Leaps & Bounds

Dan Monheit started Hard Hat with a childhood friend, a $100 business card job that never got paid, and no real idea what an agency was. Twenty years later, he’s Chief CX Thinker at Thinkerbell, after the team was acquired almost a year ago.

In this episode, Dan and Cam get into how a shift at a Nike outlet store sparked his obsession with behavioural science.

Dan also shares his take on AI as “an insider’s game”, a hyper-local Menulog campaign that shows what it can do, and the one lesson he’d give any early stage agency founder.

Anna Kelk has spent her whole career inside rocket ships.

She started out at Ask.com (the Ask Jeeves search engine) back in 2001, helped scale A Cloud Guru from around $20 million to $140 million ARR in three years, spent time at Canva, and now leads product at Splose, a health tech scaleup that just closed a Series A with Spectrum Equity.

In this episode, Anna and Cam get into how you protect culture when hiring has to speed up, why a strong product roadmap is the link between company strategy and the work getting done, and her honest read on what high growth really costs.

If you're leading a team through a scale up moment, this one's for you.

Anna Kelk has spent her whole career inside rocket ships.

She started out at Ask.com (the Ask Jeeves search engine) back in 2001, helped scale A Cloud Guru from around $20 million to $140 million ARR in three years, spent time at Canva, and now leads product at Splose, a health tech scaleup that just closed a Series A with Spectrum Equity.

In this episode, Anna and Cam get into how you protect culture when hiring has to speed up, why a strong product roadmap is the link between company strategy and the work getting done, and her honest read on what high growth really costs: "It's not a 9 to 5 job... you've got to be able to get yourself through the lows and show up the next day and do it all again."

If you're leading a team through a scale up moment, this one's for you.

“Marty Drill joins the podcast to share the real story behind building Luminary, one of Australia’s most respected digital agencies.

We walk through its inception in 1999 and the evolution into a multi-office business spanning Australia and Indonesia.

We dive into the highs and lows of agency life, evolving market fit over time, pricing, new business, culture, leadership, and the realities of scaling teams internationally.

There’s a huge amount of insight in this episode for founders, agency leaders, and anyone building a business designed to last.”

Amanda has been recognised as one of the Top 15 Global Inspirational Product Women and a Leading Woman in Product in Australia — so she felt like the perfect person to kick off the series.

We chat through her journey across product leadership roles at Canva and Qantas, the key lessons she’s picked up along the way, and where she sees the space heading — particularly with the impact AI is starting to have.