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Listen to this cozy interview with Jasmine - founder Be Mine Healthy Friends restaurant in Helsinki, Finland and hear more about the importance of smiley hospitality ☀️

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New episode is out today! 🍏

Join Anjelli in this cozy conversation with Jasmine - founder of Be Mine Healthy Friends restaurant in Helsinki, Finland. ❄

Be Mine Healthy Friends is a tiny restaurant that serves healthy, nourishing vegan food inspired by Asian cuisines with Thai hospitality. ☀️

In this episode Jasmine shares her story about starting a business without any previous experience in this field, challenges that she encounters running restaurant by herself and talks about the importance of greeting every customer with a smile. 🍉

Listen on your favourite app or follow the link on our bio! 💚

We are continuing our exploration of plant-based kitchens and tomorrow we are going up North to Helsinki, Finland where we will meet Jasmine - founder of Be Mine Healthy Friends cafe. 🍉

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Listen to an inspiring episide with Ivars Rutkovskis - founder of Nata Cafe and food brand in Riga, Latvia - where he told us about his career switch, lifestyle changes, turning into veganism, opening a vegan cafe and evolving into a food brand. 💫

If you need a nudge for changes in the New Year - this episode is a perfect source for inspiration! ⭐

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New episode is out today! ❄

Join Anjelli in this uplifting conversation with Ivars Rutkovskis – founder of Nata Cafe in Riga, Latvia. Nata Cafe is a small vegan cafe and a food brand located in Riga's city center in the same building as a dance school and it is loved by kids and their parents who come here to eat before or after the dance classes.

Get to know the Ivars and Nata Cafe’s story from professional bartenders career, lifestyle changes after switching to veganism and quitting alcohol, to creating a vegan cafe and turning it into a food brand that provides meat and fish substitutes which taste surprises vegans, non-vegans and professional chefs alike.

Listen on your favourite app or follow the link on our bio! 💚

We are continuing our trip through Baltic countries and tomorrow we are heading up to Riga, Latvia, where we will meet Ivars Rutkovskis - founder of Nata Cafe.

We can't wait to share his story with you!

Stay tuned! 💚

What is the recipe for success? 🌟

Hear more thoughts on creating and running a vegan restaurant from Ginte Kuraite - founder of RoseHip Vegan Bistro in Vilnius, Lithuania - on your favourite app or follow the link on our bio. 🌿

RoseHip Vegan Bistro

New lively episode is out today! 🍭

Join Anjelli in this uplifting conversation with Ginte Kuraite – founder and owner of RoseHip Vegan Bistro located in the old town of Vilnius, Lithuania. ❄

RoseHip is a bright neon pink bistro not afraid of experimenting with food innovations and offering a variety of foods for everyone’s taste – from burgers, sushi to veggie bowls – loved by vegans and non-vegans alike. 💖

Get to know the restaurant's story from the initial idea to their expansion plans to other countries and Ginte’s thoughts on the importance of veganism. We are hoping that this episode will inspire you to go after your dreams too! 🔥

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RoseHip Vegan Bistro

Our exploration of plant based kitchens in Vilnius, Lithuania is coming to an end and tomorrow we are releasing an uplifting episode with bright neon pink RoseHip restaurant founder Ginte Kuraite. 🌸

We hope that this energetic episode full of ideas and enthusiasm will encourage you to go after your dreams too! 💖
Stay tuned! 🐙

RoseHip Vegan Bistro

Listen to heartwarming episode with founders of Vieta restaurant in Vilnius, Lithuania on your favourite app or follow the link on our bio. ☀️

New episode is out today! 🍃

Join Anjelli in this uplifting conversation with the restaurant's Vieta founders — Monika and Romanas. 🐶

“Sv. Vieta” (meaning a “saint place” in Lithuanian) is a cozy charming vegan place, located in Vilnius old town and loved by a diversity of people that come there to eat. Get to know the restaurant’s journey from Island to the website and to today's world, the specifics of the menu and just enjoy the conversation by beautiful people coming together and sharing their challenges, dreams and good moods.

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Tomorrow we are releasing a warm and inspiring episode with Monika and Romanas, the founders of another family run vegan restaurant in Vilnius old town, Lithuania — Vieta. 🔵

We are very happy and inspired by getting to know their kitchen story and them. 🐶

Stay tuned!

Chaika is the first café with vegan desserts in Vilnius, Lithuania loved by vegans and non-vegans. 💚

Listen to the full episode with its founder Adomas Dzedulionis on your favourite app or follow the link on our bio. 🍃

A freshly baked episode is out! Join Anjelli in this conversation with Adomas Dzedulionis — one of the founders of the family run café Chaika in Vilnius, Lithuania. 🍁

Together with his wife Ona, they’ve created Chaika — a small chain of cafés, which specializes in vegan desserts, good specialty coffee and teas, has an interesting interior and nice laid back vibe. 🍃

Get to know the story of the almost 10 year old café in Vilnius, its creation process and franchise plans, Adomas thoughts on the best marketing tool ever and his approach on the local and international collaborations.

