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The Cost of Goods Sold Podcast
A Podcast about the environmental and social costs of the things we buy. The stories behind businesses with sustainable or social focus.
Conversations with creators and curators building conscious brands.
Thoughtful Design
Brands using design to solve real-world problems and to create new and innovative goods that are original and purposeful.
Responsible Manufacturing
Creating a product without human or environmental exploitation. Using fair trade, and eco-friendly processes and materials.
Product Lifecycle
Creators who consider a product’s full lifecycle. Entrepreneurs upcycling, repurposing, recycling, or reassembling.
Intentional creators & curators
Innovators creating products and the carefully curated collections of modern retailers.
Social Focus and Giving Back
Designing products to support inclusivity, donation of profits, and brands built with social purpose at the forefront.
Building a business in a post-COVID world
COVID pivots, new businesses, and the world we now do business in. Will tradeshows return? Business travel? How digital is shaping product-based business.
Most Recent Episode
26 Preventing Plastic Pollution, Companies Upcycling Ocean-Bound Plastics & Supporting Informal Waste Workers in Developing Countries with NextWave’s Kendall Glauber
Episodes Kendall Glauber from Lonely Whale and the NextWave Plastics Consortium went from summers in Southern California to the non-profit world, keeping plastic waste from entering the ocean. In this episode, we learn how her efforts through Lonely Whale are...
About The Cost of Goods Sold
Cost of Goods Sold is a Podcast about the environmental and social costs of the things we buy. In each episode, we explore topics like sustainability, innovation, social entrepreneurship, the circular economy, conscious consumerism and how we all can effect change. Be inspired by thoughtful designers and responsible creators and curators using business to create positive impact. Listen in to hear the stories of those taking on the world’s biggest challenges and making meaningful contributions towards a better future.
Hosted By Jennifer Myers Chua. Interested in sustainable practices, product design, recycled and biodegradable materials, and upcycling? Curious about living wages and fair-trade? This is the place for you to hear the stories of small business owners building carefully-curated retail shops, and brands built on inclusivity and giving back.
New episodes every other Tuesday. Let’s learn how to do better, together.
Jennifer Myers Chua
Host, Cost of Goods Sold
COST OF GOODS SOLD
Let’s do better, together.
Have a topic idea or an intentional entrepreneur you’d like to see featured? Questions comments or feedback? We would love to hear from you. Send us a note at ofgoodssold@gmail.com
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