The Why, How and What of D Sustainability Issue with Dessie Georgieva

This is the very first, “0” episode of D Sustainability Issue Podcast - a podcast about sustainable fashion and mindfulness. In this very first episode, I’m telling a little bit about myself, my upbringing and background in fashion and sustainability. My name is Desislava Georgieva, but everyone calls me Dessie. Born and raised in Bulgaria, I was fascinated by fashion from a very young age. Starting my studies in Vienna at the University of Economics and Business at the age of 18, I started becoming more and more aware of the topics of sustainability and the issues associated with the fashion industry. 2017 was a turning point in my life. After watching The True Cost https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3162938/ among other documentaries about fashion, and reading books on mindfulness among which A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76334.A_New_Earth , I made it my purpose to contribute to a better and fairer fashion industry with all I could. I started a blog called D Golden Hour about fair fashion and mindfulness, and a t-shirt line with the same name, incorporating the same values, which you also find on my site. I go into the “Why”, “How” and “What” of D Sustainability Issue, a concept I’ve learned from Simon Sinek’s book “Start With Why”. https://simonsinek.com/product/start-with-why/ He also has a TED Talk, called “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA&vl=en on the same topic, which is one of the most watched TED Talks of all time.

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D Sustainability Issue is a podcast about sustainable fashion and mindfulness by Dessie Georgieva. Through talking to industry insiders and researching the best and worst practices of the industry while taking a mindful approach, she is on a quest to make sustainable and ethical fashion the new normal.