Brandi Susewitz's guest appearances

Brandi Susewitz

The Impact Report

Reinvention After Fifty: A Brand Fifty Podcast

The Trend Report

Real Perspectives Podcast

Kay Sargent

Gordon White

John Collins

Katie Fogarty

Joel Salatin

Chris Smith

Karen Overton

Evan Harvey

Ryan White

Harry Stewart

Andrew Newman

Tony Gonzalez

Meika Hollender

Ken Grossman

Jeff Carlson

OwlTail

Rethink. Redesign. Repurpose: Brandi Susewitz Founder &amp; CEO, Clear Office Brandi has been in the office furniture industry for over twenty years.  On June 12th 2020, she woke up with a mission: to create the first online marketplace for companies to buy and sell their pre-owned office furniture.  Clear Office has digitized the pre-owned office furniture industry and is the first online marketplace where buyers and sellers of used office furniture connect directly. Bard MBA’s Whitney Smith-Burghes speaks with Brandi for this episode of the Impact Report.  ImpactReportPodcast.com

Rethink. Redesign. Repurpose: Brandi Susewitz Founder &amp; CEO, <a href="https://clear-office.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clear Office</a> Brandi has been in the office furniture industry for over twenty years.  On June 12th 2020, she woke up with a mission: to create the first online marketplace for companies to buy and sell their pre-owned office furniture.  Clear Office has digitized the pre-owned office furniture industry and is the first online marketplace where buyers and sellers of used office furniture connect directly. Bard MBA’s <a href="https://www.usgbc.org/people/whitney-smith-burghes/0010086668" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Whitney Smith-Burghes</a> speaks with Brandi for this episode of the Impact Report.  <a href="http://ImpactReportPodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ImpactReportPodcast.com</a>

