Passion Pods

Hubbub.co.uk are on a mission to help small shops compete with big supermarkets by delivering food and drink from London’s best independent’s right to your doorstep. Founded by Marisa Leaf this rather special pod of ours is the first of a...

Becoming a milliner is tough enough quite frankly as you heard from Kate Underdown in Passion Pod #8 and not just because most people have no idea what one is! Little gear shift for Kate of late though has led her to become a co-founder of The Fold...

Rowing across the Atlantic for 54 days straight, in a seven metre long boat (having never been in one before!), over Christmas Day, through a hurricane and dealing with broken oar and a tanker nearly navigating in to you…and they enjoyed it?! The...

Comedy and flowers. Not a combo you’d usually put together is it really. Well, not unless you’d met Luke Keen in which case it’s a match made in heaven. After taking up gardening to sooth the noise that making comedy (or to be honest,...

Painting for a living is what led Gemma Compton to the wall we found her decorating for this year’s Upfest. Not a bad place to making your mark really is it?! After graduating with a First in her degree right at the time of the economic crash a...

Becoming a camerawoman is a tough enough gig to break in to but it didn’t seem quite enough for Holly Bantleman. She was so affected by a visit to a community in Kenya, one boy that she met in particular, that at 21 years old she decided to raise...

Glow in the dark, glittery, magnetic – Cressida Bullock  founder of Fun Science makes slime for a living. She also sets children’s hands on fire (safely, obvs), hand makes toothpaste and those experiments are just for starters. Scientific...

A whole 100 of these little beauties?!#100 life-true tales from such adventurous, hugely brave and massively inspiring folk – what an absolute honour....

Two thirds of Wildflowers – Kit and Siddy – are from a mega musical family. Brought up a jazz musician and an actress they all had to play an instrument as kids. Didn’t matter which one but having one in hand was a must. On the other...

If you’re feeling stuck in a rank old work/life/romance rut then this Passion Pod has your name all over it. Writer/performer Max Dickins found himself in exactly that place and so, to shake things up a bit he decided to sign up for a new...

Founded by Poku (who previously worked in property P.S. and had absolutely no experience in youth engagement at all!) Babbasa supports young people from disadvantaged communities to move forward with their professional aspirations. Yes very much please...

Jake Meyer really struggles to pin point exactly what it is that he does, which is often a good sign in our book. He settled on Adventurer…as you do! Swapping the school football and cricket lark for climbing and canoeing as soon as he could,...

Jennifer Hamley is a bag designer. Think handbag come work bag and one that we actually want to use rather than horrible, ugly looking designs that we’re often up against. Hers feels good to touch, looks lovely, has all the compartments you&...

From playing professional rugby for Harlequins and Bristol, to making sausages for a living. Yes, that is a real career path and Olly Kohn is the proud owner of it! After an injury and a new sausage making machine coincided with each other, the seeds...

After spending three years working for a big Ad agency in London feeling rather un-scintillated about chucking all of his energy and creativity in to products like nasal decongestants (and who can blame him quite frankly?!), co-founder Andrew Hunt...

Bridget Arsenault is donning three main job hats at the moment. She’s always known that she wanted to be a journalist and has spent most of the last eight years doing so…for Vanity Fair no less! She also founded The Bright Young Things...

Jodie founded her own Social Media company JC Social Media at 22 and is also the co-founder of Clever Tykes – a series of children’s books that introduce them to positive entrepreneurial role models, with the hope that it might help inspire...

Being an actress is a Passion Pod in itself really but making the move from doing that as your job to becoming a yoga teacher…surely that’s double pod points?! After 10 years of grafting her socks off and doing pretty darn well too, Steffy...

So, here’s one for you. Blogosphere Magazine is the first print publication entirely by bloggers for bloggers and the blogging community. It’s a magazine that you can hold in your actual hands and sniff it’s beautiful independent...

The Cool Graduate is a platform of inspiration for graduates to get a different clutch of ideas about their futures. Hello and yes please! Flagging up a whole load of options ranging from volunteering to paid graduate jobs all over the world, the main...

Founding a nutritional food business on the proceeds of her sell out art graduate show, artist and healthy foodster Alexandra Dudley definitely has quite the story to tell! Punch Foods is on a mission to make real food with real flavour and Alexandra...

Being a serious of fan of Project Love means that slight warning should come with my chat with it’s founders Vicki and Selina. *There is a lot of serious over-excitement which manifests itself in all sorts of ways but it is all with good reason.*...

Creative Coach, Actor and independent Shop Owner; Clare Yuille is just the sort of lady that we like having around these here parts for obvious reasons. As an actor by trade she’s created a pretty wonderful set up for herself to help combat the...

Buy Me Once is a seriously hot dang brilliant idea. It’s a website founded by Tara Button, that lists a load of products for sale that don’t cost loads of dosh, are really friendly to the planet and that actually last. Pretty novel for...

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So Cara and her business partner Dave have sure got their work cut out.  Heard of Poitin? (pronunced Potcheen btw) Unlikely unless you’re Irish. These guys are not only trying to front a whole new mass market category of booze with their version...

