ENTREPRENEUR with Anjali Bhargava: Being your own boss, navigating minefields, and how to create a product you believe in

Julie and Casey sit down with Anjali Bhargava, founder of Anjali's Cup, to talk about her journey as an entrepreneur. Along the way they discuss the power of names, the joys and perils of being your own boss, and what it takes to bring your work to the world without losing yourself and what matters.  

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TOP TAKEAWAYS

• Entrepreneurship means you get to be your own boss. It also means you have to be your own boss.
• One of the biggest challenges of entrepreneurship is figuring out how you work best: where your time is best spent, whether you work better alone or in a team.  Learning to work with instead of against that is crucial.   (And get a coach.)
• The secret to sustainable entrepreneurship? Sleep.  Sleep and down time. You NEED that space and regeneration to keep going. Self - Care is sometimes massage and splurges, but the cornerstone is sleep, nutrition, and movement. 
• Entrepreneurship is about choosing how you make money, but it’s also the ability to choose how you want to make impact.  Those two things may not be the same thing.
• When people keep saying your name wrong or avoiding saying your name — use it to name your product.  :)
• LESSON: How (and why) to suck.

 

Made with reverence from the roots up, Anjali’s Cup blends nourish from the inside out. Uniting modern science with Eastern wisdom and a passion for well-balanced, sustainably sourced, organic ingredients; enjoy blends that look as good as they taste and taste as good as they will make you feel. Like a hug in a cup, they are soothing, refreshing, and harmonized to support you. Resilience® Turmeric Elixir, our signature blend, was born from a genuine desire to create something that would nourish the body, nurture the soul, and taste divine. 

 

Anjali Bhargava is the founder of Anjali’s Cup, a company grounded in the belief that there is a ton of benefit in nourishing our roots with a bit of daily turmeric. Her blends, including her 2 chai masalas are an easy, safe, and delicious way to do this. 

 

Anjali is deeply influenced by her Indian heritage; her relationship to food, wellness, and the art of well-balanced ingredients is infused with the traditions, philosophy, and practice of her family’s culture. Anjali’s reverence for turmeric began as a child watching her mother use the magical golden powder in almost everything. As an adult, she returned to the sacred turmeric root for support during her own health challenges and developed a recipe that was easy to use, versatile, and more potent and delicious than anything she could find in the market. 

 

Anjali lives in Harlem, NYC with her rescue cat Elaichi.