HUNGRY.

Dan Pope

HUNGRY is THE podcast for Challenger FMCG & Hospitality Founders wanting to pour gasoline on growth.

We chat with the industry BIG HITTERS. We ooze out the HIDDEN success secrets they’ve never told before and dive deep into their gut-wrenching failures, so you avoid them. We help you grow bigger, faster, stronger. Over the last 6 years, we’ve chatted to some insane guests on the poddy: Rory Sutherland, Seth Godin, Jamie Laing, Spencer Matthews, Tom Kerridge, Sir John Hegarty, The founders of SOHO House, TRIP, The Devonshire, Tony’s Chocolonely, Vita Coco Look, I’ll be blunt, HUNGRY is NOT your normal podcast. HUNGRY is NOT scripted and sterile Q&A interviews. HUNGRY is for pretty much no one. HUNRGY is a deliciously fun, wild and crazy, ADHD rollercoaster of free flowing conversations. got what it takes? Buckle up. Strap in.

get ready to… FEED YOUR HUNGER

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Nov 17, 2022 · 24 min
Nibbles 01 - How To Build Brands With Character That Actually Stand Out In Crowded Categories - Barry Darnell & Mike Johns
This episode is a wonderful collaboration with the design wizards and complete legends Barry Darnell & Mike Johns, co-founders of Analogue **Thank me later, download the presentation deck here. What ON EARTH ACTUALLY is a brand? I ask all guests. Fo
Nov 14, 2022 · 1 hr 44 min
How To Deal With Self-Doubt, Imposter Syndrome and Become Best Friends With Your Inner Critic - Sam Wigan, BELUGA BEAN
My inner critic is right little mendacious bastard More annoying than he who wears GymShark to the pub Or she who works in P.R. with a “side hustle” An Interior Design Instagram page for a two-upper, two-downer… "just off” Wandsworth CommonMy malignant th
Nov 6, 2022 · 1 hr 39 min
How Innocent's MD is Addressing Under Representation in FMCG and Why Grocery Needs More Black Founders - Sam Akinluyi & Niyi Olopade
In 17 years, Sam didn’t interview ONE black person.Out of 10,000's of brands in Major UK retail, only 4 are black owned.Unconscious racism scurries through the underbelly.Its ghoulish ghosts linger in the shadows.Until 2020, post George Floyd.Sam Akinluyi
Oct 31, 2022 · 1 hr 25 min
How &SODA Won Listings at Sainsbury's and Tesco Without Even Pitching and Lessons in Building Brands With Character - Barry Darnell
Imagine for one, tiny iota, ickle smidge of a milli-secondWINNING a Sainsbury'sand Tesco listing *WITHOUT* even pitching.Enter &SODAThe power of packaging.Gorgeously-wild - plunges you into Party time tonight.Let’s Be Havin Ya’-Liquid.DC-10/10 flavour
Oct 17, 2022 · 1 hr 42 min
Spencer Matthews: How Spencer Matthews Built Unshakeable Resilience and Raised + £10m to Launch Clean Co. in Sainsbury's, Tesco and the U.S.A.
What's your Everest? Every brand is summiting their own Everest. Starting a brand is HARD. Marching through the arduous abyss. Spencer Mathews is a fountain of grit, resilience and self-awareness. Why? He does HARD things regularly. Ice-Ultra Maratho
Oct 17, 2022 · 1 hr 39 min
How Caleno Disrupted The Low To No Category Winning Listings at Sainsbury's, Waitrose, M&S - Ellie Webb
A Colombian Carnival glided down my gulletCoquettishly carousing my taste budsDark and Zesty over ice.Rolling-your-toes-through-sand-BlisssEven slipped into my Havianna sandals-with-a-cheeky-strap - you ok hun?"ALEXAAAAAAAA - Daddy’s home, put on Daddy’s
Oct 10, 2022 · 1 hr 29 min
OLLY’s: How OLLY’s Bounced Back from Losing Huge Sums of Investment to Win Listings at Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Tesco, Morrisons
Suffocating rain slowly screamed down just before Christmas.Hunkered at a bus stop in Islington. Hiding.Gorging on chocolate bars to escape gut-wrenching pain.At the final minute, OLLY’s lost HUGE sums of fundingA signed-sealed-delivered-I’m-Yours deal...
Aug 30, 2022 · 1 hr 25 min
How James Cochran Won Great British Menu and Leadership Lessons From Michelin Star Restaurants - James Cochran, Dan Henry, 12.51, Around The Cluck
Pressure. Perfection.Stress. Suffering.Teamwork. Trust.Authentic Creativity.Delicious leadership lessons bubble in the kitchen and spill in the board room.Leading a brigade of chefs or challenger brands are the same.The latest guests on HUNGRY. are James
Aug 15, 2022 · 1 hr 30 min
How PÄRLA Disrupted Tooth Paste and Won Listings at Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Boots, Ocado In Their First 18 Months - Dr. Simon Chard
"Rockstar Entrepreneur" is the BIGGEST load of tripe. Instagram added a vacant veneerA razzle-dazzle romanticism to entrepreneurship. Fake Gnashers. Faux Gold. “Swipe Up for my course on How I Sold 500,000 Bits-of-Coin from the Homebase car park”"YOOO’ fl
