what do you put in your deck to win a listing? what do you put in your deck to move from 100 stores to 500 to 1000 to 2000? How does your marketing change as you move from challenger <> a house hold brand? Is distribution just vanity metric for founders? Joy to sit down with CoOp Head of Buying Rebecca Oliver Mooney And Data Don Corleone, Kieran South For a challenger chinwag ON THE MENU: Data tells, story sells - buyers still wanna feel the goosebumps Will Stor Science of Storytelling - h...
Jul 21, 2025•1 hr 10 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Jul 17, 2025•8 min
If you ONLY do one thing next week. Do this. Scoff this conversation down your earlobes HANDS DOWN. One of the most important conversations I’ve EVER had. We dove deeper. deeper. deeper deeper. Crossing the chasm from challenger “Thinking” to challenger “Being”. I’ve listened back 4 times. Scribbled copious scraggly notes. Still unearthing glistening pearls of pithy and profound wisdom. Totally honored to welcome David Hieatt to HUNGRY. David’s career is challenger “Being” - worked at Saatchi &a...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 46 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Jul 10, 2025•8 min
The UK Is The Most Obese Country in Europe one of the best poddy’s I’ve EVER recorded Henry Dimbleby is an utter genius Founder of LEON and “Ravenous” author Henry takes gargantuan complex topics Emingwayifies them down to ludicrously lucid simple my brain literally E-X-P-L-O-D-E-D with new ways of thinking pithy aphorisms pix n’ mix curiosity treasure chest enjoy x ON THE MENU: Ernest Hemingway: The Curse of Complexity & Brutal Simplicity of truth…”the first draft of everything is sh*t” Spi...
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 55 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Jul 03, 2025•5 min
“Flip the f*cking idea of normal on its head” - Tom Gozney sometimes a podcast slaps-ya-round-the-chops OH! BOY! this conversation was one of those. Tom Gozney reveals his Strategy to Stratosphere buckle up. strap up. enjoy. ON THE MENU: Founder Mode: “Get out of bed, check your vision, check your plan, f*cking get after it” Nassim Taleb Self Belief <> Self Doubt Barbell: utilise both = Anti-Fragile Ancient Greeks Pathemata Mathemata: “guide your leanings through pain” - everyday expect 1 ...
Jun 30, 2025•2 hr 1 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Jun 26, 2025•12 min
Today’s poddy is sponsored by Square. Square is the all-in-one restaurant tech platform designed to streamline operations and give hospitality business owners the time back to focus on growth. Square is Big In Restaurants - which is the name of its latest UK marketing campaign - offering everything you need for day-to-day service, including Square’s payments , point of sale and reporting capabilities . Whether you’re a single-location FSR, a multilocation QSR, a bar or a multi-concept restaurant...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 46 min
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Jun 19, 2025•9 min
“we changed three words at 10x’d our D2C revenue over night” Citizens of Soil is a BANGING brand eye-splinteringly, soul-nourishing gorgeous packaging transforming commodity into community wonderful founders Sarah & Michael y’all gunna love this one!! btw jump to 30 mins, if you wanna plunge straight into the brand building gold ON THE MENU: The Origins of Terroir: Things from a Different place have a Different taste Anti-Fragility in Nature: Stressed Trees release polyphenols to protect the...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 48 min
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Jun 12, 2025•9 min•Ep. 254
“David Milner has a magic touch” - The Grocer Lilly’s, Tyrell’s, St Pierre, Crosta Mollica Every brand David touches Magics a blossoming, beaming Gold. Big wonga exit Gold. David possesses the sacred compass from challenger brand - house hold brand - Exit El Dorado Our chat is laden with gorgeous, glistening Gold. ON THE MENU: Peppermint Tea Rule: Why 95% of NPD Always fails - constantly ask is this a small idea? Picking The Right Category > Picking The Unique Product and Brand Start with End...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 33 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Jun 05, 2025•7 min
Jun 02, 2025•54 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
May 29, 2025•56 min
Today’s poddy is sponsored by Square. Square is the all-in-one restaurant tech platform designed to streamline operations and give hospitality business owners the time back to focus on growth. Square is Big In Restaurants - which is the name of its latest UK marketing campaign - offering everything you need for day-to-day service, including Square’s payments , point of sale and reporting capabilities . Whether you’re a single-location FSR, a multilocation QSR, a bar or a multi-concept restaurant...
May 26, 2025•2 hr 17 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
May 22, 2025•3 min
Julian said every mistake he ever made boiled down to two things... When you lose sight of these two core relationships... Product <> Customer. Simplicity <> Complexity. Get these right. LITERALLY everything else falls into place. ON THE MENU: How to Scale from 7 to 17 to 70 Sites… “70% of issues you’ll face is losing focus product and customer” Founder Mode = Just make the product better. Never stop making your product better. Complexity is Organisational Cancer. Constantly find sim...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 40 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
May 15, 2025•3 min
Will Murray and Jack Croft are like NO ONE ELSE. Yes, incredible chefs - serving 10/10 BANGING food, But, also GENIUS marketeers, They RIPPED UP the rule book, Zigged when everyone Zagged. Built Fallow, Fowl, Roe to enormously successful restaurants, The World has changed. The way to build a successful restaurant has changed, too. Our conversation shows you how. ON THE MENU: Why Canary Wharf is the Craziest place to open a Restaurant: “lean into site surprises + “adapt to your customers + enviro...
May 12, 2025•2 hr 3 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
May 08, 2025•4 min
Founders, please don’t swap your PURPOSE for PROZAC. “when you exit…you’re drowning in the 3 D’s”. “Divorced, Depressed, Dyslexic” - Guy Singh-Watson. Guy breaks ALL the brand building rules Riverford Organic. Famously, told the supermarkets to F*CK OFF. Unapologetically, gave away over 26% of his exit dough BACK to the team. LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this poddy!! ON THE MENU: Nature & Brand Building Lessons: Humility + Strength of Diversity + Collectivism Why Richard Dawkins “Selfish-Gene” is WRO...
May 05, 2025•2 hr 1 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
May 01, 2025•8 min
Loved this one with Aussie Donnie Troy from Coqfighter. The early stage of the brand building journey is fun. you’re so naive, everything is new everything is fresh It’s better than your “…old boring corporate job” But, at some point, it becomes hard. Unimaginably hard. Doubt soars in. Confidence wanes The joy fades a little. Paul Graham calls it The Trough of Sorrow This episode will help you through Your Trough of Sorrow With a healthy seasoning of marketing, fried chicken and Lynard Skynard “...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 41 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Apr 24, 2025•5 min
How Do We Fix Poor Mental Health in Hospitality for Women and the LGTBQ+ community? Zan Kaufman of Bleecker Burger has some thoughts. Intense. Hilarious. Raw. Soul-irking. Thought-twisting conversation with Zahn Bleecker Burger. 🎟️🙏🎟️WIN free tickets to the next supper club, fill out this form (takes 45 seconds) 👉https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfk9jGlMWX-nZ-WJnIAOHyVzxx0dd_XmeqWH4hrJNIq0yOHJw/viewform ON THE MENU: Accept your why and purpose will FLUCTUATE as you build your brand Y...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 41 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Apr 17, 2025•10 min
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•1 hr 33 min
📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out ♨️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.co...
Apr 10, 2025•7 min•Ep. 256
