Shane Heath didn't exactly set out to start a beverage company. He was trying to figure out why the thing that made him feel productive was also making him feel awful.

Before he founded MUD\WTR, Shane was a designer, artist, and startup worker caught inside the same ritual millions of people mistake for ambition. More coffee. More output. More speed. More anxiety. The cup looked harmless enough. The culture around it looked almost heroic, but the chemistry was telling a different story.

In this episode of Office Hours, we talk with Shane about caffeine, burnout, mental health, ritual, and the strange ways people self-medicate their way through modern work. We get into the founding story of MUD\WTR, why coffee culture can hide the effects of caffeine in plain sight, and how a product built from cacao, chai, spices, and functional mushr ...