Sara is the Deputy Director of Vogue Italia and Head of Vogue Talents
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REV On Air: Creativity and Sustainability with Vogue Italia’s Sara Maino
Cora speaks to Vogue Italia’s Sara Maino about the future of fashion and young talent in what we hope to be a more sustainable world on the other side of Covid 19. Sara is the Deputy Director of Vogue Italia and Head of Vogue Talents – her insight on a more conscious fashion future that still maintains beauty and creativity at its core is incredibly inspiring.
‘The real luxury is to have time – the time to do things, the time to think, the time to change.’
Sara Maino
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A Bit More About Sara
Sara began her career in the fashion industry in 1991 at the newly opened 10 Corso Como in Milan. She went on to intern at Vogue Italia in 1994. Sara is now deputy director of Vogue Talents, a platform that creates connections between designers and the fashion industry, supporting the growth of opportunities for the new generation of young designers around the globe.
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REV On Air: Modern Intimacy & Purpose Led Business With Eva Goicochea of Maude
We talked to the inspirational Éva Goicochea of Maude Sex and Sexual Wellness. We covered inclusivity and censorship around sex in her birthplace, New Mexico and the rest of the world. Her passion for sexual inclusivity extends to the way Maude, as a brand, presents unapologetically. Leaning into the way they wish to see sex spoken about and approached globally.
“We wanted to take the position that we do have to be inclusive and inclusivity means that you have to create a conversation that is very digestible for many types of people. But rather than thinking about how to do that at all hours of the day because that would be difficult, I think we just lean into the sensibility that we have around sex and speak the way that we believe the world should speak about it. So we almost ignore the approach to sex that we all see and we just do it our way.”
– Éva Goicochea, Maude Sex
About Maude Sex
Born in New Mexico and raised in California and Michigan, Eva spent her early career as a legislative aide in healthcare and then a decade working with forward-thinking companies. No matter where she went, the sexual wellness aisle looked the same: outdated, confusing, and not inclusive.
Finally, Eva converged her experiences to create the next chapter in the sexual wellness industry. A modern company built on quality, simplicity, and inclusivity. A company with beautiful, well-designed, and affordable products. Maude launched in 2018.
In 2020, Dakota Johnson joined the team as an investor and Co-Creative Director. Together with their team and medical advisory board, they look forward to changing the industry. and creating a company that stands for modern intimacy—all people welcome.
Useful links for this episode.
Maude‘s Website.
@getmaude on Instagram.
@evagoicochea – Eva Goicochea’s Instagram.
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REV On Air: ISKO & Hiut Denim on Inclusive Solutions to Sustainability
Today Cora is having a conversation about the importance of bringing together small and big business in coming up with sustainability solutions for the fashion industry with our first joint podcast! We bring you REV On Air with Keith O’Brien of ISKO Denim and David Hieatt of Hiut Denim. With ISKO producing Hiut’s recycled and organic denim fabric within their ethical jeans line, we discuss how the two have used their distinct strengths to produce both technical and ethical advancements together.
Today Cora chats with Keith and David about the power of harnessing collaboration between big and small companies to help with inclusive solutions to sustainability within fashion. With ISKO producing Hiut’s recycled and organic denim fabric within their ethical jeans line, we discuss how the two have used their distinct strengths to produce both technical and ethical advancements.
“It is this world that we live in that very much rewards new, and that world of new very much keeps that wheel of consumerism going. We try to step outside that. We are trying to offer an alternative, and it’s not always easy.”
Useful links for this episode.
ISKO’s Sustainability Report on their website here.
@iskodenim on Instagram.
@hiutdenim on Instagram.
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REV On Air: Conservation & Veganism with Damien Mander of IAPF
We are extremely honoured to be speaking to the incredible Damien Mander, Founder and CEO of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation. Damien has worked tirelessly to help preserve endangered animals, working with local African conservationists to help train them to protect our last remaining species of African wildlife.
Damien's Incredible Work
Damien is an Iraq war veteran who served as a Naval clearance diver and special operations sniper for the Australian Defense Force. In 2009 while travelling through Africa, he was inspired by the work of rangers and the plight of wildlife. Liquidating his life savings, the International Anti-Poaching Foundation was established to be the last line of defence for nature. Over the past decade the IAPF has scaled to train and support rangers which now help protect over 20 million acres of African wilderness.
In 2017 Damien founded ‘Akashinga – Nature Protected by Women’, an IAPF program that has already grown to over 240 employees with 7 nature reserves in the portfolio. They are the only group of nature reserves in the world to be protected by women. Their goal is to employ 1000 women by 2025, protecting a network of 20 nature reserves.
