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With $6.3 billion in revenue in 2021, the maker of Old Bay, Cholula, and dozens of spices is using its global market power to advance sustainability. McCormick aims to source its top five herb and spice brands 100% sustainably by 2025 (it’s already there with red pepper). It is also using 100% renewable electricity to power several of its facilities in the U.S. and the U.K., with contracts to do the same in Poland and Italy.

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Lindsay McCormick, CEO of Bite, shares her lifestyle habits, tips, and tricks — which includes regularly diving with whales in her spare time.

This CEO dives with whales to decompress from work

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This CEO shares her lifestyle habits, tips, and tricks — which includes regularly diving with whales in her spare time.

Bite CEO shares her healthy lifestyle habits, tips, and tricks.

being able to really believe in the work that you're doing is already a form of self care. One of my favorite productivity tips is to do away with micro decisions. There can be a million decisions you have to make during the day. So I try to keep things super simple. I have the same morning routine, I meditate, I journal, I drink, I eat the same thing for lunch every day and that frees up my brain to deal with the never ending fires that come with running a company. I would also say to really value the team that you have, no matter what your industry is, it's going to be the people that you're working with every day, who are really going to be able to get you across the finish line. There's a saying that if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. So I see as part of my job to be checking in with people on burnout, your job is to say like, did you take off time for vacation? Why are you answering this email on a saturday? And I think that making sure myself and the team are in the best place, it's just something that it's incredibly important. Something that we have instilled in our culture from the very beginning is if it's something that it's not working, question it, let's fix it and make it better. So if there's a meeting that seems to be out of date, people are spacing out in between it, we immediately look into it. What can we do to either cut this meeting entirely or make it something that actually works for everybody involved? It's interesting, I tell the team like it's a free for all, like if there's a process in place that is not working bubbling to the top so we can figure out what's wrong and make it as efficient as possible to distress. I spend a lot of time outside before starting bite. I was a surf instructor and a snowboard instructor, so I love being outside. I've gotten really into free diving, I've been able to go with some incredible places and free dived with humpback whales with harbor seals on the coast of California and it really gives me the time to just be totally immersed in exactly what I'm doing, Being able to disconnect is kind of this little battery recharge, so then when I come back to bite and I'm ready to get into the day to day, I just, I feel a little less reactive, I feel like I have a little bit more space uh and I can tie it almost directly back to the amount that I'm able to kind of disconnect every once in a while from the day to day,

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