
Vegan Business Tribe Podcast
If you have a vegan business, or are thinking of starting one, then Vegan Business Tribe is here to support you, inspire you, connect you with other vegan business owners - AND give you the knowledge you need to build a successful vegan business.
Hosted by Vegan Business Tribe co-founder, David Pannell. Lisa & David have worked with some of the largest high-street brands and food manufacturers to help them understand and connect with the vegan marketplace. David is also the official UK agent for The Vegan Society's Vegan Trademark and Lisa writes the monthly business column in Vegan Food & Living - the biggest vegan print publication in the UK.
Vegan Business Tribe is where they give back with weekly content, seminars, business clinics, networking events, mentoring and online courses to help you create a successful vegan business. If you want to go beyond the podcast and connect with our community of like-minded vegan entrepreneurs or get support from Lisa & David, then head over to www.veganbusinesstribe.com where you will be welcomed with open arms!
Latest episodes

Apr 26, 2025 • 1h 32min
136 - Battle of the Brands 2025
Four vegan brands come together for our live final to win a day of one-to-one meetings with major retail buyers who are looking for innovative new plant-based products.Who will impress our four judges and win a free place at veg-net 2025 in London? Listen to all four finalists get grilled by our 'vegan dragons' plus hear what the judges had to say in our secret closed-doors deliberation to pick the winner.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Apr 12, 2025 • 52min
135 - Incubator diaries: omnibus 7 (the final!)
Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. This is it, the final omnibus, as David returns to Berlin for pitch day.This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Mar 24, 2025 • 41min
134 - Incubator diaries: omnibus 6
Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this sixth omnibus episode, we find out if David got through to the final pitch day...This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Jan 20, 2025 • 52min
133 - Incubator diaries: omnibus 5
Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this fifth omnibus episode, David tells you what happened after the first in-person week in Berlin and takes you through the creation of the new slide deck.This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Dec 17, 2024 • 30min
132 - Overcoming founder fatigue
How to win back your motivation as a vegan entrepreneur. 'Founder fatigue' can happen in any business, but especially if you have a high emotional investment in your business's cause. You still love your business, you still believe in your mission, but you're tired, stressed and burnt out.Left unchecked, founder fatigue will kill your business. You'll stop showing up. You'll stop going out and looking for opportunities. You will find yourself, subconsciously, sabotaging your own business.But all is not lost! In this episode, David brings you his top 5 tips for reinvigorating your enthusiasm for your business and re-connecting with your mission.---Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Dec 4, 2024 • 31min
131 - Is Veganuary's new campaign kind of WEIRD?
We talk to the man behind the new Veganuary campaign. Sausages are literally pigs stuffed into their own intestines. Kind of weird, right? Veganuary's 2025 campaign takes a new bold direction to the supermarket-friendly campaigns we've seen in previous years. David is joined by Veganuary's Creative Manager Andrew Jolly to discuss the thinking behind the new campaign, and to ask: does it go too far, or not far enough?Find out why Veganuary decided they needed a new direction with their marketing and how the campaign faced censorship from the advertising industry before it was even released.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Nov 26, 2024 • 38min
130 - Incubator diaries: omnibus 4
Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this fourth omnibus episode, David takes you behind the scenes of the first in-person week in Berlin, Germany.This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Nov 18, 2024 • 45min
129 - Incubator diaries: omnibus 3
Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this third omnibus episode, David heads to the ProVeg offices in Berlin, Germany, for the first in-person week of the programme (via the Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg).This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com 🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Oct 29, 2024 • 55min
128 - How to support vegan businesses (live episode)
Live panel discussion on what support the vegan business sector needs. The last few years have been tough for all businesses. The Covid pandemic, the cost of living crisis and Brexit have seen hundreds of thousands of businesses being forced to close, and many of those are vegan. In this panel discussion, recorded live at the Vegan Party Conference 2024 in London, David is joined by Veganuary founder Matthew Glover, Keith Lesser from Vegan Accountants, Mitali Deypurkaystha from The Vegan Publisher and Daisy Botha, founder of Vegan Fairs.We look at what support vegan businesses need, from the small traders through to the large food companies, and how the general public can better support the vegan business sector.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com

Oct 15, 2024 • 33min
127 - How to rescue your failing business
What to do if your business is failing and how to turn it around. We know that it takes time, hard work and tenacity to make a business successful. But what if there's no light at the end of a tunnel and the money is running out? David's been there. In this episode, he shares the 8 steps which will first slow the decline and then help you to turn your business around. That is going to mean facing-up to some hard realities about your business and taking what might feel like a step backwards in order to take a huge leap forwards.Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe Prefer to listen? Catch the audio-only version on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your pods!---🙏With thanks to our sponsors:🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism? Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com