't disclose that. , number of the big ones at this point now own their own meal. Scot: [41:03] So Safeway bought I can't remember who. Jason: [41:06] Albertsons bought placed plated plated thank you. Which is one of the biggest wins in history of Shark Tank by the way fun story there but so some of these guys out on their own Walmart owns their own. For just bought one car for the second largest retailer in the world they just bought one this week so. The market for the really big guys is probably smaller it wouldn't surprise me if they secretly have one but he certainly din-din disclose. Scot: [41:35] I feel like musical chairs and some you don't want me the guy off without a chair and then the meal world have their own meal than his distribution mechanism is like maybe some A&P. Jason: [41:48] Exactly so that was interesting and then the third panelist is this company I was also not familiar with call Daily Harvest and Daily Harvest I decided that milk it sounded too easy so they decided to do something. Scot: [42:03] Getting harder. Jason: [42:05] We're going to do direct-to-consumer home delivery of frozen foods. And so there's a strong. Scot: [42:14] Prison meals are like blueberries so I can make a smoothie. Jason: [42:18] Yeah so smoothie kits I think is the thing the best-known. Scot: [42:21] I think it's the thing the best known for so all the. Jason: [42:23] Show all the frozen fruit you need to make a smoothie but also like not not so much like complete frozen meals but like frozen fruit and produce that you might. I'm using a meal they seem very focused on. A lot of the altruistic we need to solve a lot of the problems in the food chain or we're all going to die of starvation kind of thing they talked about what you'd foodways there is in the world and how Frozen is a great solution to a lot of food ways. Throw away a lot of fruit just because it doesn't look perfect and nobody wants to put it in their fruit bin in the grocery store so what's what the industry calls ugly fruits and apparently when you freeze it and no longer matters that that fruit didn't love. Beautiful so. The bruised Apple tastes exactly like the regular Apple a lot of famous restaurants now try to primarily use ugli fruit. They're trying to turn around this trend of throwing away all this fruit that has cosmetic damage and so is interesting that they're they're trying to leverage ugly fruit as a big part of the next there's also this. Scot: [43:32] Ugly frozen fruit. Jason: [43:36] And another one was this concept that I never heard of called transitional organic. Say you're a traditional farm and you transition to becoming an organic farm you have to adopt a bunch of organic processes but then you can't sell your food as organic until you've been following the those processes for a number of years. Writer so there's a bunch of farmers that are in Linda where they're paying all the expenses of. Producing things in organic way but because they're only two years into their through your program that they're not allowed to call their product Organa. And so so she's buying a lot of this transitional organic. Products so that that was somewhat interesting and then because it's frozen and they've invested a lot in the technology to pack the Frozen stuff in dry ice and ship it through common carriers like FedEx and UPS. They're able to deliver nutritious food to a lot of places in the country that don't have convenient access to grocery store so we have a lot of these. Areas we call Food deserts that they're able to cater to so so that was somewhat interesting but they had to. Scot: [44:50] Ugly frozen food to food desert that's the fish. Jason: [44:56] They were able to raise money on it so. There's a investor for everything. But it was interesting thinking about all these complicated with Justice of the cold chain and. Yeah so hats off. Talk to her and if you think about it if each of these things are popular they just wrapped up portion of the traditional grocery business right so you know she pointed out the the. The Frozen I always the Wiest appealing part of a grocery store and that it discourages interaction with the product and I'll and all of these sorts of problems, and by the way you buy this Frozen stuff and then you throw it in the trunk of your car and it's not frozen by the time you get it home so. So if she's successful in direct-to-consumer with Frozen that potentially takes to rose out of the grocery store the meal kits potentially, take a lot of the individual ingredient shopping that happens today so so some interesting things thinking about how groceries Reinventing itself. Scot: [45:58] Absolutely cool so after that after Jason second track there, then we went into the Keynotes so kicking off the show kind of the the opening keynote if you will, which kind of strange I think they realize that a lot of people come in Monday or Sunday zo winter who puts together all the content for shoptalk kicked it off, I thought I was a pretty good good kind of Esprit shortest like 5 minutes but the summary was you nowhere in The New Normal which is kind of you know, in in 15 and 16 and 17 we had all this disruption going on and when you're in the middle of it you figure it's going to be. You'll go back to the old normal but they have that never happens and then she called The New Normal and abnormal is essentially where, I know you're not really reacting to disruptive innovation it's just you've adopted it and said this is going to be happening going forward so she really kind of had two pieces to it for predictions, where we going to go and Retail and you can tell this that shapes the content obviously, the number one back in technology will create new efficiencies in expectations number to Shoppers will come to expect experiences that are Cutting Edge today I kind of took that to mean yeah once Amazon sets the bar at, today one day just walk out than the customers tend to expect that I called a zero friction it's pretty interesting, human thing I'm Number 3 start up some traditional businesses or more line where I think we're seeing that you know we just talked about several is very very big trending in our industry be a grocery retail where you have kind of the you know the. [47:29] Analog dinosaur