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Apr 2021
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How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of H...

Guy Raz | Wondery
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After giving up diet soda, Kara Goldin started adding fresh fruit to her drinking water to make it more fun. This inspired her to create Hint water, a line of unsweetened flavored water beverages that are now available in over 30,000 stores nationwide. Kara shares how sales have almost doubled as Hint invested in e-commerce during the pandemic, and offers he ... Show More
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