The Sounding Boardroom Podcast opens its doors with a Christmas‑special conversation recorded live at The Foundry in Dorset. Our first guests are business and life partners Paul Reaney and Scott Weiner, the team behind Green Couch TV, visiting from Los Angeles to spend Christmas back in Paul’s home county.
What happens when a small‑town kid from the UK and a small‑town kid from the US fall in love, build a trailblazing production company, and then AI crashes into the middle of the entertainment industry? Meet our launch guests: Paul Reaney is a Dorset‑raised, LA‑based creative executive known for turning wild ideas into sellable shows for global networks, brands, and digital platforms. His husband Scott Weiner is a US‑born executive producer with decades of experience and a big‑hearted creative brain, obsessed with shaping creator‑driven formats that actually land with audiences. Together, they’re the kind of husbands‑slash‑creatives you want at your dinner table and shaping what's on your TV screen.
By the end of this episode, you’ll have a front‑row seat to how a small‑town Brit and a small‑town American built a shared creative life and studio. You’ll hear the tangible ways they keep emotion and story at the centre of every project so the work still feels deeply human, plus the rituals, boundaries, and honest conversations that protect both their marriage and their business in an AI‑saturated industry.
As part of a new tradition on the show, each guest also offers a song that best captures who they are: Paul chose “Go West” by Pet Shop Boys, an anthemic synth‑pop reimagining of a disco classic that has become a kind of queer utopian call to start again somewhere more free and expansive. Scott chose “Galileo” by Indigo Girls, a reflective folk‑rock song about reincarnation, learning across lifetimes, and the long, imperfect journey of a soul trying to “get it right”. These songs are posted below for anyone who wishes to listen.
Audience:
This episode is perfect for founder, creative directors, marketers, and producers who want to harness AI without losing the heart, humour, and humanity in their work.
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