everyone is rushing around trying to find time in their day we've all got busy schedules me and you have busy schedules we don't always get to have breakfast together we don't always get to have dinner together roddy's got shoots she's working with brands and companies i've got podcasts to be recording we're making content but we found that we always managed to find time to have tea together yeah and
that connection was so important to us and we found that during the pandemic that was something we did [Music] hey everyone welcome back to on purpose the number one health podcast in the world in the world thanks to each and every one of you who come back every week to listen learn and grow and today have fun i i am so grateful and so excited for this extra special episode of on purpose
where i'm sitting down with my favorite guest of all time talking about a brand new launch that we've been working on none other than my wife my love my business partner radi devlukia shetty radhi thanks for being on the show yay come on carry on with your sound effects drumroll let's announce what the name is of our business no that we're doing that in a bit you can't just dive in
how does it feel to be back on on purpose righty i'm so excited i feel like i was just here because i was six months ago and um but just so excited to share something that we don't usually talk about we don't usually talk about business we don't usually talk about um we haven't really done anything like this together so i'm really excited to share it with everyone talk about what tyrant you are as a businessman
talk about what tyrant you are as a business partner and just get into the teats let's do it sounds great yeah i'm excited we've never worked on anything together professionally before no and what we're about to share with you is something that has taken around the last 18 months of work we've been working on it hand in hand together throughout this whole time it's been a lot of fun it's been
crazy it's been busy it's been exciting and it's been great we've learned so much about relationships and about work during the same time and i think that's what's been so unique yeah is that when you're working on something together professionally you're also learning about each other personally yeah that's so true and so when we've done these episodes before we've just talked about our relationship
and like moving country and changing jobs and chasing our passions but all very separate to each other exactly yeah exactly today we're talking about something that we've actually been working on at the same time during the pandemic when we've both been locked indoors and this is our pandemic baby totally yeah yeah gone sama her name is sama our pandemic [Laughter] we love her baby much when we said we
had an announcement everyone was like everyone oh my goodness every every time i post anything oh my gosh is that baby is it baby are you pregnant is it i posted something about i don't know this off topic but i need to show you i think i posted oh i posted uh real to do with i don't know i think it was like chocolate or something and then someone like on every comment it's like oh is
this this is are you no i said something about craving oh is it because you're having a baby i was like no i just really love chocolate okay so raleigh do you want to explain what sama is and what it stands for sama is a organic uh hot tea beverage right it's so funny because there's so many technical terms that's the other thing i've learned in this um building this brand is there's so many
technicalities to how you describe something so this is a hot tea um it's not just herbal we have um we also have caffeinated teas too but um predominantly herbal right we've got predominantly herbal teas and the special thing about it is that we have adaptogens in them and when we were creating these teas you know i find adaptogens are something that are being used a lot now and for anybody who
doesn't know what adaptogens are they're basically herbs or plants things that are taken from plants which help with the stresses of your body whether it's physical whether it's mental whether it's emotional whether it is cellular anything that's happening in your body that needs support there are different adaptogens for different things for example for stress or whether it's for mood elevation like there are different
adaptogens for different things and so with our teas that's exactly what we've done and i really wanted to create it in a way that it wasn't just there for name like you know you can have you can read ingredients and there's so many different things in that you've never even heard about but do they really have the right quantity to have the right effect and so with this we really wanted
to create the teas in a way where okay if you have three tea bags or if you have x amount of tea bags a day it's going to give you the dose of for example ashwagandha which is one of the adaptogens we've used so as radhi's already said sama has been our quarantined baby as you called it and the word sama has a really really special meaning has many many different meanings but my favorite definition of
sama is togetherness and equality and community and our focus and our hope with sarma is that tea is a great way to come together yeah it's a great way of coming together and being more open and honest with each other having vulnerable moments and it gives you back time in your day and we've talked about this a lot about how like everyone is rushing around trying to find time in their day
we've all got busy schedules me and you have busy schedules we don't always get to have breakfast together we don't always get to have dinner together riley's got shoots she's working with brands and companies i've got podcasts to be recording we're making content but we found that we always manage to find time to have tea together yeah and that connection was so important to us and we found that during the pandemic
that was something we did a lot a lot we had tea a lot like every time would be like to me do you want a tea what tea do you want yeah like how many teas did we probably have in a day we had so many and i think it was usually we have our tea time i feel like in the evening or maybe in the morning if we do catch breakfast together then we're both sipping on our tea but i also love the
