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Brand New Blueprint by Smoketown
There's a new blueprint for building brands that matter. Let's learn from the most disruptive Founders & CEOs in consumer products while the ink is still wet. Their brands are mission-driven, with new business models and non-traditional paths to market. Brand New Blueprint is produced by Smoketown, a brand strategy and design consultancy that helps visionaries build bold, inspiring brands that are grounded in real consumer needs.
Episodes
18 episodes
JuneShine: Forrest Dein, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
How did JuneShine, a hard kombucha brand started in a garage in San Diego, become a rocket ship that is disrupting the alcohol industry while setting a new bar for sustainability? Forrest Dein, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, grew up i...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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Planet FWD: Julia Collins, Founder & CEO
How did Julia Collins, a three-time founder and the only Black woman in history to found a unicorn, create a new venture that channels her passion for joy, food, radical inclusion and regenerative agriculture? Her company, Planet FWD, makes it ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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Everytable: Sam Polk, Founder & CEO
How did Everytable, a social enterprise in Los Angeles, create a food service business that can solve two persistent symptoms of racism -- food deserts and the wealth gap? When Sam Polk quit his coveted job on Wall Street, he watched a Netflix ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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58:50
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Amore Congelato: Thereasa Black, Founder & CEO
How did a Chobani Incubator brand, founded by a single mother who serves in the military, start out as a promise to the founder's daughter and become a rising star in the plant-based dairy scene? Thereasa Black carries a heavier load than most ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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35:44
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Hodo: Minh Tsai, Founder & CEO
How did a plant-based food brand expand from farmer's markets to every Chipotle and thousands of grocery stores by focusing on quality, innovation and empathy for its employees? Minh Tsai, Founder & CEO of Hodo Foods, quietly built one of t...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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51:16
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Good Eggs: Bentley Hall, CEO - Part 2
What's fueling the runaway success of Good Eggs in e-commerce, and how does it decide which brands to sell? In our second conversation with CEO Bentley Hall, he shares the company's turnaround story, including the blueprint that's driving their...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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27:26
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Good Eggs: Bentley Hall, CEO - Part 1
How could an e-commerce company double in size in just 120 days and still anticipate more growth? That's what Bentley Hall is experiencing as CEO of Good Eggs, an online grocery retailer that has become a rocket ship since COVID-19. In this epi...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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34:20
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Beyond Good: Tim McCollum, Founder & CEO
What happens when a company’s social mission is so clear, so all-in, that it actually leads to a breakthrough? That’s what happened for Tim McCollum, founder and CEO of Beyond Good (formerly called Madécasse), a chocolate company committed to i...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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Partake: Denise Woodard, Founder & CEO
What happens when Jay-Z becomes an early investor in your company? For Denise Woodard, founder and CEO of the allergen-free cookie startup Partake Foods, the answer was simple: she stayed scrappy. During this episode, Denise offers a masterclas...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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38:59
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Bread SRSLY: Sadie Scheffer, Founder & CEO
How does a brand drive epic levels of velocity and loyalty with zero venture capital investment? Many founders assume that equity investment is the only way forward...but most of them will struggle to successfully close a round. With a severe r...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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53:12
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OLIPOP: David Lester, Co-Founder - Part 2
What does it take to disrupt a gigantic category like soda? In this episode, part two of a two part series, OLIPOP's co-founder David Lester breaks down how the team created a wildly successful brand that looks like soda, tastes like soda, and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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37:18
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OLIPOP: David Lester, Co-Founder - Part 1
How did a beverage start-up generate so much momentum that it closed a $10 million round of financing after just one year on the market? In this episode, part one of a two part conversation, David Lester explains that OLIPOP, a sparkling tonic ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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31:49
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4th & Heart: Raquel Tavares, Founder & CEO
How do you achieve over 4,000% growth with a niche product mostly known for Indian cooking? In this episode of Brand New Blueprint, find out how Raquel Tavares and her team at 4th & Heart built the #4 fastest growing food/bev company in the...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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35:57
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A Dozen Cousins: Ibraheem Basir, Founder & CEO
What is the disruptive potential of America's new, record-breaking level of diversity? For Ibraheem Basir, one of those implications is clear: As the country's racial and ethnic make-up shifts, consumers will demand more cultural authenticity f...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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41:39
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Once Upon A Farm: John Foraker, Co-Founder & CEO - Part 2
How do you create a new category? In our second conversation with John Foraker, he explains how Once Upon A Farm is creating the fresh baby food category. Just 18 months into the journey, the brand has already tripled velocities and expanded di...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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36:21
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Once Upon A Farm: John Foraker, Co-Founder & CEO - Part 1
When John Foraker and actress Jennifer Garner joined Once Upon A Farm, a fresh baby food start-up, guess what they did first? They created its mission and values. In this episode, the first of two with John, he explains why creating a clear mis...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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30:11
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Dirty Lemon: Zak Normandin, Founder & CEO
When Zak Normandin founded Dirty Lemon, a beverage brand with celebrity fans, he and his team broke every rule. High price, no retail distribution, experimental ingredients. Dirty Lemon even bought a technology company best known for weather fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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33:20
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REBBL: Sheryl O'Loughlin, CEO
Sheryl O'Loughlin is the CEO of REBBL, a functional beverage brand that was created, literally from day one, to defeat human trafficking. But, before REBBL, she had walked away from leading CPG companies forever. Learn how Sheryl is building th...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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33:59
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