Words by Trisha
I’ve been and always will be a passionate environmentalist since the age of 15. My passion came about instantly ever since I watched The Inconvenient Truth. Learning about climate change and plastic pollution, it was maddening for me to watch so much inaction to such an obvious and urgent world crisis. Blessed with already knowing the direction I wanted to take, I dedicated my life to what I was wild about - Our Planet.
While my passion served as a guide, I soon realised how limited the sustainability space was 10 years ago, with little to no jobs (unless you were in the scientific community) leaving me lost. The only thing I knew of at that time was WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), making it my dream job! Immediately out of University, I applied for a job at WWF… I didn’t get it.
That’s when I started my journey of just figuring it out on the way and not knowing where I would end up. I started working at Green Is The New Black, a sustainable lifestyle platform and festival. I started hosting large zero-waste festivals internationally, increasing awareness on the problems and solutions that we can take on a daily basis. After 2 years, I got bored and wanted to make an impact on a larger scale. And guess what.. I finally got my dream job at WWF!! I started running environmental campaigns targeting businesses and governments. However, dream jobs are never what you expect.
I finally learnt that policy and systemic change is for the patient (and amazing sustainability heroes that stick it out) which I am not so I pivoted back to community level, on the ground change at Seven Clean Seas, an Ocean Clean-up organisation.
Through it all, I’ve learnt that my purpose drives me, motivates me to get up in the morning and be excited about the life I'm creating and the impact I’m making, big or small. I wanted to be able to create a platform that inspires people to build a life around their passion, find the things that make us excited everyday and live a life that we are wild about, while wearing extremely stylish, sustainable and functional clothes we can all live in ;)