She Built Green Goo—Then It Was Gone | Jodi Scott‘s Founder’s Journey
What happens when the thing you built gets taken away?
Jodi Scott founded Green Goo with a simple mission: create clean, all-natural first aid products that actually work. What started in her kitchen grew into a nationally recognized brand.
And then—just like that—it was gone.
A financing deal fell apart. Ownership slipped away. And Jodi found herself on the outside of the very company she created.
Most people would walk away. Jodi didn’t.
In this episode, Jodi shares the hard-earned wisdom from the fight to reclaim what was hers—and what that battle revealed about resilience, identity, and the courage to keep going when the outcome is uncertain.
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Why This Episode Matters
Loss has a way of stripping things down to the essentials. Sometimes, what you rebuild on the other side is stronger, clearer and more aligned than what you once had.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Why losing something you built can clarify what actually matters
- The difference between ownership and identity—and why confusing the two is dangerous
- How to live a more present, focused life and why being (as opposed to doing) is vitally important today
More About Our Wise Guest – Jodi Scott
Jodi Scott is the CEO of Spry Life and founder of Green Goo, an all-natural first aid and body care company known for its commitment to clean ingredients and effective healing solutions. With a background in pre-med studies and a master’s degree in health psychology, Jodi’s work bridges science, plant medicine, and the mind-body connection. Her journey as an entrepreneur is marked not only by innovation—but by resilience, grit, and an unwavering belief in what she built. She joined us from her home near Denver, Colorado.
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Final Thought
Sometimes the story isn’t just about what you build.
It’s about what you’re willing to fight for when it’s gone.
Episode Chapters + Timestamps
[0:02:50] – The Moment That Proves It Works
Immediate, real-world impact of Green Goo.
[0:03:56] – How Skip and Jodi are connected
An email that sparked curiosity and collaboration.
[0:05:20] – From Kitchen Table to National Brand
Jodi’s origin story—family roots and early growth.
[0:07:00] – Disruption and Pivoting to a New Business Model
Grinding through challenges; fight or flight; being on high-alert.
[0:09:50] – Best Laid Plans to Losing It All (and What That Does to You)
The emotional and psychological weight of losing the company.
[0:13:30] – The Power of a Great Coach (and The Fight to Get It All Back)
The long, uncertain road to reclaiming Green Goo; Coach Tim’s guidance
[0:17:30] – The Transformation: A New Way to Lead, Think and Be
Adversity reshapes how Jodi thinks, leads, and operates; from survival to sovereignty.
[0:19:00] – The Turning Point
Putting the pieces back together; emerging from the low point, resuming production.
[0:21:45] – Changing the Business Model
An alternative go-to-market approach without retail shelf space.
[0:24:00] – Jodi Reveals Her Main Thing
The central idea that reframes everything.
[0:26:25] – Training the Mind and Body to Be Present
Practical application—how presence is built; Hint – it’s not about putting things on.
[0:28:14] – A Daughter, A Test, A Moment of Proof
A story that shows presence in action—and legacy.
[0:29:40] – Pain Points
What to look for in your life; common signs and struggles.
[0:32:00] – SHAMAN: A Simple Framework for Living Well
Jodi’s memorable system: Sleep, Hydration, Antioxidants, Mindfulness, Avoid, Nature.
[0:34:06] – What Adversity Is Really Giving You
Skip’s closing reflection—the oyster, the shell and the pearl.
Episode Keywords
Wisdom, presence, adversity, resilience, founder, nature, first aid, healing, entrepreneur, skin, pain, relief, skincare, plants, plant-based, natural, leadership, mindfulness, focus, Colorado.
Episode Transcript
Announcer (00:00:00)
Wisdom. It’s an incredibly valuable asset. Some would say more precious than gold. It’s attractive, appealing, admirable. Conversely, a lack of wisdom is the basis of immaturity, blind spots, and bad decisions.
Wisdom. It can be gained over time, but it can’t be rushed. But wisdom can be shared. That’s precisely what we are here to do right now today. We are here to hack wisdom, to distill it, to understand it, and to process it.
