Episode 032 - Sonny Drinkwater co-founder of WellEasy

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.

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