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 obesi...
Sep 18, 2023•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Sep 14, 2023•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Friday Feast https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’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 Draf...
Sep 11, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/23Q2M51LBXwGsxszG6iU6v APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hungry/id1537239469 this 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 oblivi...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Aug 31, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 28, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Aug 24, 2023•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to our newsletter https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’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 Ri...
Aug 21, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Aug 17, 2023•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/videos Let’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. ...
Aug 14, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Aug 10, 2023•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Aug 03, 2023•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/videos Let’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. Se...
Jul 31, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Jul 27, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 20...
Jul 24, 2023•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/videos Let’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 – a...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)
Jul 13, 2023•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ Flew over 4000 miles for this. Totally blew my mind. On the plane back to rain-sodden Blighty, over tepid-yet-actually-quite-nice plane food I realised my WHOLE VIEW of challenger brand b...
Jul 10, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Like what you're hearing? Hungry Listen to the full episode here Oh and btw!! Every top and food and drink founder reads our newsletter why wouldn't you? Click here Have a wonderful day Popey 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/)...
Jul 06, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ Do you ACTUALLY want to keep your brand going ? Or are you shackled in the pride prison and ego ? Scared of telling your family and friends "it's over Mum or mate or Marge " Worried about...
Jul 03, 2023•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Paul Ainsworth, Ainsworth Collection Like what you're hearing? Hungry Listen to the full episode here Oh and btw!! Every top and food and drink founder reads our news letter why wouldn't you? Click here Have a wonderful day Popey 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/)...
Jun 30, 2023•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jun 26, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Amelia Christie Miller, Bold Bean Co. Like what you're hearing? Hungry Listen to the full episode here Oh and btw!! Every top and food and drink founder reads our news letter why wouldn't you? Click here Have a wonderful day Popey 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/)...
Jun 22, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ David Gluckman is a food and drink LEGEND. Creator of Baileys, Ciroc, Tanqueary gin And many, many more all folded into his INSANE book "That Shit Will Never Sell" David gave me the (much...
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sometimes brands become a bland-wishy-washy-meh-ness. Sometimes the £5 million RSV mark is dangerous. Scale often kills magic. Process and experience and meetings-about-meetings-about-meetings seep in and piss over the Bonfire of Magic. Candy Kittens didn’t let that happen. CK kept the sparkle in their eye. The fire burning. Roaring. Yes, they’ve won listings at Sainsbury's, Waitrose & Partners, Tesco, Asda, Morisson’s - a full shebang of distribution. BUT. Candy Kittens still THINK and FEEL...
Jun 12, 2023•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Paul Ainsworth, Ainsworth Collection Like what you're hearing? Hungry Listen to the full episode here Oh and btw!! Every top and food and drink founder reads our news letter why wouldn't you? Click here Have a wonderful day Popey 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/)...
Jun 08, 2023•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. All charged with a beautiful mission: Be Kind to your Mind. Won listings at Co-op Sainsbury's , ...
Jun 05, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast The lessons: Stuart Forsyth - Bite off more than you can chew, chew like hell Paul Ainsworth - Never Given In, Make It Happen Jim Cregan - fear is excitement. Jamie Laing - just show up. Camilla Barnard - Serendipity> Strategy 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/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Ins...
May 29, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Amelia Christie Miller, Bold Bean Co. Like what you're hearing? Hungry Listen to the full episode here Oh and btw!! Every top and food and drink founder reads our news letter why wouldn't you? Click here Have a wonderful day Popey 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/)...
May 25, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