Damien is the winner of the 2019 Winsome Constance Kindness Gold Medal, a prestigious international recognition for services to animals and humanity. Past recipients include Sir David Attenborough and Dr Jane Goodall.
Damien was featured in the newly released documentary The Game Changers from 6-time Oscar winning Director James Cameron, and has now released another documentary with James Cameron and National Geographic about his work with the women of Akashinga – “The Brave One’s”.. as you can imagine we were quite excited to get to speak to someone which such an incredible resume of doing good in the world.
Today, Damien and Cora discuss our relationship to the natural world, the importance of protecting endangered species, how we can all help animals by switching to a plant based diet, and also the importance of supporting females in conservation. This is an incredibly rich and provoking conversation that we hope you will truly enjoy and consider in your take aways.
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Spring restaurant.
REV On Air: Sustainable Eating with Skye Gyngell of Spring & Heckfield Place
We are so excited to have our first guest today that will be talking about sustainable food. And her opinions on the most ethical way to be growing it, consuming it and dining out. Skye Gyngell, an Australian native who has been making waves with her cooking ever since she moved to England. Her approaches to cooking and farming is innovative and sustainable
Skye Gyngell began what has become an incredibly illustrious career as head chef at Petersham Nurseries, before starting her very own restaurant, Spring, which has been often noted as one of London’s most sustainable, and beautiful, places to dine. Most recently, she has become the Culinary Director at Heckfield Place, where she oversees a biodynamic farm and encourages locality and seasonality in all the food prepared there. We talk about her journey within the organic food movement, the importance of working with British farmers, zero waste eating and food waste, and her most recent achievement of becoming the UK’s first restaurant to entirely ban single use plastics.
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REV On Air: Female Empowerment Leading to Sustainability with Noëlla Coursaris Musunka
This is a really beautiful conversation on sustainable development with Noëlla Coursaris Musunka who is a tireless advocate for female education and empowerment as the founder of Malaika, a nonprofit organisation that impacts thousands of lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through enhanced access to education and health programs.
Noëlla herself is an international model and philanthropist of Congolese/Cypriot heritage, an Ambassador for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria, and a voice for the power of female education worldwide. Noëlla has shared her insight at a number of world-class forums, spanning the World Economic Forum in Davos to the university halls of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and MIT and the offices of UNICEF. Cora and Noëlla’s conversation spans development to education and female empowerment, all of which we believe is just fundamental to truly sustainable growth.
Useful links for this episode
Listen to the episode here.
Learn more about Malaika and their impact.
Follow Noëlla on Instagram.
The Global Fund who Noëlla is an ambassador for.
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REV On Air: How Environmental Justice Inspired Klur Beauty with Founder Lesley Thornton
We are thrilled to welcome the amazing Lesley Thornton, founder of Klur – a purpose-driven, eco-inclusive, botanical skincare line, to the REV podcast. We speak about Lesley’s experiences as a young woman volunteering in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and how her experiences of social injustice and environmental racism there impacted her life forever. It led her to believe that community based action was a powerful antidote to the status quo, and it’s obvious that the passion from those life changing experiences still drives her today.
Conversation Starters From This Episode:
What sets Klur apart from other brands in the sustainable and ethical beauty space?
How worthwhile is investing in new skincare trends?
Can we really heal our skin with the foods we eat?
Useful links for this episode.
Follow Klur on Instagram.
Shop Klur beauty.
Learn more about Ron Finley’s gardening program in Los Angeles.
Discover our favourite organic produce boxes.
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Charles' book.
REV On Air: How We Solve the Climate Crisis Philosophically with Charles Eisenstein
We had the great honour of speaking to someone who we have looked up to for many years, and who has influenced much of our thinking when it comes to communicating the climate crisis, how to speak to my friends and family about sustainability and the changes we must make, and also remembering that the heart can sometimes be a more powerful ally in this fight for a better world than anything else.
Charles and Cora discuss how we find a way to approach a new sort of human collective, a better world, and how we can talk about climate change with our friends and families in a way that will inspire rather than frustrate one another to lead to all these results.
Charles and Cora discuss how we find a way to approach a new sort of human collective, a better world, and how we can talk about climate change with our friends and families in a way that will inspire rather than frustrate one another to lead to all these results.
This is a conversation that will get you both questioning and considering our mindsets and our lifestyles, and we hope that this will lead to some positive actions that we all can get on board with towards healing the divisions in the world we see today that are leading to the environmental crisis we all face.