Why? To get better at life. Welcome to The Main Thing. This is your new wisdom podcast. I’m your host, Skip Lineberg, and I’ve set out to interview the wisest people I know.
We’ll see what we can learn from each one when they’re faced with an incredibly difficult, soul-piercing question.
Skip (00:00:58)
What happens when a company you built with your family from a kitchen table grows into a nationwide brand and then suddenly slips out of your hands? And what does it take not only to get it back, but to rebuild the way you lead, think, and live?
Welcome to The Main Thing Podcast, coming to you from Parkwood Studios in Almost Heaven, West Virginia. We gather wisdom from people who’ve walked through real life and come out the other side with insights that help the rest of us get better at this thing called life.
Today’s guest is Jodi Scott, founder of Green Goo and CEO of Spry Life, a plant-based first aid and wellness company that she built with her mother and sister from a small kitchen into a nationwide brand carried in thousands of retail locations.
With her background in premed studies and a master’s degree in health psychology, Jodi’s work bridges science, plant medicine, and the mind-body connection. But her story also includes a dramatic turning point. After losing her company during a failed sale, Jodi spent eighteen months fighting to buy it back—a season that reshaped not only the business, but her philosophies on leadership, presence, and resilience.
Today, Jodi helps leaders and families move from survival mode into a more grounded and resilient way of living.
She joined us from her home in Lyons, Colorado, about an hour north of Denver. So let’s get into it. Here’s my conversation with Jodi Scott.
Jodi Scott, welcome to The Main Thing Podcast. It’s great to spend some time with you today, and great to be on for sharing your wisdom.
Jodi Scott (00:02:47)
Thank you. It is wonderful to be here with you.
The Moment That Proves It Works
Skip (00:02:51)
My wife came home from work on a Friday—like today—and she was kind of beat up from the work week because she works in a dental office. Sometimes she sits up front and checks people in and handles the administrative side, but she’s also a utility player in the sense that she’ll act as a dental assistant when they need her to fill in.
She had done a lot of chairside work that week, and her shoulders, her upper back were just all wrecked.
And so I said, “Here, honey.” It was the day that your package had arrived. I’m like, “Let me rub your shoulders a little bit and use this as our massage oil.” And Jodi, it worked almost instantly. Two hours later—I’m not exaggerating, hand on my heart—she had no pain. It was all better that quickly.
And so, wow, that really did its job. We were blown away. Like, this stuff is for real.
Jodi Scott (00:03:50)
Beautiful. I love it. I love that you shared that.
How Skip and Jodi Are Connected
Skip (00:03:55)
I received a lovely email from you, and you mentioned that you were kind of digging what we were talking about with wisdom sharing. And then I noticed as I read further that you are a founder of a company—and we love to talk to founders because founders have so many rich and valuable stories.
And so I wrote you back, and I’m like, “This sounds like a fib. What am I leaving out?”
Jodi Scott (00:04:19)
Yeah, well, you’re spot on. And I so appreciated that—one, not just the message that you are sharing in this space and the storytelling—because our mission is spread goodness, and our vision is bringing forward time-honored traditions.
And it’s not just the plant integrity and the products themselves. It is the value of storytelling. And the way you storytell—you really create a space to just go deeper and get down under the layers. We’ll call it under the layers of the skin in the same way.
Skip (00:04:57)
And metaphor.
Jodi Scott (00:04:58)
Yes. And just bring some good content to share so that we can walk away perhaps living a life more in alignment, or more in creativity, or more in kindness.
And so yeah, those are some of the things that drew me to reaching out.
Skip (00:05:15)
Cool. Well, here we are.
From Kitchen Table to National Brand
Skip (00:05:20)
Speaking of stories, Jodi, we’re talking about Green Goo, and you’re giving me products to sample, and you’re talking about your shipping and receiving area—and everything sounds hunky-dory. But I know that it hasn’t always been that way.
