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Building a brand = Jump off the cliff and build the plane on the way down

“there are no set rules to build a challenger brand”

Will and Josh, from Willy’s Pies live and breath those adages

Brash oblivion confidence -

mixed with naive intelligence

• tempered with a big ol’ dose of cynical pragmatism good humour

Willy’s Pies is the wonderful story of

action = momentum.

momentum = magic.

magic = more momentum = more magic.

Will, a chef at BRAT and St. John was furloughed, for long, he made taste-tantalising pies.

Will pie-peddled on pie-purveying bike around East London during Lockdown.

Josh, The Operator, joined Will in 2021, from double glaze windows to take Willy’s NEXT LEVEL

4 years later

• Launched and got it wrong at Watford Football Club (tonnes of learnings here).
• Secured Ian Wright as a key investor, collaborated with wagamama,
• Won HUGE BRANDED listings at Arsenal Football Club, Fulham & Football Clubs
• Launched into Ocado

Deeply believe Willy’s Pies are the NEXT BIG challenger brand.

ON THE MENU:

1. How To Speed Up Supply Chain Jenga: Constantly Be Asking “What’s holding you up?”
   
   
   
2. Why Willy’s East London Early Adopters Were A Super Power Until They’re Not - constantly think House Hold Brand from the Jump
   
   
   
3. How to NOT Do A Deal With a Football Club: Painful Lessons from a deal with Watford that went Horribly Wrong (so much in this)
   
   
   
4. Willy Pies Sticker Principle + Danny Meyer Move The Salt Principle - “How you do ONE thing is how you do EVERYTHING”
   
   
   
5. The Delicate Dance of Working Back Margins + Working Forward Margins to Make the Pie Price Right.
   
   
   
6. How Willy’s Got Branded on The Menu at Arsenal Football Club: Show. Don’t Tell.
   
   
   
7. The Pride Principle: Why don’t let it fail” is a stronger motivation vs let’s make it work
   
   
   

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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

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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 

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Most strategy is UTTER BULL SHIT.

Shat out by spurious and superfluous #strategists

Peddling 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 clearly

2. 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 work

4. 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 favour

5. 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 ”


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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 meals

Total honour to interview Julian.

ON THE MENU:

1. Why challenger food and drink founders must BE BRAVE and swim upstream, when everyone’s swimming downstream
2. The principles of empathetic leadership: listening + imagination = look at problems differently
3. Why complexity is much easier than simplicity - Do less, but do it beautifully = grow faster
4. Why you must never ever, ever doubt what you can do as a human being - you’re capable of so much more than you think
5. The process of building great cultures: realise this hard-truth, people work for people, not for your company.
6. The relentless pursuit of better: accept 99 is not 100, so constantly pursue better
7. Why brands must grow EXACTLY in proportion in their ability to stay GOOD

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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 MENU

1. 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 scale

5. How to ACTUALLY fire employees: Sad reality not everyone is going to be perfect

6. Why founders MUST know what type of business they’re building: Do you want to be Rich or Do you want to be King?

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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 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 stress

Slice 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 BALANCE

2. 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

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- 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’ mahs

Billy 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 description

2. For the strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack

3. 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 document

4. How Corporate people can cross the chasm to challenger - roll sleeves, look at the sky and dig dirt

5. How to find great talent and avoid “The Netflix Effect”: Explore vs. Exploit - the 33% rule

6. How to treat candidates right, even if you don’t give them the job - remember it’s a super small industry.

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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 Airways

Conversation 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 host

2. How to lead and build effective - BIG rocks and stay in the HIGH impact zone

3. How to stay NO to OCADO - "a No is a NOT NOW" + update buyers with news vs. being a neggy-salesy pest

4. Lack of availability is like scoring an own goal to - build a great relationship with supply chain

5. How to create a category of ONE - educate buyers on the category not the brand, be the hero of your category

Full episode goes live Monday 8am.
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In Colombia. 
In Feb. 

On a sun-splashed beach. 
Ice cold beer in hand. 

