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Most content about apparel and lifestyle brands focuses on trends, growth stories, or surface-level advice. Very little addresses the harder questions: how do you actually fix a broken P&L, scale without losing margin, or modernize operations without blowing up what's working?

This publication is where I share how I think about scaling and turning around premium lifestyle brands—drawing from 25+ years working alongside founders, executives, and private equity teams.

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