I was living in Corsica and doing a water fast when I had the idea to start a health food revolution. So we decided after college to go travelling separately, and in going away separately we had more space to reflect on who we were and what interests we had. We sat beside each other at school, had all the same friends, did the same things, ate all the same things… we were always ‘we’, the ‘Flynn Twins’, as opposed to David, or Stephen.
What motivated you to start The Happy Pear? As identical twins, we always did everything together growing up. We found that food is an incredible means to bring people together, regardless of background, religion or whatever else divides us. In changing our diet and our lifestyle we became happier in ourselves and we wanted to share that and inspire other people too. After university, we changed our diet, took our focus off of money and put it on health. We grew up on a meat-and-two-veg diet and played a lot of rugby – we were stereotypical jocks. David and Stephen, founders of The Happy Pear | Image courtesy of The Happy PearĬan you tell us about The Happy Pear and the overall company ethos? The Happy Pear was started in 2004, by me and my identical twin brother David.
chats to Stephen about how the duo got started, sunrise swimming, and their favourite spots in Ireland. Starting out in a humble greengrocers store, they have since launched three wholefood cafes, a sprout farm, a health-food product line, a coffee roastery, and fermentation kitchen – and that’s without mentioning their best-selling cookbook and 200,00+ YouTube subscribers. It’s been 14 years since David and Stephen Flynn started The Happy Pear and began a healthy food revolution that would alter the face of Ireland’s wellness scene.
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