And I know from our conversations that you had to overcome some adversity. And I’d love to hear you share with me and our audience just the full-on story of the decision to sell the company and then the buyback.
And I’d love if you would really pull back the curtain and take us through all the twists and turns and the emotion that was involved in that part of your founder journey.
Jodi Scott (00:06:01)
Will do. So it has been a ride.
My mom, my sister, and I started this—Green Goo—over fifteen years ago, and our mission was to reinvent first aid. We wanted to bring plant-based solutions rather than your traditional chemical-laden products and prove the plants could work better. And we really forged the path.
The term “plant-based” was not a term that people were using. The first time I sat down in front of a pharmacy buyer and said, “I’ve got a plant-based first aid for you,” he just about fell out of his seat. “Those two words, Jodi, don’t go hand in hand.”
I said, “Well, you just try it, and then you can tell me how you feel.” And it made the shelf.
So we grew to 150,000 points of distribution in less than five years. And I have a medical background—premed, master’s in health psychology. My sister’s an herbalist and a midwife. There is no business 101—no “how do you forecast a P&L” and so forth. I was very much learning on the fly.
Disruption and Pivoting to a New Business Model
(00:07:20) – Jodi Scott
And what did it mean to bring a consumer packaged good to the world in a time where there was absolutely nothing like this—and arguably still isn’t?
I was traveling three weeks out of the month, gone all the time. And the best description I can give is just fight or flight. There was always a fire.
Skip (00:07:28)
And you’re constantly waking up. I can relate. I call it being on high alert.
Jodi Scott (00:07:33)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Well then the pandemic happens, and we are pretty much all retail. If you have poison ivy, you go to your local pharmacy to get your first aid solution. At the time, we weren’t shopping online the way we do today.
And in a matter of weeks, no one’s going into stores. And I looked at my team of almost 50 people, and I thought, “I might have to let you all go.”
Skip (00:08:00)
Oh.
Jodi Scott (00:08:00)
And we just pivoted beautifully. The team—it’s a testament to a strong culture and strong values—we were able to pivot very quickly, build an online platform when the whole world’s trying to build an online platform…
Skip (00:08:16)
Like a race. It was an arms race.
Jodi Scott (00:08:20)
And I’m not kidding you—we probably had eleven shipping locations, including employees shipping from their homes so that we could bridge the gap to get to a formal facility. We were shipping till three, four in the morning—mother-in-law, mom, dad, all of us.
And we did it, though. We made it. And we did not have to let go a single employee.
Skip (00:08:46)
So you guys are just bootstrapping—everybody, all hands on deck to get product to market, going from retail to B2C, right? Straight to consumer through the web.
Jodi Scott (00:08:59)
And protecting the integrity of our process because we’re still bringing the plants to the manufacturing facility and extracting them ourselves, which really goes outside of a traditional manufacturing SOP.
Skip (00:09:09)
I can’t even imagine how much that’s true.
Jodi Scott (00:09:13)
Yes.
And so we get through the pandemic, and I recognize—I see all of these companies that failed, friends’ companies—and truly, the ones that were able to insulate themselves are the leaders in the OTC space. They’re huge companies. They can insulate risk.
And I knew that if another pandemic came or another situation arose, we weren’t going to be able to weather it. And so we needed to find financial resources. So the original intent was not to sell—it was just to find financial resources.
Skip (00:09:52)
Okay.
Best Laid Plans to Losing It All (and What That Does to You
Jodi Scott (00:09:53)
And through that journey, we found a group that was very interested. What I liked about this is there were a number of traditional, chemical-laden companies that wanted to add a natural bolt-on to their portfolio, but it felt pretty disingenuous.
I really wanted to authenticate the early adopters of plant-based and see if there was a way to preserve that. And so we found a group that was very focused on plant-based. They wanted to create a portfolio and put us in that portfolio.
So we get to continue running the company, leverage each other’s resources, be part of a bigger organization, and grow with them. So it seemed like a really great thing on paper.
Skip (00:10:42)
That sounds really good.