acquiring the digital DNA and smashing it together to create a new kind of, no I was using her language a new normal kind of combination. And then a wide range of new consumer product to hit the mainstream in this is kind of what was in the first panel where the cost to build a new consumer product is effectively gone down to zero and now you're going to see this huge swath of new products, your micro products micro kind of tribes that they appeal to and then she said those predictions field 7 trends, I never won the rise of Miss France number to the growth of experiential retail, we had a show in the can where will have some really interesting kind of examples of that and then the next keynote talk a lot about that, store associate will not go away but change what they do there so I can becoming an orange shirt or between prep and so check out and in the go example cashier list check out as a big thing automation to the warehouse, more transparent Supply chains in this goes to there's a lot of concern around food safety in that kind of thing, a lot of people talk about blockchain there I think there's a couple talks around that coming up in an explosion of AI machine learning. So after after yeah we went right into office of the CEO of Ulta was there and I don't know if it even some of these. These Keynotes they seem really interesting but then like there's kind of. People 20 minutes so you can't get into much detail and then the format seems to be show a video about the company. [48:59] Talk about some high-level stuff most people are dino and then talk a little bit about, diversity and maybe the company's culture seems to be the kind of formula you lived up to that expectation couple points that they hit on, and we talked about on the show this kind of your beauty is an area that's doing really well and, then why you know she said they're 90% off Mall property so they were smart to be off ma that three different shaders the real estate location which is off Mall product mix and services, and then talk about the benefit of the Loyalty program they have 28. Million members in that program and it represents 90% of their sales, and the other day it's pretty integrated between online and offline so it's omni-channel loyalty program and then the other day she talked about the consumer changing this is interesting you know she talked about, gender fluidity and now that actually helps them so now you have more and more people wearing makeup regardless of their gender and it used to be all these social things around you then wouldn't wear makeup you and I wear makeup because, podcast but now the so you know it's okay. Jason: [50:08] We're actually thinking about launching our own line of podcast. Scot: [50:10] The Chase, spoiler alert, forward facing cameras at selfies has really helped all these Beauty companies cuz now people take more pictures of themselves and they want to look good for those she didn't mention that those with a freebie that will throw in there. The you know. Today's consumer wants a personalized convenient experience I'm certainly living that with my new company where convenience is everything for folks and then personalized as well. Nothing I thought was interesting to see where she broke the script a little bit she went out on a limb and really said that they know is in her she paid homage and she's talking about we couldn't do this without our Partnerships with Google Google Express Facebook and then Spruce labs, I end up that was interesting that you went to Old diversity thing which was good you know that they have. Have a board that has over 50% women which is great and then officers in the company are over 60% so makes a ton of sense you know you know kind of, older middle-aged white dude song makeup doesn't make a ton of sense and I think this is a great example of both aligning with your customer and then also having really good diverse kind of input in the company to make it better, then how the Nike net was up so would you take from that one. Jason: [51:33] So that this was Adam Sussman who's the chief digital officer at Nike I think he's really tripping you in that really don't think Nikki's had a cheap digital out. Scot: [51:41] He said he was the first. Jason: [51:43] And so the heater is it Nike. When they spend a lot of time talking about was their membership program so they they have a thing they called Nike Plus Membership. And they probably have over a hundred million current members they want that to be 500 million in the next five years those members Ben Forex what non-member spend. And there's a number of specific experiences they have in the membership program that have even more dramatic conversion results so is interesting. I would have said that the general Trend in in Welty was that. The effectiveness of loyalty programs is kind of a roading in here we had to back-to-back key notes that were saying how successful their their membership programs are so I found that interesting. He also talked about their conversational Commerce initiative which is launching so this is called. Hertz on demand and you can use the Nike apps to have a text chat with a Nike brand expert that will give you advice and so you know. You mentioned that you get your running shoe advice from attend time Marathon winner. Probably doesn't want to be giving me advice about running shoes but but that's interesting in a bunch of the the conversational Commerce vendors that. At at the show were thrilled to hear him him supporting that experience personally I think the jury still out on. [53:17] Particular chat base conversational Commerce I'm not sure if Facebook's gotten all that the traction that they were they were hoping to get but but it's still early so we'll see. And then they did talk a lot like his corporate videos. Nikes done some really interesting product launches so that you know Justin Timberlake debuted a new Air Jordan Super Bowl. And they made that available for purchase through their sneaker app like the second he walked off stage and it's sold out instantly a month later the next version of that screw came out and they launched it on Snapchat with a. I really enjoy Innovative kind of want Commerce experience and you know he didn't explicitly call this out but