A Chat With Georgi Grogan, Co-Founder at Functional Mushroom Blend Company: Sixways

Using natural formulations nurtured through science we’ve curated an alternative answer to health care, encouraging your body into good routines, and your skin into renewed health.

We wanted to create accessible products that were free from confusing jargon, but still contained high quality, research-backed ingredients. Building on the power of daily routines, it was important that our powders were something that fit into your day without being an extra step that felt hard to manage.
 

 

How did you come up with the idea for the company? 

 
After years of struggling with gut issues, hormone imbalances and anxiety, as well as an absent period and irregular cycles, I decided to identify the root cause of my issues, rather than just treating the symptoms. This led me to researching into the role of nutrition in health, using food and supplements as the medicine needed to heal the body. After a few months of eating a balanced diet and taking the right supplements, I began to sleep better, my energy improved and my cycle returned and became more regular. These lifestyle changes were life changing, but there was one main barrier – the number of supplements I had to take every day, and the taste of the adaptogens and mushrooms. It was not realistic to make a smoothie each day containing all the different ingredients needed to balance her body, and that’s where the idea for Sixways came from.

What makes Sixways unique is the pleasure that comes from taking the drinks, they’re a pleasure to ingest not a chore. They each encourage health daily habits, from limiting caffeine first thing in the morning to adding in our Unwind + Recover sleep blend to boost your evening routine.
 

 

How has the company evolved over the last couple of years?

 
As a new business (we only launched at the beginning of 2023), we’re still learning so much every day about our customers and how best to fit their needs. Over the last year we have consciously made an effort to create a small but perfectly formed range of functional mushroom + collagen blends. We want to make sure that everything we produce is executed to perfection.

 

What can we hope to see from Sixways in the future?

 
We have lots of exciting new product developments in the pipeline, although we can’t say too much about them at this stage – we really can’t wait for what the next year has in store! We aim to expand our retail presence even further while scaling our DTC growth even further.