Beauty without waste

Business
Written By Brooking Gatewood

Episode #8

 
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In this episode we talk with Shilpi Chhotray, an advocate turned entrepreneur who has built Samudra Skin & Sea into a thriving, regenerative small business while also working full time on plastic pollution as the Senior Communications Officer for Break Free From Plastic.

What if we didn’t need plastic bottles and toxic ingredients to take care of our hair and skin? This is the premise behind Samudra Skin & Sea, a wild seaweed skincare brand that also cares for the ocean.

In this episode we talk with Shilpi Chhotray, an advocate turned entrepreneur who has built Samudra into a thriving, regenerative small business while also working full time on plastic pollution as the Senior Communications Officer for Break Free From Plastic.

Shilpi is a friendly force of nature, and in this episode she shares about the pleasures and challenges of running a values-driven business, about how she leverages the Samudra brand to minimize harm from consumer products and raise awareness on bigger global issues like ocean and plastic pollution, and how she balances it all with her day job.

Listen now to learn more about beauty without waste.  

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Brooking Gatewood

Brooking hosts Upstream’s The Indisposable Podcast and guides our team on virtual collaboration and culture-building. She has worked with Break Free From Plastic US since 2016 as a facilitator and strategist, and has spent much of the last decade supporting collaborative leadership for many ambitious change efforts - from saving monarch butterflies to curbing diabetes. In her spare time, Brooking can be found writing and performing poetry, or hosting community-connection events in her local LA neighborhood.

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