Originally with drama school and singing in her sights, after a little bit of unconventional advice Bo Bruce went for option two. 5 or so years of that and gigging her pants off, she made the decision to go on’t tele in The Voice. Quite the...

Quality time together with your kids as well as having a shed load of fun. That’s what’s at the heart of Weekend Box Club the online subscription service set up by Andy Stephenson. This box full of creative goodies plonks itself on to your...

Art student Oliver Hemsley was left paralysed aged 21 following an unprovoked stabbing attack. There’s no way of glossing over this horrendousness but the beauty that’s been born from the depths of it’s ugliness is the frickin awesome...

When you think of food from the Ukraine you think of watermelon right? No, us neither but apparently that’s where we’re going wrong. Proving to the world that Eastern European food isn’t just potatoes and dumplings chef, food writer,...

There’s definitely still an element of complete disbelief from painter Emily Thornton that she’s actually getting to do this as her job every day. It’s infectiously endearing. Having done all sorts of different bits and pieces she...

Oooo it’s a beauty this one! Emma Gannon oozes passion for what she does from her every pore and it’s mighty infectious. She’s a blogger via Girl Lost In The City, general social media guru and this year is adding published author to...

Chureca Chic is a range of high end fashion accessories made from recycled materials by women who live on Nicaragua’s rubbish dump ‘La Chureca’. All the makers are students on the Earth Education Project – a year long...

Sitting at a wheel squishing and squelching clay for a living – Emily Doran has got this job thing nailed.  With her range of rustic, earthy, seaside-colour inspired handmade bowls, mugs, pots, vases, jugs…she’s a studio potter in...

Biz is quite the human. Not only has his work been published in the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement,  New Internationalist to name just a few, but he’s also a Trustee of the Sony Award-winning radio station Resonance FM, ...

Women’s sportswear that’s contemporary, designed by women, not salmon pink or astronomically priced and made in the UK. Refreshing, that’s what Lily Rice’s Lexie range is. She’s on a mission to inspire women and girls to...

Romany Gypsies, witch doctors, tree ghouls, sea caves; Abi Elphinstone‘s children’s triology is pure imagination fertilizer. Kicking off with The Dream Snatcher and followed next year by The Shadow Keeper, the magical adventures in her...

Super eye-catching designs and even more eye-catching flavour combos, Doisy & Dam are on a mission to raise food’s game. Starting with their range of bonkersly tasty chocolate bars (and yes, we do say that from much very enjoyable experience...

So what job can you do if you want to work in food but not in catering? Hello Georgina Fuggle. A walking, talking, writing, cooking, photographing, blogging, styling example. Food writing mainly these days Georgina went from spraying edible delights...

Beautiful, feminine, wearable, pretty and made right here in the UK with a whole load of love: Iris London is lingerie that we that we all want to own quite frankly. Which makes it ever more surprising that it’s founder Ellie Simpson-Gray...

From the marketing and product development for whopper brands like Haagen Dazs and Kettle Chips to making the fresh, wholesome food that is Sprogs. Quite the change for Ching-Yee . She’s the brain power behind this convenient, healthy, fresh...

Packaging. Something few of us think about but most of us give a good ooo and ahh to if it’s done well. Co-ordinating all the different factors that are needed to pull it off though is headache central, especially if you don’t want to...

Adam Greenfield is a Community Organiser based in San Francisco. He connects people in a way that’s less of the toe curling networky vibe and more of the ‘hey, meet your neighbour’. Sounds good right? A Law Degree and a Masters in Electronic...

So yes, it’s now official. Passion Pods has gone global. Well, across the pond at least. The first of our four podcasts from San Francisco comes courtesy of Zach from Thanx. A Management Consultant at Bain, Zach was helping companies build their...

If you’ve ever fancied working as a Theatre Producer then you need to listen to this. It’s as simple as that quite frankly. After 9 years working with Playful Productions as an Associate Producer Georgia Gatti is about to head off to...

Think Secret Cinema meets permanent pop-up and you’ve got Shuttlecock. Founded by Ed Templeton along with his brother Ollie and cousins Will and Anna their latest project restaurant Carousel,  brings together super exciting chefs from around...

So we’re Stateside this week on the scour for Passion Podders in San Francisco. Tough life. Hunting out people across the pond who are on these adventures and finding out a bit more about their stories’ twists and turns....

Writer Tallulah Brown couldn’t believe her luck when she discovered script writing. Telling stories by writing conversations and not having to worry about those hateful commas and punctuation. Our kind of gal! With one of the most contagious...

Taking a year off to try everything. Sounds pretty wild right?! Well how’s about going to Azerbaijan to work  instead of going to Glastonbury with your best mates to party? Hmmm…yeah, not quite the kind of wild we’re after perhaps...

Madoc’s on to a goodie with this one. ‘Special adventures in wild places’ – even Secret Adventures tag line makes you feel excited. Kayaking under Tower Bridge at night, swimming under a full moon, woodland foraging –...

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