Latest Verishop Podcast Episodes
How to Captivate Fashion Lovers and Social Media Followers, with Karla Deras, The Line by K Designer and Influencer
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - April 01, 2020 21:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSometimes you come across creators whose essence and energy so clearly match the products they create. Creative director and designer of fashion brand, The Line by K, Karla Deras is one of those people. She joins Verishop's Alex Barinka on this week's episode of the shoppable podcast to...
Pro Snowboarder to Skincare Founder: Making the Jump with Salt + Stone's Nima Jalali
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - March 25, 2020 10:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIt may seem like a wild ride to go from extreme sports to clean skincare, but for this week’s guest on Verishop’s “Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka,” it was a natural path. Nima Jalali is a former pro-snowboarder and owner of Salt + Stone, a brand that started making non-toxic sunscreen ...
How to Start Your Own Art Collection and Shake-Up an Industry, with Kate Hoffman of Spacey Studios
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - March 18, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe world of art collecting hasn't always been welcoming to outsiders, unless you’ve got a fat pocketbook and the right people on your contact list. And it’s been that way for centuries. But today’s guest on Verishop’s shoppable podcast thinks that more people should be able to get thei...
How The Only Wine Glass You’ll Ever Need Was Made, as Told by Creator Richard Brendon
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - March 11, 2020 10:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsHeritage-inspired tableware designer Richard Brendon and acclaimed wine critic Jancis Robinson combined forces to create one glass that suits all types of wine – and the pair succeeded. Richard gave us an exclusive inside look on how The Wine Glass came to be, informed by his history cr...
Art Meets Streetwear At the Hand of Award-Winning Rochambeau Creative Director, Laurence Chandler
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - March 04, 2020 12:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsArt meets streetwear at the hand of Laurence Chandler, through the sophisticated menswear pieces from Rochambeau, where he serves as co-founder and creative director. The award-winning brand has successfully mastered the tricky marriage of artistic expression and wearability season afte...
Nerding Out With the Award-Winning Scientist Behind Biophile Skincare, Alison Cutlan
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - February 26, 2020 11:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsFermentation is having its moment with what you put in your body – from kombucha to kimchi. Now, Alison Cutlan, co-founder of biophile, is proving it could be the next big thing you put on your body. Just months after launching her skincare line, biophile’s flagship serum won Indie Beau...
How to Reinvent a 5,000-Year-Old Product With Par Avion Tea's Alexandra Mysoor
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - February 19, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPeople have been drinking tea for thousands of years. So how do you innovate on a product that’s been beloved for that long? For Par Avion Tea owner and chief creative officer, Alexandra Mysoor, the answer is to make it personal and make it delicious. She joins “Finding Inspo with Alex ...
Celebrity Facialist Joanna Vargas Spills Her Secrets to Glowing Skin and A-List Business
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - February 12, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsJulianne Moore, Elizabeth Moss, Rachel Brosnahan, Mindy Kaling: These are just a few of the celebrities that have trusted aesthetician Joanna Vargas to get their faces ready for events like the Oscars. On this episode of Verishop's shoppable podcast, “Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka,” J...
Introducing season two of "Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka," Verishop's shoppable podcast
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - February 05, 2020 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsWelcome to the first-ever shoppable podcast, brought to you from Verishop. These are the kind of folks whose brains we’re all dying to pick, and pick them, we will. You’ll hear from award-winning designers, fabulous first-time founders and even the conversations from live-event tapings....
Jeff Laub, creator of Blind Barber: How hustle took one man from beauty school dropout to empire builder
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - October 29, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsJeff Laub dreamt up the barber shop-bar combo, Blind Barber. If you haven’t been to one of the many locations, it’s the coolest concept. Walk in the front door, and you’re in a slick, fully operational barber shop with its own product line. Head on through the door in the back of the sh...
