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Who is Lou de Beauregard?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - March 30, 2024 15:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin me as I share the unexpected odyssey of a blouse that was more than mere fabric—it unfurls the story of my first Poshmark sale, a rare Lou de Beauregard piece and the emotional whirlwind that followed its mysterious disappearance. This episode isn't just about garments and goodbyes; it's ...
What is Poshmark?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - March 18, 2024 19:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor the 3rd season of What's This Place? Podcast, I'm gonna tell some stories and spill some tea (or some neon pink dye) on fashion . What have Lucky Sevens got to do with launching a Poshmark Account?! Yer gonna need to go inside to find out :) Enjoying the podcast? I am fiercely independent, ...
Day 2 No New Clothes
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - August 28, 2023 00:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEver thought about the journey your favouritest piece of clothing? Hold onto your needles and threads, because we're about to explore the world of mending and repairing! Try to spot my very first invisible mending job on a damaged cashmere sweater, and join me as I journey into the realm of vi...
What Is #NoNewClothes?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - August 23, 2023 01:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAm I about to become a nudist?! Noooo! #NoNewClothes is a is a challenge just like pouring ice water over your head or eating a spoon of cinnamon except way less cold and dangerous! Can I do it?!! Can I go without buying ANY NEW TEXTILES for 90 days?!! Let's go inside to find out! Hey, I'm Mira...
From 0 to 8000 Preloved Pieces in Less Than 2 Years? Who IS Caitlin Martella?!
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - August 22, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCaitlin Martella had never been a second hand shopper prior to starting her second hand business. In fact, She had a lot of pre-conceptions about what thrifting meant and decided long ago that it was not for her. Like me when I ran my store, she had never even heard of the circular economy and...
What Is Pain DeGrowth?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - August 15, 2023 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMedication and surgery works for all sorts of different diseases. But they frequently do not work to cure chronic pain...and I know this very well because I have been living with chronic pain for well over a year and nothing doctors gave me worked. So I have been on a pretty intense journey to...
What is "Grow-With-Me" Clothing? With Lindsay Down from Pure Colour Baby
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - March 09, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEveryone thinks that December is peak "fat pants" month. But I'm going to suggest that March could give December fat pants are run for their money. In December you're still coasting on the last remains of summer energy: going for walks or riding your bike to work. But then January. And God...
How NOT to Business Like Elon Musk with Jesi Whelan
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - February 24, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEvery business creates waste but imagine turning that waste into a NEW business? That's what Jesi Whelan did with her kids clothing company, Phoenix Pre-Worn. The clothing that's too torn or stained to be sold gets used in her second business she started with Samantha Hulst from June Bird. Tog...
Valentine's Day Meditation
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - February 13, 2023 21:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA guided meditation on the feelings Valentine's Day can bring up. Great for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the amount of STUFF in their homes. Enjoying the podcast? I am fiercely independent, and rely on listeners like you to help me stick around. Can you share the episode on social media, ...
Who Is Amanda McCarty and What is Clotheshorse?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - January 31, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBorn during the darkest days of the pandemic, Clotheshorse The Podcast, took everyone behind the scenes of Fast Fashion...what REALLY goes on to make us soooo addicted we stop caring about the people who make the clothing. Amanda McCarty, the creator of Clotheshorse has worked retail her whole ...
Who is Chat GPT and Did They Write This Podcast?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - January 30, 2023 19:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsI've been talking more and more about de-growth and I'm seeing more and more articles and media out there talking about de-growth. It's becoming a bit of a buzzword but what does it really mean? I interviewed that new chat bot, the one that can create the written word from artificial intellige...
New Circles: How to Create a Legacy
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - December 07, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode, What's This Place? goes behind the bricks and mortar of New Circles, a multi dimensional, not-for-profit agency here in Toronto. New Circles helps alleviate poverty through their free clothing bank GLOW (Gently Loved Outfits To Wear)...and if I am being honest, that's all I thought...
What is a Real Hero of E-Commerce?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - November 09, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week I get interviewed by Jason Shepherd, the host of The Real Hero's of E-commerce, a podcast on shopping! Enjoying the podcast? I am fiercely independent, and rely on listeners like you to help me stick around. Can you share the episode on social media, or write a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review in A...
What is a Zero Waste Halloween?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - October 22, 2022 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're talking zero waste costumes, decorations and candy with a special mystery guest! We also talk about stats and how they aren't helping and may even be contributing to people not caring about making small changes! RIP stats!! Enjoying the podcast? I am fiercely independent, and rely on list...
