When most people get stung by a bee, they get annoyed and mad at bees. This however, was not the case for Mikaila Ulmer. After getting stung by a bee she began to get curious and wanted to learn more. Around the same time her family suggested that she should come up with an idea to submit for a children’s business competition. She decided to use her grandma’s cookbook for the 1940’s and incorporate honey into the lemonade recipe. That was the start of her successful business. She became successful pretty quick and decided to donate a percentage of the profits to local and international organizations fighting hard to save the honeybees. She continued to do well, and went on the show Shark Tank. She got an offer of $60,000 from Daymond and accepted it. Since airing on shark tank, her company made a deal worth over 11 million dollars and continues to thrive to this day. She still felt that she could do more to help the bees, so she helped out the Healthy Hive Foundation, a nonprofit to further help the mission of saving the pollinators. 

Two words I would use to describe Mikalia would be caring and hardworking. I would describe her as caring because she truly wants to help the bee community. Instead of getting mad at the bees for getting stung, she wanted to learn more. She was able to incorporate bees honey into lemonade and by doing this was able to support organizations that helped honey bees. She had a passion towards them and cared for them so she had to help out. She uses the slogan “Buy a Bottle…Save a Bee.” I would describe her as hard working because of how young she was when she started her business. Her parents suggested that she entered a business competition, and this created her product. While she was working on her business, she was still at school learning.