you know when i when we first launched sama i had so many messages about what sama means in their language and one of them was also oneness and i know that's something that we've been talking about where even though it is for community and togetherness to do with other people but it's also an opportunity for people to take moment to themselves as well but all feel connected to themselves not in
a way that they feel lonely but in a in a moment where they are connecting to themselves and i think that's what's so beautiful about summer that it's it's to to bring people together but also to allow people to connect better with themselves too and that's what i really think our intention was with it i love that yeah i love what you're saying like even having that present mindful moment
with yourself yeah it doesn't have to be with someone else yeah but just getting to press pause be still yeah connect with yourself i love that yeah so so that's where the name sama comes from it's why we were so drawn to it as our name we also feel the name sama it's just very calming yeah it's very still it feels very relaxing it has that energy that we want and i think this company for us was all about
creating an experience that we love yeah and sharing it with all of you like we want you to be able to be more present throughout the day be more mindful be more energetic and we'll talk about in a moment how all the teas are designed to do those different things rather he's the pro and expert but really at a heart level it was me and rady are having this experience and we both talk a lot about
like healthy habits and things you can change in your day but yeah adding tea to your day is like this really simple thing so raleigh i actually want you to tell everyone about your experience with tea and your family because i realized this when we got married actually before we got married when we started dating and i would spend time with your family i started to realize that tea wasn't
just big in my family yeah so tell me a bit about that yeah i mean for as long as i can remember tea has been the thing that we all do together after a meal like whether it's lunch time like a sunday lunch that we've all had together or whether it's after every dinner we would put on the kettle we would boil the water and everybody would sit down with their cup of tea and usually my
dad's telling his dad jokes and you know it's a it's something that i have been remembering so much more at this time especially being away from family where i hold on to that comfort and memory so every time i sip on my tee now i'm like i feel like it takes me back to those moments and it keeps me connected to them even though i'm away from them and um they were just the best times
like i just all i remember from those moments are like laughter and coziness and comfort and i think tea even if you haven't got that memory of tea or that memory connected to tea tea has that comforting feeling anything warm when you put something warm in your hands and you take a you know sniff of something that smells so wonderful through your through your nose and it just brings you so much comfort and so
yeah tea is has been a big part of my life for a long time and also because we never drank coffee growing up um my family's not big coffee drinkers either i love how you keep using the word beverage it is a beverage because they don't drink either so it wasn't i would sit down with like a beer after anything either it's like oh whatever it is or like a glass of wine with a lot of
families do for us it was always tea yeah yeah and for me it was you know and i loved that i remember that literally after every meal in brady's family yeah someone would come and be like what tea does everyone when i was like this is like this is a real thing yeah and in my life it was slightly different because we discovered this when we got together we had this in common but for me i remember that my
parents would my mom would drop me off at daycare and i'd be at daycare for i don't know whatever the early stages and early years of my life were and my mom would always come and pick me up and i remember my parents were both busy both my parents worked busy jobs full-time my mom would have to come and pick me up from daycare or if i went home with a friend's mom and then she'd pick me up and then take me home
and my parents were working hard when we grew up they were both immigrants they moved to my mom moved to london when she was 16 years old and they started with nothing and i'd always find that when she'd picked me up we'd always come home and she'd put a cup of tea on and give me a cup of tea and that moment of just us having a little sympathy together it would usually be either chamomile or
mint and those are the most common flavors that we'd have but this is my favorite on sunday she'd make me a chai i'm surprised it's not like a masala tea i was only allowed that once a week and it would be on the weekend in the morning and my mom would get those indian biscuits out yeah yeah yeah exactly and we get those and i'd only get them on like a sunday morning and then we'd dip them in the
chai together and we'd get to have it and it was it was literally something i looked forward to so when we got married and you'd always ask me oh what t-shirt we have do you want tea even in the morning when we meditate you're always when i get up in the morning and i come to the room to meditate you're always sitting there with your cup of tea while you meditate and teen one hand beads in the other
and even when i lived as a monk tea was the only drink that we drank like a breakfast or a dinner and so i think tea is such a i want everyone to realize this isn't a tea it's not a brand it's not a company it's like it's actually a tool for mindfulness it's actually a tool for presence and it's natural from the scent and you know i mean we were smelling these earlier i know she's gonna take a moment
yeah no i completely agree even even during the day sometimes when i'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed and i go to get a drink usually if i'm feeling a little bit stressed i'll always pick a tea to just sit down with for a moment and also because it's hot you don't rush it when it's cold water when it's like a drink from the fridge you gulp it down and you could be done with it within a
