Fuck Up Night JULY
Fuck Up Night JULY
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Gold Coast F*ckUp Night July
The business conversations no one talks about in public!
Business is not all shiny success stories! The biggest lessons and learnings come from the challenges in business. A networking and speaker event where you hear from 3-4 business founders share about their lessons and mistakes in business.
Join us for Gold Coast's Fuckup Night event.
Event Details
Next Event: Wed 1st July
Time: 6pm - 9pm / 5pm for VIP round table experience
Venue: VIKA Events Space, above Kinship Café
Address: 766 Pacific Parade, Currumbin, QLD 4223
We are beach front and there is plenty of on street parking, please allow some time to walk from your car and enjoy sunset views.
July Speakers
Speaker 1: Shria Rambiritch
Co -Founder Fildesk & Multi-Concept Restaurant Owner:
Built a #1-ranked restaurant in Boracay in just 6 months, Featured in Tatler, Esquire & the New York Post.
Shria has built, scaled and operated 6 international venues. Her journey, however, hasn’t been linear. From building a #1-ranked restaurant in Boracay to navigating shutdowns, failed partnerships, and starting over in a new country, she has learned the hard way that growth without structure can break even the most promising businesses.
Today, through Fildesk, she helps small business owners gain clarity over their numbers and build systems for sustainable, profitable growth. This month Shria will be sharing how she went from scaling fast to losing control then rebuilding smarter.
Speaker 2: Lisa Jones - Founder of SHE-com + Exited Founder of Ecoriginals
Lisa Jones is an Australian entrepreneur, keynote speaker, author and founder with nineteen years in e-commerce and seven companies to her name.
She is the creator of SHE-com, the largest global community of female product founders, with more than 100,000 women inside it. She also founded Ecoriginals, the eco nappy brand that out-rated Huggies on customer reviews before her full exit from the business.
Across her career, Lisa has built three brands, sold two, and reverse-engineered the kind of growth most founders only talk about. She is the author of E-commerce Uncomplicated and the forthcoming Build the Damn Brand. Her work centres on the things that actually move a business: founder-led selling, premium positioning, organic community, and profit over vanity metrics.
Speaker 3: Tara McKeon - Founder and CEO of Proud Poppy Clothing
Tara McKeon is the Founder and CEO of Proud Poppy Clothing, an award-winning Australian fashion brand known for its inclusive sizing, vibrant community, and customer-first approach. Since launching the business in 2019 from a tub of clothes in her hallway, Tara has grown Proud Poppy into a global e-commerce and retail brand that empowers women to feel confident, seen, and celebrated.
Tara has one of the fastest growing fashion brands in australia - from $0 to 20 million in 6 years. Multiple award winning founder of Proud Poppy Clothing - 6 retail stores, global ecommerce presence and CEO to over 70 staff.
As a business leader, speaker, podcast host, and mother of two, she is passionate about building communities, challenging industry norms, and helping women unapologetically live their best lives. This month we will be hearing from Tara about what happpens when FOMO kicks in and you choose to make decisions against your gut feeling.
Speaker 4: Marina Perry - Co-Founder: The Hive Burleigh & Founder: The School of Growth
Marina Perry is an entrepreneur, speaker, business builder, and transformational facilitator who has spent the past 25 years launching, scaling, and reinventing businesses across health, fitness, education, coaching and personal development.
Best known as the exited founder of Pure Health Clubs, one of Queensland’s longest-running health and wellness brands which has been operating for more than 25 years. Marina has built and scaled multiple seven-figure businesses across health, education, coaching and personal development industires. She has led teams of dozens of staff, spoken on stages around the world and helped tens of thousands of people create meaningful change through her work.
Having repeatedly taken businesses from idea to reality, she understands both the rewards and the realities of entrepreneurship, combining business acumen with deep expertise in leadership, human behaviour and transformational change.This month Marina will share one of the most expensive lessons of her entrepreneurial career, how a well-intentioned decision ultimately contributed to a million-dollar blind spot
What is FUCKUP Night?
An exclusive evening of non recorded insights and lessons from experienced Founders sharing their Fuckups!
Each event we have 3-4 speakers who are experienced business owners in varying industries, sharing the scoop of what really happens in business based on their biggest challenges!
At our GC events, we also have a Q&A panel with the speakers. Share your own F-Up with other guests, network and meet other business owners from the Gold Coast and beyond.
A global movement that has seen events in 250 cities around the world. Where experienced business owners share their raw fuck up stories to remove the stigma around failure in business.
A place to cheer on all stages of business.
Why Attend
Walk away with insights, inspiration, truth bombs and new meaningful connections with other business owners.
You will get multiple opportunities during the evening to connect and meet peers; other local founders, business owners and start ups. You never know who you will meet at Fuckup Nights and who you could potentially collaborate with in the future.
Business owners share stories that can not be shared publicly. By booking your ticket to attend you agree to:
No audio recording of the speakers stories
No sharing their stories beyond this event without their permission.
This allows the speakers the privacy to openly share. We take this quite seriously.
What you can do:
Take photos and videos (without their speaking audio) and tag us and the speakers on Instagram
Share your experience and lessons learnt, without giving away their story.
Who Attends
This event is the space for the start ups, founder, entrepreneur and business owner community of the Gold Coast to come together and forge authentic connections and have real talk beyond the fluffy business talk.
Stories that you won’t get to see online.
This event focuses on authenticity, real talk and what it’s really like behind the scenes of business.
The speakers share their mistakes so other founders can learn from their lessons.
