Strategy & Tragedy: CEO Stories with Steph Melodia – Details, episodes & analysis

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Strategy & Tragedy: CEO Stories with Steph Melodia

stephaniemelodia

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 121

UK Top 20 Business Show for today’s entrepreneur. Hosted by UK Top 20 Female Founder, Stephanie Melodia, Strategy & Tragedy spotlights the most authentic & interesting founder stories - featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly of building a business. With the purpose to inspire and educate entrepreneurs, guests also include subject matter experts such as top business strategists, marketers, and investors to help arm founders with the knowledge to succeed in business.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - entrepreneurship
26/10/2025
#93
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24/10/2025
#94
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25/09/2025
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#80
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22/08/2025
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EP40: AMA | Scaling a business, exit strategies, thoughts on AI & more

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 • Duration 13:17

Stephanie Melodia answers your questions! Tune into this special solo episode to hear how she'd do things differently with Bloom, how to successfully exit a business, thoughts on AI, and more.

Want your question featured next time? Make sure to follow Steph on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/stephmelodia/

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🤍 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephmelodia/
🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/

🎬 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/videos

🙏🏼 Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=108229517

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The Debrief ft. Johnny Khaira: Top Takeaways from Mike Stevens of Peppersmith

Monday, September 2, 2024 • Duration 27:57

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Steph Melodia and special guest, Johnny Khaira, share their main reflections and top takeaways on last week's interview with Mike Stevens, Co-Founder of Peppersmith - the beloved mints brand with 20 million packs sold on supermarket shelves, coffee shops, and health stores.

Tune in to hear what resonated with them both as they debrief on last week's interview.

Let us know your thoughts! Follow on social:

🤍 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephmelodia/

🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephmelodia-keynotespeaker/

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EP35: Capital as a force for good | Mandy Nyarko MBE, Startup Discovery School

Episode 38

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 • Duration 40:34

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/strategyandtragedy

Mandy Nyarko MBE is the Co-Founder of Startup Discovery School & Managing Partner of Sahara Impact Ventures.In this episode, Mandy shares:

👩🏾‍💻 Her story from bank cashier to investor, now fund manager and trailblazing impact leader👩🏾‍💻 The power of spirituality and manifesting (which goes hand in hand with effort, hustle, hard work!)👩🏾‍💻 Her work to achieve net zero in the fight against climate change 👩🏾‍💻 The agricultural landscape and how this is negatively impacting African women👩🏾‍💻 The importance of resilience - keep getting back up!Learn more about Startup Discovery School here: https://www.startupdiscoveryschool.com/

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🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/

🎬 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/

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EP34: "I built the Clueless wardrobe" | Bianca Rangecroft, Founder & CEO of Whering

Episode 37

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 • Duration 45:01

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/strategyandtragedy/

Bianca Rangecroft is the Forbes 30 Under 30 Founder & CEO of Whering, the AI-enabled digital wardrobe and personal styling app with the mission of upending the buy-use-dispose model by helping Gen-Z fashionistas get the most out of their wardrobe.

Bianca has raised over £2.5 million in venture capital and now has 14 full-time employees, 150 brand partners and - most importantly - over 4M users.In this episode, you'll hear about:👗 Bianca's experience on BBC's Dragons Den👗 Going from scrappy bootstrapped startup to lean, mean, metric-focused scale-up machine👗 Hire slow, fire fast: the mindset shift needed with talent and most overlooked aspect of dismissing staff👗 Successful growth hacks with viral marketing (organic social done right!)👗 The power of networking and Bianca's advisory board for life👗 PLUS! What Victoria Beckham had to do with Whering!Download the app here: https://whering.co.uk/

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🤍 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephmelodia/

🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/

🎬 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/

🙏🏼 Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=108229517

EP33: “I started a £10M ARR business when I was 20” | Mark Chaffey, Co-Founder & CEO of hackajob

Episode 36

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 • Duration 27:25

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/strategyandtragedy

Mark Chaffey is the Co-Founder and CEO of hackajob, the candidate-centric platform for tech talent that puts the power back in the hands of the job seekers.

He co-founded the business straight out of university aged 20 and now leads the HRtech scale-up with $35M in Series B funding under his belt, a team of 150 staff, and turning over £10M ARR with world domination firmly on the cards!

Key points in this episode you'll hear about:

🚀 Biggest challenges as a young entrepreneur & first-time CEO 🚀 The sales strategy that took this business to $10M ARR 🚀 Expanding to the US and dangers of hiring too fast 🚀 Where Mark turns to for guidance & inspiration 🚀 Fundraising journey - 78 meetings to get to 5 term sheets - including a deal falling through at the last minute 😱

“This is NOT the TechCrunch article”

Learn more about hackajob here: https://hackajob.com/

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🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/

🎬 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/

🙏🏼 Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=108229517

EP32: Delivering 1 BILLION people a moment of calm | Liv Ferdi, TRIP Drinks

Episode 35

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 • Duration 41:16

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Liv Ferdi is the Co-Founder of TRIP, the UK’s number 1, best selling CBD drinks brand stocked in 25,000 stores around the UK including the likes of Selfridges, Ocado, Boots, Planet Organic, Harrods… Also in chains like The Ivy, Brewdog, Leon, Benugo, AND is the exclusive CBD supplier to Soho House!

