S12: Rewriting the Ready Meal Book with Charlie Bigham founder of Charlie Bigham’s

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

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

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Holly talks with Charlie Bigham, founder of Charlie Bigham’s ready meals.

A brand name synonymous with ‘home cooking’, this episode goes behind the brand name to meet the founder himself.

Charlie’s story is a fascinating one, after taking an industry by storm, he used his commitment and vision to not only challenge the status quo of ready meals but to build a business that acts as a true force for good in the world.

Shunning the ‘way things were always done’ and instead setting the standard for how things ‘should be done’, Charlie is a testament to going against the grain and truly loving what you do.

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0:00.0	My guess this week is Charlie Bigum, founder of the incredible Charlie Bigum's Meals.
0:05.6	As a self-confessed addict to his fish pie and apparently I'm in good company as it is his best
0:12.0	seller, one of the things I love most about this conversation is an understanding that however long
0:18.3	you've been running your business call yourself an amateur and it really gave me strength to keep
0:25.6	knowing that I don't know enough. I also love this word contrarian, where we zig when other
0:32.8	zag, what a golden thread that runs across all of my interviews and all of us founders
0:38.8	as we always do like to have a bit of mischief. You get to come away from this interview not only
0:43.7	enjoying it, probably being hungry, but you're potentially going to be asking, does my business
0:50.8	do enough good for the world and those that work within it?
1:04.0	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Back in 2006 I founded not
1:10.9	on the high street from my kitchen table and since then I've gone on to launch Holly and co.
1:16.7	I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses and I believe that having a business doing
1:22.3	what you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life. My dream is to help everybody start theirs.
1:29.3	I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement and in my view the best way to do
1:36.7	this is by sharing stories. So I've reached out to my favourite small businesses, entrepreneurs
1:43.5	and those who simply inspire me and ask them to share theirs. With thanks to Dell Technologies
1:50.4	who've helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my Conversations of Inspiration.
1:58.8	Hi Charlie, what a pleasure it is to meet you finally. I have been a huge fan. We have this
2:04.8	thing at Holly and co, which is called a podcast pot and these are all the people who I've wanted
2:11.1	to interview and you have been on there for so, so long. So now finally I get to, I get to meet you.
2:17.9	Well, I have very nice to meet you as well, Holly and I'm very, very privileged to be on your
2:21.8	lovely podcast. Thank you. I was also just commenting that myself, Frank and Harry, big fans of
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