minute whereas with hot tea you have to be patient with it you have to be you know you have to take your time getting through it and you know with teas the taste also changes as you brew it longer so there's so much to experience within that you know one cup yeah i love what you said everything from the sight to the scent to the sound i talk a lot about how we have to use all of our senses for me
it's like when we were working on these teas we wanted the color to captivate to you we wanted to send herbs inside the taste the layers and so you know for us this isn't a tea it's not a brand it's not a company it's a mindful moment it's a tool of presence i want to talk a bit about before we dive into all the teas and the flavors and the herbs and tell everyone about that i want to talk a bit about
uh what we learned about each other during this process so i'm going to ask you what did you learn about me and our relationship during this process you sure you want me to start you've always been from since i've known you even if you didn't know how to do something you figured out how to do something and i think just seeing you i've never really been in close proximity with you when you've been
doing a lot of your work like i don't probably know half of what goes on in your work life but being part of something with you allowed me to also see something that i already kind of knew but to see in action um you're so like proactive you really you just know how to get things done and like to think outside of the box and you you know what the main thing is you think so
big and i think that's what's really cool like you're never just like oh yeah maybe we'll do it this first and then we'll take baby steps together you're like no i'm going all in and you're always you have always been an all-in type of person and it's just cool to see it you know seep through to every part of your life including sama too um but you know just like that was work and
then we would have our time it was just yeah it didn't feel you think we were good at drawing the line i think so i don't felt like i feel like it was any pressure sometimes you'd be like did you reply to the summer email oh did you reply to this have you done this i was like yes i have and then i'd be like in the corner like yeah i replied to it like last week um but apart from that i don't think he did
you're also very good with trying not to manage me like you are good at you know because i'm also feisty where there's not gonna it's not gonna be beneficial for you to try and manage me it's just not so you were like you know i'm just gonna leave it to the team to do that i'm just gonna focus on my bit because it's never gonna go well for you is it i just try to get ruler and jordan to bug yeah exactly
uh yeah no i i think what i learned about you again which i already knew but so i have to be honest with everyone my favorite thing in the world is doing something like i was telling it this morning i was just like this is gonna be the best day of my week because i love hanging out with her all day and after this we're gonna be making some fun tick tocks and stuff together as well and i literally
like look forward to spending time with riley in my work day so for me this is like the highlight of you know so much for me because if i can spend a whole day with radhi and that's work that's not work to me and so that that's a big thing which i loved and enjoyed and and i feel that because and it's partly what you said and this is what i want to talk about is radhi doesn't make anything feel like
work because i don't think she knows what work is and so should i be offended no it's a compliment and i'll explain what i mean by that like taradi a meeting even filming this right now the podcast she doesn't treat it as work so she sees it as fun she sees it as her expressing herself she sees it as her just sharing openly and honestly and so what ends up happening is you kind of
get to be a part of that environment and i can often be very disciplined and focused and driven and ambitious and like i know what needs to get done by this time and which is all great and which is all needed too definitely but when people say like how do couples get along we get along because we're not we don't think the same yeah and instead of trying to and this is what's really stuck out to me
instead of trying to make my partner think like me and live like me i've realized that the most powerful thing you can do is respect your partner for who they are and let them live that way yeah because what we don't realize is if i say rather you need to be more organized and you need to be more focused then i would lose the spontaneity which is what i love about you right and i think that's
where people get really lost and confused where it's like i want you to be organized not realizing that that actually makes you lose the quality that i love right and so same with you if you were like jay i want you to be more relaxed yeah more you know but i also want you to plan our life yes exactly yeah i want you to know where we're going and what we're doing but i want you to be more laid back yeah
yeah yeah you can't you won't get both and so i think we're either trying to make our partners like us yeah and to be honest let's just put this out there no one in the world would be happy if they dated themselves oh my gosh absolutely not i'd be a nightmare to myself like i wouldn't be able because nothing would ever get like the thing is i know and we also work in that
way where like i can be you're very creative anyway but also i find my mind works you can be a 50 50 person i think i'm probably like a 80 20 person where like i can be super creative and be really like i can think of things on the spot of like things that i want to do or you know fun stuff to to invent stuff in my mind but to actually make it happen i need someone to do that um and so you're very good at like you
said getting things done and i feel i feel we have different things that we bring to the table and we're both very okay with that yeah yeah well i think that's been another one like our strengths like we our spiritual teacher once called rather a food scientist and it was the best compliment that anyone had ever given or could have given because not only was it from the person who's so dear to us
