HUNGRY.

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

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There is ONE sure fire way to lose

Making decisions slooooooowwwwwwlyyyyyyyyyly

So many teams:

Ponder and pontificate and plot and pander and pop-out-for-a-walk which ends up in wandering and waning and wasting time like a Wally

You don't need a G7 Summit to decide what colour Pantone you use for a JS Gondola end

You don't need a huddle or school or a gaggle or ruck or WRTF?

Making effective decision is the delicate balance of thinking slow and hard, reflecting deeply internally yet moving with insane speed.

Not getting bogged down in the bog waters of banal b*llocks

It's Art not a Science.

Lottie Unwin (she/her) knows the Art.

We chat all about the toolkit for effective decision making!

Lottie was an early guest on the pod, and has become a great friend and introduced me to some legends - Elle Ponsonby and James Hickson to name a few

ON THE MENU:

1. Why Time + Space = Clarity. Distraction is not Procrastination

2. The Role of Successful Leader: Your job is Literally just make 1 or 2 great big decisions per Month Vs. 1000s of tiny ones

3. How To Use Google Docs to Think Deep, Reflect Hard yet Move Fast

4. How to Keep your Sanity and Sleep Easy as a Founder - Create a Paper Trail for Big Decision

5. How to Bring Introverts and Extroverts to the Table and Avoid Big Ego's Taking Over

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Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 

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 

4. Do yourself a favour 

Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 

🤝 Let's Connect!

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 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/

HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors

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Simon Griffiths is a founder like no other.

Who Gives A Crap are a brand like no other. 

Our conversation was like no other.
Brand building like no other. 

J’addoreeeee Who Gives A Crap. 

Reinventing Toilet Roll. 

Wallops and whips of Warhole-esque colours. Transforming toilet paper into lusciously lurid story telling machines.

Wipe ya bum, donate ya dough to charity. 

First philanthropic brand to donate + £13m to Charity 

Simon’s approach to brand building TOTALLY breaks the rules of convention. 

Prepare to have all your “bogged down” traditional ways of thinking wiped clean ;) 

On a deeper level, our conversation taught me what to ACTUALLY Give a Crap About

ON THE MENU: 

1. Why Too Much Purpose Makes a Brand Boring and One Dimensional - Brands are like a Human with lots of depth and texture 

2. Going from Good to Great Brands: Why a Brand is an Orchestrate Not a Solo Singer

3. WGAC Principles for High Performance Cultures: Autonomy + Mastery + Purpose 

4. WGAC Hiring Principles: Culture Add > Culture Fit - are you a Scruncher or Folder 

5. How to Build a Remote Working Global Brand: Life-Work Balance vs. Work-Life Balance and Return to Business vs. Cost to Employee

6. Why You Must Embrace Screwing Up as PR Ammo- Allows you to build a Deeper connection with Employees and Consumers 

7. Why Being Normal is Dangerous for Founder - Your weirdness + quirks allow you to see the World Differently 

8. How to Get Tone of Voice to Land in Different Countries that Aren’t English Speaking - Hire Localised Talent 

🤝 Let's Connect!

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Listen to the full episode here

Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 

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 

4. Do yourself a favour 

Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 

🤝 Let's Connect!

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** PLEASE NOTE: my audio improves after 7 minutes!!! 

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/

Feast your eyes on this

🍫  Exit New Covent Garden Soup Co for + £40 million
🍫  Exit Green & Black's exit for £35 million
🍫  Builds Cawston Press to +£13 million brand
🍫  Builds L.A BREWERY | NON-ALCOHOLIC into buccaneering kombucha brand
🍫 Chairman of the Grosvenor Estate.
🍫  Cook. Farmer. City Lawyer. INSEAD MBA graduate. 

William Kendall is a totally rare breed of Human being. 

William operates at the rare  intersection of two opposing modes. 

Creator meets Operator.
Farmer meets Founder. 
Curiosity meets Commercial.

My goal was to meander and mooch and prize open both sides. 

We did that. 

Our longest podcast to date. 3 hours. LADEN with wisdom. 

Take it in sloooooooowly. 
Maybe on a long drive. Or flight.  
Maybe over 3 sittings. 

Maybe 2. 
Up to you. 

