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Ep 143Espresso: Why POPHAM's Founder Allows the Vision to Evolve
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) ============================================== ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take you 5 mins to read. Full of wisdom from the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here - https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/🍲 ---------------------------------🤝 Let's Connect!►Let's link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Ep 142Who Gives A Crap Founder: The 8 Principles to Building a Global Consumer Brand
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsorsMKJ Ignitehttps://www.mkjignite.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/Big Fish - https://bigfish.co.uk/BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/Simon Griffiths is a founder like no other. Who Gives A Crap are a brand like no other. Our conversation was like no other.Brand building like no other. J’addoreeeee Who Gives A Crap. Reinventing Toilet Roll. Wallops and whips of Warhole-esque colours. Transforming toilet paper into lusciously lurid story telling machines.Wipe ya bum, donate ya dough to charity. First philanthropic brand to donate + £13m to Charity Simon’s approach to brand building TOTALLY breaks the rules of convention. Prepare to have all your “bogged down” traditional ways of thinking wiped clean ;) On a deeper level, our conversation taught me what to ACTUALLY Give a Crap AboutON THE MENU: 1. Why Too Much Purpose Makes a Brand Boring and One Dimensional - Brands are like a Human with lots of depth and texture 2. Going from Good to Great Brands: Why a Brand is an Orchestrate Not a Solo Singer3. WGAC Principles for High Performance Cultures: Autonomy + Mastery + Purpose 4. WGAC Hiring Principles: Culture Add > Culture Fit - are you a Scruncher or Folder 5. How to Build a Remote Working Global Brand: Life-Work Balance vs. Work-Life Balance and Return to Business vs. Cost to Employee6. Why You Must Embrace Screwing Up as PR Ammo- Allows you to build a Deeper connection with Employees and Consumers 7. Why Being Normal is Dangerous for Founder - Your weirdness + quirks allow you to see the World Differently 8. How to Get Tone of Voice to Land in Different Countries that Aren’t English Speaking - Hire Localised Talent 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 141How All Things Butter Started - Thomas Straker, Toby Hoppy
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 1408 Timeless Brand Building Lessons: Selling Green & Blacks for £35 Million and New Covent Garden Soup for £40 million
** PLEASE NOTE: my audio improves after 7 minutes!!! Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/Feast your eyes on this🍫 Exit New Covent Garden Soup Co for + £40 million 🍫 Exit Green & Black's exit for £35 million 🍫 Builds Cawston Press to +£13 million brand 🍫 Builds L.A BREWERY | NON-ALCOHOLIC into buccaneering kombucha brand 🍫 Chairman of the Grosvenor Estate.🍫 Cook. Farmer. City Lawyer. INSEAD MBA graduate. William Kendall is a totally rare breed of Human being. William operates at the rare intersection of two opposing modes. Creator meets Operator.Farmer meets Founder. Curiosity meets Commercial.My goal was to meander and mooch and prize open both sides. We did that. Our longest podcast to date. 3 hours. LADEN with wisdom. Take it in sloooooooowly. Maybe on a long drive. Or flight. Maybe over 3 sittings. Maybe 2. Up to you. ON THE MENU: 1. Why Founders must learn the power of Selling - it’s a balance Why + Story = pull2. The Fail Safe Way to Build a Great food brand: Think like Mini Rugby - Don't hog the ball + Stay in Position 3. Why Successful Founders must walk the “Fine line between delegation and abdication”4. How to Build a High Performance Senior Leadership Team that ACTUALLY EXITS food and drink brands - The Basic Disciplines 5. Why Food and Drink founders must never forget you’re selling FOOD AND DRINK. The Cake is the Cake. 6. How to Galvanise Strong Cultures - “The most important person in the business is the person who joined last week”7. The Change in Founders Mindset from £5 million challenger brand to £20 Million House hold brand: Stay restless + charismatic 8. Why Market Research just Covers Arses - You Must Find out WHY people ACTUALLY DO Things Full episode goes live Monday 8am Can't wait till thenWatch on Youtube or listen to other episodes in the comments below.🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 139Espresso: How The Craft Beer Revolution Started
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 138Minor Figures founder: Building a + £30 million Challenger That Thinks Like a Funk Band
