How to win back your motivation as a vegan entrepreneur. 'Founder fatigue' can happen in any business, but especially if you have a high emotional investment in your business's cause. You still love your business, you still believe in your mission, but you're tired, stressed and burnt out.

Left unchecked, founder fatigue will kill your business. You'll stop showing up. You'll stop going out and looking for opportunities. You will find yourself, subconsciously, sabotaging your own business.

But all is not lost! In this episode, David brings you his top 5 tips for reinvigorating your enthusiasm for your business and re-connecting with your mission.

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We talk to the man behind the new Veganuary campaign. Sausages are literally pigs stuffed into their own intestines. Kind of weird, right? Veganuary's 2025 campaign takes a new bold direction to the supermarket-friendly campaigns we've seen in previous years. David is joined by Veganuary's Creative Manager Andrew Jolly to discuss the thinking behind the new campaign, and to ask: does it go too far, or not far enough?

Find out why Veganuary decided they needed a new direction with their marketing and how the campaign faced censorship from the advertising industry before it was even released.

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🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism?

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Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. IIn this fourth omnibus episode, David takes you behind the scenes of the first in-person week in Berlin, Germany.

This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.

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Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this third omnibus episode, David heads to the ProVeg offices in Berlin, Germany, for the first in-person week of the programme (via the Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg).

This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.

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🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism?

Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com

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Live panel discussion on what support the vegan business sector needs. The last few years have been tough for all businesses. The Covid pandemic, the cost of living crisis and Brexit have seen hundreds of thousands of businesses being forced to close, and many of those are vegan. In this panel discussion, recorded live at the Vegan Party Conference 2024 in London, David is joined by Veganuary founder Matthew Glover, Keith Lesser from Vegan Accountants, Mitali Deypurkaystha from The Vegan Publisher and Daisy Botha, founder of Vegan Fairs.

We look at what support vegan businesses need, from the small traders through to the large food companies, and how the general public can better support the vegan business sector.

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What to do if your business is failing and how to turn it around. We know that it takes time, hard work and tenacity to make a business successful. But what if there's no light at the end of a tunnel and the money is running out?

David's been there. In this episode, he shares the 8 steps which will first slow the decline and then help you to turn your business around. That is going to mean facing-up to some hard realities about your business and taking what might feel like a step backwards in order to take a huge leap forwards.

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🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism?

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Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. In this second omnibus episode, David finishes off the 'pre-programme' before heading to Berlin for the first in-person week. David talks about the importance of finding a co-founder for your business, carries out a role-model analysis of other organisations that support cause-driven entrepreneurship, and explains how to create a 'problem tree' to explore how your company or organisation can truly make a difference.

This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.

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🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk

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Join David as he goes through the ProVeg Kickstarting For Good business incubator. Have you ever wondered what it's like to get a place on a business incubator? What do you learn and what kind of support do you get? In this first omnibus collection of his video diaries, David shares his journey as he works through the pre-programme before he heads to Berlin. Find out what tasks he has to complete, what the results of his entrepreneur personality test are and why David is now wondering if he's been trying to solve the wrong problem with Vegan Business Tribe for the last four years?!

This is an omnibus edition of several of David's video diaries in one podcast. You can watch each video diary separately as they are released on our YouTube channel or in the Vegan Business Academy on the website.

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🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk

📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

Finding a mentor for your business. Having someone who is more experienced than you showing you the way is invaluable. You will grow quicker, not just as a business but as a business owner too. However, getting a mentor doesn't always mean paying for a business coach - there are plenty of people out there who have already done the thing you are trying to do, and might be happy to give you the benefit of their experience in return for a coffee.

In this episode, Vegan Business Tribe founder David looks at why you need a mentor in your business and how to find one. Because your perfect mentor might be someone you already know.

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Learn how the experts use their business as activism. In this episode, David is joined by our resident vegan business expert Katrina Fox as we discuss our brand-new Vegan Business Tribe series 'Using Your Business As Activism' which is now streaming exclusively in our Vegan Business Tribe Academy.

For this new series, Katrina talked to six of the most exciting and high-profile vegan business activists right now, including: Matthew Glover, founder of Veganuary, VegCapital and VFC; Naijha Wright-Brown, Land of Kush and Black Veg Society; Vikas Garg, founder of Abillion; Adrian Ling, Plamil Foods; Annick Ireland, founder of Immaculate Vegan and Geoff Palmer, founder of Clean Machine.

Katrina and David discuss what they learnt from these six interviews and how you can use your business skills to move the vegan cause forwards.

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🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism?

Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com

🙏With thanks to our sponsors:

🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk

📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com

📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk

Our annual vegan sector update. You will have seen the recent news headlines announcing 'The Death of Veganism' following a number of vegan brands going into administration. But as the demand for plant-based products continues to grow and a record 25 million people gave up animal products during Veganuary this year, why have vegan brands struggled?

In his annual Vegan Sector Update for 2024, David bring you the latest statistics and trends from the sector and highlights the change in consumer behaviour that has driven customers away from brands and towards cheaper own-brand alternatives and ingredients. He also explores what's fuelling those news headlines about veganism being in decline when, seemingly, the opposite is true.

This update was originally prepared as the opening session of the ESSEC Vegan Finance Conference 2024.

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🌱✊Is your vegan business your activism?

Join our amazing community of vegan business owners and entrepreneurs for more amazing content and support to grow your vegan business: www.veganbusinesstribe.com

🙏With thanks to our sponsors:

🧮 Vegan Accountants: Use an accountant that understands your ethics and mission as a vegan business. www.veganaccountants.co.uk

📖 The Vegan Publisher: Transforming business owners or entrepreneurs into bestselling authors. www.theveganpublisher.com

📢 MAD Promotions: The vegan PR agency. Dedicated to getting your vegan business in the news. www.mad-promotions.com

🌳Mindful Wealth: Mindful Wealth is different, and by working with us you’ll make a difference with your money. Website www.mindfulwealth.uk