Hi Darius, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
Hi, I’m Darius and while I’ve travelled the globe for both academics and work, I’ve been a San Diego native and local all my life. I have spent my education and career years navigating the demanding environment of software and business. In this time, I developed a keen eye for the less favorable effects this sort of stressful and sedentary environment can have on one’s well-being.
There are certain habits I found to revitalize me and keep me energetic despite the demands of work and obligations of modern life. First is careful attention to nutrition and keeping a diet that includes quality ingredients, whole foods, and natural, plant-based supplements. Second, but equally essential, is scheduling physically active outdoor activities into my daily routine, and making time each week for getting out of the house to experience nature whether through hiking, mountain biking, or going to the ocean.
In western society, we generally look for complex and ‘high tech’ provisions for day-to-day wellness and health. But nature’s basic provisions can achieve the results we desire! I fell in love with the simplicity of “health through nature” and wanted to share this approach at scale. I’m doing that with Tok Wellness.
“Tok”, my company name, is a Cantonese word and translates “to lift,” “to support,” “to hold up.” This action is also a technique in the Chinese martial art Wing Chun Kuen. It was involvement with Wing Chun Kuen that allowed me to meet my co-founder. Nathan Hart is a passionate herbalist, often talking on the subject of traditional herbalism and strategies for healing and health preservation. Time together revealed a mutual goal of sharing nature’s medicine and creating services and products to accomplish that work.
Nathan has spent years developing herbal therapies and health supplements. His unique products are based on traditional plant medicines and wellness practices informed from years of study and mentorship. He combines eastern and western perspectives into impressively effective health products, making accessible to the modern-day individual traditions and theories proven across generations.
At Tok Wellness, Nathan is creating some amazing nature-inspired health products to support healing, balance, and day-to-day wellness. These plant-based supplements are truly helping people get more out of their active life, whether it be in work, school, exercise, play, home, or travel.
Together, Nathan and I are achieving our goal of sharing “health through nature”. Our work is exciting and very satisfying, and I am looking forward to seeing Tok Wellness grow.
We all face challenges, but looking back, would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Our products designs began years ago while Nathan was preparing them by hand, in small batches, one order at a time. Scaling these recipes without compromising efficacy was essential. We agreed at the beginning we would proceed only with the highest quality ingredients and very specific production processes that ensure the products we offer are as designed and able to deliver the anticipated benefit. We needed sustainable sources for all of our plant ingredients, and we wanted plants cultivated in their indigenous regions without pesticides. Working with international suppliers and coordinating our supply chain across domestic and international entities was another of our early challenges. Ensuring quality also required laboratory testing, multiple times. We tested our ingredients before they were prepared. We tested our finished products before they were packaged. We submitted samples of our packaged product for additional tests. We tested to ensure label accuracy and product purity so that we can have peace of mind presenting our products as natural, plant-based, amazing-for-your-health products.
Receiving the stories from customers who our products have helped makes the challenges worthwhile.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Tok Wellness Company?
TOK WELLNESS COMPANY is a San Diego based health supplement company meeting the growing demand for simple supplement formulations that are plant-based and caffeine-free. We draw from the knowledge, theories, and principles of traditional herbalism to produce formulations able to maintain health and wellness while supporting higher levels of physical and cognitive performance.
Tok products are prepared from sustainably sourced, geo-authentic ingredients. These are ingredients obtained from plants cultivated in their indigenous regions, then harvested and processed using traditional methods, preserving the healthful qualities and efficacy understood and appreciated by herbalists throughout history.
To ensure quality standards, our ingredients, products, and processes are scrutinized through stringent laboratory tests and analyses. We lab-test our ingredients before processing, and we lab-test our finished product before and after packaging. We test for plant species identification and product composition, heavy metals, pesticides and their by-products, and other harmful chemicals.
We currently offer two premium plant-based products—Tok Energy and Tok Support. Tok Energy satisfies an immediate need for increased physical and cognitive energy to boost productivity, engage in strenuous activity or exercise, or hasten recovery from overwork or injury. Tok Support, taken regularly, preserves physical and cognitive energy to delay or relieve degeneration associated with chronic overwork or aging. Tok Energy and Tok Support produce natural, sustained energy lasting throughout the day and quality sleep when needed.
Our product designs are considerate of restricted diets and dietary trends, including vegetarian, vegan, paleolithic, ketogenic, and Whole30 diets.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Two characteristics are key to an individual’s success, and more broadly, their business’ success.
The first characteristic is a genuine belief and satisfaction that one’s efforts, and those of one’s business, serve a worthwhile and meaningful purpose. In my case, this is belief that sharing health through nature is helping people, and Tok Wellness is achieving this through our mindfully crafted health supplements. This belief motivates me through long hours, late nights, ups and downs, and the challenges of business building. It motivates founders like myself to push forward, to serve and deliver on our mission.
The second characteristic is a genuine commitment to understanding and concern for one’s customers and the customers’ concerns. There are many options in the dietary supplement space. I believe a customer’s trust in a product leads them to choose one over another. Taking time to see our business and products through our customers’ eyes helped me understand and appreciate the importance of their trust. We endeavor to build and keep trust through our commitments to quality and honesty, and taking time to connect with our customers. I also appreciate potential customers’ skepticism, and so, when allowed the opportunity, I champion existing customers’ stories, highlighting their successful outcomes.
Pricing:
- Energy Supplement: $68
- Support Supplement: $72
Contact Info:
- Website: www.tokwellness.com
- Call: 866 – TELLTOK
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tokwellness/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TokWellness
