How I bootstrapped the UK's first CBD gin - Sally Wynter

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Boxlight Creative Studio

Careers, Business, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This is the amazing story of how a young female entrepreneur turned an idea on the beach into a ground-breaking reality. Sally Wynter founded the UK's first CBD-infused Gin company, MUHU Spirits, and bootstrapped her way into one of the most inspiring entrepreneurial stories of the last few years. This is Sally's first-ever interview about how she did it and it's a really heartfelt discussion about the trials and tribulations of being an entrepreneur. This is the first episode of the interview with a second episode due next week where we get to know the more personal side of Sally. In this episode we discuss: How she started where most entrepreneurs hope to end: on the beach. How Sally came up with the name. What CBD is and why it made for such a great product. The lightbulb moment. Cobbling together her first £1000. Having to google the definition of an entrepreneur! How class plays into entrepreneurship. How she found mentors through events. How winning a competition put her in the path of huge business leaders. Why having a media background helped the launch of the product. How she leveraged social media starting from scratch. Where Sally turned to for advice. Why Sally never hired anyone to help her on the business. How she went about raising money. The challenge of first investor meetings. How Sally responded to rejection. Learning about sweat equity. The exit of the business and signing an acquisition deal. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Sunday were lied from the home of smart energy use, three Acacia Drive, and Dave Davo peck them off to a flyer.
0:06.4	Bat's cooking next week's meals off.
0:08.5	Nice nutmeg, and now the washing machines on, then straight into the hiding.
0:12.6	A key sheet for the home side, thanks to the hard price electricity, brim British gas.
0:17.4	Full time, Davo saved it all for Sunday.
0:20.2	Now we can enjoy the football.
0:22.2	Get hard-pressed electricity every Sunday with British gas peak safe.
0:25.6	Sunday's 11-4, ends 24th of September.
0:28.0	Season C's apply, smart meat's required.
0:58.0	The end of the story is perhaps sitting on the beach with a gin and tonic,
1:03.8	thinking about the successful start-up that they grew and exited.
1:08.2	But for today's guest, Sally Winter, that's where the story started.
1:13.2	She was on a beach in Thailand, sipping a cocktail,
1:16.5	and was thinking why there wasn't more infused gin.
1:19.2	And in particular, why there wasn't CBD infused gin in the UK.
1:24.2	It's a pretty incredible story about a young female founder who created a company from scratch.
1:31.3	We dive into that story today.
1:33.6	This show is made possible by the fantastic support of our various partners.
1:38.2	And I wanted to thank the octopus group.
1:40.8	The octopus group is a collection of eight entrepreneurial-minded businesses
1:45.4	across financial services and energy.
1:47.8	All founded on the one simple belief that people and the planet deserve better.
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