Hannah Mendoza
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I saw through the fact that I came to our first meeting practically barefoot and still believed that I could run a successful company.
Of course. Of course I remember. I mean, it was probably the biggest thing I'd done at that point, coming to a house and meeting with you. I remember being... Kind of in a disbelief at the situation I was in. It felt like only yesterday that I was working on our website during the day and working at a pizza restaurant in Oakland at nighttime and doing events on the weekend.
Honestly, we were still actually very much in that very early phase when we met. And I'm really grateful that you were actually able to... you know, see the potential in something that, frankly, at the time was, it was still very much in its infancy.
It's all going to be good. I just have to say, you reminded me of the Birkenstock moment. And my first thought was, what on earth was I thinking? I think I wore Birkenstocks and a linen jumpsuit in the morning and being like, well, this is the least wrinkled thing that I have. This is going to be very impressive.
So you basically saw through the fact that I came to our first meeting practically barefoot and still believed that I could run a successful company.
I mean, all this really started with me moving to California, which was the biggest and most transformative decision of my life. From? I grew up just outside of London. I never really found my people there. I had a bit of a rough time in high school. I was a strange child.
Um... I wasn't very good at picking up on societal norms and conforming to them in a way that made it easier to fit in. It was very, very quirky. And I think it's hard when you're a teenager, when you're a young child, to have that before people value those traits in people.
I was so close to fitting in and I would just say something really bizarre or do something strange and then you kind of go back to the bottom of the social ladder.
Oh my gosh. I had so many schemes. The first one, which couldn't be further from what I'm doing now is I would buy cookies from Costco and I would buy whipped cream and I would, this was all for charity, but I would set up a table at lunchtime and resell these cookies from Costco with whipped cream on top of them for a, you know, for a bit of a margin.
18.
Well, I'd never actually really been here before. I had no friends, no family here, but I had watched, I think, maybe one or two episodes of The O.C. at the time. And that was absolutely enough to take me over the edge. Oh, my gosh. It was honestly completely on a whim.
It was that kind of, you know, 18-year-old decision that I'm actually very grateful, you know, brain hemispheres aren't completely fused yet at that age. If I tell you, when my plane touched down in LAX, I listened to Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus in my headphones.
california coming home every single time in my head and i would just go i'm home okay so you come here you're 18 you get here california dreaming party in the usa yes it changed me very in a very massive way very very quickly when i got here i mean i've never been on a single hike i'd never pitched a tent i was frankly i was smoking marlboro reds and would casually put back like a bottle of tequila on the weekend that was just when i was in london we started going clubbing when i was 14. it
It was just a very, very different lifestyle. And I thought that was it.
I mean, within a year of being here, I'd moved into a house of 11 women who all had their armpit hair intact. The house was strewn with these kombucha scobies growing from jars. And we were doing plant meditations. We were making herbal tinctures. I started surfing. And my idea of a big night out after a year in California was a potluck that ended in a sing-along. It was nothing.
No one will make up. Everyone worship nature. And God, you know, it's such a trope, but it did change my life. And I felt what it felt like to actually feel good in my body and my mind. And I'm sure, you know, it can be a little eye rolling, but I did feel like a different person. As an agnostic atheist, you know, we're all desperately searching for meaning.
And in that community that I found, I'd never experienced what community felt like. And it was, you know, it was transformational for me.
Yeah.
Well, I was still very ambitious, loaded word as we know, but I always have been. And even through the more kind of earthy phase, I started my first kind of proper job while I was still in college. It was at a regenerative agriculture-based superfood company. So again, could it be any more stereotypical, but it was hard work. I was their first employee. And the role was, hey, grow the company.
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