Between Two Beers Podcast

We're releasing our Business in Between episode with Cassie Roma we recorded in 2024. The American-born kiwi is an award-winning global thought leader in creative ideation, media, brand strategy, digital innovation, and executive leadership. She's also an author, brand ambassador, storyteller, broadcaster, emcee, and keynote speaker. For over 20 years Cassie held high-flying marketing roles at big...

We kick off Between Two Beers in 2025 by re-releasing one of our favourite episodes of 2024 - with Mark Stafford. This ep is really special. There's just so much goodness in here. Staffy is a radio host, who is best known as the former face of the TAB, where he spent two decades as a bookmaker and broadcaster. But what's not so well-known is his roller-coaster ride through life with all its twists...

Happy Holidays! Our best of compilation series continues with part two - Best of Sport. We've chopped up some of the best bits from all of our favourite sport episodes from 2024. In this episode you'll hear from Dame Lisa Carrington, Ali Williams, Tim Brown, Raelene Castle, Samuel Whitelock, Megan Compain, Paula George, Craig Fenton, Simon Porter, Steve Tew, Andrew Mehrtens, Matthew Ridge, Sione F...

It's our last recording for 2024! We check out Chasing The Fox with the TAB and bump into a former guest having a great old time. It's a chance to say thank you for the year we've had and can you pick the first 7 guests for 2025? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy Holidays! It's compilation time on Between Two Beers, and in the first of a two-part series - we've chopped up some of the best bits from all of our entertainment and business episodes from 2024. In this episode you'll hear from Tim Brown, Jesse Mulligan, Mark Stafford, Kanoa Lloyd, Sir Ian Taylor, Karen O'Leary, Matt Heath, Shane Bradley, Jehan Casinader, Di Foster, Brooke Howard-Smith, Jas...

Emma Twigg is one of New Zealand's greatest rowers and won Olympic gold in Tokyo and Olympic silver in Paris. This is Emma's second appearance on Between Two Beers and life has changed a lot since we recorded with her at her Cambridge home back in 2020. In this episode we talk about her emotional Olympic triumphs, her health scare leading into Paris, motherhood, athlete well-being, elite sport and...

Steve plays golf with Eric Murray and gets the worst hangover of his life, Seamus sings acapella at Paddy Gower's live show, reflections on episodes with Shaun Quincey and Sam Whitelock, Seamus commentates Auckland FC game and talks about the wildest week of his year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samuel Whitelock is one of the greatest rugby players New Zealand has produced. He's the most capped All Black in history with 153 caps. He went to four Rugby World Cups and won two. He also played in 181 Super Rugby Games and won seven titles with the Crusaders. In this episode we talk about retiring from rugby and what life looks like now, searching for Harry Potter wands on All Blacks tours, hi...

Hey team - we've got a special midweek delivery here for you... This is the 10th episode in the Accidental Business Owners series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start to follow. In this one, our business coach Di Foster takes us through some couple's therapy! We talk about end of year goal setting, how to not take business personally and Seamus and Steve explore ea...

Shaun Quincey is a top business executive and angel investor helping fund Kiwi business dreams. But before that he became the only person to have successfully rowed solo from Australia to New Zealand and became a top selling author after writing a book about it. We spent the first half talking about his epic solo Tasman voyage, which took two years of planning and 54 days of rowing in the world's...

Steve and Seamus unpack all the highs and lows from the 'biggest day of their career', and getting named the #1 podcast in New Zealand by Apple Podcasts, they discuss their upcoming live show with Paddy Gower, reflect on their recent episodes with Georgie and why Seamus needs to bring more energy to his gigs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zion Armstrong is one of our favourite episodes of the year and when Apple Podcasts released their list of the best performing episodes in New Zealand in 2024 it was on it too! We've picked up a lot of new listeners since we originally released it in February and we wanted to highlight his incredible story again.   The Zion Armstrong story starts in West Auckland and involves running away fro...

