Recipe for Greatness

Today, we have a special guest, Daniel Featherstone, the founder of Made For Drink.
Made For Drink is a company that specializes in creating delicious bar snacks and pairing them with a drink. Dan is also the co-founder of The Exmoor Carbon Project. Prior to that Dan built his way up to a senior marketing position within PepsiCo and Concha Y Toro, the wine maker. 

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Today, we have a special guest with us. Charlie Phillips, the founder of Morty & Bob's restaurant. Charlie has been in the food industry for over 15 years, going from working in some of the best restaurants in London to working in cookery television production, working with names such as Tom Kerrdige. 

Charlie has built a reputation for creating beautiful food and atmosphere in all-day dining venues across London. He's here to share his story of how he started Morty & Bob's, the challenges he faced, and the lessons he learned along the way.

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Today on the podcast we have Roberto Vanin, the founder of Bolle, a low/no alcohol wine brand.

Roberto is so interesting, with his background in chemistry he has been behind some of the biggest household innovations we know such as Vanish. Roberto then led innovation at Mars and many other international businesses. His experience and knowledge of developing, testing, failing, learning, and innovating is exceptional and he is now taking all of that to his own start-up Bolle.

This is a great listen, so please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Roberto from Bolle.

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This week on the podcast we have Andy Welch, the founder of Seriously Low Carb, a company bringing you some of your favourite products such as bread, but low in carbohydrates and higher in protein.

This is a wonderful example of someone with an idea, weaving their way through the ups and downs of a start-up business but having a deeper mission driving them to persevere through it to create a wonderful business that is changing people's lives.

This is a wonderful listen so please, sit back and enjoy my conversation with Andy from Seriously Low Carb

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Today we have Freya Twigden - the founder of Fix8 - a delicious Kombucha drink. This was such a wide-ranging conversation: from lifestyle and rituals in Chinese culture, scaling from home brewing to full-scale production, yoga and the positive effects of it, and just so much more. 
Freya’s ethos and approach to business are incredible and something many others, including myself can learn from. 
So please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Freya from Fix8.

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Today on the podcast we have Damien Byrne, the co-founder of HUX the science-backed supplement company.

Damien has a wealth of experience from his times and Mars and Kind and he shares his knowledge with us and how it translates to the start-up world. There is so much to learn from this conversation so please sit back and enjoy!

• Damien Byrne; Damien is an established General Manager with over 20 years CPG experience spanning four continents and 12 categories. Most recently he led the expansion of KIND outside of North America - building a cross-functional team, innovation funnel and manufacturing capability to service 24 countries - significantly contributing to a $5B acquisition of the brand.

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Today on the podcast we have Alex Harrison, the co-founder of Young Spirits, the secret weapon for small distillers and producers, offering a range of services from bottling all the way to Branding. They also sell their own whisky and rum now, Uhuru. 

Alex’s story is all about trial and error, taking each lesson and using that knowledge to keep progressing. This was such a fun conversation, Alex made me laugh a lot and at the end, he gives us his recommendation for the best whisky out there for under £70.

So please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Alex from Young Spirits

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Today on the podcast we have Jess and Ed, the founders of Take Stock the simply better bone broth. 

In this conversation we cover lots, going from an idea at the start of lockdown to being a number one rated product on amazon in two years, their journey is really incredible. 

Please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Jess and Ed from Take stock.

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Today on the podcast we have Marcus Black who is the co-founder of Spirit of Harrogate - the company making incredible Gin, which you may know as Slingsby, a gin that prides itself by sourcing everything locally to his hometown, Harrogate.

Marcus, an accountant by trade found somehow found himself at the head of an international drinks company, Intercontinental Brands, with his now co-founder, Mike.

In this chat we cover creating a successful co-founder relationship, the importance of understanding your goal for the brand, driving awareness in the premium space and so much more.

So please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Marcus from Spirit of Harrogate.

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Today’s guests are Dr Megan Rossi and Jon Walsh, the founders of Bio&Me - the gut-loving brand serving delicious granola, muesli, porridge, and now yogurts!

Megan, also known as the gut health doctor, holds a PhD RD, and is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, and research fellow at King’s College London with an award-winning PhD in gut health.

Jon has a commercial and marketing background spanning 30 years, with successful roles working on some of the UK’s best-known FMCG brands including P&G, John West, and sat on the UK Board of Nestlé

We spend a long time diving into how to build a successful co-founder relationship, we then talk about identifying gaps in the market, the harsh reality of being a start-up, why teamwork wins and so much more.

So please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Jon and Megan from Bio&Me.

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