Kathy Cheng is an innovator in the sustainable and ethical fashion space in Canada. She is a worker's advocate for veteran and new talent in the fashion and textile industry. Her private company Redwood Classics is growing and leading the natural textile industry. Kathy's voice is tapped often because she places action on her calls for diverse hiring practices. Listen in and learn about Kathy's family odyssey from China to Canada and how she took her father's business from ten to a million. (Portrait art created by Chloe Bartlett, commissioned by Birk Creative.)
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New season concept: On our new season of the Honest Field Guide Podcast, we present some of the world's top entrepreneurs that are quietly and consistently creating their own masterpieces of success through their businesses and ideas. They are not famous and are not Instagram stars--yet. Rather, they are thriving in their creativity, diversity, authenticity and are in some way, creating social impact through entrepreneurship. We are going beyond celebrating and rather are peeking inside the minds of business owners that keep making money moves and bringing their processes of invention to the forefront. Often, we are so busy working in and on our businesses, we forget how amazing we are and even the small tactics we deploy to push beyond barriers should not be taken for granted. As an entrepreneur, always remember that our natural instincts can be honed and repackaged and used again and again to keep growing our businesses. Our conversations on The Honest Field Guide are a reminder of our extraordinary talents--despite the fact that we are diverse, unique and dare we say creatively divergent.

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