#1216 - TBT: Clothing Design Co. Adapts to COVID-19
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
This ambitious textile designer expanded her business into a retail shop right before the coronavirus hit—how is she adapting?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, what's up friends, listeners, side hustle school community. My name is Chris |
| 0:09.0 | Gillipopo. I have the privilege of making this program for you every day. I have been |
| 0:12.7 | doing so since January 1, 2017. I'm thrilled to continue even in the age of so much change, |
| 0:18.8 | disorder, chaos, etc. But where is the opportunity? Where is the opportunity? How can we adapt? |
| 0:24.0 | How can we perhaps even learn to thrive? That's what we look at today. This is the Throback |
| 0:29.4 | Thursday segment where we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved considerably |
| 0:34.2 | since we first featured them. We've got all sorts of features throughout the year. |
| 0:38.1 | And today, in our latest one, we will hear from Lydia Crespo, who we featured long, long ago. |
| 0:43.6 | I forget the episode number, but she will tell you. Maybe it's actually 969. I can see that now. |
| 0:48.5 | Episode 969. She is a textile designer who just so happened to be expanding her business into a |
| 0:54.6 | retail shop. Right is the pandemic known as COVID-19 began to hit. COVID-19, if you heard of it. |
| 1:01.5 | Okay. Just making sure. Fortunately, Lydia has adapted and she's done so swiftly. I've been |
| 1:07.7 | really impressed with what she's able to do both in terms of her attitude and perspective and |
| 1:11.8 | also her action. So in this update, you'll hear a very honest report from her. First, I'd like to |
| 1:17.0 | thank our sponsor and I will come back at the end to wrap us up. |
| 1:30.1 | My name is Lydia Crespo. I live in St. Louis, Missouri. My business is Argument and Defiance, |
| 1:35.4 | and I just launched a second business called Cozy Shop. We opened last November. |
| 1:40.6 | And I was featured in Episode 969. It's a textile design company. We make and sell clothing, |
| 1:47.3 | scarves, and home goods. We focus on surface design of the options that we create using dyes, |
| 1:53.8 | paints, and prints to make every piece coming out of the Argument and Defiance Studio unique in one |
| 1:58.1 | of a kind. When I was an undergrad, I went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I started |
| 2:03.2 | dying silk, specifically silk scarves after taking a class on natural dyes. I had an opportunity to |
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