Fayl Tales
Behind every startup success story is a trail of mistakes, pivots, broken plans and brilliant comebacks.
Fayl Tales is the podcast where entrepreneurs, founders, investors and early employees share the real side of building something new - the failures that shaped them, the lessons they learned the hard way, and the resilience it takes to keep going.
Hosted by Loveth, each episode dives into the raw, funny and honest moments most business stories leave out - so you can learn faster, fail smarter, and feel less alone on your own journey.
Follow the show for weekly conversations that prove: failure isn’t the end, it’s part of the story.
Episodes
30 episodes
He Bet His Life Savings on Limoncello and Its Working ~ Stefan Di Benedetto
Hey Crew!Picture this. You win world's best liquor. You're in Qantas first class lounges. You're in over 500 venues across the country. And you got here by betting every dollar you had on a family limoncello recipe.That's Stefan D...
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26:20
She Quit Corporate, Bought a Vineyard, and Built an AI Company in Tasmania ~ Fiona Turner
Hey Crew!Picture this: you walk away from a successful corporate tech career, buy a vineyard in Tasmania with your partner, and dream about the simple life.Then the vineyard goes haywire, you're burning through money, and you can'...
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46:55
"I Was Beyond Poor" ~ Megan Luttrell on Building Aussie Founders Club From Nothing
Hey Crew! Ok so this one hit different. Megan Luttrell has built Aussie Founders Club into a community of thousands of founders, runs Kairos Recruitment, just launched People Stack, won Victorian Ecosystem Hero of the Year, and landed a $200K g...
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26:39
The Startup Advice That's Leading You Astray
If you've ever read a piece of startup advice and thought "that doesn't feel right"... trust that instinct. This one's for you.This is another solo episode. No guest. Just me unpacking the startup advice that sounds great on a LinkedIn p...
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17:24
I've Never Talked About My Own Failures. Until Now.
Ok so this one is different. No guest. Just me.I've interviewed so many founders about their failures and mistakes but I realised I've literally never talked about my own. A few friends and guests have called me out on it too so here we ...
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16:23
"We Convinced Ourselves the Problem Was Real"... Alex Melocco
Ok so this one is a ride. Alex Melocco studied law AND software engineering (overachiever energy), ditched the safe corporate path, and went full send on building startups. First attempt? A tutoring marketplace that fl...
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35:15
Would You Still Build This If It Took 10 Years? | Riana Shah
Riana Shah was in second year uni with one unit of Python… and somehow ended up co-founding Dugong Technologies - an AI-powered drowning detection startup designed to flag incidents in real time.And the...
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33:31
Why Group Trips Never Happen and How Jay Raval Is Trying to Fix It
If you’ve ever tried to plan a group trip and watched it fall apart in the group chat… this one’s for you.In this episode, I sit down with Jay Raval, co-founder of Troopa — an AI-powered travel planning platform built around one s...
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36:01
Why Great Startups Still Fail: Timing, Trust, and Knowing What to Do 'Properly'
What actually kills startups? Sometimes it’s not product… it’s timing.In this episode, I’m joined by Alan Jones: angel investor, startup mentor, ex-founder, and co-manager at M8 Ventures (backing early-stage tech acr...
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59:29
Why Giving at Checkout Feels Awkward and How Tim Millbank Tried to Fix It with Change for Change
What if donating didn’t require a big monthly commitment… or an awkward “do you want to round up?” moment at the checkout?In this episode I’m joined by Tim Millbank, founder of Change for Change, a fintech-for-good platform designed to ...
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56:13
Built & Raised $180M for V2 Food, Now Nick Hazell is Tring To Make Algae as Cheap as Oil
Nick Hazell raised $180M building V2 Food, Australia’s market leader in plant-based protein, before exiting and turning his focus to an even bigger climate problem.Now the founder of Algenie, Nick is betting that ...
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57:46
Move With the Fear: Roxane Bandini-Maeder on Building Climate Tech
Some founders build products. Others build the future.In this episode of Fayl Tales, I sit down with Roxanne Bardini-Medio, CEO and co-founder of Geoneon, a climate tech company using geo-intelligence and data sci...
