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My Mission Is...
by missionmag
Mission Magazine Editor in Chief Karina Givargisoff and Texas singer songwriter Sharleen Spiteri speak to different icons about what their personal mission is that drives them.
Episodes
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My Mission Is...Daniel Marks on philanthropy, supermodels and his work with Versace
This episode we talk to founder of consulting firm TownHouse Consultancy, PR, strategic and marketing whizz Daniel Marks. From over two decades in the fashion industry working at various PR communications firms. From the account manager, to founding partner in an agency, to finally his own…
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My Mission Is...Vanessa Barboni Hallik
This episode we talk to founder of fashion brand Another Tomorrow, Vanessa Barboni Hallik, on how she went from working in the financial environment then stumbling into the fashion industry. Barboni Hallik coming from Wall Street as a trader, had a sense of "being in the wrong place." Keep...
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MY MISSION IS...NIKKI SAMONAS ON WORKING WITH THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Nikki Samonas, actress, host, and UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) Goodwill Ambassador from Ghana. Samonas has worked with LuQuLuQu, a campaign by UNHCR, to raise awareness of and support for forcibly displaced people in Africa. Her work with refugees…
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MY MISSION IS… DREW FITZGERALD ON SAVING THE PEOPLE’S PLANET
This week’s My Mission is… podcast guest is Drew FitzGerald, philanthropist and co-founder of JUST, JUST Water, and 501cTHREE. JUST’s first major project, JUST Water, was started to reduce the plastic use and emissions in bottled water packaging. Meanwhile, 501cTHREE is a non-profit that blends...
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MY MISSION IS...DANIEL LISMORE ON LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Daniel Lismore, an artist, fashion designer, and LGBTQ+ activist who uses his body as his canvas and lives in extravagant ensembles. His outfits consist of an eclectic mix of upcycled fabrics, clothes, and items: from trash to centuries-old jewelry....
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My Mission Is...Daniella Vitale on Bringing Salvatore Ferragamo to a New Generation
My Mission Is… is a podcast series hosted by Mission’s founder Karina Givargisoff. This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Daniella Vitale, Chief Executive Officer Salvatore Ferragamo North America. As it happens, Vitale cut her teeth at Ferragamo at the very beginning of her career as a...
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My Mission Is...Jon Rose on Bringing Clean Water to Communities Worldwide
My Mission Is... is a podcast series co-hosted by Mission’s founder Karina Givargisoff. This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Jon Rose, the founder of Waves for Water (W4W), a nonprofit organization working to bring clean water to everyone who needs it. Rose’s life as a pro surfer served as…
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My Mission Is...Robert Triefus on Pioneering Gucci's Leap into the Metaverse
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Robert Triefus, Gucci’s vice president for brand and customer engagement. Prior to his role at Gucci, Treifus cut his teeth working with newspapers in the U.K, before establishing his own communications agency and eventually specializing in the fashion...
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My Mission Is...Nick Bennett on What Goes Into “Mental Fitness”
This week’s My Mission is… podcast guest is Nick Bennett, the founder of a mental health fitness program Fika. Bennett’s goal is to mainstream the concept of ‘mental fitness’ by helping people develop essential life skills that prevent mental health decline. In this week’s episode, Benett talks...
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My Mission Is...Imarn Ayton on Founding the Black Reformist Movement
This week's My Mission is… podcast guest is Imarn Ayton, an activist, actor, writer, and motivational speaker. She is the founder of the Black Reformist Movement, a non-profit organization focused on black empowerment and eradicating institutionalized racism. Imarn rose to prominence during the...
