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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Karen Schnelwar, VP, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing of OXO, known for innovative kitchen and home goods, joins us for this week’s episode. She has been a strategist for 20 years and now combines her experience in strategy with marketing as a leader of OXO’s marketing. Empathy is a big theme in this episode. They […]
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Jonathan speaks with Sid Sharma, co-founder of Wild Kombucha, a Baltimore based kombucha company in this week’s episode. The two talk about how COVID has affected business and what they are doing to pivot in a time when sales are down and staff has thinned out. Sid also speaks to their partnership with the Chesapeake […]
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Jenni Tilton-Flood joined us this week to talk about life as a dairy farmer and being a part of the Cabot Creamery co-op. “For me as a dairy farmer and member of Cabot Cream co-op, it means our farm is an owner. We are one of 800+ farm families that own Cabot. It provides us […]
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Anne Marisic, Head of Marketing and Events at Maine Beer Co. and Jonathan dig into the founding story of the company and how their slogan, “Do What’s Right.” is at the heart of everything they do. They have been a part of 1% For The Planet since the company began in 2008. “We’ll take care […]
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Oliver Tomalin founded The Love Brand & Co. ten years ago with sustainability and impact in mind. He connected with Jonathan from his home in the UK, where his business is based, to talk about early inspiration and how he found his passion for elephant conservation. A trained architect, Oliver designs the clothing and retail […]
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Janie Heuck is the managing director at Brooks Winery in Willamette Valley, Oregon and began her winemaking journey after taking over her brother’s winery in 2004 when he suddenly passed away. Jonathan and Janie speak about the evolution Brooks Winery has taken and how the sudden loss of her brother has caused her to place […]
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