Hey y'all, This is a repost of one of my favourite episodes of all time. Back to normal in the New Year. Hope you have an amazing Christmas STOP thinking like a Challenger Brand, please.Zipping n’ zinging through the Challenger zeitgeist is a David vs. Goliath mentality. Post BrewDog, challenger brands act like Punk Bands.Minor Figures took a screw-that view and forged a new path. They act like a FUNK BAND. Stuart Forsyth, taught me: "We play our groove and let our people come dancing”Mind-bendingly banging products. Weird. Lurid. Wonderful. Avant-garde, chilled-contrarians fusing music, coffee and art. Cult-like evangelists, venerate the brand, blotching their body with Minor Figure tattoos. Minor Figures won listings at: Waitrose & Partners, Tesco, Morrisons, Coles GroupOur conversation unshackled my noggin from the challenger-thinking straight-jacket.My mind grooved into new forests of curiosity like a randy Truffle Pig.Grab yourself a strong coffee, allow your mind to meander. ON THE MENU: 1. WHY FOOD AND DRINK FOUNDER’S MUST "BITE OFF MORE THAN THEY CAN CHEW THEN CHEW LIKE HELL"2. WHY FOOD AND DRINK BRANDS MUST THINK LIKE “FUNK BANDS” NOT “PUNK BRANDS” - TO AUTHENTICALLY STAND OUT IN CATEGORIES 3. WHY SMASHING IT IN TWO CHANNELS IS THE PREREQUISITE BUILDING A LIFESTYLE BRAND 4. WHY FOOD AND DRINK FOUNDERS MUST FALL IN LOVE WITH OBSTACLES AND CHOOSE YOUR STRUGGLE. = “I GET TO FACE THIS CHALLENGE” VS. “I HAVE TO FACE THIS CHALLENGE” 5. HOW FOOD AND DRINK FOUNDER CAN SEPARATE THEIR BUSINESS WORTH FROM THEIR SELF WORTH - “WHAT IF IT ALL ENDED TOMORROW? ” Big thanks to Ben Vear for sorting this out.Fully eppy goes live Monday 8am. Cannae’ wait till then? Other episodes in comments below. 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 137Espresso: How POPHAM'S Founder Deals with Mental Torture
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 136How Jez Galaun Sold Brixton Brewery to Heineken
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsorsMackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/Big Fish - https://bigfish.co.uk/BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/Brixton is a gorgeous melting pot, hubbub, hodge-podge, colliding-cultures, electric-eclectic soup.2013, swirling out the soup is craft beer brand Brixton BreweryJez along with wife and family friends, founded the brand in 2013.Heineken came knocking.Jez, believed Heineken could take it to another level.An absolute delight to hunker down under the arches in Brixton as they trains grumbled and hurtled overhead.If you’re looking to sell you brand (or baby) and want to know what it ACTUALLY feels like - this is for you!!ON THE MENU:1. Why founders must “Method Act” and fake it till you make it. Jay Z “Speak things into Existence2. The Power of 1% Compounding: How Brixton Apply British cyclist Sir David Brailsfords to 1% compounding principles3. The 7 stages of grief when selling your business to HeinekenThe Dark Secrets to the Craft Beer: the tribalism behind craft beer and how it spread?4. How to move from an Oral Culture to a Systems Culture - document all the boring but important bits.🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 135Espresso: 5 Negotiation Hacks from Dragons Den
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 134Top Negotiation Secrets from ex-Dragon Sarah Willingham from Dragons Den
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/Are you crap at negotiating? C’mnnaaan be honest? Challengers are notoriously, hopelessly, woefully crap at negotiating.I’m awful. Founders struggle to separate themselves from their business.David vs. Goliath. Challenger vs. Retailer. It’s a slog. Thrilled to welcome back Sarah Willingham on el pod. We dive deep into the weeds of negotiating tactics from Dragon’s Den, being a formidable female founder in a mans world + tonnes more. Sarah Willingham career sparkles: - Head of International Expansion at Pizza Express and Planet Hollywood- Bought, built and sold the UK’s largest chain of Indian Restaurants, Bombay Bicycle Club- 2015 - 2017 - Sarah was a Dragon alongside Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Nick Jenkins- Founded and floated Nightcap PLC in ONE YEAR (London Cocktail Club, Barriro Familia)- She’s an investor and chair at TONKOTSU and The Craft Gin ClubYou’re in for a treat!!ON THE MENU:1. The 4ft 5 Swimmers Rule: Why founders must follow their unique nature “go with your nature, don’t follow nature” 2. Why you must “Reflect on the past, but don't live in the past” - you need a propeller to keep going forward 3. Dragons Den Negotiations Principles. SEPERATE your self from the negotiation, manage exceptions, assess your worth to the other side of the table, what does great look like 4. The hardest thing to do is to step back and let adrenaline "when you have adrenaline you don't have clarity"5. “Always believe there’s a way” - “just step back and look at the full picture”🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 133Espresso: I was ready to kill myself, but like a Phoneix Rose from the Ashes - Matt Kelly
Listen to the full episode here:Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 132UNION Coffee Founder: Pioneering the Coffee Culture in the UK (it all started in a Garden Shed)
