Passion Pods

Hubbub.co.uk are on a mission to help small shops compete with big supermarkets by delivering food and drink from London’s best independent’s right to your doorstep. Founded by Marisa Leaf this rather special pod of ours is the first of a...

Becoming a milliner is tough enough quite frankly as you heard from Kate Underdown in Passion Pod #8 and not just because most people have no idea what one is! Little gear shift for Kate of late though has led her to become a co-founder of The Fold...

Rowing across the Atlantic for 54 days straight, in a seven metre long boat (having never been in one before!), over Christmas Day, through a hurricane and dealing with broken oar and a tanker nearly navigating in to you…and they enjoyed it?! The...

Comedy and flowers. Not a combo you’d usually put together is it really. Well, not unless you’d met Luke Keen in which case it’s a match made in heaven. After taking up gardening to sooth the noise that making comedy (or to be honest,...

Painting for a living is what led Gemma Compton to the wall we found her decorating for this year’s Upfest. Not a bad place to making your mark really is it?! After graduating with a First in her degree right at the time of the economic crash a...

Becoming a camerawoman is a tough enough gig to break in to but it didn’t seem quite enough for Holly Bantleman. She was so affected by a visit to a community in Kenya, one boy that she met in particular, that at 21 years old she decided to raise...

Glow in the dark, glittery, magnetic – Cressida Bullock  founder of Fun Science makes slime for a living. She also sets children’s hands on fire (safely, obvs), hand makes toothpaste and those experiments are just for starters. Scientific...

A whole 100 of these little beauties?!#100 life-true tales from such adventurous, hugely brave and massively inspiring folk – what an absolute honour....

Two thirds of Wildflowers – Kit and Siddy – are from a mega musical family. Brought up a jazz musician and an actress they all had to play an instrument as kids. Didn’t matter which one but having one in hand was a must. On the other...

If you’re feeling stuck in a rank old work/life/romance rut then this Passion Pod has your name all over it. Writer/performer Max Dickins found himself in exactly that place and so, to shake things up a bit he decided to sign up for a new...

Founded by Poku (who previously worked in property P.S. and had absolutely no experience in youth engagement at all!) Babbasa supports young people from disadvantaged communities to move forward with their professional aspirations. Yes very much please...

Jake Meyer really struggles to pin point exactly what it is that he does, which is often a good sign in our book. He settled on Adventurer…as you do! Swapping the school football and cricket lark for climbing and canoeing as soon as he could,...

Jennifer Hamley is a bag designer. Think handbag come work bag and one that we actually want to use rather than horrible, ugly looking designs that we’re often up against. Hers feels good to touch, looks lovely, has all the compartments you&...

From playing professional rugby for Harlequins and Bristol, to making sausages for a living. Yes, that is a real career path and Olly Kohn is the proud owner of it! After an injury and a new sausage making machine coincided with each other, the seeds...

After spending three years working for a big Ad agency in London feeling rather un-scintillated about chucking all of his energy and creativity in to products like nasal decongestants (and who can blame him quite frankly?!), co-founder Andrew Hunt...

Bridget Arsenault is donning three main job hats at the moment. She’s always known that she wanted to be a journalist and has spent most of the last eight years doing so…for Vanity Fair no less! She also founded The Bright Young Things...

Jodie founded her own Social Media company JC Social Media at 22 and is also the co-founder of Clever Tykes – a series of children’s books that introduce them to positive entrepreneurial role models, with the hope that it might help inspire...

Being an actress is a Passion Pod in itself really but making the move from doing that as your job to becoming a yoga teacher…surely that’s double pod points?! After 10 years of grafting her socks off and doing pretty darn well too, Steffy...

So, here’s one for you. Blogosphere Magazine is the first print publication entirely by bloggers for bloggers and the blogging community. It’s a magazine that you can hold in your actual hands and sniff it’s beautiful independent...

The Cool Graduate is a platform of inspiration for graduates to get a different clutch of ideas about their futures. Hello and yes please! Flagging up a whole load of options ranging from volunteering to paid graduate jobs all over the world, the main...