I took an idea and a vision and I created a product that is sold
in thirty states and I made over a half million dollars in revenue
before I went to Darden
I worked on Wall Street in distressed debt and restructuring
Darden changed my life it gave me an opportunity to hit the reset button it
allowed me to kinda be like
what are my core values what's really important to me
and do I want to live every day of my life with
a mission that I'm excited about during my second year at Darden
I started Lumi it's a 100 percent organic cold-pressed juice company
the majority of the juices that are on the market use heat
pasteurization and what happens is that the natural sugars
are caramelized from the heat making it difficult for your body to metabolize
them we're organic
we're cold pressed and then we're high pressure processed its supplying
extreme water pressure onto the outside packaged juice
87,000 PSI that's taking the deepest part of the ocean and multiplying it times
5 but since there's no heat the natural flavors and the natural
nutrient content isn't altered in any way the wonderful thing about
Darden and
University of Virginia is that so many of the professors are so willing to
help you when you're a student as well as help you now that I'm an alumni
we spent several days working together on developing a project plan
and then periodically following up with her and make sure that everything's on
track she did it all within 3-4 months and
and it was remarkable to see that you know you walk into a grocery store and you see a
product that came out of a student that was
in our classrooms not long ago now I consider her a friend
I see her quite often either in alumni events or just you know meeting her for
a cup of coffee or to go for a run hopefully I and just another resource for
for her on her journey one thing people would say about hillary
is perseverance she is very loyal she works super hard and
she doesn't give up there's been a lot of weeks where its been a 120 hour weeks
no vacation
the way that I looked at it is like failure isn't an option for me the
brands awesome recipes are delicious I enjoy purchasing it when I go to stores
and if you believe in something its hard for it to be a failure