Fail Wisdom Podcast: Turn Startup Failures into Success

Host Paul King interviews Michael Skepsis, founder of Handle Branding, who shares raw stories of entrepreneurship, including a devastating ransomware attack, turning failure into a cybersecurity app, and leveraging dyslexia as a creative superpower.

Host Paul King interviews Keriana King, community lead at Fishburners and co-founder of ActiveMate, about her journey from law and commerce studies to the startup world.

Louise, founder of Peppermint IT and the IT Lady charity, shares her journey from a 30-year IT career to building a business focused on empathetic tech support.

Beth Nevins joins Paul from London, and the conversation starts with her unusual route into people and talent work.

Fail Wisdom Podcast: Turn Startup Failures into Success features Steve Plummer on building technology businesses after academic suspension, software-scaling problems, and burnout.

Fail Wisdom Podcast: Turn Startup Failures into Success features Landon Kahn, who spent 17 years building businesses and helped scale one climate-sector company beyond $50 million in revenue and 100 staff before it entered administration.

On the Foul Wisdom Podcast, Sahira explains how leaving corporate work after being told she would “never be corporate enough” led her to build a values-driven consulting and mentoring career.

Sally Irwin, founder of the Freedom Hub, describes leaving a corporate career after experiencing slavery overseas and building an Australian organisation that supports survivors.

Arthur Hinton, co-founder of ActiveMate, recounts starting an Instagram teenager-meme page at 14, growing it to 50,000 followers, and selling it for almost nothing.

Rachel Sanders, CEO and founder of Routine, describes moving from burnout in finance to building science-backed supplements and wellness products.

The Fail Wisdom Podcast interviews Leo Plaza of Fishburners about resilience, customer validation, fundraising, and scaling early-stage startups.

On the Startup Fail Wisdom Podcast, Paul King interviews social entrepreneur Wei Yeo about making charities redundant through community ownership and planned exits.

Paul King interviews Amanda Lee Dwayhe about developing an online sex-education platform after a March business retreat and years of intimacy coaching.

Jack Davis, founder of It's Cool to Cry, explains how Ellie’s suicide at age 25 led him to study grief, mental illness, and emotional suppression.

Jess Hodge learned that face-to-face market feedback could overturn her assumptions about a recycled plastic table.

Piroska Bisits-Bullen connects public-health operations in Cambodia and Malawi with scaling startups under limited resources.

Jan Golembiewski presents EarthBuild, a construction system intended to build homes quickly from local clean waste rather than conventional brick, concrete, and steel.

Luke Hakewill links five years of bespoke shoemaking and hand-stitching boots for The Hobbit to startup product craft.