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Hello everyone. Welcome back to Write Answers Mostly, a podcast on what you didn't learn in

history class but wanted to. My name's Claire Donald. My name is Tespelomo. And we have a very special episode today, a special guest. We have the

co-founder of Alice Mushroom Charlotte Cruz joining us today. Hi, Charlotte. Hi. We are so happy to have you.

So we saw a lot of ads last year for Alice Mushrooms like everywhere over

Instagram. And we just immediately were like, this is fascinating. First off, the branding is just so

good. Gorgeous. And it kind of came at a moment that, you know, both of us were very interested

in knowing more about functional mushrooms and the power of mushrooms and obviously seeing that mushrooms are very trendy in the past year.

Yes. And we're doing a whole themed month. Our theme this month is sex drugs and rock and roll. And so with the power of mushrooms, we were like there could be no better person to talk to than you.

Amazing. Well, I'm happy to talk to than you. Amazing.

Well, I'm happy to talk all things, mushrooms all the time.

Beautiful.

Yeah, we, you know, have dipped our toes in mushrooms of all types before.

Of all types, you could say.

Yeah.

But we're excited to learn more.

Can you tell listeners a little bit about yourself, about what Alice even is?

Yeah.

So Alice, we make functional mushroom chocolates.

So there's a lot to unpack there, right?

Particularly starting with what functional means.

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