Although studies show that non-vegans are more likely to engage with a vegan product or company when you drop the ‘v word’, if a customer loves your product without actually realising it’s vegan are you inadvertently just promoting meat and dairy?In this episode, David returns to the 'to V or not to V?' question, looking at it from an ethical and not just business viewpoint. If you’re not going to be able to compete with the big plant-based brands on price or quality, does it make sense for you to hide the one thing you can beat them on: your vegan ethics?Want to watch the video version? Subscribe to our YouTube channel: @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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

How many times have you wished you could bring together your ethics with how you make a living? In this panel discussion recorded live at Vegan Business Tribe Live 2023 at the London Olympia, we bring together four Vegan Business Tribe members who all use their businesses as their platform to move the vegan cause forwards.But won't that put your customers off? How can you promote veganism if you don't sell to vegans? And what if you don't consider your business to be a 'vegan' business, even though you are vegan yourself? All these are the things that you might consider barriers to bringing your vegan ethics to the core of your business, but as you will learn from this panel: they are not!Hosted by Shabari Das of World Vegan Market & London Vegan Business Network, panelists are:Kelly Vowels, Pixal RoseChloe Bullock, Materialise InteriorsKayleigh Nicolaou, Kakadu CreativeSubscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

Mel & Steve from Vegan Muscle co-host to talk about the barriers stopping more men from turning vegan. A new research paper released by The Vegan Society into masculinity and veganism shows that women are far more likely to go vegan than men. Some studies have even suggested that as high as 80% of all the vegans in the USA were female.This means that if you are selling to a vegan audience then you need to be aware that your audience will be largely female. But why has veganism been an overwhelmingly a female movement and why are there so many social barriers and stigmas stopping more men going vegan? And what role do we have as vegan businesses in changing this? David is joined by vegan fitness activists and YouTubers Mel and Steve from Vegan Muscle to find out.Learn more about Mel & Steve here: https://veganmusclegymwear.com/Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

Can your investments and finance help the green cause? Did you know that your pension could be funding fossil fuels? Did you know your savings could be supporting animal agriculture? In this session, David talks to Vegan Business Tribe member and vegan independent financial advisor, Jai Street, about the whole world of green finance and investing.Financial advice isn't an industry that people might immediately see as something that you would look to veganise, so we also talk about how you can use your skill set as your activism, no matter what your business does.Jai is also a speaker at Vegan Business Tribe Live at the London Olympia as part of VegfestUK on the 18th & 19th November 2023.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk---Vegan Business Tribe Live also thanks our micro-sponsors for the event: - Mindful Wealth (https://mindfulwealth.uk/)- Materialise Interior Design (https://www.materialiseinteriors.com/)- MotherTree (https://www.mymothertree.com/)- The Green Hosting Company (https://greenhostingco.com/)- Certified Vegan Business Trademark Scheme (https://certifiedvegan.biz/)

We talk to three vegan animal sanctuary owners. Many vegans have the dream of one day buying some land and opening an animal sanctuary. But they don't think about the 5am starts, having to work every single day and the huge veterinary and food bills that come with caring for animals.Recorded Live at Vegan Business Tribe Live 2022, in this panel session we bring together three animal sanctuary owners to talk about the realities of running your own animal rescue: Susan Joyce​, Founder of Little Green Pigeon wildlife sanctuary in Wales; Wenda Shehata​, Founder of Hugletts Wood Farm Animal Sanctuary; and Lisa Sherwani, who runs Footprints Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

Interview with Chloe Bullock, Materialise Interiors. Chloe Bullock was awarded PETA's Compassionate Designer of the Year in their 2023 Vegan Homeware Awards. In this session, we're joined by Chloe to talk about how she has worked tirelessly to bring vegan interior design into the spotlight throughout her career, and is now one of the most highly regarded vegan design experts in the world having recently authored the Royal Institute of British Architects guidebook on sustainable interior design.As if this wasn't enough, Chloe also took her agency Materialise Interiors through B Corp certification earlier in the year, to show that the company holds itself to a higher standard of ethics and transparency in how it does business. David quizzes Chloe about the process and her tips for other businesses looking to do the same.Chloe is also a speaker at this year's Vegan Business Tribe Live at the London Olympia on the 18th & 19th November 2023.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

Why have people stopped buying from you? You're doing everything you did before but people just aren't buying anymore. What's changed? This is a question that our Vegan Business Tribe member Callum brought to one of our business clinics. Why has getting new customers become harder?If you follow the news, then it would be easy to think at the moment that the economy is completely falling apart. Many regions have seen an economic slowdown following the covid lockdowns, the invasion of Ukraine and some very short-sighted political decisions by our governments. But the reality is, no matter how bad the economy seems, you will still see plenty of people making money. And no matter how well the economy is doing, many businesses lose money and go out of business. So just because the news is all doom and gloom don't use that as an excuse to simply accept fewer customers for your business. In this episode, David explains that people still need what you sell (and likely still have the money!)but they are just being far more cautious about buying it - meaning you need to change how you market yourself to give customers a lot more confidence in spending with you.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

We interview Better Nature Tempeh CEO, Chris Kong, about how they broke into the major retailers. Better Nature Tempeh have established themselves as the leading tempeh brand in the UK, but it wasn't easy. First marketing themselves along the hundreds of other 'meat replacement' products, Better Nature struggled to get the attention of major retailers who were already oversaturated in this category. Then they learned to embrace what they were and set about to establish a new product category all of their own. Now you can find Better Nature Tempeh across the country in Tesco Supermarket and other major retailers, as well as now just launched into Germany too. Although Better Nature is a food company, Chris shares with us the mind-shift change that had to happen in the business to allow it to find growth, and his tips for other companies looking to scale up regardless of what sector they are in.Chris is also one of our speakers and panellists at Vegan Business Tribe Live at the London Olympia on the 18th and 19th of November 2023. Get your tickets from: veganbusinesstribe.com/tribe-live-2023Subscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

The 5 ways to fund or finance a vegan business. You might think if you just come up with a great idea then an investor will throw money at your business! Well, I'm afraid it doesn't work like that. Investors are out there, even vegan ones who share your ethics, but usually a company will have to either self-fund or borrow money to grow before they get to the level of success needed to attract investment.But don't worry, help is at hand! In this episode, David looks at the five different ways that your business can raise funding, from self-funding and borrowing, to investment and crowdfunding. He also explores some more creative ways you might be able to generate cash to grow - remember that if you need to borrow money then there are other routes than banks!Subscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

The AI tools you can use right now in your business. Imagine having a tool that can automatically counter anti-vegan comments on your company's posts, predict your next best-selling product from reading your customer reviews, and generate engaging social media content for your niche audience. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has become more than a buzzword. It's a transformative force that might reshape your business. From ChatGPT's creative writing powers to stunningly lifelike image generators, AI is revolutionising the way we work and connect with our audience. But, what role can AI play in your vegan business? Is it a mere novelty or a game-changer that can enhance productivity and free up valuable time?In this episode, David looks at how you can use AI in your business right now - because if your business is your activism then you want to do everything you can to make that business successful and stay ahead of the curve. Then we have an our exclusive interview with Sam Tucker, the visionary founder of VegCatalyst who recently launched VEG3, the world's first vegan AI marketing assistant.So sit back and get ready to unlock the immense possibilities that AI offers to propel your vegan business forward!Subscribe to our YouTube channel: for more: @veganbusinesstribe ---🌱✊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📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk