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This week on the Ways to Wealth podcast, Charlie is joined by Yash Kapoor, founder of Innovate Now, who walked away from a big corporate salary to build something of his own. Why does a bigger pay packet often make it harder to leave? What did an ADHD diagnosis change about how he saw his whole career? And how do you know when a side hustle is ready to become the real thing? Then there's AI. W...

This week on the Ways to Wealth podcast, Charlie is joined by Pamela Guo: brand consultant, mum of two, and proof that your most valuable asset isn't the money in your account. Pamela has built brands for 15 years, from a gelato cart in Auckland to a NYSE-listed firm. Along the way she worked out something most of us are never taught: your skills are an asset, and you can grow them like one. W...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Ben Nichols, an entrepreneur and industry builder in padel, the fastest growing sport in the world, and the founder of an ecosystem of businesses built around it. Ben Nichols is an entrepreneur and industry builder in the padel world - advisor to some of the sport's biggest brands, founder of Insider 22, co-founder of the Anglo America...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Dr. Shalini Divya, CEO and founder of TasmanIon, a Wellington deep-tech company building rechargeable aluminium-ion batteries, batteries designed to be cheap, made from abundant materials, and crucially, unable to catch fire. The headline is simple: a Tesla Powerwall costs somewhere between nine and twelve thousand US dollars. Shalini is b...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Craig McAlpine, founder of MyCareerBrand, a career coaching and outplacement business operating in around ten countries, and Pitch, a tech startup rethinking how people sell themselves into their next role. Craig's big idea will change how you think about applying for a job. He came from a background writing professional bids and propo...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Jam Mayer, founder of two companies, the AI automation consultancy Conversologie and Divergity, a learning platform built for neurodivergent minds. Jam is neurodivergent, with ADHD and dyscalculia, and she's open about how that shapes the way she works and builds. She makes a compelling case for something the data backs up: a strikingl...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Tim Doyle, founder of Doyle Accountants and one of New Zealand's go-to specialists in cryptocurrency tax, who has filed more than 2,500 crypto tax returns and has been consulting with the IRD on digital assets since 2017. Tim got into crypto the same way most people did: chasing the upside. He made a lot of money, lost it all, and ende...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Fernanda Da Silva Tatley, the founder of natural skincare company Azurlis, and a woman who describes herself as an artist in her heart, a scientist by training, and a Reiki master in her soul. Early in her journey, a group of overseas investors offered Fernanda the money she badly needed. Just sign here, they said, and don't worry abou...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Matthew Cutts, who spent nearly thirty years performing lead roles in some of London's biggest West End musicals, Cats, Starlight Express, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, before trading the stage for the boardroom. When Matthew moved back to New Zealand, he expected people to be impressed. Instead, his CV meant nothing, nobody knew who he was,...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Sarah Laurie, founder of Take a Breath, whose breathing software has been tested at scale inside companies like Microsoft, Spark, and The Warehouse Group. Here's the claim that reframes everything: breathing isn't about relaxation. It's a performance mechanism. When you breathe properly, the part of your brain responsible for d...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to John Ballinger, a tech entrepreneur and software developer who once built the first iPhone heart monitor app, an app that featured in an Apple ad and detected a user's heart condition. But this conversation is really about how John invests, and it breaks almost every rule you've been taught. He holds 99% of his portfolio in a singl...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Natasa Rasic, co-founder of ProBizBalance, a business support and bookkeeping company she runs with her own daughter. Natasa built an accounting firm in Serbia and ran it for twenty years. When she decided to leave it all behind and move to the other side of the world for her daughter's future, she didn't just close the business or...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Sarah Clearwater, founder and CEO of Reframer, a customer experience consultancy, and the person who built New Zealand's largest community of customer experience professionals. Here's a number that should worry any business owner: in a typical B2B sale, seven to ten people have to say yes before you ever sign a contract, and at lea...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Jeffrey To, founder of MĀKI, a New Zealand company that builds autonomous boats, submarines, and underwater robots to go where humans can't. Bored in his garage during lockdown, Jeffrey took a cheap fishing kit, turned it into a self-driving boat, and sent it out to scan his local lake. What it found stopped him cold: a 55-metre, star-...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Harrison Stott, founder of The Kitchen Collective, New Zealand's first cloud kitchen, with sites in Auckland and Christchurch. If you've ordered food on an app lately, there's a growing chance it came from a kitchen with no storefront, no dining room, and no sign on the door. Harrison runs the spaces where that food gets made,...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Dec Penfold, a chef and food consultant who has built restaurant brands everywhere from Dubai to Melbourne, and who once pitched a now-thriving chicken brand to a room full of famous YouTubers using nothing but a shoebox with stickers on it. Dec has been in kitchens since he was 14, washing pots in a Thai restaurant in North Wales. At 22 h...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Andy Wright, founder of Engage Media, a one-man social content agency that has made videos for everyone from Volkswagen to the local pharmacy down the road. Andy spent a decade as a radio presenter, had a stint as a professional golfer, and now fronts golf coverage for Sky, but the thread running through all of it is an obsession with a si...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Kai Malte Röver, a German-born industrial designer who has spent over 20 years building products on the other side of the world. Kai's career reads like a tour of modern design. He built six-axis robots for Toyota, designed car dashboards, developed luxury fireplaces, worked on hydrogen and solar systems, and now leads product design at Ma...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Christine Liggins, co-founder and CEO of the DebtFix Foundation, a charity that now helps 8,000 New Zealand families a year claw their way out of debt. If you think the people drowning in debt are who you'd expect, this conversation will change your mind. Christine's average client isn't on a benefit. They're middle to high...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Kristina Mydlar, founder of Mydlar Consulting, a boutique London firm that helps fintech and financial services companies put AI to work where it actually makes a difference. Kristina spent over 20 years in banking and finance before everything changed in a single evening. During COVID, she found out from a Financial Times article on a Mon...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Paul Tranter, a serial entrepreneur from Birmingham whose life has taken more turns than almost anyone we've had on the show. Paul has been a graphic designer in the London rat race, living in a broom cupboard. He chased an advert promising £700 a week on a tropical island and ended up selling timeshare in the Canaries, not knowing at...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Peter Bird, a registered nurse who spent 25 years in occupational health before a health scare made him look closely at what he, and everyone around him, was actually eating. Here is the problem he kept running into. You stand in a supermarket aisle holding a product covered in healthy-sounding claims, and you genuinely cannot tell whether...

Every founder talks about growth. Raise the round, hit the milestones, scale the team. Nobody warns you about the price tag that doesn't show up on a spreadsheet. In this compilation episode of Ways to Wealth, Charlie Meaden pulls together four conversations that each answer the same uncomfortable question from a completely different angle. Luigi Lenguito (BforeAI) proved traction in the US be...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Deborah Crowe, a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and circular economy leader whose career has taken more turns than almost anyone we've had on the show. Deborah grew up on a sheep and grain farm in Southland, the oldest of four in a family with 55 first cousins. She wanted to be an astronaut, until the Air Force told her women weren&#39...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Nathan James, executive director of The Attention Seeker, a social media agency that pulled in 1.2 billion organic views last year across just 20 clients. Nathan has spent 30 years in advertising. He's worked with Nike, Adidas, PlayStation, Budweiser, and the BBC, and lived in New York, London, Amsterdam, and Stockholm before landing i...