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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1025: Mike Cessario - Disrupting the Bottled Water Industry with Liquid Death

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam and Justin talk with Mike Cessario, co-founder and CEO of Liquid Death, a water brand disrupting the bottled water market. Liquid Death is a new Mind Pump partner so please go out and support at liquiddeath.com!

  • Inventing the viral video: How brands use marketing to get attention, being authentic & MORE. (3:34)
  • Why fun can be healthy. (9:42)
  • Disrupting the industry and saving the planet at the same time. (17:35)
  • How long have they been in business, what kind of traction are they seeing and what was their strategy in the beginning? (21:37)
  • What are the biggest hurdles he sees that they will have to overcome? (32:12)
  • Not just a marketing gimmick: Getting the masses to purchase their product. (34:41)
  • Wanting to operate with the ‘small brand’ mentality. (37:40)
  • What interests him the most among the various platforms? (43:55)
  • ‘Death to plastic’ and why recycling CAN be cool. (46:10)
  • What are some paradigm shattering moments that he has experienced? (52:07)
  • The new world of marketing. (55:09)
  • What are the next moves for the brand? (1:01:53)
  • Why at the end of the day it’s all about honesty and authenticity. (1:05:38)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

I was actually really excited. This is a brand that Taylor had been looking out for a while.

0:18.0

It was great to have Mike come on the show and talk to us all about it.

0:22.0

He also shared some of his other stories that he was responsible for like the organic valley,

0:27.0

the bros, which is one of mine, all time favorite commercials that I've ever seen.

0:30.0

So he gets into some of that and we talk about marketing and advertising and then the future of liquid death.

0:36.0

But this is a company that we decided to partner up because one, we didn't have anything in the water space.

0:41.0

And two, we love companies that are disrupting their space.

0:45.0

And you have somebody who's coming in and doing something different in the water space like liquid death.

0:51.0

And we just absolutely love not only how they're marketing and what they're doing,

0:55.0

but then also what the brand stands for and what they're trying to do on the positive side.

0:59.0

So I didn't know this until we met Mike and I started doing my own research on plastic

1:05.0

and how you recycle plastic versus aluminum. And I didn't realize.

1:09.0

Oh, plastic bottles are, I think three problem, man.

1:12.0

Three percent of a plastic bottle is recycled.

1:15.0

Three percent. And if you look at the waste and the problems that plastic bottles are producing,

1:21.0

it's insane. Now aluminum on the other hand, aluminum cans are up to, are usually 70 percent recyclable.

1:28.0

They're far better in terms of conservation and better for the environment than plastic bottles.

1:35.0

And liquid death comes in a, in a can.

1:37.0

And it seems so strange like nobody's really put that together and like done this yet.

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