All Episodes

S9 E2: Navigating a Non-Linear Career in Fashion with Lynsey Scoins

S9 E1: From the Supplier Side: Holly Stafford Smith on Buying, Business & Building for the Future

S8 E10: Building Brands That Stand the Test of Time with Jodie Blake CMO at Manolo Blahnik

S8 E9: From Buyer to Supplier: A Journey Through the World of Food with Claire McIlroy

S8 E8: Ginny & Me- Pre-Order Power & The Rise of Social-First Brands

S8 E7: Introducing... The Buyers Club

S8 E6: What It Really Takes to Scale a Rental Fashion Business with Lyndsay Mason

S8 E5 Burnout Isn’t a Badge of Honour with Janine McManus

S8 E4: From Fashion Buying to Building Club Mera with Amy Rollings

S8 E3: Podcast LIVE at Top Drawer - Getting started in AI with Hannah Adams

S8 E2: From shop floor lessons to commercial confidence in FMCG with Dahlia Stroud

S8 E1: Behind every great product, is a product tech with Claire Ward, Senior Product Technologist at Mint Velvet

S7 E10: Progress Over Perfection: Making Circular Fashion Work at Scale with Nick Lambert, Head of Circularity at Primark

S7 E9: Why we fell in love with retail buying - and why so many are leaving

S7 E8: Building beauty brands with Harry Zalk CEO of Arkive Headcare

S7 E7: Burnout & building confidence in Buying & Design with The W-Collective

S7 E6 - Expertise That Grows: Buying Plants with Claire Bishop, Senior Buyer at Dobbies Garden Centres

S7 E5: What makes a standout retail range? Buyer–Designer partnerships and the story behind Everley Studio

S7 E4: How a former M&S and Amazon Buyer turned her fashion career into a personal styling business, with Alex Stanley

S7 E3: What’s Next for Retail? AI, Innovation & Big Career Support with Julia Darlington (Part 2)

S7 E2 Inside Julia Darlington’s Retail Career: Buying, Reinvention & Confidence in a Changing Industry (Part 1)

Retail Reflections 21st November 2025; Fast Paint, Knitted Scarves & Marketplace Madness

S7 E1: What it really takes to thrive in fashion buying today with Stevie, Head of Buying at Hobbs

Retail Reflection 14th November 2025

Retail Reflections 7th Nov: Ethics, Experience, and Christmas Cheer

S6 E10: The Countdown to Christmas: we unwrap the chaos and charm of the Christmas retail season

Retail Reflections 31st October: Beauty, Brands, and Black Friday

S6 E9: From High Street to Wholesale: How Rebecca Hawkes Reinvented Her Buying Career

Retail Reflections 24th October 2025: Brands, Bans, and Bingham’s

S6 E8: 'Just Buy Nice Things!' with Glenn Gallagher Scott Ex Arcadia, Next & Primark Buyer and founder of DEN Loungewear

S6 E7: Podcast LIVE: with Rosie Head of Range and E-commerce at Not On The High Street

S6 E6: Why wine buying is the dream job with Emma Robinson

S6 E5: Retail runways and trade shows

Retail Reflections 26th September: Power Moves, Price Wars & Green Dreams

S6 E4: Inside Fashion retail training with Louis from the Fashion Retail Academy

Retail Reflections 19th September: New Trends, New Stores, New Energy

S6 E3: From Fashion to Fencing with Rebecca Thompson, Category Manager for Jewsons

Retail reflections 12th September 2025: TV Channels, Loyalty, Marketplaces & Collaborations

S6 E2: Finding a Path in Fashion Buying with Yasmin Parkin, Buying & Merchandising Degree student at The Fashion Retail Academy

Retail Reflections 5th September: Second-hand Spotlight & Brand Evolutions

Season 6 Episode 1: Sewing, Style & Slow Fashion with Christine Lindebak founder of Sewing and the City and Lindy Lindy

Retail Reflections 29th August 2025: Thrifted trends, M&S moves, and robot dog deliveries

Retail Reflections 22nd August 2025 - Comebacks, Collaborations & Controversies

Retail Reflections 15th August 2025 - Loyalty, Legacy Brands & The Endless Runway

Retail Reflections 8th August 2025 - Manchester Rising: Retail’s New Hotspot & Industry Shakeups

Retail Reflections 1st August 2025 - Experiential retail, brand strategies and AI developments

S5 E10: Building a career in Buying with Lucy Smith, Senior Buyer for Womenswear and Accessories for Jigsaw

S5 Ep9: Secrets to social media success

S5 Ep8: 'Sprinkling that Merchandising magic' with over 20 years of experience for major UK fashion retailers Anna provides valuable insights into merchandising and business strategy

S5 Ep7: Retail doing the right thing - We discuss circularity, re-sale & big shifts ahead with more brands stepping up to do the right thing

S5 Ep6: Orange and Green should always be seen! We talk with the designers at The Outdoor Edit, a bold new Scottish brand reimagining how we design and enjoy our outdoor spaces.

