Podcasts about peaceful fruits

Evan Delahanty, Founder and CEO, Peaceful Fruits joins host Nikki Powis, Director, Small Business Programs, NDI, as he shares how he started the company Peaceful Fruits while intentionally hiring staff with disabilities and paying them competitive wages. He explains how he started from a mission to build a company that he was proud of and ended up structuring training and support for staff to ensure that everyone had what they need to do their best work. He discusses the benefits he has found in employing people with disabilities, the importance of nutritious food and the work of the Peaceful Fruits Foundation.

In this episode Derek Champagne interviews Shark Tank veteran Evan Delahanty. Evan is the Founder and Lead for Peaceful Fruits LLC, a social good startup that produces premium dried fruit snacks from sustainably-sourced acai. Evan shares his entrepreneurial journey, his approach to community engagement, and his experience on the hit ABC television show Shark Tank.Learn more at www.peacefulfruits.com

This episode is the closest thing to "How I Built This with Guy Raz" I'll probably ever get. I sat down with Evan Delahanty of Peaceful Fruits, a Barberton-based company making delicious whole fruit snacks he calls "candy for a new generation." After a two-year Peace Corps assignment in Suriname (that's in South America, guys) he started to think a lot about creating a business that reflected his passion for culture, sustainability and inclusion. There are many dimensions to Peaceful Fruits...and he shares them with us, including his Shark Tank appearance. This conversation is a good one for anyone thinking of entrepreneurship. It's full of honest talk and good lessons that will help any budding enrtrepreneur who expects the path to be easy or linear. We talk about candy, not knowing what to do with your life and how we all want to make the world a better place. Thanks to my sponsors Chef Douglas Katz and the Katz Group of Restaurants, Zhug, Chimi and Amba. And, Nine Spoons Soup, a local company making delicious soups from a grandmother's recipes.

Join Tom & Joe as they interview Evan Delahanty of Peaceful Fruits who was on Season 8, Episode 16 of Shark Tank with an air date of 2/10/17. If you are an entrepreneur who wants to grow your business faster (or mentor entrepreneurs in growth mode), check out www.growth10.com! And if you like the show, make sure to hit “Subscribe”, give us a 5-star rating and tell your friends… we appreciate your support!

Evan is the Founder and Lead for Peaceful Fruits LLC, a social good startup that produces premium dried fruit snacks from sustainably-sourced acai. In this episode, Evan talks more about what the difference is with Peaceful Fruits, versus other fruit snack products.

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Are you a fan of ABC's Shark Tank? If you are, you might recognize this episode's guest. Evan Delahanty, CEO/founder of Peaceful Fruits, based in Ohio joins me to talk about his company, being featured on the show, and how passion and entrepreneurship can lead to success.Water-cooler weather: Keeping dogs safe during the dog days of summer ___Intro: 0:01Water-cooler weather: 2:09Peaceful Fruits Interview: 7:50

Evan is the Founder and Lead for Peaceful Fruits LLC, a social good startup that produces premium dried fruit snacks from sustainably-sourced acai. In this episode, Evan talks more about what the difference is with Peaceful Fruits, versus other fruit snack products.

Evan Delahanty is the Founder and CEO of Peaceful Fruits, a social good snack company that employs people with disabilities to make healthy, delicious, rainforest-friendly fruit snacks. Peaceful Fruits has been featured in Forbes and on ABC’s Shark Tank and is focused on scaling up its impact and operations as the company grows.   Connect with Evan Delahanty  Website: www.peacefulfruits.com Twitter: @peaceful_fruits Instagram: www.instagram.com/peaceful_fruits Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peacefulfruits/   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com  

