Julia Collins

So what I hadn't been able to do was access my anger in a productive way.

So as soon as I left Zoom and even the months before, I started a journaling practice, which I had never had.

I never liked having a journal because I felt like it was where you write down all your sad thoughts and it just makes you sad.

So I didn't do it.

But I began to read about Octavia Butler and all these incredible women and thinkers.

Steve Jobs, who had these like journaling practices.

And in those journals, you can see like the earliest vision for Moonshot, which is my snack company, which was really based on the experience of having this tiny baby, being someone who was so passionate about saving the planet and realizing that I needed to do something in this lifetime to make that happen.

I had this vision for changing the way food worked, which was a through line.

And I thought, what if we could actually start with snacks?

you know, 95% of Americans snack every day.

Snacks are the bulk of our calories.

If we could change snacks, maybe we could change the world.

And you'll see in those journals, like these early little glimmers,

of what Moonshot wanted to be.

Oh, so every day I had to battle those demons.

One of the biggest ones was, will anyone want to invest in me after Zoom?

And I'm so blessed that I have four investors.

But interesting that you didn't know that, that you even questioned that.

I questioned it.

I questioned it.