Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Kashana Waples. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Kashana, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s start with a story that highlights an important way in which your brand diverges from the industry standard.

We provide consultations for our juice plans. We have so many success stories with our customers, who decide to trying juicing to heal verses standardized medicine. We provide juice plans that focus on the specific needs of the individual

Kashana, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m an author of the book, “So you think you can juice”. So before having my juice bar located in Blackwood NJ, I started juicing all types of fruits and vegetables in my home to see what flavors go well with other flavors. What fruit over powers another and how much of each ingredient to add to get just the right taste. Start writing those down and even posted some on YouTube. I then decide to study all ingredients In the juices I made. Tested out various juicers and theories on how long you can store juices. Started juicing for me, then I helped heal my girlfriend of IBS. Then through word of mouths other people with different issues came to me and they were heal or goal reached via juicing .

How did you put together the initial capital you needed to start your business?

Although, I had a master in business I quickly found out what I learned did apply to me finding the business. I didn’t have years of profit and loss statements to help find a business, I was denied any assistance from all banks I applied to for help, even my own bank. So I funded myself. Although COVID was hard for some it was a blessing for Juice Capitol. I was able to save 30,000.00 in 7 months helping people get rid of the symptoms that came along with taking the shot or actually having the virus itself. I used that money to open my own brick and mortar

What else should we know about how you took your side hustle and scaled it up into what it is today?

While working at EMR, I would juice every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday. I worked in a junkyard as a sales rep on Essington Ave in Philadelphia and while on my lunch break , I would walk next door with my rolling cart and window shop and purchase sometimes from various vendors in the Philadelphia farmers market. I would get up at 4a and juice before going to work and meet people on my lunch breaks or before and after work. Most of my Juice clients at the time were from Philly. Then on the weekends I would cut, clean, juice, discard of scraps for 14 hours then deliver or do meet ups.. I would only sale 5 days juice plans at the time

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.juicecapitol.co
• Instagram: @juicecapitol.co
• Facebook: Juice Capitol
• Youtube: Juice Capitol

Image Credits

Myself and Mayor Mayer