Practicing Your Values as a Conscious Entrepreneur Existing in a Profit-Focused World with Lopa van der Mersch

WHATS IN TODAYS EPISODE:
Lopa van der Mersch (Founder and CEO of Rasa) joins Natalie for a conversation around living your values in a profit-focused world. Whether she’s pushing the envelope of earth-friendly compostable packaging, building a forward-thinking sustainable supply chain, or re-imagining a new level of customer care, Lopa is always working to be a socially conscious entrepreneur. Her effort paid dividends: her adaptogenic coffee alternative company, Rasa, has seen triple-digit growth every year since their launch. Within this episode you will be provided with value, insights and education that can help you to embody and practice consciously sustainable practices within your personal and professional life by someone who is already doing the thing!

QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
We respond to our bodies in many ways that we do the earth, where we are extracting more resources that is sustainable and not putting enough back in.

Integrity is about energy. Living out of integrity to our values is a tremendous energy leak. 

If you're being unsustainable to yourself your business is going to come out being unsustainable in some shape or form.

Remember to take breaks from the game and be really attentive to stewarding your energy. When you are more connected to source you will have that right motive much more naturally in terms of the decisions you make in being a sustainable business.


LEARN MORE ABOUT LOPA AND HER WORK:
Lopa van der Mersch is many things: Serial entrepreneur. Mother of two. Sustainability advocate. TEDx speaker. Recovering cult member. Three years ago, she added a new chapter: Founder and CEO of Rasa, the adaptogenic coffee alternatives revolutionizing people’s relationship to energy. 2015 was what Lopa now calls “her own personal 2020” — she left a cult, had emergency surgery while pregnant, lost a family member, and had a traumatic birth. Beaten down and exhausted, she needed a source of energy that could sustain her without burnout, crashes, or jitters. What she needed didn’t exist, so she worked with a clinical herbalist and Rasa was born: adaptogen-rich blends that nourish & energize while providing enough rich, roasty flavor to convert even the most devoted coffee fanatic. What started with a mom elbow-deep in herbs in her kitchen is now a movement, with triple-digit YoY growth and over 100K customers worldwide.

https://wearerasa.com/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lopa-van-der-mersch/

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The first functional coffee alternative: energize with adaptogens, not caffeine!
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ABOUT NATALIE BRITE:
I’m an educator, mentor, writer, and speaker for topics of ethical entrepreneurship and sustainable development. I specialize in strategic planning and systems integration, branding, marketing, service development and delivery, and social entrepreneurship.  Learn more about Natalie here: https://www.nataliebrite.com/about-page

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