Catch Ups In My Kitchen

This week we are joined by Foodie Content Creator Georgie Eats to discuss how food became her career and what that even means. Georgie is a Plant-Based Content Creator with 115K followers and she focuses on helping us eat seasonally and sustainably by inspiring her following with delicious and nutritious recipes. We are now in a world where creators and influencers are a huge industry and one that...

This week, Aidan O'Flaherty, known on Social Media as the Irish Physio, joins me in my kitchen to talk all things running. I met Aidan when I injured myself in preparation for the London Marathon. During our sessions, it occurred to me firstly, just how knowledgeable Aidan was on all things running and recovery and also how little I knew about how to run properly and recover effectively. I then de...

In this episode we are joined by Mike the Founder of Vegan Cheese Brand Honestly Tasty. Honestly, Tasty started in 2018 to fill the huge gap of delicious plant-based cheese alternatives. Vegan Cheese was often left behind, when alternatives started appearing and changing consumer habits, you would often hear the phrase, "I can't be Vegan because I love Cheese too much" and there was a stage where...

In this episode, we are joined by Savannah Sachdev, known on social media as Confused Indian Girl. In 2020 Savannah lost her job and felt lost and hopeless with her mental health being at an all-time low, this led her to go on walks to clear her head which turned into jogs and before she knew it she had run every day for three weeks and decided to keep going and never stop. It has now been 675 day...

This week we are joined by Angus Warburton who is a fitness coach, podcast host and author of the book "Are You Really Living?". In this episode, we discuss his journey to where he is today in building his fitness career and why he chose this path in life. Angus is part of the Warburtons family and therefore could have followed in his Fathers' footsteps and gone into the family business. However,...

This week we are joined by Martin-Holden White Founder of Grubby the UK's First Plant-Based Recipe Kit. Grubby is the UK's highest-rated recipe kit on Trustpilot, which happens to be 100% plant-based! They've grown from £0-5m in revenues inside 3 years with impressive 40x revenue growth in the past 2 years, having raised over £5m since they launched from angels, VC and crowdfunding.  They hav...

We are joined by Mikey Pearce, former YouTuber and now the Founder and CEO of Clean Kitchen. Mikey's journey to Clean Kitchen started from a personal health kick, like many of us Mikey spent the lockdown days eating healthier and focusing on a more plant-based diet, as well as getting into his fitness. Mikey ended up losing 16kg and thought that if he was enjoying a plant-based diet then surely ot...

Annie Morris started Spoon Cereal at the age of 23 with her Co-Founder and now Brother in Law Jonathan Shimmin. After going on Dragons Den and getting offers from both Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden there at the time small breakfast bar pop up catapulted into being a part of the FMCG industry and after being viewed by millions of people it completely turned their business upside down. However in c...

Joe Moruzzi founder CEO and innovator of Pleesecakes the show-stopping cheesecake which took Instagram by storm. From Pleesecakes, to mini-pleesecakes, to events to Freezecakes, Joe Moruzzi has pivoted and adjusted the Pleesecake concept in order to get the delicious and eye catching product to be more accessible to consumers across the country, but creating one of the first Frozen Cheesecake prod...

In this episode we dig into Pilates with Yulia Pashevkina the Founder of Karve Studio. Karve is a reformer Pilates Studio in Kensington which is better known as Transformer due to the way it transforms your mind and body through it's extremely challenging and humbling workouts. Karve is a synergy of New York and London, Yulia has taken classes in both and realised that if you put the two together...

This week I am so excited to be joined by Marisa Poster Co-Founder of Perfect Ted the Matcha based energy drink which is aimed to introduce consumers to Matcha in a more approachable way! I have spoken to a few people now about coffee and how although it tastes delicious and most of us can't start our mornings without it, we also know that too much can give you the shakes, the jitters or even how...

This week I was very honoured to be joined by Shivani Pau a podcast host of A Millennial Mind and also Founder of the Performance Planner which is why this episode is all based around performance, goals and achieving what we want to achieve in both feeling our best and achieving our best. Shivani and I not only discuss the power of setting out your goals into manageable and achievable bites but al...