I found a BANGING podcast by DJ and producer called @djwillclarke 

Devoured it. 

Will’s interviewed some absolutely WHOPPA guests and DJs 

@carlcoxofficial 
@moby
@patricktopping 
@joshwink1 
@waffdj 
@scubaofficial 
@dubfire 
@dannyhowarddj 

Will owns record label @allwehaveisnowofficial + released on Trick, Drumcode, Filth on Acid, Polydor

Hit 100M streams globally and appeared at the worlds largest festivals. 

Will’s also gotta food page called @willmakesyouhungry (yup…bingo… there’s the food link)

Globe Galavanting takes Will to some of THE best restaurants

Our convo is jam-packed with these-are-a-few-of-my-favourite-things 

Rowntree Randoms. Celebrations Chocolate Box of all my Curiosities. 

Music, Podcasting, The Creative Process, Techno, Hustle, Making Things Happen, Branding, Business… oh! and, of course, Food…Glorious…Food

Even if you’re not planning to be a SuperStar DJ (I still am: pending) 

(Dropped my filthy tech-house Dido “White Flag” mix at Village Hall last week - OOOOFFF - get ya chops round that ) 

You’ll still bloody LOVE this. 

ON THE MENU: 

1. Why “The audience comes last, Feel the temperature of the room” - Rory Sutherland would be all over this

2. Why Consistency of brand, allows audience (and consumers) to feel comfortable

3. The Grit Toolkit to Keep Going: There are dark parts of every single day, Proof hard work pays off if you don’t change the goal posts

4. Sales Masterclass: How Will landed a contract with Dirty Bird Records: “Business is compromise, what’s their goal, what’s your goal” + “Make people think it’s their idea”

5. Why Will’s record label is called “All We Have Is Now” - the difference on Being vs. Becoming 

6. Rick Rubin Creative Genius: the deeper the roots go the more it blossoms out the other side

7. Creative Teams Need 1. Absolutely No Expectations 2. You need a lot of sh*t to find gold

Full episode live Monday 8am

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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 it

• reinvented cookware and became one of the fastest growing multi 9 figure D2C brands in the world
• secured Gordon Ramsay as a business partner
• partnered with Halle Berry, Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner

This 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 below

ON THE MENU:

1. Why you need to hit rock bottom to reinvent yourself and come back
2. Why founders must be totally present and super aware to spot the opportunities hiden in plain sight
3. Why “don’t give up” is awful advise for founders and asking the dumb, obvious questions gets your further ahead.
4. Danny’s killer sales technique: find the problem + stir the pot + provide the solution + listen + tailor pitch
5. Why “pressure is a privilege” and Gordon Ramsay’s advice for dealing with huge amounts of pressure

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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!

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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 them

4. Top advice for nervous female founders - never be afraid to rugby tackle buyers-  Don't believe in no In life, go around no

5. How to reinvent your purpose when you feel soulless to feel boundless

Full eppy goes live Monday 6am. 

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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, SURREAL

You'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 category

4. Giles one simple rule for working with founders: no surprises

5. Be the hero of ONE category: lessons from selling BEAR and VITA COCO


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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 been

dunked 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 through

colossal 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 you

hate. Implement systems.

5. How Spirituality informs Successful Strategy - The marriage of Being and
Doing.

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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 building changed.

A scrumptious, fresh playbook installed.

Brand building is WAY closer to sport than “traditional business”.

When you see entrepreneurship like sport, everything changes.

Bill Shufelt and John Walker co-founders of Athletic Brewing Co. are the latest guests on HUNGRY.

🥯 Ranked the second-fastest growing food and beverage company in US (26th overall) by Inc

🍡 One of the 100 most influential companies of 2022 by TIME magazine

🍋 Investors include Karly Kloss, Dave Chang, Blake Mycoskie (TOMS), Lance Armstrong

🥩 Raised a total of $175 million with a recent $50 million investment Dr. Pepper

Launched in all US major grocery outlets and just launched in Tesco and Whole Foods Market.

