Kelly & Lara could not be more thrilled to welcome Bigelow Tea’s President and CEO Cindi Bigelow to D(g)B. If you haven’t heard of Bigelow Tea, you may have been living under a rock for the past several decades! Bigelow is the #1 specialty tea company in America producing 2 billion tea bags a year - and they are a Certified B Corporation! Cindi is the 3rd generation President and CEO of Bigelow, which was started by her grandmother over 75 years ago, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, let alone founded companies!

Cindi is a leader who truly walks her talk. She runs her company in a way that reflects the family’s values and beliefs, and you can just feel the authenticity. 

Bigelow is 100% family owned, has 400 employees, and manufacturing, packaging, & blending are all done in the US.

In this episode, we talk about resilience, Cindi’s leadership, becoming zero waste, BLM & diversity. We learn how COVID impacted Bigelow and the good that’s come from this experience plus their programs for supporting the troops, sustainability, giving back, and even more in this fantastic episode. It didn’t even take 5 minutes to get to the first of many mic drops from Cindi in this episode. 

Did you know?

• Bigelow Tea is headquartered in Fairfield, CT (which is attached to one of their three plants) and has a community garden that feeds hundreds in their area through donations to a local homeless shelter - and Cindi had to negotiate to get 1 tomato per year!
• Cindi visits the places where the tea and other ingredients are sourced - AND she takes her sales & marketing folks, so they can be a part of the product in all ways possible
• You can learn some cool Bigelow tea tricks like Kelly did! Check out Tea Time with Cindi

Two, of several, mic drop moments:

• “You’re not going to be great unless you have other people who are pushing you forward.” 
• “If everyone thought about the greater good every day, the world would be a much better place.”

We couldn’t agree more, Cindi.