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🚨 New 5-Minute Short – Live now🚨 “You can still have a founder-led business that’s not founder-run.” This latest Brand Growth Heroes People Series short, hand-picked by MKJ Ignite, Stu Macdonald, founder of ManiLife, shares why stepping back doesn’t mean letting go and still building a team that can carry the business forward. 🎧 5 minutes. Big Insights. Live now. Available on your fave podcast app. Links in comments. #BrandGrowthHeroes #MKJIgnite #BGHPodcast #PeopleSeries #FounderLife #DreamJob #BusinessGrowth #ScalingUp #Founderstories #CPG
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⏰ New 5-Minute Short ~ Live now! In this week’s BGH People Series mini-episode, hand-picked by MKJ Ignite, Stu Macdonald, founder of ManiLife | B Corp™ opens up about: How ManiLife built its own factory for quality, innovation, and culture. AND Why trusting the right team changed everything. Stu’s story from burnout, “panic attacks” to balance, “dream job”. Just 5 minutes. Big insights. Live now! 🎙️ Listen to Brand Growth Heroes shorts on your favourite podcast app. #BrandGrowthHeroes #MKJIgnite #BGHPodcast #PeopleSeries #FounderLife #DreamJob #BusinessGrowth #ScalingUp #Founderstories #CPG
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How do you build a high-performing team without the office? Ed Whelpton & Amelia Christie-Miller from Bold Bean share how a mission-driven culture, radical flexibility, and serious investment in people are their top priorities. From remote team bonding in Spain to hiring a fractional head of people before most would, they’re rewriting the team-building rulebook AND it’s working. Hand-picked by MKJ Ignite, this mini episode is packed with insight and inspiration for founders who want to build culture-first, high-trust teams. 🎧 Hit play on your fave podcast app = 5 minutes well spent. #BrandGrowthHeroes #BGHPodcast #FMCG #BoldBean #BrandGrowthHeroes #MKJIgnite #StartupCulture #RemoteWork #PeopleFirst #Leadership #TeamBuilding #MissionDriven
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From startup scrappiness to structured scaling 💥 Sunna founder of @tonichealth shares how he built a fully remote team, scaled fast, and kept the mission intact. 📍BGH 5-Min Shorts - The People Series- handpicked by @mkjignite 🎧 Available now on your fave podcast app.
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💥 LIVE TODAY! “We didn’t work well together on our first venture. But we didn’t kill each other either.” BGH SHORT: The People Series, David Lester, OLIPOP’s Co-Founder & President, shares what really powered OLIPOP’s rise to a projected $500M in revenue: ⚡ An intense, value-driven co-founder relationship ⚡ Relentless mission over market opportunity ⚡ Learning from failure without flinching This is more than a snapshot of growth; it’s a brutally honest insight into what it takes to survive and scale as a team. 🎙️Listen to this 5-minute gold nugget from Brand Growth Heroes - handpicked by our brilliant partners at MKJ Ignite to help consumer brand founders navigate hiring, leadership and team-building. Listen to this NEW SHORT today on all your fave podcast apps— and hit follow so you don’t miss who is up next in our series. #BrandGrowthHeroes #MKJIgnite #BGHPodcast #Founders #CoFounders #Olipop #cofounding #TeamLeadership #Podcast
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“If someone’s always disgruntled — hire them.” That’s what Perry Haydn-Taylor, founder of big fish, says about building teams that drive real innovation. Restless people challenge assumptions. They ask better questions. And they rarely settle for the first answer. In this episode of Brand Growth Heroes, Perry talks about what makes a great founder-partner dynamic, why he was “basically unemployable,” and how that made him the perfect ally for bold entrepreneurs with big visions. New episode out now. Link in bio. #BrandGrowthHeroes #BigFish #PerryHaydnTaylor #ChallengerBrands #StartupCulture #CreativeThinking #RestlessCuriosity #FounderMindset #BGHPodcast #Podcast
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In this 7-minute #BrandGrowthHeroes SHORT (part of our People Series in partnership with MKJ Ignite), Ed & Amelia drop GOLD for any founder hiring for the first time. They talk: ✅ Why external advice is underrated ✅ Hiring a fractional Head of People (yep, early!) ✅ Ditching the office for a ‘connectivity budget’ ✅ What truly modern leadership looks like 🎧 Don’t miss this brilliant peek inside Bold Bean’s team culture → 💥 The Grocer Gold WINNERS Bold Bean Co: The People Power Behind the Beans! Available on your fave 🎙️ app - links in bio. #FMCG #startupgrowth #founderlife #boldbean #brandgrowth #MKJIgnite #BGHPodcast #bghshort
