Why I Started Live Wild Tea

My name is Cory Brehm and I am the founder of Live Wild Tea. I earned my bachelor's degree in 2015 and began a career in corporate finance. Young and naive, I had big dreams of where this path would take me. In 2019, I earned my master's degree and felt I was heading in the right direction. However, I made some mistakes and took things for granted, which ultimately led to me being fired in March 2025. The next day, I canceled my apartment lease in the city and started working on converting a Ford Transit cargo van into a camper van. A few weeks later, I hit the road with my two dogs, Jax and Blaze, with the goal of living wild.

I spent the next couple of months driving up and down the coastline of California, Oregon and Washington exploring forests with giant redwoods and secluded sandy beaches on a daily basis. Out there in the wild is where I was able to find true freedom. My thoughts were no longer dictated by the influences of society but rather from the beauty and simplicity of nature. Stress and anxiety were feelings that no longer consumed my mind on a daily basis. I felt alive and free for the first time in my life.

Long before I decided to live a nomadic lifestyle, I had a passion for the healing powers of natural remedies. Growing up in the early 2000s, I saw first hand the devastation that was caused from Big Pharma's desire to make a profit without any concern for the lives that they would ruin along the way. This fueled my desire to find another way to heal the mind and body. I started researching the benefits of different herbs and began working on designing my own herbal tea recipes. This quickly became more than just a search for answers, it became a way of life. 

I started Live Wild Tea with the hope that this company would help people find true freedom in the same way that I did by using the healing powers of herbal tea to allow the mind and body to be healthy and ready to explore nature.

Live wild. Live free.