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Stephanie Melodia interviews Mike Bandar, founder & CEO of Waybook - an onboarding, training and knowledge tool for businesses to turn what they know into scalable systems, providing a single source of truth for growing teams. He is also the co-founder of Hopper, a social media scheduling tool; the founding partner of Turn Partners, a startup studio, and; owner of ToyBoy Warehouse, the UK’s largest dating site for older women and younger men. Mike Bandar is also a lecturer in Entrepreneurship at UCL and proponent of effectual thinking, especially in entrepreneurship.

Watch the full interview where Steph and Mike discuss:

- Can entrepreneurship be taught?

- Effectual thinking in entrepreneurship

- Building the right entrepreneurial environment

- Wartime vs peacetime leadership: how Mike has navigated through the inevitable ups & downs of business

- Building multiple businesses without EVER having raising external capital

- And so much more.

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Lauren Currie is the 6X serial entrepreneur now founder of UPFRONT, upskilling 10 million women to be more confident and visible. (BOND 10 starts 3rd Nov! https://www.weareupfront.com/)

Lauren's work has been featured in The Guardian, Design Week, and Creative Review, She was also awarded an OBE for services to design and diversity.

She is also the newly-published children’s book author of 'Taylor Meets The Trick' (BUY HERE: https://the-trick.co/)

Tune in to hear Steph and Lauren discuss:

🧨 The systemic confidence problem and Lauren's mission to upskill 10M women

🧨 "Micro reps" for building confidence and the Taylor Swift confidence strategy

🧨 Bias towards action over perfection in entrepreneurship

🧨 The problem with tall poppy syndrome

🧨 Lauren's new children's book, 'Taylor Meets The Trick'

🧨 And much more.

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Ben Coomber is a multi-award winning high performance coach, bestselling author of 'How to Live an Awesome Life,' and the Founder & CEO of Awesome Supplements.

(Strategy & Tragedy listeners get an exclusive 15% off all orders with the code S&T15*: https://awesomesupplements.co.uk/discount/S&T15)

Tune into hear about:

- Ben's viral open letter calling out health misinformation from Steven Bartlett on his show, Diary of a CEO

- Personal brand strategy in 2025, Ben's consistency rule, and lessons building successful businesses in FMCG health

- Ben's health crisis pivot, and much more.

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Digital Voices was named the 13th fastest-growing agency by AdWeek, and is officially the fastest-growing Influencer Marketing agency in the world. Starting out with just £500 personal investment, Digital Voices now turns over more than $20M in annual recurring revenue with 94% ownership retained by founder Jennifer Quigley-Jones, Digital Voices is the only UK-based influencer agency of its scale led by a female CEO.

Tune in to hear about...

• Starting a business aged just 26
• Revenue-funded growth to $20M
• The secret to hyper-scale growth
• Building a proprietary tech platform as a non-technical founder
• Ethics in influencer marketing
• And so much more.

Book recommended in the interview:

'No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention' by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49099937-no-rules-rules

Other episode mentioned:

Stephanie Melodia’s interview with Daniel Hegarty of Habito:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ccUscX1U5AkFelntshArs?si=90fb3a71d3e64b08

https://youtu.be/ZnZVxTXf27E?si=PJkLa5hoGgQN-kNN

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In this week's episode, Stephanie Melodia interviews Yang Li, the Co-Founder of Cosine - a multi-agent AI tool designed to do compound tasks in complex codebases with a 72% SOTA score on SWE-Lancer.

In this episode, Steph and Yang cover:

• Is AI a bubble? And when will it burst? Yang's hot takes
• Meeting Tom Blomfield, Sam altman, Aaron Levie, and Michael Seibel
• Best advice for entrepreneurs in AI (hint: building for AI's "mediocre zone")
• HONEST thoughts on Y Combinator
• How we manufacture luck
• And more.

Discover more about Cosine here: https://cosine.sh/

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In this week's episode, Stephanie Melodia interviews Tash Rebuck, the sales expert and founder of TR Sales Consultancy, specialising in B2B sales strategy and training for growth businesses whilst strengthening commercial teams. We cover:

👉 The BIGGEST traps people fall into making sales

👉 Cold-calling techniques (put to the test LIVE ON THE AIR!)

👉 The art of the follow-up - how to get an edge over others

👉 How acting helped Tash overcome sales blockers

👉 And so much more sales goodness.

Learn more about Tash's sales consultancy here: https://trsalesconsultancy.co.uk/

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In this episode, Stephanie Melodia interviews Kat Thorne; the positive habits queen whose high-flying career made her crash & burn, forcing her to reassess how she was treating her own body. She now helps other high-performers achieve success in a sustainable way.

Tune in to learn about:

👉 The "untouchable" trap - High performers thinking they're superhuman

👉 Move your body vs. exercise - The reframing that makes movement more accessible

👉 The morning phone trap - Why checking emails immediately isn't effective

👉 Success without sustainability fails - The core message about unsustainable success

👉 The productivity paradox - How self-care actually improves performance

👉 The 80/20 self-promise rule - Building self-respect through keeping commitments to yourself

Want more? Follow Kat on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katthorne/

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Automatically turn long videos into viral shorts in just one click with Opus: https://www.opus.pro/?via=dcec02In this week's episode, Stephanie Melodia interviews Saba Yussouf, exited founder and investor specialising in STEM revolutions - from reinventing food systems to democratising infection prevention and battling environmental threats. As a high-agency venture capitalist, Saba bets on founders who rewrite industries, not rules. Worked with institutions such as Cambridge University, American Express, and Harrods.Steph and Saba cover:- What it means to be high agency, how to get there, and what it looks like in practise- Saba's own entrepreneurial journey and how much market timings can affect success or failure- From founder to investor - how Saba developed her own investment thesis and what she looks for in a deal (Hint: High agency founders for one 😉) - Saba's "unhinged" neuro-backed time management hack- And so much more entrepreneur-focused goodness.Get involved in the conversation:🤍 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephmelodia/🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/🎬 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/

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