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Model Fit
• Victoria’s Secret model Lily Aldridge was one of Sakara’s first clients!
Cheat Day
• “We don’t really believe in cheating. We believe you are what you do the majority of the time. Now there’s no guilt. If I want French fries and a martini I’m gonna have it.”
DANIELLE DUBOISE
R&D
• Sakara Life’s research and development process takes three to six months from the time a recipe is thought of to when it hits the rotation. It has to go through nutritional testing and delivery testing as well.
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At some point in every woman’s life, she’s stood in the mirror and wondered why she didn’t look a certain way. Be it skin issues or not reaching the unachievable standards set for women, it’s almost impossible not to fall victim to this mindset. Whitney Tingle and Danielle DuBoise, founders of Sakara Life, were no different. “[Sakara Life] didn’t start out as a business, it really started as a solution to our own needs,” Danielle explained.
Native Knowledge WHITNEY TINGLE
• Sakara is sanskrit for “taking form.”
As childhood friends, Danielle moved to New York to study medicine, and Whitney made the move after she finished college to work on Wall Street. “Whitney and I hit rock bottom right around the same time,” Danielle said. Having struggled with severe, cystic acne since she was young, Whitney tried everything from lasers and antibiotics to cutting out foods with no relief. She was hopeful that New York, a city filled with top doctors and dermatologists would provide her with what she needed to rid her of the painful acne, only to find the same answers she was given before. “She just felt like no one was helping her get to the root cause and that was really her lowest low,” Danielle said. Around that same time, Danielle, who struggled with her body image, hit her low as well. “I remember being 9 years old and trying to hide diet pills in the cart at Costco when I was shopping with my mom,” she explained. “I had been informed by those around me and culture 136 LOCALE MAGAZINE
ONCE WORD GOT O U T, S A K A R A L I F E T O O K O F F.