S5: Sipsmith’s founders Fairfax Hall and Sam Galsworthy explain the vision it took to set up the first independent gin distillery in 200 years
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Sipsmith's story is a special one - in an industry that has not seen a new independent gin distillery opened in over 200 years, Sipsmith single-handedly changed the entire industry, simultaneously bringing
with it a connection to the traditions of the gin industry, whilst also bringing the fun that its founders embody so completely.
They discuss their startup journey to success, the decision to sell their business after 10 years and their formative years that laid the foundations for building the Sipsmith empire.
Sam and Fairfax share incredibly heartfelt and emotional letters at the end of this conversation, they are not to be missed.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration |
| 0:06.3 | founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative |
| 0:12.1 | Small Businesses. |
| 0:13.7 | I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy, fulfilled life, |
| 0:20.3 | and my dream is to help everyone start theirs. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement, |
| 0:29.0 | and in my view, the greatest way to do this is by sharing stories. |
| 0:33.6 | So I've reached out to all my favorite small businesses, |
| 0:37.0 | acclaimed entrepreneurs, and those who just simply inspire me |
| 0:41.8 | and ask them to share theirs. With thanks to our sponsor Nat West |
| 0:46.3 | who have helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my conversations of |
| 0:51.6 | inspiration. |
| 0:53.0 | Bough your head and let your islands close on down where we're going. |
| 0:58.0 | This week on Conversations of Inspiration, I'm speaking to Sam Galesworthy and Fairfax Hall founders of Sip Smith |
| 1:05.3 | Jin. I traveled the short journey down the road to Chisic to their beautiful copper |
| 1:10.3 | distillery where we have the most interesting and heartfelt conversation. |
| 1:15.3 | I went into the interview knowing what lovely humans say were, through the interactions I'd |
| 1:20.0 | already had, but wanted to understand more about whether this had been an easier ride than most startup stories, |
| 1:28.0 | and why they'd taken the decision to sell their business after 10 years. |
| 1:33.0 | And I have to say, not only did these friends |
| 1:36.0 | who'd known each other since they were two years old, |
| 1:39.0 | tell me about that classic, darkest, hardest times of their life being the setup of Sipsmith, delivering |
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