Opu Probiotics

04/17/2026

04/14/2026

Our Small Business is CHANGING drastically this year thanks to the Walmart Open Call! 🥺💚

04/04/2026

I mean, he was MADE FOR THIS folks - 71 and living his best life! 💚 I’m just grateful I get to do it with him!

Watch out Walmart managers and pharmacists - we are hitting the road soon to meet as many of you as possible! 🚛

04/03/2026

What a day! 🥳 Fulfillment Strategies International
celebrated 30 incredible years in business today!

We had the chance to not only celebrate this huge milestone with their team, but also sit down together to talk through our Walmart shipments, something that’s taken our full focus lately.

They’re wrapping up our first shipments to Walmart, and knowing they’re the ones behind the scenes making this step happen gives me so much confidence. This is the kind of partnership that truly allows a brand to grow, scale, and breathe a little easier.

I genuinely love their founder and team - people like this are rare. Grateful doesn’t even begin to cover it and I’m glad God brought them into my life over a decade ago!

Here’s to 30 years of excellence for FSI and to everything we’re about to build together in 2026! 💚

03/27/2026

It’s not lost on me that we have a monster of a challenge ahead of us in order to succeed at Walmart. Getting on the shelves is one thing, getting back off is the most important part.

That’s what’s funny about this industry, there are multiple “most important parts” & each of them can take you out of the game.

But today I celebrate this box I obsessed over for two months. I hope it is as well received as I believe it will be! 💚

Here’s to celebrating the little victories along the way, because this process is grueling and extremely stressful. 🤯

03/21/2026

Loving this incredible guy set everything in motion. What started as a small gesture to help him took me down a path I never could have imagined. ♥️

On this National Down Syndrome Day we are celebrating this beautiful soul, Gibby! 🎉 Some of you might remember him from my Shark Tank episode when he was a little tiny thing, he now towers over me. But has the same beautiful smile and contagious laugh!

If only he knew how greatly he has impacted my life. 🥺

If you are not fortunate enough to know and love someone with Down Syndrome, you’re really missing out!

03/19/2026

My first company grew fast and furious (thanks to the exposure from Shark Tank) and that’s not always sustainable.

This time around, I knew I wanted to build Opu Probiotics the slow, steady, sustainable way, really getting to know our customers one by one and growing alongside them. It’s been such a joy doing it this way as we’ve built incredible bonds with thousands of customers.

This pic was 3 years ago today. 💚 My Dad and I handing out samples at a small local event, simply asking people to give Opu a try.

Now, as we gear up to hit Walmart shelves next month, I get emotional thinking about how far we’ve come. Never underestimate the power of putting in the work. Overnight success rarely exists & when it does sometimes it’s not as easy to maintain as it may seem.

P.S. We just might get to do the same type of sampling IN Walmart after we launch! I’ll shout it from the rooftops once we work out the details! 🔈 Would love to see/meet some of you when we are out and about!

03/03/2026

Today I visited two of our four factories to sign off on projects, and I’m sitting in the car just letting it sink in.

What you see now looks exciting, polished, “successful.” What you didn’t see were the moments I was SURE it was over.

The funding gaps, the sourcing setbacks, the manufacturing delays, the doors that closed. The nights I questioned everything, and shed a few tears.

Every single time we hit a wall, something happened that I can only describe as miracles.

The right person called.
The right introduction, or re-introduction, was made.
The right door opened - almost always at the very last second.

This whole thing started as an idea my Dad and I breathed life into. A gut feeling, literally, and a solution I was desperately searching for after cancer.

And the best part? Although she’s not here to see it flourish, my mom was the catalyst behind it all. Through Opu, she’s still nursing people back to better health. I love that we get to carry forward her legacy as a nurse. 👩‍⚕️

Right now, four different factories are working on different components of Opu Probiotics, all in the Southeast.

I walked the floors today & saw teams working on something that once only existed in my head. 🤯

Miracle after miracle brought us here. And dear friends absolutely blew our minds, they are the only reason we’ve made it to today. They invested in our dream, risk and all.

Just when I thought the journey after Shark Tank couldn’t get crazier, it just got better. One day I’ll share it all in a much longer form, because I’m certain it will inspire someone who is in the same place!

If you’ve supported Opu in any way thank you, you’re a part of our story.

Over the next few months I’ll be sharing in real time how the largest retailer in the world helped this small business rise!

Walmart 💚

02/11/2026

Exactly 4 months ago, we received a coveted Walmart Open Call Golden Ticket! 🎉

I can’t even begin to summarize what’s happened since, but it’s been nothing short of miracle after miracle and BIG mountains moved for our small business.

Over the last four months, I’ve had my head down, working long hours to be ready for this launch. I never could’ve anticipated a drunk driver totaling my car and a 3½-lb tumor needing to be removed from my body during this process, but that’s kind of the vibe of my life. I joke 🥴 that I feel like I’m in that movie Final Destination.

The Walmart team has been unbelievably kind and patient with us during onboarding. We’re currently in production in 3, about to be 4, factories to prepare for our launch next month. 🤯

My 16-year-old self could never have imagined the obstacles I’d take on and overcome. I’m proud of myself for not giving up when I wanted to throw in the towel MANY times over the last year.

The PEOPLE who have helped make this happen are some of the best human beings I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing and loving. I can’t wait to share more about them, while honoring those who prefer to stay private.

I feel overwhelming gratitude today as I look at this photo from four months ago. And I look forward to standing on that same stage next year, alongside my hero, telling everyone our success story - because I truly believe we will. 💚

12/26/2025

We got a pretty incredible Christmas gift this year: a 2-SKU rollout in 311 Walmart stores thanks to the Open Call Golden Ticket we secured earlier this year. 🎉

To put that in perspective, this single purchase order represents more boxes of Opu than we’ve sold all year combined. 🤯 That growth has been entirely organic - no paid ads, no big marketing spend.

We are preparing on every front to make sure we knock it out of the park when we launch in the fourth week of March. If my first company taught me anything, it’s this: getting into stores is one thing - earning your spot and moving product off the shelf is what matters!

May 2026 be much brighter than 2025 for those of you who have had a difficult year. 🙏

11/17/2025

Some Mondays just suck as a small business owner. But today? Today was filled with gratitude. Gratitude for how far we’ve come, and hope for how far we still plan to go. 💚

Filling orders with my son today I felt gratitude for the journey, for the people using our product, and for the fact that I get to build this alongside the people I love most.

Building a business is full of highs and lows. Yes, my kids have been there to see those rare, exciting days (receiving Walmart’s Golden Ticket 🎫!) where anything feels possible. But they’re also with me on the hard days. The discouraging days. The “I don’t know how we’ll get through this” days. I’ve had my fair share of those both in life and business.

What pleasantly surprises me most is how compassionate they are. They see the sacrifices and the late nights. They notice the stress, even when I try to hide it. And instead of resenting it, they value what we’re building. And hearing our two older kids articulate that is such a joy.

11/06/2025