Find us on your favourite podcast app or link in bio! ☀️

Tomorrow we are getting on the road to Lithuania, Vilnius, where we will meet with one of the Chaika owners - Adomas Dzedulionis! 🍃 Just for a cup of homemade chai tea, legendary vegan cupcake, and a lovely conversation. Stay tuned! 💚

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Listen to this cozy and inspiring interview with Mikk Mägi - founder of Vegan Restoran V in Tallinn - on your favourite app or follow the link on our bio. 🍁

The first episode of The Launch Box Podcast Season 2 is released today! 💫

Join Anjelli in this cozy conversation with Mikk Mägi — a pioneer of the vegan scene in Estonia and a founder of the greatly known Vegan Restoran V, located in the old town of Tallinn. In this episode Mikk shares the story of the restaurant, his sources of inspiration for the international style menu and thoughts on the importance of the strong team. During this online recording, Mikk is in the middle of the forest, 85 km from Tallinn, where he owns a house and dreams big dreams. Listen and get to know them before they come true!

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Check out Vegan Restauran V: https://www.veganrestoran.ee/

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Tomorrow, after our slight detour to South Africa, we are coming back to Europe with The Season 2 of The Launch Box Podcast. 🍃

We will start a little hitchhiking trip through the Baltic countries and our first stop is Estonia, Tallinn. ☀️

We can't wait to share the story of Estonian Vegan Restoran V with you, that we got to know from its founder Mikk Mägi. 🍁

A new episode is finally released! 🙌🏼 Join Anjelli in this engaging conversation with Amy Gardiner — a founder of Humble Coffee — a roastery, café and co-working space in Durban, South Africa, which won the best country's café award in 2021. Amy shares the journey of the Humble Coffee and gives a glimpse into the future vision for it. Listen and get inspired by her passion for empowering local women and community, admiration for the Durban city and excitement for the tasty, plant-based food.

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Listen on your favorite app or click the link in bio.

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Humble Coffee

To honor the last echoes of the summer rays this October, we are making a tiny detour from North Europe to South Africa, Durban, to have an inspiring talk with the Humble Coffee founder Amy Gardiner.

Tomorrow.

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Humble Coffee

It is nice to know where the tomatoes, potatoes, herbs and other goods are growing in the farm 💚 As it is nice to know what you can hear on the episode with Buddha, a founder of Flax and Los Perros Urban Farming

Here we share what is "growing" on the episode and where you can find it:

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00:47 Why Sweden?
22:59 Flax — a beautiful mistake of life
04:01 Home made chili sauce dream
06:03 Business without a business plan
07:06 Collaboration with a local coffee roastery
9:16 Menu inspiration and design
10:08 The beauty of growing kids in a farm
11:55 More about the passion for chili sauce
12:52 Direct connection with the garden and customers
15:03 Recurring an online farm
19:51 Advice on how to start an urban farm
23:52 Collaborations with other restaurants
26:52 Biggest challenges so far
31:29 Malmö’s best café award in 2021
32:54 Region Skånes Miljöpris // Environmental Prize in 2020
33:50 It's a labor of love, but it’s a business in the end
36:26 Advice for those on the same journey
37:18 Life's mantra: what's the worst thing that can happen?
38:23 Where can people find you?

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Photos shared by Buddha✌🏼

Episode is out now! 🙌🏼 Join Anjelli in this engaging conversation with Buddha Browett — a founder of Flax Café, Los Perros Urban Farm and breathtaking chili sauce Pepper Pepper Deli in Malmö, Sweden. Buddha shares his thoughts on starting a business without a business plan and his passion for a better world that carries things throughout the times of difficulties up to the unexpected public awards.

On your favorite podcast app or our website (link in bio) ✌🏼

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Los Perros Urban Farming

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Together with the next episode we are crossing the bridge from Copenhagen to Malmö, to have a captivating talk with Los Perros urban farm and Flax café founder Buddha Browett 💚

Flax
Los Perros Urban Farming

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Tomorrow. Stay in tune!

A lovely memory from a beautiful summer day in Boho 💜 Anjelli is in a captivating conversation with Karina 🧡 we really recomend this episode, if you haven't listened to it yet - it is relaxed but deep conversation, spiced up with some good laughter! ✌🏼

Hear more about those painted murals in the pictures on your favorite podcast app, or listen to it on our website (link in bio).

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The Organic Boho

The Organic Boho ❤

Listen to a refreshing episode with The Organic Boho founder Karina Nayja Bruun on your favorite app or visit our website (link in bio).

P.s. You can find the topics with the time stamps in the episode description 🙌🏼

Episode 5 is out! And it comes with two exciting parts 💫

Join Anjelli in the engaging conversation with Karina Naya Bruun, a pioneer of the plant-based scene in Copenhagen 🌱👑🌱 She candidly shares the journey of The Organic Boho from Ibiza, Spain to Copenhagen, Denmark 🇪🇸🇩🇰 Hear more about Karina’s bohemian adventures, the first experiences in Roskilde festival, having business in the area next to Christiania, her thoughts on branding and the importance of being consistent in your business 👌🏼

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The Organic Boho 💚

Check in with us tomorrow as we are releasing an exciting talk with one of the pioneers in the plant based scene in Copenhagen - Organic Boho founder Karina Nayja Bruun 💚💜

The Organic Boho 🌺

Where does your entrepreneural drive come from?

Or put it in another way - what drives your passion for life and things you want to create, what gives you a will to acomplish things?

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Check out our latest episode with Art Escape Studios & Café founder Melanie on your favorite podcast app or click the link in bio.

New inspiring talk released! 😊 💚

In this episode, creative entrepreneur Melanie Dawn talks about her journey of moving from Canada to Denmark and building Art Escape Studios & Café - a space for advocacy, female creators and healthy, delicious food. Listen and get to know about her business experience, beautiful café menu and studio activities that are expanding to the larger humanitarian projects.

Come and join Anjelli in this nourishing conversation with Melanie on your favorite app or visit link in bio 🌹
Art Escape Studios & Café