Jodi Scott (00:10:43)
Yeah. And then—
Skip (00:10:46)
And then… plot twist.
Jodi Scott (00:10:48)
One of the founders was facing some major legal and financial issues.
Skip (00:10:53)
Oh gosh.
Jodi Scott (00:10:54)
Yeah. I mean, there were feds involved and all kinds of things, unfortunately.
Skip (00:11:02)
And I’m guessing you guys are deep into it at this point.
Jodi Scott (00:11:06)
We’re deep in. And ultimately, they lost their financial resources and tarnished their reputation.
And I had less than twenty-four hours to terminate my entire team—the one thing that we had fought so hard to protect. That’s my mom and sister. That’s my husband, my brother-in-law, best friends from college—people who had changed their careers. Employee number one. Gone.
Skip (00:11:34)
Heavens. Ugh. You just said how dear that is to you—having those people around you. That had to be so painful.
Jodi Scott (00:11:47)
It was gut-wrenching.
Now the company’s done. Production stopped. We have no jobs. We’ve lost our sense of purpose. And we don’t know how we’re going to pay our bills.
Skip (00:12:04)
How did you turn it around?
Jodi Scott (00:12:06)
Well, we’re sitting at the dinner table after all the tears, and we didn’t know. The paralysis was huge. You’re anxious about the future—how you’re going to pay your bills. You’re ruminating on the past—should’ve, would’ve, could’ve.
Skip (00:12:25)
Okay. Sure.
Jodi Scott (00:12:26)
And all of a sudden, I pulled out my lip balm to put it on, and I realized I didn’t have that much left. Then I started thinking, well, my skin repair—I can’t live without that.
So my mom and sister and I were like, “How much do you have? How much do you have?” We started measuring each other’s inventory because we were like, we can’t live without this.
And then my sister’s like, “Are we going to have to start making this in our kitchen again?”
And then emails start coming in—“My son is a paraplegic. He can’t live without this stuff.” “My mother is a diabetic.” “My daughter has eczema.”
And I’m like, we have to buy this back. But the thought came and then just faded—like, how on earth could we even do this? We have nothing.
Skip (00:13:11)
Yeah. Yeah.
The Power of a Great Coach (and The Fight to Get It All Back)
Jodi Scott (00:13:12)
And very soon thereafter—within the hour—I was like, oh my gosh, I’ve got a meeting with my coach on Monday. I had hired this coach that I’d only known for a couple of months, but I was so excited going into the partnership. I’m like, CEOs have coaches nowadays—I’m going to get myself a coach.
Skip (00:13:32)
Business coach. Sure.
Jodi Scott (00:13:33)
Yeah. And so I’m texting him—“Timmy, I’m not going to be able to show up Monday at five. I can’t pay you.”
And he’s like, “What happened?” We had a brief exchange, and then he said, “I will be there every Monday at five if you show up. I’ll be there.”
Skip (00:13:48)
Oh, wow.
Jodi Scott (00:13:50)
And in that moment, it didn’t feel like a wow. It actually felt like a burden. Because when you have that sense of paralysis, it’s like—you know that saying, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink?
I was like, I can’t drink this. This just feels like another thing for me to deal with. So I had no intention of going on Monday.
But then Monday rolled around, and I just felt guilty. I thought, okay, I’ll just show up once and say, “Timmy, I appreciate you, but this isn’t happening.”
Skip (00:14:21)
Maybe just one time, right? Talk him out of it.
Jodi Scott (00:14:26)
Exactly. And I get on the call, and he’s like, “So how are you going to do this?”
And I’m like, “Well… we thought we might buy it back, but I don’t know how we’re going to do it.”
And he says, “Alright. You ready to start your mental fitness boot camp?”
Jodi Scott (00:14:46)
And I’m like, what does that mean?
He says, “You’re going to set your alarm every three hours. And every three hours, you’re going to do a presence exercise.”
And I’m like, set my alarm every three hours? I don’t even know what that means. And a presence exercise? What on earth is that?
