The Fearless Foodie Podcast

Hybrid working has blossomed since the pandemic and many of us are now faced with new challenges across the industry. We discuss how this is affecting us from things like recruitment to things as simple as meetings, weighing up the good against the not so helpful on both sides from employee to employer. How does hybrid working from an office situ to working remotely fair up with productivity? Are...

Amy takes the expert point of view on today’s conversation having been an insight manager in chilled foods and we break down how the understanding of insight can be overlooked through either fear or misrepresentation. For example, could the reason for a drop in sales of ready meals during lockdown be because people were to fearful of going shopping or can we unravel it further to the true human em...

In this week’s episode, we have a wonderful conversation with Joanne Elsdon who is Head of Food at one of the UK’s largest Food Manufacturers and also co-founder of the Food industry mentoring scheme “Flourish in Food”.   We talk to Jo about her varied career in Food which spans across manufacturing, retail and freelance consulting – and she shares with us the things she wishes she had known earli...

As a woman in the food industry do you feel held back compared to your male counterparts?  This week we review some very interesting results from a recent survey conducted by 135 women working in food on their opinions on being a female in an often male dominated environment and how it affects their everyday, promotion opportunities and the general pressures of societal influences of “having it al...

20. Boosting Creative Confidence Today we dive into boosting creativity in the workplace, is it something we all can put our hand to or is it just for certain few of us? We discuss the contrast between being creative as children to adulthood and how even the least seemingly creative jobs can still be creative. What things can we do ourselves to boost this string in our bow to gain better confidenc...

In this episode we delve into the reasons why it is so important to ask for help and where possible, outsource, delegate or push back on certain tasks. Whether it is just about freeing up your time to take on more enriching work that aligns with your zone of genius or in that having help empowers you to take more time in the CEO role of your business to aid in positioning yourself as a leader and...

18. Letting go of perfectionism Today we break down the idea of perfectionism from how we manage this in our work when it comes to completing a task or project. When is the right time to say enough is enough or do we risk perfecting until it becomes over done and potentially spoiled? We discuss letting go of perfectionism and creating a new mindset of making a task“good enough” which in turn could...

17. How do we attract new talent to the Food industry Each week Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this week's episode, we discuss the possible ways to attract new talent into the food industry....

Every week, Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. Today we talk to the ever-inspiring Justin Gilchrist or long suffering entrepreneur who is now the Founder & Head of Growth at Wellbox. Justin pivoted...

15. How To Build Your Network Each week Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode we discuss networking, how to use it to potentially further your career and how important it can be. Typica...

14. Balancing a Career And a Family In this episode we answer another listeners question by discussing the juggle of being a parent or carer and how to find the balance between them and your work. Lucy opens up about her traumatic pregnancy for her first born, who turned out to be a very happy sleepy baby, allowing her to sail through keeping a healthy connection with her business whilst taking on...

13. How To Stop NPD Being Overlooked In this episode we break down this hot topic for discussion from one of our lovely listeners and speak out from our own experiences from small, medium and large manufacturers.  Working in NPD and Innovation can be challenging as you are constantly driving change through a business and finding a way to bang the drum within the organisation effectively to drive t...

12. Tips For Starting a Career in Food In this episode we take ourselves back to the beginning of our careers in the food industry. If you are just starting out in the industry and are not sure where to begin then this is the perfect listen for you. If you want to support others starting out, it’s also worth a listen. Lucy opens up about her leap from the Midlands, having grown up and attended Uni...

11. The Things We Wished We Had Known With Gail Francis In this episode we invite Gail Francis, a fellow food industry creative expert, to join the conversation. After connecting with Gail on Linkedin, we quickly discovered she had followed a very similar path to working her way up the ladder in the food industry, taking on roles with more responsibility but this ending up being to the detriment o...

10. Innovation Mindset With Simon Allison Every fortnight, Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode, we’re talking with Simon Allison. Simon began in the food industry as a retail food tec...

9. Why Your Mindset Matters At Work Every fortnight, Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode, we’re talking about the Growth Mindset. The concept was created by Carol Dweck in the 1980s,...

8. Filling Your Innovation Tank Up Every fortnight, Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode we’re talking about innovation and how important it is in the food industry, this word is throw...

7. Failing Forward With BBC Apprentice Finalist Camilla Ainsworth Every fortnight, Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode, we talk with Camilla Ainsworth who was a finalist on BBC’s The...

6. Stop Imposter Syndrome Holding Your Career Back Every fortnight, Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode, we discuss imposter syndrome and all the avenues in which it can disrupt your...

5. Build Your Confidence to Build Your Career Each week Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode ‘Build Your Confidence to Build Your Career’ we discuss our inner confidence, how we’ve los...

4. Bouncing Back with Foodie Founder Jayne Hynes Each week Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode, “Bouncing Back with Foodie Founder Jayne Hynes” we discuss resilience and hear her stor...

3. Five Top Tips For Building Resilience Each week Lucy and I talk through the trials and tribulations of working in the food industry. This is to help you find new ways of coping through the daily stresses and potentially avoid some of the mistakes that we have both made along the way. In this episode “Five top tips for building resilience” we discuss the perils of burnout and the best practices...

2. Reframing Resilience In today’s episode, Amy and Lucy talk about what resilience means. Although widely thought to be the ability to soldier on through difficulties, regardless of how you feel, resilience is something much softer. Resilience is looking after yourself, asking for help, and voicing when you feel overwhelmed. Being resilient means having emotional awareness, having support around...

In our very first episode we open up about our own personal journey’s and careers in the food industry so you can get to know us better from the get- go. We explore from where we first met as colleagues to the high’s and low’s and ultimately to where we are now co-hosting this podcast for you. Lucy discusses her experience, having left her career in product development, to set up a new plant-based...

Introducing our brand new 'Oh For Food's Sake' podcast co-hosted by us, Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager. Bringing you fortnightly episodes on Thursdays, launching on 1st April 2021.