With Josh away Jonathan is joined by former guest, current co-host, and Wild Rose team member Nick McMorrow. Jonathan and Nick sit down for a chat with Connor Curran to talk about his business Local Laundry - a Canadian made clothing company aiming to build community in everything they do.

Connor says that he and his partner don’t seem themselves as part of the fashion industry - “We’re not selling clothes, we build community” although Jonathan is quick to challenge him - anyone who helps him not be naked is part of the fashion industry.

Local Laundry began with a simple story: “I did what any idiot millennial does, I googled ‘how to make a t-shirt company' and when that got too hard I watched a youtube video and within a couple days I had a t-shirt company.” What started as a standard Shopify+Printful t-shirt company would quickly evolve to a high quality Canadian-made garment company that has giving 10% of their profits back to the community baked in to everything they do.

We talk about Local Laundry’s process of switching from designed in Canada to made in Canada, the human cost of cheap clothing, how anyone can start buying Canadian made today, and how consumers are more heavily scrutinizing the companies they buy from than ever before.

After our interview with Connor we sit down with the Wild Rose Taproom’s #1 source of advice and wisdom: Mama T. Jonathan at T talk about their biggest mistakes and how lucky they are to have made them before the advent of social media.

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Local Laundry - Building Community Through Canadian Clothing