Vegan Business Tribe Podcast

Four vegan brands come together for our live final to win a day of one-to-one meetings with major retail buyers who are looking for innovative new plant-based products. Who will impress our four judges and win a free place at veg-net 2025 in London? Listen to all four finalists get grilled by our 'vegan dragons' plus hear what the judges had to say in our secret closed-doors deliberation to pick t...

Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. This is it, the final omnibus, as David returns to Berlin for pitch day. This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website. Subscribe to our YouTube chann...

Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this sixth omnibus episode, we find out if David got through to the final pitch day... This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website. Subscribe to...

Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this fifth omnibus episode, David tells you what happened after the first in-person week in Berlin and takes you through the creation of the new slide deck. This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube...

How to win back your motivation as a vegan entrepreneur. 'Founder fatigue' can happen in any business, but especially if you have a high emotional investment in your business's cause. You still love your business, you still believe in your mission, but you're tired, stressed and burnt out. Left unchecked, founder fatigue will kill your business. You'll stop showing up. You'll stop going out and lo...

We talk to the man behind the new Veganuary campaign. Sausages are literally pigs stuffed into their own intestines. Kind of weird, right? Veganuary's 2025 campaign takes a new bold direction to the supermarket-friendly campaigns we've seen in previous years. David is joined by Veganuary's Creative Manager Andrew Jolly to discuss the thinking behind the new campaign, and to ask: does it go too far...

Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this fourth omnibus episode, David takes you behind the scenes of the first in-person week in Berlin, Germany. This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on th...

Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this third omnibus episode, David heads to the ProVeg offices in Berlin, Germany, for the first in-person week of the programme (via the Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg). This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are rel...

Live panel discussion on what support the vegan business sector needs. The last few years have been tough for all businesses. The Covid pandemic, the cost of living crisis and Brexit have seen hundreds of thousands of businesses being forced to close, and many of those are vegan. In this panel discussion, recorded live at the Vegan Party Conference 2024 in London, David is joined by Veganuary foun...

What to do if your business is failing and how to turn it around. We know that it takes time, hard work and tenacity to make a business successful. But what if there's no light at the end of a tunnel and the money is running out? David's been there. In this episode, he shares the 8 steps which will first slow the decline and then help you to turn your business around. That is going to mean facing-...

Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this second omnibus episode, David finishes off the 'pre-programme' before heading to Berlin for the first in-person week. David talks about the importance of finding a co-founder for your business, carries out a role-model analysis of other organisations that support cause-driven entrepreneurship, and explains h...

Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. Have you ever wondered what it's like to get a place on a business incubator? What do you learn and what kind of support do you get? In this first omnibus collection of his video diaries, David shares his journey as he works through the pre-programme before he heads to Berlin. Find out what tasks he has to complete,...

Finding a mentor for your business. Having someone who is more experienced than you showing you the way is invaluable. You will grow quicker, not just as a business but as a business owner too. However, getting a mentor doesn't always mean paying for a business coach - there are plenty of people out there who have already done the thing you are trying to do, and might be happy to give you the bene...

Learn how the experts use their business as activism. In this episode, David is joined by our resident vegan business expert Katrina Fox as we discuss our brand-new Vegan Business Tribe series 'Using Your Business As Activism' which is now streaming exclusively in our Vegan Business Tribe Academy. For this new series, Katrina talked to six of the most exciting and high-profile vegan business activ...

Our annual vegan sector update . You will have seen the recent news headlines announcing 'The Death of Veganism' following a number of vegan brands going into administration. But as the demand for plant-based products continues to grow and a record 25 million people gave up animal products during Veganuary this year, why have vegan brands struggled? In his annual Vegan Sector Update for 2024, Davi...

The long-term impact of small actions. Running a business is hard. It's possibly the hardest way for you to earn money. You're often faced with doubt and there are times when you feel like you're not making any progress. But some of the things that you are doing now are like throwing a stone in a lake - you don't know how far the ripples will go. You might not know the impact you've had on people...

Listen to our LIVE final to find out who gets the 1-2-1 meetings with the retail buyers! The time is here, we've whittled 14 brands down to 4 finalists who are now going to battle it out for the place at veg-net 2024 where they will get a full day of 1-2-1 meetings with retail buyers from the UK and Europe who are looking for new and exciting plant-based brands for their stores. Meet our vegan foo...

How to make decisions in business that move you forward. You could say that doing business is really just making a series of decisions one after another, so if you're the sort of person who over-analyses each decision and agonises about if it's the right one or not, then you're always going to struggle to move your business forward. But if you are worried about making the wrong decision, let me te...

There are more ways to exit a business than you might think. For some, exiting a business might be a negative experience. Maybe you've reached burnout or the market has changed and you don't have the energy to change with it. But for others, getting acquired by a larger competitor or selling your business for a large amount of money might actually be your long-term business goal. In this episode,...

Special bonus episode of The Vegan Business Tribe Podcast. Are you a vegan-owned food-brand ready to get into retailers? Would you like to pitch your brand to key retail buyers in the UK & Europe? Get ready to battle for your place in our new competition! Register: www.veganbusinesstribe.com/battle-of-the-brands In this special bonus episode, David announces our brand new competition to give o...

Andy Shovel is the co-founder of 'This', who were the fastest-growing food company in the UK last year. And note that didn't read the fastest-growing 'vegan food company', they were the fastest-growing food company full stop. Their signature meat-replacement product 'This is not Bacon' is available in supermarkets across the UK as well as being served in restaurants, hotels and pre-packed sandwich...

Business quick wins. These are the three things that you can implement straight away that will have a huge positive impact on your business. I call them 'universal quick wins' and they are often the first things I look at when I'm coaching a business owner. And they are so incredibly simple that you will be able to implement each one of them instantly and then wonder why you hadn't done them befor...

Facing failure in business. Vegan frozen pizza brand One Planet Pizza has faced failure several times. But co-founder Joe Hill has a mantra: "If you're going to fall, then make sure you fall forwards". In this special-length episode of the podcast, David is joined by Joe to talk about failure in business, a topic few people want to discuss. But for One Planet Pizza, each time they faced failure it...

Although studies show that non-vegans are more likely to engage with a vegan product or company when you drop the ‘v word’, if a customer loves your product without actually realising it’s vegan are you inadvertently just promoting meat and dairy? In this episode, David returns to the 'to V or not to V?' question, looking at it from an ethical and not just business viewpoint. If you’re not going t...

How many times have you wished you could bring together your ethics with how you make a living? In this panel discussion recorded live at Vegan Business Tribe Live 2023 at the London Olympia, we bring together four Vegan Business Tribe members who all use their businesses as their platform to move the vegan cause forwards. But won't that put your customers off? How can you promote veganism if you...