big bets and bad calls

Sheree Andersen didn't set out to be an entrepreneur. She grew up on a Tasmanian farm, spent two decades in corporate HR, and stumbled into startups when she fell in love with building something from nothing.In this episode, Sheree — Co-Founder of Trove, the platform supercharging how brands manage corporate gifting at scale — walks us through the bets that defined her journey: leaving a working business behind to build something entirely new, sending co-founder Johnny to Singapore without a single local contact, and deliberately targeting Asia's gifting culture before anyone told them to.She also gets honest about the bad calls: building before validating, hiring before the business was ready, and chasing big partnership opportunities that quietly went nowhere.We get into AI, team culture, the female founder funding gap, and why saying no is sometimes the most powerful thing you can do.Warm, candid, and full of hard-won wisdom.

What if the problem with healthcare isn't the doctors — it's the whole system they're trapped in?This week, Clint and Andrew sit down with Dr Farhad Goodarzy and Sadaf Tamizkar, co-founders of a healthcare startup that's quietly rewriting the rules on how Australians access primary care. And they're doing it in a way that's as practical as it is ambitious.It started with a simple observation: international students were showing up sick — not because they didn't have insurance, but because they didn't understand how to use it. From that seed grew something much bigger: a model that brings GPs into workplaces, surfaces silent cardiovascular risks before they become crises, and builds the kind of connected wellness network that GPs actually want to be part of.Oh — and they're about to flip the name. By the time you're listening to this, the rebrand is done. But the vision? That hasn't changed one bit.In this episode:The pivot from international students to manufacturing workplaces — and why 6–10% of workers were walking around with serious undiagnosed heart conditionsWhy selling software to GP clinics doesn't work — and why owning the clinics doesThe "Project X" vision: AI-powered wellness insights, a network of GP practices, and telehealth — all talking to each otherAustralia's looming GP shortage (11,000+ by 2031) and how smarter data could stretch every 15-minute consult furtherBad Calls will have to wait — these two are moving too fast to make many yet. We'll have them back.

Megan Coomer and Michael Stumpf are the co-founders of Cell Bauhaus — a startup building software that simulates biology on a computer before anyone sets foot in a lab. Think 10x faster, 10x cheaper biotech innovation. We dig into how a published research paper caught the attention of the Gates Foundation, what it's like to wake up to $3.1M in your bank account, and why they believe they're sitting on a $79B market with no real incumbent. Two brilliant scientists, one civilisation-scale bet.

What if you could inhale your vaccine instead of bracing for a needle? We sat down with Dr. Anushi Rajapaksa, founder of Misti, who's on a mission to change the way biological medicines — including vaccines — get into your body. No needle. No clinic. Just a smart inhaler that uses sound waves, from the comfort of your own home

Most people think "mental load" means remembering to buy milk and book the dentist.Sociologist Leah Ruppanner Ruppaner says that's just the tip of the iceberg — and she's written the book to prove it.In Drained, Leah maps out eight distinct types of mental load that people carry, from emotional support and relationship upkeep, to dream-building for others, to the invisible work of keeping everyone safe and connected.None of it shows up on a to-do list. All of it is exhausting.In our conversation we dig into why people end up carrying so much of this weight, what it actually costs them, and the practical audit she's developed to help people recalibrate, without the guilt.