From Drunken Regrets To Mindful Sips: Meet The Black Female Founders Behind Sensori [Exclusive] - Page 2

She added, “The only saving grace was knowing I didn’t blackout last night, I didn’t do anything last night but chitchat with my girlfriends and so to wake up feeling this way and feeling so crippled, it was a just a reminder of all of these great things that we have going on for us, like alcohol no longer has a place in that realm. It just never matches every single time I try, and I am not anti-drinking, I actually truly enjoy a martini here and there. It feels like there’s no space, and it’s both my physical and mental response to it.

Put all those experiences together, and you have Sensori, which is a play on words, with the founders wanting to speak to the human experience.

“As I started leaning into what the product was going to be, I started just thinking about what name would make sense, that speaks to the human experience, and honestly i just kind of was like, ‘Okay, God,’ I’m a true believer of asking and it will be given, but if you give it some time, it comes to you” Watkins explained. 

“I just kept thinking it needed to have a deeper meaning, and I had been listening to, I downloaded this app called Mind Valley, it’s like a spiritual meets kind of science app where you can go take these, they call them journeys, but you just learn about all the woo woo, spiritual stuff,” she continued. “I’d be lost in that sauce, and one of the teachers I was listening to just kept talking about if you tune into your senses, you can hear from God through your senses, and it just got me thinking about just how much deeper our sensory experience can be, if you tune into your visual experience, your hearing experience, the things you smell, the things you taste, the feelings you feel, and then sensory kind of hit, and I think Darean was like, maybe try it with an i and not a y.”

“It’s for the senses I want to feel,” Rhodes said.

“The i was very intentional, because it’s like this is my sensory experience, and so it’s a very individual experience,” Watkins concluded.

Currently, Sensori’s Connect beverage, in raspberry cucumber flavor, is available for purchase via the company’s website. Another exciting flavor is scheduled to drop in time for the summer.

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