Fuck Up Night September
Fuck Up Night September
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Gold Coast F*ckUp Night September
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. Every second month we run 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 2nd September
Time: 6pm - 9pm (or 5-6pm if attending VIP event) / 5pm for VIPs
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.
September Speakers
Speaker 1: TBA
Speaker 2: TBA
Speaker 3: TBA
Speaker 4: TBA
What is FUCKUP Night?
An exclusive evening of non recorded insights and lessons from experienced Founders sharing their Fuckups!
Every second month we have 3-4 speakers who are experienced business owners in varying levels of business and industry, 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 across 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 learnings 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 2nd September
Time: 6pm - 9pm (or 5-6pm if attending VIP event) / 5pm for VIP
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.
September Speakers
Speaker 1: TBA
Speaker 2: TBA
Speaker 3: TBA
Speaker 4: TBA
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 my fuckups.
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
Love being in a community that reminds me who the Fuck I am
About Your Host
Hosted by Tegan Mel, Co'Founder of RedRobs Originals, Product Founder Mentor and founder of the Product Founders Podcast; exited jewellery brand founder 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 September!
Tegan Mel
PS. Are you a Founder with a fuckup story?
We are now taking speaker applications for 2027.
Join our community on Instagram.
Location
VIKA Events Currumbin, 4223