The question Rebecca Dawson is asked the most, nine months into running her startup water bottle business, WellHouse, is frustratingly simple: where can I get it?
Frustrating because she wants supply of the company’s bottles of spring water to meet the bubbling demand, and interest. That makes distribution and availability the No. 1 goal in 2026 for the Sarasota-based company, which is run by Dawson and her husband, Chad Dawson. “Next year I want to be in some grocery stores,” Rebecca says in a late 2025 interview. “I want to be on some shelves.”
Even as the Dawsons chase that goal, interest in WellHouse is primed to grow in the short-term, as the startup recently connected with RossCreations, a wildly-popular social media influencer and prankster among the GenZ demographic. His real name is Charles Ross and, in addition to being from Sarasota, where he stages some of his pranks, he has nearly eight million followers on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Ross, says Rebecca, uses glass bottles for his daily water consumption and he now offers a link with a WellHouse discount for his audience on his platforms. “We are excited to work together with Ross and we are thrilled he likes our products,” Rebecca says…