eccuity Podcasts

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...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie isjoined by Mark Pascall! Mark is a technologist and long-time Web3 builder who hasspent the last decade thinking about a simple problem most systems avoid: how do you get money to the source, fast, fairly, and with proof it was used well. After a turning point at a Bitcoin South conference, Mark pivoted his software company into Blockchain La...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie isjoined by Marijke Timmers! Marijke has an unmissable background, global finance, the chaos of the global financial crisis era, building brands with serious budgets, then walking away when it stopped feeling aligned. She shares the moment marketing turned from performance into purpose, including how a trip through Asia led her to start a chil...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Victoria Jack! Victoria has spent the last nine years deep in New Zealand’s early-stage tech scene through her recruitment business Maslow. She has seen what happens inside founding teams when everyone hires from their own circles, and why the result is often the same: homogenous teams, fewer perspectives, and weaker company stori...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Madison Malone! Madison is a New Zealand business journalist who built a major audience through Markets with Madison and has since stepped out independently as the owner and executive producer of Business with Madison. In this conversation, she breaks down how the show evolved from macro markets coverage into high trust, behind th...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Debbie Klintworth! Debbie shares the leap from 25 years in corporate into building Footprint Collective, where she helps New Zealand SMEs sharpen their positioning, retain customers, and build the internal systems that make growth repeatable. They unpack why employee culture is your first customer experience, why share of wallet m...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Sean Collier! Sean is a Kiwi lawyer and standup comedian who moved to Melbourne for opportunity and stage time, while keeping the day job to stay in the game. They unpack the power of incentives in New Zealand, why housing speculation crowds out productive investment, and what it does to millennials and Gen Z. It is a candid conve...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Mike Burke! Mike is part of the NZ Fintech Fund, and he takes us inside the day-to-day reality of running a boutique venture fund built specifically for early stage fintech in New Zealand. We unpack what makes a boutique VC different from a generalist fund, why specialist knowledge of financial business models and regulation matte...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by EarnabuckNZ! EarnabuckNZ runs an investing education channel focused on helping Kiwis understand KiwiSaver, managed funds, and the real world factors that drive long term outcomes. They unpack why derivatives are fascinating but rarely appropriate for most audiences, then move into the fundamentals that actually move the needle fo...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Dan Fanti! Dan Fanti is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business in his early 20s with a vitamin chewing gum that expanded into more than 2,000 stores across Australia, including Woolworths and 7 Eleven. After running into capital constraints and learning some hard lessons about growth, he went on to build trampoline p...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Mikkel Johannessen! Mikkel is the founder of Fox Folk, a product innovation company in the mountain bike industry. With over 20 years of experience as a brand designer and creative director across eight countries, Mikkel shares how he pivoted during COVID to pursue his lifelong passion for inventing and commercialising products. T...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Jessica Manins! Jessica Manins is the co founder and CEO of Beyond, a virtual world building company specialising in VR and AR games and experiences. With over a decade in the space, including time at Star Now and founding Projector in Wellington, Jessica shares the real story of building a company in one of the most volatile corn...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Nick O'Neill Nick O'Neill is the co founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Hype and Dexter, a HubSpot focused digital transformation agency operating across Australia and New Zealand. With decades of sales experience and a front row seat to hyper growth as an early employee at GrabOne, Nick shares an honest account of buildi...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Melissa Beer! Melissa Beer grew up in a Mennonite farming community in Canada and now leads a New Zealand based tech company focused on bridging primary sector agriculture with modern data and AI solutions. After starting her first business at seventeen selling grass fed organic beef direct to consumer, she moved to New Zealand an...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Lucia Dore! Lucia is a financial journalist, former economist, and co-founder of Learn Business English at Scripters. She previously worked at the New Zealand Treasury forecasting inflation and operating surplus before spending nearly two decades in the UK and Middle East, where she led a mergers and acquisitions news service acro...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Alex Guichard! Alex is a French designer and serial entrepreneur who relocated to New Zealand 11 years ago. As co-founder of Le Velo Studio, he has spent nearly four years engineering what has become the world’s lightest e-bike, weighing just 12 kilograms. Drawing on decades of carbon fiber experience across automotive, aerospace,...

Get the full story behind this week’s biggest market movers in our latest episode. We break down Bitcoin’s recent slide and what’s happening under the hood, dive into Nvidia’s post-earnings twists and the options signals nobody saw coming, and put global macro trends in context—from currency pivots to energy swings and ETF surprises. Whether you’re trading, investing, or just love following market...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Carl Meyer! Carl is the founder of BioGold, a New Zealand natural health company creating high quality testosterone support supplements made from pine tree pollen. Before BioGold, he built and sold Vic Deals, a student community platform with more than 200,000 members, at just 23 years old. Carl shares his journey from robotics st...