Episode 1: Elizabeth McGarry
1h 39m
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Powerful Ladies® Podcast
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Elizabeth McGarry is the Creative Director for York Athletics Mfg. Her career has been built in the high fashion and sportswear world where she’s been a designer & creative for brands such as Veronique Branquinho, Jansen Sports, Nike, Reebok, New Balance, Supra, and many more. She was featured as a panelist on the first ever Her By Bodega co-hosted by Nike this past December, a night of hearing the perspectives of women in streetwear. She launched her own Creative Agency, McGarry & Sons when she became pregnant with her second son and it’s been the go-to agency for reinventing your brand or taking it to the next level ever since. York Athletics has been a client of McGarry and Sons since its inception. Elizabeth decided at the end of last year to at least temporarily close up shop at McGarry & Sons to join her husband who’s the CEO and work at York, full time. The idea being that with the two of them 100% focusing on York they can better balance life and being game changes in the footwear world. I have no doubts about that knowing the two of them. In this episode she shares about her journey from suburban Oregon to high fashion in Europe to queen of Sportswear Design. She also shares about her brave decision to become a mother in her early twenties, what it’s like to close her first company to become a partner with her husband, the importance of raising two boys in a Girl-Power world, and what’s it like to now be a mentor in the industry calls home.
Production, Audio Engineering, & Editing by Jordan Duffy
Music by Joakim Karud @joakimkarudmusic
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