Eshita Kabra-Davies felt guilty on her Indian honeymoon. She wanted to show her husband her culture and where she came from. But she’d noticed the textile waste polluting towns while she worried about her outfits and holiday clothes. She felt like she was part of the problem, participating in the polluting of her birthplace!

Compelled to do something about it, Eshita founded the social fashion renting app By Rotation in April 2019. Since then, it’s become the U.K.’s leading rental platform. What separates it from others, though, is its’ peer-to-peer concept that allows users (known as rotators) to earn money from their wardrobe by renting other people’s items and lending out their own. Users feel good about looking good and helping save the planet at the same time.

Eshita came up with the idea for the app while still working full-time in the finance world. After researching the market to see if her idea could work, she started it as a side hustle and built a close-knit community around it focused on change towards a sustainable fashion future.

Today, she joins Sam to talk about her company, the importance of community building for her business, and the climate impact of fashion and what can be done about it. They unravel the story behind By Rotation and share her and her team’s mission toward changing the way people view fashion. In this episode, you’ll discover how Eshita created and transitioned away from her corporate job, what her app is all about and where she sees her business going, and the influence of her cultural background in building her business community.

You’ll also hear her thoughts about empowerment through sustainable consumerism, the difference between traditional and newer business models like hers, and what governments can do to help reduce the climate impact of fashion (and other industries). Along the way, you’ll learn how Eshita has limited the carbon footprint of her company and the difference she has noticed in the consumption habits of people in the East and West.

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In the pursuit of doing what they love, most photographers and other creative freelancers don’t think about certain business aspects. Take insurance, for example. How do you deal with a dissatisfied client who insists you didn’t do your job to their specifications (when you did) with no contract laying out agreed-upon specifications to prove it? What about a client who goes so far as to threaten legal action against you or refuse to pay?

Today, Sam is joined by Ashley Baxter: the founder of With Jack, an insurance company for freelancers in the U.K. She’s a creative whose journey started when she first picked up a camera to shoot. With her love for the lens, she found her footing as a freelance photographer and worked with a range of clients, many of whom wanted her for wedding photography. Through her work, however, she found another passion: educating and helping freelancers with their rights and insurance needs so they can succeed.

For a while, Ashley had two careers running alongside each other simultaneously. One was the freelance photography business she ran for eight years, and the other was her insurance company. Then she wound down her freelance career when she began working full-time in With Jack.

In this episode, she delves deeper into her career and shares some sound advice for fellow creatives along the way. You’ll hear about her struggles with juggling both businesses and how she stayed motivated in the process. Ashley also reveals the insanely complicated process of creating and running a company in a regulated industry, how she revived her love for photography when it started feeling more like a job than a passion, and offers several methods to help you recalibrate when you just want to quit.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleybaxter/

With Jack: https://withjack.co.uk/

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How did a food documentary light the spark for an app designed to address climate change? When Sanchali Pal was in college, she started tracking her carbon footprint in a spreadsheet after seeing Food, Inc. It changed her perspective on consumption and made her realize she wanted to be more intentional about it.

An idea started brewing as she slowly figured out how to live more sustainably in her own life. Several years later in business school, she thought the spreadsheet idea could be something that helped other people who wanted to live more sustainably but didn’t know where to start.

What if there was a tool that helped people manage their emissions, even down to zero? What if you could manage your carbon impact like you track costs or calories in a financial or weight loss app (or any other metric in life)?

So the idea of Joro was born. Joro is an app that automates personal carbon emissions tracking. With it, you can reduce and offset emissions behind everything you buy.

As its founder and CEO, Sanchali set out on a mission to help individuals everywhere intentionally and efficiently manage their climate impact. Through the app, her team works hard to make a Net Zero lifestyle possible and establish an accessible community of like-minded individuals worldwide. Though it hasn’t been easy, they’ve already made strides in the U.S. and have plans to expand this year to Canada and the U.K.

In this episode, she talks with Sam about creating the app, starting the company amidst the beginnings of the pandemic, the challenges she faced with funding, and how Joro helps consumers not only reduce their carbon footprint but save money in the process.

Joro:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joroapp/?hl=en

Download: https://www.joro.app/

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