Vegan Business Tribe Podcast

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 the...

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 mig...

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 own...

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 re...

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. Ma...

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 categor...

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 inve...

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 re...

How to stay productive in a distracted world. In a hyperconnected world filled with a constant stream of distractions, making the time and focus to tackle the important tasks that will move your vegan business forward can feel like an uphill battle. Especially when customers and suppliers are constantly trying to hijack your inbox with their own agendas. In this episode, David shares practical, ha...

How to defend veganism as a business owner. While conflict may not be your cup of tea, there will come moments as a vegan business when you're called upon to defend veganism and its ethical principles. From encountering anti-vegan comments on social media to facing loaded questions during presentations, or even finding yourself in a TV interview alongside someone with opposing views, it's essentia...

After more than 100 episodes we are relaunching as a video podcast! You might have noticed that we've been off the airwaves for a few weeks. This is because, after 100 episodes, we're getting ready to relaunch The Vegan Business Tribe Podcast as a video podcast! You will still be able to listen to the audio-only version, but at the same time you'll be able to find the video version on YouTube from...

How to get people off social media and onto your customer list. Social media is a fantastic tool for your business, but there's no point in putting all that work into building up a social media following if none of it results in new customers. In this episode, David shares the strategies you need to use to get your social followers to step out of the virtual world and embark on their customer jour...

David talks to our members at Vegfest Brighton about how they are increasing their visibility at the show. David takes his roving microphone to search out our Vegan Business Tribe members who were exhibiting at Vegfest Brighton in the UK, to find out what strategies they were using to increase their visibility at the show. From vegan companies who were selling products direct to consumers from the...

We celebrate 100 episodes by bringing you a special interview with one of our Vegan Business Tribe members. In this special celebration episode, David is joined by award-winning vegan filmmaker Damian Sciberras who has worked for some of the biggest vegan activists in the world. But jump back just three years ago and Damian was mainly making corporate videos for non-vegan companies, until a health...

We talk to Daniel Morgan Jones, founder of The Aspie World. A number of our Vegan Business Tribe members successfully run a business with a hidden disability or some form of neurodiversity – including our co-founder Lisa who didn’t receive an autism diagnosis until she was nearly 40. But only 16% of autistic adults are in full-time paid employment in the UK.  In this special masterclass, Lisa...

How to create a better profile picture.  Let's admit it - most of us use quite a boring photo of ourselves for our online profile pic. You are never going to convince people that you are an expert in your field if your profile picture is some selfie or out-of-date image that looks like your school yearbook photo. In this episode, David looks at how to get a profile photo that stands out...

Retaining customers & creating champions. To celebrate the launch of our brand new course 'How to get customers', David explains why someone becoming your customer is not the end of their customer journey. If you can sell to someone once, you can sell to them twice. And even better, if they believe in your mission then your current customers will go out and find more customers for you on your...

How to make sure you get paid and what to do if you don't. Usually the customer/supplier relationship goes pretty smoothly. You do the work or deliver your product and the customer pays you for your hard work. But sometimes, you send off your invoice and then... nothing! In this episode, David looks at what to do if someone doesn't pay your invoice, and how to make sure you have the business basic...

How your vegan business can partner with the Veganuary campaign. Veganuary is the biggest event in the vegan calendar, where millions of people around the world take on the challenge to eat vegan for the month of January. Supporting and partnering with the campaign is easy, and something every vegan business should do to make the most of this increased interest in veganism. In this episode, David...

Following the hugely successful Vegan Business Tribe Live event, David catches up on what's been going on in the Tribe. Join Lisa and David in celebrating some amazing personal news, and then David takes a look back at the Vegan Business Tribe Live event at London Olympia last week (as well as a look forward to repeating the event in 2023). And did David seriously record this on the eve of his and...

Why becoming a published author will create huge visibility for your business. As our final Road to Vegan Business Tribe Live episode, we talk to Mitali Deypurkaystha ahead of her appearance on our Vegan Business Tribe stage. Mitali’s mission is to create an army of vegan thought leaders through her publishing company,  The Vegan Publisher . With her support, vegan business owners and profess...

As part of our road to Vegan Business Tribe Live at the London Olympia, we look at how to maximise taking part in a trade show. Tradeshows and larger consumer shows like VegfestUK, are places where you will meet not just new customers, but also great new contacts that might help your business move forwards. But you need to have a strategy to capture the details of people who show an interest in yo...

Part of our 'Road to Vegan Business Tribe Live' at the London Olympia! How Clive's scaled-up, went vegan and found investment. Esther Pearson led Clive's Purely Plants through the transformation of becoming a vegan-only food manufacturer. This resulted in them finding investment to scale up their production and Clive's are now listed in supermarkets and independents across the country. In this pre...

Innovative vegan marketing case studies from around the world. To celebrate the release of her new book 'Vegan Marketing Success Stories', I invite Sandra Nomoto to co-host this episode as we discuss five of our favourite vegan marketing case studies from the book. From Canadian chocolate company Mid Day Squares turning their founders into their own reality TV show, to Doctors Against Animal Exper...

Part of our 'Road to Vegan Business Tribe Live' at the London Olympia! Steve Swindon founded vegan meat replacement company LoveSeitan in his co-founder's kitchen, but they quickly attracted vegan entrepreneur Heather Mills as an investor and partner. In this episode, David talks to Steve about how they scaled up so quickly using vegan events as a test bed, and how they moved from a home kitchen p...