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In the Sauce

In the Sauce

By: Heritage Radio Network
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Over 250 episodes and interviews across the CPG value chain. Alison Cayne shares Interviews with experts, retailers, and investors who can help founders and operators build sturdy consumer businesses. With hours of brass-tacks advice from finance, legal, operations, and supply chain experts to helpful hacks from brand marketing and social media specialists, ITS is the go-to podcast for emerging brands.


In the Sauce is produced in partnership with Naturally New York, a community organization dedicated to fostering sustainable and responsible business practices, stimulating conscious business growth, supporting entrepreneurship, and cultivating exceptional leadership within the natural products industry in the Greater New York area.

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Episodes
  • Building a 150-Year Old Start Up

    Building a 150-Year Old Start Up
    Jul 2 2026

    Amy Guittard is the CMO of Guittard Chocolate Company, the oldest continuously family-owned chocolate company in the United States. On this episode of ITS, Ali and Amy talk about keeping a heritage brand nimble, and how chocolate represents the intersection of agriculture, manufacturing, and consumer products.

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    58 mins
  • Building the SmartCart

    Building the SmartCart
    Jun 25 2026

    In this episode, we chat with Ben McKean, founder and CEO of Hungryroot, about pivoting from a CPG brand into a massive, AI-driven grocery platform. We explore how reducing consumer decision fatigue and managing owned inventory fueled their success, while Ben shares insider data on real-time household consumption patterns and what it takes for emerging brands to thrive on the platform.

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    54 mins
  • Building with a Backpocket CFO

    Building with a Backpocket CFO
    Jun 11 2026

    Adam Siskin is the Founder of The Platform CPG, a firm helping emerging consumer brands navigate finance, operations, retail growth, and scale. On this episode of ITS, Adam and Ali discuss margin, trade spend, brokers, distributors, manufacturers and investors. Adam shares learnings from supporting more than 50 CPG companies.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
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