Retail in America

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. Today I am LIVE from the Airstream in Palm Springs, California, with Joe Lopardi, the Director of Retail for the iconic brand TRINA TURK Joe...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. Today I am LIVE from the Airstream in Malibu, California, with Bree Jacoby, the founder and CEO of BREE. Bree Jacoby is an LA-based entrepreneur,...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. Kit Campoy is a retail leader turned freelance writer and one of the most prominent voices for frontline retail teams on LinkedIn. After...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. This conversation was recorded live in our Airstream in San Diego, CA, with Tony Drockton, Founder and self-proclaimed Chief Cheerleader of...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. This is a very entertaining episode because we are not recording in the Airstream; we are live in the design studio for WiesMade in Napa Valley,...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. This is an extraordinary episode filled with incredible takeaways from my great friend, Ted Harrington. Ted has many titles, including the #1...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. Today I am LIVE from the Airstream in Malibu, California, with Misti Blasko, the President of North America for All Saints and John Varvatos, and...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. Today I am LIVE from the Airstream in Palo Alto, California, with Jill Grande, a Senior Director with Tiffany & Co. Jill grew up in fashion...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. What do being in a rock band, coffee, craft beer, and sustainable outdoor apparel have in common? Josh Hagquist will tell you! We spoke together...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA Tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. I'm excited to be back live with guests as we make our way down the West Coast for the next couple of months. Today, we are sitting together in my...

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA Tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. Today I am in West Glacier, Montana, as we wrap up our time here this week, and I have wanted to have this conversation with Keith Moneymaker...

Hello! This is Ron Thurston, the best-selling author of RETAIL PRIDE, and I am on the phone today with Nadine Huebel to learn all about the heroes of the travel retail industry. Welcome to Retail In America! This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA Tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes,...

Today we are live from the Airstream in Denver, Colorado, with April Bibich from Eddie Bauer. This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour. April Bibich is a Colorado native, a perfect person, and the perfect brand to...

This podcast is part of the RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Click the link and follow me on Instagram @retail pride to see everything, including past episodes of this podcast, videos, press for the tour, and future cities. And just added, there are now RETAIL IN AMERICA playlists exclusively on Spotify that I have developed to celebrate the cities we have...

This podcast is part of the RETAIL IN AMERICA Tour in an Airstream trailer, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or on Instagram @retail pride to see everything, including past episodes of this podcast, videos, press for the tour, and future cities. Make sure you sign up for emails to get this podcast directly to your inbox. And just added, there are now Retail in...

Welcome to episode 11, Season 1 of the RETAIL IN AMERICA podcast! This episode was recorded live in our Airstream trailer in Dallas, Texas, and I am honored and excited to introduce you to Patrick Carrion. Patrick is the perfect guest to share what retail in America means to Texas, as he is originally from Robstown, a small town close to Corpus Christi. He attended Baylor University in Waco for a bachelor's in marketing and a minor in Fashion Merchandising. Subsequently, he received his...

Welcome to the RETAIL IN AMERICA podcast, and we made it to 10 episodes! This is a special one because I have 2 of the Brand Presidents and Franchise Owners of Buff City Soap, Charli Gorman and Tim Chaffin. It was recorded in a store location outside of Memphis, Tennessee, in front of a live audience of team members and leaders from various Buff City Soap brand locations. For anyone unfamiliar with the brand, here are a few details; , In this episode we learn more about what it means to...

Welcome to episode 9 of the RETAIL IN AMERICA podcast! I would like to introduce you to a phenomenal leader I met in Nashville, Priscilla Willis. Priscilla is the General Manager of Burberry in The Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, Tennessee. Her incredible retail career has taken her all over the country, from NYC to Miami and back to Tennessee, with brands including Banana Republic, Cole Hahn, Gibson Guitars, Tory Burch, and more. Priscilla says that although retail has been an...

Welcome to Episode 8 of the RETAIL IN AMERICA podcast! I would love to introduce you to two awe-inspiring retail heroes from the Ashley HomeStore in Asheville, North Carolina. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Broad River Retail is a privately held company and one of the largest and fastest growing independently owned Ashley HomeStore licensees. Leanna Mares started her retail career in 2009 at the age of 39 and had never sold a thing! She was recently...

As one of the title sponsors of my RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, KWI, the industry's only true turnkey omnichannel platform for specialty retailers, has allowed me to engage with their fantastic customers. And one of them is SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker, her namesake footwear, handbags, and accessories brand. This conversation is entirely due to KWI's strong relationship with its customers, and I am very grateful for our partnership and this opportunity. I would say that Sarah Jessica Parker...