Paula George – or Georgie as she’s commonly known – has a story that will blow you away. She has lived the most remarkable life – with the most inspiring mindset – and she’s our favourite type of guest, a humble legend. Georgie is a very private person – and her story, till now, has largely gone untold. Her life started on the back foot in Wales. Georgie wasn’t just the only person of colour in he...

Steve and Seamus discuss all the best feedback from their blockbuster interview with Matthew Ridge, they reveal who the special friends will be at their live gig in Auckland, the best bits from their live Q&A with Emma Twigg and how they reconnected with Zion Armstrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As some of you will know – this year we created a second podcast channel called Business in Between. It’s a channel that documents our journey as business owners – and where we also host long-form interviews with NZ’s most interesting business leaders. And we’re sharing one of our favourite interviews on the Business in Between channel – with you here on Between Two Beers. It’s the story of how a...

Matthew Ridge is a Kiwi sporting legend. He was one of NZ’s top rugby union players then made a stunning switch to rugby league as a 21-year-old in 1990. Over the next decade he played 122 times for the Manly Sea Eagles, 25 times for the Kiwis and 37 times for the Warriors before he became a part-owner of the club. After retiring from league, he became one of New Zealand’s most popular and success...

Steve and Seamus get excited for their fifth birthday celebration in Auckland, discuss all the best and worst small talk with former guests at the recent Auckland FC game, reflect on recent episodes with Andrew Mehrtens, Cassie Roma and Jackie Van Beek and reveal next week's guest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jackie van Beek is one of New Zealand’s funniest and most creative minds. She has written, directed and starred in The Breaker Upperers, Nude Tuesday and The Educators and featured in everything from Funny Girls and What We Do in The Shadows, to Golden Boy – and most recently the Australian re-make of The Office – where she is one of the two creators. In this episode we talk about growing up with...

Andrew Mehrtens is a legend of NZ Rugby and the second highest All Blacks point scorer of all time. He’s also widely regarded as one of the most intelligent All Blacks and Sir Wayne Smith described him to us as a ‘genius’ on and off the field, who understood the game better than he did. Universally known as Mehrts, in this episode we talk about what he’s been doing with his life abroad for the las...

Seamus and Steve take listeners behind the scenes of Bree Tomasel's book launch on K-Road, discuss their upcoming episode with All Blacks joker Andrew Mehrtens, we hear about Steve's four-day bender in Sydney, reflect on Seamus' 30 kg weight loss, and we tease their live event with Jason Gunn coming up in November. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bree Tomasel is one of New Zealand’s most popular and loved broadcasters. She’s the hilarious, fun-loving co-host of ZM’s Bree and Clint Drive Show, she’s the host of Celebrity Treasure Island on TVNZ, she has 1.5 million followers across her social media channels and in 2022 was named New Zealand TV Personality of the Year. She’s also just released her book and in it we discover a different side...

Murray Thom is one of New Zealand’s most successful and creative entrepreneurs. He’s the man behind some of our most iconic and successful productions, including The Great New Zealand Songbook, The Great New Zealand Cookbook, The Offering, and Piano by Candlelight. On the international front, two of his productions – Miracle Babies and the Together 10 CD Collection – have both featured on The Opra...

Steve and Seamus discuss their last-minute studio emergency, who their top-five replacements for Matt Heath would be, recent recordings with Bree Tomasel and Dame Lisa Carrington and how Sir Wayne Smith has been helping them with their episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Since we last spoke to Dame Lisa Carrington she has won three Olympic gold medals in Paris – bringing her career tally to an astounding eight gold medals – and cementing her place amongst the world’s greatest ever Olympians. So we had a lot to catch up about. We find out about the teamwork involved in the K4 triumph, which added another layer to her legacy, smashing world records at training, why...

Craig Fenton is the CEO of New Zealand Rugby Commercial which means it’s his job to drive the business of the All Blacks, Black Ferns and other teams in black. But Craig is not your typical rugby administrator. He owns a record label and a film production company, he has his pilot’s license, he was a lawyer, he worked at Google for six years, he hosted his own podcast and he’s on the cutting edge...