Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the 1970s, Roxanne Quimby was trying to live a simpler life – one that rejected the pursuit of material comforts. She moved to Maine, built a cabin in the woods, and lived off the grid. By the mid-80s, she met a recluse beekeeper named Burt Shavitz and offered to help him tend to his bees. As partners, Roxanne and Burt soon began selling their "Pure Maine Honey" at local markets, which evolved into candles made out of beeswax, and eventually lip balm and skin care products. Today, Burt's Bees can be found in thousands of grocery stores and drugstores around the U.S. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:35.0	But before we left, we put aside some really great bonus episodes for you.
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0:59.0	For today's show, we're going to reach back into the archives
1:02.0	to bring you my conversation with Roxanne Quimbee of Burt's Bees,
1:06.0	which first ran back in 2019.
1:09.0	Here you go.
1:14.0	We had a great artist and he did a woodcut portrait of Burt.
1:19.0	And we started putting that on the package.
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