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Jun 27, 2024•8 min•Ep. 194
Cuff me. It gave me the Raging Horn.The first time I tried Vincenzo’s Raging Hog. A drive around the M25 to Bushy, Watford in search of the Pizza Panacea The hot steaming Frisbee of Fab landed on my table A fresh lattice of red and white cheese, tomato. Tomato and cheese. Jheezeeee. Yes Please. A burnished, boisterous-not-backin-tha-f*ck-down crust with little black billowing bubbles of joy. Pepperoni. Little terracotta spaceships of poppin’ salty fatty - Deeeeee...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 193
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 ...
Jun 20, 2024•18 min•Ep. 192
Ironically, I remember the first time I got smacked in the face Ironically, it was in a crumbly old boxing pub called The Ring. The Ring is opposite Southwark Station. One of life’s lovely oxymorons; a Thai restaurant shoved up the jaxxie of boozer. It was a hot afternoon, the first time I got smacked in the face Too hot. Sticky hot. Too sticky hot. I felt like a f*cking sticky pork rib in Uniqlo getup as we climbed the stairs We climbed and climbed and climbed the marvellous aromatic waft of Gr...
Jun 17, 2024•2 hr 10 min
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 ...
Jun 13, 2024•11 min•Ep. 190
Behind every single brand in your cupboard is one man One man and his amazing team of big fish Big Fish created the biggest food and drink brands of all time You’ll see and chomp and demolish and love these food and drink brands all the time Charlie Bigham Ranna GU Yeo Valley Whole Earth Clipper Tea Dorest Cereals Maldon Sea Salt Sip Smith Roddas Clotted Cream Riverford The Coconut Collaborative Perry Haydn Taylor is someone I’ll happily wander through the Wax Lyrical Woods with for hours and ho...
Jun 10, 2024•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 189
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Jun 06, 2024•11 min•Ep. 188
“quick, quick, quick drop your things RIGHT NOW!! “you NEED to get over there” My friend was all zonked and blooming and bug-eyed. Her head dunked in a fluffy tempura of happy-hysteria. Her deep chocolate pudding eyes gave me the look “Hurry up, Fatso, get over there” “Why?” I want to go out for a snout and a coffee” Hastily, I dropped my things (which was actually nothing, as I didn’t have anything in my bloody hands… how bloody hilarious… bloody HA. HA. ha) I ran and ran and ran through the la...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 187
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out 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....
May 30, 2024•15 min•Ep. 186
This is the poddy I’ve dreamed of for 8 years. Seth Godin. Seth changed my life. Seth’s thinking is INSANE Each word is light yet heavy, pithy and profound, wise and wonderful. Wonderfully wise. Seth stretched my mind to new rich, luscious pastures of thinking. I was SO SO SO nervous Pacing and pacing around like a nervous-biscuit scoffing hyaena. Watching the clock till 4pm. Did an 3 min Ice bath hahaha. Walked a trilliion-gazzilion steps. ON THE MENU: why brands must realise marketing is not a...
May 27, 2024•52 min•Ep. 185
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 ...
May 23, 2024•10 min•Ep. 184
“How on earth do you ACTUALLY EXIT your food and drink brand?” This question swirled my mind. Thankfully, one woman knows all the answers. Libby Gibson is a total legend. She lives and breathes challenger brands. Libby successfully built, scaled and sold Pitcher & Piano. Then she set up Piper with Crispin Tweddell PIPER are responsible for tonnes of HUGE challenger brands Proper Corn Bruce’s Doggy Day Care Flat Iron Wattbike Bloom and Wild Neom Mindful Chef Hickories Frame Orlebar Brown swim...
May 20, 2024•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 183
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out 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....
May 16, 2024•12 min•Ep. 182
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 ...
May 16, 2024•19 min•Ep. 181
The wave was coming. Most couldn’t see it. Very few were in the water. But, Two Johns were. Ready to catch it. Well, actually, t’was a John and a Jon. John and Jon were in Madrid. Studying a MBA. In the evenings, parked in baroque slow-paced courtyards, under mind-meltingly, soul-nourishingly wonderful pink-orange sunsets. John and Jon would glug back G&Ts. Big voluptuous goblet glasses, igloo-thick ice cubes and zesty-slices of fresh orange. Bathing in Baroque Blissssssss. John and Jon, cou...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 180
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 ...
