'I was told British people wouldn't eat dark chocolate': Meet the Mentors with Green & Black's Jo Fairley – podcast

Serial entrepreneur and organic food pioneer Jo Fairley gives her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big

Jo Fairley, the founder of organic chocolate brand Green & Black’s, has a one-on-one mentoring session with milliner and small business owner Sahar Freemantle, in the third episode in our podcast series to help budding entrepreneurs.

Fairley knows a thing or two about how hard it can be to start a business. She invested almost everything she had into her brand at the beginning. “I had £20,034 and two tonnes of chocolate were going to cost me £20,000. So I literally put every penny I had, except for £34, into buying a consignment of chocolate and launched Green & Black’s,” she says.

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Source: Guardian