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🎙️Live Today! 🔥In just 5 mins, get your dose of insight and inspiration from Marisa Poster, one of Perfect Ted’s three co-founders, and their brilliant Head of Sales, Shani Higgs! From the early grind of cold emails and constant rejection through post-Dragons’ Den momentum to scaling a £30M+ brand with just a 30-strong team, Marisa and Shani open up about how they’re building a really special team culture, as well as the global ‘Matcha Movement’. In just 5 minutes, you’ll hear how Perfect Ted has become a magnet for kind, passionate, hardworking people: ✅Why hiring for both skills and values matters now more than ever ✅The power of team culture and shared belief in scaling fast ✅Why is it the easiest sales job you’ll ever have at Perfect Ted? ✅How networking and saying yes can change everything ✅Why does working with people you genuinely like make all the difference? Hand-picked from the Brand Growth Heroes archives by the brilliant team at MKJ Ignite – the FMCG recruitment experts helping challenger brands grow with the right people in the right roles. If you’d like some support growing your team, use the link in the show notes to book a no-obligation call with Billy, Immy or Paul! 💡A new 5-minute episode drops every two weeks — so make sure to HIT FOLLOW and don’t miss the next one. #BrandGrowthHeroes #PerfectTed #ChallengerBrand #StartupCulture #ScaleUp #TeamCulture #FMCG #Founders #PeopleStrategy #MKJIgnite #BGHShort #Recruitment #BrandBuilding
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🍫In this bite-sized Brand Growth Heroes SHORT episode, Ben Greensmith, Country Manager for the UK and Ireland of Tony’s Chocolonely, reveals the innovative and seriously effective strategies behind their UK growth. 🎙️ This SHORT is hand-picked by FMCG recruitment pros MKJ Ignite. This golden nugget/snapshot highlights: ✅ Why out-of-home is Tony’s secret weapon ✅ How their sales team of 30+ is structured to drive growth ✅ A surprising revenue stream that’s doubling year on year 🎧 Listen to our latest short episode now, wherever you get your podcasts. 👀 If you want more insights like this, don’t forget to like, follow, or subscribe. If you’re keen for the full story, the complete conversation ‘Tony’s Chocolonely: Revolutionising the Cocoa Industry for Good’ is also available to stream. #BrandGrowthHeroes #TonysChocolonely #FMCG #ChallengerBrand #MKJIgnite #Recruitment #HR #GoldenNuggets
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‼️New Brand Growth Heroes Short just dropped – hand-picked by our partners at MKJ Ignite! This time, we’re featuring Ed Armitage, co-founder of Freja Foods – one of the most exciting challenger brands on a mission to become the #1 bone broth brand in Europe. In just 5 minutes, Ed unpacks: 💡How he built a dream investor cap table (with not only Harry Kane but also the ex CEO of Unilever, as well as serial entrepreneur Giles Brook) 💡 Why his kitchen table is now the boardroom table – a symbol of Freja’s roots and culture 💡 His ‘£1M per employee’ rule of thumb and why he doesn’t want to grow the business beyond 20 people Ed’s focus is on scaling smart. He shares how culture and people are key to Freja’s ambitious plans across Europe, from headcount strategy to building a tightly-knit, high-performance team. Brought to you by MKJ Ignite, the recruitment partners powering the next generation of FMCG heroes. BGH Shorts: The People Series is available on all podcast platforms. #BrandGrowthHeroes #MKJIgnite #FrejaBoneBroth #TeamCulture #FMCG #Founders #ChallengerBrands #SmartGrowth #FounderStory
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🎙️Have you heard we’ve launched Brand Growth Heroes SHORTS | The People Series? 💥 Bite-sized episodes 💬 Real-world founder stories 🛠️ Actionable insights for hiring, building and leading your team The MKJ Ignite team have been deep in the BGH archives, handpicking GOLDEN NUGGETS from founders of brands like Olipop, Child’s Farm, Wild and more. 🚀 Every 2 weeks, we’ll drop a SHORT 5-minute episode with something that actually helps. Have a listen (available on all podcast apps) — and hit follow so you can collect all the tips, stories, and real-world advice to lighten the load. #brandgrowthheroes#mkjignite #teamseries#foundergrowth#leadership #MKJIgnite
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NEW BGH SHORT LIVE TODAY! What kind of career helps to make a great future entrepreneur? In this week’s BGH SHORT: The People Series, Freddy Ward, co-founder of Wild Cosmetics, shares his experience from his early days at HelloFresh, scaling their operations from just 30 boxes a week to a £100 million business! Ultimately, after incredible growth at HelloFresh, Freddy knew it was time for fresh ideas and new energy. That’s when he took the leap, applying everything he had learned to his own brand. Continuous learning, embracing mistakes, and never stopping the hustle. The BGH short 5-minute episodes are hand-picked by MKJ Ignite and are available now on all podcast platforms, providing some fantastic bite-sized founder golden nuggets and actionable insight. Freddy’s story came full circle with Wild recently joining the Unilever family. An oldie but a goodie: Don’t miss the full BGH episode (also available on all podcast platforms) for more on how it all started. #BrandGrowthHeroes #PodcastShort #Founderstory #WildCosmetics #StartUpLife #BusinessGrowth #LessonsLearned #ScaleUp
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