Ep. 16 - Kathy Chang On How To Scale a Business Ethically

Kathy Cheng is an innovator in the sustainable and ethical
fashion space in Canada. She is a worker's advocate for veteran
and new talent in the fashion and textile industry. Her private
company Redwood Classics is growing and leading the natural
textile industry. Kathy's voice is tapped often because she
places action on her calls for diverse hiring practices. Listen
in and learn about Kathy's family odyssey from China to Canada
and how she took her father's business from ten to a
million. (Portrait art created by Chloe Bartlett,
commissioned by Birk Creative.)


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New season concept: On our new season of the Honest Field Guide
Podcast, we present some of the world's top entrepreneurs that
are quietly and consistently creating their own masterpieces of
success through their businesses and ideas. They are not famous
and are not Instagram stars--yet. Rather, they are thriving in
their creativity, diversity, authenticity and are in some way,
creating social impact through entrepreneurship. We are going
beyond celebrating and rather are peeking inside the minds of
business owners that keep making money moves and bringing their
processes of invention to the forefront. Often, we are so busy
working in and on our businesses, we forget how amazing we are
and even the small tactics we deploy to push beyond barriers
should not be taken for granted. As an entrepreneur, always
remember that our natural instincts can be honed and repackaged
and used again and again to keep growing our businesses. Our
conversations on The Honest Field Guide are a reminder of our
extraordinary talents--despite the fact that we are diverse,
unique and dare we say creatively divergent.