“We are interconnected, interdependent and inter-existent. What we do to the world, we do to ourselves.”
@charles_eisenstein
Useful links for this episode.
Charles’ books – The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Climate — A New Story, Sacred Economics.
Discover essays, podcasts, events, videos and lots more on Charles’ site.
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REV On Air: Striving For A Sustainable Fashion Future With Cecilie Thorsmark
Cora first met Cecilie during her very first season as CEO of Copenhagen Fashion Week, and she was so lovely and passionate about her role in making Copenhagen the leader for sustainability within Fashion Weeks. She is now a couple of years in and making incredible strides.
In this episode Cora and Cecilie talk about how she has set up goals for brands to adhere to, how she is looking within at Copenhagen fashion week itself, and the future of fashion in general. This is such a relevant conversation to anyone in fashion, and also in business, who is looking for inspiration on leadership as we move forward into a greener world. Enjoy!
Useful links for this episode
Follow Cecilie on Instagram
Follow Copenhagen Fashion Week on Instagram
Learn more about the Global Fashion Agenda
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REV On Air: The Power of Plant Based Eating for Change with Anna Jones
Today we are thrilled to welcome one of the women who has most inspired us to embrace plant based eating as a way to heal the planet and embrace a healthier style of living, Anna Jones of We Are Food.
Anna Jones is a cook, writer, the voice of modern vegetarian cooking and the author of the bestselling A Modern Way to Eat, A Modern Way to Cook, The Modern Cook’s Year, and most recently, One. Her books are sold in ten countries and have been translated into five languages. The Modern Cook’s Year won the coveted Observer Food Monthly Best New Cookbook Award and The Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book Award. Her previous books have been nominated for the James Beard, Fortnum & Mason and André Simon awards.
Anna believes that vegetables should be put at the centre of every table, and is led by the joy of food and its ability to affect change in our daily lives. She lives in Hackney, East London, with her husband and young son.
Today Anna and Cora will discuss how Anna followed her dreams out of a corporate job and into the world of cooking, a chance job with Jamie Oliver that ignited her work ethic, and how she became a plant based cook. We also talk about the power of food to either create waste and damage, or empower and heal. This is a lovely conversation that will leave you feeling hopeful and empowered that such simple choices that we make daily with our diets can have such huge positive impacts!
Useful links for this episode!
@we_are_food – Anna’s Instagram
Anna’s Book, One.
Anna Jones – Anna’s Website
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REV On Air: Chemicals Have No Place in Beauty with Nadine Artemis of Living Libations
Nadine Artemis is a gifted aromacologist and visionary who gathers and works with the purest ingredients from around the world. Through Living Libations, Nadine offers beauty and natural health products that bring out the strength of the botanicals without reliance on synthetics. Her expertise is highly sought after and we are very pleased to be able to share it with you all here. We discuss the importance of adopting not only a clean beauty routine, but taking a holistic look at our overall healthy and trying to live more in harmony with nature and all it has to offer.
Conversation Starters From This Episode:
Are natural organic ingredients really the secret to nourishing and healing our skin?
What are the potentially toxic ingredients in conventional toothpaste and what is the ‘clean’ alternative?
Why is vitamin D so important for our skin health and general immune wellbeing?
Useful links for this episode.
Follow Nadine on Instagram.
Nadine’s incredible book, Renegade Beauty.
Learn more from Nadine over on her editorial page.
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REV On Air: Nature Based Solutions to the Climate Crisis with Johanna of Detox Life
Today we are thrilled to have a woman on who has inspired us so much when it comes to natural living and approaching the climate crisis with passion, optimism and creativity. Our guest is the lovely Johanna Ljunggren who is a creative entrepreneur running the incredibly inspirational sustainable platform Detox Life.
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Johanna grew up in four continents, developing at an early age, a vast knowledge and interest in food and culture. Later, after years working as a fashion stylist, yoga teacher, and self-taught culinary artist, Johanna developed a bigger interest in trying to influence her audience to explore and to live healthier lifestyles. Her constant exploration of new ways of creative communication, made her the influential figure she is today. She continues adapting new ways to share important messages around yoga, art, beauty, fashion, food, and sustainability and today we talk about how we need to change the lifestyles we aspire to and how we can all reconnect with a love of nature to help solve the climate crisis in a way that is both effective and nourishing. It’s a talk about changing mindsets and goals to be more in harmony with nature and how this can be done whilst still acknowledging the reality of the word we live in today.
