In this episode of Conquer The Noise, Jonathan talks with Safia Qureshi, founder and CEO of CLUBZERO. CLUBZERO pioneered an award winning returnable packaging system for food and beverage brands globally. They partner with businesses to make food and beverage on-the-go more sustainable; working towards the ultimate goal of zero waste. They serve customers across […]
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In this week’s episode of Conquer The Noise, Jonathan sits down with Lindsay Mccormack of Bite. Bite is an all-natural, zero-waste, tube-free, 100% vegan, gluten-free and cruelty-free toothpaste tablet on a mission to become the world’s most sustainable personal care company. The company makes non-toxic oral care products – ranging from toothpaste and floss to […]
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In this week’s episode, Jonathan talks with Ryan Lupberger, founder of Cleancult. They are on a mission to redefine cleaning. They offer innovative plant-based products with a refillable, zero waste subscription-based and omni-channel business model to eliminate toxic chemicals and plastic waste from cleaning routines. Since launching in 2019, the brand is now in over […]
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In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Matt Smith, Sr. Director of PepsiCo Foundation which supports programs designed to improve availability of affordable nutrition. Matt and Jonathan speak on a variety of topics which all take root in his belief that you don’t have to separate business and doing good. We dig into philosophy, […]
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In this week’s episode, we speak with Ravi Mikkelsen, cofounder of Atmos Financial, a fintech startup. We talk about how Ravi is leading the way as an alternative to using big banks for personal banking. Most of our banking institutions use customer deposits to fund loans that support fossil fuels. Atmos is doing the opposite […]
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Jonathan and Nick Reinke from Land O’Lakes brand, Truterra, have a conversation about how the company is using software to work with farmers to help offset carbon, create more sustainable farming practices and their new program called, Trucarbon. Nick is very familiar with farming. He grew up on his family farm in North Dakota which […]
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Jonathan sits down with Stephanie Dipisa, founder and CEO of Solara Suncare. Stephanie wanted to create safer and healthier sunscreen after her own personal journey through illness. Out of her 3 children, 2 of them have allergies to chemicals in sunscreens and as she researched it, she learned that these chemicals build up in the […]
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Jonathan sits down with Gene Foca, CMO of Getty Images in this week’s episode of Conquer The Noise. The two talk about Getty’s new program and research report, Visual GPS. Getty launched Visual GPS in 2020 in a first-of-its-kind global research effort completed in conjunction with YouGov. Visual GPS is a ready-to-use guide detailing what […]
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Jonathan speaks with Jeremiah McElwee, the Chief Merchandising Officer at Thrive Market. They have a great conversation in this week’s episode as they talk about Jeremiah’s passion for healthy food and sustainable farming practices and how he has helped grow the catalog at Thrive. They talk about the mission of Thrive Market to democratize healthy […]
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In this week’s episode of Conquer The Noise, Jonathan speaks with Ryan Lewis, founder and CEO of EarthHero, an online retailer that specializes in selling sustainable brands. They are a member of 1% For The Planet, are certified B Corp and are certified carbon neutral. Ryan and Jonathan first met a couple years ago at […]
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Jonathan has Sarah Paiji Yoo, co-founder and CEO of Blueland on this week’s episode of Conquer The Noise. Blueland sells beautiful, refillable bottles along with dissolvable tablets that turn water into cleaning solutions. The eco-friendly brand is reinventing conventional household and personal care products to reduce single-use plastic. Sarah starts with her founding story which […]
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Jonathan sits down with serial entrepreneur, Coulter Lewis, founder of Sunday, a DTC non toxic lawn care brand. Sunday uses data, soil, and local climate to provide customers with what they need for their yard care without harmful pesticides. Coulter starts off talking about the opportunity he saw in lawncare and how grass is one […]
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In our latest episode of Conquer The Noise, Jonathan sits down with Steven Dyme, founder of Flowers For Dreams. Steven found himself in the flower business by accident. During his teen years, just after graduating high school, he started selling flowers at graduations and other school events to help pay for college while donating a […]
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Jonathan talks with Tim Murphy, the CEO of Branch Basics, in our latest episode of Conquer The Noise. The conversation covers Tim’s early career in the beginning of the show and then focuses on how he and the team at Branch Basics handled supply chain and customer demand during COVID, as well as the importance […]
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Nancy Taylor and Hannah Franco founded sustainable fashion brand, époque évolution. They joined Jonathan in this week’s episode of Conquer The Noise and the three talked through how there’s not one clear cut answer to the perfect sustainable solution. They describe their business as responsible instead of sustainable as they embrace the imperfectness and apply responsible decision […]
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We are very excited to have the founders of goodr on this week’s episode of Conquer The Noise. Jonathan speaks with Stephen Lease and Ben Abell, who have known each other since high school. The conversation opens around partnerships. Both goodr and Unconquered were founded by co-founders and they talk about strategies to keep the […]
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Many believe CSR is a strategy only implemented by large corporations who are able to give back to society in big ways – monetarily or through action. Over the course of interviewing a diverse group of leaders in business and sustainability, we learned that starting off with small increments and establishing a core set of […]
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Jennifer Hoyer is the Global Director of Cause Marketing at The Nature Conservancy, a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. The Nature Conservancy has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world thanks to more than a million members and […]
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This week’s episode with Rita Katona, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder of So Good So You, is full of insights any business leader can learn from. The conversation kicks off talking about their recent capital investment of $14.5 million from Prelude Growth Capital and how they’ve grown 380% in the past 3 months. Rita speaks […]
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Final was founded in 2017 by Emma Rose Cohen after a successful Kickstarter campaign for their first product, Final Straw. Cohen wanted to make sustainability sexy and convenient through a design forward approach while bucking the stigma that environmentalism has to be a “hippie thing”. Jonathan and Emma talk about what inspired her to start […]
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