it was also just the perfect words yeah and since that day i've always been like well you're such a food scientist you're such a food and it's so true because radhi's really been our potions master with these tears and i've been doing a few interviews about the teas and people keep asking me like how did you guys come up with this stuff like men and blueberry and jasmine pizza who thought of this and i don't
get to take the credit because it's already she's the one who knew even before we made a blend she knew which mixtures were going to work and to me that's mind-blowing that she already knew what was going to taste good together what was going to enhance flavors and so you're such a deep expert in what you do and i respect you so much for it because it's a real art and if someone asked me
i would just be like i know that tastes good but i don't know why yeah whereas you're so good at making stuff tasty and healthy and good for you and i think that that's a really unique skill set so we also have such a great team didn't we oh my gosh yeah that's through all of you yeah let's talk a bit about them yeah i feel like there's there's one thing to think something's gonna be good
and and to to believe it is but you know they really made it happen and they really they enhanced it all it was like even if i thought of the ingredients like they work to figure out the blends and to get the right proportions and um yeah even with the adaptogens i thought i only you know i have a very limited knowledge of my adaptogens or even of my ayurvedic knowledge but the people that
we were working with they found the experts that would really know like hey why don't you try this and why don't you there was so much that i learned through this process from experts from people who we were working with and um so many of them i mean you start off i'll follow yeah so i'll talk first about kim kim uh so kim and james why legends first of all yeah our co-founders who are
absolutely incredible and just the sweetest humans too you know people has kim been on the podcast she's coming on actually yeah yeah she's got a new book coming wait till you all feel her energy yeah she is a whole vibe yeah she's amazing but she just you know people are often scared and and by the way raleigh and i have never had business partners before and never and co-founders and gone and built
something so this was our first time in that side of our life too and people are often scared of finding investors and partners because it can seem daunting it can seem quite scary you're like who can i trust and i have to just honestly say that working with kim and james is a dream like they're not only really smart successful people in their own journeys and in their own right but they're also just some of the
sweetest kindest hearted like loving humble people that you'll ever meet like they are the experts but they would take our opinion our everything like they they were so open to feedback so open to us sharing our own thoughts even though they are the experts in the field and i just think that that was so beautiful to see that like it taught me so much about how to to act in in that environment when
building something yeah absolutely and it was kim who was saying to me she was just like jay i think you know when we first met well sorry don't worry we first met we've known each other for a few years but we'd continue the conversation she was like jay like people need to have something in their homes in their life yeah i remember that can help them feel better and it needs to be beyond
content or technology or device based it needs to be beyond all of that and so she was such a big inspiration and i want to tell that story actually where we decided that obviously based on our own experience tea was the one thing we consumed daily who decided on that was you it was you yeah it was you i don't remember i'm pretty sure it was you i'm sure it was just a brainstorming no i think it was yeah
[Music] in our first apartment in l.a okay and we were talking you were sitting on the edge of the kitchen table yeah and i was saying to you i was like you know what do we think and improve people's lives that we both consume that we both love that that we think is genuinely going to improve people's well-being but also be easy to do and we were thinking about and we're
looking at what do we use what do we don't use and we're talking about skin care yeah about candles yeah we were talking about things like that yeah yeah but then and then t was just so strong for both of us and and then we spent time obviously researching the name but you know what you could have easily taken the credit for because i had no idea but i appreciate it it was you it was you i'm like 99.9 shows
but kim and james have been incredible and then we had uh tiana and alexander alex yeah 100 co team jamison uh becky with the design then of course my team ruler jordan uh just you know so dedicated to the course making sure that we actually like take time out to taste the blends and like which there was so that's the other thing right all of the team were so invested in getting like no one wanted a
mediocre tea like it wasn't about just getting a t out there we went through each blend how many times we've done blend one a one b one c one d one e one f one z like there's been blends on blends on blends and you know slight alterations but we did not want it to go out until we had tasted it and it and until we all felt that it was like this is the tea that we would choose over any of the tea in our
cupboard and until that until we felt that way we didn't want to let let it out and so i think that was was so nice there was no one in the team that was like oh let's just do this like it's fine you know next time we'll get it right this was like no everybody was so invested in giving people the best experience yeah and we do these tea tasting parties where the whole team would get together
uh alex would steep the tea bring it all out mini cups we'd all like write down our feedback and that whole process was so fun because again it was community like this tea has been made from the same value that we want you to feel and all of us would come together we'd give feedback everyone was very open and honest like you said like i remember you'd be like we just want to dial up this
