Skip to content Here’s how it works: Our guest picks the venue (a bar, a bakery, a beach – wherever they want to meet). One of us has prepped with them. The other comes in completely blind, knowing nothing about who’s joining.
We start with three questions: Where are we? How did you get here today? Where are you going next?
Then we just… talk. About the people they’ve hired. The co-founders they’ve clashed with. The team dynamics that nearly broke them. The chemistry that finally clicked.
No scripts. No polish. Just founders being honest about building teams and their business… and maybe their life too.
They tell us where we’ve walked into:
Up a mountain, at their local boxing gym, a tree house in Bali, favourite spot in Sydney.
One of us knows exactly who’s walking in.
The other genuinely doesn’t.
That’s not a gimmick – it’s where the best questions come from.
Where are we?
How did we get there?
Where are you headed next?
Simple questions. Rarely simple answers.
No script, no agenda, no steering toward the highlight reel.
Just two hosts following the story wherever it goes.
We don’t tidy it up.
The pauses, the pivots, the moments where someone says something they weren’t expecting to – that’s the good stuff.
Founder, HFBAC | Chemistry Over Credentials Hiring
Helen spent a few years as the BBC’s first female football commentator, radio broadcaster in the UK and USA, and voiceover artist before pivoting to recruitment.
27 years later, she’s helped 400+ founders build teams using her Chemistry First methodology.She’s obsessed with one question: why do some teams click and others crash?
On this podcast: Helen digs into the founder’s ‘why’ and ‘why not’, and the people dynamics – who you hired, why it worked (or didn’t), and what they’d do differently, if anything.
Founder, The Coaching Point | Operations & Systems
Emma helps founders build systems that actually work – the operational backbone that lets teams scale without chaos.
Before The Coaching Point, she spent years in corporate operations watching good companies break under bad processes.
On this podcast: Emma explores how founders structure their businesses, delegate effectively, and build systems that support their people.
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