Skip (00:15:08)
And I really don’t even want to do any of this anyway.
Jodi Scott (00:15:13)
Exactly. I just wanted to crawl in a hole and pretend the whole world didn’t exist.
And I’m like, “What’s a presence exercise?”
He says, “You’re going to feel your feet on the ground. Feel your muscles. Watch the clouds go by—and really look at them. We’re going to do some deep breaths.”
And I’m like, “Timmy, this is not the time to meditate. This is the time to be doing. I need to be doing.”
And he says, “You can’t do. You need to be. We need to build your mental fitness so you know how to do this. The same way you go to the gym and work out, we’re going to build this muscle. We’re going to get you mentally fit so you can find your way. Without doing this, you’re not going to figure it out. You’re not going to have clarity.”
Jodi Scott (00:15:59)
You’re not going to have precision. You’re not going to have the confidence. This is what we’re doing.
Skip (00:16:04)
Yeah. Wise words there from Tim.
Jodi Scott (00:16:07)
Yeah. They did.
Skip (00:16:11)
This duality of do versus be has been coming up frequently over the last year in conversations like this with guests. And I have a theory—I can’t prove this—but our whole world, certainly our American society, if not most of the world, has gotten way out of balance toward the “do” and is starving for “be.”
Jodi Scott (00:16:37)
I thought being was not productive. I thought being was not pushing forward—all these things.
And it was so interesting going through that exercise and that process of getting into alignment with your mind and your body and your spirit. You can do that in a place of movement—it’s just a different way of being. And it’s really expansive.
Your body’s not in fight or flight, which is very interesting to me too. Because when you’re in fight or flight, it’s really narrow. You can only see so much. It’s designed to be that way.
And then your body responds to that. Your body can do situations, but we, to your point, are in this state of doing for so much that our immune systems are being wrecked. That’s why we have chronic skin conditions now, arguably.
The Transformation: A New Way to Lead, Think and Be
And so it was a really interesting shift—from survival mode to sovereignty.
I went to a Conscious Capitalism conference later, and all of it would have just been another language to me had I not had Timmy really open up my world to this. They had all these different speakers talking about how you can be more conscious and be.
And then the last speaker said something I really appreciated. He said, “Okay, everybody—you’ve got all these hacks now. Now you know different ways that you can be. What I want to challenge you to is this: being is being in a state of prayer.”
And he just stopped. And then he said, “Try to be in a state of prayer as much as you can throughout the day.”
And it was such an introduction—I was like, that’s beautiful. That just landed for me. It helped my mind, my body, and my spirit shift into that being in a really authentic way.
Skip (00:18:50)
And you started working with Timmy. That changed you—wholesale changed you.
Take us from there to today. How did you put the rest of the pieces together?
The Turning Point
Jodi Scott (00:19:03)
It gave me the clarity to put one foot in front of the other, because I couldn’t even do that prior to it. And it allowed me to be open and curious as I navigated the situation.
So whether it was meeting with investors, meeting with the board, continuously restructuring, meeting with counsel to find different pathways—it had to be very tactical. There had to be financing and resources.
But eighteen months later, we were able to sign on the dotted line, get the transaction across the finish line, start production, and start telling our customers what had happened.
And oh my gosh—the joy I got from their support and them cheering us on—I mean, I was in tears. It was so beautiful.
And that Green Goo is still their first choice.
Skip (00:19:59)
Amazing. Yeah. It’s a beloved product line, a beloved brand.
So you guys reemerged and you’re back in business full-on late 2024, early 2025?
Jodi Scott (00:20:16)
It was December 2024.
Skip (00:20:22)
Yeah. Okay.
Jodi Scott (00:20:23)
And we officially had it done.
Skip (00:20:25)
So you had a full run in 2025?
Jodi Scott (00:20:28)
We did. And 2025 was very much slowly taking our pennies and getting things back into production—kind of like putting oil in the gears again and cranking things on.
We’re still getting into production. Some of our favorite formulas are coming back. We’re here for the long haul—we know that.