one interesting point. Used to be that they would watch all these products through their wholesale partners and people like Footlocker would sell these and kids with a line up in the mall. And now he's talking about all these Innovative direct-to-consumer experiences that are owned by Nike. And the drink late relationship Nike has with his hundred million users in their Affinity program so to me Nikes really the poster child for someone that's transitioning from. Predominantly wholesale to the majority of their sales but but predominantly direct-to-consumer from experience stand for. Scot: [54:35] Yep sidebar I don't know if you fall or not but the average several Wall Street reports that to the shoe guys are really having a first company of tough, 2018 I don't know if if it's because they're losing a lot of these launches or what's going on but you're trying to see kind of the cause sneaker fatigue with with. That model seems like it would never run out but it looks like. The average Sneakerhead has X number of shoes that really interested in watches yet Brands like Nike moving that away from retail that could be sneakers have been kind of sustaining through them the retail apocalypse mall again so bit interesting to see if maybe the steps over. Jason: [55:09] Yeah yeah I think of the inside tip. The thing that sneakers need to save them now is much wider angle front facing cameras on that smartphone because the moment you can't see your feet in the selfie. Scot: [55:21] Yeah. Jason: [55:25] So the next keynote I think I was the only one that said in on so I think everyone left after Nike but I was really interested in this next keynote this is Tim Stein or who's the founder and CEO of a company that. To her listeners that probably heard of called a Cato Cato is a uk-based. To Consumer grocery store so you order online they have fulfillment centers they they deliver the groceries to your home. And there are quite successful they sell the equivalent of 2 billion dollars a year in groceries direct-to-consumer. Is we talk about an issue and UK 6% of all grocery sales are are digital where is here were less than 1% to. So I was super interested there that the digital pure-play grocery retailer in one of the most successful markets in the world. Scot: [56:16] Scot to be part of the UK but aren't there like I know our folks in UK almost they have like six people they can choose from that and some of her like Marks & Spencer. Jason: [56:26] Grocery stores all out for some Marks & Spencer Tesco as though which is Walmart in the UK car for they they all offer. Scot: [56:34] Is the only Pure Play. Jason: [56:35] Yeah but these this is the Pure Play and these guys are bigger digitally than any of those those other companies so it would be a little bit like what a Peapod sold more groceries then Kroger. Scot: [56:50] Amazon has a big mouth for Walmart. Jason: [56:53] And I don't know what their ownership structure is it if they're in play or not those are interesting questions but he talked a lot about. The benefits of. Being a pure being built from the ground-up to deliver groceries versus being a retailer trying to transition to groceries so, I have talked a lot on the show about how I think curbside pickup is the ultimate winner in this space and largely because it's something that traditional grocery stores can do and so we have this concept in the industry called store pic, and that's what the traditional grocery stores have decided to do is will will pay our employee to pick all the groceries instead of the customer picking it. And then we'll make it convenient for the customer to get those that store picked order and so he like very self-serving lie but with some credibility. Talking about how he doesn't think store pick can work in the long run and how these. From the ground up for filament centers for home delivery are better and he alleges that they've tried curbside pickup. Scot: [57:59] Pick up for their system in the customer always gives. Jason: [58:00] For their system in the customer always gives is always choosing home delivery over herbicide pickup Which flies in the face of my advice by the way. Scot: [58:07] So it's the. Customer experience not the economics of let me take this item put it onto a shelf in a convenient way for a shopper and then at Pea Picker to pick it in an inefficient way. It's not the economic so you saying it's when you give customers a choice they will choose delivery. Jason: [58:25] Exactly at the same price which is a big caveat in this and so so one thing. Is he talks about is he he showed the math and he took all the things that have to happen when you place an order with Tesco and they store pick that order and you do a curbside. Tesco delivers at your house and it a typical order by his math take 75 min. Scot: [58:51] And then. Jason: [58:52] And then he does that same order in his automated grocery fulfillment center that uses Robata. And he picks that same order in 15 min. So hit his fundamental premise is where 5x cheaper in these purpose-built things so store pick you know is really cost disadvantaged. Scot: [59:18] And if it's what the consumer wants regardless. Jason: [59:24] And I I buy that the. Purpose-built fulfillment centers are way more cost-effective than store picking in there other problems with store picking then we'll talk about in that in the next Keynote. I totally buy that where I'm I'm not as confident as him is the curbside pickup versus the the delivery and that you could I believe in that his customers want delivery in the US. We find lots of people aren't home to receive that grocery delivery and one thing he. Very much points out as he says we are at Price parity with all the traditional grocery stores so we scrape all Tesco's prices and our price to deliver it to your house is the same as Tesco's price for you to drive there and pick it yourself. And so no one in the u.s. does that everyone in the US that's trying digital grocery have all kinds of premiums and added cost. Scot: [1:00:21] Service is the dreaded Services yes. Jason: [1:00:24] And it's it's worse than just service fees it service fees and they charge more for the same skus when they pick them for you. So so a big difference between the two markets right now so