What's This Place? Behind the Clicks and Mortar with Miranda Black
I’m Miranda Black, the DeGrowth Diva. In this podcast I talk about my real life Degrowth journey with retailers, businesses and fashion influencers. How do we reduce our carbon footprint in retail? What alternatives are there...what are some easy solutions we can realistically apply to our lives without sacrificing style?Turns out, there are tons of lower carbon choices right here in Canada. Shopping is hard. Acquiring and ethically disposing all our STUFF has never been so complex and fraught with issues from sustainable fashion to garment worker justice to shopping local to zero waste! Who best to get advice about shopping than a former retailer. What's This Place? goes behind the Clicks and Mortar of small businesses at the forefront of the DeGrowth movement to discuss shopping, retailing, caring for and rehoming all your inventory. What’s This Place? Let’s go inside and find out.
Episodes
33 episodes
Who is Lou de Beauregard?
Join me as I share the unexpected odyssey of a blouse that was more than mere fabric—it unfurls the story of my first Poshmark sale, a rare Lou de Beauregard piece and the emotional whirlwind that followed its mysterious disappearance.
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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19:33
What is Poshmark?
For the 3rd season of What's This Place? Podcast, I'm gonna tell some stories and spill some tea (or some neon pink dye) on fashion .What have Lucky Sevens got to do with launching a Poshmark Account?!Yer gonna need to go inside to find...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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18:02
Day 2 No New Clothes
Ever thought about the journey your favouritest piece of clothing? Hold onto your needles and threads, because we're about to explore the world of mending and repairing! Try to spot my very first invisible mending job on a damaged cashm...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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8:59
What Is #NoNewClothes?
Am I about to become a nudist?!Noooo!#NoNewClothes is a is a challenge just like pouring ice water over your head or eating a spoon of cinnamon except way less cold and dangerous!Can I do it?!!Can I go without buying ANY NEW TEX...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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8:50
From 0 to 8000 Preloved Pieces in Less Than 2 Years? Who IS Caitlin Martella?!
Caitlin Martella had never been a second hand shopper prior to starting her second hand business. In fact, She had a lot of pre-conceptions about what thrifting meant and decided long ago that it was not for her. Like me when I ran ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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36:16
What Is Pain DeGrowth?
Medication and surgery works for all sorts of different diseases. But they frequently do not work to cure chronic pain...and I know this very well because I have been living with chronic pain for well over a year and nothing doctors gave me...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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24:47
What is "Grow-With-Me" Clothing? With Lindsay Down from Pure Colour Baby
Everyone thinks that December is peak "fat pants" month. But I'm going to suggest that March could give December fat pants are run for their money.In December you're still coasting on the last remains of summer energy:&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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31:58
How NOT to Business Like Elon Musk with Jesi Whelan
Every business creates waste but imagine turning that waste into a NEW business?That's what Jesi Whelan did with her kids clothing company, Phoenix Pre-Worn. The clothing...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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30:52
Valentine's Day Meditation
A guided meditation on the feelings Valentine's Day can bring up. Great for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the amount of STUFF in their homes.
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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6:32
Who Is Amanda McCarty and What is Clotheshorse?
Born during the darkest days of the pandemic, Clotheshorse The Podcast, took everyone behind the scenes of Fast Fashion...what REALLY goes on to make us soooo addicted we stop caring about the p...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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41:36
Who is Chat GPT and Did They Write This Podcast?
I've been talking more and more about de-growth and I'm seeing more and more articles and media out there talking about de-growth. It's becoming a bit of a buzzword but what does it really mean? I interviewed that new chat bot, t...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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14:58
New Circles: How to Create a Legacy
This episode, What's This Place? goes behind the bricks and mortar of New Circles, a multi dimensional, not-for-profit agency here in Toronto.New Circles helps alleviate poverty through their free ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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42:44
What is a Real Hero of E-Commerce?
This week I get interviewed by Jason Shepherd, the host of The Real Hero's of E-commerce, a podcast on shopping!
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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37:13
What is a Zero Waste Halloween?
We're talking zero waste costumes, decorations and candy with a special mystery guest!We also talk about stats and how they aren't helping and may even be contributing to people not caring about making small changes!RIP stats!!
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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22:58
What is a Bespoke Tailor?
This week I go behind the scenes of my own business, Theodore 1922: how I started, how I very nearly went bankrupt and how one man changed everything. Pasquale started tailoring at 6 years old...yes, you read that right: 6 years old...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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44:30
Blondie Apparel: Made in vs Designed in Canada.
What's This Place? podcast turns one this week. I launched my first episode with Sharon Smyl from
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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34:18
Isabel Slone: Why Isn't More Clothing Made in Canada?
Why Isn’t More Clothing Made In Canada? Well today we are going to talk to someone who actually wrote an article with that exact title…you can google "Why Isn’t More Clothing Made in Canada?" and the first result you should get is a...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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31:33
What is Soak Wash?
Soak Wash is a huge Canadian success story...there's also has a ton of sustainability built right into Soaks production. A perfect fit for this season on What's This Place?Jacqueline Sava wanted to build a laundry detergent from a...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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39:37
How to thrift with ADC
This week we talk to Danielle Green, the owner of ADC an independent thrift store thriving and surviving in one of the most expensive cities in the world.Danielle shares how she had to shift her game when covid hit, how to thrift for the av...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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35:00
The Finder's Life
What is a Sustainable Stylist? Miranda Black interviews Jess Raffills from The Finder's Life who has been a sustainable stylist before anyone really knew what that was! Jess is from New Zealand where they weave sustainabilit...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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36:27
Random Acts of Green
Miranda Black sits down with Jessica Correa from Random Acts of Green to learn why it's important to have some green goals even if they are little ones. Jessica shows us how small actions can create huge ripples and how to gain confide...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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30:51
How do we shop now that the world is melting?!
Miranda Black realizes the traditional ways of shopping & staying stylish no longer feel great if it means she's disproportionately contributing to the destruction of the planet. How on earth can fashion survive? What does susta...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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7:07
Peach Berserk: Part 2
Go behind the bricks and mortar of Peach Berserk, a 35 year old independent fashion house owned by Kingi Carpenter.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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30:42
