Sam + Kristen on Existing as an Example

THE HEY GIRL PODCAST

Alex Elle

Arts, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Alex sits down with the owners of Selva Negra to discuss, self-care, existing as an example, and the importance of heritage and community plays in role in their lives. Connect with Selva Negra: @selvanegra_ Shop with them at: selvanegra.us Pre-order After the Rain here or on alexelle.com ———— hey, girl. is mixed & produced by Wayne Bertram. Connect with Alex on Instagram: @alex_elle @theheygirlpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Alex L and I write books for a living.
0:04.0	The Hey Girl Podcast was created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind.
0:09.0	Hey girl.
0:10.0	Hey girl.
0:11.0	Hey girl.
0:12.0	Hey girl. Join us as we journey through sharing together.
0:19.0	Hey girl.
0:20.0	Hey girl.
0:22.0	It's always interesting with people on the call. Christine, how are you today?
0:28.0	Good. Thank you for having us. Oh, of course. I know I'm a customer very excited to be chatting and I am super just thrilled to be able to see you know your brand grow and expand and all of that so before we dive in I would
0:46.4	love for you guys to introduce yourself to the hey girl listener so Kristen why don't we start with
0:51.4	you and then Sam will go to you. So who are you and what do you do?
0:56.0	Hi, my name is Kristen Wallace. I am the co-founder and creative director of Selvanegra and I'm sure we'll talk more about who Sylvanagra is but it's our
1:05.2	clothing brand and based out of Los Angeles and yeah we're really excited to be here.
1:10.0	Sam how about you?
1:12.0	Hi guys I'm Sam Romero and I am the co-founder and CMO of Telvenegra.
1:19.0	Also recently based in Los Angeles, but originally from the 305 Miami, Florida.
1:27.0	Let's talk a little bit about Selvanegra and how it got started and the mission behind the brand. So Sam, how about you kick us off with that?
1:37.3	Yeah, so Selvin Netgrass started. I like to compare it to an accident because it kind of was a really beautiful accident.
1:45.6	Kristen and I, we met through mutual friends at a music camp actually.
1:50.2	Our friend was having like a music album camp upstate New York and we both lived in New York at the time and we found out that we were both designers and so we just kind of started talking and I think I was just recently graduated. We both were Kristen went to FIT and I went to Parsons in New York and we just started deciding to like meet and start sketching together and we would meet up at bars and just kind of like start talking about this like hypothetical thing. I don't think we knew what we were doing. We just started doing it and we were meeting every weekend and started actually creating samples and whatnot. And Kristen came to me and looked like Sam. I am moving to Los Angeles and I just wanted to give you a heads up and at that point we were kind of like okay let's at least like before we kind of like close this thing out why don't we just like show our friends what we've been doing and have like a little mini presentation and we just like pulled all of our resources
2:45.2	together like we got my roommates to DJ we got Kristen Sounds had like a mutual friend
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