The Wildfang Way | Emma Mcilroy
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Growing up outside Belfast, Ireland, Emma Mcilroy was obsessed with all-things athletics, while also developing a fierce interest in human behavior. She went on to Cambridge, then landed in the world of business, starting out at Barclays in London. Soon after, McIlroy jumped companies and countries to work for Nike in Oregon. Still, something else, a powerful and deeply personal vision, bundled with a movement to smash gender norms, support equality and empower expression was brewing. So she left to launch her own brand, Wildfang (https://www.wildfang.com/), upon the "belief that a womxn has the right to wear whatever the hell she likes and be whoever the hell she likes." Wildfang now boasts locations in Portland, LA and NYC, and has built a global following and fanbase of badass celebs including Janelle Monae, Chvrches, Lizzo, Rachel Evan Wood, and Blondie.
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| 0:58.5 | So growing up in a small town outside of Delfest, Ireland, my guest today, Emma McElroy, |
| 1:07.3 | was kind of obsessed with sport and athletics and with a couple of brothers who were similarly |
| 1:12.9 | wired. She was just encouraged to go and pursue it and become incredible at anything she |
| 1:17.2 | wanted to do. And she didn't really realize until later that that was what she now calls |
| 1:22.8 | in her words of privilege to really step into her own identity to not have to conform |
| 1:27.4 | to some sort of role that, you know, maybe society or others thought was the appropriate |
| 1:33.1 | way for her to be. She eventually ended up going on to Cambridge, worked in London and |
| 1:38.1 | then found her way to Nike and was rising up the ranks really quickly there until everything |
| 1:43.3 | changed. And she made an abrupt jump into the world of entrepreneurship and founded something |
| 1:47.6 | called Wild Fang in Portland, which has now grown to have locations in LA and New York |
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