The In Conversation With… podcast series by The Food People ( a global trends & ideas agency) features people, businesses, brands and entrepreneurs from across the food & drink world – finding out more about why they do what they do, their purpose, how they see the future and how, in their way, they are championing change and shifting the future of food & drink. Our co-founder Mecca Ibrahim (Mex) was delighted to feature this month to speak to Charles Banks about addressing equality within the industry and how our organisation trailblazes women in food.

WIFI Chats is a series of podcasts hosted by Mex Ibrahim, co-founder of ⁠Women in The Food Industry. In this episode Mex talks to the first ladies of UK BBQ – ⁠Sam & Shauna⁠ of the BBC’s Food & Farming Award winning ⁠Hang Fire BBQ⁠ & three BBC hit series ⁠Sam & Shauna’s Big Cook Out⁠ & authors of best selling cookbook – ⁠The Hang Fire Cookbook Recipes & Adventures in American BBQ⁠.

WIFI Chats is a series of podcasts hosted by Janie Ash & Mex Ibrahim, co-founders of Women in the Food Industry. Join them as they chat to wonderful women across the food industry. These podcasts are part of our mission to give a voice to women and by sharing these stories we hope to inspire the next generation of women in the food industry. In this episode Mex chats to Lucianne Allen about how she made the move from being a barrister to running her family’s successful butchery business – Aubrey Allen. It has been in her family since 1933 and supplies meat to some of the nation’s best-known chefs.

Listen to Mex talk about how Janie Ash and her came up with their new incarnations and how Chantelle Nicholson caught Marcus Wareing’s eye.