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ Imagine walking down a street today. No StarbucksNo Pret A Manger.No Costa.No Cafe Nero.No GAIL’s.No McDonalds coffee No coffee. Imagine a world with coffee? As an ardent coffee fiend, I couldn’t live without it. Rewind to 1986.Our scone-scoffing, beer-boshing, tea-guzzling Britain was crowned the “Graveyard of Coffee”. A slumpy-grumpy stupor. If you wanted a cuppa joe, you’d have to go to swanky-hotel. Then. Thank heavens. Two mad scientists. Steven Macatonia and Jeremy Torz. Had just returned slurping up the coffee movement in San Fransisco. They started UNION and the coffee movement from their Mum's garden shed. No Union Hand-Roasted Coffee. No Starbucks. No Starbucks. No Coffee movement. The coffee you drank this morning. You owe a great deal to Jeremy and Stephen LOVED this conversation ON THE MENU: 1. How to see brand building like a scientist: Stop + evaluate, then go forward, slow is smooth, smooth is fast2. How to turn OOH into experiential marketing and storytelling to build trust in grocery 3. How coffee created the third space for people to operate in outside bars and pubs + how new brands can too 4. How founders can avoid cognitive bias: “Don't drink the cool aid, don’t ask questions expecting the answers you want to hear”5. The “You're not stuck in traffic, you are in traffic” Rule, every new idea needs push and pull Full episode goes live Monday 8am.Can’t wait till then, feel free to check out other episodes below 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 131Espresso: Rory Sutherland - YOU MUST KNOW The Peak End Rule
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 130Calum Franklin: Reinventing The British Pie and Putting British Food on the Map
Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter, Friday Feast - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/Big Fish - https://bigfish.co.uk/BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/British food was slowly-but-very-surely dying. Until Calum Franklin came along. Calum breathed fresh life back into British food. Taking the humble, quintessentially British pie.Turning it, Inside out. Upside down. Backto frontReinventing our beloved Pie.Ground-breakingly-banging and face-meltingly delicious flavours. The Pies looked are art and architecture meets food. Like ancient, baroque cathedrals from Rome or Paris or Milan or London. 2018, I remember stuffing my face at The Pie Room.Warm waves of lusciously lucid memories are warming me as I type this on a blisteringly cold 8am train to Waterloo. Calum was Executive Chef of the Holborn Dining room and founder of The Pie Room inside prodigious Rosewood hotel.LOVED this conversation. It's WAYYYY more than just absolutely-banging Pies. It's a Masterclass in Accessing your UNIQUE creativity. Struggling to access creativity? Wondering how to reinvent your creative culture? THIS IS FOR YOU. Scoff this down ya ear lobes ON THE MENU: 1. Why Creativity is All Around Us and How to ACTUALLY Access it - Inspiration Comes from Door Handles2. Why Calum lives by the Discipline: “Always do the right thing, even when no one is watching” 3. CREATE Competition for yourself - it forces you push the boundaries, stretch ambition, avoid complacency 4. How to build creative cultures that do BOLD work: “Realise that Everyone reacts different to levels of pressure”5. Why Service is Black and White and Hospitality is Colour- Great Food is Memories meeting Discipline🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 129Espresso: Rory Sutherland - Why Brands Are Scared of Humour
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 128Thomas Straker & Toby Hoppy: How All Things Butter Are Reinventing Butter
All Things Butter Spread like wild-fire over social media. My goal: explore All Things Behind-The Butter. Milk the proverbial cowBaste my brain, melt my mind with wisdom Churn through the conversational fields of curiosity Fill me-mind up Butter Cup (sounds geordie) WHEY-HEY BABYYY !! (God, I sound like a Geography teach-in-with-long-nose-hair-in-Fat-Face)This conversation BLEW MY MIND Behind the glitzy-ritzy, sparkly-sugar-coated veneers Toby Hoppy Thomas Straker are two absolute grafters with creativity at their core. We talk about the Art of Simplicity and Rational Creativity. THAT picture which almost got Thom cancelled. How to bounce back from rock bottom ON THE MENU - 1. How to use social media and content to by-pass market research and find product-market-fit BEFORE you launch 2. Why the hardest part for founder is “pulling the trigger, pull the trigger, build momentum” Momentum, compounds. 3. The Harsh Realities of Creating All Things Butter content - and how to build a content system 4. The D2C Ceiling: is d2c less important for Omni-Channel businesses5. Straker: ”don't over think creativity” Creativity is REDUCING not PRODUCING, it’s taking away and simplifying - love, love, love this!!!!!!6. Hoppy: Why Founders must embrace “Rational Creativity” - how ATB are using content to drive ROS Full episode live Monday 8am. Others in comments below.You’d make a very happy-bunny if you please hit the subscribe button Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 127Espresso: How To ABSOLUTELY SMASH Your Buyer Meeting - Harry Clarke
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 126Planet Organic founder: What ACTUALLY Went Wrong?
Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter, Friday Feast - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsorsMackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/Big Fish - https://bigfish.co.uk/BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/2022, Planet Organic set to open 50 stores.April 2023, in Administration.What ACTUALLY happened? What went wrong at Planet Organic Ltd? Why?What are the lessons? These questions swamped my nogSo I got them answered Thrilled to welcome back the wonderful Renée Elliott to the poddy. Renée like a personal therapist-meets-business guru to me. If you’re a founder struggling, this is for you. It boils down to STICKING to your UNIQUENESS + VALUES. ON THE MENU: 1. How Meditation = Better Decisions: “the quieter you become the louder you can hear”2. Why Founders Must Ride The Rollercoaster: Hands In the Air vs Holding on For Dear Life - “Stay in surrender avoid attachment to avoid pain”3. How To Actually WIN a Planet Organic Listing Under The New Leadership4. What Went Wrong at Planet? - Moving away from Organic = Vanilla = who are you as a brand?5. How they’re fixing Planet Organic? Go Deeper Internally to Your Unique Values. 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 125Espresso: How POPHAM'S Scale and Keep The Magic Alive - Ollie Gold
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 124The Art of Hustle: How Harry Clarke won POPS listings at Ocado, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, TESCO
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsorsMackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/Big Fish -BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/In turquoise swimming pool, on pink Lilo, under blazing-orange Balearic sunshine.An idea swirled in Harry's mind.An idea for a frozen cocktail ice lollyThat idea kept gnawingUntil Harry cold emails DIAGEO CEO direct.Bags a meeting.Plants an idea.Births a brandPOPS, a booze-soaked frozen ice lolly brand partnered with whopppa brands PIMMS;.Late night hustling at parties in the intoxicatingly-delicious SOHO nights.Walking around Ibiza with a cool box of frozen lollies, knocking on beach club doors.The won listings at TESCO, Ocado, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s.Unfortunately, due to cash issues, Harry closed shop in 2019.HC Consulting work with star-studded brands Holy Moly, DANDS, Savyll Drinks.They’re a partner of the poddy tooON THE MENUHarry’s biggest F*ck ups at buyers meetings and how to ACTUALLY unlock listings?The Art of Hustle - it’s not working harder, it’s about putting yourself where the waves are.How to Manage Cash Flow as a Seasonal brand to avoid having to shut up shopThe Dangers of constantly raising money and how to not dilute yourself as founder.The dark side of creating a category of one - you may not make it, you may be TOO differentFull episode goes live Monday 8am.Please do subscribe, you’d really make my weekend🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 123Espresso: The D2C Blueprint - How to scale to 3 mill revenue in 3 months - Matt Kelly
Listen to the full episode here:Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 122How To ACTUALLY Win a CoOp Listing and Drive an Insane Rate of Sale
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsorsMackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/Life is a little crazy. So today's episode is a repost from one of our most downloaded episodes of all time The AMAZING Rebecca Oliver-Mooney who heads up Innovation, Dairy and Category buying at The Co-Op. ROM set up Co-op’s incubator programme - designed to help challenger brands work more closely with The Co-Op. Post our convo, a HUGE shift erupted in my approach to “selling”: IT’S NOT BUYER VS. SUPPLIER. IT’S BUYER + SUPPLER = WIN-WIN PARTNERSHIPS.ON THE MENU:1. How to sell your brand story in a language that actually speaks to a buyer - always ask “so what?2. How to smash a buyers meeting without kantar and nielsen data - understand your shopper3. how brands can find their unique brand d.n.a. in crowded categories - who do you want to be at the dinner party?4. why too much distribution can be a problem and what to do about it - quality vs. quantity of distribution5. what to do when you’re about to be delisted - how to navigate that conversation with your buyer🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 121Espresso: Why All Challenger Brands Should Watch Braveheart - James Cosmo
Listen to the full episode here: Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 120How Matt Kelly Built Spacegoods into £3 million D2C Brand in 16 Months
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsorsMackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/Spacegoods is a brand like no other.Matthew Kelly is a founder like no other.Rare to find someone who ACTUALLY says it HOW IT IS.Matt’s podcast “Document The Journey” is raw.It shows the rough texture of a founders mind - the frothing cauldron of stressand drive and ambition and anxiety.Matt is a D2C Sensei.Founded jewellery brand Midnight City, built to £5m in combined revenue in 2.5years, exited in 2021.Founded NEON Beach, a LED neon brand. Grew to over £7m in revenueHe ran into crippling supply chain problems in early 2021.A Master Class in Resilience and D2C.ON THE MENU:1. Why food and drink founders must realise “Nothing exists until you create it” - if not you, then who?2. Why The future of Wellness brands is micro-dosing and mushrooms3. The Harsh Truths of building a FMCG brand - do retail listings ACTUALLY grow top line revneue4. The Principles to building a 7 figure D2C business in 15 months - the surprising secrets behind the unbeatable LTV & CAC ratio5. Why life is about being drawn to the unknown and fantastical BUT be a “Cynical Optimist6. Why as a founder your strength is to be the Phoenix that rises from The ashes🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 119Espresso: The Messiah vs. Imposter Complex - Charlie McVeigh
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed Your fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee 4. Do yourself a favour Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 118POPHAMS: How Ollie Gold built London’s Best Bakery and Scaled Whilst Keeping Magic
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsorsMackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/My draw dropped through the earths crustA filthy concoction from the Heavens of GluttonyI remember it vividly and voluptuouslyIt valiantly violated my taste buds into sweet-sweet BlissThe first time I chowed down POPHAMS Bacon and Maple SwirlBrain flirting-swirling-whirlingA state of delicious delirium.Thick, lip-smackingly salty bacon swirls around a buttery pillows of pastry.Soaked and smothered in conglomerate amounts of oh!so-sweet Canadian Maple Syrup.Nirvana.Ollie Gold is a G. Super humble.But has solved a problem most can’t solve.Keeping the Magic as you Scale.POPHAM’SI LOVE this interview, Ollie’s seemingly solved the headache all businesses face.Grab a coffee and a pastry.Tuck in.ON THE MENU1. Why the best MBA is Kitchen Porter, every 16 year - we need jobs that help us zoom out Vs zoom in + take a job that forces you to speak to anyone anywhere1. Your role as a founder is to be the link and thread the needle - Vision + trust = link = thread the needle2. How to grow without killing magic and diluting your brand + Popham’s Horizontal Vs. Vertical3. Why the founders vision must evolve and be fluid, if the brand grows so must the vision4. Why starting a brand is the greatest journey of self discovery for a human being5. Why hospitality are everyday super heroes6. How to build a creative culture that constantly push boundaries = Set boundaries that allow for wild, flamboyant creativityFully eppy Monday 8am.🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 117Espresso: If Sushi was from Somalia or Salford - Rory Sutherland
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed!1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking?Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!!2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder?Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow.3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love UnleashedYour fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee4. Do yourself a favourFeel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 116How Game of Thrones and Braveheart Star Rose from Rock Bottom to Whiskey Barron, STORY MAN - James Cosmo
Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter, Friday Feast - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/11pm.Outside: cold, black November evening.Inside: a warm, cosy flat in Twickenham.Saturday’s movie about to start.Hot curry on his lap.Suddenly.The phone rang and rang and rang and rang.He gave a piercingly-curt look to his wife.“No, no, no PLEASE don’t answer - it’ll be Jim wanting to go down to the pub”His wife answered anyway.Frustration clawed and screeched across his face.Gleefully, she looked at looked at him: “it’s Mel Gibson”He said “get out of here… you’re pulling leg”Reluctantly, he picked up.Mel Gibson said: “Jim, I want you to play Campbell in Braveheart”After that phone call James’ life forever changed.Thrilled to welcome James Cosmo, on to the podcast.James had an illustrious acting career: Brave Heart, Trainspotting, TROY and Game of Thrones and many more.Now he’s plying his trade in whiskey, founder of the brand, STORYMAN.This episode is a Master Class is NEVER, EVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS.ON THE MENU:1. If you believe in your heart, you're doing something moral and ethical and courageous, the universe will conspire to make things happen2. Why challenger food and drink founders must embrace being “The ant at the damn, well you haven't met be yet”3. Mel Gibson leadership lessons: go the extra mile + be the first one there + it's going to be fantastic + the leader eats last4. Why you must embrace nerves: nerves give you 40% better performance + You need to feel unsure of your footing, to know your balance is right5. Danny Boyle and Trainspotting Leadership lessons: The Kiwi vs. Shiny apples analogy: be different, not betterFull episode goes live Monday 8am.Other episodes below🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 115Espresso: The Strip Bar and Champagne, How to Understand Customer Value Rory Sutherland
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed!1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking?Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!!2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder?Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow.3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love UnleashedYour fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee4. Do yourself a favourFeel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Rory Sutherland: Why Following Logic is Dangerous For Challenger Brands, Act Foolish To Unlock Opportunities Your Competition Don’t See
You’re being too smart.And, it’s killing your brand.Following logic.Leaning on experience as a crutch.When, ostensibly, it’s a shackle.Petrified of looking dumb.We pre-rationalise decision making.So many brands, including myself, after a honey-moon of magical momentum become sterile, pallid, bland.This moment is VERY dangerous for challenger brands.The Dip.Trough of Sorrow.Really bloody hard bit.Rory says here, we must ditch experience and logic.Instead, act with child-like wonderment and playful curiosity.We may, just, stumble upon a whole new bounty of opportunity, none of your competition ever saw.Delighted to welcome back Rory Sutherland on to the poddy.ON THE MENU:1. The problem with “purpose-led brands” = too boring and serious, Sausage Rolls can’t solve world problems2. Would Sushi actually taste good if it was from Somalia or Salford - provenance reframe3. The easiest way for restaurants/brands to stand out - create gratuitous perversity - Bacon Sandwich4. The first draft of everything is shit - pre rationalisation pisses over the bonfire of post rationalisation magic,5. Why a Kitchen porter or corner shop worker is the best MBA - see business as whole system vs. individual components6. Why You can't cut a sudoku: the optimisation of the parts doesn't create the optimisation of the whole,7. The peak end rule: How am experience ends is super important - coffee and beer sommeliers Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter, Friday Feast - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos👌 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 113Espresso: Dance Like No One's Watching, The Day KFC Ran Out of Chicken - Charlie McVeigh
