Amanda Rango Empowers Fashion Founders to Scale Their Businesses

February 12, 2025

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“Relationships are key and if they're genuine, and if you continue to plant those seeds and really nurture those networking relationships, they will just automatically turn into revenue and clients and business and collaborations.”

After decades of climbing the corporate fashion ladder, Amanda Rango decided to make the leap from big business to working directly with fashion founders. Today, Amanda is the founder of ARD Consulting and leads a team of experts in customized apparel product development to launch and scale fashion brands. ARD’s services include fashion design and development, sourcing and manufacturing, and marketing and styling. Tune in and hear the obstacles that Amanda has overcome as a woman entrepreneur, using connections for fundraising, and how technology is changing the fashion game.

What we talk about:

Recognizing which skills are transferable (03:59)
The consulting process for clients (06:54)
Leveraging your network (09:29)
The exciting ways that the fashion industry is evolving (17:27)

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Guests

Amanda Rango

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Carlyn Bushman

Carlyn Bushman is a seasoned business consultant, entrepreneur, and advocate for female founders. She founded POP Business Academy to empower women entrepreneurs with tools for building sustainable, profitable businesses. As CEO of Carlyn Bushman Consulting, she specializes in helping product- and service-based business owners navigate financials, marketing, and growth strategies. With extensive corporate experience, Carlyn, a mom in a blended family and lifelong learner, has been featured on Good Morning America and in Times Square. She's here to help you make money and stay in business.

Richelle Pena

Richelle is a pharmacist with extensive management and corporate experience at Target Corporation, specializing in recruitment, acquisitions, leadership, and operations. She is the Co-Founder and Former Director of Corporate Development at American Pediatric Dental Group, which she exited for eight figures, and Co-Founder of HealthBiz Mastery, an online health business course for healthcare providers, and the HealthBiz Connect community. A recognized business expert and NBC contributor, she’s been featured on GMA, CNN, Pix 11, Good Day Washington, to name a few. Richelle is also the co-author of The Power Couple.

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