Bex Walker – Bexfast
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For Episode 10 of the podcast I welcome Bex Walker who is a shining example of slow growth and tough resilience in the face of challenges.
Listen to her journey from selling a few of her healthy, Vegan breakfast pots at local fitness bootcamps and making the pots overnight in her home kitchen to leading a team of people and fulfilling hundreds of orders each week. You’ll hear about:
Bex’s former career that took her to America before an unexpected discovery took her life on a different trajectory.
How a serious health issue, that left her struggling to stay awake even to tie a shoelace, started her down the path to being a Vegan and eventually starting her business.
One clear thing that Bex has is bags of determination, listen as she tells us how she pushed through one of the hardest periods of her life and how this helped her build her business.
Bex reveals a long list of specific challenges she faced in her business and how she managed to overcome each and every one.
The ill-advice from a mentor she followed to then only realise the “numbers were wrong” as she then had to make a choice between letting the business go and scaling overnight. Guess which one she chose?
How Bex and her husband harnessed Facebook advertising and the resulting “cher-ching” of shopify notifications that meant her business was saved.
How Bexfast wasn’t even meant to be a business and the resulting growth that came from the demand of her customers! Hear her tale of dragging a suitcase full of breakfast pots around the London Underground!
Bex’s advice on starting out in business, how to stay true to yourself and why storytelling is so important.
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About Bex Walker
Bex Walker and her daughter Tyler are the vegan dream team behind Bexfast. Built with passion for whole foods and dessert they combined the two to make these insanely delicious pots that allow you to have your cake and eat it.. for breakfast!
Bex started the award-winning, all natural, vegan breakfast company in 2015 after changing her unhealthy lifestyle, in the hope that she would be a positive role model for her daughter, Tyler. Having been addicted to cake throughout the pregnancy, Bex wanted to find a way to cut the cravings without forfeiting the taste or satisfaction and that is when she began making the first versions of the whole food, breakfast pots.
From bootcamps to tube station drop-offs, winning 'London's Hottest Food Entrepreneur' and successfully crowdfunding over £23k, Bex has built this well-loved food company against all the odds, with her daughter by her side.
Website: https://bexfast.com/
Instagram: @bexfast_