NajaTea is a company owned by a beautiful young woman who is as passionate about specialty tea and business as I am. 

Naja began her tea journey when her grandmother served her tea as a child, making it fun and special and something that came back to her when she visited a modern-trendy tea shop as an adult.

Naja is building an incredible company through brand-building packaging, superior product, original ideas and intense motivation and persistence.  She just earned the distinction of being one of the finalists in the NBC/ShineALight program to highlight upcoming small businesses in association with ivillage.com. 

Naja reminds me of me when I was her age.  She lends youth and energy to the world of specialty tea, which has long been perceived as an “older” person’s culture.  Naja is the new face of specialty tea and one that will do it proud.

My background is as an entrepreneur in real estate, wholesale and now retailing.  Naja and I have many similarities and tea is what connects us.  The company I’m a partner in, Caliofrnia tea & Coffee Brewery, is also cutting-edge, especially in the area of technology, where our patent pending brewing acceleration process for all loose leaf teas and herbals holds a key to really bringing fine loose leaf tea mainstream in the retail venue.

Naja and I ‘met’ as contributors to one of the country’s most popular and respected tea blogs, T Ching.  I noticed her there and she the same, and since that time we have Twittered together, shared ideas and leads and hope to do something really wonderful together in the future.

Men have long dominated the world of coffee, and it seems fair that women with vision should take specialty #tea into the present and the future.

Salut’ Naja!  I’m with YOU.

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Profiles:  

Diane Walden:  http://www.tching.com/author/dwalden/

Naja Hayward: http://www.tching.com/author/nhayward/