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Foodpreneur with Chelsea Ford

Imagine a consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry where both small and large players coexist on a level playing field, consumers have choice, there’s integrity in what they’re buying and they experience innovative, sustainable products.In this weekly podcast, hosted by founder, award-winning coach, consultant & small business advocate, Chelsea Ford, you'll hear interviews with incredible founders and hard-to-reach industry specialists as well as practical and actionable content that directly supports your CPG business to grow, become more profitable and thrive.Learn more at www.chelseaford.com .

#157 How to Tell Your Brand Story So You Land the Listing and Make Sales

64 hours 9 mins; March 25, 2026

#156 Your Packaging Is Holding Your Brand Back: How To Manage a Pack Redesign

47 mins; March 18, 2026

#155 How Sorry Nonna are Building a Cult Pasta Sauce Brand

45 mins; March 11, 2026

#154 How to Make Social Content That People Actually Stop Scrolling For

53 mins; March 04, 2026

#153 Taking Control of Cash Flow & Working Capital (Before It Controls You!)

37 mins; February 25, 2026

#152 Getting a Buyer to Say Yes (According to an Actual Buyer!)

48 mins; February 18, 2026

#151 How to Stop Leaving Money On the Table Once You're On Shelf

44 mins; February 11, 2026

#150 Behind Pistachio Papi and LaManna: What Ensures Profitable Brands Stay Profitable

77 hours 44 mins; February 04, 2026

#149 How to Avoid Being Delisted (Explained by an Actual Retailer)

63 hours 2 mins; December 19, 2025

#148 Marketing System for Food Brands: Clear, Consistent, Low Maintenance

57 mins; December 17, 2025

#147 Sales Is the Lifeblood: Bootstrapping a Beverage Brand

56 mins; December 10, 2025

#146 How to Make Your Packaging Sell When You're Not There

43 mins; December 03, 2025

#145 Collabs, Community Building & Why It's a Crime to Be Boring. Six-Eyed Scorpion's Brand Playbook.

53 mins; November 26, 2025

#144 Test the Ingredients, Not the Cake: Marketing Decisions That Move Product

56 mins; November 19, 2025

#143 How Cremorne Street Bakers Built Three Brands to Dominate Multiple Channels

57 mins; November 12, 2025

#142 How to Market Your Way Onto (and Stay On) the Shelf

37 mins; November 05, 2025

#141 Manufacturing at Scale: What Every Brand Owner Can Achieve

43 mins; September 03, 2025

#140 Supply Chaos Retailers Won’t Tolerate - And What To Do Instead

58 mins; August 27, 2025

#139 Customer Intel Retail Buyers Actually Care About

54 mins; August 20, 2025

#138 Landing a Major Retailer: The Logistics and Finance Moves That Matter

70 hours 38 mins; August 13, 2025

#137 The Tax Incentive Every Foodpreneur Should Know About

55 mins; August 06, 2025

#136 The Hidden Costs Eating Your Profit

59 mins; July 30, 2025

#135 Why Founders Don’t Scale — And The Framework To Fix It

25 mins; July 23, 2025

#134 Industry Insights from Foodpreneurs Festival 2025

74 hours 57 mins; May 27, 2025

#133 How EatKinda’s Cauliflower Ice Cream is Disrupting Freezers & Scaling Smarter

51 mins; March 26, 2025

#132 Plant-Based Milk, Powered by Data: How Drink Nimbus is Disrupting the Industry & Tackling Waste

60 hours 23 mins; March 19, 2025

#131 From Kitchen to Retail: How Six-Eyed Scorpion Crispy Chilli Oil is Winning Shelf Space

52 mins; March 12, 2025

#130 Burnout to Breakthrough: How Laura Allan Scaled Isaac’s Snacks

67 hours 28 mins; February 26, 2025

#129 From Side Hustle to Shelf: How Solbevi is Taking on Aperol

50 mins; February 19, 2025

#128 Burnt Out & Broke: How to Afford a Co-Manufacturer

46 mins; February 12, 2025

#127 The Boring Secret to Business Success

20 mins; February 05, 2025

#126 Bae Juice: Building a Multi-Million Dollar Brand from Just One Product

75 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024

#125 Inside the Buyer’s Mind: An Interview with Roz White from White's IGA

73 hours 41 mins; November 20, 2024

#124 How Welly Grew from an Idea to a Must-Have Snack, One Insight at a Time

59 mins; November 13, 2024

#123 How Brand Building and Pre-Launch Research Secured Kommunity Brew's Success

68 hours 0 mins; November 06, 2024

#122 From Family Recipe to Beloved Brand: The Story of Springhill Farm

56 mins; October 30, 2024

#121 Juicing Up the Market: The Story Behind Naked Rivals' Retail Revolution

54 mins; October 23, 2024

#120 Grassroots Marketing: What To Spend Your Money On When You're Starting Out

27 mins; October 16, 2024

#119 From Product to Icon: How to Build a Brand People Can’t Ignore

64 hours 15 mins; October 09, 2024

#118 Preparing for the Golden Quarter: Q4 Retail Reviews & Festive Season Sales

15 mins; September 04, 2024

#117 Scaling Efficiently From One Retailer to Over 7,500 Stockists

47 mins; August 28, 2024

#116 Chef Shaun Quade: Manufacturing Real Food at Scale

50 mins; August 21, 2024

#115 Accessing Grants to Grow Your Business

34 mins; August 14, 2024

#114 From Market Stall to Major Retailers: Scaling Through a Focus on Experience Excellence

34 mins; August 07, 2024

#113 Specialty Distribution

52 mins; July 31, 2024

#112 Preparing for a Buyer Meeting.

