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HUNGRY is the podcast for Challenger Food and Drink brands wanting to pour gasoline on their growth. Fancy being kind? Want to feel warm inside? Please hit the Subscribe button. You’d really, really make my week.
Latest episodes

Sep 12, 2024 • 10min
Espresso: Seth Godin, 3 Golden Rules for Creative High Performance Cultures
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed!1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking?Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!!2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder?Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow.3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love UnleashedYour fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee4. Do yourself a favourFeel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Sep 9, 2024 • 1h 19min
innocent Drinks Founder: 17 Timeless Brand Building Laws to Scale a £310 Million Brand (…You’ve Never Heard Before)
When I started the poddy, I scribbled on scruff paper a list dream brands Top of list: Innocent Innocent are THE OG challenger brand. The Innocent Illuminate (or Alumni) all built WHOPPPA brands:Giles, Barney, Emma, Peter Oden, loads more All extol fruitful learnings from Fruit Towers Many see Innocent as a Brand & Marketing machine (they are) Adam revealed something much DEEPER Something surprising. Something you've not thought about. ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take you 5 mins to read. Full of wisdom from the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here 🍲 ON THE MENU:Why There are Multiple Status Games and We Are Never Playing One Status GameWhy a Story is a Deal - a UNIQUE deal between your brand and your consumer - so tell the story rightThe Science of Brand Storytelling Nike and The Rise of Metcons in Cross FitWhy Status is Making Us Live in a Blandemic - Blandemic of Buildings, Restuarants and Brands - how to escapeWhy Bad Brand Story Telling is vague, “Reflect the story world back at me, so I can find my identity in it”Why Falling in Love is Similar to Brand storytelling: Your Goal is to Reflect back to them what they want to know”The brand is a light figure in storytelling: How does your story make consumers Status + ConnectionWhy Ambition can become corruptive and how to solve itWhy the best organisational structures are focused on the “Me” and “We” (this is SO SO SO good)We Earn Status Through VirtueThe Status Game and Michelin Star Restuarants: The Downfall of Status 👌
==============================================🌟 HUNGRY's Absolutely Bloody Marvelous Sponsors🌟==============================================A massive shoutout to our incredible sponsors who make HUNGRY possible: 🍜Use Uber Eats code: KOYAKO40 to get 40% off (up to 15£) when you spend at least 20£ ►North Star: (www.northstarbc.co.uk) Get your FREE 30min Consultancy Session with North Star 👉 https://calendly.com/andy-northstar/free-30mins-with-north-star-team🤝 Let's Connect!►Let's link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Sep 5, 2024 • 12min
Espresso: YOU are not your BUSINESS - Mike Davies on his Mental Break Down, Intervention, and Recovery
Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed!1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking?Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!!2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder?Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow.3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love UnleashedYour fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee4. Do yourself a favourFeel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical linkFULL EPISODE:SpotifyAppleYoutube🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Sep 2, 2024 • 2h 1min
11 Powerful Brand Storytelling Secrets: Build Deeper Connection with Consumers, Spread Your Idea Further & Faster (…this will BLOW YOUR MIND)
In 1994, Steve Jobs said - “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.”“The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come”Today's Episode with Will Storr will make YOU a better storyteller to your team.Your brand a better storyteller to your consumersThe learnings in this are TOTALLY different from every episode I’ve ever recorded.Will isn’t a food and drink founder.But, Will’s lessons are CRUCIAL for food and drink founders.He’s one of my favourite authorsThe Status GameThe Science of StorytellingSelfie: How We Became So Self Obsessed and What it’s doing to usThe Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of ScienceThe Hunger and Howling of Killian LoneStorytelling = crucial for brand building = simple stories build deep connection + spread the story further with less effortThe Status Game = crucial for brand building = raising consumers status as they buy your brand = story spreadsSelfie = crucial for brand building = helping your your consumers be “the hero” of your brand “story” = super power.Will Storr is a British author, journalist and former photographer. He has been a contributing editor at Esquire and GQ Australia. ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take you 5 mins to read. Full of wisdom from the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here 🍲 ON THE MENU:Why There are Multiple Status Games and We Are Never Playing One Status GameWhy a Story is a Deal - a UNIQUE deal between your brand and your consumer - so tell the story rightThe Science of Brand Storytelling Nike and The Rise of Metcons in Cross FitWhy Status is Making Us Live in a Blandemic - Blandemic of Buildings, Restuarants and Brands - how to escapeWhy Bad Brand Story Telling is vague, “Reflect the story world back at me, so I can find my identity in it”Why Falling in Love is Similar to Brand storytelling: Your Goal is to Reflect back to them what they want to know”The brand is a light figure in storytelling: How does your story make consumers Status + ConnectionWhy Ambition can become corruptive and how to solve itWhy the best organisational structures are focused on the “Me” and “We” (this is SO SO SO good)We Earn Status Through VirtueThe Status Game and Michelin Star Restuarants: The Downfall of Status 👌