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Ep 112How To Actually Go Viral on LinkedIn, gain 20,340 Followers in 7 Days and Lessons in No Bull Shit Strategy - Alex Smith
Most strategy is UTTER BULL SHIT.Shat out by spurious and superfluous #strategistsPeddling putridly perplexing, flabbergasting “frameworks” — make the brain go berserk.Matrix’s that make you feel like you’ve chomped the orange-what-you-on-about-mate?-pill“Grab yourself a Costa and a biccy …let’s all sit around synergise and prioritise and sodomise your brain with complexity”Complexity is EASY.Simplicity is HARD.So much strategy complexity.Alex M H Smith does the HARD job of making strategy EASY.His new book, “No Bullshit Strategy” is INSANELY DELICIOUS.A short-snappy, marble-smooth, no bull-shit book on strategy - my brain lit up like a glittering Christmas tree as I briskly sauntered.The Better news?Alex is back on the pod.ON THE MENU:1. Why challenger food and drink founders spend too much time Zoomed in and *MUST* ZOOM out to see clearly2. How challenger food and drink founders can set goals that lead to fun adventure vs. constant comparison and beating yourself up.3. Why you’ll never achieve huge success through hard work4. How to go viral on LinkedIn, write “I feel seen posts” + Why if it’s not click bait, it's not doing the audience a favour5. How to find the Strategy secrets + The insight is NEVER a new piece of information - “It's not about what you KNOW. It's what you NOTICE ”Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 111Pret A Manger and ITSU founder: How Julian Metcalfe Built Global Billion Dollar Brands and The Art of Leadership and Simplicity in Complexity
The most mind-blowing conversation I’ve EVER had on challenger leadership.Julian Metcalfe is contrarian, formidable. A lucid single-mindedness married with a howling grit.The unique ability to find simplicity in complexity - “complexity is easy, simplicity is hard”Pret a Manger and ITSU combined are worth over £3 billion.Pret a Manger one of the biggest food and drink brands of all time, opened sites in New York, Hong Kong and successfully sold in 2018.ITSU are at 74 sites solving the obesity pandemic providing healthy, affordable, delicious food.ITSU grocery are disrupting categories with ground breaking affordable, delicious mealsTotal honour to interview Julian.ON THE MENU:Why challenger food and drink founders must BE BRAVE and swim upstream, when everyone’s swimming downstreamThe principles of empathetic leadership: listening + imagination = look at problems differentlyWhy complexity is much easier than simplicity - Do less, but do it beautifully = grow fasterWhy you must never ever, ever doubt what you can do as a human being - you’re capable of so much more than you thinkThe process of building great cultures: realise this hard-truth, people work for people, not for your company.The relentless pursuit of better: accept 99 is not 100, so constantly pursue betterWhy brands must grow EXACTLY in proportion in their ability to stay GOODFully eppy goes live Monday. If you enjoy the podcast.Please share it with one friend, you’d really make my weekend. Thanks xxSubscribe to our newsletterhttps://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 110Espresso - Embrace paranoia - COOK
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Ep 109How Charlie McVeigh pioneered the craft beer revolution, built and sold The Draft House to Brewdog, became lead investor in Butchies Fried Chicken, The Breakfast Club
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Friday Feast https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/There was someone else before Brewdog and Camden Town Bewery.Ferociously banging the craft beer drum when no one listened.Charlie McVeigh.Charlie pioneered of the craft beer movement. In 2006, founded The Draft House, built a wildly succesfulscuccessfully sold to Brewdog in 2018.Charlie’s featured on the programme Million Pound Menu. The Dragons Den for food and drink brands.And investor in the wildly popular Butchies Fried Chicken, Foodstuff, The Breakfast Club.Our conversation dives deep into the dark side of being a founder.ON THE MENU1. Why a business is “essentially a fiction” and how new ideas spread - every brand touch point is an opportunity for storytelling.2. The founder “Messiah” vs. “Imposter” complex - and how to spot your weaknesses.3. Why founders must find and embrace their psychotic part. Turn empathy off.4. How to add systems as you scale - a brand can only scale once the right systems are in place = Brand principles + systems + link to brand + consistency = HUGE brand scale5. How to ACTUALLY fire employees: Sad reality not everyone is going to be perfect6. Why founders MUST know what type of business they’re building: Do you want to be Rich or Do you want to be King?Please make me oh so happs and please tickle the subscribe button in the comments below.🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 108How Mindful Chef Scaled to + £75 Million Revenue and Maintained Culture at 130 Employees - Myles Hopper, Mindful Chef founder
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/23Q2M51LBXwGsxszG6iU6vAPPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hungry/id1537239469this a repost with the wonderful Myles Hopper. I am in Lisbon for my 30th - back to it next week xx One of those INTENSE days.Emails eviscerating Zen, to-do lists trampling Calm.Instant Gratification masquerading as Instagram: scrolling your way to shameful oblivion.Mindful Chef is more than a recipe box.A panacea against the pummelling of putrid notifications.Banging recipes and Build-Your-Own-Meditation-Retreat at home.Slip into sliders and sarong (yeh, climbed MK 2013 - Milton Keynes Snow bowl)Whack on a bit of MJ. Just Beat Ittttttt - the eggs and the work stressSlice n’ dice your way into a Smooooth Criminal-Spring Well of Happiness.Myles Hopper, founder of Mindful Chef is the latest guest on HUNGRY.ON THE MENU:1. WHY FOUNDERS MUST USE THE WORD “NO” AS PART OF A GROWTH MINDSET TO CONSTANTLY IMPROVEWHY FOOD AND DRINK FOUNDER’S MUST BALANCE2. BIG AMBITION WITH DAILY BALANCE TO AVOID BURNOUT - “THINGS CAN ALWAYS WAIT 3. WHY FOOD AND DRINK BRANDS MUST ENCOURAGE COMMUNICATION AROUND FAILURE: MINDFUL’S FEAST OF FAILURE 4.TAKE THE PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE TO CREATE DIE HARE FANS: “GET UNDER THE SKIN OF YOUR CUSTOMERS”5. HOW TO MAINTAIN CULTURE AND BRAND AS YOU SCALE TO 130 EMPLOYEES: VALUES + CELEBRATING SMALLS WINS + GREAT LEADERSHIP = KNOWING WHEN TO BE ON AND OFF THE DANCE FLOOR🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 107Espresso - Being a female founder in a mans world - Bold Bean Co