ON THE MENU:

1. Everyday EXPECT things to break + you’ll face something new for the first time. Your cool head, prevails.

1. Why you must SO RUN at the HARD problems most WON’T TACKLE - create an IMPOSSIBLE moat for your competitors to cross.

2. How to keep going after 120 investors say “No” - look for breadcrumbs to yes

3. Why founders must look at the world from the OTHER WAY round to find “the ideas hidden in plain sight.”

4. Solving the NPD Paradox: don’t just create NPD for supermarkets. Listen to what's out there in the world + what your community ACTUALLY wants

5. Work hard. Be nice. Good things happen.

6. Why there must always be fires burning all times. Be 100% on or 100% off to solve them.

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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 changing job title from prodigious founder to employee?

Or maybe you're just going through Seth Godin's "The Dip.

Maybe, you're mere moments away the Gold, El Dorado, lands of milk and honey and lots of stinkin' money.

Our Wet Little Angry Island loves failure compared to the US.

It's fucked.

Quitting is brave, bold, commendable. We should celebrate as much as winning.

Balance persistence with pragmatism.

Because

All the sticky, gorgeous
wisdom lies in failure.

Thrilled to welcome my hombre-from-another-mombre, James Hickson  Hickson, on the pod.

Career at Innocent and Brewdog. 

Founded We Bought Beer, scaled it, loved it, hated it,  folded it. Learnt loads. Head of Brand Hackers. Speaks to food founders every. Single day. 

ON THE MENU: 

1. How to solve the principle-agent problem, lessons from BREWDOG  and Pret A Manger -  a brand is the long shadow of a formidable founder 

2. Why strong brand = promise + consistency and consistency x time = trust 

3. Why challenger brands must "turn momentum into an invisible force"

4. Stop and see your brand and business from 10,000 feet 

5. The dip - when to fail (forward) and when to keep pushing for the hold 

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Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Paul Ainsworth, Ainsworth Collection 

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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 & Saatchi and Saatchi, before founding howies in 1995 and selling to Timberland, a VF Company.

- created The DO Lectures - voted one of the top 10 idea festivals in the world by The Guardian Over 150 million views online.

- founded and building Hiut Denim Co.

SO excited for you to listen to this.

ON THE MENU:

1. Why challenger brands must be a Speed boat not an Ocean liner - lean into being small, nimble, agile

2. The way to the future is to get there before anybody else, Speedboats get there faster.

3. Why scale kills magic - challenger brands must 10 x creativity vs. 10 x size.

4. Why growth can be stressful - your company starts running YOU, don't climb the wrong mountain.

5. Why "Busy, Shallow" is the most dangerous place for challenger brands - stay in the" Deep, Impact" zone.

6. Why Creativity is NOT following - remember BIG ideas are often small

7. Why challenger brands MUST find their voice, your voice is the difference between a blunt and sharp arrow.

8. Fall in love with the dark days - people only ever remember the peaks

9. Why your hope needs grit and don’t turn your imagination into worry (this may be the best thing I’ve EVER heard)


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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 needed) nudge to start HUNGRY.

HUNGRY. doesn't exist without David. David was our first ever episode. It changed my life.

Absolutely Deeeee-ligh-ted to welcome The Gluckman to poddy.

Our conversation made my realise creativity is all around us. All the time. Often hidden in plain sight. We just need to look harder.

ON THE MENU:

1. The Baileys story and how to disrupt categories by recombining different things

2. How to turn into a creative machine - realise ideas and creativity is often hiding in plain site

3. Virgin Larger: how Richard Branson tried and failed with Virgin beer and lessons for challenger brands - is your product

4. Why it's very easy to come up with 6 solutions to one problem. One word. One problem. One solution.

5. Why Low to No is a mad category chasing good intentions

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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 and ACT like a small, scrappy- challenger.

Edward Williams is the bulwark of bold thinking

And he’s the latest guest on hungry.

Our convo zoomed into unchartered waters, unearthing unreal learnings.

You’re in for a sweet treat.

