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one of the best poddy’s I’ve EVER recorded
Henry Dimbleby is an utter genius
Founder of LEON and “Ravenous” author
Henry takes gargantuan complex topics
Emingwayifies them down to
ludicrously lucid simple
my brain literally E-X-P-L-O-D-E-D with new ways of thinking
pithy aphorisms pix n’ mix
curiosity treasure chest
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ON THE MENU:
- Ernest Hemingway: The Curse of Complexity & Brutal Simplicity of truth…”the first draft of everything is sh*t”
- Spiders On Speed: The Complications of System Thinking
- Restaurants Ordering Lamb, Good & Bad Feedback Loops… “the system will always react to an intervention”
- Chocolate Pudding vs. Kale: Survival of The Fittest, the Amygdala and why we’re sick and obese
- The Junk Food Cycle & CEO Incentives: “it’s not the CEO’s fault for selling bad food”
- “In Business you often don’t actually understand what’s working, don’t risk changing what you’ve lucked upon”
- Escalating & Reinforcing feedback loops: always look for the big feedback loop and attack there.
- Finland, Mushroom Sausages & Nudging theory: “always attack the system from all angles”
- The Invisibility of Nature: why you can’t count nature in your wallet or in cell E18
- Why “Starting a business is like looking into the abyss whilst chewing glass” - Elon Musk
- System Thinking = Competitive Advantage “Understand the system you’re in, react faster than your competitors, win”
- LEON Menu Pictures & Nassim Taleb’s Stochastic Tinkering “you don’t know what’s working, so try everything”
- 3 Types of Founder Stress 1. Reality Lags Behind Vision 2. Internal Self Doubt 3. External Stress
- LEON Brand Strategy “we always wanted to create McDonald’s in Heaven”
- Winning Not Fighting by John Vincent + Why Leon Train Their Baristas with Heart rate Monitors
- Martial Arts & Brand Building: “Don’t rush into every fight, save your energy for the right fight”
- Excellence is The Ability to Withstand Pain - “Overtime your pain tolerance increases, Business gets easier as you get older”
- The Invisibility of Nature in Brand Building: Trust is something you can’t measure, but it’s EVERYTHING
- ‘Embrace external stresses” because External Stress = excitement = creativity
- Why Economics lives INSIDE nature not OUTSIDE nature
- Why Business is a battle against entropy… “use your energy to turn chaos into order”
What is HUNGRY.?
HUNGRY is THE podcast for Challenger FMCG & Hospitality Founders wanting to pour gasoline on growth.
We chat with the industry BIG HITTERS. We ooze out the HIDDEN success secrets they’ve never told before and dive deep into their gut-wrenching failures, so you avoid them.
We help you grow bigger, faster, stronger.
Over the last 6 years, we’ve chatted to some insane guests on the poddy:
Rory Sutherland, Seth Godin, Jamie Laing, Spencer
Matthews, Tom Kerridge, Sir John Hegarty,
The founders of SOHO House, TRIP, The Devonshire, Tony’s Chocolonely, Vita Coco
Look, I’ll be blunt,
HUNGRY is NOT your normal podcast.
HUNGRY is NOT scripted and sterile Q&A interviews.
HUNGRY is for pretty much no one.
HUNRGY is a deliciously fun, wild and crazy, ADHD rollercoaster of free flowing conversations.
got what it takes?
Buckle up. Strap in.
get ready to… FEED YOUR HUNGER