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Riordan Maynard’s story is almost impossible to believe. He left school at 16, learned the art of selling at Foxtons and co-founded Touchbase, a mobile-phone business that grew to around 200 million. Then ego, reckless expansion, the financial crisis and a refusal to accept failure brought everything crashing down.
What followed was six years inside the American prison system, separation from his wife and five children, brutal violence and a complete mental collapse within his first six weeks.
In this extraordinarily raw conversation with Dan Pope, Riordan explains how believing he was “Midas” turned ambition into self-destruction, why hopelessness crushes the human spirit and how he rebuilt his mind by focusing only on what he could control.
He also shares hard-earned lessons on sales, differentiation, value, resilience and closing deals. Brutally honest, darkly funny and unexpectedly practical, this is a conversation about extraordinary success, catastrophic failure and rebuilding yourself after losing almost everything.

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Matthew Jones lost everything.
His business was gone. His family had fallen apart. Alcohol had taken control, and he found himself rebuilding his life from scratch.
Today, Bread Ahead is one of the world's most celebrated bakeries, with locations across the globe, thousands of students through its bakery school, and queues stretching around Borough Market.
In this episode of Hungry, Dan Pope sits down with Matthew to unpack the journey from addiction and rock bottom to building an international bakery brand. They talk about recovery, risk, leadership, obsession, opening in New York, scaling without losing quality, and why success is never as simple as it looks from the outside.
This is a conversation about second chances, resilience, and what it really takes to build something extraordinary.

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Advertising legend Dave Trott joins Dan Pope to explain why most marketing goes unnoticed, why brand should be your second thought, and why simple, blunt ideas beat clever jargon. From Toshiba and Audi to Volkswagen, Nike and Steve Jobs, Trott breaks down the campaigns, principles and creative decisions that made brands impossible to ignore.
He explains why the best advertising is useful information, brilliantly executed; why every idea should be simple enough to repeat in the pub; and why distinctive work starts by asking what the advertising is actually supposed to do. A sharp, funny masterclass in form following function, positioning, working-class creativity and the power of giving people one unforgettable thing to remember.

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ON THE MENU:
Why Most Advertising Goes Completely Unnoticed
Brand Should Be Your Second Thought
Toshiba’s Leap From 2% to 30%
How Audi Became Unmistakably German
Would You Repeat It in the Pub?
Why Working-Class Wit Wins Attention
Position Yourself, Reposition the Competition
Steve Jobs and the White Headphone Trick
Simplify, Exaggerate, and Make It Memorable
Why Great Creativity Starts With Rebellion
Useful Information, Brilliantly Executed
Why Jargon Kills Great Advertising
Form Follows Function, Not Fashion
How to Find the One Thing That Matters
The Best Ideas Often Feel Wrong at First
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