{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Motherhood, entrepreneurship & sustainability: navigating impossible expectations while caring for yourself and others, and building things that center care","description":"Episode 324, Kestrel welcomes Camille Forde, a mother and entrepreneur working at the intersection of business, sustainability, and community-centered solutions, to the show. With over a decade of experience, Camille has led corporate responsibility efforts at top professional services firms, earned an MBA from UC Berkeley with a focus on sustainable business, and spearheaded seller and brand partnerships at one of the largest fashion resale platforms. As a mother of two, Camille is deeply committed to building a more equitable and sustainable future that prioritizes community care. \u201cVulnerability, at least for me, it\u2019s a practice. It\u2019s not: you\u2019re vulnerable once, and then you\u2019re done. I\u2019ve had to make being vulnerable a regular practice that I chase even though I don\u2019t want to all the time.\u201d -Camille OCTOBER THEME \u2014 MAYBE VULNERABILITY IS WHAT FASHION REALLY NEEDS Last week, I got vulnerable. I shared a lot about my personal story over the last year \u2013 the challenges I\u2019ve faced, personally with my health, professionally, financially, with continuing to push an independent media platform forward \u2013 I\u2019d say I shared a lot in a short amount of time.  It blew me away to see the response \u2013 so many folks reached out, shared their personal challenges, and were vulnerable with me about things they\u2019ve faced. I don\u2019t know \u2013 it felt like it opened a bit of a portal to somewhere new. To a more connected realm, where we could actually be honest with each other. A place where we could not only talk about transparency being important in supply chains and messaging, but also in our personal lives and realities.  It felt big. And I want to thank you for allowing that real emotion in, and sharing your own vulnerabilities \u2013 because as this week\u2019s guest reminds us, so often what we receive with vulnerability is GROWTH (not in production volume, but in ourselves). This episode is really about a lot of challenges I\u2019ve faced, mental struggles I have grappled with, and questions I\u2019ve asked myself while working at the intersections of caring for people and the planet, and caring for my own child.  When I was thinking about this episode idea as a way to build on this vulnerability discussion, one mom stood out immediately. I thought \u2013 I want to talk to Camille about this - it\u2019s who I want to hear from, who I want to learn from, and I just felt like she would have a lot of valuable insight into these crossovers.  Turns out, Camille went beyond. This episode is about sustainability, but not your typical approach to that conversation. It\u2019s about caring for yourself, for your family, for your community, while building things that center care. \u201cThe perfectionism and shaming that happens both in motherhood or just parenthood and the sustainability space \u2014 it\u2019s just beyond.\u201d -Camille \u201cThe reality is we\u2019re not going to be perfect at any of it, but you know, if you\u2019re not careful, there\u2019s so much shame that can enter the conversation and really slow you down.\u201d -Camille Camille\u2019s Website Follow Camille on Instagram ","author_name":"Conscious Chatter","author_url":"http:\/\/consciouschatter.com\/","html":"