Planet Driven Brands Podcast Jason Gibb. Jason has a most fascinating story to tell. His journey from scientist, to TV producer (Scrapheap Challenge), through Olive Oil producer and finally to founder of 'Bread & Jam' is told through the lens of an underlying mission, in his life, to help others. Bread & Jam is the epitome of what Jason is all about and it was the Olive Oil experience that helped create it. Concerned by the lack of help for food industry start-ups he set about...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Zoe Binning. Zoe is a 'force of energy' in her field! Her energy comes from a burning desire to put sustainability first and build businesses that reflect this. Here she tells her plant-based story of how she found the wedding & catering business so frustrating, that she was determined to move it from its over-reliance on 'single-use'. We also chat about the food in the service industry . We learn how in setting up Wild Roots Kitchen, Zoe is again leading...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Jim Holland. Jim is is on a mission, driven by 2 things: Creating forests around the world and providing support to veterans in the UK. He is the leader of Rewards.earth a consumer led proposition whereby businesses can reward their customers and employees. In return, Rewards.earth provides the simple, yet vital act of planting trees, offsetting CO2 in the process! Jim is going to 'save the planet one tree at a time'. And on top of this the 'planting' workforce...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Emeline Fellus. Emeline is a global leader in sustainable diets within WBCSD, who have for more than 2 decades been demonstrating leadership with its work on Climate, Energy, circular economies, food and nature and now in helping 'redefine capitalism'. Emeline makes a call for systemic change in our eating habits and describes how consumers need help in doing this - 'we shouldn't be scared of changing, but of NOT changing'! Our food systems need a re-balancing...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Amanda Rolat. Amanda has a fascinating story to tell! She didn't set out to tun a pet food company, but the devastating loss of her beloved dog Harry to cancer, got her to investigating the pet food market. What she found out left her feeling that she needed to do something and Bramble was born. Today we hear how Amanda developed a clean and healthy vegan pet food product that is not only sustainable for the planet, but crucially is also much better for her dogs...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Bobi Carley. Bobi is a highly experienced media and advertising professional who I have had the pleasure of knowing for over 25 years! Bobi is now heading up media at advertisers representative group ISBA and most interestingly for us, she is also the lead on diversity and inclusion, which within the...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Mike Ward. Mike heads up marketing for a fascinating ‘intelligent overlay’ platform, Singular.Live Here Mike leads us through this technology and explains how it is adding to the sustainability strides being made within live broadcast. He highlights areas that desperately needed to change and explains how broadcasters lead by Sky are...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast David Benzaquen. David is a global leader in the plant-based food market. Mission: Plant is a holding company advancing the plant-based foods industry with strategic investments and consulting services. David has literally been one of the key catalysts in the growth of plant-based food in the USA over the last decade....

