All Episodes

Ep 57. Leading Across Different Stages & Contexts—Laura Warden

Ep 56. The Multi-Domain Operator with Kai Crow

Ep 55. Anna Prell on Building Forage, Being Acquired and Building Again

Ep 54. Betting On People with Mahesh Muralidhar

Ep 53. Savannah Black on Range, Hypergrowth & ADHD

Ep 52. Operational Leadership with Alexey Mitko

Ep 51. Falling in Love with Startups and Running—Phoebe Pincus

Ep 50. Emer McCann on Building People Functions & Scaling Orgs

Ep 49. Liani Strauss on Keeping Tracksuit on Track

Ep 48. Paul Redfern on Growth, Scale and Staying Human

Ep 47. The Water Cooler Chat with Gaby Howard & Laura Nicol

Ep 46. Operators and Burnout with Laura Nicol—Solo Reflections

Ep 45. Scale and Soul: Anitta Krishan on Leading People and Culture Transformation at trivago, Grab, TikTok & Hoogly AI

Ep 44. Scaling Hnry with Karan Anand—Inside the Chief Strategy Officer Role, His Operating Philosophy, Abductive Logic

Ep 43. Sophie McKay on Launching Tech Brands Across Asia-Pacific—Qualtrics to Notion

Ep 42. Culture Drivers with Olivia Panzic—Leading Marketing Communications and Building High-Performing Teams at TikTok ANZ

Ep 41. Rach Matters on Turning OCD Anxiety into Her Superpower and Scaling to Senior Program Manager at Linktree

Ep 40. Shipra Mahindra: From Software Engineer to Canva’s First PM and Product Leader at Octopus Deploy

Ep 39. Harry Uffindell on Scaling Partly, The ONE Thing and Lessons from the Climb

Ep 38. Alice Hehman on Being a Glue Person—From Facebook to Quip to Glue Club

Ep 37. Emma Seymour’s CFO Journey at Deputy—How Rebalancing Led to Profitability and Unicorn Status

Ep 36. Annie Liao on Designing a Dream Career and Building a Training Campus for 1 Million AI Builders by 2026

Ep 35. Deena Metz on Building a Customer Success Function at Flagship—From Digital Health to Retail Tech

Ep 34. From Clinical Medicine to Product: Dr Jackie Rabec’s Journey to Heidi Health and Google

Ep 33. George Hatzis on Product Design: Journey from Startups to Scale-Ups and Fractional Impact for Early-Stage Teams

Ep 32. Coaching with Maxine Minter: How to Be the Best on the Field as a High-Impact, High-Performing Startup Operator

Ep 31. Growth Enzyme Mindset: Taylor Fox-Smith on Academia, Channel Partnerships and Building Community at Airwallex

Ep 30. Emily Robinson on Scaling with Purpose: From Leading People and Culture at Linktree to Driving Growth as GM at Kic

Ep 29. Building Scar Tissue: Albert Patajo’s Path from Venture Capital to Fatherhood and Scaling Nexl Beyond Series A

Ep 28. From Rowing to an All-Women-Founded Exit: Maddi Ingham’s Playbook for Building Unstoppable Chief of Staff Partnerships and Mastering M&A

Ep 27. Mikayla Hopkins on Building a World-Class Marketing Function and Brand at Tracksuit—Journey from Beer to Beauty to B2B SaaS

Ep 26. A new era, Handing over Calling Operator to Laura Nicol, from front row with Anna Wintour to Chief Of Staff at Co Ventures

Ep 25. Shilpa Mohan's journey from award winning interior designer to head of ops at ProcurePro and finding confidence through changes

Ep 24. Georgia Marshall on Building community, co-living across the world and small changes for big impact

Ep 23. Jared Bergman's Journey to Vow — From Bionic Eyes to Blowing Up the Bioreactor (Not Literally, Yet)

Ep 23. Gaby Howard on Navigating the Shift from Founder to Operator in Tech: Insights from Carted and Flaunter

Ep 22. Polina Nesterova on Pioneering Meaningful Change in Health Tech with Neurode, Inventia Life Sciences, and HealthMatch

Ep 21. Emma Earley From Unconventional Paths to Remarkable Outcomes: Defying Norms & Embracing Inclusive Leadership at Remarkable

Ep 20. Deanna Hood on Becoming a technical leader in Health Tech robotics at Vexev and Inventia, Embracing Learning as a Skill and Shattering STEM Stereotypes.

Ep 19. Sam Garven from dreaming of living in the forrest studying gorilla's to people leadership at ZipCo, Kinde + more

Ep 18. Holly Brooks - From Childhood in Doha to Overcoming Early Career Hurdles, Achieving Her Dream Job at Startmate

Ep 17. Nicole Meaker on studying Engineering in adulthood, figuring out what you actually find interesting and working at Marqo as a Product Manager

Ep 16. Alex Crawshaw from boarding school to a grad job at Deloitte and then finally landing a dream role at Halter

Ep 15. Dr Izzy Bigio from six years at med-school, to two years as a Doctor and then a massive personal rebrand before landing at Blackbird as a community partner

Ep 14. Gemma Clancy & Will Richards, creators of the Overnight Success newsletter talk about building something from nothing

Ep 13. Monica Masaoka from Airwallex on pushing against the conventional path, going from retail at Mecca to Zip co and finding her place in RevOps at Airwallex

Ep 12. Royina Bakshi from Nutromics on turning adversity into a superpower and finding the perfect spot in a MedTech hardware start-up

Ep 11. Carrie Gray from Atlassian on being a humming bird person and using her experience to cross pollinate the world

Ep 10. Garry Williams on a non-linear pathway into tech, loving life at Tractor Ventures and hard life stories

Ep 9. Estelle Berton on landing at Eucalyptus, the power of peer learning and removing 'sorry' from your vocabulary

Ep 8. Bronte McHenry, Storyteller, Ex-Startmate, Ex-SmartCompany 5 Life lessons & 20+ resources wrapped in a beautiful story

Ep 7. Lance Hodgson, from semi-professional soccer to VP of marketing at Sitemate. It's all about intentionality, and consistency.

Ep 6. Sophia Witherington on scaling the Startmate fellowship through push back, Product management at Canva (and cleaning the fryer at KFC)

Ep 5. Jessica Telford on vulnerability as a superpower, what customer success actually is and the world of Culture Amp

Ep 4. Katie Noonan from being a Lawyer to democratising access to learning with Forage.

Ep 3. Daphne Shen from LiDAR to Lyka and how having a service-oriented attitude can take you anywhere.

Ep 2. Daragh Kan, from falling into hospitality at 13 to becoming the first product hire at Mr. Yum

Ep 1. Harry Hamilton on moving from the big 4 to product management at Safety Culture, to coaching product at Minnow.