S2, Ep24: Plant Based Food for Everyone with Ian & Henry aka. BOSH!

Apr 15, 2020

Ian and Henry, founders of BOSH!, a popular online vegan recipe channel, share their journey towards veganism and how they built their successful brand. They discuss the importance of delicious vegan food, persistence, and a positive mindset. They also share easy and flavorful plant-based recipes and touch on topics like setting intentions, favorite vegan foods, and responding to arguments about plants having feelings.

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

The Journey Towards Veganism

05:14 • 13min

Promoting Veganism through Tasty Food and Community

17:47 • 13min

Easy and Flavorful Plant-Based Recipes and Recipe Creation Process

30:26 • 4min

Evolution of their plant-based cookbooks and setting intentions

34:41 • 6min

Favorite Vegan Foods, Essential Ingredients, and Cooking for Donald Trump

40:35 • 2min

Responding to Arguments about Plants Having Feelings

42:55 • 15min

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This one's for all you vegan foodies out there! In June 2016, Henry Firth and Ian Theasby took the online vegan world by storm when they launched their plant-based recipe channel BOSH! and quickly went viral. Now with over 2 billion online views and three Sunday Times Bestselling cookbooks, BOSH! have inspired thousands of people all over the world to embrace vegan cooking, and on this episode they share the details of the work ethic that built BOSH!, and the mindset it took to turn a purpose-fuelled project into their full time job. Also on this episode...

Ian and Henry share how the idea for Bosh started as a vision of 'a vegan cafe for the whole world'
Henry talks about turning a purpose fuelled project into a fulltime job and overcoming imposter syndrome to embrace his role in BOSH!'s success.
Ian shares why Bosh proudly use the word 'vegan' rather than plant-based in their business.
Henry talks about the importance of persistence when building a vegan brand, and how BOSH!'s success came from a consistent commitment to putting out delicious, simple vegan recipes.
Ian explains that the key quality a new vegan cook needs is a positive mindset and a willingness to make mistakes!
Ian & Henry share some simple and some more complex recipes to test out in self isolation!
Vegan cooking tips for vegans who don't really like vegetables!
Henry shares the workflow management method he uses to maximise productivity and talks about the process of writing, testing and refining recipes that ultimately leads to a finished cookbook.
Ian and Henry discuss their newest cookbook.
Robbie puts the 'Plants Have Feelings' argument to bed!

Links:

Check out BOSH!'s website!

Follow BOSH! on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

Get daily recipe inspiration from BOSH!'s Youtube channel.

Pre-order Bosh!'s newest cookbook.

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