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Didn’t make it to Foodpreneurs Festival 2025? Or maybe you were there but want a refresher on all the high-impact opportunities presented at the event, and the practical steps to take now to leverage your learnings and industry connections?

In this episode, I sat down with Naishad Dalal, food scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of the Food Entrepreneurship Academy, and Jason Stockton, operations expert and founder of Supply’d, the ERP system built just for Foodpreneurs.

Together, we unpack exactly what went down at Foodpreneurs Festival 2025 - from the brands to watch, to the big questions buyers were asking, to the tools and systems fast-growing brands are using to stay lean and scale smart.

Tune in to learn:

🍏 What retailers were at the Festival and what they were looking for (make note of tips for next year!).
🍏 The standout brands from the Festival that are gaining serious traction.
🍏 How to scale without blowing your budget.
🍏 Margin management: what "healthy" really looks like in today’s climate.
🍏 What your pathway to profit should look like.
🍏 How to use automation to help you grow.

Whether you missed the Festival or just want to make sure you caught every juicy insight, this episode is your post-Festival debrief and action plan.

Listen now to hear how the Festival cracked open growth strategies that work, and what to do next to stay ahead.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Grounded Wholefoods website
• Lady Alchemy website
• Quickie Cookies website
• Coast n Smoke website
• SUP Foods website
• Supply’d website
• Jason Stockton’s LinkedIn
• Food Entrepreneurship Academy website
• Food Entrepreneurship Academy LinkedIn
• Naishad Dalal’s LinkedIn
• Your Free Pitch Plan
• Become a Chelsea Ford Insider

Season 14

Season 14, out now, is 'Scale Season' and is being presented by Chelsea Ford Co.’s 10th anniversary.

For a decade, Chelsea Ford has backed Foodpreneurs and pushed to shake up an industry that too often plays it safe and leaves smaller players behind. She champions bold products, smarter tech, and better ways of working - because the future of CPG should be shaped by ideas, not just deep pockets.

Chelsea believes every emerging brand deserves a fair shot - not crumbs from the big end of town. Founders, no matter their gender, ethnicity, cultural background, spiritual path, sexual orientation, or beliefs, deserve their place on the shelves.

Chelsea stands for healthy competition - real competition - where brave ideas and fresh brands rise up because they’re good, not because they’re bankrolled.

This podcast is part of that mission. Every episode sparks bigger thinking, practical action, and the connections you need to get your products into more hands - and more money in your pocket.

Ten years in, she’s more committed than ever. The next decade is wide open for those ready to do things differently and back themselves to grow.

Click this link to see how you can be part of it.