yeah it was like dealt this down about like five percent and yeah we were getting down to like minor tweaks but all everything that made such a difference yeah and that was the same with the branding by the way like we've had so much amazing feedback about the colors and the branding and i see you i i want to show people what it looked like first at some point at some point at some point at some point but
just to show how you can set off with a specific thing in mind and and sometimes what happens is you end up trying to create a like if you're creating a product for example what i found is i kept wanting it to be almost so different from me like i was trying to be like a sophisticated version i was trying to give people a sophisticated version of me a version of me that's
like elevated to a certain degree and that they have in their homes is like an art piece or you know whatever it was that they and then i realized that if i want if we want us to go into people's home then it has to represent us and and what we realized from the first branding we did it lacked fun it lacked excitement it lacked enjoyment when you're like it was beautiful like that's what it was it was
beautiful and it was subtle and it was sleek but it didn't have much of us written on it and that's why i think it's so easy to um yeah it was just so nice that we finally got to a point where we were like no we want it to be vibrant we want it to be exciting we want it to be like a party when when people receive it and i'm so glad that we did that yeah i think i'm so glad you brought that up because
i think there's a great lesson in that i think if you're out there right now if you're listening or watching if you're trying to build a brand start a business launch a podcast launch an instagram or youtube channel make it you yeah like infuse it with your natural authentic energy i don't even know how i would how i would have like shared the tea if it was that because it didn't feel like you're so
right it's like i feel so excited sharing it because it feels like it feels like an extension of me and of you and so it's so natural to talk about it to be excited about it because i am excited about it but i think when it when it doesn't feel like you whether it's your instagram whether it's a product whether it's i don't know anything it's always going to be difficult to share because you
don't feel as connected to it yeah and i feel like for us it was a really good reminder that it's okay to get it wrong yeah we went through this whole process this whole branding process and we looked at the final product and we were like that's not us like we were so scared because so much time into it a lot of us feel that when you've invested a lot of time into something that you can't change it
what's that and it's a term in economics called sunk cost the idea that you have sunk so much cost money time yes you've sunk so much time energy money into something then now you feel you have to stick with that because otherwise you're going to waste more time money and energy now what we don't realize is that actually the deeper you go the less you like the product and the more you actually develop some
sort of indifference to it whereas if you shift you can actually create something you care about and so failing pivoting trying again these are all really great lessons i think that's the thing right when that's a great point because i think you naturally think that it should just keep going in the same trajectory like oh we've started in this way it's going to be a smooth journey and i think what
what i've learned from this and throughout our life together is that taking those those side roads and taking a u-turn or taking you know these different routes it's actually part of the journey like that should be what is normality in our minds like that should not be what we're scared of that should be oh this is expected like this is what the journey is it's never going to be just going
down a smooth silky road like it's not going to be that but i think we have this illusion of what the journey looks like being smooth that when that those hurdles come or those bumps come or there's a closure in the road like you just you get thrown off but if we start seeing it as being as that being normality you wouldn't even get thrown out you just see it as part of the excitement and part of the part of the
journey i love that online yeah our illusion is that we want it to be like a highway it's a one-way accident but it's going to have side streets it's going to have accidents actually highways are apparently the place where most amount of accidents happen thank you for that no actually wait that's wrong i think actually the surprising thing from my drive this is so off topic but
from my driving thing was uh when i did it when i took my trip the one thing i remember from when i took my when i had when i got ticket and i had to go to a course was that most accidents happen on 30 mile per hour roads right this is not useful it's totally useless use this information in case you're doing youtube you're you're driving exactly driving course for getting points on your
license just you have me to thank anyway yeah that's that's been a huge lesson so if you're listening or watching right now and you're thinking of starting something yeah be okay with pivoting yeah be okay with a u-turn be okay with turning back realize that that is just part of the journey stop living it thinking that everything's going to work and everything's going to be perfect yeah
like change that story in your mind from the beginning right like don't if you're building a story in your mind make sure you you factor those things into the story yeah exactly definitely and and if you are going to start something with your partner i think it's important that you set the boundaries up set the boundaries set the expectations set the like and if this is the first time that you're getting to
