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<keyword id="13383804" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="moon-juice" source="Orion">Moon Juice</keyword>, the Los Angeles juice shop turned <keyword id="12046488" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wellness" source="Orion">wellness</keyword> brand, talks a big game about composting. "We invest in a future filled with more composting facilities than garbage dumps," its website says. Much of the cups and silverware at its two juice shops are compostable, and, for a while, its flagship store in Venice offered customers a compost bin, according to Sea Sloat, who worked at the shop until March 2020.There's just one snag: Moon Juice didn't pay for a composting service. Instead, store employees would toss the "compost" into a garbage bin out back, according to three former employees who worked at Moon Juice as recently as last year. These days, the Venice store has no compost bin at all, a current employee said."It's like a microcosm of all these other problems," Sloat said. "Look at how pure and how wholesome and how sustainable we are and all these things. But actually, it's just all going in the trash."Moon Juice, which didn't return requests for comment, advertises itself as a virtuous wellness company whose products — which include $38 jars of Sex Dust and $30 bags of activated cashews — are of the highest quality and sourced sustainably and transparently. Its "<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4ItAUlPW7/">trained alchemists</a>" can blend you a smoothie spiked with Brain Dust, or any other dust of your choosing, at one of its two Los Angeles stores. When the company expanded into the beauty sphere in 2018, products like its Cosmic Cream moisturizer and Acid Potion exfoliator were touted as "magic potions" and "clean" alternatives to mainstream beauty brands. In January, Moon Juice secured <a href="https://www.glossy.co/beauty/moon-juice-secures-7-million-in-series-c-financing/">$7 million in Series C funding</a> from True Beauty Ventures, a firm that invests in beauty startups.At the helm of Moon Juice is its founder, <keyword id="13383805" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="amanda-chantal-bacon" source="Orion">Amanda Chantal Bacon</keyword>, who <a href="https://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/">starts her day with a 23-minute breath set</a>, has an at-home infrared sauna, and is second only to Goop's Gwyneth Paltrow in the world of wealthy, white wellness goddesses.But some former employees say Moon Juice's practices have long been in contrast with its do-good ethos, leaving staffers struggling with what they see as blatant hypocrisy. They say Moon Juice tried to present its shop employees, referred to as trained alchemists, as having some sort of expertise about supplements, despite inadequate training and near-minimum-wage pay. Some questioned Moon Juice's lack of transparency about the sourcing of its ingredients. And despite Moon Juice's <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_dDkGALTk/">proclamations</a> of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CC8yq9DgnjY/">inclusivity</a>, some former employees said they were subject to racist comments from colleagues that management failed to address. On one occasion, an employee emailed Bacon about a store manager who she said made racist comments. After an internal investigation, Moon Juice management told the employee they were "not able to substantiate your allegations." The manager was later promoted."People buy into Moon Juice because they believe in the purity of it, the equity of it, the environmental stewardship of it," Sloat said. "I think people want to pay a premium for good stuff because they think it's coming from a good place."But she says when you look harder, the facade crumbles. "It makes me angry," she said, "that they're able to make money off of misleading people."<h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moon-juice-employees-poor-training-racism-greenwashing-2022-3?r=moonjuice-lp">You can read our full story here: Moon Juice prides itself on being a Goop-esque company. But ex-employees said they were subjected to racist comments and that the company misled customers</a></h2>

Moon Juice, a Goop-like wellness company, threw its compost in the trash and promoted a manager accused of racist comments, ex-employees say

Welcome back to <keyword id="11921772" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="insider-weekly" source="Orion">Insider Weekly</keyword>! I'm Matt Turner, editor in chief of business at Insider.Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.So reads the headline on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-guilty-verdict-fraud-silicon-valley-culture-scam-2022-1">Adam Lashinsky's last dispatch</a> from the <keyword id="11971768" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elizabeth-holmes" source="Orion">Elizabeth Holmes</keyword> trial. Adam attended the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-founder-defense-wins-opening-round-2021-9">trial from day one</a>, covering <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-fraud-tearful-testimony-story-turns-tide-2021-11">Holmes' surprise testimony</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-fraud-defense-last-ditch-testimony-2021-12">last-ditch attempts</a> from her defense team.As the trial concluded, Adam said the <keyword id="11971769" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="theranos" source="Orion">Theranos</keyword> founder <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fraud-trial-closing-arguments-jury-verdict-2021-12">"may well walk,"</a> thanks to the reasonable doubt her attorney had sown in the minds of jurors. But after seven days of deliberation, the jury <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-guilty-verdict-fraud-silicon-valley-culture-scam-2022-1">found Holmes guilty</a> on four counts of criminal fraud and conspiracy.Read on for a fascinating Q&amp;A with Adam about what it was like in the courtroom, the most shocking moment in the trial, and what's next for Holmes.