S11: Growing a mission led business from the ground up, with Sebastian Pole co-founder of Pukka Herbs
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
After years of studying to become a Master Herbsmith, Sebastian spied an advert in a local magazine, placed by Tim Westwell, looking for creative business ideas related to herbalism. As the only person to respond, the seeds were sown and they embarked upon creating a mission led business, with truly ethical roots.
It is a conversation that speaks volumes about staying true to your values, never wavering from your vision and the power of building a business that balances purpose with profit.
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| 0:00.0 | It was such a pleasure speaking to Sebastian Poll co-founder of Pucker Herbs, |
| 0:05.5 | and I might have mentioned quite a few times how much I love a good cup of tea. |
| 0:11.1 | I also did perhaps job franken for the arguments that we have as all the herbal teas |
| 0:17.2 | fall on the counter as each morning I try and make a cuppa, but that didn't take away from |
| 0:23.8 | the beautiful conversation that we had. And one of the things that sprung to mind was |
| 0:29.6 | how many businesses start by chance. And here Sebastian speaks so fondly about when Tim |
| 0:36.1 | puts an ad in a magazine and Sebastian answers it. And in a way as they say the rest is history |
| 0:44.1 | and of course throughout the entire interview both Sebastian and I were sipping on our |
| 0:49.2 | pucker tea of choice. Make sure you make yourself a brew because you're going to enjoy this one. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. |
| 1:06.8 | Back in 2006 I founded Not on the High Street for my kitchen table and since then I've |
| 1:12.8 | gone on to launch Holly and Co. I'm the UK ambassador of creative small businesses and I believe |
| 1:19.2 | that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life. My dream is to |
| 1:25.0 | help everybody start theirs. I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement. |
| 1:32.4 | And in my view the best way to do this is by sharing stories. So I've reached out to my favorite |
| 1:39.7 | small businesses, entrepreneurs and those who simply inspire me and ask them to share theirs. |
| 1:46.7 | With thanks to Dell Technologies who've helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my |
| 1:52.8 | conversations of inspiration. Hi Sebastian, what a pleasure it is to meet you. Now you won't know |
| 2:00.8 | this but you're the man that causes quite a few arguments in my kitchen each morning. And the |
| 2:05.9 | reason being is that the tea bags, the sort of builders teas at the front and all my puckities |
| 2:11.6 | are behind and what happens I know but that's where the boys put it downstairs and what happens |
| 2:17.4 | each morning is when they go to get it my puckities all fall out and then we have this whole |
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