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Padman Vamadevan is the Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Astron Health, a platform for personalised cancer treatments. They use molecular insights and advanced research to develop a unique algorithmic approach to give cancer patients more targeted treatment options. This tool helps cancer patients and care teams to not only get proactive, long term cancer care but to also extend remission and stay ahead of recurrence. Learn more here: https://astron.health/

In this interview, you'll hear about:

- Why Dr. Padman Vamadevan explored entrepreneurship as a better way to solve cancer than staying in the medical field

- The learning & unlearning as part of the founder process - and how the Oneday MBA program helped him

- Bringing in an external CEO to lead the business Padman founded

- Fundraising lessons

- And so much more...

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About the show:

Entrepreneurship is overly-glamorised, and there’s a lot to learn from the mistakes of others.

Strategy & Tragedy keeps it real; sharing the highs & lows, the strategies & tragedies, of other founders who have “made it.”

In addition to CEO interviews, we spotlight subject matter experts to help you on your entrepreneur journey.

Available on all major streaming platforms, now in the UK Top 20 Business Charts.

About Steph Melodia:

As ex-CEO of an award-winning marketing agency, Stephanie now hosts Strategy & Tragedy, advises MBA students with Oneday, coaches founders 1:1, and travels the world as an international keynote speaker on her signature subject of ‘Hacking Luck.’

She has delivered impactful sessions for household brand names including Qatar Airways, Soho House, WeTransfer, LinkedIn, Xero, Harvey Nash Group, Web Summit, and more - leaving audiences feeling inspired, motivated, and energised.

Book Steph to speak at your next event here: https://www.stephaniemelodia.com/keynote-speaker-resilience-growth-creativity

📕 Buy Timothy Armoo’s book, ‘What’s Stopping You?’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cheatcodes-Timothy-Armoo/dp/0241719224

🔥 RSVP to the ‘What’s Stopping You?’ online event on 10th January 2026: https://live.whatsstoppingyoubook.com/

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In this week's episode, Stephanie Melodia interviews Timothy Armoo, entrepreneur, investor, international speaker, and now published author with his new book, ‘What's Stopping You?’ out now.

Best known for founding Fanbytes, a Gen Z–focused influencer marketing agency, which he started while at university — and within just five years, scaled it to 80 employees, raised $2M in funding, and won clients including Deliveroo, Samsung and the UK Government - before selling it in an 8-figure deal to Brainlabs in 2022.

He has since brokered two more exits, earning him major recognition including being names as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, for one. He’s also committed to social impact with the Fanbytes Fund, backing influencer campaigns for Black-owned businesses.

We discuss:

- Normalising success through environment: Timo deliberately exposed himself to success by working in luxury hotel lobbies as a teenager, which helped him mentally rehearse and normalise achievement despite growing up on a council estate in South London.

- "It's not that deep" mindset: How Timo developed a philosophy of relaxed intensity, treating setbacks (like losing a £500k investment) as manageable rather than catastrophic, which reduced stress and improved decision-making throughout his entrepreneurial journey.

- Everything big starts small: His first £5 profit from a tutoring business at age 14 was more significant than his later 8-figure exit because it proved he could execute ideas and make money, establishing the foundation for all future success.

- The power of self-talk and belief: Drawing from books like Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, he emphasizes being intentional about how you describe yourself, avoiding negative self-definitions and building a "chair of belief" supported by multiple evidence points of past wins.

- Personal tragedy as motivation: His father's death just before launching Fanbytes became a driving force, giving him perspective that business challenges weren't truly catastrophic and fuelling his determination to make the company succeed as a promise to his late father.

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Recap of the top 5 most streamed episodes of 2025!

From investors to subject matter experts, to serial entrepreneurs and exited founders, Strategy & Tragedy is THE top show for entrepreneurs!

Listen to the full interviews:

Saba Yussouf

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrupDTldEsI&t=168s

- https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DkdIF1mxCt81I9WczFRjV?si=08767ae317c94236

Tash Rebuck

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX2Hes_VBk8&t=12s

- https://open.spotify.com/episode/7n6IwRD35hp3DHHfCJt5uA?si=c3de5acd09b14e84

Lauren Currie

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA0dWLy7Xvo&t=2809s

- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5725dA8KDAmuGKSRtP42qc?si=4f8972a134b84e57

Jenny Quigley-Jones

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdMg7OSqRdQ&t=77s

- https://open.spotify.com/episode/1YzmfqzhQ5tvZCoWsm3abj?si=a59a98a2cbe74251

Ben Coomber

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGeS7eaSj6U&t=2163s

- https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fjq6WZVRX4JhYvWPAtrac?si=fffde711aea44fce

I'd LOVE to know, which episodes were your favourites of 2025?!

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About the show:

Entrepreneurship is overly-glamorised, and there’s a lot to learn from the mistakes of others.

Strategy & Tragedy keeps it real; sharing the highs & lows, the strategies & tragedies, of other founders who have “made it.”

In addition to CEO interviews, we spotlight subject matter experts to help you on your entrepreneur journey.

Available on all major streaming platforms, now in the UK Top 20 Business Charts.

About Steph Melodia:

As ex-CEO of an award-winning marketing agency, Stephanie now hosts Strategy & Tragedy, advises MBA students with Oneday, coaches founders 1:1, and travels the world as an international keynote speaker on her signature subject of ‘Hacking Luck.’

She has delivered impactful sessions for household brand names including Qatar Airways, Soho House, WeTransfer, LinkedIn, Xero, Harvey Nash Group, Web Summit, and more - leaving audiences feeling inspired, motivated, and energised.

Book Steph to speak at your next event here: https://www.stephaniemelodia.com/keynote-speaker-resilience-growth-creativity

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

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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

What resonated most with you from this episode?

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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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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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