Bell's six years older. She's been the creative one since forever - an artist, a photographer, drawn to beautiful things and the people who make them. She's worked across events, fashion, hospitality, even car modification. The kind of person who walks into a room and immediately knows what it wants to be.

Lex came up a different way. Sports. Acting. A government job. She thought she'd change the world through politics, then realised the real change happens closer to home - running something that properly looks after its clients, its team, its corner of the world. And that she'd always been happier playing herself behind the camera, telling her own story instead of playing someone else's.

We've been close our whole lives, even when we disagreed about everything. Bell wanted freedom. Lex wanted something that mattered. It took us a while to realise we were describing the same thing.

We'd both helped build businesses before, quietly, around the edges. Evenings, weekends, side projects we didn't quite name. One day we looked at each other and said it out loud - the side project was the real one. The rest was noise.

So we stopped the noise. And started Five Six.

It isn't always easy. You can't ghost your sister. You can't pretend an email didn't arrive. But you also never have to explain yourself from scratch, and you never have to build trust from zero. We've had 25 years of practice.

Bell's got the eye. Lex has got the voice. Between us, we've got each other.

That turned out to be more than enough.