095 | Evan Delahanty Shares How to Make Your Own YES in Business Evan Delahanty is the Founder and CEO of Peaceful Fruits, a social good snack startup that employs people with disabilities to make healthy, delicious, rainforest-friendly fruit snacks. Peaceful Fruits has been featured on NPR and ABC’s Shark Tank and is focused on scaling sales and production after a successful pilot. Prior to launching, Evan graduated from Walsh Jesuit High School (2003), Cornell University (2007), and then worked in operations management before serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Amazon interior of Suriname, South America. When Evan came back to the United States after serving in the Amazon with the Peace Corps, he knew that he wanted to find a way to bring back a small piece of his experience to his friends and family - or really, anyone who would have it. That’s when Peaceful Fruits was born. Ethically sourced, 100% fruit snacks, NO processed crap - it was a shoo-in! Everyone wants that, right? The funny part was, Evan was met with a lot of NOs - but not from his target audience! They loved it. Evan spent a lot of time working on the Peaceful Fruits brand. He had a story to tell, and couldn’t wait to share it. However, manufacturing was another situation - NO one would co-pack his product. In fact, Evan called at least 180 manufacturers, digging deep on Google, hoping to find someone who would believe in Peaceful Fruits as much as he did, and take a chance on a small fruit snack brand. Then, Evan made his own YES. Tune into this episode to hear how he did it! My guest on this week’s Success Unfiltered, Evan, had to learn that sometimes you’ll hear a lot of NOs before you finally find a way to make your own YES! If you’re feeling discouraged by how many NOs you’ve heard, then this is a MUST LISTEN episode of Success Unfiltered! Enjoy, and thank you for listening and tuning into Success Unfiltered! To share your thoughts: Email The Pitch Queen @ hello@thepitchqueen.com Ask a question over at www.ThePitchQueen.com Share Success Unfiltered on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & LinkedIn To help the show out: Please leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe to the show on iTunes. Special thanks goes out to Evan Delahanty for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode! Everyone Gets Rejected In Sales. It’s what you do AFTER the NO that counts! I’ve got 3 ways that you can turn a NO into a win (and maybe even a future YES)! Grab my guide to surviving rejections in business and making them work for you right HERE! Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode: Michelle introduces Evan. Evan is this month’s Shark Tank guest. Evan shares a little about who he is and what he’s created. The biggest NO that Evan experienced happened on the manufacturing front. He shares the full story in this episode. Evan called 180 people to pitch manufacturing his fruit snacks When no one would work with him, Evan went and made his own fruit snacks in a local restaurant’s kitchen at 2 a.m., when they weren’t using it. When Peaceful Fruits began to grow, Evan said YES to hiring the best team ever! Peaceful Fruits employs people with particular disabilities, like Down’s Syndrome and Autism. Evan employed developmentally disabled people, creating fair wage jobs for his team. “You see that early adoption, you see those people starting to get excited about it. That tells you, you've got to keep swinging to try to find a way to make more.” ~ Evan Delahanty After appearing on Shark Tank, Peaceful Fruits was contacted by Sendik’s Grocery chain and it took almost a year before he met with them. The first month in Sendik’s didn’t go quite how Evan had hoped. He shares exactly what happened in this episode. “You must control yourself and not act on your first thought.” ~ Evan Delahanty Evan appeared at many of his own demonstrations, due to the size of the company, and found that he had to say YES to his ideal client and “toughen up” when people who were not his target audience said NO to his product. Evan knew that he had people interested in buying his products but if they can’t see the product on the shelves, no one is going to buy. Evan shares how he remedied that. Follow up with stores carrying Peaceful Fruits was key - as Evan followed up and made sure signs and point of sale systems were set up, sales increased and more people learned about his brand. Getting into Whole Foods would be a dream for Evan, but he knows his company wasn’t quite ready when they had their first opportunity. Evan has learned that by waiting he and his company would be in a better position the next time around. Evan shared what he would tell his younger self. Connect with Evan Delahanty: Evan’s Wesbite - enter “pitchqueen" at checkout for 10% off Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest Everyone Gets Rejected In Sales. It’s what you do AFTER the NO that counts! I’ve got 3 ways that you can turn a NO into a win (and maybe even a future YES)! Grab my guide to surviving rejections in business and making them work for you right HERE! Music produced by Deejay-O  www.iamdeejayo.com

Making a Difference | Peaceful Fruits: Paving The Way for Socially Good Partnerships [Click to Listen to Podcast] In today’s conversation, I am speaking with Evan Delahanty, the Founder and CEO of Peaceful Fruits, a socially good, snack startup...

After the challenge of serving in a village deep in the rainforest of Suriname, Evan was up for another: becoming an entrepreneur and creating a company that would provide sustainable income to Amazon communities via delicious, healthy fruit snacks. In perfect Peace Corps fashion, Evan started Peaceful Fruits with a batch of fruit snacks made in his mother's oven, packaged in ziplock bags, that he sold at his local farmer's market. [...] The post Out of the rainforest and on to Shark Tank – Evan Delahanty of Peaceful Fruits, Suriname 2011-2013 appeared first on My Peace Corps Story.

Evan Delahanty is not a foodie. Yes, the man who founded Peaceful Fruits, a company that makes honest, whole fruit snacks ... was not all that into food at first. So how did he end up at the helm of a company that's changing the fruit snack game? It's all about connecting people and markets to the Amazon. Evan spent 27 months as a community economic development specialist in Pikin Slee, a remote village of Suriname accessible only by canoe. Giving back to this amazing place has become Evan's life's work.  Takeaways How do you know which ideas you should commit to, and which you should leave for someone else? Evan share his framework for evaluating these. We’ve heard a few times on this show that emerging brands should run with as lean a team as possible. This makes every hiring decision critical. Evan shares one question that will tell you whether or not an applicant has what it takes to join your squad. Kickstarter is actually a great way to help launch a CPG brand. But what are best practices? Evan shares his experience and top tips. Links Peaceful Fruits Connect with Evan on LinkedIn Have an idea for the show? Drop us a line! Brandbuilder@snacknation.com. Brand Builder is a co-production of SnackNation and ForceBrands.

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Evan Delahanty is one of the few people I know who has lived in the the middle of the Amazon Rainforest. I mean taking a canoe 3 hours UP river. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Suriname, he learned a language that only 26,000 people speak (Saramaccan)! After completing his mission, he was looking for a way to stay in touch and help the community. He choose Açaí as the vehicle to accomplish that. Evan founded Peaceful Fruits, a snack company that makes delicious organic fruit snacks that create jobs for people with disabilities in Akron while helping to protect the Amazon Rainforest. I LOVE how he is helping two distinct communities!! Peaceful Fruits is currently in about 50 stores and working hard to scale up. Evan shares his journey: How he got his company off the ground Sourcing in Suriname / wild harvesting How to maintain consistency with an artisan product The joys and business advantages of working with the developmentally disabled All about Açaí, the superfruit How to scale up when working in a remote part of the world Why timing is crucial to success When to involve a famous celebrity from Akron, Ohio (hint: he's very athletic) The two types of people in the world The Crowdfunding campaign coming up Plans to scale up the company in U.S. Selected links from the show: Peaceful Fruits Cleveland Culinary Launch Kuli Kuli Foods Saramaccan language Lebron James Foundation Cornell University Food Lab