Aug 1, 2022 · 1 hr 34 min
How MEATOPIA Built One of The Biggest Food Festivals in the UK working with Ottolenghi, Fergus Henderson, Richard Turner - Mat Kemp
HANDS DOWN my favourite day of the year. Even tops when I got a pair of Heeleys (with green lights) for my 25th. Summer yawns, the sun shudders in the high blue skies like a white marble. Meatopia an unctuous utopia of unreal grub. A bacchanalian flame-so
Jul 25, 2022 · 1 hr 50 min
big fish: How Riverford Made Consumers Understand Their "Why" and How To Find Your Unique "Why" - Perry Haydn Taylor
Riverford, desperately needed consumers to understand their “WHY".But How?Enter Perry Haydn Taylor Hayden Taylor. Perry and Riverford Organic Farmers's founder, Guy Singh-Watson escaped the brash, banal board room. They went surfing in Devon. Under boundl
Jul 18, 2022 · 1 hr 33 min
How Candy Kittens Built a Huge Household Brand and Vital Lessons They Impart on Nuud Chewing Gum - Jamie Laing, Ed Williams and Keir Carnie
I always dreamt of this marriage.In 2020, the first time, my Frodo-saucisson-fingers slapped the record button. I dreamed of marrying an O.G challenger with a buccaneering brand with bigger-than-BIG dreams.Keir Carnie, Edward Williams and Jamie Laing are
Jun 27, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min
Seedlip: How Ben Branson Pioneered The Low To No Category and Won Listings at Waitrose, M&S, Ocado and Michelin Star Restaurants - Ben Branson
HOW SEEDLIP PIONEERED THE LOW-TO-NO CATEGORY AND WON LISTINGS AT WAITROSE, M&S, OCADO AND MICHELIN STAR RESTAURANTS - BEN BRANSON This conversation CHANGED EVERYTHING. Ben taught me, NATURE IS EVERYTHING. Hold ya horses - You may think, I’m slippi
Jun 27, 2022 · 1 hr 27 min
Minor Figures: How Minor Figures Act Like a "Funk Band" and Scaled to +£30 Million, Launching in the U.S.A, Australia and UK
STOP thinking like a Challenger Brand, please.Zipping n’ zinging through the Challenger zeitgeist is a David vs. Goliath mentality. Post BrewDog, challenger brands act like Punk Bands.Minor Figures took a screw-that view and forged a new path. They act li
Jun 20, 2022 · 1 hr 28 min
How Pleesecake's Built A Die Hard Community of Over 250k Followers and Pivoted To Create Product Market Fit - Joe Moruzzi
If Willy Wonker chinned a few shandy’s and fornicated with Lego Land.Their love child?Pleesecakes.Scrolling through their Insta, irreverent and utterly unctuous.Cathedrals of Cheese cake, coquettish and magnificent, doused in delicious decoration.Mind-ben
Jun 13, 2022 · 1 hr 9 min
How Sarah Willingham Built A Multi Million Pound Hospitality Empire and Became a Dragon: Pizza Express, Bomaby Bicycle Club, London Cocktail Club, Tonkotsu
An electric pudding of nerves - pacing and pacing and pacing. Foiled in ferocious imposter syndrome.Barrages of self-doubt pinged and zinged around my nut like furious pinballs. "My first EVER DRAGON on the poddy!??!” “I CANNAE do this, Dan-ae?!"Sarah Wil
May 30, 2022 · 1 hr 25 min
How Sauce Shop Built Their Own Factory, Collaborated with Foals and Won Listings at Sainsbury's and Morrisons - Pam & James Digva
WIN FREE SAUCE SHOP SCOTCH BONNET CHILLI JAM (IT'S SOOO BANGING!!)We're running a deliciously sauuucyyyy competition for this episode - WIN Scotch Bonnet Chilli Jam - take your sarnies or BBQ to a different stratosphere!!How? Simples.1. Please SHARE this
May 16, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min
The Stoic Tool Kit for Food and Drink Founders to Smash Through Obstacles and Build Resilience - Ed Hauck, The Curators
Stoicism is THE operating system for F&B founders to smash through struggle. My latest guest on HUNGRY. is Ed Hauck, co-founder The Curators. Ed, like me, is fascinated with stoicism. The Curators curate a smorgasbord of scrumptious snacks: Jerky, Bi
May 9, 2022 · 1 hr 18 min
How Rude Health Disrupted The Health Food Category and Built a +£20 million Household Brand - Camilla Barnard, Rude Health, co-founder.
In 2006, finally, something erupted.Health food was an imbroglio of crusty and boggey-fied, innocuous yet alienating food.Glib green and banal brown shelves had less personality than a broken Asthma pump in a hospital car park.A cacophony of precocious ca
Apr 26, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min
The Mental Health Toolkit For Food and Drink Founders To Overcome Imposter Syndrome, Anxiety and Adversity - Harry Turpin, The Savourists
Never been SO NERVOUS to publish a podcast.Somedays, my mental health is a magnificent malignant feast.Self-esteem like a feeble Pringle in a February puddle.A seething swap of mucky self-doubt, pillaging positivity.Nuclear explosions of imposter syndrome