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Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.The 18th Century Grand Tour, in 2025. Flight-free travel, with Cat Jones, CEO at ByWay.What happens when a tech investor decides to revolutionize travel during a global pandemic? Meet Cat Jones, founder and CEO of Byway, who launched her flight-free travel company in 2020 while on maternity leave. Unlike traditional travel that treats the journey as a means to an end, Byway focuses on making the journey itself the destination—connecting travelers across Europe through trains, boats, and buses in carefully crafted multi-stop adventures. What started as a personal passion for overland travel has evolved into a rapidly growing business that's challenging how we think about holidays, combining sophisticated routing technology with deeply human cu...2025-07-2432 min
Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.Making That Cadbury’s Gorilla Advert: Marketing Wisdom from Phil Rumbol, ex Marketing Director at InBevWhat happens when you combine a gorilla, Phil Collins, and chocolate marketing genius?Phil Rumbol joins us to share the story behind one of advertising's most memorable campaigns. With an impressive career spanning from InBev's award-winning Stella Artois work to his groundbreaking tenure at Cadbury, Phil knows what it takes to build brands that stick. At Cadbury, he faced a critical challenge: the iconic chocolate brand had lost an entire generation of consumers, with anyone under 40 showing less affinity for the brand than their older counterparts. His solution? A seemingly random but strategically brilliant advert...2025-07-0329 min
The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson#129 - Matt Chandler // Toxic Masculinity: A Christian PerspectivePastor Matt Chandler addresses the cultural narrative of "toxic masculinity" that has left many men feeling discouraged, devalued, and demoralized. He begins a week-long exploration of biblical masculinity by examining God's unique biological design for men and setting up the question of why God created these differences.• The American Psychological Association's 2018 guidelines denounced "traditional masculine ideology" as harmful• Many men today struggle with loneliness, frustration, exhaustion, and negative generational patterns• Being male (XY chromosomes) doesn't automatically make someone a man• Genesis 2:7 shows God's intentional creation and positioning of man• Men have biological differences including...2025-06-3005 min
Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.How to become friends with strangers? Timeleft - The App Connecting Strangers Over Dinner in 300 CitiesMaxime Barbier’s journey is anything but typical. A serial entrepreneur from Paris, Maxime built his first business at just 22, later selling it to national television in France. But what came after was even more transformative. Faced with the question of “what's next?” after a successful exit, he took 100 coffees with 100 strangers - an experiment that reshaped his view of purpose, connection, and what people truly crave. This quest ultimately led to Timeleft, a social dining platform that has already brought half a million people together across 300 cities worldwide. In this episode of the Curious Customer podcast, Maxime shares the em...2025-06-2622 min
Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.5 Million Friends and Counting: How Howbout Is Changing the Way People Socialise. With Neil Tanna, Founder/CEOWhat happens when a young lawyer realizes that adult friendships are slowly fizzling out because time becomes a luxury? Neil Tanna found himself watching his social connections fade as the demands of professional life took over, and instead of accepting this as inevitable, he decided to build a solution. As CEO and co-founder of Howbout, Neil has created something that's resonating powerfully with Gen Z – a social calendar app that's attracted 5 million users in just five years. Unlike traditional social media platforms that have become entertainment feeds filled with strangers and brands, Howbout brings the focus back to...2025-06-1926 min
Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.🧡Lovable: will AI make us think more? Designing software in the age of AI, with Founding Designer, Nad ChishtieAs the Founding Designer of Lovable, Nad Chishtie isn’t just building another web tool—he’s helping reimagine who gets to build software in the first place. With a mission to flip the 1% of people who can code into the 99% who can create, Lovable is already turning heads with its impressive $60M run rate in under a year. Nad brings years of product and design thinking to the table, but it’s his ability to blend deep technical abstraction with intuitive simplicity that truly sets him apart. In this episode, Nad opens up about the bold thinking behind Lovable...2025-06-1231 min
Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.The Power of Play: the LEGO Group’s Vision for the Next Decade. With Snr Director of Marketing, Madelaine EdwardsAs the Senior Director of Marketing at LEGO, Madelaine Edwards carries a huge legacy on her shoulders - and does so with clarity and purpose. In this episode of Curious Customer, she joins Matt to share how a 90-year-old brand continues to evolve without losing sight of its origins. Starting from a small Danish carpenter’s workshop in 1932, LEGO has become one of the world’s most recognized and loved brands. But it’s not just about bricks anymore. Madelaine explains how the company’s approach to creativity, play, and innovation keeps LEGO relevant for kids, adults, and families across g...2025-06-0522 min
Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.The Future of Drone Delivery is Already Here: How Yariv Bash and Flytrex Are Making Drone Delivery MainstreamBefore he was revolutionizing fast food delivery by air, Yariv Bash was literally shooting for the moon. As the co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, Yariv is now leading the largest drone food delivery service in the U.S.—but his journey began with building the first private spacecraft to (almost) land on the moon. That project raised over $100 million in donations and sparked Yariv’s belief in what’s possible when ambitious ideas meet relentless execution. In this episode, Matt sits down with Yariv to explore how his experience in aerospace laid the groundwork for transforming suburban food de...2025-05-2925 min
Curious Customer - the Consumer Podcast.Killing Car Ownership as We Know It. With Alain Visser from Volvo and Lynk & CoFrom the top ranks of Ford and General Motors to launching one of the world’s fastest-growing car brands, Alain Visser has seen the auto industry from every possible angle. With nearly four decades of experience, including leadership roles at Opel and Volvo, Alain grew increasingly frustrated with the industry's lack of real change. That frustration became the fuel for something bold. In 2015, he founded Lynk & Co—a brand built not just to sell cars, but to rethink what car ownership should be altogether. With a belief that consumers no longer need to own cars full-time, Alain set out to b...2025-05-2931 min