==============================================🌟 HUNGRY's Absolutely Bloody Marvelous Sponsors🌟==============================================A massive shoutout to our incredible sponsors who make HUNGRY possible: 🍜Use Uber Eats code: KOYAKO40 to get 40% off (up to 15£) when you spend at least 20£ ►North Star: (www.northstarbc.co.uk) Get your FREE 30min Consultancy Session with North Star 👉 https://calendly.com/andy-northstar/free-30mins-with-north-star-team🤝 Let's Connect!►Let's link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Aug 29, 2024 • 10min
Espresso: PerfectTed's One Secret To Building an INSANE Creative Culture to unlock Tesco, Waitrose, Ocado, Sainsbury's in ONE Year
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed!1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking?Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!!2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder?Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow.3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love UnleashedYour fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee4. Do yourself a favourFeel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Aug 26, 2024 • 1h 28min
7 Weird Reasons Willy’s Pies Are The NEXT BIG Challenger Brand: Failing at Watford Football Club, Launching at Arsenal & Fulham, Winning Investment from Ian Wright, Ocado Launch
Building a brand = Jump off the cliff and build the plane on the way down“there are no set rules to build a challenger brand”Will and Josh, from Willy’s Pies live and breath those adagesBrash oblivion confidence -mixed with naive intelligencetempered with a big ol’ dose of cynical pragmatism good humourWilly’s Pies is the wonderful story ofaction = momentum.momentum = magic.magic = more momentum = more magic.Will, a chef at BRAT and St. John was furloughed, for long, he made taste-tantalising pies.Will pie-peddled on pie-purveying bike around East London during Lockdown.Josh, The Operator, joined Will in 2021, from double glaze windows to take Willy’s NEXT LEVEL4 years laterLaunched and got it wrong at Watford Football Club (tonnes of learnings here).Secured Ian Wright as a key investor, collaborated with wagamama,Won HUGE BRANDED listings at Arsenal Football Club, Fulham & Football ClubsLaunched into OcadoDeeply believe Willy’s Pies are the NEXT BIG challenger brand.ON THE MENU:How To Speed Up Supply Chain Jenga: Constantly Be Asking “What’s holding you up?”Why Willy’s East London Early Adopters Were A Super Power Until They’re Not - constantly think House Hold Brand from the JumpHow to NOT Do A Deal With a Football Club: Painful Lessons from a deal with Watford that went Horribly Wrong (so much in this)Willy Pies Sticker Principle + Danny Meyer Move The Salt Principle - “How you do ONE thing is how you do EVERYTHING”The Delicate Dance of Working Back Margins + Working Forward Margins to Make the Pie Price Right.How Willy’s Got Branded on The Menu at Arsenal Football Club: Show. Don’t Tell.The Pride Principle: Why don’t let it fail” is a stronger motivation vs let’s make it workLoved this one!!
==============================================🌟 HUNGRY's Absolutely Bloody Marvelous Sponsors🌟==============================================A massive shoutout to our incredible sponsors who make HUNGRY possible: 🍜Use Uber Eats code: KOYAKO40 to get 40% off (up to 15£) when you spend at least 20£ ►North Star: (www.northstarbc.co.uk) Get your FREE 30min Consultancy Session with North Star 👉 https://calendly.com/andy-northstar/free-30mins-with-north-star-team🤝 Let's Connect!►Let's link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Aug 22, 2024 • 5min
Espresso: Seth Godin How Shake Shack Keep The Magic as They Scale
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed!1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking?Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!!2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder?Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow.3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love UnleashedYour fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee4. Do yourself a favourFeel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Aug 19, 2024 • 1h 34min
Oli Russell-Cowan: How Liquid Death are Taking Their US Success to Europe, Creative Audacity, Tapping Into Interwoven Subcultures and Bottom-Up Creative Leadership
Just because a product or brand works in the USA doesn’t mean it’ll work in the UK.>USA Ideas that Bombed in the UK:Hard seltzerHard kombuchaProtein water (Fiesty will change this)Nootropics - taking ages to land on our wet little islands>The UK and USA are WILDLY similar and WILDLY different. So much cultural nuance. Think of The US Office (pile of sh*t) vs The UK Office (…long live the BrentMiester General). Lancashire isn’t Los Angeles. York isn’t New York. Liquid Death is a glorious, stomping, romping, raging triumph in the States. But, how are they building the brand in Europe?Deee-light-ed to chat with the Head of Cultural Indoctrination, Oli Russel Cowan, on the podcast.Oli is a surfer, podcaster, founder of festival platform Rad Season, and a legend.And, he is the Head of Cultural Indoctrination for Liquid Death.Different inputs = different outputs = TOTALLY unique approach to brand building.Absolutely LOVED this one.