🥤“Unlimited Free Samples” — Poppi’s co-founder Allison Ellsworth interviews with TBOY
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Allison Ellsworth ditched the oil industry to fix her gut problems. After getting a check from Shark Tank, she launched Poppi with her husband and co-founder on Mar 3, 2020. 5 years later, she sold Poppi for $2B to Pepsi. In this episode, Allison will tell us…
- How a Texas oil gal pivoted to healthy soda
- Going on shark tank 9 months pregnant
- Why they sold on amazon instead of DTC
- Why Alix Earle loves Poppi
- Their lottery ticket Super Bowl ad that opened for Usher
- Why 5 thousand people send hand-written messages to Poppi every month
- That they give away 30k cases of free Poppi every year
- #Vendinggate and her only apology to her fans
- How Pepsi offered to acquire Poppi for $2B
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| 0:00.0 | Yeties, this is Jack. And this is not just Jack. And this is Nick. We got a special guest here, Nicholas. |
| 0:08.0 | So good. This feels so good. Yeti's Nick is back, baby. Oh, yes, I am. And yes, we are. This is just |
| 0:15.8 | fantastic. I'm so excited to see Jack. You're glowing right now. I'm not glowing right now. |
| 0:20.6 | So yeah, these, Nick got back from the hospital over the weekend. He's had, what, like 36 hours to say hi to Molly, catch your breath, get some sleep, reaclimate to the non-hospital lifestyle. |
| 0:32.0 | I actually measure everything in doses of oxycodone, Jack. I mean, Jack, this is Liberation Day. |
| 0:39.8 | Finally out of the hospital, feeling great. |
| 0:42.0 | And yet he's, Jack and I are busy right now preparing Tuesday's show daily as usual |
| 0:47.3 | three fantastic stories. |
| 0:48.7 | But Jack, why don't you tell the Yetis what we planned for today? |
| 0:50.7 | Okay, so we did an amazing interview with Allison Ellsworth, the co-founder of |
| 0:55.6 | Poppy, the soda brand that just sold to Pepsi for $2 billion. We were going to drop this episode |
| 1:00.9 | during our vacation, but we're going to give Nick an extra day to get back into the swing of |
| 1:05.7 | things. So Tuesday's pod will be our regular programming, but we basically promoted this |
| 1:10.7 | interview episode |
| 1:11.5 | to today. |
| 1:12.3 | So enjoy today's best interview yet. |
| 1:14.9 | And in the meantime, Jack and I are cooking up tomorrow's tea boy for you. |
| 1:18.2 | Nick, it's amazing soon. |
| 1:20.2 | I cannot wait for tomorrow's show, but this interview pod is also the best one yet. |
| 1:24.6 | Jack, before we go, just a quick thank you to everyone who sent in the insanely kind messages and texts and DMs over the last few days. It was so meaningful. It's amazing having your back, dude. Thanks, Jack. And thank you, Jack, for all your work. But Yeties, we're going to hit a few ads, and then we're going to start the best interview yet with the co-founder of Poppy Soda. |
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| 1:49.9 | Original from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
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