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This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Anne Cullen, a relationship advisor who works with entrepreneurs and high performers navigating the overlap between business and family life. Anne spent the first half of her life in the US and the second in New Plymouth, New Zealand. She started out working with kids and families before realising that the parents she understood best were...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Will Zhang, CEO of EmoX, an AI mental health companion that has grown to 450,000 users since launching in 2024. The idea started as a joke. A friend showed up late to coffee after the worst road rage incident of his life, and someone said: what if you could just scream at an AI instead? That conversation led Will and his co-founders into a...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Yashar Ahmadpour, co-founder and CEO of Impressive, an agentic AI company based in San Francisco. Yashar was born and raised in Sweden to Chilean and Iranian parents, moved to California to study, and ended up in tech after a degree in literature and writing. He is building AI agents for businesses every day, and he thinks most of what the...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Jon Randles, business coach, co-founder of marketing agency Mosh, and a man who started with a literature and classics degree, zero interest in business, and a student loan he had been spending on CDs and posters from an ATM machine. Jon's view of business changed completely when he got a job at the second ever Hell Pizza store in Well...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Kim Barker, founder of Full Stack Creative and a marketer with decades of experience across analytics, digital strategy, and website optimisation. Kim left employment last year to start a boutique agency and expected it would take years to move into fractional marketing leadership. It took months. Small and medium businesses kept coming to...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Stephanie McKee Wright, founder of Epic People and an HR and leadership development consultant with 30 years of experience. Stephanie spent decades in senior HR roles across public and private sectors before her company was acquired by a global and the job she had built for herself disappeared overnight. The creativity was gone, the autono...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Andy Rolston, founder of Rolston Leadership Group and a leadership coach who learned more about leading people on a rugby sideline than he ever did in a corporate office. Andy left school and became a mechanic, moved into computing, spent time in corporate, then walked away to retrain as a rugby coach. He coached across New Zealand, Canada...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Ray Nicholls, owner of Chi International and the brand behind Chi Herbal Drinks. Ray spent decades inside blue-chip New Zealand companies as the person they put on anything that needed to break the mould. He launched products in the Middle East during a civil war, helped grow a beverage business through a private equity cycle, and then bou...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Mindy Gibbins-Klein, founder of the first book coaching company in the UK and the person behind over 1,400 published thought leaders across 18 countries. Mindy moved from the US to the UK following a boyfriend, got left behind, and decided to stay. After three redundancies in five years, including being laid off while pregnant, she used he...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Julian Zhu, founder and managing director of MiDeer Limited and partner at Skychee Ventures. Julian has spent over 25 years leading cross-border business between New Zealand, China, and the US, managing a $500 million investment fund and advising organisations from Fortune Global 500 companies like Tencent and NTT through to New Zealand he...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Joe Slater, co-founder of Six Barrel Soda and head of product at Consumer NZ. Joe built six businesses across hospitality, beverages, distribution, and e-commerce before stepping out of his own company and getting a job for the first time in years. The transition from founder to employee raised a question he hadn't expected: can I do this,...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Peter McKay, former Wall Street Journal markets reporter and Web3 content creator. Peter covered oil and commodities for the Journal during the Iraq war, reported on the 2008 crash from the trading floor, and says what's unfolding right now with Iran, oil, and the global economy is giving him flashbacks. Except this time, he thinks the...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Kerri McMaster, CEO of ‘Goodair Nosebuds’. One in four people worldwide deal with chronic nasal congestion, and fewer than 15% are happy with what's available to them. Kerri took a prototype sitting in a university lab, one she initially dismissed the first time she saw it and turned it into a drug-free consumer product that sold out w...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Stephanie Pow, founder of Crayon and former equity derivatives trader at UBS. She studied at Wharton and Harvard, spent years on one of the largest trading floors in the southern hemisphere, and then spotted a gap in financial support that almost nobody was solving. When her first child arrived, she saw firsthand how life transitions chang...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Sajita Setia! Sajita is a physician specialising in pharmaceutical medicine, with experience across global organisations including Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson. Now based in New Zealand, she leads research into digital wellbeing and its impact on mental health, productivity and emotional development in young people. This episode...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Joost Schouten! Joost is the co-founder of nestr.io , a platform building collaboration software for the next generation of organisations. Born in the Netherlands and now based in New Zealand, Joost’s work sits at the intersection of organisational design, distributed authority, and the future of work. This conversation goes deep...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Alexander Bikeyev! Alexander shares his journey from corporate finance and financial modelling into biotech, machine learning, and entrepreneurship. After years of building models, working in audit, and pursuing algorithmic trading, he explains why he walked away from trying to beat the market and instead focused on solving real w...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie isjoined by Siddharth Sthalekar! Sid has lived on both ends of money. He ran a major equity derivative and algo trading desk in India, then walked away from finance to explore community led, trust-based economics and later returned to build new infrastructure for distributed finance through Sacred Capital. If you have ever wondered why markets...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie isjoined by Matt Hardy! If you’re struggling to find work in start-ups without aglowing CV, Matt has a playbook that gets you in the door. He went from “no real marketing experience” to managing social for the Cricket World Cup, then helped drive 1500 percent growth inside a start-up, and now leads growth at Landlord Studio, a product led comp...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Peter Crow! Most boards fail for a simple reason. People join a board with no training, strong opinions, and zero shared playbook. Peter has spent decades helping founder led companies, family businesses, and scale ups make better group decisions. He breaks governance down to 4 jobs any board must do well: set direction, build cap...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Heather Anderson! Heather shares how she went from building businesses for decades to launching a new product that suddenly took off online. When 8.4 million people hit the page, the hard part was not hype. It was making and shipping the product at scale, without losing quality. Heather breaks down the real work behind the scenes,...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Nick Morrison! Nick’s story is not the usual sustainability path. From Timaru and a sports science degree to buzzing around London on a Vespa teaching clients, then a Brazil World Cup and Central America trip that made plastic pollution impossible to ignore. Now he leads Go Well Consulting, a B Corp sustainability consultancy help...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Midu Chandra! Midu is a serial entrepreneur and product builder who grew up in Zambia before moving to New Zealand, then built a career across product, digital, and venture building that keeps looping back to one theme: learn fast, build real things, and stay adaptable. Today he is a co-founder and managing partner at Seen Venture...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Kelly Bennett! Kelly is the founder and managing director of One Plus One Communications, one of Aotearoa’s leading independent corporate communications firms, and the 2025 PRINZ Large PR Consultancy of the Year. This conversation is the real version of building an agency, not the glossy one. Kelly shares the moment he left a hold...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Riley Malins! Riley is the co founder and COO at Avatars Global, building cinema quality digital characters and AI agents for brands and modern software experiences. This conversation is the real story behind the highlight reel: the hospo grind, the decision to go back to uni with intent, the leap into emerging tech, and the momen...