his presentation was super interesting. Then the afternoon Keynotes there were three more so the first one was was Ben Silverman who's the CEO of Pinterest. And I'm just going to be blunt. That was the most boring keynote to me of the show so far and large he did a great presentation about how important visual Discovery is. Which I agree with him it is there was no unique inside the weight like a very self-serving for you know the business that the Pinterest happens to be in. Scot: [1:01:14] The governor there Rich pins and they also had a lot of marketplace initiative none of that no retail kind of tie on them. Jason: [1:01:17] Talk about any like it was it was purely like people aren't going to discover new products via text they need visual Discovery and where we build a business provisional Discovery and it was literally that abstract. Scot: [1:01:32] Go back on the K2 or however you say it one of the intern just came in they are a public companies are independent and they're listed on the footsie the London Stock Exchange and they're part of the foot C250 and have a market cap of about 3.6 billion. Jason: [1:01:48] So that's a perfect segue to the next keynote is. In some ways the u.s. equivalent which is much more company is Fresh Direct so this is Jason acreman of who's the CEO and founder of Fresh Direct. Resurrect is direct-to-consumer digital grocery exclusively in the Manhattan area. Scot: [1:02:16] I was going to confuse with hello fresh with their meal delivery company. Jason: [1:02:20] FreshDirect is like Aikido a built from the ground-up to deliver groceries to your home. The most thought of is a grocery delivery company which annoys Jason to know in because he thinks of them first and foremost as a food company so so the big thing that happens is. He buy stuff from the farm and gets it to your refrigerator in half the time that Whole Foods does so. Pressure it's going to last much longer they do these promotions like a lobster day when you order Lobster to be delivered to your house in Manhattan. It's been pulled out of the water in Maine less than 12 hours ago so that so the supply chain is super cool. Like Ikeda although I don't think it's quite as automated like they built this. Purpose-built fulfillment center so they're avoiding store pics and Jason jumped on the same bandwagon about why store picking isn't going to work right and. Hey price structure is problem number one. Problem number to none of the stores have accurate inventory something we aren't we aren't we talked about earlier and so they just can't fulfill your order properly like they're missing stuff and they make mistake eggs. Phone number 3 store pic doesn't scale and so his point is is store pick ever got really popular the customers in the store would be. Derogatorily affected as they're competing with all those employee Pickers in the store so then the customers will get irritated that they're losing out on the. [1:04:01] To the to the Picker and staying in line behind too many pictures in the cashier and. Scot: [1:04:06] This happened the other day I went to Harris Teeter Saturday night and there was more employees picking and instacart people picking, then us and daddy's giant things that you have these relatively kind of pallet size cards that you haven't seen him and it is it is cumbersome, I can tell our grocery store is also throttling so they have you know, when I go like a Friday to get started delivery it's already sold out so I think they're really limiting the number of deliveries which is another bad customer experience you're stuck between you know who's going to have the worst customer experience in-store person or the outer person and that's a, that's a tough tough decision to make for the customer. Jason: [1:04:46] For sure so that was all super interesting so this is two guys that were lobbying heavily in favor of dedicated delivery centers versus the the store picking model again there just are so many grocery stores that have all this investment like it's hard. They're going to be the best they can with the model they have but then he had another Insight which I totally haven't thought about it all that's super interesting. FreshDirect is launching a sub brand service call. And foodkick is 1 hour delivery normally FreshDirect is next day delivery. And so what are you wanting out is he said only about 40% of food purchases are planned purchases. So I'm going to do my grocery shop I'm going to shop from the list and it's fine that all those groceries get delivered tomorrow cuz I'm putting it in the fridge

Keenan and Olivia reminisce about different fashion statements from the 2000s. Items include; big bows, mustaches, Lilly Pulitzer and more.

How do you clean an L.L. Bean Boat and Tote? In this episode, Jolie and Dave are joined by Town & Country's Sam Dangremond to tackle the care and keeping of those crucial bags, and other preppy staples like Lilly Pulitzer dresses and Vineyard Vines belts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We welcome our first guest for episode 4, the brilliant and hilarious Annabelle DeSisto of the Adderall and Compliments Podcast ( https://adderallandcompliments.com) If you’re an A&C Kitten, thank you for listening, we love you. In this episode we discuss how amazing Annabelle’s hair is (to a nearly obsessive level), Joan Rivers (Annabelle’s former boss), Postmates, why needing cash is a complete nightmare, Kim Kardashian, The Drybar Book and compare the post-jail styles of Paris Hilton and Teresa Giudice. But we mostly talk about our collective favorite docu-series The Real Housewives. Specifically, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards, caftans, how Kim Richards ruins everything, Lisa Rinna, Kim Zolciak vs Erika Jayne, Bethenny Frankel’s hustle and Sojna Morgan’s townhouse. Ali spills all about styling Lisa Vanderpump and what it’s really like at Villa Rosa. Spoiler Alert: Giggy is alive. However, if you aren’t a Housewives person, we also dish on lots of other things including  Scheana  Shay from Vanderpump Rules, Lilly Pulitzer dresses, plastic surgery, CoolSculpting, being an only child, Amanda’s Gossip Girl life, staircases, marble flooring, bidets, Queer as Folk and vagina juice. Annabelle also shares an inspirational story about how one of the Kittens bought her crystal kit and won the lottery! Can someone please come up with a better sign off for us? Please visit Ali’s website and Amanda’s blog. Wanna collab? Write us love letters? Please email thingsweretoolazytoblogabout@gmail.com Like us on Facebook because we really want to be liked. Don’t forget, you can earn extra karma points subscribing and by leaving us a five star review on iTunes or Stitcher. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lazypod/support