It’s tiny now. We only have eight employees today. But there are two reasons for that. One, we’re able to utilize the history of building the company before and leverage that momentum and groundwork—that’s an advantage. But we also have to keep bootstrapping so we can keep putting everything back into production.
Changing the Business Model
From a retail standpoint, the cost to do business—with importing and taxes and so forth—is much higher. So we had to come to a fork in the road. A lot of companies would change how they assemble things—cheaper parts, smaller sizes—but we said no.
We’re not compromising our formulas. We’re not compromising efficacy. We’re just going to change our business model.
So we’re in much less retail and more Amazon and direct-to-consumer. That allowed us to protect the price point for our customers and still maintain margin.
And interestingly enough, it’s a totally different world now. You can get your poison ivy relief in less than two hours—it’s at your doorstep faster than driving to the store.
So it’s been really fun to see first aid reinvented with modern technology, transportation, Amazon, Instacart.
Skip (00:22:42)
Yeah. Awesome. Thanks for sharing that story with us—your founder’s journey, the dark moment, the reemergence. That’s awesome.
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Jodi Reveals Her Main Thing
Skip (00:24:00)
Jodi Scott, what’s the main thing you’ve learned in your lifetime so far?
Jodi Scott (00:24:06)
Presence.
Skip (00:24:10)
Yeah. First of all—wow. That packs a lot of power into one word. And this is perhaps the shortest “main thing” that’s ever been shared on this show.
I know there are layers of meaning and nuance—like ingredients formulated into one of your products.
Jodi Scott (00:24:34)
Presence for me has been—rather than pushing, listening. Instead of doing, being.
Really getting into alignment with myself—my actions, my body, my feelings—and being in that moment.
And in that moment, I have precision. I have clarity.
There’s a musician who helps a lot of other musicians—Rick Rubin—and he said something like, “Creativity isn’t what you do. It’s being in the state so that it flows.”
I didn’t understand that until I started this journey and really appreciating what comes from being in that state of stillness—even while I’m still moving through life. I’m not stopping what I’m doing. It’s just a heightened awareness.
And what it does physiologically has been really fun to understand. Cortisol goes down. Inflammation goes down. Your body isn’t in fight or flight. Your mindset is stronger.
So the value I’ve gotten from presence—and investing in the discipline of presence—has just given me so much joy.
Training the Mind and Body to Be Present
Skip (00:26:27)
Jodi, as I think about your main thing—presence—upon first hearing it, a listener might think this is something you put on: a wardrobe, a look, a persona, a facade.
But I contend—and you can check me on this…
Skip (00:26:53)
I contend that it’s a stripping away. It’s a discovery of what’s real. It’s realizing what’s true. It’s an understanding of oneself. And there’s hardly any “putting on” at all—it’s actually the opposite of that.
Jodi Scott (00:27:06)
I think you’re spot on.
What I found in this is the value of identifying it through, call it, five-senses exercises—and building that muscle to bring me to a place of awareness where this frontal lobe is not fully in charge, and my body is just as much a part of this heightened awareness as my thoughts. It’s just a new way of operating.
And it’s so interesting—when you’re recharged, your mind is quiet and your body is powerful.
I think about watching the Olympics the other night—the girl who won in ice skating. You saw her in such a state of alignment. There was joy in it, and you could feel it. You could feel her in alignment, and it’s like—that’s it. She’s super present.
Skip (00:28:04)
When we’re in that state—when you are in your presence—it’s beautiful to behold. It really is.
A Daughter, A Test, A Moment of Proof
Jodi Scott (00:28:14)
The other day, my daughter came up to me and said, “Mom, you’re not going to believe this. I had an exam today, and the teacher pulled me aside afterward and said, ‘I need to talk to you.’”
And we both had the same look—she thought she was in trouble.
But he said, “I really want to applaud you for how you take your tests.” She was confused, and he said, “I watched you rub your fingertips together, take a couple deep breaths, and then get into the moment. I saw how you worked through the problems you did know. Then you paused, took a couple deep breaths, and went back to the problems you didn’t know—using what you did know to solve them.”
