Fayl Tales
Loveth Ochayi
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About This Podcast
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.
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go all the way or don't start ~ Daniel Lord-Doyle
Hey Crew! Daniel Lord-Doyle started in telemarketing. Taught himself to code on YouTube. Built a laser hair removal e-commerce company during COVID by accident among many other things. And then…
poverty line to APAC hype man ~ Dickie Currer-Ganguli
Hey crew, Dickie Currer-Ganguli grew up on the poverty line in Yorkshire with a single mum, joined the army at 20, became a criminal defense and asylum lawyer at 23, moved to Australia at 26, and…
80 cents, 10 years, one decision~ Trang Nova
Hey Crew! Trang Nova stepped on a snail during a morning run and it triggered a quarter life crisis that changed everything.The career. The relationship. The country. Even her name.She went from…
i messed up. here's everything (solo ep)
Hey Crew!It's just me today. No guest, no founder story, just a proper behind the scenes of what building Fayl Tales actually looks like.We just hit 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. And I have made a…
investors ready, product built, yet she closed it ~ Sam Garven
Hey Crew! Sam Garven spent 10 years watching HR get left behind while every other team got the shiny new tools.So she built Hello Canopy to fix it.Got into Techstars pre-MVP. Pivoted live on stage at…
two controversial names, one strategy ~ Loughlan Dalton de Burgh
Hey Crew! Loughlan Dalton de Burgh named his cafe Pyramid Scheme. On purpose. Got a cease and desist from his landlord, went viral with 400,000 views, and had people driving two hours for his…
sought funding, got acquired ~ Ben Cull
Hey Crew! Ben Cull didn't set out to sell his company. He went to market for a $5 million funding round and came back with an acquisition offer from Fiserv at double what he thought the business was…
googled it, didn't exist, so she built it
Hey Crew! Imagine you've spent years building a company around live events. You just cracked your first million dollar year, you're training the Eventbrite team in Nashville, you're about to partner…
watched a founder raise $360M and shut it down ~ Phaedon Stough
HHey Crew! What do you do when you build a recruitment firm from a cockroach-infested Surry Hills office into a nearly 100-person, $20M-a-year global business, and then look back and say, yeah, I was…
too lazy to do It himself. so he built a company ~ Haobo Zhang
Hey Crew!Haobo Zhang is 20 years old. He has a full scholarship to study biomedicine at University of Melbourne, 30,000 users on his AI platform, and a very public goal to build a unicorn by 25. He's…
Millie Marconi Left $100K on the Table Because a LinkedIn Post Changed Everything
Hey Crew!Millie Marconi has been building for 9 years. In that whole time she's had exactly one real job, and it only lasted a couple of months. She's the kind of founder who doesn't wait for…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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Fayl Tales has published 41 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Business, Careers.
Fayl Tales is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 39m.
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