Full Body Frequency Episode 211 https://twitter.com/LauraRiceDesign https://www.instagram.com/fullbodyfrequency/ https://www.facebook.com/FULLBODYFREQUENCY/ This week's Full Body Frequency is all about dressing and undressing as metaphors for armor, power, masking, and presentation. the flow Yours truly shares my opinion on the the short-lived #DropThePlus campaign, Target's partnership with Lilly Pulitzer, my spring fashion picks, and more plus-size travel adventures! global hotness Internationally renowned and award-winning, Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn joins me. We talk about her rich body of work including her participation in the just opened and AMAZING Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity exhibit, her recent trip to Abu Dhabi, and the perceptions and misperceptions of her black body while wearing a hijab. changing frequencies The Femme FATales, a new plus size burlesque troupe, makes its world debut this week during The Flab'N Fab Review. Hear co-founders Iridessence and Molotowcocktease and member Jellie Mae Jones explain why full-figured women need a safe space to learn and perform the empowering art of burlesque. Full Body Frequency is VISIBLE. VIABLE. VOLUPTUOUS Radio.

Full Body Frequency Episode 211 https://twitter.com/LauraRiceDesign https://www.instagram.com/fullbodyfrequency/ https://www.facebook.com/FULLBODYFREQUENCY/ This week’s Full Body Frequency is all about dressing and undressing as metaphors for armor, power, masking, and presentation. the flow Yours truly shares my opinion on the the short-lived #DropThePlus campaign, Target’s partnership with Lilly Pulitzer, my spring fashion picks, and more plus-size travel adventures! global hotness Internationally renowned and award-winning, Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn joins me. We talk about her rich body of work including her participation in the just opened and AMAZING Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity exhibit, her recent trip to Abu Dhabi, and the perceptions and misperceptions of her black body while wearing a hijab. changing frequencies The Femme FATales, a new plus size burlesque troupe, makes its world debut this week during The Flab’N Fab Review. Hear co-founders Iridessence and Molotowcocktease and member Jellie Mae Jones explain why full-figured women need a safe space to learn and perform the empowering art of burlesque. Full Body Frequency is VISIBLE. VIABLE. VOLUPTUOUS Radio.

http://WDWRadio.com presents the WDW News Cast - Live, Interactive Disney news from Lou Mongello Downtown Disney is transforming into an exciting new waterfront district for world-class shopping, unique dining, and high-quality entertainment, and 13 news exciting new high-profile tenants, including fashion retailers Zara, Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer, UNIQLO and PANDORA, are the latest to sign on as Downtown Disney continues its expansion into Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort. ------------------------------------- Get my NEW book - 102 Ways to Save Money For and At Walt Disney World at http://Disney102.com To learn more, visit http://WDWRadio.com and subscribe to the podcast FREE in iTunes - http://bit.ly/wdwit Show Notes, Links and Comments: http://WDWRadio.com/podcasts Call the Voicemail with a question, comment or "Hello!" from the parks - 407-900-9391 Download the FREE WDW Radio Disney podcast app for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices at http://WDWRadio.com/app THANK YOU for your support by voting WDW Radio Best Travel Podcast for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014! ------------------------------------- Twitter: http://Twitter.com/LouMongello Facebook: http://Facebook.com/WDWRadio YouTube subscribe: http://YouTube.com/subscription_center?add_user=wdwradio Google+: http://LouMongello.com/gplus Pinterest: http://Pinterest.com/LouMongello To learn more or work with Lou, visit http://LouMongello.com Thanks for watching! - Lou Mongello

This week's Full Body Frequency is all about dressing and undressing as metaphors for armor, power, masking, and presentation. the flow Yours truly shares my opinion on the the short-lived #DropThePlus campaign, Target's partnership with Lilly Pulitzer, my spring fashion picks, and more plus-size travel adventures! global hotness Internationally renowned and award-winning, Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn joins me. We talk about her rich body of work including her participation in the just opened and AMAZING Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity exhibit, her recent trip to Abu Dhabi, and the perceptions and misperceptions of her black body while wearing a hijab. changing frequencies The Femme FATales, a new plus size burlesque troupe, makes its world debut this week during The Flab'N Fab Review. Hear co-founders Iridessence and Molotowcocktease and member Jellie Mae Jones explain why full-figured women need a safe space to learn and perform the empowering art of burlesque. Photos clockwise: Left-Right: -Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, courtesy of Barrayn -Shoes, courtesy of Femme FATales -Dancer, courtesy of Femme FATales -Patchwork shoes, Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion, and Resistance: copyright, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn -Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, courtesy of Barrayn -Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity: Symposium Panel: copyright, Cesar Wilson Photography Center: Che Baraka, Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity: copyright, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Full Body Frequency is VISIBLE. VIABLE. VOLUPTUOUS Radio.

