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Kara Goldin is the Founder of Hint Inc., a beverage company most known for Hint Water, an award-winning unsweetened water with hints of fruit. Kara has been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. She is an active speaker, writer, and host of her podcast, The Kara Goldin Show, where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and other disruptors across various industries. Kara is the author of the best-selling book, Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters.

In this episode…

Do you have a fire burning in your belly? You’ve always desired to be successful and live out your dreams unapologetically. But, unfortunately, life isn’t a smooth road. You will often encounter speed bumps in your journey, some of which are negative individuals telling you no or filling your head with doubts. So, how do you move forward when that happens?

Business leader and self-made entrepreneur Kara Goldin embraced persistence and courage to overcome obstacles. At the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey, corporate decision-makers who could help Kara realize her dreams became her biggest naysayers. As a result, she had to pivot and became undaunted!

In today’s episode of The Growth Fire Podcast, host Marc Reifenrath welcomes the Founder of Hint Water, Kara Goldin, to discuss conquering your fears and convincing skeptics. Kara shares her journey into entrepreneurship, what fuels her success, what it means to be undaunted, and thoughts on her first best-selling book.

In this episode, Kara Goldin joined Ashley Crouch. Kara is the founder and CEO of the number one non-alcoholic beverage in America, Hint Inc., a thirst-quenching unsweetened flavored water. She just closed her Series D round of funding. Kara now offers a product line available in over 30,000 Brick-and-Mortar stores while doubling its online revenue during the Covid-19 Pandemic. She is an author of the new Wall Street Journal best-selling book "Undaunted: overcoming doubts and doubters."

In this episode, Ashley and Kara discussed the following topic: How to ask bold questions to find critical solutions, how to hire when you are scaling quickly, overcoming impostor syndrome, and staying relentless.   

Learn how to live undaunted through this conversation with Kara. It is time to dig into this episode and start learning.  

Today’s key takeaways are:

• Start a company and build a team through curiosity, an idea, and a solution to solve something.
• Recognize the challenges, know your market and industry, and focus on improving your product.  
• Placing labels to disqualify people from doing things happens all the time.
• Focus on your customer and understand who they are and what they want to create success
• Empathy can create innovation.
• Figure out how to educate buyers about your products to gain more customers or audience
• Adding the system in place to set up automation for safety aside from adding people
• Being curious and asking questions can lead to many answers to your concerns along the way.
• Live undaunted and try things. Set your mind to things to figure out how to knock walls down to keep moving forward.

Link

Hint Inc. - https://www.drinkhint.com/pages/our-story

Book Undaunted by Kara Goldin - https://amzn.to/2Zs7bGw

In this episode, you'll hear from Kara Goldin, Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., known for its award-winning healthy-alternative beverage, Hint Water. Kara's Undaunted spirit has brought much success to her San Francisco-based business, and she has been named one of InStyle's Badass 50, Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. Hear how she found funding for Hint by being Undaunted. See Show Notes to access the resources shared on this episode.

Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc. – makers of Hint Water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She is also the bestselling author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters, which was released October 2020.

Kara’s career has seen her in magazine circulation for Time Magazine, Sales for CNN, and as a VP for AOL before founding Hint. Her accolades include being named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.

We spoke about her book, the fact that it was released during the pandemic, how the passing of her editor at the same time, all while having 5 kids, and running her business has impacted her. Kara told us how being curious from an early age helped her with problem-solving and really helps her not only stand on good footing with her employees, but also helps motivate her every day to continue to learn and grow.

Kara spent much of her childhood in Arizona, graduated from Arizona State University, and currently lives in the bay area. She shares her knowledge and experience through public speaking, mentoring, and hosting her own podcast, The Kara Goldin Show.

Books that she recommends are Superman’s Not Coming by Erin Brockovich, Originals by Adam Grant, and Can’t Even by Anne Helen Peterson.

You can buy her book Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters here.

Kara Goldin, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hint Inc., adds her page to the Marketing Playbook. Hear how to set ambitious and reasonable goals, gain a solid understanding of your finances, how not to fear failure, Kara's time at AOL, and the biggest lessons from her entrepreneurial journey. Connect with Kara on social media at @KaraGoldin and buy her book at UndauntedTheBook.com and on Amazon