Life After Launch with Megan Luttrell & Geo George
Life After Launch explores the personal journeys of startup founders, delving into their challenges and triumphs. Hosts Megan Luttrell and Geo George interview entrepreneurs about the realities of building a business, sharing candid insights into the highs, lows, and lessons learned. It is produced by the Aussie Founders Club.
Episodes
Stephen Wools – Be a Cockroach: You Can Survive Anything
Stephen Wools has built creative agencies, toured Jordan Peterson and Theo Von, opened one of Melbourne's most talked-about bars, signed the biggest hospitality lease in the city's history four weeks before lockdown, and lost a house and millions of dollars along the way. His advice on how to survive all of it: be a cockroach.Stephen walks through how a floppy disk and a hungover all-nighter got h
Nick Maxwell – Be the Duck on the Pond
Nick Maxwell got cut by the same football club four years running. Cut at 14. Cut at 15. Cut at 16. Cut at 17, three minutes into a trial, with a snapped vertebra. He made the squad on his fifth attempt and still went undrafted.Four days before Christmas, a phone call changed everything. Nick walks through the voicemail that told him he'd been picked up by Collingwood, the 200-plus games that foll
Shane Chanel - Nothing’s Ever Going to Be as Hard as That Day
Shane Chanel bet his entire life savings, $20,000, on a four-wheel drive racing app when he was 14. It wasn't his last high-conviction bet. He went on to leave a stockbroking career to build Yondr Money, a digital bank that never became a bank, survived a hostile takeover attempt from his own investor, and is now building Kobble, the infrastructure that lets almost any business launch a financial
Darius Monsef – You're the Number One Consumer of Your Own Bullshit
Darius Monsef has built a colour-palette website that grew to millions of users, sold two companies, raised over $40 million for a paediatric healthcare startup, and shut it all down. Twice. He's brutally honest about why.Darius walks through how a joke website for rating colour squares became a design resource used by Adobe, how wearing his own branded t-shirt got him into Y Combinator, and how C
Kirstin Hunter – You're Spending 95% of Your Brain on the Wrong 5%
Kirstin Hunter has co-founded a super fund, run a startup accelerator, and now leads Australia's biggest crowdfunding platform. None of it was the plan.She grew up in Tweed Heads folding junk mail for two cents a letterbox, trained to be a doctor, then pivoted through law and consulting before a friend told her the pro bono work she loved was just "the trinkets" propping up a job that made corpora
Jodie Imam - Sometimes You Don't Need a Rocket Ship. You Need a Tractor
If you've ever felt like you're not a "real" Founder because you're not chasing unicorn status, this episode is your permission slip to build differently.Jodie Imam has done almost everything you can do in the Australian startup ecosystem. She co-founded Occasional Butler and went head to head with Airtasker (who eventually acquired her), opened depo8, one of Melbourne's first coworking spaces, an
Dom Pym – How To Build From Abundance, Even When You Have Nothing
If you've ever talked yourself out of reaching out to someone because they're "too successful to reply", this episode will change how you send your next message.Dom Pym co-founded Up, one of Australia's fastest growing digital banks, and has personally invested $85 million into the Australian startup ecosystem. But he started with nothing. Dom tells Megan and Geo about growing up in a family that
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