What I learned from building, and shutting down, a startup — Kirsten Mann (Strategic Advisor)
Kirsten Mann is a board director, product leader and, with this episode, a three-time guest on the podcast. Last time she was here, she was building Vizory, an AI tool that helps company directors get...
9 Sep 51min
How to position your product for a future nobody can predict - April Dunford (Author of Obviously Awesome)
April Dunford is the positioning expert behind Obviously Awesome and a former repeat vice-president of marketing across seven venture-backed startups, most of which were acquired. Over the past decade...
2 Sep 37min
Four mistakes scaling teams make - Julia Barham (Author and Product Executive)
Julia Barham leads a CX acquisition team at Progressive Insurance and is the author of The Product Management Playbook, published by Rosenfeld Media in July 2026. She wrote it to close what she sees a...
26 Aug 43min
How to lead a product team through AI adoption - Tiama Hanson-Drury (CPTO, Opus 2)
Tiama Hanson-Drury is CPTO at Opus 2, the legal technology company behind the systems that run some of the world's largest and most high-stakes litigation. She started her career in sales, moved into ...
19 Aug 39min
What OpenAI taught me to unlearn — Blaine Billingsley (OpenAI, Slack, YouTube, Airbnb)
Blaine Billingsley is a Member of Technical Design Staff at OpenAI whose path into the field ran through music composition, spare-change website work at college, and a decade across Gmail, Airbnb, You...
12 Aug 55min
What your developers aren't telling you - Cat Hicks (Psychologist)
Dr Cat Hicks is a psychological scientist and the founder of Catharsis, a human-centred research consultancy that works with engineering organisations. After self-funding her first open-access study i...
5 Aug 49min
The new manifesto for product builders - Faith Forster (Chief Product Officer)
Faith Forster has spent 15 years in product leadership. She was VP of product at Dex, acquired for approximately $600 million, and went on to serve as CPO at Legal, a payments and compliance platform....
29 Juli 44min
5 human signals AI won't replicate - Sarah McDevitt (Hubspot)
Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestr...
22 Juli 43min