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John Demsey on Building Tom Ford’s Beauty Enterprise
This week’s My Mission Is...podcast guest is John Demsey, executive group president of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Often referred to as “the creative of the suits and the suit of the creatives,” he straddles the line between business and creativity. His skills have brought growth and success…
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Sophia Wang on the Fashion Industry's Mushroom Leather Boom
This week's My Mission Is… podcast guest is Sophia Wang, co-founder of the California-based startup MycoWorks, which can be partially credited with orchestrating the fashion industry's mycelium (the root structure of the fungi) boom. Alongside her work making the fashion industry a more…
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Annabelle Delir on How Holistic Living Helped Her Navigate Grief
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Annabelle Delir. Following the passing of her brother, Annabelle turned to health and holistic living. With a degree in psychology along with certifications in fitness, Annabelle has found success in practices that integrate modern scientific findings...
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Norma Kamali on gender-fluid fashion
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Norma Kamali. As a powerhouse designer and healthy lifestyle advocate, Norma has channeled innovation into every look throughout her more than 50 years in the fashion industry. In 1970, she debuted her key invention of the Sleeping Bag Coat as part of…
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John Bartlett on fashion's connection to social upheaval
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is John Bartlett. Both an animal right's activist and acclaimed designer, John currently leads the fashion program at Marist College. Having worked in the fashion industry for more than 30 years, John has made a name for himself with his rugged take on...
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Ashram Parsi on escaping anti-LGBTQ persecution
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Arsham Parsi, an Iranian human rights activist. As a gay teenager who lost lost a transgender friend to suicide, Arsham felt compelled to create an underground digital LGBTQ network in the country. Due to the strict laws against homosexuality in Iran,...
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Talk to Coco on why it's ok to be different
This week's My Mission Is... podcast guest is Talk To Coco, the mental health advocate who is using her platform to break down stigma and foster open conversations around mental health. Coco was diagnosed three years ago with a brain tumor, which has taken a toll on her both physically and...
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Sean Ellis on how to tell a story on film
This week's My Mission Is... podcast guest is Sean Ellis. The British fashion photographer and film director took the world by storm with his youthful and imaginative artistic works throughout the 2010s. After getting his start assisting famed fashion photographer Nick Knight, Sean quickly...
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Sharleen Spiteri on 30 years in the music industry
This week’s My Mission Is… podcast guest is Sharleen Spiteri. Mission’s usual co-host sits on the other side of the mic for this episode, as she and her band Texas celebrate 30 years together with the release of a new album in 2021. The band already released a new single for the album last...
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Annette Richardson on advocating for justice beyond 2020
This week's My Mission Is... podcast guest is Annette Richardson, global philanthropist, senior strategist, and execution expert. She is the founder and manager of Richardson Partners LLC, a consultancy firm that advises global leaders on design, curation, and implementation of pro-social...
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Tobias Peggs wants to involve young people in farming
This week's My Mission Is... podcast guest is Tobias Peggs, the CEO of Square Roots, an indoor farming company that aims to connect people to local food in their area. Square Roots has created new technology to allow for indoor urban farming, and has established farms in shipping containers in...
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Kelly Bush Novak on founding one of the world’s top PR agencies
This week's My Mission Is... podcast guest is founder and executive producer of the wildly successful public relations agency ID, Kelly Bush Novak. Established in 1993, ID and their team of 100 strategists represents the most influential artists, thought leaders, brands, philanthropic...
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Burak Cakmak on what sustainable design really entails
Burak Cakmak has been a frontrunner in the responsible fashion scene for a number of years now. Burak has held several high-ranking positions focused around sustainability and responsibility, including working at the Swarovski Group as the company’s first Vice President of Corporate…
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Alexi Lubomirski on how the creative field has changed post-Instagram
Alexi Lubormirski is among one of the most accomplished names in fashion photography. Since being taken under the wing of notable photographers like Katie Grand, Lubormirski, who is also of noble descent, has contributed to many publications, including Harper’s Bazaar US, Harpers Bazaar UK, Vogue...
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Tina Lutz Morris on working with Issey Miyake post-graduation
Tina Lutz Morris arguably has one of the most impressive CVs in fashion today, having collaborated with nearly every big name in the industry: Issey Miyake shortly after graduating from Paris’ ESMOD then Calvin Klein and Barneys, among others. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, Lutz...
