11 year old Mikaila Ulmer is the founder of her own successful brand Me & The Bees Lemonade. Miss Ulmer ‘s backstory is very interesting! She used her motivation of being stung by a bee and her great grandmas recipe for lemonade to fuel her. She started off by selling her drink in a local restaurant. Her product differs from an average lemonade because instead of using sugar or artificial sweeteners, Mikaila decided to use all natural honey. Another big aspect of her company is that she uses a portion of the profits to go towards efforts across the nation to help save the bees and their ecosystems. Hence the use of honey and goal of saving the bees lead to creation of her company name.

Eventually, with enough success, she was able to appear on CNBC’s Shark Tank and was able to win over and convince one of the Shark’s to invest in her company. As of recent she has made a huge deal with Whole Foods. Whole Foods is a giant in the grocery store industry right now. Whole Foods gave her an 11 million dollar deal to shelve her lemonade in the southeastern region (55 of their stores), and if the product does well Whole Foods will go nation wide with her lemonade. It is simply amazing that someone as young as Mikaila is able to address an issue she cares about and transform it into something meaningful.

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