Podcast appearances and mentions of rosie brown

Ed Perry and Rosie Brown are the Co-CEOs in charge of high-end ready meal company, COOK. Their USP is using the same ingredients and methods a normal person would use in their kitchens to create ready meals that actually feel home-cooked.  A company run by Co-CEOs is pretty unusual but Ed and Rosie are especially unusual because they're also brother and sister. Ed co-founded the company with Dale Penfold in 1997. His sister Rosie Brown joined the company soon after and then became Co-CEO in 2018.  They've steered the company through tough times like the cost of living crisis and credit crunch which took the company to the edge of bankruptcy. Now, COOK's products are available in 850 stores across the UK not including the 94 COOK shops and turnover is £100 million.  Just like a great recipe, Rosie believes COOK's success is down to a number of high-quality ingredients like strong principles, valuing people properly and the influence of faith. Yup, faith. For instructions on how to prepare, put your headphones and turn the volume up to 8... --------------- We'd love your feedback hello@secretleaders.com --------------- Sponsor links: evelyn.com/secretleaders/ vorboss.com/secretleaders personio.com/secretleaders vanta.com/secretleaders

Few kitchens in the UK will be unfamiliar with COOK, a business whose youthful ambitions fuelled the success of their award-winning brand.There's a delightful culture and commitment to quality shared by Co-CEOs Edward Perry and Rosie Brown, who share just a slice of that passion on this week's ‘It Runs In The Family'.Join us as we dive into the parental roots of their entrepreneurialism, how naivety was a superpower in the early days, and the lasting confidence that external hires bring to the business.This episode covers:The parents' batch cooking that inspired the first foray into frozen foodHow naivety gave them the ambition to grow the businessCulture, values, and a sustained commitment to qualityThe affirmation that external team members bring

"I see my job as being the guardian of COOK's values and purpose," says the company's Co-CEO, Rosie Brown. "To make sure that everybody in COOK is living the values that were set out when he started the business." It is clear from listening to Rosie that the way COOK does business is just as important to her as making a profit, if not more so. In this episode of the Career Conversations podcast series, she tells us how she ended up co-running the hugely popular frozen meals company. She tells host Elisa Roche she started life wanting to be a nurse, then moved into the political world, before deciding to join her brother Ed at COOK. Ed founded the business and Rosie joined three years later. They also work with another of their brothers. "We've always got on," she says. "I think it helps that Ed and I share values and have been completely united in our vision for COOK, not just in what we want to achieve but how we want to get there." Listen to the full episode to find out why Rosie believes business can be a force for good in the world, her secret to maintaining a company's values when you have 1,600 staff members, and how the cost of living crisis is affecting the business. Find out more about the up-coming Food Matters Live careers event series Rosie Brown, Co-CEO, COOK Growing up, Rosie Brown dreamed of a career in nursing, but a year into training she realised it wasn't for her. Then she worked in the City. Another mistake.  Aged 25, she joined her brother Ed's new frozen meals business – COOK. Together, the siblings built it into a £100m company, with nearly 90 stores, hundreds of concessions, and a thriving e-commerce arm – making it one of the largest independently owned food businesses in the UK. Rosie was the company's first Head of People – and people remain at the core of her work today. She believes in the power of business to make a positive impact and, for her, COOK is about building community one plate, one person at a time.  “The biggest impact a company can have is its people,” says Rosie. “Employment can change people's lives. Given the right support, everyone can achieve extraordinary things.” Rosie is proud to chair the employment board at HMP Wandsworth – and ex-offenders, former addicts and the homeless made up 10 per cent of COOK's new recruits last year, as part of its pioneering RAW Talent programme. Founded in 1997, COOK nourishes the nation through 90 retail stores (but notably not in the big four supermarkets), 800 concessions, and a rapidly expanding delivery business. Their kitchens use the same techniques you would at home, so everything looks and (more importantly) tastes – homemade. They just use bigger pans.  Resolutely independent, today COOK has 1,700 employees and turned over £94.4m in 2021/22 – without selling a single meal through one of the Big Four supermarkets. There are three key strands to COOK: food that tastes like it's been made at home, business independence, and creating community.