<h3>Also in this week's <keyword id="11894123" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="newsletter" source="Orion">newsletter</keyword>:</h3><ul><li>Amazon could soon make compensation changes <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-suggests-changes-employee-pay-compensation-attrition-competition-2021-12">amid a growing talent exodus</a>.</li><li>Ten people describe what it was like to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-during-pandemic-what-its-like-people-who-did-it-2021-12">move states during the pandemic</a>.</li><li>Stefan Soloviev inherited a fortune when his father, Sheldon Solow, died. Some are wondering whether he's capable <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stefan-soloviev-inherits-sheldon-solows-empire-temper-2022-1">of running the business his father built</a>.</li></ul>Let me know what you think of all our stories at <a href="mailto:mturner@insider.com">mturner@insider.com</a>.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription">Subscribe to Insider</a> for access to all our investigations and features. New to the newsletter? <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/insider-weekly">Sign up here.</a> Download our app for news on the go — <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id554260576?mt=8">click here for iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freerange360.mpp.businessinsider">here for Android.</a><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-guilty-verdict-fraud-silicon-valley-culture-scam-2022-1">Inside the Elizabeth Holmes trial</a></h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-guilty-verdict-fraud-silicon-valley-culture-scam-2022-1"></a>A conversation with columnist Adam Lashinsky, who <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-guilty-verdict-fraud-silicon-valley-culture-scam-2022-1">covered the Elizabeth Holmes trial</a> for Insider: What was it like to be in the courtroom from day one?To be honest, somewhere between 50 and 80% of the time, it was a little bit boring. A lot of what happens in a criminal trial is procedural, a lot like in the movies but less dramatic. There are objections and colloquies and evidentiary hearings outside the presence of the jury. And there are lots of breaks, during which everyone tended to go to the same Starbucks down the street from the courthouse. One thing that's difficult to convey to people who weren't there is how intimate a setting the courtroom is. There are precisely 34 seats available to the public, including press. There are 12 jurors and, at the end, two alternates. Everyone else — the lawyers, Holmes herself, and assorted friends and colleagues on both sides number about another 30 people. That's it. We all used the same bathrooms, passed each other constantly in the hallways, and so on. One of the best parts about covering the trial for me was the comradery with other journalists. We got to know each other well, and we helped each other out a lot, like making sure we heard things correctly. We took turns running for coffee, watching each other's computers plugged into outlets, that sort of thing. It was like a little family. (In fact, "The Dropout" podcast reported that the jurors thought we acted like we were attending a cocktail party.)What was one of the most surprising moments from the trial?I mean, there's really no contest there. By far, the most surprising moment of the trial was at 3 p.m. on Friday, November 19, one hour before the scheduled end of testimony for the week, when defense lawyer Kevin Downey stood up and said, "The defense calls Elizabeth Holmes."This move shocked the entire courtroom. Two defense witnesses preceded her, and they had been really boring. The day began in an exciting manner because the government rested its case after weeks and weeks and 29 witnesses. But then, the defense started slowly, and the conventional wisdom had been that Holmes wouldn't take the stand. I knew people who had left at the lunch break that day because things were so slow.I remember when she took the stand, I felt really nervous, as if I was thinking to myself, "Can I type fast enough and accurately record this historic moment?" We had been sitting through so many hours of testimony, and most of us didn't anticipate something this dramatic happening.As an aside, the defense was masterful at managing the clock, and I saw someone speculate that they called Holmes with one hour to go before the weekend to give her some time to get used to testifying before the following week, when she would spend hours on the stand.What happens next to Elizabeth Holmes?This is more complicated than it would seem. Next week, there'll be a hearing — perhaps on Zoom because last week, the federal court system in Northern California suspended in-person trials due to COVID — to discuss if the government will retry Holmes on the three counts on which the jury didn't reach a verdict and also to set a date for her sentencing. It is likely that she won't be sentenced until the trial of her codefendant, Sunny Balwani, is over. This raises the tantalizing prospect of her cooperating with the government as a way of winning points with the judge, who has discretion over her sentence. Guesses are all over the map from one or two years to more than a decade for how long she'll be sentenced to prison. It is also widely expected she will appeal her conviction, so things could drag on for quite a while.Read Adam's latest dispatch here: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-trial-guilty-verdict-fraud-silicon-valley-culture-scam-2022-1">The Elizabeth Holmes trial: Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.