THIS WEEK WE TALK TO ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL, DRIVEN & LOVEABLE PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET, BHARTI RADIX, FOUNDER, BLOOMSYARD. BHARTI'S STORY IS QUITE INCREDIBLE AND GOES FROM WORKING WITH JAMIE OLIVER, DRAFT HOUSE, PETERSHAM NURSERIES & THE COFFEESMITHS COLLECTIVE TO NAME A FEW. BHARTI GAVE UP THE SECURITY OF SENIOR OFFICE FINANCE ROLES TO LEAP HEADFIRST INTO THE WORLD OF HOSPITALITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE MIDDLE OF COVID. BHARTI IS GROWING HER BUSINESS AT THE RATE OF KNOTS AND IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT ENERGY AND DRIVE OVERCOMES EVERYTHING, EVEN IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
THIS WEEK'S GUEST IS BHARTI RADIX, FOUNDER, BLOOMSYARD
Working in the hospitality industry for the past 19 years, primarily in finance, Bharti decided to put away her spreadsheets and go it alone in the big wide world of being an entrepreneur. Going into lockdown #1 in March 2020 she didn’t know what she was going to do next. By April she had decided that she wanted to work on a business plan for her own Café Wine Bar, by the end of May she had launched a website with an eShop selling tea, coffee and wine online and delivering it out to bring some joy to everyone during the rest of that lockdown. By Sep 2020 her first physical site was opened in the local shopping centre, and went on to open a further 4 sites by Jul 2023. Bharti is ambitious and determined and expects that BloomsYard will carrying on expanding in the future and hopes it will be that ‘escape from the hustle and bustle’ that we all look for.
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ABOUT MARK MCC:
Mark McCulloch is one of the leading food, drink and hospitality brand and marketing minds in the world. Mark has over twenty years brand, marketing, digital and social media experience holding senior and board-level positions at lastminute.com, Barclaycard, YO! Sushi and Pret A Manger. Mark co-founded multi-award-winning brand and marketing agency WE ARE Spectacular in 2012 which is still going strong today. Mark is now fulfilling his lifelong ambition to live and work by the sea in Brighton where he is a Virtual Chief Marketing Officer and Brand Strategist for the best hospitality, tech and B2B brands in the UK and beyond. Mark is also a popular thought leader, speaker and broadcaster, the highlight of which being in 2018 when Mark began podcasting and his Mark McC Supersonic Food Marketing podcast hosting guests including the greatest digital mind in the world Gary Vaynerchuk plus music legends Fatboy Slim and Alan McGee (the man who discovered rock band Oasis). Mark’s podcast has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and has reached the top 10 in the UK iTunes business charts and is a regular Top 100 podcast in multiple countries around the world helping educate, entertain and inspire both the marketing and business community. Mark is also the Campaign Director for Hospitality Rising which is an 'Be The Best' army style campaign for hospitality to help solve the hospitality recruitment crisis forever.
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