In this bonus episode, we hear from Lead Dietitian Lisa Ledger, who tells us how the profession is establishing itself as a vital part of primary care. Speaking to Rosie Brown from our communications team, Lisa provides a fascinating insight into the role dietitians can play in taking patient load from GPs, as well as sharing the positive results from a study she conducted into frailty and malnutrition. 

Meet phenomenal host, Fiona Cutts, and join her on the magical journey and hear how she changed from being paralysed by shyness to shining with exuberance as an international facilitator, empowering others to create a greater life than they ever thought possible. Description: In this episode, Fiona talks with Rosie Brown who considers shyness to have been part of her life since the age of 3, feeling contracted and holding herself back until a few years ago. Together they share the amazing processes they used to stop making themselves wrong for being shy and helpful ways to continue to change and shine as themselves. Key points: shy people can create big and be successful yet inside feel part of themselves is dying others may be labelling us as shy because we are being quiet problem isn't being shy, it is our judgement of ourselves for it or hiding ourselves away to avoid judgement of who we be or because we fear we will offend others with what we say Tools and questions: When you become aware that all the upset around you isn't yours, say: all this anger, all this sadness, all this fear, I return to sender with consciousness attached and I destroy and uncreate anywhere I'm making it anything to do with me and my reality. Right and wrong, good and bad, POD and POC, all 9, shorts, boys and beyonds®. All the energy that comes up when you find yourself in a situation where you are being labelled as shy or pressured to speak when you are quietly acknowledging your awareness of the situation and others around you, will you now let it go, destroy and uncreate it all? Right and wrong, good and bad, POD and POC, all 9, shorts, boys and beyonds®. Resources:  > Download your free resource - 5 Steps to Overcoming Shyness wherever you are > Find me > Right Voice for You > Explore more with Rosie Brown > Access Consciousness® > Access Consciousness Clearing Statement®  

The frozen food brand Cook is a true family business. Co-founder Edward Perry was inspired by his parents' frozen cake company to set up Cook and then joined in the business by brother James and sister Rosie, who's now co-CEO. An early B Corps, Cook has donated two million meals to children living in some of the most poverty-stricken areas of the world and gave away more than 200000 meals to the needy during Covid. Thanks to initiatives to employ ex-offenders, a profit share and the living wage, they've also consistently been voted one of the Sunday Times' top 100 businesses. But the company has faced some tough times financially too and Rosie tells Mary about how vital it was to stick their core values during them. They also discuss how food has taken centre stage over the past year - from panic buying to eating at home again (and again) - and how the wider food industry has made some big steps in recent years with increased organic production and a focus on reducing waste and plastic, but there's still a lot to be done.  Mary's new book, Rebuild: how to thrive in the new Kindness Economy is available to buy now. To get in touch with team Portas, email us at: kindnesseconomy@portasagency.com Subscribe to the Portas POV Newsletter for musings, provaction insights and inspiration. Want to keep up-to-date with all things Portas? Follow us here: Instagram  ** Linkedin **  Twitter

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How do you tell a parent that their child has died? In this film a policeman describes the way he broke the news of Rosie Brown's death to her mother and the techniques he uses to break bad news as well as possible.

Transcript -- How do you tell a parent that their child has died? In this film a policeman describes the way he broke the news of Rosie Brown's death to her mother and the techniques he uses to break bad news as well as possible.

What's it like to receive the news that your child has died? One night Rosie Brown was late home. Her Mum describes hearing the knock at the door, describes her response to the way the policeman broke the news and reveals how she felt.

Transcript -- What's it like to receive the news that your child has died? One night Rosie Brown was late home. Her Mum describes hearing the knock at the door, describes her response to the way the policeman broke the news and reveals how she felt.