S5 Ep5: Comp Shop, not Copy Shop! It's essential for staying inspired, spotting trends, and growing creatively in retail

S5 Ep4: 'Always striving for what's next!' Rosie Platt, Head of E-commerce & Range, shares how moving retailers can really help you find whats really important to you. From carefully created collections to fast fashion trading floors

S5 Ep3: 'The best ideas are organic' Ally Mitchell and Anna Campbell-Jones chat to us about their incredible collaboration ‘Ocean Swallows’

S5 Ep2: So, your moving to Denim…. On Monday! Shani shares it all, from Arcadia to Superdry

S5 Ep1: We ‘chat’ to the creator of the amazing instagram account ‘Life of a Buyer’

S4 Ep10: Collaboration is kindness with inspirational brand owner Becs founder of the Jewellery brand Boho Betty

S4 E9 Turning plastic waste into Candyfloss: The Polyfloss Factory co-founder Audrey Gaulard has an incredibly creative mind, which has taken her from haute couture fashion to engineering for the creation of circular economies

S4 Ep8: To fit and flatter - The Founder of Fairlie Curved, Jayne Lasley, is an incredibly inspiring CEO, creating a business that empowers women by providing a solution to a fit size that is missing in the market

Season 4 Episode 7: The Better Trends co-founder Louise Healy joins us to discuss how trends can be used for the better and the importance of collaboration in this challenging retail landscape

Season 4 Episode 6: Taking leaps of faith with Ex Schuh, Dune, M&S, Dobbies Buyer turned brand owner and podcaster Claire Gray

Season 4 Episode 5: Buyers of the Future. Ex M&S, BHS, White Company and QVC Buyer Sarah Hansford talks to us about her buying journey and how rewarding it is to be teaching “buyers of the future” at the Fashion Retail Academy

Season 4 Episode 4: Get retail ready as this week we talk about Buyers AND Brands. What are our top tips for connecting with the Buyers you need to get in front of in order to get your product stocked in a retailer

Season 4 Episode 3: A full circle moment. Ex NEXT Buyer and founder of Mardy Bum Active Club Anna joins us to tell us her incredible and emotional story of how events in life have taken her from Fashion Retail Buying to Founder of an activewear brand.

Season 4 Episode 2: Retail resolutions & revolutions. What is the future of Retail? Are we really on the ‘cusp of the most dramatic transformation yet?' We talk about our new year's resolutions and a new industrial revolution.

Season 4 Episode 1: Trading in Jan- Help! Sometimes it need a miracle in January to turn the sales around. We talk top tips and the drama that goes on behind the scenes.

Season 3 Episode 10: Let's talk Christmas - what's it like buying, trading and promoting Christmas products

Season 3 Episode 9: The Buyers Coach Levanah Gates shares her journey from Buyer to Life Coach and how her insight into the industry helps to support fellow Buyers

Season 3 Episode 8: Finding the balance between work and personal life; how to manage your stress levels and not lead to burnout.

Season 3 Episode 7: One of our trauma friends joins us to reminisce our time as Buying Assistants, tells us why working in Buying has set the scene for the rest of her career and how transferable Buying skills are for any job

Season 3 Episode 6: How to feel confident leaving a job and taking on a new role

Season 3 Episode 5: The importance of product PR to boost your business with PR expert Laura Quick, founder of LQPR

Season 3 Episode 4: The reality of retail. We look back at the golden years, the pandemic & the golden quarter!

Season 3 Episode 3: Trends and Trade Shows. We discuss how trade shows have evolved and report on some key trends we are loving for SS25!

Season 3 Episode 2: What exactly is Merchandising? Our fave merchie joins to tell us all about it! We discuss how important a buyer/merch relationship is to the success of the department.

Season 3 Episode 1: All roads lead to a Buyer. A buyer is at the heart of every company. We discuss how to manage all those internal department relationships.

Season 2 Episode 10: Signing off for summer. Thats a wrap on season 2, we talk about all the summer trends we have seen and whats in store for season 3!

Season 2 Episode 9: Sustainability. The impact of retail on the world is huge so we talk about companies doing good, the greenwashing and why we feel strongly about quality over quantity,

Season 2 Episode 8: Personal development is key in buying! We talk all about how to drive your own development and the importance of leaning on those trauma friends along the way!

Season 2 Episode 7: We talk to Emma about her career in buying and share her experience. Emma's bought a whole array of categories and tells us first hand how she learnt to transfer those skills from one product range to another!

Season 2 Episode 6: Inspirational trips & trends - fabulous destinations and quick turn around from festival to factory to shop floor!

Season 2 Episode 5: Optimise, not rationalise! How many suppliers should you have? We discuss what is the right amount to have and how to manage them all amongst the rest of the day job!

Season 2 Episode 4: Our partners in product. Our supply base is so important, we talk all about our experience of finding suppliers and how to collaborate to build a long lasting relationship!

Season 2 Episode 3: It's not a holiday! The phrase we have all said whilst heading out the office door about to board an 13 hour flight half way round the world. We talk about our experiences on development trips and how to handle that jet lag!

Season 2 Episode 2: Factories are fascinating. We have travelled all around the world and experienced how products are made from standing on that factory floor. Join us as we discuss product development trips and how to get the most out of them!

Season 2 Episode 1: Finally I’m a BUYER! You've made it, your now in charge of a team and making all those important decisions. We celebrate the highs of this new position but with it comes a huge amount of responsibility! !

Season 1 Episode 10: Why we think being a Buyer is the best! Why we love our jobs in retail, its tough but the rewards make it all worth it in the end!

Season 1 Episode 9: Be that manager: firm but fair! We talk about our preferred management styles and how to manage both up and down!

Season 1 Episode 8: Staying relevant, identifying trends and finding inspiration everywhere

Season 1 Episode 7: "This is my stage and this is my show" as Buyers are centre stage for Sign Offs

Season 1 Episode 6: It's all so last season when we're planning ahead with a Critical Path

Season 1 Episode 5: Let's talk trade. Tbh it's all a show - in a really sh*t theatre!

Season 1 Episode 4: Own brand or Branded - Buyers are responsible for everything!

Season 1 Episode 3: Climbing the Buying Ladder - It's a long way up!

Season 1 Episode 2: It's not you, It's me; starting our careers, our first jobs and the daunting experience of a buying interview!

Season 1 Episode 1: Let's start at the very beginning; studying & work experience

Pilot: Why are we doing this?!