233) Laura Wittig: Learning from the corporate world to elevate conscious businesses
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Laura Wittig is the Co-Founder and CEO of Brightly, which is a curated discovery platform for all things ethical + environmentally conscious.
In this podcast episode, Laura sheds light on what independent, smaller socially and environmentally conscious businesses can learn from the corporate world to thrive in the market landscape today, keeping in mind that there is no level playing field as larger corporations benefit in cost-savings from cutting corners; what purpose-driven businesses may be able to accomplish that nonprofits with similar missions may have greater challenges with; and more.
Featured music: This is Us by Girl Pow-R
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:57.0 | Green Dreamer is supported by our listener patrons. |
| 1:00.9 | To support the show starting at just $2 per month, you can head to greendreamer.com slash support to learn more. |
| 1:03.8 | This month, Green Dreamer is also sponsored by my favorite tea brand, Arbor Tees, |
| 1:08.8 | and I'm so grateful for their support during this time. |
| 1:11.8 | They source loose leave and organic certified teas. They use backyard compostable packaging, |
| 1:16.8 | which they've been doing for the past 10 years, by the way. Their operations run on solar energy, |
| 1:21.6 | and all of their efforts are offset by carbon fund. I myself only bought tea from Arbor Tees this past year. |
| 1:28.1 | I love supporting them as a small family-owned business, |
| 1:31.0 | and I also love gifting it to friends and family to support their well-being. |
| 1:35.6 | To shop Arbor Tea's Organic Tees, just head to Arbor teas.com. |
| 1:39.5 | That's A-R-B-B-O-R-T-A-S dot com. |
| 2:02.6 | Consumers can literally vote with their dollars and say no i am not going to support this company so a you can stop buying from companies that don't share your values but b you can actually have activist mindset and tell other people about why they shouldn't buy from these companies. |
| 2:11.8 | That was Laura Whittig, the co-founder and CEO of Brightly, which is a curated discovery platform for all things ethical and environmentally conscious. I was recently just a guest |
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