-------------------------------------------------- ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take you 5 mins to read. Full of wisdom from the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here🍪----------------------------------------------ON THE MENU:1. How Liquid Death thinks, feels, and acts like surfers and skateboarders - leaning into fear through “Creative Audacity.”2. The simple way Liquid Death does marketing: What do we find funny? What do our mates find funny? It’s that simple.3. Why Liquid Death acts like an entertainment company first, and a brand second.4. How Liquid Death is launching in the UK - find “interwoven subcultures” (this is genius): skateboarders, tattoo artists, punk rockers - “your early adopters are your mass market microphone.”5. How Liquid Death uses D2C merch sales data to find their core sub-tribes globally (so clever) - always asking, where are the people who just “GET IT”?6. Why Liquid Death looks like a beer can = Seth Godin’s Purple Cow.7. Key leadership learnings from Mike Cessario: “As you get bigger, think smaller, bottom-up innovation.” 👌
==============================================🌟 HUNGRY's Absolutely Bloody Marvelous Sponsors🌟==============================================A massive shoutout to our incredible sponsors who make HUNGRY possible: 🍜Use Uber Eats code: KOYAKO40 to get 40% off (up to 15£) when you spend at least 20£ ►North Star: (www.northstarbc.co.uk) Get your FREE 30min Consultancy Session with North Star 👉 https://calendly.com/andy-northstar/free-30mins-with-north-star-team🤝 Let's Connect!►Let's link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Aug 15, 2024 • 4min
Espresso: Why PerfectTed Partnered with Hardest Geezer to Blow The Doors Off The Meal Deal
Listen to the full episode hereEspresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed!1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking?Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!!2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder?Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow.3. The biggest brands in FMCG love love UnleashedYour fave brands like Candy Kittens, Tiny Rebel, TRIP use religiously. Tarquins Gin, Three Spirit, Minor Figures, The Turmeric Co., Volcano Coffee4. Do yourself a favourFeel free to reach out to the utter legends Josh and Bryony at Unleashed, book in a 20 min chat with this magical link. Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth having a chat. Click this magical link🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)

Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 55min
Mike Davies, The Camberwell Arms & Franks Bar: Surviving a Mental Breakdown and Anxiety Hallucinations, Defining Identity by Business vs. Life Prisms, Staying in Business for 10 Years
Craving more? Check out Dan's NewsletterDefining Identity by Business vs. Life Prisms, Staying in Business for 10 YearsI was an scatty anxious swamp of hangover when I walked through the doors. Thankfully. soon changed.High White Ceilings. Dark Mahogany bar.The Camberwell Arms is raw and capacious as tables capriciously flux with ravenous rabbles scoffing their faces with delectable dishes.Here, the staff call you Darling and Honey. They’re Darling Honey’s. Sticky Toffee Pudding Charm. Warm Souls ooze an effortless, achingly cool charm.We. Yes. Us. A brace of blokes, grabbed a brace of bar stalls, order a brace of brutally cold Estrella’s, braced ourselves for a tornado of unshackled gluttony.Signature Scotch Bonnet and Pork fat on toast. Door-stop thick sourdough. Smothered in a crispy and cuddly, unctuous-utopia of pork fat. Topped with slap-ya-round-the-face Scotch Bonnet chilli’s. SO.SO.SO delicious.Mike Davies, the owner/operator of The Camberwell Arms is a wonderful human.Mike through sheer grit and graft built The Camberwell Arms into an South London institution.Mike is a partner at Franks, Peckham, too. Recently voted Europe’s Best Bar.But success is shadowed with cost. In 2019, Mike had a mental breakdown, his head a hive of anxious wasps and worms and bats and bugs.Thankfully he recovered, our conversation BLEW MY MIND.Mike taught me something that’ll stick with me forever.There’s two prisms to define ourselves by1. Business Prism2. Life PrismPost 80’s gnarly nefarious neoliberalism we, too often, derive identity from our Business Prism (this is dangerous). After a while the business prism no longer works.F*cking loved this one. You’re in for a treat.---Let me know if you need any more formatting!----------------------------------------------------------- ON THE MENU: 1. The Power of the Open Kitchen: Why You Must FEEL the Presence of the Landlord and Publican 2. Why Constraint = Creativity + “The ascetic is the sideshow; people want to feel raw & brash authenticity” 3. The Danger of the Cult of the Chef: We Are Losing Our Ability to Feel Real Warm Hospitality 4. One Reframe to Avoid Burnout: What’s the Least Stressful and Easiest Way to Use My Skill Set? 5. Business Prism vs. Life Prism: “You Are More Than Your Work” + “Work to Live, Live to Work” - Be Careful of the Ambition Trap 6. Why DO Chefs Have Poor Mental Health? Hospitality Is Solving for Happy 7. Why Being a Precocious Tw*t Is a Superpower to a Point - “Be Out of Your Depth but Really Believe in Something” 8. Why You Must Create a Mindset Where You Tolerate the Flex of Ups and Downs and Float Over Obstacles -----------------------------------------------------------
==============================================🌟 HUNGRY's Absolutely Bloody Marvelous Sponsors🌟==============================================A massive shoutout to our incredible sponsors who make HUNGRY possible: 🍜Use Uber Eats code: KOYAKO40 to get 40% off (up to 15£) when you spend at least 20£ ►North Star: (www.northstarbc.co.uk) Get your FREE 30min Consultancy Session with North Star 👉 https://calendly.com/andy-northstar/free-30mins-with-north-star-team🤝 Let's Connect!►Let's link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/)►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)