Event Details
Next Event: Wed 1 July 6pm-9pm GA/ 5pm for VIP round table
Venue: VIKA Events Space, above Kinship Café
Address: 766 Pacific Parade, Currumbin, QLD 4223
We are beach front and there is plenty of on street parking, please allow some time to walk from your car and enjoy sunset views.
July Speakers
Speaker 1: Shria Rambiritch
Co -Founder Fildesk & Multi-Concept Restaurant Owner:
Built a #1-ranked restaurant in Boracay in just 6 months, Featured in Tatler, Esquire & the New York Post.
Shria has built, scaled and operated 6 international venues. Her journey, however, hasn’t been linear. From building a #1-ranked restaurant in Boracay to navigating shutdowns, failed partnerships, and starting over in a new country, she has learned the hard way that growth without structure can break even the most promising businesses.
Today, through Fildesk, she helps small business owners gain clarity over their numbers and build systems for sustainable, profitable growth. This month Shria will be sharing how she went from scaling fast to losing control then rebuilding smarter.
Speaker 2: Lisa Jones - Founder of SHE-com + Exited Founder of Ecoriginals
Lisa Jones is an Australian entrepreneur, keynote speaker, author and founder with nineteen years in e-commerce and seven companies to her name.
She is the creator of SHE-com, the largest global community of female product founders, with more than 100,000 women inside it. She also founded Ecoriginals, the eco nappy brand that out-rated Huggies on customer reviews before her full exit from the business.
Across her career, Lisa has built three brands, sold two, and reverse-engineered the kind of growth most founders only talk about. She is the author of E-commerce Uncomplicated and the forthcoming Build the Damn Brand. Her work centres on the things that actually move a business: founder-led selling, premium positioning, organic community, and profit over vanity metrics.
Speaker 3: Tara McKeon - Founder and CEO of Proud Poppy Clothing
Tara McKeon is the Founder and CEO of Proud Poppy Clothing, an award-winning Australian fashion brand known for its inclusive sizing, vibrant community, and customer-first approach. Since launching the business in 2019 from a tub of clothes in her hallway, Tara has grown Proud Poppy into a global e-commerce and retail brand that empowers women to feel confident, seen, and celebrated.
Tara has one of the fastest growing fashion brands in australia - from $0 to 20 million in 6 years. Multiple award winning founder of Proud Poppy Clothing - 6 retail stores, global ecommerce presence and CEO to over 70 staff.
As a business leader, speaker, podcast host, and mother of two, she is passionate about building communities, challenging industry norms, and helping women unapologetically live their best lives. This month we will be hearing from Tara about what happpens when FOMO kicks in and you choose to make decisions against your gut feeling.
Speaker 4: Marina Perry - Co-Founder: The Hive Burleigh & Founder: The School of Growth
Marina Perry is an entrepreneur, speaker, business builder, and transformational facilitator who has spent the past 25 years launching, scaling, and reinventing businesses across health, fitness, education, coaching and personal development.
Best known as the exited founder of Pure Health Clubs, one of Queensland’s longest-running health and wellness brands which has been operating for more than 25 years. Marina has built and scaled multiple seven-figure businesses across health, education, coaching and personal development industires. She has led teams of dozens of staff, spoken on stages around the world and helped tens of thousands of people create meaningful change through her work.
Having repeatedly taken businesses from idea to reality, she understands both the rewards and the realities of entrepreneurship, combining business acumen with deep expertise in leadership, human behaviour and transformational change.This month Marina will share one of the most expensive lessons of her entrepreneurial career, how a well-intentioned decision ultimately contributed to a million-dollar blind spot
VIP Round table (Pre-Event)
Private and exclusive round table networking with host Tegan Mel and the speakers. Opportunity to connect before the room opens, over a drink (plus you can choose to order dinner). Get to know who's in the room, connect with other founders and bounce ideas to help avoid fuckups and grow in 2026.
Connect with founders building large scale brands, ask questions and meet in an organic way.
This is a VIP networking experience from 5–6pm, we limit seats at the table, to allow everyone the opportunity to share and talk. You get a choice of drink on arrival (alcoholic and non alcoholic available).
There is also the opportunity to order dinner while at the table if you would like to eat (dinner isn't included)
Your VIP ticket includes BOTH the pre-event AND the main Fuckup night event ticket: $79 including booking fees.
What People Have Said:
So much value from speakers. Good to learn from someone who is doing 6-15M turnovers and able to speak to them directly.
Different to any other Gold Coast event! Such a variety of attendees from different business
It's actually about business and such a genuine crowd.
Listening to the speakers cracked something in me
I feel less alone in business.
Speaking was so incredibly healing, it felt like a weight lifted off my back
It is more than another networking event, it is a community
I love the level of authenticity that the speakers bring
Feels like an inside scoop of what is going on behind the scenes
About Your Host
Hosted by Tegan Mel, Co-Founder of Red Robs Original real chicken salt. Exited founder of Soul Quartz jewellery, Product Founder Mentor, podcast host and TEDx Speaker.
After having a multitude of fuckups herself over 11 years in business, overcoming thyroid cancer, building 2 retail shops through learning on the fly, then selling and exiting her jewellery brand for 6 figures when others said she couldn’t… she is on a mission to bring authenticity and real talk into business networking and events; celebrating the downs and what it actually takes to run a brand. Removing the stigma of failure in business – while having juicy conversations and a laugh.
Welcome to a community where you are not alone in your F-ups, you are celebrated for dusting yourself off.
See you in July!
Tegan Mel
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Location
VIKA Events Currumbin, 4223