know one another because i think a lot of the work that a lot of the things that we understood about one another we kind of had a lot of it figured out beforehand like you knew what type of personality i was i knew what type of personality you were but for some people they may be just getting to know their partner through this process and so i think it's really it will be really useful to sit down and
figure out what that dynamic is like what do you feel you're bringing to this what do you feel that you're going to lack in this what do you feel are going to be your weaknesses or your strengths during this and oh let me see are those weaknesses going to be my strengths or do we have the same weaknesses and the same strengths and therefore we need another person that's going to make up
for that um i think all of that is so important yeah and and it is true like what riley was saying earlier there were times when i got really frustrated because i felt like i was bugging radhi or having to remind her to do stuff that she had to do and that would genuinely annoy me because i was like well i'm i'm doing my bit here like i'm getting back onto emails on time and i'm responding to
this on time like why can't you and i realized that that's a common thing that can really end up creating friction in a relationship and so the only way to deal with that is make sure that you're not the person doing that to your partner especially in your personal time yeah you can do that if you're on work time and so i think for us it was very important to say we're on work time yeah or we're on personal
time this is a professional conversation this is a personal yeah this is us just talking about it creatively and this is us talking about it to get things done totally and i think that if you are going to get into business with a friend or a partner or a or a husband or wife or whoever it is you really want to be clear about is this conversation on personal time or professional time
because that saves you so much stress and so much energy and and also just stops you from ruining your relationship like i think that making summer has brought us closer together because it's the first time as you said we've created something truly together and i wouldn't have wanted it to tear us apart but it could have yeah if we weren't mindful of those things not understanding yeah yeah totally
all right so now i want you rather to give us a walk through off of all of your potions all of the teas yeah all of the blends and explain to us the benefits the ingredients that you chose the reason why you chose them you know i'd love love to let me break it down for you okay so these teas are hot tea they're not cold but they're not eyes they're also not just herbal teas we do have some teas
that are caffeinated green tea black teas green teas but we but predominantly they are herbal teas and the thing that i love about them is i really wanted there to be a unique factor but the unique factor i wanted to be authentically unique like i wanted it to do what it says it does and so what we decided was to include an adaptogen in each of the teas now that's an adaptogen that's a very good question j
shetty well an adaptogen for all of you who don't know is um it's basically uh something extracted from a plant or a herb that has this unique quality to adapt to your body to what it needs so it adapts to the stresses of your body whether it's physical whether it's mental whether it's emotional um whether it's they sound like amazing things i know and it's phenomenal because each of these
adaptogens they work in different ways so whether it's to do with regulating your hormones whether it's to do with regulating your stress whether it's to do with um regulating your mood your sleep so they have i mean the scientists or her botanists they have figured out what plants are beneficial for different parts of our body for different parts of our our life and so um what we did was
we focused the teas specifically on um first of all what we wanted people to feel or how we wanted it to affect them then we added in the flavor then we added in um then we added in what adaptogen would do that so we really were focusing on how do we want people to feel and what effect we want it to have on the body and so um for example we have um our awaken and energized that's our earl grey tea and the
adaptogen in here is um and again awakening energy so you know what you're receiving when you're getting the tea that's got um this one they helped me with but the rishi mushroom i do know that's meant to be incredible for mind focus for your brain health and so we included that for the morning just to get you going then we have a calm and relaxed so again we did chamomile very very like normal you've
had to come a multi but we've got lavender and rose in there the smell of this one is beautiful it's just you know chamomile is something you think of when you want to relax and lavender and rose especially when you think of essential oils or um even if you think of lavender rose it's just so peaceful and so that's exactly what this does we've got lavender chamomile and thorsi in here as well all
of which are incredible to to soothe you harmonize you and then we have jasmine peach that's the one that we're drinking right now yeah that's one of my favorites the smell of this one is just beautiful and again we've only used natural um flavorings and ingredients and no additives we really wanted it to be natural flavors in here and for this one we've got raspberry relief shatarvari and green tea now
shatavari this is protectant support and that's exactly what chitavori does it um whether it's for women's health or men's health it actually helps protect everything from our reproductive organs to um to our muscles to our ligaments like so many things but it's it's a very um supportive nourishing deeply nourishing um herb that goes deep down to our tissues yeah and there is another
one called mint in blueberry which rather is finished i drank it all and it was so good and i've been drinking every day and suddenly i got to the last one and i was like oh no but we need to get more of that but that's mint and blueberry and it's just that's the one with ashwagandha in it ashwagandha is great for focus mind health and just being attentive yeah um there's
