May 21, 2021
Kevin Lavelle is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Mizzen + Main, and he was the CEO before stepping down to take on the Chairman role. Mizzen + Main transformed the apparel industry by creating a comfortable dress shirt out of high-performance fabric. Kevin is now a Senior Vice President at Stand Together, a non-profit organization that aims to help social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people change their lives.
Kevin joins me on the show to discuss where he got the idea for the Mizzen + Main performance dress shirts and why it took several years for him to progress to developing the garments. He shares his career trajectory and why he never envisioned being an entrepreneur and the moment that finally made him take the leap.
"If you have a good idea, someone else has it too. The question is, are you taking the right steps to actually make it happen?” - Kevin Lavelle
“if I tried to write the business plan to account for all of the eventualities, I might have missed those opportunities. Trying to stay focused is exactly what we're trying to do.” - Kevin Lavelle
“When you're driven by something as your core ideology on how the world can be a better place. It's a really inspiring thing to do.” - Kevin Lavelle
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Kevin Lavelle’s Words of Wisdom:
Gratitude ties a lot of things together as a leader. It also helps drive how I try to function as a leader, both as the Founder of Mizzen + Main and as a leader of a big team at Stand Together. I'm grateful for people wanting to be a part of the work that we do.
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