#458 Charting a Sustainable Path in the Fashion Industry w/ Entrepreneur Allison Boyes

Main Street Business

Mark J Kohler and Mat Sorensen

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2.4 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode of the Main Street Business podcast, host Mark J Kohler invites special guest Allison Boyes, a young fashion entrepreneur and designer onto the show. They delve into Allison's journey from selling vintage clothing in high school to launching her own luxury label. Here are some of the topics they cover: The significance of hands-on experience and learning by doing in entrepreneurship.Allison's unique venture into creating luxury cowhide coats, discussing her sourcing methods an...

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0:00.0	The most important things I've ever learned was just by doing. I started selling vintage clothing all the way back in high school.
0:06.5	Like my dad said, and I picked up the bug.
0:08.9	You can have a dream. You could have an idea. And if you're passionate about it, you will make some money on it.
0:15.9	And hopefully a living and just wake up every day doing what you love. It sometimes is really tempting to just be like, man, I just, I wish I made it in China because
0:24.9	I could offer the product for so much less.
0:27.9	But that's something that I'm going to really have to hold strong with because I don't
0:33.2	want to have to compromise on that.
0:34.5	This is taking you a couple of years to get to this point.
0:37.0	What would you have done differently?
0:38.8	Welcome, everybody, to another episode of the Main Street Business Podcast where we
0:42.8	interview Main Street entrepreneurs making a difference in America.
0:46.3	I'm so excited to have a special guest, Alison Boyce, a young fashion designer.
0:52.3	How cool is that?
0:53.5	Some of you may have a dream of designing some clothing,
0:56.6	opening your own line, selling some product online, fashion merchandising, male or female,
1:02.9	you're old. It's an incredible industry. Allison, welcome. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me.
1:08.6	We're excited to have her here and talk about these beautiful coats. We're going to get to these in a moment. She's got several online businesses that deal with clothing and patterns. One disclosure, can I say? I'm going to tell them. This is also my amazing daughter. Can you believe that? She picked up the bug of entrepreneurship. I said, I don't care when you graduate
1:28.7	from college. I don't care what grade you get, but I want you to graduate with a small business.
1:32.4	And she's like, all right, damn it. And tell what degree do you get? Tell them about fashion and
1:38.7	scrolling at least, and then how this business kind of evolved. I'm so proud of you. Well, I mean, so I went to
1:46.0	BYU, Idaho, and I got, or I went, I took a bunch of classes in apparel entrepreneurship,
1:52.5	but also the best way you can learn is just by doing it yourself. So a lot of the most important
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