Ep. 550: From Near Death Experience to Adventure Belts - Jen Perry
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
From Jeltbelt.com:
"If not now, when?"
After surviving a near-death experience and months in the hospital, Jen Perry knew she wanted to do more with her life. In 2014, she founded Jelt as a social enterprise, with the purpose of creating a product that everyone would need, while promoting and encouraging social change.
Functional and socially impactful, Jelt elastic belts are made from recycled plastic bottles and are manufactured in a way that empowers women. Jelt belts are produced by women sewers living on rural Montana ranches and are also manufactured at the Women’s Prison in Billings, Montana, via the Montana Correctional Enterprise Program. This privileged program breaks the cycle of incarceration by interviewing, training and paying the women, giving them the skills and confidence needed to live a more productive life when released.
Since its inception, Jelt has become a Certified B Corporation, is active in 1% For The Planet, and has donated thousands of dollars to charities all over the world. Jelt truly uses business as a force for good.
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| 0:00.0 | I think I would say when people don't go for it, it's fear for sure. |
| 0:05.0 | It's fear of failure. |
| 0:06.8 | It's fear of the unknown, fear of having to work really hard, which you do. |
| 0:12.0 | But would you regret it? |
| 0:13.7 | If you die tomorrow, would you regret not starting this? |
| 0:18.9 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life, |
| 0:25.2 | you're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, |
| 0:29.6 | and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. So I met Jen Perry, the founder of Jelt belts at the right competition in Golden |
| 0:47.6 | Colorado. |
| 0:48.4 | It's like a competition for companies in the outdoor industry. |
| 0:51.9 | And I was immediately struck by her product. |
| 0:53.8 | She makes this really unique adventure belt. Just I was immediately struck by her product. She makes this really |
| 0:54.7 | unique adventure belt. Just has a lot of different little innovative parts. And I was surprisingly |
| 1:00.8 | looking for a belt. So it really worked out. And then I learned the backstory of how she |
| 1:06.1 | hires incarcerated women in Montana and hires women who are a rural, rural area women who might not have |
| 1:13.6 | access to a other job otherwise. She operates jell out of Bozeman, Montana. It's really cool to |
| 1:19.8 | see someone who's doing so much good for the community doing so well in business. So I wanted to |
| 1:25.1 | promote her because Jen is an avid outdoors woman. She skis. She |
| 1:29.7 | hikes. She bikes. So I hope you enjoy our conversation. We kind of jump right into it. And also, |
| 1:35.1 | I wanted to say, we're going to be given away two of the belts after the episode releases. |
| 1:40.5 | And we're going to be given those away to our patrons. So if you are a patron of the show, |
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