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IT'S INEVITABLE TO EXPERIENCE DOUBT AND THOSE THAT WILL DOUBT YOU... BUT HOW DO WE OVERCOME IT? 

Today, Kara Goldin - Founder & CEO of Hint, Inc, is revealing the secrets (yes, plural) to how she's overcome her own self-doubt and those that have doubted her on her journey. 

Kara has received numerous accolades, including being named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California and one of InStyle’s 2019 Badass 50.  Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping Partnerships at America Online. She hosts the podcast The Kara Goldin Show. Her first book, Undaunted:  Overcoming Doubts and Doubters, was released October 2020 and is now a WSJ and Amazon Best Seller.

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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