Episode 032 - Sonny Drinkwater
The following is a conversation with Sonny Drinkwater, an entrepreneur and co-founder of WellEasy, which is a membership-based online platform that aims to make healthy living accessible and affordable for everybody.
Sonny and the team at WellEasy have been on a mission over the last couple of years, organically growing their business from the ground up.
Starting in a garage to being an online platform that now has over 10, 000 members. They've also started to manufacture and sell some of their own products. Sonny explained the journey throughout our conversation today, all the various ups and downs associated with building a business, and also gave us some real insights into his vision, which is to improve the health of the nation through his business.
I loved speaking to Sonny as a mission-led founder. I learned a lot about supermarkets in the UK, the food industry as a whole, and his approach to healthy living as a founder.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of the listeners and supporters of the podcast for everything you've done to help us build the name, and the brand, and to get the message out there around microbiome being critically important and gut health being really important for wider body health.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:55 Eating real vs processed foods
00:03:16 Starting WellEasy
00:07:49 Poor food choices in the UK
00:09:49 Food product testing
00:12:39 Defining ultra-processed foods
00:15:39 Changing how we look at food
00:17:30 Balancing food, life and relationships
00:21:28 Are some supermarkets better than others?
00:23:37 Managing life as an entrepreneur
00:27:00 Biohacking
00:31:22 Supply chain issues
00:33:15 Eating healthily at work
00:35:10 More about starting WellEasy
00:38:14 WellEasy’s membership scheme
00:44:28 Challenges of eating healthily
00:56:09 “Healthy” snacks for kids
00:59:03 Political involvement in healthy eating
01:01:28 Vision for WellEasy
01:03:09 Prebiotic fibre