Redefining Fashion: Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart on the Rise of Ethical Couture

Meet ethical entrepreneur Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, founder of Humans We Love, a company specializing in high-couture, ethically created wedding gowns, dresses, jewelry and more.

Drawing on her own artistic talent, her career as a high-fashion model in Hong Kong, her MBA and her lifelong activism protecting animals, Leanne first took the plunge in 2011 to fill a need she saw no one else filling––ethically made high-fashion outerwear warm enough for Chicago winters, using zero animal products, and “no-waste” material sourcing.

“I knew I could combine my love for creating, animal rights, my training in business, and in fashion marketing from modeling - into a way to speak up for animals and create a better option than wearing them” — Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart

In this episode, we discuss:

• Leanne’s wake-up call that inspired her to fill an ethical gap in the fashion industry.

• The value of not knowing the rules of how to start a fashion business.

• The importance of seeing the world as holistic and interconnected, whereas when you help one area of the world you help everything else.  

• Leanne’s early activism and her lifelong efforts to protect animals.

• How Leanne wove the threads of her life experiences as an artist, model, and animal rights activist to create businesses designed to help make the world better.  

• How to deal with imposter syndrome when starting a new business.

• Challenges to running an ethical business that honors the environment, people, animals, and all life.

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How We Change the World is a weekly podcast designed to inspire hope, encourage action, and celebrate progress in the realms of climate change, poverty, health, governance, social justice, education, animal welfare, conservation, and other pressing issue areas. Every Wednesday, tune in to hear in-depth conversations with activists, advocates, and other changemakers whose stories of triumph, tragedy, and tenacity will encourage you to explore your own problem-solving potential.