In this episode, Clayton sits down with Bobby and Eden, the founders of Pure Pawsitivity (formerly Pure Purée), based in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The couple shares their powerful origin story, born from the heartbreak of losing beloved pets prematurely to cancer and disease. They discuss how their business evolved from making fresh vegetable purées for picky dogs to creating comprehensive superfood powders for both dogs and cats. Bobby and Eden also open up about their personal journey of sobriety in 2022, revealing how cleaning up their own lives gave them the clarity to fight for better pet health.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The business was founded after Eden lost her dog, Georgie, at age 12 to a pancreatic tumour, and Bobby lost German Shepherds that never made it past age 10. This grief drove them to research ingredients and realise the flaws in commercial pet food.

They started as ‘Pure Purée’, making fresh toppers to help frail dogs eat. They eventually rebranded to ‘Pure Pawsitivity’ to escape the limiting ‘Pure Purée Puppy’ name (which alienated cat owners) and to reflect a broader holistic mission.

Bobby and Eden both got sober in 2022. They credit this lifestyle change with finding their true calling to serve pets, noting that as they healed themselves, they found the drive to heal animals.

Unlike many brands that use synthetic vitamin packs, Pure Pawsitivity relies entirely on whole food sources. For example, they source specific Styrian pumpkin seeds from Austria for their mineral content rather than using additives.

Rather than shaming owners for feeding kibble, they encourage an ‘additive’ approach, adding healthy toppers or fresh foods to existing diets to fill nutritional gaps, which they found even stopped behaviours like poop eating.

BEST MOMENTS

"When we heal our pets, we actually heal ourselves. The work flows through us more than it's us doing the work now. It's just become our calling."

"My Georgie... I saved him, but he really saved me.”

"None of the stuff that we make is made in a lab or for marketing purposes. It's actually made from human and pet energy and experience, so we just know that it works because we've seen it work."

"With health, nutrition in general, when it comes to your pets or people. There are multiple, millions really, keywords that can shut a person down right away because at some point, great grandma was telling you to feed kibble."

HOST BIO

Clayton Payne is an industry veteran of three decades of working in the pet industry. Brought up working in his parents' pet store, Clayton has seen the industry evolve over five different decades and has been on the cutting edge of the industry since the nineties. Building pet businesses from scratch, establishing multi-national distribution chains and having worked in every aspect of the industry, Clayton has a rare insight into the Pet Industry that is rivalled by few.

Clayton has been the spearhead of many of the industry's changes and has introduced numerous new concepts to market with a trail of success behind him. He has worked in numerous countries within the pet industry, speaks four different languages and has established both import and export relationships on all continents (excluding Antarctica).

As well as being COO of one of the UKs fastest growing insect technology companies, Clayton is a Pet industry consultant who has consulted for many household brands and delivers sales training to pet trade professionals.

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