154: Meet the Black Bridal Designer at the Forefront of the Wedding Industry (w/Andrea Pitter Campbell of Pantora Bridal)

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🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today in the guest chair we have Andrea Pitter Campbell, Founder and Head Designer of Pantora Bridal, Pantora Mini and the Andrea Campbell Collection. Andrea’s desire to merge typically incompatible components has created an unprecedented perspective on bridal wear.

Andrea took her first step towards fashion at 12 years old, creating the name “Pantora” in preparation for admission to the High School of Fashion Industries. She later graduated and attended the famed Fashion Institute of Technology.

Andrea went the corporate route at first, holding several corporate designer positions as she ran her design business on the side.

In 2013, armed with sharp negotiation skills and sheer determination, she convinced landlords to take a chance on her and was able to open the Pantora Bridal showroom. The road since wasn’t always easy, but Andrea never wavered.

Andrea’s mission to represent the underrepresented in mainstream bridal led the Pantora brand to develop a cult following and be carried by several retailers nationally.

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0:00.0	And I was just like, you know, the narrative is that we don't get married or we don't stay married.
0:07.0	And I'm just like, I need to change this. I need somewhere where women can come and feel safe.
0:12.0	And at that time, I didn't realize that that was like really my where women can come and feel safe.
0:12.6	And at that time, I didn't realize that that was really my objective,
0:15.6	but I knew that I wanted to open a store
0:17.9	where black women could come.
0:21.2	You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your
0:26.0	Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business.
0:29.8	And I'm your host, Nikala Matthew Zakome. So let's get started.
0:36.0	Hey, hey, guys, welcome, welcome back to the show.
0:39.0	Welcome to July. I, for one, cannot believe that it is already the second half of the year. I mean, it is time to get all the way in gear. We have been, we have been focused, especially if you have been doing the go get action plan, the 12-week
0:55.8	sprint process that I teach you all about, and I'll put a link to that in the show notes,
1:00.4	but it's also time to just do a refresh to kind of sit back and look at what you did in the first half of the year and decide, all right, you know, what went well? What didn't go well? I know for me I'm looking at that I think a lot things just
1:13.6	move really fast for me this year and so sometimes the things that I set out to do by the
1:18.4	time I looked up it was a whole new month so I'm making sure that doesn't
1:22.0	happen in this second half of the year. So it's
1:23.9	okay when things don't go according to plan or you didn't meet every single goal that you
1:28.4	met to, but make sure you take inventory of what you did, what worked, what didn't, so that you can really, really just
1:35.8	improve in the second half of the year.
1:37.8	So those are my thoughts on just Enter in July.
1:41.2	Also, I want to hear more from you. So, do me a favor. I want to start including your questions, literally your voice, your questions in these episodes.
1:50.0	So, record a voice note with your question and send it to high at sidehousal pro.
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