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Marketing MovesThe Perfect Spread for Success Ft. Ali Bonar (Oat Haus)In this episode of Marketing Moves, Ali Bonar, co-founder and CEO of Oat Haus, shares how her personal recovery from an eating disorder led to the creation of Granola Butter, the first oat-based spread of its kind. She opens up about the challenges of launching a new product category, the power of organic influencer partnerships, and the strategic storytelling that helped Oat Haus land in major retailers like Whole Foods and Costco. Ali also gets real about the mental health side of entrepreneurship, managing social media pressures, and what’s next for Oat Haus.2025-04-0258 min
Dear FoundHer...Healing Your Soul Through a Product That’s Now in 5000+ Stores Nationwide, with Ali Bonar, Founder of Oat HausBuilding a successful brand takes more than a great product. It takes showing up, sharing your story, and earning trust, day after day.Lindsay Pinchuk sits down with Ali Bonar, the co-founder and the CEO of Oat Haus, to talk about turning personal struggles into a business with real impact. After spending years battling an eating disorder, Ali wanted to change how people experience food. That journey led her to create granola butter, the world’s first oat-based spread. Now, Oat Haus products are stocked in over 5,000 stores, including Target and Whole Foods. But getting there wa...2025-03-1847 min
Lay of The Land#197: Ali Bonar (Oat Haus) — The Granola Butter CompanyAli Bonar — CEO & Co-Founder of Oat Haus, a food company bringing fun and play to eating. Their flagship product, Granola Butter, is the world's first oat-based spread and while Oat Haus was born out of Ali's decade-long battle with an eating disorder, and it's now her mission to help others feel less alone.Since its beginnings in 2018, Oat Haus has evolved from Ali’s personal project to a Cleveland-based, nationwide company with distribution in over 5,000 stores, including Target, Whole Foods, Publix, and more.This conversation was a lot of fun — Ali shares the challe...2025-01-2358 min
Shelf HelpThe Power of Transparency When Scaling Your Brand with Ali Bonar, Co-Founder of Oat HausRESOURCESLearn more on the Oat Haus Website Listen to Episode 1: Sometimes the strangest ideas make the best businesses! In this episode, I’m joined by Ali Bonar, CEO and co-founder of Oat Haus, the innovative brand behind Granola Butter — the world’s first oat-based spread now available in over 5,000 stores. Today, Ali lifts the curtain on growing a unique food brand that connects directly with consumers.In our chat, Ali shares the inspiring origin story of Oat Haus and how they built a loyal fan base online before making it to retai...2024-12-1234 min
Digest ThisFinding Food Freedom + Pleasure Beyond Food | Ali Bonar208: WANT FOOD FREEDOM? Ali Bonar, the co-owner of Oat Hous Granola Butter is on the show today and she shares about her past eating disorder, food fear, and how she broke free and created a food company out of her past struggles. We talk about why binging is so common and the connection between food and emotions and how so many of us revert to food when we are sad or happy, and how we can revert to other means beside food to cope without emotions. Food can certainly give us pleasure, however when food is the ONLY pleasure...2024-09-251h 06
The Irresistible FactorInterview with Founder and CEO of Oat Haus – Ali Bonar"My fascination with food was from a place of fear rather than love. It was obsessive, toxic, and stressful."For many founders, their journey into entrepreneurship starts with passion, a great idea, or the dream of disrupting an industry. But for Ali Bonar, the founder and CEO of Oat Haus, it began with a deeply personal struggle—her battle with multiple eating disorders. Her journey of healing and rediscovery ultimately led her to create Oat Haus, the first-ever oat-based Granola Butter, which is now shaking up the food industry.What began as a kitchen experiment in...2024-09-0442 min
She Leads with Carly132: Ali Bonar | Co-Founder & CEO, Oat Haus*TW: Discussion Around Eating Disorders* Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oat Haus, the first-ever spreadable granola. Think the texture of nut butter, but the warm, familiar taste of granola.She founded Oat Haus back in 2018 as it was part of her recovery journey from disordered eating. She searched high and low for a nut-free spread that resonated with her, but couldn't find one. She came up with the idea to create one out of oats, and Granola Butter was born! Now, Oat Haus is sold at over 5000 retailers across the country, inc...2024-08-2851 min
The Red Light ReportHow to Manage Stress, Hack Work-Life Balance & Optimize Wellness as an Entrepreneur w/ Oat Haus CEO & Co-Founder, Ali BonarThe life of a CEO can be beyond crazy, hectic, stressful, rewarding, empowering, creative, fulfilling, chaotic.... let's just call it an emotional roller coaster! As we learned from Don Bailey (CEO of BlockBusters Tech) a couple of weeks ago, adding some mitochondrial hacks, such as red light therapy and methylene blue, significantly moved the needle in the focus and creativity departments for him. And while today's guest, Ali Bonar, whom is the CEO and co-founder of Oat Haus (yes, that nom nom granola butter that became famous on Shark Tank!), implements both RLT and MB into her wellness regimen, she h...2024-07-2551 min