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Dr Daniel Stewart. Dr Dan, As I will call him, is the founder and CEO of ViridiCO2, which you may not have heard of, but you simply must learn about! It has an amazing vision: We turn CO2 into tailored chemical intermediates, increasing sustainability and closing the carbon loop How do you turn carbon dioxide, the output from fossil fuels, into everyday products, and in the meantime take that CO2 out of the chain? This is where you find out! You don't need to be...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Brad Vanstone. Brad is a Cheesemaker and as those of my age will remember Monty Python in 'Life Of Brian' said: "Blessed are the Cheesemakers". Why is Brad's story so worth the time; well it's because he comes from a family tradition of producing Willicroft cheese. He has turned this knowledge and prowess into developing new processes to produce perfect Plant-Based 'cheeses'. To be honest Brad and his team are alchemists and here he shows us how. Brad explores...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Helena Mansell-Stopher. Helena is a leader in the world of licensing and is a firm believer this huge category can win in a drive to sustainability and a circular economy. Helena describes her journey through National Geographic and how it led her to set up Products of Change. She is passionate...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Glenn Goodwin. Glenn is an experienced creative director and a keen advocate of the need to reduce waste. His journey has taken him through designing packaging for big brands, onto producing for ‘voice of Science’ Facing Future.TV and then, after delving into the bins at the back of supermarkets, he has...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Peter Miles. Peter is a serial entrepreneur, with many successful businesses under his belt. Now he is also a serious evangelist... ...an evangelist for Hemp.  Let this podcast take you to a fascinating world of a most fascinating plant, which is rich in history and in possibilities. Hemp is the 'original' fully sustainable, carbon negative plant and Peter is setting up a sustainable business around it. As he points out: "The property of industrial hemp that is...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Jane Asscher. Jane founded 23Red over 20 years ago and can genuinely be described as a pioneer in the formation of a purpose led, sustainable agency. Others have followed in her footsteps and it has taken two decades for the marketing world to finally catch up! 'Changing behaviour for the better' is in her DNA! In this fascinating pod Jane takes us through her journey and demonstrates how the times have changed She suggests that clients are so much more receptive...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Elin Roberts. Elin is leading the brand building for Better Nature Foods as they transition from start-up, through crowdfunding and scale-up. Here she shares her mission and the road to building a brand that is “genuinely engaging and relatable” In this podcast we learn how Better Nature started and the journey...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Alain De Rauw. Alain is an experienced leader in the world of toys and a Director of Plan Toys. He is leading the promotion of sustainability within a category which comes under intense scrutiny for it’s overuse of plastic. In this podcast Alastair shares with us what I reckon is the...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Jason Ash. Jason has a fascinating story to tell; one that started with a Radio Flyer truck and which has resulted in sharing, getting-rid-of-waste, platform YoungPlanet. From watching his son's excitement Jason developed an idea and we now benefit from his vision as he tackles waste in kids products head-on. The story is insightful, charming and instructive and Jason demonstrates fully the human nature of collaboration, whilst at the same time challenging us all...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Geraldine Stark. Geraldine has had a lifelong passion to change the way we treat animals and here she discusses how she plans to do it with Refarm'd This is a fascinating story of how business and farming can collaborate in developing new ways to use land and help bring much needed investment and capital to farmers who need it. By looking at the dairy farm supply chain Geraldine has set out to work with farmers to switch their expertise from dairy to plant...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Victor Sanchez. Victor, by his own admission, is a 'tech geek' and this was the foundation on which he has built a world-class sustainable solution in Ed-Tech with the Mashme.io Room of The Future platform Remote learning and corporate training environments have moved on leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, whereby it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up. In this podcast Victor helps us not only catch up but get ahead of what's coming next. Victor...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Alastair Paton Alastair is an experienced leadership and executive search professional who is the managing partner of August Leadership. In this podcast Alastair lays out where businesses are currently in regards their own leadership on sustainability. Our journey takes us from the boardroom to the affects of remote working on company...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Sarah Scudder. Sarah can simply be described as a 'super expert'! She is a global leader in the understanding and sourcing of packaging and here she goes directly to the actions required for all of us to make sure the packaging and waste, we are all responsible for creating, is moving towards a much more sustainable future. Using prime examples from Prana and IKEA Sarah helps us navigate from where we are now to what a sustainable future could look like. Sarah...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Dorothy Shaver. Dorothy is a global leader in plant-based, sustainable food and is absolutely committed to making as big a difference to the planet as she can. She works in the foremost with sustainability of the Knorr brand at Unilever, but is also actively involved with the Food for Climate League, the WWF partnership with  Future 5o Foods and  "World Eat for Good" day, plus the KM Zero Squad! I have no idea how she packs it all in, but if you listen in to this...

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Lance Dickerson Lance is the Managing Director of Revov and is leading a revolution in sustainability in batteries – “2ndLife”. If you’ve not heard of this before then you really should listen. In my opinion it is the most sustainable product I have learned about on this podcast. This technology isn’t...