“I tried [a 9-5] for four years at a medical company in Minnesota. And the first year or two was fun, exciting and new, and the money was decent and all was well. But after the third and fourth year, I just felt like I was in jail.”
“I started looking at the stats on plastic waste just from laundry detergent, and there’s about a billion jugs purchased in North America every year. And the absolute best end of the stats that I can find is about 30% are recycled in any capacity, so 10% are actually physically repurposed into new stuff.”
“I started looking at the stats on plastic waste just from laundry detergent, and there’s about a billion jugs purchased in North America every year. And the absolute best end of the stats that I can find is about 30% are recycled in any capacity, so 10% are actually physically repurposed into new stuff.”
“I started looking at the stats on plastic waste just from laundry detergent, and there’s about a billion jugs purchased in North America every year. And the absolute best end of the stats that I can find is about 30% are recycled in any capacity, so 10% are actually physically repurposed into new stuff.”
“I think we’re all really creative beings and to stunt or ignore one side of ourselves because society says we have to have a label of what we love to do or title, I think is really old fashioned.”
“I wanted to create a solution that was scalable. And for me, that means not just, environmentally scalable, where as we get bigger, we are better for the planet instead of being worse. But also one that is financially scalable, so that it allows for that type of growth and the type of catalytic impact that we want to see at a national and a global scale.”
World Toilet Day (November 19th) raises awareness of the fact that roughly 4.2 billion people are living without access to safely managed sanitation. Isabel was extremely bothered by this statistic, so she and her co-founder decided to build a company to tackle this problem at its root.
World Toilet Day (November 19th) raises awareness of the fact that roughly 4.2 billion people are living without access to safely managed sanitation. Isabel was extremely bothered by this statistic, so she and her co-founder decided to build a company to tackle this problem at its root.
“Research shows that leaders with any sense of humor are seen as 27% more motivating and admired than those who don’t joke around. Their employees are 15% more engaged, and their teams are more than twice as likely to solve a creativity challenge — all of which can translate into improved performance.”
“I think introverts and I think extroverts—we all do it without realizing—we jump in and share our experience before we show an interest in the other person’s experience. And yet we know our experience. So don’t we want to learn about other people?”