ON THE MENU:

1.Why single mindedness is the HARDER route BUT, FASTER route – Do. One. Thing. Well.

2.Why Challenger brands must sack off longtail SKUs to drive penetration of the core range

3.Why Challenger brands must build a culture that doesn’t allow dogmatic, experience in – Stay Dumb. Stay Foolish.

4.Why NPD is a marketing and purpose play to drive ROS of core – the story of SHOX

5.Why founders must realise they get bored of ideas before others even latch on

6.How Candy Kittens stand firm on price and don’t join the HARIBO pound party

7.The Harsh reality of price increases: yes buyers and brands give a monkeys. But does the consumer ACTUALLY?

8.Why your goal as a founder is to feed the culture by constantly reframing – Pain. Setbacks. Obstacles. Challenges.


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Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Paul Ainsworth, Ainsworth Collection 

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 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, Waitrose & Partners, @Annabel’s, Soho House & Co

Olivia Ferdi is the latest guest on Hungry. Oh boy. You’re in for a treat.

ON THE MENU:


1. Why your brand must be chameleon to be a truly omni-channel brand – lessons from Annabel’s, Mayfair and Co-Op.

2. Why your brand should act as a PROMPT to unlock an emotion in people – TRIP own “Be Kind to Your Mind”

3. How TRIP won a Bill’s listing in 4 weeks – when one door shuts, open a window. Be fluid.

4. How to repurpose your brand and shelf space to unlock more occasions = more consumption = more £ wonga.

5. How TRIP raised £10 million quid – do you really need presentation a deck?

6. Why founders must actually seek and embrace stress it’s a gateway forward.

Full conversation goes live on Monday 8am.

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Margot and Fergus Henderson, are, in my opinion, THE most important couple i Food and Drink.

Together, they changed the British gastronomic landscape from meek, tepid swamp of meh to global powerhouse it is today.

Fergus created the institution St. John and Nose-To-Tail Cooking, inspiring so many chefs.

Margot forged her own path with Rochelle Canteen, inspiring female chefs to enter the kitchen or as Margot says a world of “Blokedom”.

Rochelle Canteen is a little oasis, springing and blossoming out Shoreditch streets.

A light escape from heavy monotony.

White and Spacious, always capacious as the seasons capriciously flow:

WI.NT.e.r - SpRiIIINg - Suuu mmm -eerr - A..u..t..t…umN

Margot’s food is wonderfully imperfect. Like humans, it’s craggly, squirly, yummy and not-too-perfect

My goal was to really dig deep into how Margot and Fergus changed British food, their similarities and differences, Rochelle Canteen’s uniqueness, St. Johns genius.

Hopefully (fingers, eyes, toes crossed) we did that.

Full episode live on Monday.

ON THE MENU

1. How Margot Survived and Others Female Chefs Can Thrive in a Chef World of Blokedom
2. The Difference in (Male) Hunter vs. (Female) Gatherer Cooking: Empathy + Be gentle + simple
3. How to be in Business for 25 years - embrace the dramas of every day keep the joy alive keeps the business alive and making it better (that is THE fun)
4. Why English Food is Taking OVerFrench Food as the Best in the World: “Why do we touch on cultures so lightly?
5. The Genius of St. John and Fergus Henderson: Fergus trained as an architect = Different Input = Different Output.
6. The Subtle Art of Drinking a Negroni: It’s More Complicated Than You THink
7. Why Margot is the “Craftsperson” and Fergus is the “Artist”
8. How To Survive When your Business is Going wrong….”you have to give it more love”
9. Why Margot let's their Chefs “do what they want” + the simple truth is to “Understand everyone's lives truly”
10. Why St. John Stuck to its guns + Slow build then it just happened
11. 3 Fergus Henderson Leadership Lessons: “tell them the reason WHY” + “Never Feel Sorry for yourself” + “Be Opinionated and stick to them”

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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 

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Absolutely THRILLED to welcome the strategy sensei, polymath and proper good bloke, Alex Smith on the poddy

Alex knows everything and anything about strategy, building brands like MOJU, The Collective and EAT NATURAL

You're in for a treat.

