Today's guest is Sameer Vaswani who is the founder of Prodigy Snacks.

Sameer has been an entrepreneur from the age of 22, setting up his first restaurant in Nottinghill. After that, he moved to West Africa and ran a successful confectionary business that he later sold. While he was there his eyes were opened to how damaging the practices were going on in the confectionery & manufacturing world so his mission began to change that with Prodigy Snacks.

In this chat, we talk about Sameer's journey into entrepreneurship, his challenges in creating a product that challenges the status quo of chocolate. Sameer dives into ingredients and explains what is really going into some of the foods we are eating and the impact they can have on our body and the planet. This is a great listen and really opened my eyes to certain issues in food. Now, Please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Sameer from Prodigy Snacks.

IN THIS CHAT:
1:00: Parents influence and journey into entrepreneurship
5:30: Opening up a restaurant at 22 and the lessons learned
10:30: Learning lessons and moving past failures
16:30: How and why West Africa influenced him
20:30: Why some ingredients are evil
25:30: Plastic Negative - what it really means and Repurpose Global.
28:30: Manufacturing challenges of creating a new product
33:30: Online vs retail and the change over the years
26:30: DTC challenges and opportunity

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