</a><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-suggests-changes-employee-pay-compensation-attrition-competition-2021-12">Amazon could soon see compensation changes </a></h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-suggests-changes-employee-pay-compensation-attrition-competition-2021-12"></a><div type="image" title="Amazon CEO Andy Jassy motions with his hands on stage at the GeekWire Summit." height="2667" width="3556" msid="88793676" hostid="261"></div>Amazon is facing what some insiders have called an "exodus" of senior talent amid growing dissatisfaction with pay — and documents suggest the company may bring about compensation changes to combat that.Current and former employees, as well as documents viewed by Insider, indicate that the company has considered measures including special stock awards, higher counteroffers, and an internal tool to identify when employees are dissatisfied at the company.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-suggests-changes-employee-pay-compensation-attrition-competition-2021-12">Everything else we know about Amazon's potential pay changes.</a><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-during-pandemic-what-its-like-people-who-did-it-2021-12">What it's like to move during a pandemic</a></h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-during-pandemic-what-its-like-people-who-did-it-2021-12"></a><div type="image" title="Map of the US with multiple routes highlighted like Seattle to Honolulu, New York to Stratton, and Boston to Tampa." height="1249" width="1666" msid="88793678" hostid="261"></div>In 2020 alone, job changes, family responsibilities, and COVID-19-related regulations pushed almost 7 million people to reconsider their priorities and relocate. To capture the experience of moving during a pandemic, we spoke with 10 newly relocated people who shared their experience.One chased outdoor space and landed in Montana, while another searched for cheaper rent and wound up in Oregon. Each ​​recent relocator reflected on the joys and challenges of moving and shared their wins and regrets on such a big life change.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-during-pandemic-what-its-like-people-who-did-it-2021-12">Here's what they told us.</a><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stefan-soloviev-inherits-sheldon-solows-empire-temper-2022-1">A real-life Succession story</a></h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stefan-soloviev-inherits-sheldon-solows-empire-temper-2022-1"></a><div type="image" title="Stefan Soloviev" height="1796" width="2395" msid="88793680" hostid="261"></div>Stefan Soloviev inherited a $4.4 billion fortune when his father, the real-estate tycoon Sheldon Solow, died in 2020. But Soloviev never fit his father's vision of a successor. A 46-year-old with tattoo sleeves and gold teeth poking out from the corners of his grin, Soloviev has at least 20 children under the age of 21 with four women, according to people who know the family. Several people described him as capricious with an explosive temper — and some are questioning whether he is capable of running the multibillion-dollar business his father built. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stefan-soloviev-inherits-sheldon-solows-empire-temper-2022-1">Inside the life of Stefan Soloviev.</a><h3>More of this week's top reads:</h3><ul><li>The way staffers think of the Moon Juice founder Amanda Chantal Bacon is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moon-juice-amanda-chantal-bacon-2021-12">entirely different from her glossy public image.</a></li><li>After two years of Reddit apes, meme stocks, and amateur traders, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-traders-memes-crypto-stock-market-wall-street-strikes-back-2021-12">Wall Street pros are ready to strike back.</a></li><li>Megacap companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have stumbled in developing their healthcare strategies. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-google-are-going-after-healthcare-strategies-in-2022-2021-12">Here's how the giants are refining their approaches.</a></li><li>Bad interest-rate bets and retail-investor chaos made 2021 a trading year to remember. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-fund-winners-losers-2021-ken-griffin-ray-dalio-ackman-2022-1">Here are the biggest hedge-fund winners and losers.</a></li><li>See what trends <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-trends-venture-capital-startups-predictions-2022">the top venture capitalists and tech investors have their eye on for 2022. </a></li><li>Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens has tripled its valuation to $15 billion. For its latest move, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-cloudkitchens-triples-valuation-to-15-billion-2021-11">the food startup tapped an Amazon veteran as its new chief financial officer.</a></li><li>Direct-to-consumer brands continue to face massive opportunities and challenges. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dtc-companies-hiring-bet-your-career-2022-genies-harrys-vuori-2021-12">Here are the top 20 DTC brands that people should bet their careers on in 2022.</a></li></ul>Event invite: Join Insider's multisession editorial conference <a href="http://events.insider.com/leading-into-the-future-of-work?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2022-1-20_Work_Adobe">"Leading Into the Future of Work,"</a> presented by Adobe, for a discussion on the monumental changes happening in the workplace and how smart leaders are navigating these transitions. <a href="http://events.insider.com/leading-into-the-future-of-work?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2022-1-20_Work_Adobe">Register here.</a>Compiled with help from Jordan Parker Erb and Phil Rosen.