ON THE MENU:

1. Why challenger food and drink brands must CREATE, not ANSWER the need to escape competition
2. Why your brand must generate the pull to open up the dormant market - lessons from OATLY
3. Why strategy must follow traction, serendipity> strategy, X tends to land on Y
4. How to build contrarian values and anti-goals to find your UNIQUE VALUE and unlock the slipstream
5. Why food and drink founders must codify their unique value values and for longevity - execute with audacity
6. Why brands must watch out brands can escape "blanding" - the market doesn't reward the best,

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Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Ed Perry, founder of COOK. 

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Tommy Banks was on course to cricket-stardom.

Until a debilitating disease struck him down.

Hospitalised. Bed ridden for 2 years. His adolescence eviscerated.

In the hospital bed he piously inhaled cook books. Tommy course corrected.

He came out swinging with hell-bent drive.

🥦 The youngest chef in the UK to win a Michelin Star.

🥦 Great British Menu Winner in 2016 and 2017.

🥦 Owner of 2 Michelin Star restaurants, Roots, York and The Black Swan, Oldstead.

🥦 Owner of pub The Abbey Inn.

🥦 Owner of Made in Olstead delivery boxes

🥦 Founder of Banks Brothers Canned Wine.

SO LOVED this conversation.

A total Master Class in empathetic leadership.

When your back is against the wall, always come out swinging.

ON THE MENU:

1. Why Perfection is a curse for founders: set ridiculously high standards but move quickly

2. Why competition is for LOSERS - be a forager - create unique IP - protect it at all costs

3. How to build a culture WITHOUT ego: the difference between self-respect and ego

4. How to create systems that facilitate magic, you need a frightening amount of detail behind the scenes

5. The Principles of Great Leadership: Inspiration + Empathy = (Self) Discipline

6. The Effect of being Idle is to Spiral” (downwards)


Mackenzie Jones - the FMCG recruitment specialists.

There’s salacious-yet-superfluous recruiters out there - proper Cowboys. Thank goodness for Billy and Paul. The Good guys.

Loved by brands like Lucky Saint, Candy Kittens, Hunter & Gather, FULFIL. Looking to build out your team? Deeply implore you to reach out to Billy or Paul.

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BOWIMI - Food & Drink Founders and Sales Teams.  BOWIMI makes you better at your job and saves you stress, time and improves your bottom line.

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One man and his merry band of brand enthusiasts is behind all these brands.

Perry Haydn Taylor 💚 Haydn Taylor and bigfish. Dream Big. Dive Deep. Swim Fast.

The creative dynamite, unleashing explosive, wild-fire-spreading growth for buccaneering brands.

Buckle up. Strap in. A wild adventure awaits you.

Thrilled to Welcome back my friend, Perry for a Part Three.


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How many of these brands are in your life?

🥔 Tyrells

🥥 The Coconut Collaborative

🎂 GU

🥛 Yeo Valley

🥘 Charlie Bigham

🥕 Freddies Flowers

🍾 SipSmith

 Clipper Tea

🍖 Dorset Cereals

🍔 Maldon Sea Salts

🍪 Biscuiteers

🧈 Roddas Cream

🍞 St. Pierre Bakery

🥒 Belvoir

🍌 Riverford Organic

🍝 RANA



ON THE MENU:

1. How to Challenger founders can use Chat GPT to escape competition.

2. The Dangers of Measure-bation - when you’re not agile, you’re fragile

3. Why Institutional Memory is a curse - founders must foster a Naive Intelligence, Stay Dumb and Foolish as you get wiser

4. Today ask yourself: am I blindly going to accept what I've been told: why why why?

5. How to build teams that build house hold brands: Visionaries (trail blazers) why? >

Settlers and shapers (executioners) how? > Town planners (do)

6. The Pillars of Brand: Attention > Interest > Desire > Actions

7. Why the Trend is your Friend, rely on early adopters and turn them into evangelists




GS1 UK

You’ve set the business up, the website is in development, got the bank account, what’s next? Barcodes! Get the barcodes for your products from GS1 UK from the start and don’t risk going with cheaper alternatives – it’ll cost you in the long run. Enjoy more than just barcodes and get 20% off your first year’s membership with GS1 UK by using the discount code HUNGRY20 at checkout.

www.gs1uk.org/hungry

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Enjoy your morning espresso and enjoy wisdom from Ed Perry, founder of COOK. 

