Episode 146
This week, we're sitting down with Rachael Dillon, co-founder of Mary and Jane (a hemp-derived edibles company) and mom of two boys who splits her time between Minneapolis and Costa Rica as a "millennial snowbird." Rachael shares what it's like to train for the Boston Marathon in Costa Rican heat, run a startup with just two full-time employees, and simplify life by living without Amazon deliveries for months at a time.
In this honest conversation, Rachael opens up about accidentally starting a cannabis company, leaving corporate burnout for yoga teacher training (and hating teaching yoga), and the moment her co-founder called to say "let's pivot.” We talk about making up bedtime stories about spaghetti and shoes, getting organic farm delivery and fresh tuna from "the fish guy," the sandwich shop theory of bringing intensity everywhere you go, and why simplifying life in Costa Rica means wearing the same thing every day.
What We Cover:
Why she wakes up before 6am to sneak out for marathon training runs (sometimes 19 miles in brutal heat) or surf sessions where stingrays swim underneath you.
How she and her co-founder Laura started a weed company even though neither of them likes weed, and the Timberwolves game that almost ruined everything.
Her days of walking kids to school down a dirt road in Costa Rica, working from the cafe next door, and managing a Chicago newspaper ad remotely from a beach town.
The bedtime ritual of "best and worst" to recap the day plus making up stories about random topics like spaghetti and shoes (future children's book idea).
How her kindergartener's teacher said "that's amazing, you absolutely should do that" when she worried about pulling him out mid-year for Costa Rica.
The sandwich shop theory: you'll bring the same intensity to an ice cream shop that you bring to corporate, so sometimes you just have to say no to Spanish lessons.
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