FuckUp Nights February - Stories about Failure

Welcome to FuckUp Nights Melbourne! To launch our events in 2018, we kick off in February at our spiritual home- Inspire9 Richmond!

Over the past year and a half, we have grown a massive community of people who have attended our events! We are continuing on in 2018 to showcase amazing stories of personal, business and project failure and the wisdom and resilience learned from such experiences.

Get your FREE tickets here: https://funfeb.eventbrite.com

FuckUp Nights is a global movement born in Mexico in 2012 to share public business failure stories with hundreds of people attending each event around the world. Each month speakers will be invited to talk about their FuckUp stories; we’ll learn about their biggest mistakes, what they learned, how they moved on- all whilst sharing invaluable advice along the way.

The speakers will candidly share in 7-10 minutes:

• What their project / business was

• What went wrong / How it affected their personal life / What they learned / What they would do differently.

Speaker 1: CHIQUITA SEARLE (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiquitasearle/) - TEDx Alumni, Publicist, Talent Manager, Speaker, MC & Writer; CHIQUITA (http://www.chiquita.com.au/)

Taking the path-less- trodden, in 2011, after a successful eight-year long stint in HR and Recruitment for the construction and mining industries, Chi felt a strong pull in another direction and so followed her heart to France where she studied at the Paris Fashion Institute before launching her own fashion label“Chi the Label” (rebranded “Chiquita”) the following year.

Hand-picked to launch the League of Extraordinary Women’s first Queensland branch as their QLDCrusader in August 2012, within twelve months Chi was offered the opportunity to take on the role as the League’s General Manager to oversee the group’s national growth. Under her leadership, theLeague expanded to 9 locations Australia wide and made history by launching Australia’s first ever allfemale entrepreneur one day conference, ‘Run the World’.

Since leaving the League, Chi has established CHIQUITA, a PR & Talent Management Agency where she helps individuals and businesses from a variety of industries raise their profile through innovative PR and media strategies. She is adept at getting to the heart of what makes an individual ‘unique’, clarifying their point of difference and understanding exactly how to leverage this to achieve significant media coverage.

A TEDx Alumni, Chi is also invited to speak or MC at a number of events by a range of leading brands including Run the World, Australian Women of Medicine, Pause Fest, ANZ, One Path and EmpoweredWomen in Real Estate.

Check out Chiquita on Twitter: @chiquitasearle (https://twitter.com/chiquitasearle)

Speaker 2: DAVE CHUNG (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-chung-44714156/) - CEO & Founder; LIMBR (https://www.limbr.org)

Dave is the founder and CEO of Limbr - a startup on a mission to make mental health more accessible and acceptable. He's aware we can't keep doing things the way we've always done them - but he's full of optimism and action in creating positive change in this world.

He thinks the best tools to bring about change are creativity, connection and technology. He only refers to himself in the third person in bios.

Check out Dave on Twitter: @LimbrDave (https://twitter.com/LimbrDave)

Speaker 3: Chirryl-Lee Ryan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chirrylleeryan/) - Transdisciplinary Designer

Chirryl-Lee Ryan is a transdisciplinary design practitioner, mentor, and leader. In merging different design disciplines, Chirryl-Lee is able to produce radical design approaches with innovative and human-centered outcomes. This design approach ultimately helps to invent and create things that can change the world. Chirryl-Lee’s vision is that everyone can live better lives through design and her mission is to arm as many people as possible with the skills, tools, and confidence they need to dream big and shape the future.

Check out Chirryl-Lee on Twitter: @chirrylleeryan (https://twitter.com/chirrylleeryan)

Speaker 4: Leslie Miley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliehm/) - Engineering Leader

Leslie Miley is a Silicon Valley native who has held engineering leadership roles at Slack, Twitter, Apple, and Google, creating products and features that hundreds of million people use every day. He serves as an adviser to several startups founded by women and minorities and is an investor in a fund dedicated to entrepreneurs who are POC, LGBT, and women.

Check out Leslie on Twitter: @shaft (https://twitter.com/shaft)

At the end of each person’s story, you’ll have a chance to ask questions- nothing too cheeky, but feel free to dig around.You’ll hear stories and advice you won’t get elsewhere - and these stories will (hopefully) put you in good stead to not make the same fuckups.

Attendance is free, but we do ask you to register in advance.

Supported by our partners KJR (http://kjr.com.au/), Young Henrys (http://www.younghenrys.com/home), General Assembly Melbourne (https://generalassemb.ly/), Inspire9 (http://inspire9.com/) & Collabosaurus (https://collabosaurus.com/)

Find out more at: https://www.facebook.com/FUNMelb/