“And by the way, you got a really great result on this test. Whatever you’re doing—keep doing that. You were really present.”
And she said, “Mom, it was like I was talking to you.”
And I thought—that is so cool that you’re feeling the impact of living this way. It gave me so much joy. I was like, that makes it all worth it. Even those moments where we’re wondering how we’re going to pay the bills.
And if you can have this wisdom at a much younger point in your journey—wow.
How to Spot the Pain Points
Skip (00:29:39)
If someone hasn’t thought about their presence—if they haven’t studied it, haven’t done any work on it—if this is completely new and foreign to them, what are some pain points they might be experiencing that would signal: spend some time here?
Jodi Scott (00:29:57)
I think when you can feel your body in a state of chronic tension and your mind is racing, that’s a good indication you’re in override—and you don’t know how to get out of it.
The opposite can also be true—you feel paralysis. You feel nothing. You’re numb.
And that’s a really special moment where you can start using small sensory practices to brighten things up.
Sometimes it’s as simple as going outside, putting your feet on the ground. Nature has a great way of alerting your physical body and bringing you into the present.
Skip (00:31:00)
Great advice.
Jodi, as we wrap up here, this has been a fabulous conversation—exhilarating, I’ll go back to that word. I want to ask you for a couple of recommendations.
First, your product line—where should listeners go to learn more and purchase?
Jodi Scott (00:31:26)
Greengoo.com and Amazon. That’s the best place to get the full portfolio.
Skip (00:31:31)
And if someone just wants to start with one product?
Jodi Scott (00:31:37)
I’d go with the Green Goo First Aid—it’s your utilitarian first aid kit on the go.
Of course, I use the Skin Repair every day, so if you want something you’ll use all over daily, go with that.
Skip (00:31:51)
Excellent. Greengoo.com or search “Green Goo” on Amazon.
Before we say goodbye, I want to open the mic for a parting thought.
SHAMAN: A Simple Framework for Living Well
Jodi Scott (00:32:03)
We use an acronym in our house that might be helpful—it’s SHAMMON. It helps me stay in presence because I think of it as a whole-body experience.
S is for sleep—build your sleep bank. It’s helpful even for my daughter to connect mood with sleep.
H is hydration—we are water, so think about what you’re drinking and eating. Hydration shows up in food and even skincare.
A is antioxidants—nutrition can feel overwhelming, but if you’re choosing between carrots or blueberries versus chips, it’s a simple decision. Give your body that fuel.
M is mindfulness—practice those moments. Feel your feet on the ground, notice your breath, watch the clouds, listen to the birds.
A is avoid—avoid harmful ingredients, yes, but also give yourself permission to avoid certain situations or even people. Protect your energy.
And N is nature—scroll on your phone for ten minutes or go for a walk. Nature brings you back.
SHAMAN helps me stay in presence.
Skip (00:33:51)
Perfect. SHAMMON. Great parting thought. Great place to leave it.
Jodi, this has been fabulous. What a great conversation, what a great study of wisdom together. I can’t thank you enough.
Jodi Scott (00:34:03)
Thank you.
What Adversity Is Really Giving You
Skip (00:34:06)
Hey, it’s Skip here with a couple of final reflections on our conversation with Jodi Scott.
First, I love that it’s a family business. It reminds me of a jazz ensemble—you’ve got Jodi with her background in health sciences, her sister with herbology, and her mom, a web designer. Together, they make wonderful music—actually, wonderful products.
Second, the more of these wisdom conversations I engage in, the more I see a pattern: adversity is the rough outer shell for something beautiful inside—if we can get there.
It’s like an oyster. The outer shell is rough, even sharp. But inside, there’s something valuable—sometimes even a pearl.
Without that adversity, Jodi wouldn’t have met her coach, and she wouldn’t have discovered the importance of presence—her leadership mindset above everything else. That’s what stood out to me.
I can’t wait to hear your insights. What stood out to you?
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