This week’s Full Body Frequency is all about dressing and undressing as metaphors for armor, power, masking, and presentation. the flow Yours truly shares my opinion on the the short-lived #DropThePlus campaign, Target’s partnership with Lilly Pulitzer, my spring fashion picks, and more plus-size travel adventures! global hotness Internationally renowned and award-winning, Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn joins me. We talk about her rich body of work including her participation in the just opened and AMAZING Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity exhibit, her recent trip to Abu Dhabi, and the perceptions and misperceptions of her black body while wearing a hijab. changing frequencies The Femme FATales, a new plus size burlesque troupe, makes its world debut this week during The Flab’N Fab Review. Hear co-founders Iridessence and Molotowcocktease and member Jellie Mae Jones explain why full-figured women need a safe space to learn and perform the empowering art of burlesque. Photos clockwise: Left-Right: -Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, courtesy of Barrayn -Shoes, courtesy of Femme FATales -Dancer, courtesy of Femme FATales -Patchwork shoes, Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion, and Resistance: copyright, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn -Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, courtesy of Barrayn -Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity: Symposium Panel: copyright, Cesar Wilson Photography Center: Che Baraka, Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity: copyright, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Full Body Frequency is VISIBLE. VIABLE. VOLUPTUOUS Radio.

  Lian Dolan and Julie Dolan on the Tuesday Satellite Sister Podcast:   Lian's Epic Trip Southport Speaking gig Vex Robotics Championships in Louisville Tuesday Trends Lilly Pulitzer at Target Sister Sassenach: Double Episode of Outlander Re-Cap  

On Today's show we are speaking with Eleni Tavantzis; Senior Manager of Digital & Social Communications at Lilly Pulitzer. Eleni has experienced the revolution of social media and digital marketing from the front row since 2007. With strong social media experience that's been honed with retail leaders and innovators, Eleni was the first social media employee for multichannel retailer QVC and built out the team, which evolved into a department, which then evolved into a strategy spanning the entire company. She now leads the social and digital communications strategy for the original American resort wear brand Lilly Pulitzer, and is accelerating their brand presence through social media campaigns that engage the consumer through a cohesive digital and brick-and-mortar experience.

Join us this week as we welcome the fast rising country pop music singer songwriter, Polly Baker. Hailing originally from Vienna, Va., Polly now resides in L.A. CA., She grew up in a family of musicians. Her parents met singing in a Top 40 nightclub band together that performed in nightclubs from Maryland to D.C. to Virginia. Polly is a pianist, as well as a dreamer and a tap dancer. She loves airports, cold weather, hydrangeas, Thomas Kinkade paintings, seersucker, Lilly Pulitzer, eyelet, grocery stores, Christmas movies, scarves and huckleberry tea. She also writes a lot of songs. "It is just one way to capture my experiences. I am amazed at how a song can take you back to an exact moment...melodies really do sound just like memories."  Baker cites as her main artistic influences, such songsmiths as Taylor Swift, Kate Voegele, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, Thomas Rhett, Dan+Shay, Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Cassadee Pope, and Maroon 5. Polly Baker released her debut pop single, titled, “Good at Goodbyes” in 2013 and her latest single "Leaving It Up To You" will be releasing on July 29th, 2014. Her limited edition EP "Chasing Mistakes" is available on her website. We will talk to Polly about her upcoming schedule, get a behind the scenes look at her music, feature her latest songs, and ask her to share her message for the troops. Please be sure to visit Polly Baker at http://www.pollybakermusic.com/ and spread the word. Fans are welcome to call in and speak live with with Polly during the show (718) 766-4193  If you would like to participate in the live chat during the show, you must sign up on the show site first and then log in during the show. More great music for a really great cause! Our message to the troops....WE do what we do, because YOU do what you do.

