Power Project EP. 134 - Zevia CEO Paddy Spence

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🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Paddy Spence is the CEO of Zevia, a company that makes naturally sweetened sodas using Stevia. He completely cut sugar out of his diet over 17 years ago and is passionate about helping other people become healthy. He obtained his MBA from Harvard University and at the age of 25 became the first head of sales and marketing for Kashi when they only had 7 employees. He then found SPINS, the first market research company tracking sales of healthy, natural, and organic foods. Then later, moved onto growing Zevia through his passion to lead a healthy lifestyle and to help others lead theirs. ➢SHOP NOW: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots ➢Subscribe Rate & Review on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-bells-power-project/id1341346059?mt=2 ➢Listen on Stitcher Here: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mark-bells-power-project?refid=stpr ➢Listen on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/music/m/Izf6a3gudzyn66kf364qx34cctq?t=Mark_Bells_Power_Project ➢Listen on SoundCloud Here: https://soundcloud.com/markbellspowerproject FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell Follow The Power Project Podcast ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MarkBellsPowerProject Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz

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0:00.0	Pretty good workout we got in there. It was awesome. Building up the chest, building up to pex. Yeah, I'm still sticky from the workout. You got a little sticky. You got some of that zevia on you? Yeah, I smell like cream soda. It's actually not a bad smell I think we're going to start selling that as a cologne
0:17.5	A car freshener would be great. Well, you know what? We have an employee who she loves the grape and she pours it in the back of her car as an air freshener.
0:25.2	Just saying. That's awesome. Yeah, we actually just got jiggly with it. We got that stuff all over the place and I was like I got it in my
0:35.2	eyes and I got it all over my arms and everything and it's not sticky.
0:40.3	No and I was able to pick the cans up after the workout. I was a little worried about that.
0:44.0	It didn't burn my eyes, so I don't know what the heck's in the stuff, but it's not whatever's in regular soda, that's for sure.
0:52.0	No, it's the good stuff.
0:54.0	How did some of this come to be?
0:56.0	How did you end up passionate about health and passionate about,
1:02.0	you know, supplying people with such a product.
1:04.4	I guess let's kind of take us back to the beginning.
1:06.7	Where did some of this interest start?
1:08.7	Well, you know, it really started.
1:09.7	I think for me as a kid wanting to be into athletics,
1:13.8	wanting to be healthy, not being very good at throwing,
1:17.3	kicking, catching, hitting a ball with a stick.
1:20.4	Just not good at a few things.
1:21.6	Not good at any of those sports that people love and saying,
1:24.3	geez, there's got to be something that I can do
1:26.8	that is going to agree with my body.
1:29.1	And then finally I got into endurance and individual sports
1:32.2	and things like running and wrestling didn't involve a ball and so I was better at a day one.
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