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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...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Jahred Dell! Jahred is one of New Zealand’s top jiu-jitsu competitors and a black belt under Pedro Fernandes at Tukaha. But beyond the medals and mats, his story is one of discipline, humility, and transformation. From growing up in South Africa and finding purpose through martial arts, to balancing teaching with elite-level compe...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Yaela Raber! Yaela’s journey is one of radical honesty, courage, and reinvention. Originally from Amsterdam, she built a multi-million-dollar marketing agency across five countries before realising that success — as the world defined it — left her completely disconnected from herself. After selling the business and walking away fr...

In this episode of Macro Mondays, Charlie and Dave MacLeish dive into a busy week of global market moves and central bank decisions. They unpack Australia’s upcoming rate call on Melbourne Cup day, rising inflation pressures across the US and New Zealand, and how governments are walking a fine line between cutting rates and keeping prices stable. The pair also analyse Big Tech earnings, AI’s growi...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Matthew Jackson! Matthew’s story is one of reinvention, courage, and conviction. From creating one of New Zealand’s first streaming platforms that challenged the global media industry, to founding a telehealth start-up that brought doctors into people’s homes, Matthew has spent over a decade building products that challenge the st...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Sanjeev Jangra! Sanjeev’s story is one of grit, risk, and reinvention. From working night shifts at a gas station to becoming one of New Zealand’s top mortgage advisors, Sanjeev shares how he left the safety of a corporate banking job to build his own business during a pandemic, with no network and no clients. He talks about the s...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Vanesha Din! Vanesha is the founder of Role Call Recruitment and the tech start-up Birdeey, where she’s reshaping how companies hire and scale their teams. She shares her journey from 18 years in recruitment to building a global product from New Zealand, tackling the deeper issues behind hiring inefficiencies. Together, Charlie an...

In this episode of Macro Mondays, Charlie breaks down the week’s major market moves — from surging gold prices and a stubbornly strong US dollar to Bitcoin’s fading momentum. He also unpacks the strange “circular revenue” dynamic between OpenAI, Nvidia, and Oracle, where investment and chip purchases are looping back on themselves. With gold hype hitting Main Street and risk assets acting oddly, C...

In this episode of Macro Mondays, Charlie is joined by Dave MacLeish, founder of Wedge, to unpack one of the most dramatic weeks in markets this year. From a $19 billion crypto liquidation to a sharp rally in bonds and a weaker Kiwi dollar, they explore what’s driving volatility, how leverage is reshaping risk, and why “buy the dip” might not work forever. The conversation covers rate cuts, privat...