The Breakthrough Moment Podcast

Every episode is a piece of a bigger story.

Long form conversations with entrepreneurs and investors about the moments that changed everything. 70+ episodes. No scripts. No performance. Built for founders running 50 to 80 hour weeks who already know something has to change.

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The Breakthrough Moment

Hosted by Zac Deane

Latest, Episode 70+

The conversations that stay with you. Pulled from hundreds of hours with founders who built something real.

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What this is

Real conversations. No script. No performance.

I have sat down with over 70 entrepreneurs and investors. Not to interview them. To have the conversation that most podcasts skip. The one about the moment everything changed. The decision that cost something. The thing they learned that no course could have taught them.

I believe every person who has built something real carries a story inside them that someone else needs to hear. Not the polished version. The real one. That is what this show is for.

Imagine a world where entrepreneurs and investors sit at the same table.

Not as opponents negotiating a deal. As partners building something that matters. Where capital meets vision and neither one has to compromise what they believe in. That is the world I am building. This podcast is the bridge.

What we get into

The conversations that stay with you.

The breakthrough moment

Every guest has one. The decision, the conversation, the failure that redirected everything. We find it and we sit in it. That is where the gold is.

How they actually built it

Not the highlight reel. The messy middle. The part where they almost quit, or made a call nobody understood, or figured out something that changed the way they think forever.

What they would tell themselves 10 years ago

This is where the real wisdom lives. Not in what they know now. In what they wish they had known then. The stuff that would have saved them years.

Who belongs on this show

The kind of guest we are looking for.

You are right for this if...

  • You have built something real and can talk honestly about how it happened
  • You have a story that changed the direction of your life or business
  • You believe entrepreneurship done right can change the world
  • You are willing to go deeper than the usual interview

This is not the right fit if...

  • You want to pitch your product for 45 minutes
  • You only want to share the polished version of your story
  • You are not comfortable being asked real questions
How this works

Three steps to the conversation.

i.

Book a 15-minute pre-podcast chat

We get on a call. I want to hear your story and find out where the real conversation is. No prep needed. Just show up as you are.

ii.

We lock in a recording date

If we both feel it, we book the episode. I will send you everything you need. No surprises.

iii.

We have the conversation

Relaxed, honest, no script. The best episodes are the ones where we both forget the mic is on.

A note from Zac

Fifteen years ago I was travelling Australia with a blender, making smoothies and thinking I understood health. Then I started having real conversations with people who had been through things I could not imagine. And I realised something. The stories that change us are not the ones we read in books. They are the ones we hear from people who sat where we are sitting and found their way through.

That is what this podcast is. Not content. Not promotion. A place where people can live into their dreams out loud, in front of an audience that needs to hear it.

If you have a story worth telling, I want to hear it.

Zac Deane
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The founders who move are not smarter. They heard the right thing at the right time. This feed exists for that reason.

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