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This Is Karen Hunter

S E363: Mikaila Ulmer is the Bees Knees!

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Mikaila Ulmer, who has been in business since age 4, talks about the evolution of "Me and the Bees" and her new book, Bee Fearless.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. She is 15 years old. I remember her when she was 11, but she started her business at the age of 4.

0:17.0

So some of you need to step your game up.

0:20.0

The name of the company, me and the bees, Lemon lemonade let me welcome to the show for the first I think you've been on before

0:26.8

Michaela Ohmer

0:28.2

Welcome to the Karen Hunter show

0:31.0

Hello, glad to be here. How are you? I'm good. I think we're stuck or frozen, but that's okay. This is a radio show, so it doesn't matter whether we can see you. And that speaks to that, right? How do you do your business right you're

0:43.0

you how do you do your business right your lemonade business you you have

0:47.0

bottled lemonade is delicious it's amazing from during this pandemic. How has that shifted your business?

0:56.0

Well, my lemonade is called me in the be use,

0:59.0

and so it's sold in around 1500 stores in 40 states.

1:04.4

And so because of, and that included stores,

1:07.4

restaurants, cafes, and some cafeterias,

1:10.2

but because of COVID, we were preparing for the busiest time of the year we call it

1:14.8

lemonade season but a lot of those restaurants and cafes their doors were closed

1:20.4

and so they couldn't really carry the product they couldn't buy the

1:23.1

products either and so what we had to do is what running the company is

1:27.6

looking like now is finding other points of distribution or other grocery stores

1:32.4

and places where people are already shopping so they don't have to go to another location to get it.

1:37.3

They kind of can get it into one stop. So that's what we're doing and then also doing it online like a lot of other companies have

1:44.3

shifted to so more e-commerce and that's an interesting process of learning.

1:50.3

Hi Michaela, this is

1:53.0

Cina co-host on Thursdays here. So nice to meet you and I love your story. I also love

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