Community Podcast in Brighton

This season has truly been one to remember!

Recorded in Brighton at Plus X Innovation Centre Brighton, this season featured interviews with five directors in our community to showcase their entrepreneurial journeys and learnings. Here’s a quick breakdown of Season 8 episodes:

Episode 1: Sonny Cutting, The Directors’ Hub
Episode 2: Jamie Wadman, Stylo Developments
Episode 3: Helen Vane, Go Gecko Recruitment
Episode 4: Matt Woodhart, Woodhart Group
Episode 5: Saj Basaran, Crafted by Saj

Thanks once again to our sponsor Evolve Pipedrive for sponsoring the podcasts and enabling us to keep showcasing the amazing businesses and founders of our community. We’d also like to thank Fay Millar of Gingerbread World and Jackie Irving of Sussex Business Times for co-hosting this season and helping make for some engaging podcast content through their professionalism, skill and ability to make guests feel at ease during their interview.

As many of you may know, Fay, one of our co-hosts who helped launch our podcast series alongside Sonny for the first eight seasons of HUBBUB. Due to her continued growth with Gingerbread World, however, Fay will now turn her time toward national expansion efforts of her Gingerbread World brand.

On behalf of everyone associated with the Directors’ Hub, we’d just like to say thanks, Fay. You have been an awesome host, valuable support for the Directors’ Hub and simply a great person. We look forward to meeting you at our next Directors’ Hub event, no doubt! Meanwhile, while the format has changed over the last few years, the podcast itself has remained consistent. After Sonny left his hosting duties in order to focus on growing the Directors’ Hub, Bruce Bignell of Evolve Pipedrive took over the position and kept everything running smoothly. And, with the transition of hosts, Fay’s departure from co-hosting and Bruce taking on full hosting duties, he will soon be joined permanently by Jackie Irving in co-hosting the upcoming season.

Before then, however, there is the matter of The Sussex Business Show 2026 to address. Coming this September, this year’s show marks Sonny Cutting’s last year as the Event Director before the show moves onto an experienced exhibiting company which will further develop and grow the show over the coming years. This transition will give Sonny all the resources he needs in order to focus on growing Directors’ Hub further and creating the strongest possible peer-to-peer network for directors in Sussex.

Our next season of HUBBUB, season nine, will be returning in October 2026 following the Sussex Business Show, so stay tuned for more interviews and stories.