Episode 42: GT Dave, Founder & CEO GT's Living Foods

Hurdle

Emily Abbate

Health & Fitness

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today, GT Dave is often referred to as the “king of kombucha.” But in late 1994, he was brewing small batches of the fermented tea in his parents’ kitchen. At the time, his mom was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of breast cancer. When she healed, she shared with doctors that she’d been drinking her son’s very pungent, homemade tea that experts said helped her fight the battle. As a teenager, GT became one of the first people to mass market the beverage. Today, kombucha sales exceed $600 million globally according to Inc., and GT’s commands about half of that. In episode 42, the California native talks to me about everything from gut health to changing food trends, and confesses just how much tea he’s drinking every single day. Spoiler alert: It’s a lot. SOCIAL @gtskombucha @gtdave3 @hurdlepodcast @emilyabbate OFFERS Athletic Greens | Head to athleticgreens.com/hurdle to get 20 free travel packs ($99 value) with your first purchase, no code necessary. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hurdle/message

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0:00.0	Another week, another pod.
0:03.7	What's going on, guys?
0:04.8	You're listening to episode 42 of Hurtle, a podcast that talks to everyone from
0:09.4	top CEOs and entrepreneurs to athletes about how they got through tough times,
0:13.8	hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness.
0:16.7	My name's Emily Abadi, and today I'm chatting with GT Dave.
0:20.3	He's the founder of GT's Living Foods.
0:22.8	I want to give a shout out to my sponsor, Athletic Greens.
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0:45.6	slash hurdle to claim it. No code necessary. Again, that's athletic greens.com slash hurdle.
0:52.1	I recorded this episode with Gt Dave when I was in L.A. last month, and listening back to it this
0:56.8	week, I realized just how jam-packed it is with info on everything from gut health to just finding
1:02.7	your own path and trusting the process. In today's episode of Hurtle, GT tells me that in late
1:07.8	1994, his mom, Lorraine, was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form
1:12.2	of breast cancer. When she healed, his mom shared with doctors that she had been drinking
1:16.5	a very pungent homemade tea, and that tea was GT's kombucha. Now, before we continue here,
1:22.4	a little bit on what kombucha is. It's essentially a concoction of bacteria and tea and sugar, which when I say that
1:29.3	sounds kind of questionable, but it dates back about 2,000 years ago to ancient China
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