Lit With Lo
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Erika Welsh, Co-founder of Wild Friends (@wild_friends): Behind the Scenes of Shark Tank, Dropping Out of College to Found a Nut Butter Business, & Celebrating 10 Years of Wild Friends with Her Best Friend
Erika Welsh is one of the co-founders of Wild Friends. Wild Friends is a female-founded natural foods company that specializes in nut butters. Erika and her best friend Keeley started the company in 2011 when they were college students in Eugene, OR. Wild Friends makes a variety of nut & seed butters with simple, friendly ingredients. They are a Certified B-Corp and have a giveback program called Fuel Her Future where they donate 1% of their sales to programs that help to empower women and girls to chase their dreams.
In this episode, we talk about dropping out of college to follow a dream and get into all the details behind the scenes of their appearance on Shark Tank!
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