May 09, 2024•13 min•Ep. 179
A ripe afternoon eclipsed a rotten morning before. everything erupted. Snotty grey-clotted cream clouds passed. Peach-peeled sunshine danced along the rooftops, apple-green light flushed into the Soho streets. Everything GLOWED Friday, 4.30ish. I rested against the verdant green, freshly painted walls, nursing Guinny n ciggie A porridge of boozehounds and tangle of ThankGodItsFridays flowed and spilled and laughed into streets. The Devonshire, SOHO is the Moon landing for battle cruisers. Centri...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 178
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 ...
May 02, 2024•14 min•Ep. 177
How is this possible? What’s in the energy? Who does that? How? Whaaaaaaa? What are they on? This is f*cking INSANE PerfectTed have astounded me since day one. Teddie and Marrissa ripped up the “challenger brand play book” with brash boldness, courage and naive intelligence. PerfectTed’s meteoric rise is CRAZY - they’ve achieved in 1 year what most would dream of in 10 years 🍵 Won Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Tesco, M&S, Joe and The Juice 🍵 Holland and Barrett, Planet Organic Blank Street Coffee...
Apr 29, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 176
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 ...
Apr 25, 2024•10 min•Ep. 175
Every top food and drink founder reads our newsletter: https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ HUNGRY's Absolutely Bloody Marvellous Sponsors who make HUNGRY possible: North Star: https://www.northstarbc.co.uk/ MKJ IGNITE: https://www.mkjignite.co.uk/ Big Fish: https://bigfish.co.uk/ BOWIMI: https://www.bowimi.com/ HC Consulting: https://www.hc-consulting.uk/ 🤝 Let's mingle Stalk me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ I’m ...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 174
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 ...
Apr 18, 2024•10 min•Ep. 173
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out 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....
Apr 18, 2024•6 min•Ep. 172
Every top food and drink founder reads our newsletter: https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ A massive shoutout to our incredible sponsors who make HUNGRY possible: North Star: https://www.northstarbc.co.uk/ MKJ IGNITE: https://www.mkjignite.co.uk/ Big Fish: https://bigfish.co.uk/ BOWIMI: https://www.bowimi.com/ HC Consulting: https://www.hc-consulting.uk/ 🤝 Let's mingle Stalk me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ Sacha...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 171
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out 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....
Apr 11, 2024•9 min•Ep. 170
Absolutely thrilled to welcome back the UTTER LEGEND, Rory Sutherland for a part three podcast It’s long and laden with wisdom. Relax. Take it in slowly. Maybe over a couple of sitting. Maybe in one. Up to you! The 23 Laws: Ideas Having Sex = Progress: Why Lucky Saint | B Corp™ is having Sex with WHOOP and Planet Organic Ltd Should Get Jiggy with Iceland Foods The Football-ification of Politics and Vegan Meat: We Must Learn "Evolution" = The Adjacent Possible" The Danger of “Luxury Beliefs” in F...
Apr 08, 2024•3 hr 9 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out 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....
Apr 04, 2024•16 min•Ep. 168
Giles Brook needs no introduction. FMCG titan. 🍓Commercial Director & General Manager for UK & Ireland at innocent Drinks Ltd. 4 years. Catapulting business from £17m to £120m 🍉 CEO of Vita Coco EMEA for 12 years. Launching in Europe. Over a decade built into a £60m retail sales. 🍋 Giles founding partner in Urban Fresh Foods Limited, whose brand, BEAR became the UK’s No.1 fruit snacking brand & No.1 kids lunchbox item. 🍌 Urban Fresh Foods Limited has appeared twice in The Sunday ...
Apr 01, 2024•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 167
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...
Mar 28, 2024•12 min•Ep. 166
Everyone says “enjoy the journey” or “trust the process” or “all you’ve got is the journey”. BUT… it’s so easy to take it all WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. So much pressure on yourself to “make it” (this is me) So much pressure on landing listing. So much pressure on raising money. It’s so easy to forget to HAVE FUN. Louis Collin and James Tyler - Currently fundraising under SEIS co-founders of @Local beer These donnie's have become very good mates of mine over the past year (well, not so much James, he’s ...
Mar 24, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 165
