The biggest HURDLE every challenger brand faces? The moment a founder hires a Senior executive. Founder <> Operator tension is always bull-ragingly bombastic Operators joining challenger brands is like a well-polished CowBoy mounting a Raged Spanish Bull Operators must control founders rage, steer vision, channel energy, calm zeal a Supple Art, Elusive Science so many get wrong Honour to sit down for an Operator Masterclass with Graham xxx from Ole & Steen HUGE!!! thanks to legends at ...
Apr 14, 2025•2 hr 35 min
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...
Apr 10, 2025•8 min•Ep. 256
🙏WIN free tickets to the next supper club, fill out this form (takes 45 seconds) 👉 TOTAL honour to sit down for a gallivanting chinwag with this absolute G Ashley Palmer-Watts. Ash is a creative genius. Head Chef at The Fat Duck leading it 3 Michelin stars. Head Chef at DINNER by Heston. Genius behind The Devonshire with mcc. Creativity is water, you swim around, up and over, through obstacles. No matter what industry you work in this poddy will 10x your creativity. ON THE MENU: The Fat Duck 3...
Apr 07, 2025•2 hr 19 min
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...
Apr 03, 2025•7 min
The CRAZIEST Rory Sutherland Conversation EVER + 20 New Marketing Rules You’ve Never Heard. Buckle up, strap up for an ADHD Orgy with the G.O.A.T. 🙏WIN free tickets to the next supper club, fill out this form (takes 45 seconds) 👉 ON THE MENU: David Oglivy’s American Express Double Your Money Back Guarantee Rule = Get rid of arseholes + show Skin in the game Why are Jack Daniels Tube Posters SO LONG? Brand Depth vs Brand Awareness: Turn a 3 second poster into a 60 second poster How to Apply Dan...
Mar 31, 2025•3 hr 34 min
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...
Mar 27, 2025•8 min
DEE-lighted to welcome back the OG Giles Brooks on to the poddy. Recorded at our supper club at The Drapers Arms a coupla weeks ago. So many brands get stuck in the £2 - £5 million pond The trough of sorrow The dip The grind Giles, as always, gives super straightforward answers to complicated problems HUGEEEE WHOPPIN thanks to the Data Donnies North Star for making this happen ON THE MENU: Why brands get stuck in the £2 - 5 mill pond and don’t become house hold brand How big is your brand WHY re...
Mar 24, 2025•59 min
Espresso's are powered by our 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....
Mar 20, 2025•9 min•Ep. 255
This week we have a throwback to an incredible convo with the co-founder of TRIP, Olivia Ferdi. Maybe I am wrong. For yonks I’ve been waxing ad nause about Narrow and Deep. Focus. Do less, better. Be a Meaningful specific. It’s what every wonderful guest on the poddy teaches me. TRIP ripped up the rule book. Definition of outlier. TRIP is for everyone and anyone, anywhere, anytime and everywhere. TRIP is a coffee replacement. Booze replacement. Cocktail mixer. Meal Deal enhancer. Grab & Go. ...
Mar 17, 2025•2 hr 4 min
Full episode on youtube here - https://youtu.be/WgI81HTrOv0 Espresso's are powered by our 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 c...
Mar 13, 2025•10 min
In 2001, the London Food World was pallid, tepid, insipid. Clotted cream Miserable Meh Thankfully, two legends CHANGED EVERYTHING. Sam Hart & Eddie Hart Swam upstream, zigged against zagging zeitgeist. Opened an array of spell-binding restaurants 2003 - Fino with genius Nieves 2007 - Barrafina 2012 - Quo Vadis with living-legend and food encyclopaedia, Jeremy Lee 2015- El Pastor And, more recently, Parillian, Bar Daskall Ghosts in Quo Vadis, MAD house parties in Manchester, wild techno night...
Mar 10, 2025•2 hr 45 min
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...
Mar 06, 2025•18 min
You’ll NEVER learn these lessons in a marketing book Tod is a GENIUS marketeer. Built an enormous 7 figure business all from his iPhone 11. Toby Inskip built an ATTENTION-GRABBING MACHINE. Drool, scroll Drool, scroll Droll and scroll and drool some more Tod injects a giddy wanderlust to the blossoming London Food World Enter Flavour Funky Town Tastebud Tinsel Town Please Sir, Can I have Some More, More, More Huge thanks to Uber Eats’, Sam Nicaudie for providing the Mountains of Munch from lip-sm...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 3 min
============================================ 🌟Espresso's are powered by our 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...
Feb 27, 2025•5 min
Super fun time with legend Nina Parker Our conversation was a Curiosity Carnival massaging my insatiable loves creativity, restaurants, stuffing-my -ace, writing, brand building If you love food, love brand building, you’ll love this Oh! If you’re watching on YouTube people are asking if I’ve started painting my nails like a Hackney HipsterDipster Nay, I dropped a f*ck off big kettle bell on my finger and it’s gone completely black 🤣 Fully Poddy tomozza morning ON THE MENU: 1. Nina’s Proustian ...
Feb 24, 2025•2 hr 45 min
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...