High Vibration Living with Chef Whitney AronoffAli Bonar on Healing An Eating Disorder, Building Oat Haus, Food Freedom & Finding FunAli Bonar is CEO & Co-Founder of Oat Haus, a food company bringing fun and play to eating. Their flagship product, Granola Butter, is the world's first oat-based spread. Oat Haus was born out of Ali's decade-long battle with an eating disorder, and it's now her mission to help others feel less alone. Oat Haus is sold in over 3,000 stores like Target, Whole Foods, Publix and more. Ali lives in Cleveland with her partner and their dog, Squishy.We discuss
Finding fo...2024-07-1645 min
Female Startup ClubGEMS: Influencer Marketing Playbook (from both sides) with Oat Haus co-founder Ali BonarHello and welcome back to the show - it’s Doone here - your host and Hype Girl.In these twice-weekly episodes, we will be digging back into our archives to find little value-packing gems from previous episodes.In this gem, Ali Bonar walks us through the influencer market strategy that seriously moved the needle for Oat Haus back in the early days, and any hot tips she has coming from both the influencer and the business side. I still think about this Gem all the time and I hope it will help yo...2024-05-1310 min
On the OutsideS1 E9: Disordered Eating, Body Image, Social Media, Navigating Hashimoto's and Recovery With Ali BonarIn today’s episode I talk to Ali Bonar @alibonar. Ali is CEO and co-founder of Oat Haus, a food company on a mission to bring fun & play to food.We Talk About… Relationships with our parents The pressure of going away to college Ali’s experience with disordered eating What recovery means or might look like Social media’s impact on body image Hashimotos Finding resources for health and wellness careResources: Follow @alibonar and @oat.haus Full episode transcription and citations: https://www.taylorraealmonte.com/on-the-outside-podcastKeep In Touch: Visit taylorrae...2024-03-1841 min
The Sunshine Signal40. MEET THE GRANOLA BUTTER QUEEN: Authentic Entrepreneurship, Overcoming an Eating Disorder, and Creating the World’s First Oat-Based Spread feat. Ali BonarJoin Hailey as she chats with Ali Bonar, entrepreneur and founder of OatHaus and Granola Butter, the world's first oat-based spread! From her debut on Shark Tank to transparency online sharing the not-so-glamorous but REAL parts of being a female founder and woman in today's world, Ali is an advocate for authenticity and aligned entrepreneurship. This episode covers everything from mental health to eating disorders and tips for aspiring entrepreneurs...a GOOD one not to be missed!
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+Ali's journey as a college-student--what she learned + overcoming an eating disorder
2023-12-2952 min
The Current53 | Feeding the Soul with Oat Haus Founder Ali BonarMeet Ali Bonar, founder of Oat Haus, and Nadia's former client. Ali graciously agreed to come onto the show to share more about her journey from battling an eating disorder into starting a food company to aid in her recovery.
Over the past couple of years, Ali has also been exploring spirituality through the lens of inner child work, Human Design, and psychedelic therapy.
0:45 - Introduction
1:30 - Ali’s path overcoming disordered eating, founding Oat Haus, and finding spirituality
2:52 - Ali’s initial skepticism turned gradual embrace of spirituality
6:58 - Overcoming people-pleasing
9:15 - Intuition in business
11:20 - Th...2023-12-201h 09
Brunch & Learn PodcastEP: 72 Vulnerability in Building a Brand and Transparent Storytelling with Ali Bonar, CEO & Co-Founder of Oat HausMeet Ali: Ali Bonar is CEO and co-founder of Oat Haus, a food company on a mission to bring fun & play back to food. Their flagship product, Granola Butter, is the world's first oat-based spread and was born out of Ali's eating disorder recovery. Oat Haus is available at over 1,200 stores, including Whole Foods, Sprouts, Harris Teeter, The Fresh Market & more. Ali lives in Philadelphia with her partner Eric and their dog, Squishy.Website: https://oat.hausOat Haus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oat.haus...2023-03-2938 min
Non-Technical100. Ali Bonar (CEO & Co-Founder, Oat Haus) is riding the (emotional!!) waveThis week, Alexis gets non-technical with Ali Bonar, CEO and Co-Founder of Oat Haus. They talk about JUICY weeks off, feeling pink!!, ordering from the Expanded Menu, “my therapist,” actually flossing, and when you could(n’t???) care less.You can find Ali on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ali_bonar. You can find Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay, instagram.com/yayalexisgay, and tiktok.com/@yayalexisgay or you can sign up for her email list at bit.ly/hellofromalexis.This episode is brought to you by Async, the first platform that helps replace unnecessary meetings with voi...2023-02-2239 min
Wicked FearlessEpisode 150: All About The Oats w/ Ali BonarAli Bonar is the founder and CEO of Oat Haus. After struggling with food & body image issues for over a decade, she searched high and low for healthy and delicious nut-free spread's. Not really loving anything currently offered at grocery stores, she took to her kitchen and started making concoctions of her own. After many iterations of her original creation she finally figured it out! And so Oat Haus was truly born out of Ali's frustration with the lack of great taste and FUN in this food group. Oat Haus is the first-ever spreadable granola. With the texture of...2023-02-1549 min