It's rare that a person's name comes to represent an object, but such is the case with Lilly Pulitzer. Just say ‘Lilly' and it conjures images of simple sheath dresses in vivid colors. But what of Lilly Pulitzer herself? As Kathryn Livingston's Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend (Wiley, 2012) reveals, the woman was just as vivid as the dresses her name came to evoke. Born and married into privilege, Lilly Pulitzer wasn't your typical debutante. She walked around Palm Beach barefoot and had a pet monkey. Boasting a similar background Jackie Kennedy and an extra shot of joie de vivre, she seems, from Livingston's portrait, like a woman who would make excellent company at cocktail hour. She was also a bit of an entrepreneurial genius. Hoping to break out of a post-partum depression, Pulitzer opened an orange juice stand on Worth Avenue, selling juice to tourists and the Palm Beach hoi polloi, including the Kennedys. Ultimately, she would build an entire empire based solely upon the pattern for a simple sheath dress intended to hide orange juice and sweat stains. But, as the title suggests, Lilly is as much the story of Pulitzer as of Palm Beach itself. Unlike most residents, who were seasonal, the Pulitzers lived in Palm Beach year-round. Thus, Lilly's story is one of both personal and local success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s rare that a person’s name comes to represent an object, but such is the case with Lilly Pulitzer. Just say ‘Lilly’ and it conjures images of simple sheath dresses in vivid colors. But what of Lilly Pulitzer herself? As Kathryn Livingston’s Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend (Wiley, 2012) reveals, the woman was just as vivid as the dresses her name came to evoke. Born and married into privilege, Lilly Pulitzer wasn’t your typical debutante. She walked around Palm Beach barefoot and had a pet monkey. Boasting a similar background Jackie Kennedy and an extra shot of joie de vivre, she seems, from Livingston’s portrait, like a woman who would make excellent company at cocktail hour. She was also a bit of an entrepreneurial genius. Hoping to break out of a post-partum depression, Pulitzer opened an orange juice stand on Worth Avenue, selling juice to tourists and the Palm Beach hoi polloi, including the Kennedys. Ultimately, she would build an entire empire based solely upon the pattern for a simple sheath dress intended to hide orange juice and sweat stains. But, as the title suggests, Lilly is as much the story of Pulitzer as of Palm Beach itself. Unlike most residents, who were seasonal, the Pulitzers lived in Palm Beach year-round. Thus, Lilly’s story is one of both personal and local success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s rare that a person’s name comes to represent an object, but such is the case with Lilly Pulitzer. Just say ‘Lilly’ and it conjures images of simple sheath dresses in vivid colors. But what of Lilly Pulitzer herself? As Kathryn Livingston’s Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend (Wiley, 2012) reveals, the woman was just as vivid as the dresses her name came to evoke. Born and married into privilege, Lilly Pulitzer wasn’t your typical debutante. She walked around Palm Beach barefoot and had a pet monkey. Boasting a similar background Jackie Kennedy and an extra shot of joie de vivre, she seems, from Livingston’s portrait, like a woman who would make excellent company at cocktail hour. She was also a bit of an entrepreneurial genius. Hoping to break out of a post-partum depression, Pulitzer opened an orange juice stand on Worth Avenue, selling juice to tourists and the Palm Beach hoi polloi, including the Kennedys. Ultimately, she would build an entire empire based solely upon the pattern for a simple sheath dress intended to hide orange juice and sweat stains. But, as the title suggests, Lilly is as much the story of Pulitzer as of Palm Beach itself. Unlike most residents, who were seasonal, the Pulitzers lived in Palm Beach year-round. Thus, Lilly’s story is one of both personal and local success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s rare that a person’s name comes to represent an object, but such is the case with Lilly Pulitzer. Just say ‘Lilly’ and it conjures images of simple sheath dresses in vivid colors. But what of Lilly Pulitzer herself? As Kathryn Livingston’s Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend (Wiley, 2012) reveals, the woman was just as vivid as the dresses her name came to evoke. Born and married into privilege, Lilly Pulitzer wasn’t your typical debutante. She walked around Palm Beach barefoot and had a pet monkey. Boasting a similar background Jackie Kennedy and an extra shot of joie de vivre, she seems, from Livingston’s portrait, like a woman who would make excellent company at cocktail hour. She was also a bit of an entrepreneurial genius. Hoping to break out of a post-partum depression, Pulitzer opened an orange juice stand on Worth Avenue, selling juice to tourists and the Palm Beach hoi polloi, including the Kennedys. Ultimately, she would build an entire empire based solely upon the pattern for a simple sheath dress intended to hide orange juice and sweat stains. But, as the title suggests, Lilly is as much the story of Pulitzer as of Palm Beach itself. Unlike most residents, who were seasonal, the Pulitzers lived in Palm Beach year-round. Thus, Lilly’s story is one of both personal and local success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s rare that a person’s name comes to represent an object, but such is the case with Lilly Pulitzer. Just say ‘Lilly’ and it conjures images of simple sheath dresses in vivid colors. But what of Lilly Pulitzer herself? As Kathryn Livingston’s Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend (Wiley, 2012) reveals, the woman was just as vivid as the dresses her name came to evoke. Born and married into privilege, Lilly Pulitzer wasn’t your typical debutante. She walked around Palm Beach barefoot and had a pet monkey. Boasting a similar background Jackie Kennedy and an extra shot of joie de vivre, she seems, from Livingston’s portrait, like a woman who would make excellent company at cocktail hour. She was also a bit of an entrepreneurial genius. Hoping to break out of a post-partum depression, Pulitzer opened an orange juice stand on Worth Avenue, selling juice to tourists and the Palm Beach hoi polloi, including the Kennedys. Ultimately, she would build an entire empire based solely upon the pattern for a simple sheath dress intended to hide orange juice and sweat stains. But, as the title suggests, Lilly is as much the story of Pulitzer as of Palm Beach itself. Unlike most residents, who were seasonal, the Pulitzers lived in Palm Beach year-round. Thus, Lilly’s story is one of both personal and local success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s rare that a person’s name comes to represent an object, but such is the case with Lilly Pulitzer. Just say ‘Lilly’ and it conjures images of simple sheath dresses in vivid colors. But what of Lilly Pulitzer herself? As Kathryn Livingston’s Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend (Wiley, 2012) reveals, the woman was just as vivid as the dresses her name came to evoke. Born and married into privilege, Lilly Pulitzer wasn’t your typical debutante. She walked around Palm Beach barefoot and had a pet monkey. Boasting a similar background Jackie Kennedy and an extra shot of joie de vivre, she seems, from Livingston’s portrait, like a woman who would make excellent company at cocktail hour. She was also a bit of an entrepreneurial genius. Hoping to break out of a post-partum depression, Pulitzer opened an orange juice stand on Worth Avenue, selling juice to tourists and the Palm Beach hoi polloi, including the Kennedys. Ultimately, she would build an entire empire based solely upon the pattern for a simple sheath dress intended to hide orange juice and sweat stains. But, as the title suggests, Lilly is as much the story of Pulitzer as of Palm Beach itself. Unlike most residents, who were seasonal, the Pulitzers lived in Palm Beach year-round. Thus, Lilly’s story is one of both personal and local success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Det är inte bara städer som Paris, London, Milano och New York som påverkar trenderna. Även Florida har gett upphov till både mode och trendsättande filmer och tv-serier. Miami Beach är dessutom sedan 2002 centrum för USA:s största konstmässa, Art Basel Miami Beach. Årets mässa börjar nästa vecka, den 6 december. I veckans STIL tittar vi närmare på hur Florida kom att dra till sig både trendsättare och turister. Redan slutet av 1800-talet började Palm Beach, en av palmer kantad smal barriärö längs Floridas östkust, växa fram som solig semesterort för bättre bemedlade. Den tropiska orten Palm Beach blev en amerikansk motsvarighet till den franska Rivieran, som lockade till sig dollarmiljonärer som startat företag inom stål, tåg, olja och frukostflingor. Där satte de sprätt på pengarna genom att bygga fantasifulla hus och en ny sorts societet inrättades. 1906 lanserades magasinet ”Palm Beach Life”, vilket är USA:s äldsta societetstidning. Och stilen som odlades i solen, spreds över landet och blev till ett begrepp. Uttrycket ”Palm Beach” blev snart en självklar modereferens i USA, när man syftade på en lyxigt ledig klädstil. I slutet av 1920-talet utropade modetidningen Vogue: ”Att inte ha rätt kläder i Palm Beach är en tragedi”. Plaggen som bars gjorde till en början av franska modeskapare som insåg den ekonomiska potentialen i den amerikanska marknaden. Paquin, Lanvin och Worth gjorde alla speciella kollektioner, designade för just Palm Beach. Ingen amerikansk modeskapare gav sig på genren – förrän Lilly Pultitzer dök upp, 1959. Lilly Pulitzer (1931–) var gift med Peter Pulitzer, arvtagare till tidningsmogulen Joseph Pulitzer, som valt att satsa på citrusodlingar i Florida. För att ha något att göra (det var en tid då kvinnor i de högre ännu inte självklart arbetade) satte hon upp ett stånd i Palm Beach där hon sålde juice, pressad av makens apelsiner och grapefrukt. Frukten fläckade emellertid hennes vita skjortor. Men de gav henne också en idé till ett nytt klädkoncept med klänningar i bjärta mönster med limegröna palmer, solgula solrosor och himmelsblå snäckor, som effektivt dolde alla fläckar. Mer om det – och om hur man tar bort fläckar från kläder – får vi höra i programmet. Miami Beach började snart konkurrera med Palm Beach som kom att representera en ny sorts glamour. En farligare stil. Under det sena 20-talet dök gangsterkungen Al Capone upp i Miami Beach som snart fick rykte om sig att var ett ställe dit dåtidens celebriteter reste för att njuta av spel och sprit och sol. Populariteten höll sig ända till det sena 60-talet, då det började gå utför. Men i mitten av 1980-talet var staden tillbaka på trendkartan igen. TV-serien Miami Vice hjälpte till med att återskapa glamouren. Den påverkade även herrmodet och förändrade fullständigt sättet tv-serier musiksätts på. Mer om det får vi höra i programmet. Vi har även kollat upp vad som hände med en annan av 80-talets stora trender, solariesolningen. Och så får vi höra om varför r'n'b-stjärnan Rihanna nyligen uppträdde på TV-programmet Saturday Night Live framför videoprojektioner av grekiska kolonner, palmer, psykedeliska mönster och vidsträckta havsytor - en estetik lånad av seapunkrörelsen. Mer om denna mikrogenre i veckans program. Veckans gäst är Marina Schiptjenko, delägare i Galleri Andréhn-Schiptjenko.