19 mins; July 24, 2024

#111 Why CPG Businesses Fail.

14 mins; June 05, 2024

#110 Raising Funds For Your CPG Business.

48 mins; May 29, 2024

#109 Industry Insights from Foodpreneurs Festival 2024

94 hours 24 mins; May 22, 2024

#108 Packaging Design: 8 Game Plan for Getting Your Product Selling

72 hours 0 mins; May 06, 2024

#107 How to Develop a Commercially Viable Food or Drink Product.

64 hours 12 mins; May 01, 2024

#106 Supply Chain By Design: How to Get Stock to Stores.

43 mins; April 23, 2024

#105 Your Sales Script for a ‘No, Yes, or Maybe’ Response

54 mins; April 17, 2024

#104 Perfect Product Marketing: Knowing What Your Customers Want You to Say.

52 mins; April 10, 2024

#103 Money Back In Your Pocket: Getting a Financial Return on Your R&D

38 mins; April 03, 2024

#102 First 90 days on the Supermarket Shelf: Your Product Promotional Plan

19 mins; March 27, 2024

#101 Why Supermarkets Are So Hard To Deal With

70 hours 37 mins; March 20, 2024

#100 How to Put More Money In Your Pocket, & Not Retailers or Distributors

32 mins; March 13, 2024

#99: World Doughmination: How Kathryn Bricken Scaled Her Frozen Treats Globally

66 hours 31 mins; March 06, 2024

#98 2nd Anniversary Edition Low/No Cost Ways to Generate PR For Your Brand

67 hours 10 mins; February 28, 2024

#97 2nd Anniversary Edition Behind the Scenes Look of what it Actually Takes to Scale

46 mins; February 21, 2024

#96 2nd Anniversary Edition How to get Noticed by Retail Buyers and Land More Accounts

51 mins; February 14, 2024

#95 2nd Anniversary Edition: Building a Million Dollar Brand in a Competitive Market

50 mins; February 07, 2024

#94 2nd Anniversary Edition: Branding & Packaging to get your Product Off the Shelf

54 mins; January 31, 2024

#93 The 3 Trends for 2024 You Need to Know

19 mins; January 24, 2024

#92 2023: Emerging Brand Launches & Closures

14 mins; December 24, 2023

#91 Using Social Media to Blow Up your Sales

52 mins; December 06, 2023

#90 How to Boost your Profits in Tough Times

47 mins; November 30, 2023

#89 Making Sales with the Major Retailers

49 mins; November 22, 2023

#88 Preventing Burnout by Using Distributors

61 hours 28 mins; November 15, 2023

#87 Bringing Innovation to the Humble Egg

42 mins; November 07, 2023

#86 Building a Cooking Facility with Limited Resources

46 mins; November 01, 2023

#85 The Challenge to get 100 'No's

42 mins; October 18, 2023

#84 Behind the Scenes of What it Really Takes to Scale

43 mins; October 11, 2023

#83 Scaling a Packaged Food Product Business Profitably

49 mins; October 04, 2023

#82 Success Is Just Beyond Your Comfort Zone

50 mins; September 27, 2023

#81 Impressing Buyers: Mastering the Art to Get your Product Stocked

50 mins; September 20, 2023

#80 The Centuries-Old Seed Vying for Aussie Snack Success

46 mins; September 13, 2023

#79 Key Actions to Boost Profits Based on your Revenue

19 mins; September 06, 2023

#78 Collaboration: Increasing Brand Awareness & Sales on a Budget

35 mins; August 30, 2023

#77 A Big Vision Led a Foodpreneur to the Javanese Highlands in Search of Cows

63 hours 57 mins; August 23, 2023

#76 Turning Your Distributor into Your Partner

44 mins; August 16, 2023

#75 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Land More Accounts

41 mins; August 09, 2023

#74 Moving from DTC (Direct to Consumer) to Wholesale

51 mins; August 02, 2023

#73 Reviewing Q2, and keeping your business alive in Q3.

18 mins; June 28, 2023

#72 Industry Insights from Foodpreneurs Festival 2023

24 mins; June 21, 2023

#71 Branding & Packaging to Get Your Product Off the Shelf

53 mins; June 14, 2023

#69 An Indigenous-owned Chocolate Brand Ready to Take on the World

56 mins; May 31, 2023

#68 Rapid-fire Lessons to Win More Accounts Pt. 2

10 mins; May 24, 2023

#67 A Rapid-fire Exercise to Win More Accounts Pt. 1

8 mins; May 17, 2023

#66 Reframing the Sales Conversation

55 mins; May 10, 2023

#65 Building a Million Dollar Brand in an Overcrowded Space/Competitive Market

49 mins; May 03, 2023

#64 Creating A Mission Based Plant Based Business At Scale

48 mins; April 26, 2023

#63 11 Strategies to Grow Your Brand: Part 2

23 mins; April 19, 2023

#62 11 Strategies to Grow Your Brand: Part 1

19 mins; April 12, 2023

#61 The 1,2,3 of Product Barcodes

53 mins; April 05, 2023

#60 How to Review Your Q1 Activity to Smash Your Goals in Q2!

22 mins; March 29, 2023

#59 Low/No-Cost Ways to Generate PR for Your Brand

62 hours 59 mins; March 22, 2023

#58 How Cookie Dough Saved Celeb Chef Anna Polyviou

49 mins; March 15, 2023

#57 Overcoming Failure as a Foodpreneur

59 mins; March 08, 2023

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