Josh Brown
Owner, Wander North Georgia
The Basics
Company Name: Wander North Georgia
Location: Clayton, GA
Founded: 2015
Full-Time Employees: 12
Products: Clothing, Outdoor Gear, Gifts
Social: Instagram
Claim to Fame: 1% of every purchase, every day, goes to local non-profits
The Culture
The best thing about working at Wander North Georgia is:
Being physically invested in a particular place and getting to celebrate the people and places that call it home.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Sitting in a river with a beer in one hand and a fishing rod in the other while the kids swim.
What we’re reading:
As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, My Paddle to the Sea by John Lane, Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney, Paddling My Own Canoe by Audrey Sutherland
What we’re listening to:
Alexi Murdoch, The Grateful Dead, Sigur Ros, Family & Friends
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
Treading Water, A Journey On The Edge
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
Everyone should have the same access to the places we all love without fear or anxiety. Engagement with the outdoors holds the potential to transform our lives and perspectives in meaningful ways and this experience should not belong to a privileged few but be open to whoever has a desire for it.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
Our small business will have played a small role in making our particular place feel more safe, open and diverse and that people who want to experience all that North Georgia has to offer will have less obstacles in their path than they do today.