The Visionary Collective with Lisa Mitchell

088 How to Build a Purpose-Led and Profitable Business with Emilie Vanpoperinghe

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Joining me on today’s episode is Emilie Vanpoperinghe, CEO and Co-Founded of Oddbox, a company that rescues rescues delicious fruit and vegetable which is deemed ‘too big’, ‘too ugly’, the ‘wrong’ colour, or ‘too many’ from going to waste. A supply-led model, Oddbox partners with growers throughout the UK to box up and deliver this ‘too odd’ or ‘too many’ produce to a food waste fighting community across the UK.

In this episode, we discuss Emilie’s views on food and food waste, and how to maintain sustainability in the world by changing our relationship to food. Emilie talks about how she envisaged her business as a full time job, and how she has managed to balance off campaigning and building a purpose-led and profitable business.

What You’ll Learn: 

  • Emilie’s journey into discovering food wastes and what inspired her to tackle the problem in her surroundings 
  • The challenges she faced as a startup business owner and how she overcame them
  • How she maintains the agility mindset within her organisation 
  • 3 things that keep Emilie motivated to work with her team
  • Insightful tips on how to build a purpose-led and profitable business from scratch 

Emilie’s organisation shows that there’s prosperity wherever visionaries gather to co-create. They encourage us to surround ourselves with people that inspire us to put our work out there and make a difference in the world.

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