Like what you're hearing? Hungry Listen to the full episode here 

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Have a wonderful day 

Popey  xx 

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Gut-health-pioneer & Industry Guru

Jon Walsh & Dr. Megan Rossi

Opposites attract,  1+1 = 3.

Had a good gut feelin’ about this one. 

BOY OH BOY - it was UNREAL 

Bio & Me have won listings at Sainsbury’s, Tesco, CoOp, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Sainsbury’s. 

ON THE MENU:

1. Why just because you WIN more listings doesn't mean you should HIRE more resource 

2. The Dangers of CPG (Creator Packaged Goods) - just because you’ve a big following doesn’t mean it’s easy 

3. Bio & Me’s Secrets to driving rate of sale on a shoe string budget 

4. The secrets to driving rate of sale on a shoe string drive rate of sale on a shoestring budget

5. Megan's Art of Taking Calculated Risks: leave it a week + sleep on it + use iPhone notes

6. Why 1 + 1 = 3 - the science of building successful co-founder partnerships

7. How to stop being nervous, what to eat before BIG pitches and presentations

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He grew up in an Orphanage.

Dad died at 6.

Mum at 11.

He transformed Pain into Beauty and suffering into Safety.

Living by the mantra “Whatever You Want”


In a sun-drenched attic, high above the hubbub of Covent Garden

Surrounded by the cantankerous cuddles of clattering knifes, forks and conversation

I met Greg Marchand.

Greg is a wildly successful restauranteur, founder of “Frenchie”

🇫🇷 Frenchie Rue Du Nil (Michelin Star)

🇫🇷 Frenchie Verbier

🇫🇷 Frenchie Food To Go

🇫🇷 Frenchie Bar Au Vino

🇫🇷 Frencihe Covent Garden

🇫🇷 Frenchie Pigalle

🇫🇷 Frencihe Caviste

🇫🇷 Frenchie Biartizz (coming soon)

ON THE MENU:

1. “Whatever You Want”: Why founders must learn to Survive the Wild

2. Why pain and suffering is a great driver - but at some point you must learn to fucking relax

3. Jamie Oliver & Nick Jones Leadership Lessons: Energy + Emotional Connection builds loyal teams

4. Hug The Cleaner: Why Great leadership is when NO ONE IS LOOKING.

4. Be the DNA Keeper: Why the Founder’s job is to feed the machine, employees feed the founder

5. The 51% Rule + The Eyes Never Lie: Danny Meyer’s Principle for Hiring Great, Loyal Talent.

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Listen to the full episode here

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 Bankrupt. Suicidal. Running

Running from the worms and snakes and spiders crawling his mind.

Running somewhere, nowhere, anywhere

William Chase had lost EVERYTHING.

Will escaped to Australia

Returning to Blighty, a tenacious Builder.

Tyrell's - won listings at Waitrose & Partners Selfridges Harvey Nichols Tesco Morrisons, Harrods

Tyrells sold for £50 million in 2008.

In 2008, Will founded @Chase Distillery, another successful exit to Diageo in 2021.

Now Will’s into Wellness, founder of Willy’s Apple Cider Vinegar and Kombucha.

Full episode goes live Monday

ON THE MENU

1. Why Food and Drink Founders: Don't be a romantic “founder” be a cold blooded “builder”

2. How to STOP great talent leaving your business without giving them more money. Culture. Be first in, last out.

3. What it feels like when £50 mill drops in your bank account: “It’s Not Until You're in the Winners Enclosure, You Realise All The Fun is In The Race”

4. Why a brand is a “Friend” and must speak like a “Friend” to find the moments of Magic

5. Why Nature is The Escape, Let Nature Fill your Mind With Freedom

6. Everything you do. Do it properly + If you're in a hole stop digging

7. Why Tyrells NEVER promoted: Don't sell 5ers for 4 quid Grow by DESIRE. Not by DISCOUNT.



Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you?



