Season 25 Episode 642
Think Engage Thrive E16 - Entrepreneur Mandy Cordia shares her new startup
Mandy Cordia is a retail industry veteran who turned her love of shopping into a full-time corporate retail buying career with companies like The Home Shopping Network, Dillard’s, and most recently, Zappos.com. After a pandemic-induced crash-landing into burnout, Mandy discovered throughout her therapy sessions that life had become so busy that she had neglected her passion for giving back. She began to buy gifts for friends and family that donated to charitable causes as her way of giving back. However, the charity donation and the benefiting nonprofit were often vague, and the merchandise was often lackluster. Mandy decided to use her retail talents to make a difference and launched The Kindness Cause in March 2022. The Kindness Cause is an e-commerce site created to help others give back when life is too busy to volunteer, start meaningful conversations, and raise funds for local nonprofit organizations and important causes through curated fashion-forward gifts that give back. The Kindness Cause has partnered with nonprofit organizations nationwide and supported causes like environmental justice, human rights, equality, cancer, and underprivileged youth, to name a few. Mandy also consults nonprofit organizations and retail brands in her free time on their merchandise strategies.
