Leading a chocolate revolution, with Chantal Coady OBE, founder of The Chocolate Detective

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It’s a tough job but someone has to do it. Chantal Coady OBE – AKA The Chocolate Detective — is on a mission to help you uncover the finest and most ethical chocolate around.

Fuelled by a lifelong love of all things chocolate, Chantal’s business journey began at just 23, opening Rococo on the Kings Road, and stocking in the likes of Liberty, Heals and British Airways. However, there have also been extreme lows, after a terrible experience saw her lose her first business in 2019.

Now returning to her creative chocolate roots, Chantal is using her years of knowledge and experience to guide the revolution for ethical, delectable chocolate with the utmost transparency — a mission she has been driving for the past 40 years.

This is a life-affirming conversation that reminds us all that in whatever we pursue, passion might be the only thing that can heal us.

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0:00.0	This week, it's the wonderful Chantal Cody, OBE, founder of Rococo chocolates and the chocolate
0:07.6	detective. Chantal is a very special woman and I'm so honored that she went to some of the most
0:15.0	painful points in her business journey. Places that actually triggered a lot of emotion for my own
0:22.0	journey and in this podcast we share what the lows really feel like when your brand is taken
0:29.9	away from you and testament to women with grit and a foresight that they are more than just one
0:38.5	chapter of the story. Chantal talks about moving on to the next chocolate chapter and where she
0:46.3	wants a chocolate industry that's fairer and a more ethical place and you know what despite all
0:53.3	the challenges that Chantal's had she faces into them with this inner light, with this strength,
1:00.5	with this grit and with her hope for the future and that's something I'm holding on to and I know
1:09.2	this podcast will be a healing one, a positive one and one full of chocolate magic. Enjoy!
1:25.2	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Back in 2006 I founded Not on the High
1:32.6	Street for my kitchen table and since then I've gone on to launch Holly and Co. I'm the UK
1:38.7	Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses and I believe that having a business doing what you love
1:44.3	is the key to a happy fulfilled life. My dream is to help everybody start theirs. I'm here to offer
1:51.6	advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement and in my view the best way to do this is by sharing
1:59.5	stories. So I've reached out to my favourite small businesses, entrepreneurs and those who simply
2:06.0	inspire me and ask them to share theirs. Here are my Conversations of Inspiration.
2:14.2	Chantal it is a huge pleasure to meet you today. I was lucky enough to be given some of your
2:20.5	squizzet chocolate eggs a while ago and as you know since then I've been just a ridiculous fan
2:26.4	of what you've created. Chantal welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Thank you Holly I'm
2:32.6	really really touched to be invited and I'm delighted to be here. Oh it's going to be a good
2:37.7	ie I can tell already. I mean chocolate's been part of your life now for 40 years. You're a
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