Innovate Everything

<p>Tim Hill is CEO of iLola Teas, a title he shares with his wife, Su-Mari. Together they started their CEO journey with the opening of Nineteen02 Stores and Teahouse and now operate Pure+ Kombucha and the newly opened iLola. Tim and Su-Mari believe that tea is used as a starting point between two friends; a safe place found in the tradition of the convergence of moments.</p> <p>Tim started his career as a financial auditor and worked in accounting for ten years to understand how business and finance worked. After that he set out to fulfill the entrepreneurial spirit he’d always harbored. Together with Su-Mari and their five children, they have created a world of innovation around tea. iLOLA products specifically are made locally by Canadian artisans, handcrafted and curated with premium ingredients from all over the world, and housed in a unique tea disc format.</p> <p>In this episode….</p> <p>Tim Hill is passionate about tea. A good cup of tea is the introduction to friendship, business, and creative space. Though Tim started his career in the world of accounting, after ten years of immersion into business and finance he decided it was time to leave and pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. From the tea shop he and his co-founder/wife Su-Mari first opened on the Sunshine Coast of BC to the most recent business they launched in 2020, iLola Teas, Tim truly understands innovation and the steady build towards success required of all entrepreneurs.</p> <p>Regarding innovation, Tim says we need to “take pressure off ourselves to think you just wake up and suddenly there is this idea - it’s actually a huge amount of data collection that your brain has brought you up to this very moment in time”. He details how early failures in their tea shop led to a greater understanding of their true focus and calling in the tea business and how Su-Mari’s inspired idea in 2020 became the unique tea disc at the heart of iLola’s innovative offerings.</p> <p>In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Tim Hill dive de