S4 Ep5: Laura Clacey - Sxollie Cider

This week on The Mojo Podcast we have a look at what it's like to launch a business with your life partner as your business partner.

I talk to Laura Clacey who together with her husband Karol Oataszewski launched the modern craft cider brand - SXOLLIE - over 8 years ago.

This episode introduces a completely new dynamic to the founders story and Laura is highly generous in sharing her insights into how a relationship forged in love makes complete sense in the world of business and that particularly challenging area - that of a start up. We also talk about how they have built a brand in the right way - as they are a proud B Corp business and we talk about that towards the end in celebration of B Corp month in March.

In this episode you’ll hear what is crucial for finding your way together as life and business partners - brutal honestly, long term planning, understanding each others skills and strengths, and how to build a formidable level of resilience when things don’t go to plan - and guess what, there have been plenty of bumps in the road for the Sxollie founders.

This is a wonderful chat with a really bouyant founder who understands why she and her husband have been successful
I really enjoyed this conversation and I’m sure you will to - whether you’re thinking of starting up with your partner, or going solo. As ever it’s jam packed full of support and insight.

About SXOLLIE:
SXOLLIE is on a mission to show people that there is an ethical apple beverage out there that you will love, and a cider good enough to replace that glass of wine or G&T. Made naturally like a wine with Champagne yeast and only your favourite eating apples, grown in the South African sunshine – nothing else. It makes for a decidedly different cider. That’s why we call it xider. SXOLLIE is the first UK cider company to obtain the prestigious B Corp Certification and is available at selected Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Tesco and Morrisons stores as well as the exclusive cider at Nando's nationwide.

Thank you also to Patricia Bacon for the introduction to Laura
And the "bitesize mediatations" idea came from Sarah Matlock

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Hope you love it
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