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Podcast: Eye on Veterans
Episode: Bags with a Mission: How military spouses stitched together an epic brand
Description: Luxury purses, handbags and carry-ons can’t compete with story behind the handmade leather and canvas bags from “R Riveter”. Military spouse Lisa Bradley co-founded the company and revolutionized the fashion manufacturing industry, by recruiting military spouses located across the country, to stitch together the bags in their homes.
Now, a multi-million-dollar business, we hear how this military spouse founded brand got its humble start in an attic.
From a small home-based endeavor, Bradley shares how she was inspired to enlist her fellow military spouses, who often have challenges finding reliable employment, to join the compan...