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Hi, I’m Kris Bromley

Founder of Brain Tapas™ — Creative, Strategic & Mental Firepower for Brands & Founders.

I led one of the internet’s weirdest, most original cult brands—and built Brain Tapas™ to help others do it without selling out or burning out.

🎁 The Firebox Era

20 years of wild highs, brutal lows, and viral chaos at Firebox.com — The Shop for the Unusual.

Customer Service → Managing Director → Owner → Seller

6M+ orders → £170M turnover → Zero funding → Cult status

→ Hired by Michael Acton Smith OBE (Calm, Mind Candy).

→ Played every role: customer service, copywriter, buyer, social, box packer, product creator, voice of the brand, tone-polisher, culture keeper, and 10 years as MD

→ Created viral hits: Unicorn Tears Gin™, F*cking Strong Coffee, Inner Selfie Stick, Mystery Box, CrapWrap™

→ Remortgaged my house for equity, dodged lawsuits (Disney, Lionel Richie). Survived Amazon, two recessions, one pandemic, and burnout in a Portuguese hospital

→ I built a team that shipped fast, believed in the weird, and survived chaos with a mission intact.

→ Hired & led 40+ staff, built a “Not for Everyone” culture, and an industry-thrashing NPS score

→ Personally sold the company, protected the brand + team, walked away with stories for life

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The Odd Bits

→ Netflix judge, Two-time Apprentice judge, Derren Brown (patsy/victim), BBC, Channel 4, Sky News.

→ Six different disguises for a press launch.

→ 1.5M Quora views.

→ Side hustles: cult t-shirts, failed mints, abs in my 40s, comedy screenplay, 4am 30-mile walk in circles through Barcelona

→ Lost my dad; became a proud girl dad (x2). Moved to East Yorkshire — still miss London.

Why It Matters Now

Everything I’ve lived, built, broken, and rebuilt now feeds Brain Tapas™.

Not just experience — earned experience, weaponised for you.

So whether you’re:

→ Building a bold, standout brand

→ Scaling a business without losing your edge

→ Reinventing yourself or your company

→ Or pushing for sharper strategy, creativity, and momentum…

I’m in your corner.

Meningitis didn’t kill me.

Firebox didn’t kill me.

Now I help make sure your business doesn’t kill you, either.

👉 Still reading? Come on, let’s do this. Try me for free below.