What is a Bespoke Tailor?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - October 14, 2022 18:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week I go behind the scenes of my own business, Theodore 1922: how I started, how I very nearly went bankrupt and how one man changed everything. Pasquale started tailoring at 6 years old...yes, you read that right: 6 years old! So what is a Bespoke Tailor? And who is Pasquale Buonjourno...
Blondie Apparel: Made in vs Designed in ___.
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - September 23, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat's This Place? podcast turns one this week. I launched my first episode with Sharon Smyl from Collected Joy a year ago this week and heck yeah, I'm going to celebrate! I'm giving away a chance to win one of 3 garments from Blondie Apparel, a 100% Made in Canada garment...from fabric to hang...
Blondie Apparel: Made in vs Designed in Canada.
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - September 23, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat's This Place? podcast turns one this week. I launched my first episode with Sharon Smyl from Collected Joy a year ago this week and heck yeah, I'm going to celebrate! I'm giving away a chance to win one of 3 garments from Blondie Apparel, a 100% Made in Canada garment...from fabric to hang...
Isabel Slone: Why Isn't More Clothing Made in Canada?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - September 13, 2022 19:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhy Isn’t More Clothing Made In Canada? Well today we are going to talk to someone who actually wrote an article with that exact title…you can google "Why Isn’t More Clothing Made in Canada?" and the first result you should get is a Chatelaine story with that exact title by Isabel Slone who wr...
What is Soak Wash?
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - August 15, 2022 19:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSoak Wash is a huge Canadian success story...there's also has a ton of sustainability built right into Soaks production. A perfect fit for this season on What's This Place? Jacqueline Sava wanted to build a laundry detergent from a skin care perspective: Something that is as gentle on your han...
How to thrift with ADC
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - July 26, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week we talk to Danielle Green, the owner of ADC an independent thrift store thriving and surviving in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Danielle shares how she had to shift her game when covid hit, how to thrift for the average person and how to support independent thrift stor...
The Finder's Life
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - July 12, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat is a Sustainable Stylist? Miranda Black interviews Jess Raffills from The Finder's Life who has been a sustainable stylist before anyone really knew what that was! Jess is from New Zealand where they weave sustainability into their lives a little more seamlessly that we do here in North...
Random Acts of Green
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - June 28, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMiranda Black sits down with Jessica Correa from Random Acts of Green to learn why it's important to have some green goals even if they are little ones. Jessica shows us how small actions can create huge ripples and how to gain confidence developing your own sustainable style. Enjoying the pod...
How do we shop now that the world is melting?!
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - June 28, 2022 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMiranda Black realizes the traditional ways of shopping & staying stylish no longer feel great if it means she's disproportionately contributing to the destruction of the planet. How on earth can fashion survive? What does sustainable style mean? How come fashion is so destructive? Let's go i...
Peach Berserk: Part 2
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - March 02, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGo behind the bricks and mortar of Peach Berserk, a 35 year old independent fashion house owned by Kingi Carpenter. Enjoying the podcast? I am fiercely independent, and rely on listeners like you to help me stick around. Can you share the episode on social media, or write a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review i...
Peach Berserk
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - February 12, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPeach Berserk is an iconic fashion line in Canada. It has been profiled in thousands of fashion articles, worn on hundreds of red carpets and countless proms and weddings. Maybe even you owned something from Peach Berserk! The brand was THAT ubiquitous. Kingi Carpenter, the brains behind Pea...
R.A.I.D.
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - December 07, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor over 40 years, a yellow and red awning has hung over a seemingly deserted storefront. No one ever seemed to go in or out. In 2018, R.A.I.D. took over this infamous and mysterious storefront. It was like a time capsule from the 1980s: the bar, the ticket booth window, even the disco dance ...
Unboxed Market
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - November 23, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMichelle Genttner and Luis Martins sold their restaurant, bought a grocery and turned it into Toronto's first Zero Waste grocery store. But what is Zero Waste...it sounds intimidating. Is it just a PR term or will Unboxed Market revolutionize how we shop? Let's go inside and find out. Enjoyin...
Made You Look.
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - November 09, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWho is Sarah Dougall?
Made You Look Jewellery
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - November 09, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAt 23, Sarah Dougall bought a building and started a jewellery store...and she was pregnant when she did it. Now, 20 years later, she shares her business wisdom with What's This Place Podcast. It's an incredible story of retail perseverance. How has she made so many people look...both online ...
Hanji Gifts.
What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black - October 26, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCatherine Choi had her life all planned out: she was going to be a kindergarten teacher. But first she flew to Korea to teach English...and that’s where she met Hyun Suk Choi, who wanted to open a restaurant. Fate put these two together to create one of Toronto's most unique and cherished pape...
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