This week we are joined by former Professional Rugby Player Darren O'Reilly who is now the Co-Founder of Whole Supp. Darren played Professional Rugby for Leinster and Harlequins before retiring and returning to the corporate world. The difference between having a nutritionist with you every day to then being so time short that you rush for a meal deal or similar for lunch highlighted to Darren tha...

This week we are depicting what Holistic Wellness really is with the wonderful Georgie Spurling, Founder of Arvra. Georgie has had an incredible journey to get to where she is today, from being told that she would never be able to exercise again to now founding a holistic wellness app aimed at corporate companies who want to encourage their employees to fit wellness into their busy schedules. This...

In this episode we are joined by Lara, Co-Founder of Lune and Wild which is a fantastic children's delivery service of frozen and prepared meals which help parents feed their children the right nutritionally dense meals, as well as feeding children's curiosity to all the world of food. After hearing so many stories about people's unhealthy relationship with food, it got me thinking about upbringin...

Wilf shares with us the art, beauty and trade secrets of the chocolate world in this episode! We are all used to adventuring off to find the most amazing cup of coffee, from beautiful independent coffee shops and paying for the experience of the barista making our coffee in front of us, seeing the beautiful coffee art and then tasting the different notes of berries or citrus. We are also used to h...

I was honoured to be sat with Andy Shovel this week to discuss all things THIS. The plant-based meat alternative brand which not only has award winning and mind blowing products that capture the hearts of even the meatiest of meat eaters but it captures everyone's attention with it's creative marketing stunts as well as it's campaigns which you can't walk more than 2 steps in London without seeing...

In this episode I am joined by Jeremy May Co-Founder of the vibrant brand NICE who have paved the way in the movement to canned wine. To think that we used to drink from mini plastic bottles of wine if we wanted something on the go is crazy! NICE have not only created a solution to on the go wine drinking but they have converted many consumers into enjoying canned wine who may have once thought it...

In this episode we are honoured to have Ruby Padwick who shares her emotional story and journey with body dysmorphia and abusing her body with laxatives. Ruby really does give us the honest and painful reality in this episode to which I was so grateful. She shares with us a story that I'm sure sadly many can relate to. The best part about it though is that she has turned it all around and although...

This episode is extremely exciting! Ed Jackson shares with us his mind-blowing journey from 2017 where he had a tragic accident leaving him Quadriplegic in hospital to a year later where he took on his first peak, Snowdon. Ed Jackson's attitude to life is inspirational, this episode left my speechless as we discussed the following topics: - His accident in 2017 - His mindset when he realised...

Low calorie beer has been gaining popularity in the last several years because it doesn’t cause people to gain weight unlike a regular beer. For all of you that are health and weight conscious  yet love beer, we’ve got something for you! We are joined by Harvey Armstrong, co-founder of Prime Time Lager. Prime Time Lager offers low-calorie, vegan, and gluten free beer. In this episode, Harvey share...

This week we are joined by Marilia a qualified nutritional therapist who, as a result of her own gut health journey of struggling with unexplained digestive issues, many doctor appointments with little conclusion and cutting so much out of her diet that she was basically left with nothing, took matters into her own hands. Marilia now helps many others with their own gut health problems through con...

This week I am joined by Henry Sether Co-Founder of Misfits to discuss how the company has grown so rapidly in under three years.  Misfits is best known for it's delicious protein bars which combine the nutritious with the indulgent in order to create a bar which not only tastes incredible but provides so many functional benefits too. Misfits also have a protein powder and protein cereal rang...

This week I am joined by Georgia White a fashion and lifestyle influencer with 129K followers who decided to gain weight and gain muscle after not enjoying the feeling of being petite and super skinny! In this episode we discuss her journey to this, why she wanted to gain the weight, how she did it and what the reaction was like from her followers. Receiving feedback and comments from friends and...

James Collier; Co-Founder and Head of Sustainable Nutrition at HUEL. HUEL is a revolutionary product which has been consumed by 200 million globally, it is a complete meal source with every product being nutritionally complete.  With James's background and extensive career in nutrition he formulated the product that we all consume today.  James's career has ranged from many different dis...