Beyond Pepper: Scaling a Business While Navigating Motherhood with Pepper’s Alice Jones

In this episode of Under the Influence, host Amber Hemmings is joined by Alice Jones, Co-Founder of Pepper, for an honest conversation about building an agency from the ground up, navigating growth and balancing family life along the way.

Alice shares the reality of Pepper’s early days, from running the business on WhatsApp to finding those first signs of success, navigating the challenges of COVID and growing the agency to a 25-person team. She also reflects on how her role has evolved as the business has scaled, what she looks for when building a team, and the lessons she’s learned as a founder.

The conversation also explores Alice’s experience of becoming a mum while running a growing business, from switching off from founder mode to navigating the moments when work and family collide. Alice shares her perspective on motherhood, leadership and why starting a family doesn’t have to mean putting your ambitions on hold.

🎧 Tune in for an honest look beyond founder mode, and the realities of building a business, a team and a life alongside it.