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38:21
Behind the Mic: What I’ve Learned Interviewing Founders
Welcome to the first ever solo episode of Fayl Tales.After interviewing founders across Vienna, Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmania, Loveth has noticed the same themes appearing again and again, regardless of industry, experience or ...
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24:46
Making Big Moves From Unexpected Places: Amy Fogarty
From booking bands to backing founders in Tasmania. Amy Fogarty has lived multiple lives. And somehow they all make sense.In this episode, Amy shares how she went from booking talent for live gigs, coordinating hundreds of performers and...
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37:04
“The Hire That Nearly Broke Me” ~ Steve Grace on Bad Hires & Pivots Into Wild Ventures
What do you do when your first hire steals from you, your business partner stops working, and your media company burns nearly half a million dollars?For Steve Grace, founder of The Nudge Group and private members’ club T...
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1:01:34
Raising VC Too Early? Taryn Williams on Airtree, Singapore Expansion & Boardroom Pressure
Australian founder Taryn Williams built Wink Models at 21, then launched marketplace startup theright.fit, raised venture capital from Airtree, expanded into Asia and exited to international acquirers – all while surviving hyper-growth, chaos, ...
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40:48
Georgie Healy: The Startup That 'Wasn’t VC-Backable' and the Pivot to AI
What happens when you realise you’re building the wrong kind of success?In this episode of Fayl Tales, Georgie Healy ~ engineer, founder, ex-VC, AI podcaster and leader of one of Australia’s biggest accelerator programs ~ unpacks the rea...
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44:42
Quit 6-Figure Jobs With No Plan: Daniel Jo & Justin Jang Are Betting Everything on One Startup
What happens when two consultants walk away from stable 6-figure careers… with no idea what they’ll build next?Meet Daniel Jo and Justin Jang, the co-founders of Attentv, who went from whiteboards and frameworks to late-night pub ...
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49:54
Too Much Cash, Not Enough Clarity - Adam Murray on the Messy Middle
Strategist Adam Murray on the real startup killers: resentment, complacency, and fuzzy reality. We dig into scale-up breaking points, the danger of too much cash, “warm data” for better decisions, and a co-founder al...
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29:07
Desmond John on Finding Purpose After Failure
Before running startup pitch nights and ecosystem tours, Desmond John was showing backpackers around Melbourne’s bars and laneways. When COVID hit, it all collapsed, but that collapse became the blueprint for something new.In this episod...
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29:37
Dr Sam Donegan: From Saving Lives to Startups, Cofounder Breakups, Burnout, and Building Again
Dr Sam Donegan is a medical doctor turned AI founder and the creator of SupportSorted, one of Australia’s fastest-growing digital health startups.In this candid episode, Sam opens up about his leap from medicine to healthtech, co-founder...
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53:29
Why Ego Kills Progress - Ray Yee with Lessons from Fintech
Product dies where onboarding breaks. Fintech product adviser, founder and podcast host Ray Yee shares Buy Now Pay Later lessons, audits without the blame game, scaling teams as risk increases, and why FastlaneIQ is helping charities mod...
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23:36
Anton Roe: He Scaled a Team to 50 People… Then Lost Half of Them
Anton Roe thought he was doing everything right - growing fast, hitting targets, building teams. But somewhere along the way, things broke. People started leaving. The board lost confidence. And Anton had to face the kind of feedback no one wan...
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42:48
From Teen Game Developer to Thousands-a-Day: Michael Reitzenstein’s Flash-Era Rise & Reckoning
At 15, Michael Reitzenstein was already selling games. By 21, he’d helped build one of the first web-game businesses with in-game payments - pulling in thousands per day - while hiring fast, navigating co-founder tensions, and learning on the f...
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51:02
Dietmar Gombotz on when a breakthrough polymer meets market reality
In this episode, entrepreneur and technologist Dietmar Gombotz shares the story of founding UGP Materials, a spin-out built around a novel high-performance polymer with a greener, water-based production process. Early traction wit...
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