Conscious Chatter with Kestrel Jenkins

Conscious Chatter with Kestrel Jenkins

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The first global sustainable fashion podcast, Conscious Chatter opens the door to conversations about our clothing + the layers of stories, meaning and potential impact connected to what we wear. Hosted by Kestrel Jenkins, Conscious Chatter tackles nuanced topics that intersect with sustainability, fashion, systems of oppression, health, and wellbeing through a curiosity-driven lens. Through deep dive monthly themes, the focus is on making the conversation more circular.

Recent Episodes

  • Ben Mead of OEKO-TEX® on the what brands should be doing to mitigate toxic chemicals across fashion's supply chains amidst shifting tariffs & global policy change

    2 months ago
  • Commons & the Second Nature Podcast on: what actually happens to your clothing donations?

    3 months ago
  • Personal stylist Jennine Jacob on welcoming the multiplicity of personal style while interrogating the language we use around fashion and why that matters

    4 months ago
  • Environmental scientist and microplastics researcher Dana Zhaxylykova on the links between fast fashion, toxicity and microplastics

    5 months ago
  • Sanchali Pal of Commons Commons on why they developed their own sustainable brand ratings, one way to combat fast fashion this month, & the importance of connecting data with storytelling to shift behavior

    6 months ago
  • Anna Bario of Bario Neal on why jewelry is integral to pushing fashion to be more sustainable, why small businesses have power to instigate change & how "investment" in jewelry can reflect economic trends

    6 months ago
  • How do you define *investment piece*, what makes you feel comfortable spending more on certain items & why is this integral to the sustainable fashion conversation?

    6 months ago
  • Motherhood, entrepreneurship & sustainability: navigating impossible expectations while caring for yourself and others, and building things that center care

    9 months ago
  • Kestrel on vulnerability, personal health, podcast evolutions & a question to sustainable fashion folks: are you OK?

    9 months ago
  • Nelson ZêPequéno of Black Men With Gardens and Cayetano Talavera of Hecho By Caye on why fashion needs to listen to nature’s lessons on slowing down, tuning in, practicing patience & cultivating creativity to better center sustainability

    1 year ago