For the last few weeks, Katie Hess of Lotus Wei and I have been participating in a Summer Intern Program through the City of Phoenix and AZ Call-a-Teen. Funded by stimulus money, it has created opportunity on all sides. Katie & I have been looking for a way to get involved with young people, and this has been fabulous for us. Our interns are ages 16-20, studying entrepreneurism, come from diverse and challenging backgrounds, and really have that spark. It’s been a real joy. Here’s a note from Katie, our Operations Guy John, and some of the comments the interns have made about the experience.
— Lisa Reinhardt, CEO & Chocolatier at Wei of Chocolate
This summer at the Lotus Wei/Wei of Chocolate headquarters, we are fortunate to have several young, brilliant interns working as a part of our team through a special Entrepreneurial program. Lisa and I have been looking for a way to reach young people; this has been an incredibly rewarding experience. Beyond traditional business skills, we’ve tried to give them an inside look at the non-traditional sides of our business, for example: morning meditations before work, fresh-cooked meals for lunch with everybody ‘round the table together, and how to make natural products for yourself. It’s such a great feeling to have an expanded team of positivity!
— Katie Hess, Organic Alchemist at Lotus Wei
In attempting to introduce a new perspective on life to the interns, I myself was exposed to a thoroughly new mode of self-expression: working with them turned out to be totally tight. The bank they made for us was bomb. They never cramped my swagger; they got so much done we're now so 2010, when everyone else is so two thousand then. Sweet!
— John, Operations at Lotus Wei/Wei of Chocolate
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