Innovative Conversations with Melissa Snover Melissa Snover

Today I am joined by Prolific Diet Distruptor and Entrepreneur Barbara Cox
Inspired by food and health whilst living in Japan Barbara trained as a nutritionist and set up the iconic brand Nutrichef in the UK in 2004. 
Since then she's been creating healthy meal plans for busy people who want to lose weight, maintain a healthy lifestyle or achieve fitness goals. 
She sold Nutrichef in March 2015 and set up BC Nutrition to continue consulting businesses on implementing strategies to improve productivity and consult individuals on health related issues.
Her client list and work experience is expansive and is coupled with multiple book deals and product developments.
She has been through the entrepreneurial journey multiple times From start-up to exit, and has garnered impressive results in business growth, brand development, and brand value generation. 
She's here today to talk with us about all things nutrition and I am hoping has some great tips for all of us out there who are looking to upgrade our nutrition and eating habits in 2020. 

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Today I am joined by Prolific Entrepreneur and Moon Shooter Naveen Jain.
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur driven to solve global grand challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Bluedot, TalentWise, InfoSpace and is the current CEO of Viome – which in my opinion is the most impressive business out there working with microbiome and rna expression testing to give people the information they need to make the best choices for their health.
Viome’s vision to make illness optional is disrupting the healthcare industry in big ways by identifying microbial biomarkers that are predictive of chronic diseases and to adjust these imbalances through personalised nutrition and lifestyle modifications
Naveen Jain is also the director of the board at the X PRIZE Foundation where he is focused on using incentive prizes to find solutions to many of the societal challenges. 
Most recently he launched a million-dollar Women Safety XPRIZE to empower women's safety around the world.

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Today I am joined by Experienced Sustainability Leader and circular economy expert, Philip Mossop. 
Phillip started from a very young age at 19 starting his first recycling business in London to move on in to develop a vast and various career– working with Retail and Food Giants like H&M, Starbucks, Subway, & The Body Shop to bring the UK's Circular Economy Revolution to fruition.
Philip is the COO @ Pentatonic, who are an incredibly cool company with a very bold and dramatic mission. They envision a future where recycling, reusing and repurposing waste material will not only be social responsible and sustainable but also value adding and profitable for businesses and consumers. They are working with some of the most notable names in the worlds of fashion, electronics and retail such as Nike, Burger King and New Era to develop innovative new waste to reuse solutions which will replace the status quo and push the momentum of the plastic free movement to the next level and beyond. 
Pentatonic's technologies transform post-consumer materials and supply chain surplus into high performance, luxurious solutions for the world’s largest companies and most influential brands.
At Pentatonic, we invent new materials using the world’s most abundant and dangerous resource – human trash – and we do so without compromising an inch on design, performance or function.
We can turn yesterday’s drinking bottles into beautiful, ergonomically designed chairs. We can turn your cracked smartphone screen into high-end glassware. Our engineers and designers have over 15 years’ experience in creating revolutionary material solutions; planet-saving, design-led alternatives to virgin materials.

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Today I am joined by Abigail Stevens from the Vegan Society.
 
The popularity of plant-based and vegan lifestyles is not showing any signs of slowing, with The Economist naming 2019 ‘The Year of the Vegan’. Due in part to rise of the eco-conscious consumer, we have identified that there has been an increase in people opting for a vegan diet for environmental reasons. We predict that, in line with the demands of these eco-consumers, there will be more pressure to create sustainable and environmentally-friendly vegan products, encouraging innovation in the sector and making way for more plastic-free and low-waste product solutions.
Such a huge number of new vegan product launches is increasing competition in the sector. Supermarkets are in on it too, racing to launch the most diverse plant-based ranges to catch the attention of shoppers. Brands will have to think carefully about their branding and communicating the vegan credentials of their products to stand out from the crowd.
Abigail is a trained journalist and marketing professional and has been working with The Vegan Society for over 5 years to help the worlds oldest charity keep up with the sky rocketing demand for vegan products, advice and certifications. 
The Vegan Society is a non-profit organisation that coined the term 'vegan' in 1944 and introduced their vegan labelling scheme, the Vegan Trademark, in 1990. Entering the business development team to assist with registering products as suitable for vegans, I quickly identified a need to enhance the service we provided. I made it my mission to give our clients more visibility to both trade and consumer audiences. Four years on, I have been working with businesses of all sizes and from around the world to improve the recognition of their vegan products and help them to access new customers. I have gained an unrivalled insight into the growing vegan product market and an understanding of each category within it. I'm well placed to support companies who are ready to take their vegan product offering to the next level, and to support, promote and develop the work The Vegan Society does in registering products with its Vegan Trademark. 

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Hi I’m Melissa Snover and I am delighted to welcome you to the first Nourished – Nourish your New Year Podcast.
At Nourished we believe in 5 key pillars:

Technology and harnessing it as an empowerment toolNutrition as medicine – prevention is better than cureEntrepreneurial thinking and challenging the status quo to create real positive changeSustainability – walking the walk – creating businesses which are locally sourced, plastic free and sustainable from top to bottomPlant Based Power, Veganism and plant based eating as a choice for the environment and our public health
Over the series we will be talking to some of the most prolific leaders, industry disruptors and radical thinkers in hopes of inspiring you to Nourish your health, mind, planet and community in the new year.

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