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A Day One® show · 9 Episodes

Life After Launch

with Megan Luttrell & Geo George

Origin. Career. Launch. And three lessons that stick.

Not exit stories — the real thing. Every episode of Life After Launch follows the same four-part arc: the origin, the career, the launch, and three lessons that stick. Founder-to-founder, no corporate speak, no vague advice. Presented by the Aussie Founders Club.

Every episode, the same climb

Not exit stories. The real thing.

Every episode follows the same four-part arc, founder-to-founder. No corporate speak, no vague advice.

  1. 01

    Origin

    Where it actually started — before it was a company.

  2. 02

    Career

    The years and detours that built the founder.

  3. 03

    Launch

    The leap: what it really took to get off the ground.

  4. 04

    3 lessons

    The three that stuck. No vague advice.

New this week Ep 09

Chad Stephens – You Can't Make Money From a Form

Chad Stephens on building 1Form after four mates couldn't get a rental in Brighton, selling it to REA Group for $15 million after the price dropped a week before signing, then selling Fillr to Rakuten.

▶ Play episode 28 September 2026
Chad Stephens – You Can't Make Money From a Form

The line-up

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Ep 08
15 September 2026
Stephen Wools – Be a Cockroach: You Can Survive Anything
Ep 07
8 September 2026
Nick Maxwell – Be the Duck on the Pond
Ep 06
1 September 2026
Shane Chanel - Nothing’s Ever Going to Be as Hard as That Day
Ep 05
18 August 2026
Darius Monsef – You're the Number One Consumer of Your Own Bullshit
Darius Monsef sold two companies, raised over $40 million for a paediatric healthcare startup, and shut it all down — twice. He's brutally honest about why, and about what quitting well actually takes.
Ep 04
11 August 2026
Kirstin Hunter – The Trinkets, the Co-Founder Fork, and Fixing Australia's 98% Funding Gap
Kirstin Hunter on "the trinkets", the 2040 wake-up call that pulled her out of consulting, leaving the super fund she built, and the 98% funding gap she's out to fix.
Ep 03
4 August 2026
Jodie Imam – Sometimes You Don't Need a Rocket Ship. You Need a Tractor
Jodie Imam on trading a car space to break into fashion, the $5 Doritos gig that launched Occasional Butler, and building Tractor Ventures for founders who don't want a rocket ship.
Ep 02
28 July 2026
Dom Pym – The Little White Lie That Built a Bank for 1.4 Million Aussies
Up co-founder Dom Pym on the "little white lie" that beat IBM and Oracle to build a bank for 1.4M Aussies, his mum's "golden purse", and why belief is a founder's real edge.
Ep 01
21 July 2026
COMING SOON: Life After Launch
A first listen at Life After Launch, the new Day One show with Megan Luttrell and Geo George on what really happens after you get the business off the ground.
Founder-to-founder

Your hosts

Megan Luttrell

Megan Luttrell

Founder, Kairos Recruitment

Megan Luttrell is founder of Kairos Recruitment, a hiring partner for Australian startups, drawing on more than ten years in tech recruitment including roles at Pathfindr and IBC Recruitment. She also built Aussie Founders Club, a community of more than 4,000 founders, operators and startup people across Australia. Alongside Geo George, she co-hosts Life After Launch, a podcast that sits down with founders to unpack the highs, lows and hard-won lessons of building a business after the initial launch. She spends her days close to the people problems every startup hits post-launch.

Geo George

Geo George

Co-Founder, Mayfly Ventures

Geo George is co-founder of Mayfly Ventures, a Melbourne venture studio (formerly Mayfly Accelerator) that builds vertical-SaaS and AI companies with industry operators rather than backing typical seed-stage founders. He previously worked in a venture fund with an attached studio, ran a COVID-19 operations program, worked as a management consultant, and built his own startup, Pricely, before co-founding Mayfly with Joe Young. Following Mayfly's 2025 merger with Brisbane's Oka Studio, the combined team added Oka founder Marco Santiago as chief technology officer and partner. Geo co-hosts Day One's Life After Launch with Megan Luttrell.

Aussie Founders Club

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