Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer interviews an industry veteran Greg Fleishman of Foodstirs. Greg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Foodstirs Inc that makes "junk-free" bakery items such as muffins, cookies, and much more. Foodstirs have ingredients to make it yourself at home and ready-to-eat bakery treats as well.

Along with Foodstirs, Greg is also the Co-Founder and Partner of Purely Righteous Brands, a premiere boutique branding agency in Solano Beach, CA that has done branding projects for REBBL, Hail Merry, Chameleon Cold Brew, SUJA, and many more premiere brands.

Greg shares his abundant experience across many different CPG companies and his ongoing go-to-market strategy with Foodstirs.

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer interviews Ari Raz of Once Upon a Farm. Ari is the Co-Founder and President of Once Upon a Farm. He has built the fastest-growing baby food and pouch products in the country. He managed to bring on-board CPG legend John Foreaker as CEO, who built Annie's from $7mm to $250mm annually then sold it.

Ari was able to bring in Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner into the mix. She became an ambassador and spokesperson for the brand, appearing at many events touting and promoting Once Upon a Farm.

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer interviews Erica Liu Williams, Founder of Gr8nola. She self-funded and boot-strapped her own granola company, slinging her product as a food service item to tech companies like Google, Twitter, and more. She has pivoted significantly due to COVID-19 and is now heavily focusing on retail accounts.

Hear her story on why her granola separates from the bunch and how she plans to continue to grow her local brand into a regional & national brand down the road.

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer, welcomes back one of our favorite guests of all time, Mark Samuel of IWON Organics. He was our first guest when we kicked off our inaugural episode of 15 Minutes of Genius, and he is back 33 episodes later. Enjoy another entertaining and thought-provoking episode with this LinkedIn legend!

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer, interviews Eric Skae, a decorated veteran of the CPG space. Eric has been in several mid-size to large brands over his 30+ year career in executive and management roles including Fresh Samantha, Rao's Speciality Foods, Popcornopolis, and more.

He also serves on the board of Wandering Bear, TeaRIOT, Remedy Organics, Bu Kombucha, and other premieres CPG plant-based brands.

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer, interviews Reza Mirza of Iceland Glacial Water. Reza is the CEO of Iceland Glacial Water, one of the fastest-growing bottled water companies in the country. They are projecting to add another 20,000 - 30,000 new points of distribution and are working on more sustainable packaging to be released in 2021.

Enjoy this great interview with an expert in the CPG space running a well-known and fast-growing beverage brand nationwide.

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer, interviews Amanda Sains of Joolies California Superfruit. Amanda is the Marketing Director of Joolies California Superfruit, one of the fastest-growing Organic Medjool Date companies in the country. In just over 1 1/2 years since launch, they are now in over 1,000 stores and counting.

Amanda brings a ton of passion & energy to the brand and also shares a personal story on our show. You don't want to miss this episode!

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer, interviews CPG expert Bret Johnson of B-Fusion Consulting. Bret is the President of B-Fusion Consulting. He has worked with large brands such as Health-Ade Kombucha and GT Kombucha among many others. 

He also released a new book on Amazon called "Heaven-Land", which is about building your business on Amazon. Great interview with this industry veteran who has been there and done that.

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer, interviews Chris Kirby of Ithaca Hummus. Chris is the Founder & President of Ithaca Hummus with the catch phrase, "Taste hummus for the first time even if it's your hundredth time." He offers quite possible the best tasting, most creamy hummus on the market with simple ingredients straight from nature and no additives. 

Chris is very passionate about product quality and from humble beginnings, he has built a multi-million dollar business with distributing hummus all over the country including Wegman's, Whole Foods, Sprouts and many more.

Genius Juice CEO & Founder, Alex Bayer, interviews Zach DeAngelo of Rodeo CPG. Zach is the CEO & Founder of Rodeo CPG, an action-based ecosystem designed to help innovative brands grow more quickly and efficiently. Prior to Rodeo, Zach held a variety of leadership roles in the consumer space including CEO of Kalot Superfoods and other roles. He's an active investor & advisor in the space, and is a regular contributor to the industry trade publications.

He shares his expertise and 'Genius' on this show across many facets of running a CPG company. His consultant agency specializes in several ways to help grow your CPG brand including but not limited to: sales, distribution, operations, manufacturing, building your brand at store level and so much more!