Business can be a lonely game, but it doesn't have to be.

Welcome to Boutique Chat, where we explore community over competition and how to scale your company with the balance and the happiness that we all seek.

We'll hear from product-based businesses of all types, retailers, e-commerce, and wholesale brands,

along with industry experts shaping the future of our industry. I'm your host, Ashley Alderson

from the boutique hub, and I can't wait to chat.

Hey, guys, welcome back to the podcast this week. I am so excited for this conversation, Pippa.

You and I have nerded out behind the scenes many times on the industry and where it's headed.

And I can't wait just to get to pick your brain about all the design and behind the scenes things that most people don't know go into this industry.

So welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm actually so excited to be on this podcast.

I was really looking forward to just talk about the industry, answer all your questions.

I think there's so much misconception about things.

And also what really goes into a garment is so underappreciated.

And once you started on your own, you really will know what goes into that, you know?

So I hope we get a chance to talk about that.

Absolutely, we will.

Well, let's get started here.

Take me back to how you got started in the industry. What led you here. I know you have some family history that plays into it. So bring me up to speed until this point in time. Yeah. So I make a long story short because so I was born and raised in Germany and I graduated when I was 19 and I had a year between university and college and I got the

opportunity to come to America because I had some extended family here and it was a German-American

family and so they wanted me to talk German to the kids and then in order to stay in America

I had to go to college for a student

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