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Libby Haan on how surviving breast cancer led to an entrepreneurial venture
In this week's episode we talk to Libby Haan, designer, musician, and fashion PR veteran. Several years after a breast cancer diagnosis and various related surgeries, Haan was having a hard time finding comfortable shirts and undergarments. So she decided to create her own. In 2018, Haan launched...
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Women-in-tech advocate Rosario B Casas on her illustrious career in tech
Joining Mission today is our favorite women-in-tech advocate, Rosario Casas. A longtime friend of Mission and an all around tech savant, Rosario uses her extensive experience in the tech field to offer fine-tuned expertise to every project she approaches. Her accomplishments in the tech world...
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Maison de Mode's Hassan Pierre on marrying luxury with sustainability
Today, Mission is joined by Hassan Pierre, the co-founder of Maison De Mode, a hybrid ethical fashion retailer that curates a selection of the best luxury sustainable fashion for their online boutique and brick and mortar pop-up shops. Hassan co-founded the company in 2015 alongside Amanda…
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John Grauwiler on the urgency of gun reform
Joining Mission today is John Grauwiler, teacher and founder of activism group Gays Against Guns. Before forming GAG, Grauwiler was an English teacher in New York City who was rocked by the news of the Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting, prompting him to form a coalition that is “committed to...
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Owen Levy on his revelatory writings about gay life
Today, Mission is joined by author and New York pioneer Owen Levy. From growing up in Brooklyn to being mentored by poetry vanguard Marianne Moore and working a variety of jobs in the arts, Levy’s life is full of stories, some of which he shares with us today. His first novel, A Brother’s Touch,...
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Dr. Kate Stone on the role adversity plays in creativity
Joining us this week is musical artist and all round innovator Dr. Kate Stone. From her time exploring Australia to her college success stories to her sensational electronic performances, Kate Stone has used optimism and a thirst for new ideas to fuel her adventures. Among her accomplishments is...
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Ivan Bart on why this is a moment of reckoning
In this week’s podcast, Mission sits down with ‘model mogul’ and president of IMG Models Ivan Bart. Bart’s illustrious career has seen placements at talent powerhouses such as Ice, Wilhelmina, and Ford Models, before finally settling at IMG. In his time with the agency, Bart has overseen the...
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Casting Director Anita Bitton on the role creativity plays in survival
For this week’s Mission podcast we got the chance to virtually chat with Anita Bitton, casting director extraordinaire who has worked on campaigns and runway shows for big-name fashion brands like Marc Jacobs and Miu Miu. Born and raised in London, Bitton first interned for stylist Edward…
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Christina Adane on the complex nature of privilege
Trailblazer Christina Adane exists at the forefront of England’s youth climate movement. The 16-year-old is co-chairwoman of the Bite Back 2030 organization which aims to “achieve a world where all young people have the opportunity to be healthy,” by urging the government to feed vulnerable...
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Kate Lee on living to work, not working to live
In this episode, hosts Sharleen Spiteri and Karina Givargisoff sit down with LA-based makeup artist Kate Lee. Throughout her illustrious and evolving career, Lee has garnered A-List clientele, working with the likes of Dakota Johnston, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain. Her work regularly…
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Faye McLeod on being LVMH's Visual Image Director
In episode 16, hosts Sharleen Spiteri and Karina Givargisoff talk with Glasgow-born Faye McLeod, the Visual Image Director at LVMH. With a degree in fashion design from Glasgow Clyde College, McLeod started her career working in both window and set design for the likes of Selfridges and Topshop.…
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Mary McCartney on life during lockdown.
Daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney, Mary McCartney is an accomplished photographer and filmmaker. When she’s not taking portraits she’s advocating for the environment and a vegetarian lifestyle. Alongside her father Paul and sister Stella, the three launched Meat Free Mondays, a non-profit...
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Fereshteh Forough on coding for equality
In our 14th episode, Sharleen and Karina speak to social activist and founder and CEO, Fereshteh Forough. Fereshteh moved from Afghanistan to Germany in childhood and eventually settling in the United States. She has a degree in computer science and a Masters from the Berlin Technical University....