Kasey Boone, owner of Glow Skincare: Become an expert before becoming an influencer
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - October 15, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn a world where there’s always another bright shiny object to chase, Kasey Boone proves that it pays to become an expert before becoming an influencer. The esthetician, owner of Glow Skincare spa, creator of Glow Skincare tools, co-host of the Beauty Biz BFFs podcast and social media i...
Brenda Brock, Farmaesthetics founder: Going back to your roots can be the best source of inspo
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - September 17, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe prospect of a career in nursing or acting on the soap opera, "One Life to Live," couldn't get in the way of Farmaesthetics founder Brenda Brock's heritage: Working with what's grown from the land. The daughter of seven generations of Texan farmers, Brenda shares how the "kitchen che...
Zach Schau, Milo co-founder: Solving a personal problem led to an industry-changing business
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - September 10, 2019 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsA serial innovator, Milo cookwear co-founder Zach Schau talks how being perceptive about your everyday life can lead to game-changing business ideas. Hear how he went from designing bikes to shaking up the cooking industry by beautifully rethinking one of the beloved kitchen tools: the ...
Eva Goicochea, Maude co-founder: Rethinking sexual wellness
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - August 20, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsÉva Goicochea saw sexual wellness as the last frontier in personal care, leading her to co-found Maude -- a company that creates products to make sex better. But building a company based on sex isn't without its challenges. Eva tapped her past experience as an early employee of direct-t...
Jordan Nodarse, Boyish Jeans founder: Making sustainability just another cost of doing business
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - August 13, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsA veteran denim designer, having worked with the likes of Reformation and Revolve, this week's guest is Boyish Jeans founder Jordan Nodarse. On this episode, he opens up about how his career in fashion drove him to found a chic, sustainable denim company where doing better for the plane...
Scott & Missy Tannen, Boll & Branch co-founders: Ask `why’ enough and you'll reinvent an industry
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - August 06, 2019 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsWhat began as a suburban couple’s search for new sheets ended with the founding of a direct-to-consumer luxury bedding business. This week on the first shoppable podcast, Scott and Missy Tannen, the married co-founders of luxury bedding company Boll and Branch, share how their relentles...
Sheena Yaitanes, founder and CEO of Kosas: The confidence to pursue a dream
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - July 30, 2019 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThis week’s guest, Sheena Yaitanes, founder and CEO of Kosas, set out to make women's lives easier by creating makeup that's effortless and flattering. After setting aside her pursuit of a career in medicine, she turned to the arts and developed a keen eye for color that inspired a uniq...
Tony Melillo, founder and creative director of ATM Anthony Thomas Melillo: Tenacity and self-reflection feed the hustle
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - July 23, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe shuttering of Tony Melillo’s first clothing line, Nova USA, could have stopped the designer in his tracks. It was the business that earned him a prestigious CFDA Award nomination. But armed with tenacity and self-reflection, he went on to develop a blockbuster line for popstar Selen...
Andrew Cinnamon, creative director of Cinnamon Projects: Honing the skill of creative distillation, turning passion into product
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - July 16, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsAfter Andrew Cinnamon spent years honing his eye under design icons Fabien Baron and Murray Moss, the fragrances made by his own company, Cinnamon Projects, emerged from an endeavor that was purely personal. Andrew and his partner, Charlie Stackhouse, archived a year’s worth of images t...
Indie Lee, CEO of Indie Lee: Given 6 months to live, she chose how to live it
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - July 09, 2019 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIndie Lee was given less than six months to live, so she did what few of us would do: found a clean skincare company. On this episode of "Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka," Indie opens up about where she found her passion for living and how surviving a brain tumor sparked the idea for he...
A quest for inspiration: let's begin
Finding Inspo with Alex Barinka - July 05, 2019 11:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsFinding Inspo with Alex Barinka digs in to how luminaries in fashion, design and social media turn inspiration into reality through the businesses they’ve founded and products they create. A former national journalist and current Head of External Affairs for e-commerce startup Verishop,...
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