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NY NOW Podcast
The NY NOW Podcast brings real-life education, strategies, and ideas to our community through conversations and webinars that are relevant to our industry. NY NOW is a modern wholesale experience for retailers and specialty buyers who are looking for a rich diverse range of new products and exciting new brands. Located in the heart of NYC, the NY NOW tradeshow is a community driving style, success, discovery, innovation and collaboration. Visit us at https://nynow.com to learn more!
Episodes
98 episodes
Black Girl Sunscreen - Melanated Skin Wellness
BGS Founder Shontay Lundy’s main mission is to educate people of color about the importance of sun protection and skin wellness. Embarking upon her brand development journey, five years ago with the release of her brand champion moisturizing su...
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Episode 97
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30:05
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The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: Wave Your Freak Flag
This Paper Plane Cocktail Hour episode is fun one… and one with a twist! Ever wonder how The Paper Nerd became a paper nerd? Tune in as Amy turns the tables on Sarah and interviews her on all things paper! We will hear Sarah’s indus...
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Season 1
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Episode 96
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27:09
Around The World Beauty: Discovering Rituals
Around the World Beauty, a boutique travel company, where Celebrity Makeup Artist and Founder Stephanie Flor guides women around the globe on exclusive beauty experiences to celebrate the cultural source for modern day beauty rituals. In this p...
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Season 1
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Episode 95
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38:07
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: My Ride or Die
Kate Murray of Quick Brown Fox Letterpress is adept at juggling several stationery hats simultaneously. She is renowned for her near-perfect registration on every letterpressed piece she prints. Also known as a Louie Awards chair and active Gre...
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Season 1
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Episode 94
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33:39
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: Show Me Your Birthday Cards
Miss the final Paper Planes Cocktail Hour of 2022 at your own risk, as Amy and Sarah hobnob with none other than industry powerhouse Dan Collier. Maintaining two thriving stationery and gift store retail brands — Archer and The Merchant — as we...
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Season 1
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Episode 93
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47:39
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: Fine Tuning the Beast
Retail can be a monster. Just ask Michael Schultz and Douglas Duncan of Cursive. For 15 years, their stores within ABC Carpet & Home and in Grand Central Station were essential New York City shops, that is until COVID-19 shut them all down....
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Season 1
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Episode 92
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40:12
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: The Scrolling Factor
Miss this episode at your own risk! Amy & Sarah sit down with stationery legend Chandra Greer, who spills on everything from her hybrid retail model to what makes a range stand out to her and get precious shelf space in her domains. What...
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Season 1
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Episode 91
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47:33
What’s your Jam?
Jumping into the world of social media is so much easier for some people than others. But this simple school of thought holds true whether you are an interior designer, product creator, or a letterpress designer- our brand is our story, and our...
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Season 1
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Episode 90
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43:53
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: A Jill of All Trades
If you work in the gift industry, you’ve probably heard of Occasionette. You may have also noticed that in less than a decade, they have opened some wildly popular shopping destinations in the Philadelphia area. Identified as one of the region’...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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51:44
Bebemoss - A Small Company with Big Values.
Bebemoss designs beautiful handmade modern huggable toys using sustainable, slow process organic fibers, a collection of simply classic and playful toys. A social enterprise follows ethical and fair production Principles and is a social and imp...
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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39:30
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: She’s gonna need a Bigger Booth!
Sometimes what you see before you is only part of the picture. If you spy a Dahlia Press card for example, you are experiencing only one design dimension of the immensely talented and prolific creator behind it, Stephanie Clarke. Stephanie does...
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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39:49
We are the Gate Keepers
As the largest industry in the world, Retail can improve lives, help ecosystems, and impact economies. We are witnessing retailers shifting to a more sustainable future because our consumers are demanding it. Listen in as our own Amy Loewenberg...
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Season 1
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Episode 86
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44:24
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: Location, Location, Location
Sometimes a map does more than get you from point A to point B; it can define a destination, and by extension, our emotional connection to it. Just ask married couple Rachel Rheingold and Michael Berick, who were inspired by grocer...
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Season 1
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Episode 85
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42:45
The Babesta Beat
Join Amy as she talks with Jennifer Cattaui, the Founder and CEO of Babesta, a very hip children’s store located online and in lower Manhattan. With the baby and child market radiating traditional pinks and blues, Babesta was born in 2004 to re...
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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38:52
Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: Banish the Bunny
Sometimes all you need is a fresh perspective to achieve real progress. Just ask Victoria Venturi of Paper Epiphanies. The comedienne-turned-card creator turned the industry — to say nothing of modern stationery messaging — on its ear with her ...
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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37:14
NY NOW Rising Artisans - Handmade Initiative
NY NOW®’s Rising Artisans is the premier destination within the HANDMADE® Collection at NY NOW® presenting the newest sustainable designers and global artisans to market. Bringing together our signature incubator programs, into one destination ...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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33:27
That girl w/ her knife
To you, it’s just a knife, but to Elicia Castaldi, it’s the driving force behind her feminine, authentic and unapologetic Girl w/Knife range of stationery and gifts. She believes in a life lived glamorously, with reckless abandon, in six-inch s...
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Season 1
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Episode 81
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42:21
She Shoots from the Hip
Today’s podcast is not just with a buyer, or merchandiser, or retail consultant, or even a podcaster… it is with all the above! Michelle Sherrier, founder of MC Design Collaboration and host of the Retail Whore podcast and Amy Loewenberg...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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1:00:44
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: Inspire your inner Bad A**
From humble origins that began with long, late nights and just eight products, the Golden Gems sisters — AKA Susan Logsdon and Amanda Helman — created quite a lifestyle brand over the last five years. With lofty aims to inspire your inner badas...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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34:45
Harmonizing Sustainability with Harmony Designs Furnitures & Interiors
Harmony Designs Furniture & Interiors is a 2500 square foot retail store with a design studio and local art gallery/event space on its lower level. Geared in helping customers and design clients experience harmony by catering to their...
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Season 1
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Episode 78
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39:43
The National Weavers Movement with Mayan Hands
Spinning Rights in Guatemala and The Struggle of Mayan Weavers, The National Movement of Weavers It was born in 2014 with more than 600 weavers and the support of AFEDES. With its creation, it began the legal battle to claim the recognition and...
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Season 1
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Episode 77
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47:00
Business Interruptus
We all have experienced it... an interruption in our business. We also know that we can expect them again when we are least ready for it. Join us as former retail store owner, RETAILMavens founder Cathy Donovan Wagner and Amy Loewenberg t...
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Season 1
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Episode 76
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39:16
The Paper Plane Cocktail Hour: The Heart and Soul of Honeyberry
Just when we need to be reminded to take a moment and maybe a deep breath, Yuko Miki of Honeyberry Studios comes to the rescue with her menagerie of adorable animals and upbeat messaging. She defines loving yourself as an act of resistance, and...
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Season 1
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Episode 75
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37:06
Handloom Textile Tours with Heritage Weaves
Heritage weaves conducts hand loom textile tours for conscious travelers, who want to see how handmade clothes are made, buyers and textile enthusiast, gain the experience of seeing how Ikat is made and buy from the weavers directly. Each proce...
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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46:45
Beth Diana Smith: A Cultural Oasis
Take some time and listen as Beth Diana Smith engages us with stories of her past and her vision of the future. Get caught up on the Black Artists Designers Guild, hear about what Beth is up to these days and learn about the importance of creat...
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Season 1
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Episode 73
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43:08