{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"59 - D(g)B welcomes Cindi Bigelow, President and CEO of Bigelow Tea","description":"Kelly & Lara could not be more thrilled to welcome Bigelow Tea\u2019s President and CEO Cindi Bigelow to D(g)B. If you haven\u2019t 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\u2019s 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\u2019s leadership, becoming zero waste, BLM & diversity. We learn how COVID impacted Bigelow and the good that\u2019s come from this experience plus their programs for supporting the troops, sustainability, giving back, and even more in this fantastic episode. It didn\u2019t 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: \u201cYou\u2019re not going to be great unless you have other people who are pushing you forward.\u201d  \u201cIf everyone thought about the greater good every day, the world would be a much better place.\u201d We couldn\u2019t agree more, Cindi.  ","author_name":"Doing (good) Business","author_url":"https:\/\/www.DoingGoodBusiness.com","html":"