John Buchanan never played Test cricket. Seven first-class games for Queensland.

Then, he walked into a dressing room with Warne, McGrath, Ponting, Gilchrist, and the Waugh brothers, handed them Sun Tzu's Art of War, and told them they were going to dominate world cricket.

He coached Australia to a 79% win rate, 16 consecutive Test victories, and two World Cups.

But it nearly cost him everything. Jobs, relationships, and the constant question of whether he belonged.

We go deep on coaching philosophy, the courage to hold your line when it loses you the job, why doubt is essential to leadership, and what it takes to harness elite ego without letting it destroy the team.

This is a conversation for anyone who's ever had to lead without the credentials, hold standards when it's easier to walk past them, and find belief in themselves when no one else does.

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Matt Formston AM is legally blind and has surfed a 51-foot wave at Nazaré.

Four-time surfing world champion. Paralympic cyclist. World record holder. Fifteen years at Optus exceeding enterprise sales targets by 140 per cent.

But before any of that, Christmas Eve, 3am, blood on his clothes that wasn't his own.

This is a conversation about rock bottom, the question "why not?", and what it actually takes to let go of the rope when you can't see the five-story wave you're riding down.

We go deep on the trust formula, on standards and consequences, on the difference between unlocking performance and extracting it, and on why high standards are the foundation of psychological safety, not the enemy of it.

This is a conversation for any leader who needs to know how trust is actually built when the stakes are life and death.

Suzie McInerney is the CEO of Six Degrees Executive, leading a team of 90 across three states in one of Australia's most human-centred recruitment firms.

She took the scenic route to CEO. From toy brand manager to running a hatted restaurant, to first employee CEO stepping into a founder-led business at Six Degrees Executive.

Then COVID hit 12 months in. Then breast cancer. And through it all, the same lesson kept showing up, pretending to be fine doesn't make you strong.

We go deep on psychological safety, on the cost of martyring yourself, on what it means to let off steam before the cracks become craters, and on why the work that feels unproductive, conversations, relationships and knowing your people, is often the work that truly matters.

This is a conversation for any leader who's ever been scared shitless but put the big boots on anyway.

Notebook ready.

Play on!