Esprit Holdings Limited

We should know what we want, and we try.

And you had that experience in Esprit with marketing and research.

No, no,

Esprit was good, too.

They let you do what you wanted to.

No, no, no.

At Esprit, there was a guy called Doug Tompkins who actually died three years ago.

I don't know if you know.

Take us back to that chapter.

Yes, I was at Esprit.

It was my last gig.

Worked for the late Doug Tompkins.

You know, when you create something, depending how long you're in it and what it means and watching how other families it contributes to and all of that is real.

And watching the people who've been through the process...

Even Susie Buell from Esprit still says to me, I really miss those days.

I miss having a company.

And after I had finished up from George Brown and I started working, I naturally started to get into a leadership role.

And one of my first leadership roles were at Esprit when it used to be in Canada, at the center.

And it just started from there.

And I started getting recruited from different people, from one company to the next.

So Dana's making $100,000 a month.

She has numerous endorsement deals and could buy all the Esprit stretch pants she ever wanted.

God bless.

They had like

paint spatter print, I bet.

Oh my God, I wanted Esprit things so badly.

But still, let's go back to 1978.

We're not...

I made my own hot pink scrunchie to match.

And I got the Esprit sweatshirt that was on sale at Costco.

I can't believe

that that company is still doing, making things.

that

kind of, you know what I mean? I know.

I wish I wouldn't have gotten rid of my Esprit bag.

That's what I was just thinking about all that stuff that, you know, we wore and things like that.

Right

... and, and later Esprit, which was a nine hundred million, close to a billion dollar company in like nineteen eighty-six, right? Like hugely successful.

They both decide to walk away from that, those lives, and move to Chile, to Patagonia, and start buying land to eventually give away and create into national parks.

And this was a twenty-five-year dream.

My heart was set on FIT.

Um, so I would come home from school, I would rip out magazines, I would draw my own clothes, you know, for Esprit and Benetton and all those, [chuckles] you know, way back-

Wow

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