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Bloomberg: Women’s Workwear Reinvented
March 8, 2021: “There’s not a good ‘ol girls club for women in business like there is for men. So, anything we can do as female businesses to really turn around and help anyone up behind us is essential.” – Sarah Calhoun, founder & owner of Red Ants Pants
Learn moreYellowstone Public Radio: 56 Counties: Meagher County
May 3, 2021: White Sulphur Springs was a thriving community until the early 80s, when the railroad left and a sawmill that employed several hundred people shut down. The county still has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the state, but thanks to one enterprising woman, it has also become a popular tourist destination, as well as the site for one of Montana’s most popular annual events, The Red Ants Pants music festival. My guests this month are the founder of Red Ants Pants, Sarah Calhoun, and Barry and Chris Hedrich, the owners of 2 Bassett Brewery, which opened right on Main Street in White Sulphur five years ago.
Learn moreKTVQ: Red Ants Pants founder sets up pop-up shop in Billings for Small Business Appreciation Week
May 7, 2021: During Small Business Appreciation Week, Red Ants Pants again partnered up with The Base Camp to bring attention to the importance of supporting local businesses, the backbone of our communities.
Learn more46° North Podcast by Preserve Montana: Cowboys and Music and Ants, Oh My! [Episode 16]
June 30, 2021: On this episode, we’ll talk to social entrepreneur Sarah Calhoun, founder of the Red Ants Pants clothing brand, which creates rugged clothing for working women. But can starting a women’s workwear revolution simultaneously revitalize rural America?
Learn more46° North Podcast by Preserve Montana: Spirits of Meagher County [Episode 17]
In this bonus-content episode, business owner Sarah Calhoun describes unexplained experiences in her historic property. Could it be that some of Red Ants Pants biggest supporters are more than 100 years old? Things that go bump in the night, free-floating apparitions, and ethereal entities apparently practicing social distancing.
Learn moreReframing Rural: Sowing Possibility Episode 1: Sarah Calhoun
Best known for her celebrated achievements as the entrepreneur and founder behind women’s workwear brand, Red Ants Pants, Calhoun is also a dreamer, a doer and a convener. As the Executive Director of the Red Ants Pants Foundation, she organizes a homegrown music festival that brings thousands of people together each year to swing dance in a cow pasture, raise their koozies toward the Big Sky and celebrate rural Montana. The festival also helps fund a Girls Leadership Program, timber skills workshops and community grants that support among other things, family farms and ranches. I spoke to Sarah a month before Red Ants Pants Music Festival’s 10th anniversary this July.
Learn moreExplore Big Sky: ‘Reframing Rural’ podcast launches second season
November 30, 2021: The goal, according to Torgerson, isn’t merely to tell stories, it’s to discuss ideas and hopefully allow rural communities to learn from each other and work collaboratively towards solutions to place-based issues. Guests for season two include Sarah Calhoun, founder of Red Ants Pants the first company dedicated to making workwear for women.
Learn moreUnit Co.: Cheers to Women We Love: Creators of Impact
“What We Love: While a lot of attention in the social impact movement goes to urban-based entrepreneurs, Sarah Calhoun makes her mark through rural empowerment with a focus on women.”
Learn moreNorthstar Unplugged Podcast: Sarah Calhoun
March 7, 2022: Raised on a farm in rural Connecticut, Calhoun was inspired to move to Montana by Ivan Doig’s This House of Sky. From her home in the small town of White Sulphur Springs, she has become an inspiration to entrepreneurs nationwide and is known for her dedication to supporting rural communities.
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