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How Honey, Hustle, and Hard Lessons Built a $10M Brand | Jack Espy
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Join our community of fearless leaders in search of unreasonable outcomes...
- Want to become a FEARLESS entrepreneur and leader? Go here: https://www.findingpeak.com
- Watch on YouTube: https://link.ryanhanley.com/youtube
When COVID shut the world down, Jack Espy lost his job, mixed a cocktail, and accidentally discovered the idea that would change his life.
Connect with Jack Espy
- Spirited Hive: https://www.spiritedhive.com
- Strive Sode: https://strivesoda.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jack_espy/?hl=en
Fast-forward five years and he’s running Spirited Hive and Strive Soda — two honey-sweetened beverage brands rewriting the “better-for-you” playbook.
In this unfiltered conversation, Jack and Ryan Hanley dig into:
- How to turn early failure into a profitable foundation
- Why naïveté can be a founder’s secret weapon
- The brutal truth about distribution, marketing, and shelf space
- Building slow, selling smart, and setting up for acquisition
- What “better-for-you” really means (and what it doesn’t)
This one’s part business therapy, part entrepreneurial bloodsport.
Grab a drink, settle in, and take notes.
Because growth done right still takes sweat, humility, and a little honey.
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- Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing: https://link.ryanhanley.com/riverside
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- Perspective.co: The #1 funnel builder for lead generation: https://link.ryanhanley.com/perspective
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- From $2 Million Loss to World-Class Entrepreneur: https://lnk.to/delk
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Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Manage episode 519032492 series 134168
Join our community of fearless leaders in search of unreasonable outcomes...
- Want to become a FEARLESS entrepreneur and leader? Go here: https://www.findingpeak.com
- Watch on YouTube: https://link.ryanhanley.com/youtube
When COVID shut the world down, Jack Espy lost his job, mixed a cocktail, and accidentally discovered the idea that would change his life.
Connect with Jack Espy
- Spirited Hive: https://www.spiritedhive.com
- Strive Sode: https://strivesoda.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jack_espy/?hl=en
Fast-forward five years and he’s running Spirited Hive and Strive Soda — two honey-sweetened beverage brands rewriting the “better-for-you” playbook.
In this unfiltered conversation, Jack and Ryan Hanley dig into:
- How to turn early failure into a profitable foundation
- Why naïveté can be a founder’s secret weapon
- The brutal truth about distribution, marketing, and shelf space
- Building slow, selling smart, and setting up for acquisition
- What “better-for-you” really means (and what it doesn’t)
This one’s part business therapy, part entrepreneurial bloodsport.
Grab a drink, settle in, and take notes.
Because growth done right still takes sweat, humility, and a little honey.
--
Recommended Tools for Growth
- OpusClip: #1 AI video clipping and editing tool: https://link.ryanhanley.com/opus
- Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing: https://link.ryanhanley.com/riverside
- WhisperFlow: Never waste time typing on your keyboard again: https://link.ryanhanley.com/whisperflow
- CaptionsApp: One app for all your social media video creation: https://link.ryanhanley.com/captionsapp
- GoHighLevel: It's time to take your business workflow to the Next Level: https://link.ryanhanley.com/gohighlevel
- Perspective.co: The #1 funnel builder for lead generation: https://link.ryanhanley.com/perspective
--
Episodes You Might Enjoy:
- From $2 Million Loss to World-Class Entrepreneur: https://lnk.to/delk
- From One Man Shop to $200M in Revenue: https://lnk.to/tommymello
- Is Psilocybin the Gateway to Self-Mastery? https://lnk.to/80upZ9
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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