HUNGRY.

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Are you crap at negotiating? 

C’mnnaaan be honest? 

Challengers are notoriously, hopelessly, woefully crap at negotiating.

I’m awful. 

Founders struggle to separate themselves from their business.

David vs. Goliath. Challenger vs. Retailer. 

It’s a slog. 

Thrilled to welcome back Sarah Willingham on el pod. 

We dive deep into the weeds of negotiating tactics from Dragon’s Den, being a formidable female founder in a mans world + tonnes more. 

Sarah Willingham career sparkles: 

- Head of International Expansion at Pizza Express and Planet Hollywood

- Bought, built and sold the UK’s largest chain of Indian Restaurants, Bombay Bicycle Club

- 2015 - 2017 - Sarah was a Dragon alongside Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Nick Jenkins


- Founded and floated Nightcap PLC in ONE YEAR (London Cocktail Club, Barriro Familia)


- She’s an investor and chair at TONKOTSU and The Craft Gin Club

You’re in for a treat!!

ON THE MENU:

1. The 4ft 5 Swimmers Rule: Why founders must follow their unique nature “go with your nature, don’t follow nature” 

2. Why you must “Reflect on the past, but don't live in the past” - you need a propeller to keep going forward 

3. Dragons Den Negotiations Principles. SEPERATE your self from the negotiation, manage exceptions, assess your worth to the other side of the table, what does great look like 

4.  The hardest thing to do is to step back and let adrenaline "when you have adrenaline you don't have clarity"

5. “Always believe there’s a way” - “just step back and look at the full picture”

🤝 Let's Connect!

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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 

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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/

Imagine walking down a street today.

No Starbucks
No Pret A Manger.
No Costa.
No Cafe Nero.
No GAIL’s.
No McDonalds coffee

No coffee.

Imagine a world with coffee?

As an ardent coffee fiend, I couldn’t live without it.

Rewind to 1986.

Our scone-scoffing, beer-boshing, tea-guzzling Britain was crowned the “Graveyard of Coffee”.

A slumpy-grumpy stupor.

If you wanted a cuppa joe, you’d have to go to swanky-hotel.

Then. Thank heavens.

Two mad scientists. Steven Macatonia and Jeremy Torz. Had just returned slurping up the coffee movement in San Fransisco.

They started UNION and the coffee movement from their Mum's garden shed.

No Union Hand-Roasted Coffee. No Starbucks. No Starbucks. No Coffee movement. 

The coffee you drank this morning. You owe a great deal to Jeremy and Stephen 

LOVED this conversation 

ON THE MENU: 

1. How to see brand building like a scientist: Stop + evaluate, then go forward, slow is smooth, smooth is fast

2. How to turn OOH into experiential marketing and storytelling to build trust in grocery 

3. How coffee created the third space for people to operate in outside bars and pubs + how new brands can too 

4. How founders can avoid cognitive bias: “Don't drink the cool aid, don’t ask questions expecting the answers you want to hear”

5. The “You're not stuck in traffic, you are in traffic” Rule, every new idea needs push and pull 

Full episode goes live Monday 8am.

Can’t wait till then, feel free to check out other episodes below 

🤝 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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Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter,  Friday Feast - why wouldn't you?

https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/

Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/

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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/

British food was slowly-but-very-surely dying. 

Until Calum Franklin came along. 

Calum breathed fresh life back into British food. 

Taking the humble, quintessentially British pie.

Turning it, Inside out. 

Upside down. 

Back

to 

front

Reinventing our beloved Pie.

Ground-breakingly-banging and face-meltingly delicious flavours. 

The Pies looked are art and architecture meets food. 

Like ancient, baroque cathedrals from Rome or Paris or Milan or London. 

2018, I remember stuffing my face at The Pie Room.

Warm waves of lusciously lucid memories are warming me as I type this on a blisteringly cold 8am train to Waterloo. 

Calum was Executive Chef of the Holborn Dining room and founder of The Pie Room inside prodigious Rosewood hotel.

LOVED this conversation. 

It's WAYYYY more than just absolutely-banging Pies. 

It's a Masterclass in Accessing your UNIQUE creativity. 

Struggling to access creativity? 

Wondering how to reinvent your creative culture? 

THIS IS FOR YOU. 

Scoff this down ya ear lobes 

ON THE MENU: 

1. Why Creativity is All Around Us and How to ACTUALLY Access it - Inspiration Comes from  Door Handles

2. Why Calum lives by the Discipline: “Always do the right thing, even when no one is watching” 

3. CREATE Competition for yourself - it forces you push the boundaries, stretch ambition, avoid complacency 

4. How to build creative cultures that do BOLD work: “Realise that Everyone reacts different to levels of pressure”

5. Why Service is Black and White and Hospitality is Colour- Great Food is Memories meeting Discipline

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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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 All Things Butter 

Spread like wild-fire over social media. 

My goal: explore All Things Behind-The Butter. 

Milk the proverbial cow

Baste my brain, melt my mind with wisdom 

Churn through the conversational fields of curiosity 

Fill me-mind up Butter Cup (sounds geordie) 

WHEY-HEY BABYYY !! (God, I sound like a Geography teach-in-with-long-nose-hair-in-Fat-Face)

This conversation BLEW MY MIND 

Behind the glitzy-ritzy, sparkly-sugar-coated veneers 

Toby Hoppy Thomas Straker are two absolute grafters with creativity at their core. 

We talk about the Art of Simplicity and Rational Creativity. 

THAT picture which almost got Thom cancelled. 

How to bounce back from rock bottom 

ON THE MENU - 

1. How to use social media and content to by-pass market research and find product-market-fit BEFORE you launch 

2. Why the hardest part for founder is “pulling the trigger, pull the trigger, build momentum” Momentum, compounds. 

3. The Harsh Realities of Creating All Things Butter content - and how to build a content system 

4. The D2C Ceiling: is d2c less important for Omni-Channel businesses

5. Straker: ”don't over think creativity” Creativity is REDUCING not PRODUCING, it’s taking away and simplifying - love, love, love this!!!!!!

6. Hoppy: Why Founders must embrace “Rational Creativity” - how ATB are using content to drive ROS 

Full episode live Monday 8am. 
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You’d make a very happy-bunny if you please hit the subscribe button 

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/

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 weekly Newsletter,  Friday Feast - why wouldn't you?

https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/

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/

2022, Planet Organic set to open 50 stores.

April 2023, in Administration.

What ACTUALLY happened?

What went wrong at Planet Organic Ltd?

Why?

What are the lessons?

These questions swamped my nog

So I got them answered

Thrilled to welcome back the wonderful Renée Elliott to the poddy. 

Renée like a personal therapist-meets-business guru to me. 

If you’re a founder struggling, this is for you. 

It boils down to STICKING to your UNIQUENESS + VALUES. 

ON THE MENU: 

1. How Meditation = Better Decisions: “the quieter you become the louder you can hear”

2. Why Founders Must Ride The Rollercoaster: Hands In the Air vs Holding on For Dear Life - “Stay in surrender avoid attachment to avoid pain”

3. How To Actually WIN a Planet Organic Listing Under The New Leadership

4. What Went Wrong at Planet? - Moving away from Organic = Vanilla = who are you as a brand?

5. How they’re fixing Planet Organic? Go Deeper Internally to Your Unique Values. 

🤝 Let's Connect!

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

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/)