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Ep 106How to attract, hire, keep and nurture incredible talent and build challenger teams that escape competition, lessons in hiring from Mackenzie Jones
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/- Dodgy hires are cancerous, they gorge and eviscerate iron-clad cultures.- Dodgy hires are anchors slowing your challenger speed boat down.- Dodgy hires are a total headache and smouldering pain in the jaxxie.Every single guest on the podcast has ONE salient, recurring piece of wisdom.Hiring is EVERYTHING.Attracting, onboarding, keeping, nurturing, great talent is EVERYTHING.But, the world’s changed alas finding great talent has changed, too.Word Job Descriptions are risibly archaic and on-boarding processes must be silky-smooth.DE-lighted to welcome my great friends and podcast sponsors Paul Jones and Billy Maddock from Mackenzie Jones on the poddy.You may thinking“oohhh recruiters on a podcast”. How uncouth. Like tepidly farting in a lift. Or eating a WASABI Katsu Cuzza on the tube.Chill ya beans, brahs n’ mahsBilly and Paul are the bee’s knees.Our partnership has found INSANE talent for INSANE brands, we’ve recruited for EMBER, ManiLife, The Juice Smith, Goodrays.ON THE MENU:1. Why we need a job description 2.0 - it shouldn’t even be called a job description2. For the strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack3. You wouldn’t send a word document to a Sainsbury’s buyer or Investor - so why do it to expect to attract great talent with word document4. How Corporate people can cross the chasm to challenger - roll sleeves, look at the sky and dig dirt5. How to find great talent and avoid “The Netflix Effect”: Explore vs. Exploit - the 33% rule6. How to treat candidates right, even if you don’t give them the job - remember it’s a super small industry.🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 105Espresso - Does it make the boat go faster - Candy Kittens
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Ep 104How MOTH pivoted from a dying brand, created a category of one with RTD premium cocktails and won listings at Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, TESCO, The Hoxton and British Airways
Subscribe to our newsletter https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/Moments of Total Happiness often spawn from Moments of Totally Fuck This.Rob and Sam created premium cocktail brand, Buveur.Buveur unlocked a myriad of smashing-listings Harrods, Selfridges, Daylesford, The Hoxton Hotels and The Ritz.Until, Scale Demons beckoned.Margins at scale didn’t work.Shackled by “too premium, too small”.One can only push water up hill for so long.Back to drawing board. Rethink to reinvention to Renaissance.,MOTH Drinks was born.She’s stormed the category like a ravenous Hurricane.MOTH are the fastest growing RTD cocktail brand - found in 2775 supermarkets Waitrose & Partners, Sainsbury's, Homeslice Pizza, The Hoxton and British AirwaysConversation with the amazing 🍸 Rob Wallis Wallis was recorded at the amazing Bread & Jam.Goes live Monday…ON THE MENU:1. Why leadership is a symphony - you as founder are the conductor + be the perfect host2. How to lead and build effective - BIG rocks and stay in the HIGH impact zone3. How to stay NO to OCADO - "a No is a NOT NOW" + update buyers with news vs. being a neggy-salesy pest4. Lack of availability is like scoring an own goal to - build a great relationship with supply chain5. How to create a category of ONE - educate buyers on the category not the brand, be the hero of your categoryFull episode goes live Monday 8am.Other episodes in the comments below.Have a lovely weekend xx🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 103Espresso: David Hieatt, Hiut Denim - Be a speed boat not a shipliner
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Ep 102How Danny Winer transformed from failed Hollywood actor, to build multi-million dollar cookware brand HEXCLAD, secured Gordon Ramsay as a business partner and partnered with Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner and Halle Berry
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/Leaving New York and landing in La La land with dreams of becoming an actor.The odd extra job here and there.Nothing.Hollywood reared it’s egregious ugly head with toxic-stained eyes.City of Angels became Town of Demons.Tinsel Town lost the twinkle in it’s eye. Danny, too.Danny felt lost and confused and totally at rock bottom.But, something softly whispered to his soul. A calling. Muse. Something. She kept pulling Danny.He took endless flights from LA to China, hustling an wining and dinning. The Ritz, Carlton China.A sliding doors moment. Danny stumbled upon a new technology. The genesis of HEXCLAD.HEXCLAD are ab-SO-lootely smashin itreinvented cookware and became one of the fastest growing multi 9 figure D2C brands in the worldsecured Gordon Ramsay as a business partnerpartnered with Halle Berry, Hailey Bieber, Kendall JennerThis is true founders story. Ups and downs. Sliding door moments. Grit. Hope. Pain. Truimph.You’re going to LOVE it.Full episode in the comments belowON THE MENU:Why you need to hit rock bottom to reinvent yourself and come backWhy founders must be totally present and super aware to spot the opportunities hiden in plain sightWhy “don’t give up” is awful advise for founders and asking the dumb, obvious questions gets your further ahead.Danny’s killer sales technique: find the problem + stir the pot + provide the solution + listen + tailor pitchWhy “pressure is a privilege” and Gordon Ramsay’s advice for dealing with huge amounts of pressure🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 101Espresso- Accept pain, it's meant to be hard - COOK
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Ep 100How Rude Health Disrupted The Health Food Category and Built a +£20 million Household Brand - Camilla Barnard, Rude Health, co-founder.
