DiscoverFinding Peak w/ Ryan HanleyHow Honey, Hustle, and Hard Lessons Built a $10M Brand | Jack Espy
How Honey, Hustle, and Hard Lessons Built a $10M Brand | Jack Espy

How Honey, Hustle, and Hard Lessons Built a $10M Brand | Jack Espy

Update: 2025-11-12
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When COVID shut the world down, Jack Espy lost his job, mixed a cocktail, and accidentally discovered the idea that would change his life.


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Fast-forward five years and he’s running Spirited Hive and Strive Soda — two honey-sweetened beverage brands rewriting the “better-for-you” playbook.


In this unfiltered conversation, Jack and Ryan Hanley dig into:



  • How to turn early failure into a profitable foundation

  • Why naïveté can be a founder’s secret weapon

  • The brutal truth about distribution, marketing, and shelf space

  • Building slow, selling smart, and setting up for acquisition

  • What “better-for-you” really means (and what it doesn’t)


This one’s part business therapy, part entrepreneurial bloodsport.
Grab a drink, settle in, and take notes.


Because growth done right still takes sweat, humility, and a little honey.


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How Honey, Hustle, and Hard Lessons Built a $10M Brand | Jack Espy

How Honey, Hustle, and Hard Lessons Built a $10M Brand | Jack Espy

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