• The $10k mistake I’ll never forget | Selina Ho, sustainable fashion entrepreneur & GTM expert
    Nov 19 2025

    Ready to make one day, day one? Launch and scale your business alongside an MBA with Oneday, where both Stephanie Melodia mentors: https://bit.ly/stephanie-melodia


    Selina Ho is a GTM strategist, founder of Re:Closeted, a conscious fashion consultancy, and host of the Confessions of a Conscious CEO podcast:

    https://open.spotify.com/show/08wqIjbkYUCbGTKMnOZfGv


    Tune into hear about:

    • Selina's unforgettable $10k mistake
    • Expertise in GTM and finding product-market fit
    • Turning a side hustle into a fully-fledged business
    • Headwinds & tailwinds as a multi-cultural, second-generation female immigrant
    • And more


    Book recommended:

    'Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away' by Annie Duke

    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60097435-quit


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Financial freedom after 'The Craziest Exit Day in History'™ | Nick Telson-Sillett [REPLAY]
    Nov 12 2025

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    Nick Telson-Sillett is the exited Co-Founder of DesignMyNight (acquired for $30M) and now Co-Founder of Trumpet, a buyer enablement tool for sales teams.


    Tune in to hear about...


    - Side-hustling with DesignMyNight whilst working his day job at L'Oréal


    - Finding PMF, scaling up, and ultimately selling the biz in The Craziest Exit Day in History™ (you need to listen to the story 👀🫨😂)


    - Life post-exit - angel investing and starting trumpet 🎺


    And so much more.



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    52 mins
  • From paintball to TOY BOYS: a serial entrepreneur's playbook | Interview with Mike Bandar, Waybook and Professor at UCL
    Nov 5 2025

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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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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Ladies, the problem isn't your confidence; it's that confidence in women isn't rewarded | From tall poppy to OBE with Lauren Currie, UPFRONT
    Oct 29 2025

    Ready to make one day, day one? Launch and scale your business with the support of 1:1 mentorship and a dedicated community - all while getting an MBA with Oneday: https://bit.ly/stephanie-melodia


    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.


    Get involved in the conversation - we'd love to hear from you!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Calling out Steven Bartlett: the serial entrepreneur who stopped health misinformation
    Oct 22 2025

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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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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • "They underestimated me. Now I run a $20M business." Meet the first female founder CEO of an agency of this scale: Jennifer Quigley-Jones, Digital Voices
    Oct 15 2025

    Ready to turn your sales conversations into your competitive advantage? Check out Gong.io and see why thousands of revenue teams trust their growth to Revenue AI.

    https://www.gong.io/demo/?utm_campaign=demo&utm_medium=tpv&utm_source=ceo-st-podcast


    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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    59 mins
  • AI, YC, and SF with Yang Li of Cosine
    Oct 9 2025

    Power up your commercial strategy with AI-powered insights driving every sales decision for predictable revenue growth with GONG: https://www.gong.io/demo/?utm_campaign=demo&utm_medium=tpv&utm_source=ceo-st-podcast


    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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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • The SALES Expert: Turn cold calls into cash with Tash Rebuck
    Oct 1 2025

    Power up your commercial strategy with AI-powered insights driving every sales decision for predictable revenue growth with GONG: https://www.gong.io/demo/?utm_campaign=demo&utm_medium=tpv&utm_source=ceo-st-podcast


    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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    1 hr and 8 mins