Anna Wintour ordered from her personally. Jennifer Lopez wore the first thing she ever designed. But Melissa Odabash started out selling bikinis from a bag backstage, barely making a dollar on each one. Twenty-five years and 70 countries later, she's never taken outside investment and still owns every bit of her brand.

Melissa Odabash MBE is the founder and designer of her eponymous luxury swimwear label. A former fit model for Valentino and Fendi, she turned everything she absorbed backstage into one of the most iconic names in swimwear.

In this episode:

◼️ How a Victoria's Secret catalogue took her from 70 pieces a week to thousands

◼️ Why she's never taken outside investment, and the first hire she says every founder needs

◼️ How she got her collection into Harvey Nichols with one very bold phone call

◼️ Why every penny she makes goes into property

◼️ How to stick to one thing when everyone tells you to expand

◼️ Why she says you should never start a business for money

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Amanda Cassatt helped bring Ethereum to market as CMO of ConsenSys, then founded the web3 firm Serotonin, co-founded NFT platform Mojito, and wrote a book on web3 marketing.

She makes the case that most of us are quietly losing money without realising it. Our savings sit in accounts earning next to nothing while the bank keeps the difference.

In this episode:

◼️ Why she thinks the economy has become so "calcified" that wealth now only flows from young to old, and how early crypto briefly flipped that

◼️ What crypto actually is, in plain English: blockchains, bitcoin vs ethereum, stablecoins, and why holding your own money matters

◼️ The wild bit of history: the internet was meant to have money built into it from day one, and why it took crypto to finish the job PayPal couldn't

◼️ How to spot a solid, battle-tested platform from the projects that don't make it

◼️ Her contrarian take on AI: revolutionary, or just "glorified autocomplete"? And why she thinks it's quietly homogenising how we all think

◼️ How to make big decisions without agonising, and the Japanese idea of ikigai she swears by

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Crypto talk. Most of us are quietly nodding along with no clue what any of it means. So today it's a crash course, we're going back to basics. Crypto, blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum, web3, defi and tokenization.

By the end, you'll actually know what it’s all about:

◼️ Why crypto is built on cryptography, the same math that keeps your messages and bank login safe

◼️ Why "on the blockchain" means no single person, company or government can tamper with it

◼️ Why bitcoin is like a calculator and ethereum is like a smartphone

◼️ Why web3 is called the next internet: your accounts, content and data would live on a blockchain and actually belong to you

◼️ How defi and tokenization could change money for everyone, and why BlackRock's CEO compares it to the internet in 1996

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