all the blends and yeah like i said with the adaptogens what we wanted was to actually make have a tea that if you have the right amount of it like let's say you have three cups of one of the teas it's not just there for the name it will have the right if it's got the right quantity to have the right effect on your body and that's what we really wanted something that's that's true to its name yeah and
also things that you need throughout the day like i usually wake up and i'll have the lemongrass and ginger in the morning because it soothes my throat it makes me feel stronger it gives me a sense of like stability and then throughout in the middle of the day i might want a jasmine peach because i'm looking for a bit of that green tea yeah and then at the end of the day i want the lavender chamomile
to help me rest and relax and so we don't see tears like a once a day we see us like two three times a day and we wanted to create teas that you could have around the clock at different times in the day we're also going to be sending a little menu card that tells you what time to have we used to have when yeah because that's so important to us that you have a simple and easy way of
feeling different you know sometimes i walk into the home and i've come down from a busy day and i feel different when raleigh is bringing some tea because you can smell it and as soon as you smell it your body almost reacts immediately and then you drink it and like you said you slow down to sip it and drink it and now all of a sudden you feel completely different whereas usually you're just
running around from place to place to place and you need something external to change that and it's it that doesn't happen when you put pump your body with sugar no it doesn't happen when you pump your body with just carbs or fats like you can't just outsource that and i also think what you were saying that's so beautiful that you know with something like this you're telling your body what you want like
you're like oh i'm going to pick this and you're looking at the words on the you know on the packet saying awaken and energize like you are telling yourself this is what i want from this drink this is what i want from this cup of tea this is what i want in my life right now and so you're choosing to adapt your mood you're choosing to adapt your day in a way that's going to suit you and i think
that's really wonderful it's intentionally choosing how you want to go forward for the next couple of hours yeah changing the way we talk to ourselves is so important like we wake up in the morning and we'll say something like i'm tired and instead when you pick that up it says i am awake and i wake up and that replacement of language not only affects your mind it affects your body it affects how you feel it affects
how you show up it affects how you take that first phone call of the day or that first meeting i mean you just said tired and i owned yeah that's how contagious i know like the language of like i'm tired i'm exhausted i'm fatigued and i i fall into the habit all the time where i'll say i'm so tired i'm exhausted i'm fatigued and instead i should be saying i'm going to make time to rest today exactly i'm
going to make time to refuel today i'm going to take time to re-energize today and i find that tea kind of gives me that reflection time that helps me pause and be still and go okay this is what i need right yeah so in this whole process we've just launched we've got a long way to go we're committed and all in on summer because we love it so much we're so proud of the product we're so proud of
how it tastes and how it looks and how it feels what do you think surprised you the most or what was the biggest challenge you had to overcome in this process and journey because we've been working on this for like 12 to 18 months now you know what if i'm honest one i i honestly did not realize how and this sounds so clear about how much work goes into it like how many
different elements there are to it and and how much thought has to go into so many different areas of it that i never appreciated before because my mind was not like i never even i never even understood the depths of creating a brand or creating a company and so i really appreciated how it made me appreciate other brands that have done something like this or or created something themselves that wow that took
a lot um and then the other thing honestly that i found hard to overcome and i think that's something we're still going through is you know it's it's it's a really interesting feeling trying to share something that you've created um and trying to share it with people in order for like it's a product in the end of the day like people are buying it and i think you know when you do love love
love something so much like we do about sama and you want to share it with people we do it and we do it as authentically as we possibly can but at the end of the day it's a product that you are selling and so i think i always find it hard to to push through that where i'm like oh i don't want it to feel like too salesy like i don't want it to feel like i'm trying to sell them something but i know at the bottom of my
heart that like this is something that's going to benefit their life in some way and so i think there's a really good balance between sharing something from your heart with authenticity that you love but also selling a product and i think that's been a really interesting balance that i think i'm still going through because we're still you know it's going to be it's going to be a constant up and
down with something like that and a give and take but yeah it's it's been a really interesting process and i think it's just something in in anything when you create something or even if you're part of a company if you're part of something there is an element of you are trying to share something with someone and when money goes into it it can be a different you know it's just a different mindset you
have to get into yeah i'm so glad you raised that i think it's a really healthy conversation to have yeah you know when you look at how much work goes into something you realize that you can only create stuff you care about yeah and so then when that goes out to the market and then people buy it or purchase it and experience it and use it it's like all that work that's gone into