ON THE MENU: 

1. Why Founders must learn the power of Selling - it’s a balance Why + Story = pull

2. The Fail Safe Way to Build a Great food brand: Think like Mini Rugby - Don't hog the ball + Stay in Position 

3. Why Successful Founders must walk the “Fine line between delegation and abdication”

4. How to Build a High Performance Senior Leadership Team that ACTUALLY EXITS food and drink brands - The Basic Disciplines 

5. Why Food and Drink founders must never forget you’re selling FOOD AND DRINK. The Cake is the Cake. 

6. How to Galvanise Strong Cultures - “The most important person in the business is the person who joined last week”

7. The Change in Founders Mindset from £5 million challenger brand to £20 Million House hold brand: Stay restless + charismatic 

8. Why Market Research just Covers Arses - You Must Find out WHY people ACTUALLY DO Things 

Full episode goes live Monday 8am 

Can't wait till then

Watch on Youtube or listen to other episodes in the comments below.

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Listen to the full episode here 

Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 

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 

4. Do yourself a favour 

Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 

🤝 Let's Connect!

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Hey y'all,

This is a repost of one of my favourite episodes of all time. Back to normal in the New Year. Hope you have an amazing Christmas 

STOP thinking like a Challenger Brand, please.

Zipping n’ zinging through the Challenger zeitgeist is a David vs. Goliath mentality.

Post BrewDog, challenger brands act like Punk Bands.

Minor Figures took a screw-that view and forged a new path.

They act like a FUNK BAND.

Stuart Forsyth, taught me: "We play our groove and let our people come dancing”

Mind-bendingly banging products.

Weird. Lurid. Wonderful.

Avant-garde, chilled-contrarians fusing music, coffee and art.

Cult-like evangelists, venerate the brand, blotching their body with Minor Figure tattoos.

Minor Figures won listings at: Waitrose & Partners, Tesco, Morrisons, Coles Group

Our conversation unshackled my noggin from the challenger-thinking straight-jacket.

My mind grooved into new forests of curiosity like a randy Truffle Pig.

Grab yourself a strong coffee, allow your mind to meander.

ON THE MENU:

1. WHY FOOD AND DRINK FOUNDER’S MUST "BITE OFF MORE THAN THEY CAN CHEW THEN CHEW LIKE HELL"

2. WHY FOOD AND DRINK BRANDS MUST THINK LIKE “FUNK BANDS” NOT “PUNK BRANDS” - TO AUTHENTICALLY STAND OUT IN CATEGORIES

3. WHY SMASHING IT IN TWO CHANNELS IS THE PREREQUISITE BUILDING A LIFESTYLE BRAND

4. WHY FOOD AND DRINK FOUNDERS MUST FALL IN LOVE WITH OBSTACLES AND CHOOSE YOUR STRUGGLE. = “I GET TO FACE THIS CHALLENGE” VS. “I HAVE TO FACE THIS CHALLENGE”

5. HOW FOOD AND DRINK FOUNDER CAN SEPARATE THEIR BUSINESS WORTH FROM THEIR SELF WORTH - “WHAT IF IT ALL ENDED TOMORROW? ”

Big thanks to Ben Vear for sorting this out.

Fully eppy goes live Monday 8am. 

Cannae’ wait till then? 

Other episodes in comments below. 

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Listen to the full episode here

Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 

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 

4. Do yourself a favour 

Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 

🤝 Let's Connect!

►Let’s link-up here ​ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)

►Stalk me here ​ (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

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/

HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors

Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/

GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/

Big Fish - https://bigfish.co.uk/

BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/

HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/

Brixton is a gorgeous melting pot, hubbub, hodge-podge, colliding-cultures, electric-eclectic soup.

2013, swirling out the soup is craft beer brand Brixton Brewery

Jez along with wife and family friends, founded the brand in 2013.

Heineken came knocking.

Jez, believed Heineken could take it to another level.

An absolute delight to hunker down under the arches in Brixton as they trains grumbled and hurtled overhead.

If you’re looking to sell you brand (or baby) and want to know what it ACTUALLY feels like - this is for you!!

ON THE MENU:

1. Why founders must “Method Act” and fake it till you make it. Jay Z “Speak things into Existence

2. The Power of 1% Compounding: How Brixton Apply British cyclist Sir David Brailsfords to 1% compounding principles

3. The 7 stages of grief when selling your business to HeinekenThe Dark Secrets to the Craft Beer: the tribalism behind craft beer and how it spread?

4. How to move from an Oral Culture to a Systems Culture - document all the boring but important bits.

🤝 Let's Connect!

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Listen to the full episode here

Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 

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 

4. Do yourself a favour 

Feel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link 

🤝 Let's Connect!

►Let’s link-up here ​ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)

►Stalk me here ​ (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)