PIC Conversations

A Podcast by Proud Impact Collective

NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY

Real Talk From the Team Moving 70,000+ Doors

PIC Conversations goes behind the shelf, the buyer meeting, and the TikTok Shop dashboard. You get honest talk from operators, founders, and buyers about what's working in CPG right now, and what's quietly holding brands back. Most CPG advice is recycled, sanitized, or selling you something. PIC Conversations is none of those.

Each episode, the Proud Impact team sits down with the people doing the work. That means founders who've scaled, buyers who say yes (and no), and experts building what comes next. We cover retail, foodservice, ecommerce, social commerce, and AI, with no fluff and no gatekeeping. You get the playbook as it really runs.

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Cole Pennington co-founded Proud Source Water in 2016, taking it from deliveries out of a rental truck in Boise to national distribution through Sprouts, Trader Joe’s and a PepsiCo partnership before its acquisition by Source Global. Now Co-Founder and President of Proud Impact Collective…

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What We Talk About

  • Winning the Shelf

    Getting on shelf, staying on shelf, and what it really takes to earn your spot in retail.

  • The Channel Nobody's Watching

    Why foodservice is the most overlooked growth lever in CPG, and how to make it one of your strongest.

  • Where Content Becomes Cash

    TikTok Shop, Amazon, creators, and turning scroll-stopping content into real sell-through.

  • The Invisible Shelf

    How AI is changing the way shoppers find products, and how brands stay visible when the answer comes from a chatbot, not a search bar.

  • Built, Broken, and Rebuilt

    Founder stories from the ones who've been there: the wins, the near-misses, and the decisions that changed everything.

  • Across the Buyer's Desk

    What buyers are actually looking for, what gets a yes, and what quietly kills a pitch before it starts.

Meet the Hosts

The people behind the mic are the same people in the buyer meetings, building the campaigns, and running the numbers.

  • Dallas Crum

    PIC Co-Founder & CEO

  • Cole Pennington

    PIC Co-Founder & President