Conversations with Founders

Lydia Pang, a creative director and co-founder of the strategic studio MØRNING, shares her vibrant journey from rural Wales to collaborating with brands like Refinery29 and Nike. She discusses how her unique upbringing and family influenced her creative vision. Lydia emphasizes the power of embracing misfit identities in entrepreneurship and the challenges faced by young women of color in the industry. She also explores the role of side hustles in fostering innovation and how food can serve as a lens for identity and culture.

In today's episode of Conversations with Founders, I sit down Kate Cervini, Kate is a born and raised entrepreneur who drew inspiration from her family in Michigan and her 13 years experience in the menswear fashion industry in bringing her luxury travel beauty brand 100ML to market.100ML launched last year and is a modern, convenient solution to the problems faced by the beauty and wellness conscious traveller - combining travel-sized body care, wellness supplement and sexual wellbeing products with air travel security compliant, yet aesthetic design. We talk to Kate about her background in fashion, how she ideated and realised her brand concept, how she attracted, retains and grows her partnership with major brands such as Aesop, Maude and Ursa Major, the company structure and what comes next for the company.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode of Conversations with Founders, I sit down with Bonnie Langedijk. Bonnie is the founder of media platform HURS, a community centric platform which tells the stories of leading women, offering smart content through a style lens. As a founder, Bonnie’s ambition is to fundamentally change the women’s media landscape. It has been her innate understanding and connection to today’s woman, that led her to the realisation that a digital home for women to connect and enable intelligent conversations over their love of art, design and style didn’t truly exist outside of their own micro-communities. And so, HURS was born.Growing up in the Netherlands, creativity and storytelling were a part of Bonnie’s life from day 1, with both of her parents working in the advertising industry. After studying International Media, she worked for several Hearst publications, before relocating to London. There Bonnie established herself as an in demand creative consultant and art director, working at NET-A-PORTER as Deputy Global Styling Editor as well as with a variety of other brands and media houses, from AERON to L’Officiel, Farfetch to Vogue Netherlands.Bonnie launched the media platform HURS in April 2022 and has seen tremendous growth. In this episode we dive into her journey to entrepreneurship, the HURS community and the plans for future expansion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.