Table Talk

"You wouldn't have wanted to have been my friend when I was at school," says Club Soda Founder, Laura Willoughby. " I'd have had you doing all sorts of things." Laura describes herself as a doer: "When I see a problem, I want to fix it." That level of drive has seen her career move in a number of different directions, but always with politics and social change playing some role. In this episode of the Career Conversations series, recorded in front of a live audience at our Inspiring Careers in Food event, she reveals all about her journey. It started with student politics, progressed to a powerful role in local politics, and even saw her dabble in Westminster politics. Throughout all of that, alcohol was a feature.  Laura says she never got to the stage where she needed help, but says she started to bore herself and found she was drinking without even thinking about it. After a period of turning up to pubs with teabags so she had something intersting to drink whilst still socialising, she decided to st