Feb 20, 2025•7 min
Honour to sit down with Tom Molnar, co-founder of GAILS's. What Tom’s built in GAIL’s is truly amazing. You’re in for a treat ON THE MENU: Skateboarding & Slaying Monsters & Building GAIL’s: “Be in Flow” + Don’t let Big hot shot executives ruin the flow Why a FOOD business MUST make FOOD decisions… “STOP adding more business to the business for the sake of business” The GAIL’s No Celebration Cakes Rule: “Understand something deeply and make it better” + “Don’t change it before you know i...
Feb 17, 2025•2 hr 32 min
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...
Feb 13, 2025•14 min
DEEE-lighted to welcome this ABSOLUTE JOKER on the poddy Henry Hayes creates f*cking hilarious content Behind the comedy is a whopper-big-brain, whipper-smart witty Henry is Head of Marketing at Passionfruit - who work with PepsiCo , AB InBev , Mars In This Is Strategy Seth Godin, all ideas are built on Time Game Empathy Systems Marketing Strategy is like Comedy Marketing like Comedy is built on empathy Marketing like Comedy is playing games Marketing like Comedy is understand the system you’re ...
Feb 10, 2025•2 hr 14 min
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...
Feb 06, 2025•15 min
⬇️ REGISTER FOR TICKETS TO LIVE PODCAST & SUPPER CLUB WITH GILES ON 25TH FEB BELOW ⬇️ https://forms.gle/bHgQQg9EkVYTMw368 If you want to EXIT your brand for MILLIONS $$$ Make dat COIN boi-shee. Bread. Dough. Wonga. Moolah. This is THE most important podcast I’ve ever recorded. Honour to sit down with INDUSTRY LEGEND legend Giles Brook. ON THE MENU: Why Challenger Brands Must Understand The Way You Exit has COMPLETELY CHANGED: Giles’he Gold, Silver Bronze of True Gross Margin and EBITDA PLEAS...
Feb 03, 2025•2 hr 8 min
In this conversation with the founders of LoCal Beer, fostering a creative culture and the process of distinguishing strong ideas from weaker ones. Creativity Doesn’t Require a Huge Budget – The discussion emphasized that disruptive ideas don’t always need big budgets. Using parody and playful marketing can create impactful branding moments. The "Golden Mead" Campaign for Camden Town Brewery – A spontaneous idea born from reading a news headline led to a limited-edition honey mead beer celebrati...
Jan 30, 2025•18 min
Riding Solo on el poddy this week Fancy riding shotgun? Simply shove my waffle in your ears. This week, I’ve picked 11 lessons from the 4 years of podcasting with INSANE GUESTS I’m referring to these DAILY. So hope they help you too. 4.5 years of value, stuffed into 45 mins. Get ya chops round it asap Lemme know if you like these, can do more. May do a sales one too ON THE MENU: 1. THE SINGLE Biggest lesson from Luke Boase and Emma Heal , Lucky Saint | B Corp™ 2. Giles Brook : 3 Game Changing Br...
Jan 27, 2025•47 min
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...
Jan 23, 2025•8 min
An EXTRAORDINARY conversation on leadership Laden with Sparkling Easter Eggs of Wisdom You’ll never find these in a-gimpy-bore-you-to-death-business-book. Osh is an wonderful storyteller We recorded the poddy in the infamous Green Room. The Green Room hides behind the bar, where punters clamour, chinwag and pine-for-pints It’s sacred. sacrosanct Splashed with art. Sensory overload. At night, it morphs into every texture, shade and flavour of raucous fun. If you're curious about some of the artwo...
Jan 20, 2025•2 hr 48 min
Espresso's are powered by our 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....
Jan 16, 2025•6 min
Honour to sit down and chinwag with Marketing Genius, James Smith. James built a WHOPPA social following through honest, direct, empathetic marketing. Last year, he moved into the challenger space, launching Neutonic (a nootropic blend of research-backed ingredients to help boost your productivity) with Chris Williamson and Luke Betts. Our conversation is JAM-PACKED with GOLD. ON THE MENU: The Success Paradox: “Never stop doing the things that make you successful, as you get successful“ Billboar...
Jan 13, 2025•3 hr 39 min
Ben Branson founded Seedlip Drinks . Seedlip pioneered the Low to No movement. The Low to No Movement helped more people go sober. More sober people, led to more happier people. More happier people, more productive people. We REALLY don’t understand the power of Sober (just yet) It’s unfathomably enormous. In 50 years, we'll teach kids in school. Going sober is discovering coffee. Going sober is discovering electricity. Going sober is discovering penicillin. Going sober is discovering Nandos Gar...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 253
"We only sold 20 burgers in our first market run." 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...
Jan 02, 2025•10 min•Ep. 252
It’s Christmas. I’ve stuffed my face all week. Drunk. Don’t know what day of the week it is. And am having some rest as 2025 is going to be HUGE Reposting one of the most downloaded episodes of all time which was recorded 2 years ago with Waitrose. Alas. Back to the left overs Normal service resumes next week 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) ============================================== �...
Dec 30, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 251