GS1 UK

You’ve set the business up, the website is in development, got the bank account, what’s next? Barcodes! Get the barcodes for your products from GS1 UK from the start and don’t risk going with cheaper alternatives – it’ll cost you in the long run. Enjoy more than just barcodes and get 20% off your first year’s membership with GS1 UK by using the discount code HUNGRY20 at checkout.

www.gs1uk.org/hungry


Email me alwayshungrydan@gmail.com if you need a sounding board and finding/building teams xx

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Bob Dylan has a quote I love

“I was like NO ONE ELSE”

Bold Bean Co remind me of Bob Dylan.

Bold Bean Co. are like *NO ONE ELSE*

Different how they approach buyers and drive Rate of Sale

Different in how they prioritise MEDIA and CONTENT

Different in how they hire and build an incredible culture.

Most brands don’t win a Waitrose listing in their first year.

So why Bold Bean Co. do?

And how?

So thrilled to welcome my great friend and fellow Enthusiast, Amelia Christie-Miller on to the podcast.

Bold Bean Co. are making us “obsessed with beans by giving us the best of beans”

ON THE MENU:

1. Why being a founder is like being in a Toxic-Relationship - fall in love with the pain

2. Pick your priority: How to use CONTENT to drive Rate of Sale?

3. Why Founders need Two Hats: Coal-Face-Problem-solver vs. Zoomed-Out-Path

4. How brands can develop Authentic Audacity - “just stop trying” “be YOU”

5. Why Brands need both Product-Market-Fit AND Buyer-Brand Fit = LIFT OFF


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My whole view of entrepreneurship CHANGED

We entered unchartered, uncluttered waters I’d never explored

I learnt you can be hyper-driven and super-chilled simultaneously.

It made me reeeelaxxxxx

Slooooowww down

Enjoy it more

Have fun.

Yes, Flat Whites, Creamy cups of molten dynamite are flung out of every coffee shop now.

And yes, Avocado on Toast is totally ubiquitous.

But who bought them to British soils?

CARAVAN.

A trio of kind, warm, affable, fun, hardworking New Zealanders

DELIGHTED to welcome Laura-Harper Hinton and Chris Ammerman  co-founders of CARAVAN to the podcast.



Caravan changed Coffee, they made Coffee culture.   

ON THE MENU:

1. Why Founders must embrace  the mantra “Constant Gentle Pressure”

2. Why you DON’T HAVE to SCALE FAST - grow sloooowwww in your most organic way

3. How to not get “Bored of Your Own Brand” as you scale - keep the magic alive by working with epic, fun people

4. How to be Original: all great artists steal + constantly be the Magpie

5. Why Great leadership =  Balance of Empathy + Strength + Don’t Be a Dick and pack the boxes.

6. Why the key to successful restaurants (and brands) is ENERGY.


Mackenzie Jones - the FMCG recruitment specialists.

There’s salacious-yet-superfluous recruiters out there - proper Cowboys. Thank goodness for Billy and Paul. The Good guys.

Loved by brands like Lucky Saint, Candy Kittens, Hunter & Gather, FULFIL. Looking to build out your team? Deeply implore you to reach out to Billy or Paul.

GS1 UK

You’ve set the business up, the website is in development, got the bank account, what’s next? Barcodes! Get the barcodes for your products from GS1 UK from the start and don’t risk going with cheaper alternatives – it’ll cost you in the long run. Enjoy more than just barcodes and get 20% off your first year’s membership with GS1 UK by using the discount code HUNGRY20 at checkout.

www.gs1uk.org/hungry

BOWIMI - Food & Drink Founders and Sales Teams.  BOWIMI makes you better at your job and saves you stress, time and improves your bottom line.

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