Alex Head, founder of Social Pantry, on creating a recipe for social change
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
WHY YOU WILL ENJOY THIS EPISODE
- You’ll hear how Alex is reinventing traditional catering, transforming lives in the process
- Be inspired by the power of entrepreneurship and Alex’s unwavering sense of adventure
- Discover more about knockbacks, and mistakes, being a catalyst for growth
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| 0:00.0 | The founder of Social Pantry, Alex Head was my guess this week. |
| 0:04.8 | Social Pantry is a catering business and is, |
| 0:08.8 | oh my goodness, I had, I was having heart palpitations listening to what they actually pull off in a week as someone who cannot cook |
| 0:18.0 | and the idea of cooking for someone and actually serving a dish, I'd rather, as I said, pull out my eyelashes, but Alex was enlightening. |
| 0:26.6 | And I love what Alex has built, a catering company that does good by now having a part of her workforce being ex-offenders. |
| 0:40.0 | She gives people a second chance and believes that we should all do that, |
| 0:46.0 | where a kitchen is a lifeline for those who need help, need support and need to blossom. |
| 0:52.0 | The ethics and this wonderful mix like a recipe of doing good for people, |
| 0:58.3 | sustainability, running a business, a female founded business, changing up an industry. |
| 1:06.0 | It has all of these wonderful, I want to say flavours, I'm getting too into it, but Alex is incredible and Social Pantry is a real |
| 1:16.0 | inspiration for all of us to take whatever we're doing and turn it on its head |
| 1:21.4 | do something different bring your heart and soul into what you're building, |
| 1:26.0 | and then see what happens. Enjoy. |
| 1:30.0 | Bow your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going you won't need to bring your frown |
| 1:37.8 | Hi I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration. I founded my first business not on the |
| 1:46.1 | high street at 28 with a newborn strap to my chest. Nearly 20 years on he's all grown up and I'm running my second business |
| 1:55.4 | Holly Inco. I've learned so much about taking risks, running a business and some |
| 2:01.6 | extraordinary life lessons along the way and I know others have too. |
| 2:06.5 | Yet despite the wealth of experience we have between us, |
| 2:10.0 | lessons like this are often left unheard and it can feel like we're traveling our paths alone. |
| 2:16.0 | So I've reached out to founders and those who simply inspire me to share their hard earned wisdom with you. My hope is that collectively these |
| 2:26.2 | remarkable realizations will help you on your own journey. I like to think of it as |
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