Life is a little crazy right now. This is a reposted episode from a couple of years ago with the wonderful Camilla Barnard, founder of Rude Health. Back in full swing next week. In 2006, finally, something erupted.Health food was an imbroglio of crusty and boggey-fied, innocuous yet alienating food.Glib green and banal brown shelves had less personality than a broken Asthma pump in a hospital car park.A cacophony of precocious cardboard-with-a-conscience.In 2006, thankfully, a TECTONIC SHIFT ERUPTED!!!Lashings of lurid orange and green and pink and red lava spilled over supermarket shelves.A bombastic riot of eye-gorgingly-gorgeous products, coquettishly carousing your taste buds.Rude Health, the Granola-gorging Jospeh and the technicolour Dream Coat.Rude Health made you feel beautiful and bountiful.They’ve scaled from +£20 million, won listings at Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, TESCO, Booths.My latest guest on HUNGRY is the wonderful, Camilla Barnard, co-founder Rude Health.One of my favourite episodes to date!🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 99Espresso - Say No. Focus. Control. - COOK
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Ep 98The journey from free school meals to high flying banker to feeling soulless, escaping and founding Boundless, winning listings at ASDA, Holland & Barratt, Whole Foods Market, Ocado
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/Will we able to eat tomorrow? Bethnal Green. 1980's. Everyday a galling struggle. Growing up on free school meals. At 16. Cathy got a job as a tea girl in the city. Grafted her way up. Serious high flyer. Despite making SERIOUS BANK. Cathy’s heart was an empty vault. Wallet-full, Soulless. She sacked off the city. Founded Boundless. Soulless to Boundless. Boundless, a gut-loving snack brand, won listings at Whole Foods Market, Holland & Barratt, ASDA and many more. Deee-lighted to welcome Cathy Moseley Mosely aka my sister from another mister on to the podcast. ON THE MENU: 1. Why you MUST put yourself on the sinking ship to know what you’re ACTUALLY capable of - build Anti-Fragility 2. How to STAND OUT when Niche becomes Mainstream - Be Different. Not Better.3. Why Boundless got delisted from Ocado and hard truths for challengers - Literally nobody wants or cares about your product, you’ve gotta make them4. Top advice for nervous female founders - never be afraid to rugby tackle buyers- Don't believe in no In life, go around no5. How to reinvent your purpose when you feel soulless to feel boundlessFull eppy goes live Monday 6am. Other episodes in comments below If you enjoy the podcast and get a smidgen of value from it. Pease feel free to share it with one friend, you’d make me a very happy bunny. 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 97Espresso - How to get hold of buyers using LinkedIn - Bold Bean Co
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Ep 96Giles Brook: How to actually sell your food and drink brand, raise money and be a formidable founder, lessons from industry titan from Innocent, Vita Coco, BEAR, Mindful Chef, Dalston's
His career sparkles🌰Commercial Director & General Manager at innocent drinks helping take the brand from £17m to £120m🥓 CEO of Vita Coco EMEA for 12 years, built to £60m in retail sales across the EMEA region🌮 Founding partner in Urban Fresh Foods Limited, whose brand, BEAR Snacks became the UK’s No.1 fruit snacking brand & No.1 kids lunchbox item.🍡 Urban Fresh Foods Limited has appeared twice in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list. The brand was acquired by Lotus Bakeries in 2015.Investor in tonnes of brands, Bio & Me, Mindful Chef, Cheeky Panda, Dalston's Soda Co. Presto, Edgard& Cooper, Sir Kensington, Urban Legend, SURREALYou're in for a treat.ON THE MENU:1. True Gross Margin is EVERYTHING: Price to retailer less promo and trade spend less logistics. 30 to 40% minimum.2. Why B Corp is at a crossroads - is it becoming Blasé Corp?3. How to ACTUALLY sell a brand: does the category grow + be the hero of your category4. Giles one simple rule for working with founders: no surprises5. Be the hero of ONE category: lessons from selling BEAR and VITA COCOEvery top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosRecorded live this week at Bread & Jam with Giles Brook🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 95Planet Organic: Renée Elliot, Staying Calm Through Gut-wrenching challenges
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/Life is a little crazy right now, so this a repost of a previous episode I recorded with the wonderful Renée Elliot a couple of years ago. “It was a frightening, exhausting experience – and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”Her co-founder tried to kick her out of the business after 2 years of trading,resulting in 14 months of litigation and a 10-day court case.Recording this podcast was INTENSE.My stomach was in knots, sweat gushed down my brow, palms felt like they’d beendunked in Vaseline.When we stopped recording.All worry and concern relinquished, equanimity permeated my body.A feeling clung, a feeling that I could achieve LITERALLY anything.Renée Elliot, founder of Planet Organic is the latest guest on HUNGRY.It’s a bamboozingly good episode - providing a toolkit to persevere throughcolossal challenges.ON TODAY’S MENU:1. “Trust your gut and believe you can do ANYTHING”2. Why founders must constantly STOP. CHECK-IN. MAKE BETTER DECISIONS.3. The 6 Spheres of Wellbeing- physical, occupational, psychological, economic, social, and spiritual.4. How your role as a founder changes as your business scales - Ditch what youhate. Implement systems.5. How Spirituality informs Successful Strategy - The marriage of Being andDoing.🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) 🙏DONATE to Dan's London Marathon Fundraiser for Arts for All:click here or use the link below👇https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-pope-2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk&mi_u=55223120&mi_ecmp=FR-heroes_FRPo_Event-near-badge_uk

Ep 94Espresso - How to build a culture - COOK
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