it you wouldn't waste that much time if you didn't really care you didn't really love it you didn't really love it like the amount of hours and effort that's gone into building sama like we wouldn't have gone through with it if we didn't care if you were only doing it for a financial reward it wouldn't be enough because it takes so much energy and you you also are a point where you're like you don't really
know how well it's going to do like when you start you don't know how well it's going to do and so you are counting on being if you're not fully invested in it with love then there's always a chance of disappointment but like in my mind i'm like wow like i'm so happy that we've created something like this that i that i know that we love so much and that hopefully will benefit people in some
way that i want to make it worth the money that they are spending like at least i know i'm doing that at least i know i've put in the most amount of effort putting the most amount of thought the most amount of energy that i can so that when they do spend money hopefully it feels like money well well spent and i think that's all you can really hope for when it's to do with the product that you are selling so well
said i love that that's really beautiful yeah what about you i am very similar to you i think for me it's like i i created a plan a few years ago where i do three things every year i do something i love i do something i'm learning yeah and i do something i'm launching and i do the thing i love because it makes me happy yeah and that's the podcast yeah i do the thing i'm learning
because it helps me feel like i'm growing and i've been doing a lot of learning this year and then i'm launching something because it makes me feel nervous and anxious but excited yeah and so i think that's the biggest thing for me it's like i love trying out new things i love looking at new industries and learning about new things because it just expands me as a human it helps me have more love for
people it helps me have more compassion and empathy and understanding of people it helps me have more respect for people i guess someone was also learning and launching launching for you and i just really enjoyed that process so that has been a challenge because it's all new to me i've never done anything in the beverage industry we've never we've never created a tea before oh no we've never created a i
mean i have in my kitchen you have you've actually made many times yeah that's very true but i haven't yeah yeah and so for me to get comfortable with that it's it's been such an amazing learning curve so and there's so much more than just the tea bag right like that's what i realized like oh yeah i've created a tea in my kitchen before but oh my goodness to create a brand from it
there's so much more than just that one little tea bag that that actually allows it to expand into something like this so yeah amazing oh my gosh i know what we should do i think you know that's the other reason i love the word tea and we want to do tea because there are just so they're like unlimited amount of things that you could do with the word tea and i've looked up so many tea puns since we
decided to do this so i think we should do okay i'll come up with one that you've come up with one and we have to go keep going a tee off let's do a tee off and we have to keep going until one of us fails okay go on then okay um spill the tea it's a community happy i'm so happy what i think you've already lost the game you're happy i'm going to give you another option all right uh can't wait to party um
tiana taylor it doesn't have to be a it doesn't have to be a meme it just has to go with it start with gratitude gratitude what about um tealicious oh that's good uh where can we make a good team you make a good team um [Music] you're so chatty uh tranquility tranquility you know what i really thought i'd be much better at this in my head that's why i suggested it and uh it's all right
i win it's fine yeah you win okay all right okay we're gonna end as we end every on-purpose episode with a rapid fire but we're both gonna do it together rapid fire so we can only answer the word question in one word or one sentence okay so what's been the hardest part about starting a company with your spouse showing up like being there you know like showing up making sure i shop in the right way
making sure to keep that boundary between personal and professional mm-hmm okay what is your favorite summer tea flavor um mint blueberry jasmine peach okay uh what is a flavor that you're excited to create for the future oh all the seasonal blends yes i want to do like a chocolate orange or something chocolate oh that would be nice yeah i would love to create a chocolate base to you yeah that would be
really cool into it okay what's your funniest tea spill not gossip good question i think my funniest teaspoon not funny oh i know yours oh god you did it so much at my house oh no no no no no no no no no no no no you would just be yeah no no maybe yeah maybe with tea as well yeah jay just spills things everywhere yeah i'm not as smooth as a bit clumsy i know right yeah yeah i don't know actually when i saw
you doing school stuff that's the problem no everyone would think i was a clumsy little girl you're not not with kitchen stuff no one point yeah all right fifth and final question okay what's the thing you love most about sama the feeling of the the prospect of the community that we will be building like i'm so excited to experience that yeah and that's not one sentence but
genuinely that like to feel how people feel from it yeah that is what i'm most excited yeah i'm excited for bringing people together yeah and like you said helping people connect with themselves and finding a non-technology digital uh a natural organic way to feel that's so true so yeah i can't wait thanks for that's too far away watching co-founder thanks business planner thanks wife i feel like that's what
people in business would do i'm not sure anyone invisible we should handshake a man all right guys well thanks so much for listening thank you everyone for listening today please please please go to summertea.com to check out all of the amazing things that are available we're so proud of what we've created we can't wait to share it with you and thank you so much for listening make sure you tag me and
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