Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks has built her career around a question: who gets heard — and who gets a seat at the table?

After working inside Parliament House, she founded Missing Perspectives to give young women a bigger voice in media. What started as a Squarespace blog has grown into a global media platform, backed by major brands and amplified by the likes of Reese Witherspoon.

 
Now, her new book The Right Hand takes her inside another world of influence: the chiefs of staff behind some of the world’s most powerful leaders.
In this episode, Phoebe talks about:

• Why working in Canberra changed the way she thought about power and representation
• How a cold LinkedIn message helped launch Missing Perspectives
• Why she turned down early investment — and later quit her job to go all-in
• What traditional media gets wrong about reaching younger audiences
• What the people closest to Tony Blair, Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau revealed about leadership behind closed doors
• The surprising role empathy, trust and difficult conversations play at the highest levels of power
• Why sometimes the hardest part of building something is simply getting started