Ending Food Poverty While Stopping Food Waste - Free My Meal Founder Hayley Steere | PEP Talk S3 E8

Former single mum Hayley Steere began Free My Meal during Lockdown in 2020, after having a brainwave while seeing how much extra food she had cooked that she wouldn’t eat. She knew lots of people would LOVE to receive a good meal in these tough times, so she set out to create a platform that would allow people to give their spare food to those who need it. That same evening, Free My Meal was born.

Free My Meal is a simple and easy exchange, based on trust and goodwill. Using social media, people sign up to private Free My Meal groups as a ‘recipient’ or a ‘cook’, or in some cases, both. Free My Meal does not provide meals, it simply forms connections enabling people to find one. 

Free My Meal currently has 70+ UK and international groups, and they have 27,000+ group members which continue to grow in numbers every day. To support her family while growing her organisation, Hayley juggles numerous jobs and side-hustles at the same time as focusing on Free My Meal. In this episode, Simon and Hayley discuss how you can pursue a life that you love despite the challenges you may face.

“The world’s not going to give you a living, you’ve got to go and make that yourself. Nobody is going to pluck you out of obscurity and give you your lovely life.”

Topics:

• How Free My Meal Began
• How Free My Meal Works
• How do you manage to juggle everything?
• Work/Life balance
• Mindset and drive

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