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Phillip Lim on the ugly and beautiful sides of fashion.
Phillip Lim is a world renowned fashion designer born in Thailand and of Chinese descent. He and his business partner, Wen Zhou, debuted their label 3.1 Phillip Lim in 2005 at New York Fashion Week and have been creating stunning designs for the global modern citizen ever since. Since the brand’s...
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Olga Iserlis on the planning spectacular events.
This week we sat down with Olga Iserlis, founder and CEO of Adagio Events. Iserlis has 20 years of experience in business and event planning and the high-profile client list to match: she’s worked with Prada, Ferrari, American Express, and many more, and is regularly featured on the Tatler 300…
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Nick Wakeman on learning how to design clothes.
This week, Mission Founder Karina Givargisoff and Texas lead singer Sharleen Spiteri are joined by London-based fashion designer Nick Wakeman. In 2010, Wakeman used her experience as a menswear designer to launch her own brand, Studio Nicholson, for which she designs clothes for both men and…
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Philippe & Ashlan Cousteau on environmental advocacy.
This week we talk to environmental power couple Philippe & Ashlan Cousteau who are working hard to save the planet. You may know them from their Travel Channel series Caribbean Pirate Treasure or as co-hosts on documentary shows like Nuclear Sharks and Treasures of the Terai. Philippe is a multi...
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Professor Mike Barnes on the medicinal benefits of cannabis.
This week we speak with UK based Professor Mike Barnes to discuss the medicinal benefits of cannabis. In recent years the medical legalization of marijuana has become a hot topic in mainstream political debate. As such, it’s now more important than ever to be armed with factual information on the...
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Noel Fitzpatrick on Animal Rights.
This week we speak to Noel Fitzpatrick, otherwise commonly known as Supervet from his TV show by the same name. The show follows him and his team while they work to implement progressive surgical techniques to cure animal maladies. He is a leading orthopedic-neuro veterinary surgeon, who over the...
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An inspiring COS panel on driving the industry forward.
This week we share the Mission x COS panel, recorded last week at the COS 5th Avenue store to launch the Restore collection, created in partnership with The Renewal Workshop, who helps provide circular solutions for apparel and textile brands. Moderated by Mission’s EIC Karina Givargisoff, the...
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Fisher Stevens & Ethan Novek on solving climate change.
Our sixth episode, which was our first live recording of “My Mission is…” is a conversation between Fisher Stevens, director of award-winning climate change documentary Before the Flood (co-produced with Leonardo DiCaprio for Nat Geo) and Ethan Novek, chemical engineering student at Yale who made...
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Dylan Jones on being editor-in-chief of British GQ.
This week we speak with Dylan Jones, editor-in-chief of British GQ and the chair of London Fashion Week Men’s who is often credited for being integral to its success. In this raw, humorous and multi-dimensional conversation you’ll hear about the nostalgia of growing up in the late 70 early 80s…
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Francisco Costa on protecting Mother Earth.
This week’s guest of “My Mission is…” features Francisco Costa, founder of Costa Brazil; a lifestyle brand with a mission to innovate in sustainability and reinterpret what beauty is all about. Costa first entered the fashion industry 30 years ago when he left Brazil at the age of 19 not knowing...
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Lauren Bush Lauren on the power of community.
This week, we speak to Mission’s first supporters, Lauren Bush Lauren. Former model and actress, Lauren is a social entrepreneur, hunger activist, Earth lover and mama of two young boys. She founded the bag company, FEED in 2007, which creates products that make a tangible impact on the life of a...
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David De Rothschild on his love of nature.
In this episode, we speak to respected explorer, eco-warrior and entrepreneur, David de Rothschild, who puts nature at the forefront of everything he does. From working professionally with horses as a teenager (an experience he believes began his partnership with nature) to graduating from…
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Mission Magazine Editor in Chief Karina Givargisoff and Texas singer songwriter Sharleen Spiteri speak to different icons about what their personal mission is that drives them.
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