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Hi, it's Mariana and welcome back to the Life with Mariana Podcast.

In this episode, I'm joined by Trinity Moose on Wafford.

She is the co-founder and CEO of Gold.

It's a Brooklyn-born, health and beauty brand powered by superfoods.

Gold creates products ranging from latte blends to superfood masks that look good,

taste good, and help you feel like your best self.

Trinity shares how they started their business self-funded and eventually raised

money in a really thoughtful way, and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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Now let's hear from Trinity.

So Trinity, I want to know why and what made you want to start a wellness company?

Well, you know, it's funny. I feel like the journey has been a long time coming for me.

It goes back to growing up in upstate, New York, where I actually am now also, but you know,

I was raised by a single parent with a pretty severe autoimmune disease.

And when I was a teenager, my mom switched over to seeing this more holistically-minded doctor.

And you know, long story short, she saw this incredible improvement in her symptoms.

It was really like night and day.

And I had always been kind of like, I'd seen a lot of wellness growing up because I was kind of

raised by one of those like crunchy families. Like my grandmother had me on like almond butter

before. That was really a thing. But I think this was really the first moment that I truly understood

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