Murder at Lululemon | Part 4
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Why should you listen to the entire series on Murder at Lululemon?
Just a reminder, if you haven't listened to our series on murder at Lululemon, please scroll back and go all the way to part one. Start there before you listen to this one. To be clear, a lot of what we're covering in this episode is in the past. Lululemon has a new leader, they have new practices now, and they also did not respond to a written list of questions that we sent them about some of the material that we've been covering in this series. You know, I do think the company is quite different now. I was in the Soho store myself the other day, and I didn't even see any inspirational sayings around. I just saw a lot of athleisure wear.
How did Lululemon respond to the murder of Jana Murray?
But to get back to our story, one thing we haven't talked about yet is how the company reacted to the murder of Jana Murray. Here's attorney John McCarthy, who you've been hearing from a lot. We did have an interaction with Lululemon Corporate, and our contact had to do with mainly with finding out informational backgrounds, information they had mainly about Brittany and why she got moved from a previous job. And also just they were very cooperative in terms of they turned the store over to us. I mean, basically that store got closed down and we must have been in possession of that score for several weeks to basically do the forensic testing and stuff. So most of it was logistical kinds of contact, background on Brittany, and just the logistical coordination to have access to the crime scene until we got done doing the investigation.
Even Brittany herself, while the investigation was going on, said her interactions with Lululemon were positive. Have you had a chance to talk to the Lululemon people? Did they reach out for you already?
You want to say it was their executive VP of HR actually came by today?
Yeah, that's what your sister was saying. Yeah, she came by today. Are they local? It's a Canadian company. So they came here from Canada. This episode, we're going to talk more about the originally Canadian company Lululemon and what the store is and represents. Now, I do want to talk for a second about my teenage daughter, who really covets their leggings and wants badly to wear them. I do not want to pay this much for teenage leggings, but I asked her recently how she feels about them. The popular girls wear it. I think they're well-made, and it's just like a brand name thing. Like, why do you like Gucci so much? Because it's like a brand name. Like, you can't really say why. I just like it because it's like a brand name.
But you're supposed to like it because it's, like, awesome. Good? Yeah.
What is Lululemon's company ethos and how does it impact their employees?
Yeah, no. So that's the way a 13 year old perceives the brands that are all around her. You just want them because they're brands, not because they stand for something else. But of course, as adults, we know it's more than just that. Lululemon isn't just well-fitting leggings. It's a whole ethos, one about striving and goals and becoming your best self. So this episode, our producer, Lily Houston Smith, is going to interview a bunch of different people who have interacted with Lululemon to unpack all of that a bit. She's starting with Kat, the educator who was way at the beginning of this series, the one who worked in the store in Soho and talked about how we all know some people who are into yoga because there's darkness lurking in them.
I think we've all seen the type of person who gets super into exercise generally because there's darkness lurking and there's anger there. And there is at Lululemon this culture – or there was when I worked there. I don't know what it's like anymore. But this culture of intensity, like you're going to your workout classes and you're wearing the clothes and you are setting your goals and you're going to achieve your goals. And I can see how it's not a lot of lackadaisical laissez-faire kind of personalities. Selling yoga clothes ended up being a great experience for Kat. There was no grisly murder at her store. Jaina's tragic death actually happened years before she worked there at a totally different branch of the store in Bethesda. And actually, when we told Kat about the murder, she said she'd never even heard about it. But she also said she wasn't that surprised.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why should you listen to the entire series on Murder at Lululemon?
0:05–0:50
2
How did Lululemon respond to the murder of Jana Murray?
0:50–2:54
3
What is Lululemon's company ethos and how does it impact their employees?
2:54–6:40
4
What are the personal experiences of former Lululemon employees?
6:40–10:36
5
How does Lululemon's goal-setting philosophy affect its staff?
10:36–15:05
6
What role does athleisure play in modern American culture?
15:05–19:06
7
Who is Chip Wilson and what are his views on employee potential?
19:06–33:28