29 min
How COVID inspired a pivot from travel to recycling second-hand fashion|Minna Monaghan & Satu Raunola-Spencer Nordic Insights
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Sydneysiders, check out our sponsor VENLA Resell+Relove, a second-hand fashion store with a NORDIC twist, located in Mosman and Bondi Junction (opening July). VENLA rent-a-rack store is a place where you can give a new life to your quality fashion clothes and accessories and find new loves. Join the VENLA community to help reduce fashion waste. Your wallet and the Earth will thank you. Check out venla.com.au for more details.
My guest is my friend, fellow Finn and business partner of 4 years, Minna Monaghan. We discuss how COVID made us pivot from our travel aviation consultancy business to open a recycling retail fashion store in Sydney. We talk about our careers and how we both ended up moving from Finland to Australia.
Minna’s career path took her from advertising to various aviation management roles with QANTAS and Virgin. My own journey started at sales and marketing in hospitality, then running my own marketing PR consultancy for over 10 years. After the GFC, I ended up in travel tech marketing for 6 years. Minna and I set up our travel-aviation consultancy in 2017, representing AIRHELP air passenger rights company in APAC.
We discuss how the idea of VENLA was born at the end of 2020. The VENLA mission is to recycle fashion and help to reduce fashion waste. We talk about the success of VENLA MOSMAN in its first 6 months, which has now enabled us to open our 2nd store, VENLA BONDI, in Sydney Eastern suburbs.
You will learn from Minna and myself
How we have pivoted our travel consultant business to second-hand retail stores How our career journeys have taken us from the corporate world to becoming entrepreneurs Why Finland has a strong sustainability and recycling culture
VENLA Resell+Relove
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Sydneysiders, check out our sponsor VENLA Resell+Relove, a second-hand fashion store with a NORDIC twist, located in Mosman and Bondi Junction (opening July). VENLA rent-a-rack store is a place where you can give a new life to your quality fashion clothes and accessories and find new loves. Join the VENLA community to help reduce fashion waste. Your wallet and the Earth will thank you. Check out venla.com.au for more details.
My guest is my friend, fellow Finn and business partner of 4 years, Minna Monaghan. We discuss how COVID made us pivot from our travel aviation consultancy business to open a recycling retail fashion store in Sydney. We talk about our careers and how we both ended up moving from Finland to Australia.
Minna’s career path took her from advertising to various aviation management roles with QANTAS and Virgin. My own journey started at sales and marketing in hospitality, then running my own marketing PR consultancy for over 10 years. After the GFC, I ended up in travel tech marketing for 6 years. Minna and I set up our travel-aviation consultancy in 2017, representing AIRHELP air passenger rights company in APAC.
We discuss how the idea of VENLA was born at the end of 2020. The VENLA mission is to recycle fashion and help to reduce fashion waste. We talk about the success of VENLA MOSMAN in its first 6 months, which has now enabled us to open our 2nd store, VENLA BONDI, in Sydney Eastern suburbs.
You will learn from Minna and myself
How we have pivoted our travel consultant business to second-hand retail stores How our career journeys have taken us from the corporate world to becoming entrepreneurs Why Finland has a strong sustainability and recycling culture
VENLA Resell+Relove
Instagram venla.resell.relove
Facebook venla.resell.relove
Follow Nordic Insights
Listen nordicinsights.net/podcast
Instagram Nordic Insights Podcast
Facebook Nordic Insights Podcast
29 min