TRIP holds 88% UK market share, has raised £10M in external investment and hired a team of 50 staff!Tune in to hear about:

💛 The benefit of coming in from the outside - from Liv's career in corporate legal to FMCG founder and the advantage of fresh perspectives💛 How to win in becoming *category-defining* - even when you’re not the first💛 How TRIP overcame performance marketing challenges as a CBD brand💛 Building a 'cool' brand that respects the customer 💛 Cultivating an authentic, mission-driven business💛 PLUS Strategy & Tragedy exclusive new announcement!

Get 20% off your TRIP order with the S&T podcast code: TRIPCALM20 Shop online here: https://drink-trip.com/collections/all or in-store at various retailers

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🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/

🎬 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/videos

🙏🏼 Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=108229517

🎧 Don't forget to subscribe, rate, review, and share with a friend!

EP31: "I'm solving the world's most PAINFUL pain point!" | DEATHTECH founder, Emily Cummin of Untangle Grief

Episode 33

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • Duration 40:11

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Emily is the Founder of Untangle, the go-to app for all of life's hard events. From sorting the mess of paperwork after a bereavement, to finding a community of other grief-stricken individuals, Untangle is there to help everyone get through the tough times. Featured in the Evening Standard and boasting <500k followers, Untangle is going from strength to strength as they now embark their new crowdfunding campaign.

But of course, it wasn't always that successful... In this episode, Steph and Emily discuss:

👼 Building a business around lived experience vs the market opportunity 👼 The validation process and data-driven tests along the way👼 Emily's accelerator experience and reason for choosing Zinc👼 Decision-making around tech stack for new startup (hint: Emily went with OTS)👼 Finding PMF (product-market fit)

Untangle is crowdfunding! Get in on the action here: https://untanglegrief.com/coowners-club/

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🤍 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephmelodia/

🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/

🎬 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/videos

🙏🏼 Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=108229517

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ES1: Los TOP 4 lecciones del emprendimiento | Episodio solo especial

Episode 34

Monday, June 3, 2024 • Duration 11:58

En este episodio especial, Stephanie Melodia reflexiona en las varias conversaciones con empresarios de los últimos 20 episodios.

Escucha para descubrir las TOP lecciones del empresarialismo!

(¿Puedes adivinar cuales son?)

'Estrategía y tragedía' es el podcast de Stephanie Melodia, orador y fundadora Top 20 en el Reino Unido, donde entrevista empresarios, inversores, y expertos relacionados al mundo de startups. El propósito fundamental de este show es compartir las mayores lecciones de los grandes errores que otros han cometido - otros que están en unos pasos mas adelante de ti - para que puedes aprender de ellos, y tener la mayor posibilidad de éxito con tu negocio.

También esperamos que puedes encontrar inspiración de estas anécdotas, y terminar los episodios sintiendo que tu vision es completamente posible realizar.

Quieres más? Sigue Steph en las redes:

🤍 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephmelodia/

🤍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniemelodia/

🎬 Ve el episodio en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephmelodia/videos

🙏🏼 Apoya el podcast con Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=108229517

🎧 No olvides en subscribir y compartir con tu amigo empresarial!

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EP30: Top 10 Lessons From an Award-Winning Agency Founder & CEO

Episode 31

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 • Duration 11:10

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Stephanie Melodia founded Bloom, an award-winning marketing consultancy, in London of 2017.

Last summer, she announced the closure of her successful business, and - in this episode - she recounts what happened, and reflects on what went right, and what went wrong.

(After all, Strategy & Tragedy is about sharing *both* the highs and lows of business, the reality behind closed doors, the ugly truth behind the glossy veneer, and - most crucially - the lessons learnt from the experience. None of this is to put anyone off entrepreneurship, instead it's about empowering early-stage entrepreneurs to go in with eyes & ears wide open, learning from other people's mistakes who are a few steps ahead of you. Tune into Episode ZERO to hear more!)

What you'll learn in this solo episode:

🥀 What led Steph to ultimately close the Bloom chapter🥀 Top 10 business lessons - 5 things that worked + 5 things that didn’t 🥀 Being "allergic" to stagnation, the concept of control, and importance of progress🥀 The importance of carrying out a “pre-mortem” exercise on your own business. 🥀 Embracing a portfolio career post-Bloom

I'd LOVE to know, what resonated most with you here? Join the conversation:

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EP29: B2B SaaS growth strategies with Justin Fitzpatrick, ex-Duedil (now FullCircl), Outpost Advisors

Episode 30

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 • Duration 59:36

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Justin Fitzpatrick, the co-Founder & ex-CEO of Duedil, now FullCircl post-merger. Justin is now Founder of Outpost Advisors, the firm that helps PE- & VC-backed B2B software companies accelerate profitability.

In this episode, Justin and Steph discuss:

👉 The unexpected way Justin met his co-founder 👉 Key lessons learnt from scaling the B2B SaaS DueDil, which raised a combined $53.4 million in funding across 11 rounds👉 Evolving B2B SaaS growth strategies - including 'slowing down to speed up' and overcoming painfully long buying cycles with enterprise clients👉 The importance of UI and investing in your product👉 The "wildcard" choice of Justin's university degree (tune into find out what he majored in!) and how it's helped him now👉 The importance of value proposition refinement when it comes to effective business development.

Are you a leader at a B2B software company curious to learn more about boosting profitability? Connect with Justin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-fitzpatrick-83a783/

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