In this episode, our guest is Veronica Fil, CEO, and co-founder of Grounded Foods, an exciting, innovative dairy/soy/nut-free cheese company that is making waves. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard her name or that of her company, you will. This is a wild ride of a conversation where listeners hear Veronica’s story ranging from owning a restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, to packing up shop and heading to the U.S. after knowing they had something once offered $2mm for her recipe/food concept. Detours include Veronica pitching investors from a closet while riots are going on just outside her LA apartment as well as conducting interviews from a hospital bed. Veronica’s story is entertaining, it’s insightful, and she is just getting started.

• Twitter (@groundedfoods) https://twitter.com/grounded_foods
• Grounded Foods https://www.groundedfoods.com/

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In this episode, I am joined by Caroline Bushnell.  She is the Director of Corporate Engagement at the Good Food Institute, an international nonprofit solely-focused on using markets and technology to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals.  Caroline is extremely well-versed on all facets of the quickly evolving ‘alternative protein’ industry as well as the goings-on and work of GFI.  She is an amazingly informed resource and her vantage makes for a one-of-a-kind interview.

• Twitter (@carolinebnell)              https://twitter.com/carolinebnell
• The Good Food Institute              https://GFI.org/
• State of the Industry reports (3)   https://GFI.org/industry/

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Hakeem Jimo is the founder and owner of VeggieVictory, Africa’s first meat substitute food company.  Hakeem was born outside Hamburg, Germany, to a German mother and a Nigerian father.  Upon completing his schooling, he moved to Africa 20 years ago to work as a journalist covering West Africa for a German media company.  After nine years he started a public relations company.  In 2013, after becoming frustrated by not having the same vegetarian food options at home that he saw while on a trip to Asia, he and his partner started Nigeria’s first vegetarian/vegan restaurant.  Realizing that consumers needed more product offerings to prepare at home and seeing firsthand the difficulties in opening restaurants in Nigeria, he set out to create the first commercial-scale meat substitute product.  Listen to Hakeem’s one-of-a-kind account as a Lagos, Nigeria-based entrepreneur as he forges his path and of the difficulties faced, lessons learned, and prospects for the future.

o   Twitter (@VeggieVictoryNG):       https://twitter.com/VeggieVictoryNG

o   Company website:                     https://veggievictory.com/

o   Hakeem’s LinkedIn profile:       https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakeemjimo/

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