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It's a healing force, an etheric potion, a cosmic beacon for those seeking out beauty, wellness and longevity." Aren't we all looking for that cosmic beacon?Some of Moon Juice's goods are standard healthy-person fare (<a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/shop/2076/goodness-greens-and-lemon/2077/" target="_blank">a $9 green juice</a>, for instance, and full-throttle <a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/cleanses" target="_blank">cleanses</a> for the brave). There are raw snacks, chocolates, fermented foods&#xa0;and nut cheeses, fancy versions of pantry staples like <a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/shop/1499/gluten-free-raw-and-activated-mulberry-overnight-oats/1500/" target="_blank">$15 oats</a>, and almond milks.But the most unique offerings&#xa0;are&#xa0;the <a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/shop/category/tonics-dusts" target="_blank">tonics and dusts</a>.The shop sells "dusts," such as Brain Dust ($55), Goodnight Dust ($55), Action Dust ($55), Sex Dust ($60), Beauty Dust ($65) and Spirit Dust ($65). &#xa0;You can collect them all for $340, or you can purchase any one of these dusts in a liquid tonic form for $8.But what do these dusts do?According to Moon Juice's website, <a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/shop/1870/action-dust/1871/" target="_blank">Action Dust</a> contains astragalus, ginseng, schisandra, eleuthro, rhodiola, and stevia. Per the website, it's "an&#xa0;ancient elite formula to support your peak performance, stamina and longevity, while aiding in healthy recovery. Imbibe this athletic, adaptogenic, potion to regulate the body's vital energy, healthy metabolic function and maximize your ability to withstand stress and injury."It instructs users to "add one teaspoon to 8oz of any hot or cold liquid. Delicious with nut milk water or tea. Makes approximately 25 servings depending on taste and desired level of potency. Don't be afraid to double dose!"<div></div><a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/shop/988/beauty-dust/1003/" target="_blank">Beauty Dust</a> promises "glowing supple skin, lustrous shiny hair and twinkling bright eyes, are holistically bestowed from the inside out." <a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/shop/990/brain-dust/1005/" target="_blank">Brain Dust</a> swears it will give you "superior states of cognitive flow, clarity, memory, creativity, alertness and a capacity to handle stress." <a href="https://www.moonjuiceshop.com/shop/987/spirit-dust/1002/" target="_blank">Spirit Dust</a>&#xa0;is "alchemized with adaptogens known to promote awareness, creativity and joy for a peaceful mind and expanded existence." <a href="effectively%20lull%20you%20into%20your%20naturally%20inherent%20nocturnal%20rhythms." target="_blank">Good Night Dust </a>"effectively lull you into your naturally inherent nocturnal rhythms."&#xa0;You know what sex dusts will do.<div></div>The owner of the Moon Juice shop, Amanda Chantal Bacon, told <a href="http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/" target="_blank">Elle</a> last May how she&#xa0;incorporates some of these ingredients into her daily routine.Here are some highlights that she shared with Elle:"At 8am, I had a warm, morning chi drink on my way to the school drop off, drunk in the car! It contains more than 25 grams of plant protein, thanks to vanilla mushroom protein and stone ground almond butter, and also has the super endocrine, brain, immunity, and libido- boosting powers of Brain Dust, cordyceps, reishi, maca, and Shilajit resin.""At 9:30am, I drink 16 ounces of unsweetened, strong green juice, which is my alkalizer, hydrator, energizer, source of protein and calcium, and overall mood balancer. It's also my easy, 'lazy,' and delicious skin regime. I also take three tablespoons of bee pollen. I love Moon Juice's soft and chewy bee pollen-it's a creamy, candy-like treat that gives me my daily B-vitamin blast, and also helps feed my skin and aids hormone production. I'll also grab a handful of activated cashews. I try to get these in every day for their brain chemistry magic. I chase this with a shot of pressed turmeric root in freshly squeezed grapefruit juice.""If I'm home around 3pm, I always reach for coconut yogurt with cardamom, dried figs, walnuts, and apricots from a weekend farm visit-and a chunk of raw dark chocolate."This makes <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sakara-life-victorias-secret-diet-review-2015-12" target="_blank">Sakara Life</a> and its beauty water look tame. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/burger-king-extra-long-buttery-cheese-burger-fast-food-2016-2">We tried the new extra long, buttery cheeseburger from Burger King</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="dsYTVvMDE6eCZPw6XVfbUiVlU_vSwJt-" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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