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The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

Ep. 33 ft. Erika Welsh - Dropping Out of College for Peanut Butter AKA the Journey to Co-Founding Wild Friends Nut Butter

The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

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Balancedblondespiritualitywellness, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jordan chats with the lovely Erika Welsh, Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Wild Friends Foods, about dropping out of college to start a business (based on PEANUT BUTTER!) with your best friend, having the courage to pursue what sets your soul on fire, struggling with health issues, the healing power of REAL foods, funny stories from the early days of running a small business, how rad Portland is, the FIRST wellness blogger they ever worked with, what it was like to begin to hire a team, tips for working with your best friend, and more!

They also decided it would be fun to have a GIVEAWAY of Wild Friends products for anyone listening to this episode!! To enter the giveaway, head over to Jordan’s instagram (@thebalancedblonde) and comment on the photo she uses to promote this episode with why you want to try Wild Friends Nut Butters!

For more info, visit: www.TheBalancedBlonde.com/podcast

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Also, The GOOD Fest 2018 is coming to LA on February 3rd! It was a ton of fun this year in Philly, and Jordan can’t wait to meet even more of you in LA. She’ll be teaching Yoga, and she'll be co-teaching a second class with Sophie Jaffe!! If you have the opportunity to attend, use the code “SOULONFIRE” for a 15% discount off of your ticket (offer ends 5/31/2017).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Jordan. Welcome back to the Balanced Bond podcast, Solon Fire. Today I'm here with

0:15.5

Erica Welch. She is the co-founder of Wild Friends Nut Butter. You guys have probably seen wild

0:23.6

friends all over Instagram, all over the internet. They have the most delicious flavors. They're all

0:31.0

natural. They use organic ingredients whenever possible. And the really cool thing is that Erica

0:38.8

started the company with her best friend, Keely, just a few years ago out of their dorm room at

0:45.9

University of Oregon. So I just think that that's the coolest thing ever because they genuinely

0:52.4

started this passion project based off of peanut butter and their mutual love for crunchy peanut

1:00.0

butter and the fact that they didn't want to ride their bikes because that is so organ.

1:06.8

Ride their bikes to the grocery store to get more crunchy peanut butter so they made their own.

1:12.5

And here we are with Wild Friends. Just let's see here how many years, just six years later. And

1:21.9

I'm so impressed by everything that Erica and Keely are doing. So I had to have Erica on the podcast

1:29.5

because we've been chatting via Instagram for a long time. She knows I'm a huge fan.

1:36.1

I haven't had the chance to meet her in person yet, but next time she's here or next time I'm

1:42.0

in Portland where she lives now. We are going to meet and I can't wait. And we also decided it

1:48.4

would be really fun to do a giveaway of Wild Friends for you guys, everybody who listens to this

1:54.0

episode. So if you want to enter the giveaway, no pressure. If you just want to listen, of course,

2:00.3

but who doesn't want to do a fun giveaway, you can head over to my Instagram, the balanced blonde,

2:07.6

and find the photo that I use to promote this podcast episode. I can't say, yeah, what the

2:14.4

photo is going to be because I am so off the cuff. I just throw things up, but you'll find it. It'll

2:21.4

tag Erica. It'll tag Wild Friends and I'll make it pretty obvious that that is the place to enter.

2:27.2

So just comment on that photo telling us why you want to try Wild Friends, not butters.

2:33.6

They have amazing flavors like chocolate coconut almond butter, chocolate coconut peanut butter.

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