#410: Brandi Susewitz

Covid has certainly rocked the contract interiors industry, but something that we ALL need to be thinking about regardless of how everything rebounds is sustainability. It took the downtime that Covid offered for Brandi Susewitz to do more research on the subject but when she did she was shocked.More than 17,000,000,000 pounds of office furniture have been dumped into U.S. landfills. In fact it makes up about 25% of all materials in a landfill with another 25% consisting of construction materials. This is a shocking number and one that should be on the radar of every manufacturer, dealer, designer, and broker. Unfortunately however, it’s not. So Brandi set out to do something about it. She has created the very first online marketplace where people can buy and sell used office furniture. It’s called ClearOffice and their mission is to reduce the amount of materials going into the landfill each year. Other furniture manufacturers have done the same but the difference is the way office furniture is built versus big box and home furniture. Office furniture is built to last. That means that it’s much less likely to break down over time which keeps our landfills full and represents an untapped source of reusable materials. Listen in to learn more about how you can become a part of the sustainability conversation and why it is increasingly becoming an important topic in our industry.In this episode:[03:31] Welcome to the show, Brandi![03:46] Brandi shares her background in the industry, meeting her husband and starting their first business together.[07:52] She noticed that the used furniture system is broken.[08:50] Listen as Brandi discusses what happened when COVID hit and the depression she went through.[11:20] She took the downtime to revisit her idea of repurposing used furniture that usually ended up in a landfill.[14:12] Her new company ClearOffice is the first online marketplace where people can buy and sell their used office furniture.[16:25] The ClearOffice site was launched on October 5, 2020, and she immediately knew that they had something special.[17:21] Brandi discusses how both buyers and sellers can use their website.[22:15] Ikea has launched a used furniture division of their company to be more sustainable.[23:12] How people can use their platform to see and design their offices with used office furniture.[27:07] Times like this is when the greatest companies are born.[31:04] Brandi, thank you for being on the show!Links and Resources: Connect with Brandi SusewitzClearOfficeEmail Connect with Sid:www.sidmeadows.comEmbark CCT on FacebookSid on LinkedInSid Connect with Sid: www.sidmeadows.comEmbark CCT on FacebookSid on LinkedInSid on InstagramSid on YouTubeSid on Clubhouse - @sidmeadows The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Covid has certainly rocked the contract interiors industry, but something that we ALL need to be thinking about regardless of how everything rebounds is sustainability. It took the downtime that Covid offered for Brandi Susewitz to do more research on the subject but when she did she was shocked. More than 17,000,000,000 pounds of office furniture have been dumped into U.S. landfills. In fact it makes up about 25% of all materials in a landfill with another 25% consisting of construction materials.  This is a shocking number and one that should be on the radar of every manufacturer, dealer, designer, and broker. Unfortunately however, it’s not. So Brandi set out to do something about it.  She has created the very first online marketplace where people can buy and sell used office furniture. It’s called ClearOffice and their mission is to reduce the amount of materials going into the landfill each year.  Other furniture manufacturers have done the same but the difference is the way office furniture is built versus big box and home furniture. Office furniture is built to last. That means that it’s much less likely to break down over time which keeps our landfills full and represents an untapped source of reusable materials.  Listen in to learn more about how you can become a part of the sustainability conversation and why it is increasingly becoming an important topic in our industry. In this episode:[03:31] Welcome to the show, Brandi![03:46] Brandi shares her background in the industry, meeting her husband and starting their first business together.[07:52] She noticed that the used furniture system is broken.[08:50] Listen as Brandi discusses what happened when COVID hit and the depression she went through.[11:20] She took the downtime to revisit her idea of repurposing used furniture that usually ended up in a landfill.[14:12] Her new company ClearOffice is the first online marketplace where people can buy and sell their used office furniture.[16:25] The ClearOffice site was launched on October 5, 2020, and she immediately knew that they had something special.[17:21] Brandi discusses how both buyers and sellers can use their website.[22:15] Ikea has launched a used furniture division of their company to be more sustainable.[23:12] How people can use their platform to see and design their offices with used office furniture.[27:07] Times like this is when the greatest companies are born.[31:04] Brandi, thank you for being on the show! Links and Resources: Connect with Brandi Susewitz<a href="http://www.clear-office.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ClearOffice</a><a href="mailto:brandi.susewitz@clear-office.com">Email</a> Connect with Sid:<a href="http://www.sidmeadows.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sidmeadows.com</a>Embark CCT <a href="https://www.facebook.com/embarkcct/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on Facebook </a>Sid <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmeadows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on LinkedIn</a>Sid Connect with Sid: <a href="http://www.sidmeadows.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sidmeadows.com </a>Embark CCT<a href="https://www.facebook.com/embarkcct/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> on Facebook </a>Sid<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmeadows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> on LinkedIn </a>Sid<a href="https://www.instagram.com/coachsidmeadows/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> on Instagram </a>Sid<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdVukyyDNjzE_AemtTACZKQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> on YouTube </a>Sid on Clubhouse - @sidmeadows The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link:<a href="https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq</a> License:<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Rethink, Redesign, Repurpose with Brandi Susewitz

Learn how Brandi quickly pivoted from losing a job in the COVID-19 lockdown and turned her experience and knowledge into a new digital retail business.

BF 037 – Brandi Susewitz – Clear Office

Today, we talk to Brandi Susewitz, the founder and CEO of Clear Office. Brandi and her team are looking to transform the commercial office space industry by providing an easy to use platform where used office furniture, often just a few years old, can be sold and reused. This eliminates millions of cubic feet of waste and it helps companies find ways to repurpose a perfectly functional piece of furniture.Brandi has been in the furniture industry for over 20 years, but it wasn’t until this year’s pandemic that she found herself in a situation to innovate out of necessity. To learn more about Clear Office, we welcome Brandi to the pod!

Today, we talk to Brandi Susewitz, the founder and CEO of <a href="https://clear-office.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clear Office</a>. Brandi and her team are looking to transform the commercial office space industry by providing an easy to use platform where used office furniture, often just a few years old, can be sold and reused. This eliminates millions of cubic feet of waste and it helps companies find ways to repurpose a perfectly functional piece of furniture. Brandi has been in the furniture industry for over 20 years, but it wasn’t until this year’s pandemic that she found herself in a situation to innovate out of necessity. To learn more about Clear Office, we welcome Brandi to the pod!