Hi, I'm Michael Gonzalez, and I went from bagging groceries to $100 million worth of sales,

and I'm one of the passionate few.

I love the interview today.

I hope people get inspired, really learn from my humble beginnings on how to build the business,

all the mindset necessary to

really go for your dreams and become one of the passionate few.

Hey guys, welcome to this episode of the Passionate View podcast. Today we have one of my good

friends. He's a badass online entrepreneur who sold over $100 million worth of tea.

But more importantly, he's a good human being none other than my good

friend michael gonzalez aka t ceo on instagram mike thanks so much for being on the show today

man thank you man appreciate you excited to unpack your story here let's do it now before we get

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the audience a little bit of context because you built at a time on social media, one of the fastest

growing e-commerce companies leveraging influencer marketing, people likeiley jenner kim kardashian i mean

the list goes on and on and on but for people who maybe haven't heard of you a lot of them probably

heard of the product so can you give a little context as to your claim to fame so to speak so i claim to

fame is fit tea talks wellness brand i started in 2013 and And it was basically a brainchild of necessity at the time. I was trying to lose weight. And I was dabbling in e-com and SEO. And I really didn't know what path I was going on. I was working on a job I didn't really like. And I was always like an entrepreneur, but didn't really know which path I wanted to go. And then someone was like, oh, you should try detox teas to lose weight. And I was always like an entrepreneur, but didn't really know which path I wanted to go.

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