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In this week's episode, Stephanie Melodia interviews Farah Kabir, the Co-Founder & CEO of HANX, the first condom brand marketed to women.

Now encompassing a variety of sexual wellness and weight management products, HANX is connecting the major life stages of women’s health for a 100,000+ strong community. Available online and in retailers such as Sainsbury's, Tesco and Boots: https://www.hanxofficial.com/

In this episode, Steph and Farah discuss:

- Identifying and validating a market gap

- Overcoming *significant* barriers to entry

- Customer-led expansion strategy

- Fundraising challenges as female founders

- Community as marketing cornerstone

- Work-life balance struggles

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Stephanie Melodia interviews Jodie Jackson, a neuroencoding specialist who trains entrepreneurs to engineer their psychology for success so they can think better, feel better and achieve more, effortlessly. Discover more here: https://jodiejackson.com/masteryourmind

In this week's episode, Steph and Jodie discuss:

- How media shapes our psychology

- Why you need to do a "media diet audit" NOW

- The power of focusing on solutions, not just problems

- How to hack your brain's filtering system

- Emotional neutralisation, not elimination

- Your mind is programmable by design

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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 - where both Stephanie Melodia and Daniil Shcherbakov mentor: https://bit.ly/stephanie-melodia

Daniil Shcherbakov is the Co-Founder & CEO of TonTon Games where he succeeded in raising $1M in pre-seed investment. He is a serial entrepreneur and mentor, a vocal advocate for mental health with refreshing perspectives on all things entrepreneurship. He is also a passionate gamer, startup mentor & lecturer at Cambridge.

In this week’s conversation, Steph and Daniil cover:

- Daniil’s early entrepreneurial ventures (aged just 19!) - and the lessons learned from the failures

- The importance of having a North Star

- Bold networking in Silicon Valley

- And so much more.

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65% of startups fail because of founder fall-outs. Nicole Posner is here to put an end to that. She works with Conflict-Avoidant Leaders, helping them to speak up calmly, confidently and courageously in moments that matter. She is also the Creator of The Difficult Conversation Code and author of 'and BREATHE…' (Purchase here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breathe-Difficult-Leadership-Conversations-Business/dp/1913728927)

Other resources mentioned in the interview:

Tune into Steph's interview with Alex Merry: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1XXH8jkdZcSVp2FfYeLK62?si=a5c7a02987644fe2

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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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Turn your sales conversations into your competitive advantage with Gong.io:

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

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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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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