Last aired Tue, Jun 9

Another Orange Morning
Another orange morning

Where the HubSpot community starts their day

with Casey Hawkins, Chris Carolan & friends

Come have coffee or tea with us. We cover what HubSpot shipped yesterday, dig into one object until it makes sense, spin a wheel that decides our next workflow, and bring a friend who knows their corner of the platform. Forty-five minutes, weekday mornings at 7:15 Central.

7:15 AM CT  /  8:15 AM ET
Weekday mornings
Produced by Value-First Media

Casey and Chris

Casey Hawkins headshot

Casey Hawkins

HubSpot Coach & Lead Scoring Reformer

Casey Hawkins launched her consulting business from a sailboat—and that experience taught her everything about what matters in business systems. When you're living on the water, you need tools that work reliably without constant intervention. The same principle applies to lead scoring: if your team constantly adjusts point values to hit MQL quotas, the framework is wrong, not the team.

Chris Carolan headshot

Chris Carolan

Transformation Catalyst: Helping Organizations Escape Complexity

Chris Carolan is the founder of The Value-First Team and creator of the Value-First Framework—a methodology that helps organizations escape 25 years of accumulated B2B complexity by designing systems around natural value flow rather than artificial control structures.

& Friends

The third chair belongs to a different friend every day — solutions partners, app partners, practitioners, the people whose names keep coming up in the community Slack. Each one shifts the show's center of gravity. We don't ask them to perform a house style; we ask them to bring whatever lens made us want them in the chair, and we follow it where it goes.

What to expect every morning

Forty-five minutes live. Four signature segments. One wheel that never repeats.

Top Updates from Yesterday

Yesterday's HubSpot release feed, paraphrased and pressure-tested. Chris reads three to five updates the way you'd want a friend to: what actually changed, who it actually affects.

Object of the Day

Casey picks one HubSpot object and tells you what it's really for, what most people get wrong about it, and what to do tomorrow morning. Quietly building the archive episode by episode.

Spin the wheel

Will it Workflow?

The wheel spins live, lands on Object × App × Use Case Casey didn't pre-vet, and we argue Will it? Should it? How? Combos retire on contact — the wheel forgets nothing and never repeats.

PM Spotlight / Friend Deep Dive

A HubSpot PM in the chair walks through the update they shipped, or a Friend opens up their lane and shows their work. The slot the show slows down for.

Latest recap

The recap pair that followed the most recent show — segments and takeaways, plus the HubSpot updates we covered.

Latest recap

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Show recap

Show recap — 2026-06-09

Segments, conversations, takeaways from the morning.

Updates blog

Updates blog for this morning is being written.

Recent episodes

The mornings just behind the latest one — each tile opens the show recap from that day.

Find the show

We air live on LinkedIn weekday mornings. The audio shows up later in the usual places.

LinkedIn Live

Where the show actually happens. Weekdays, 7:15 AM Central.

Watch live on LinkedIn

Spotify

For the commute, the dog walk, the second cup.

Coming soon

Apple Podcasts

Same conversation, Apple side of the house.

Coming soon

YouTube

Full replays plus the short clips from "Will it Workflow?"