eccuity Podcasts

Mark Bregman is an American venture capitalist who has been investing in New Zealand start-ups since 2018. After a long career at IBM, including time in Japan, he transitioned to Silicon Valley and eventually launched his own fund with a focus on New Zealand's tech ecosystem. In this episode, Mark shares insights into New Zealand’s unique investment culture, revealing that the country ranks sixth...

Jacqui Ansin is the founder of Lily & Louis, a boutique PR agency known for bold, creative campaigns and long-standing media relationships. After a decade leading Publicis Mojo’s PR division, Jacqui launched her own agency 18 years ago—naming it after her dogs and taking a leap by investing in a premium office space from day one. In this episode, Jacqui shares her entrepreneurial journey, less...

Michelle Keating is the founder of Dreamers Collective and author of Shine. After 12 years in the corporate world as a graphic designer, Michelle left her 9-to-5 in search of greater purpose—marking 10 years in business with the launch of her debut book. In this episode, Michelle shares how early business setbacks almost stopped her, until stories of resilience—like Walt Disney’s—reignited her dri...

On this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we're joined by James Hurman! James is the founder of Previously Unavailable, a creative consultancy and venture studio based in Auckland. From high school dropout to award-winning ad exec and start-up co-founder, James has built a career around creativity, innovation, and long-term thinking. In this episode, James and Charlie discuss building “fo...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth podcast, host Charlie Meaden sits down with Kate Martin, founder of Let’s Market, a digital marketing agency helping small and medium-sized businesses grow through practical, performance-driven strategies. After working in the public sector, Kate transitioned into entrepreneurship when she saw how underserved small businesses were—especially during the COVID-1...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we're joined by Matt Wright! Matt Wright is a Māori father of three from Ngāti Kahu who transformed his life from anxiety-ridden isolation to off-grid independence in New Zealand's far north. Starting from a place where he couldn't leave his house or make phone calls, Matt used his daughter as emotional support to rebuild his confidence and even...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks with Tamara Liebman, a business lawyer dedicated to helping small businesses and not-for-profits thrive. After starting in litigation, Tamara shifted her focus to proactive, practical legal support—especially for digital-first and e-commerce ventures. They dive into the legal challenges facing modern entrepreneurs, how to engage lawyers...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, hosted byeccuity. We’re joined by Nicole Francis! Delivering strategic support and maximising businessperformance through her abilities to develop strong business partnerships, recruitment, staff development, conflict resolution, employee relations and organisational development, Nicole has focussed her passion and energy to drive culture and leadersh...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by James Graham. James is a business and analytics expert, with 15+ years of experience in multiple industries, and numerous skills he has honed along his wealth journey, including a strong stack skillset, analytics team management, project management, data analysis and visualisation, outstanding soft skills and a passion for education an...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by David Beachen! Dave started his wealth journey as a Mechanic, and then a mechanical engineer, before realising that it wasn’t the path he wanted to take in life.  He left university and started a sales role as a door-to-door salesman, before moving to becoming a sales agent, as he sharpened his skills, his abilities grew, before he realised...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Cameron Russell! Cameron’s story has been one of the greatest tales of resilience so far, from starting his early career as an entrepreneur, Sky Sports esports broadcaster, and team manager, finding his community and enjoying his life in the industry he loves. But then, tragedy struck… Hitting his head at home, and losing significant physica...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Igor Portugal. Igor is an accomplished and proven leader in the New Zealand tech industry. With a track record of co-founding successful technology companies, he has demonstrated his expertise in developing innovative technological solutions that resulted in multiple internationally successful products. Besides his impressive business track...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Richard Liew ! Richard has the strong belief that everyone should have equal access to the education that will help people become an entrepreneur if they choose that path and has been guiding and informing the work he has been doing, building businesses for 25 years, and more recently his work in media, education and advocacy in the en...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Reg Prasad. With over 2 decades of experience in a broad range of sectors and domains, Reg’s career has led to him mastering providing his detail-oriented approach for strategic direction, continuous growth and innovative change within companies. His experience at leadership, senior executive, board roles and consultancy enable his ability t...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Ahmed Almukhtar! Ahmed has been forging his path to wealth since 2009, starting his career developing businesses, and working in the marketing and advertising industry, before transferring his skills to the world of entrepreneurship. He’s now using his skills as the Founder and Managing Director of the Luminary Group, Co-founder of Silky Ott...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Kim Gordon. Kim has been working in the Tech industry for over 25 years, with roles ranging from Legal, to Governance, with a focus on Developing and executing strategies, managing complex multi-party programmes, governance, dispute resolution and transformation. Kim has a focus on serving on boards and trusts within the not for profit...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Ralph Teo! Ralph’s path to wealth has been consistently guided by the thought of knowing what you are doing is helping others, while being persistent and ethical throughout, which has brought great success to his career and formed his notion that wealth isn’t about monetary possessions, but about how his family and community are doing....

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Erin Jurgeleit!  Erin is an innovative, effective and result-focussed executive with copious experience in technology and financial services, change management, organizational design and leading complex multi-disciplinary initiatives and programs.  Combining her years of experience in compliance, risk management and legal experience, E...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Jeremy O’Connor Jeremy is an experienced and knowledgeable business owner and start-up founder, successfully launching and bringing his businesses into success through his knowledge of the startup ecosystem and serious business acumen.  Jeremy founded and has been leading Heartspace to success since 2023. Heartspace is a system that bo...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Sam Kamani!  Sam is an investor and venture scout, co-founder of multiple start-ups, founder and presenter of the ‘Web3 Podcast’, bestselling author of ‘The 30-day start-up’, and speaker at TEDx among many other events, Sam is an expert in driving growth through strategic partnerships and innovative growth strategies.  Combining his ex...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re joined by Jessie Stanley! Jessie Combines has years of experience in managing a growing business, with a particular skill in delivering NPD from concept to launch on time and to budget with previous roles with Fonterra and Britvic Soft Drinks (UK). Combining her experience in the business world, with a strong passion for the planet, Jessie launc...

In the first episode of the year, Charlie takes us throughall of the major macroeconomic events from the last week, including the LA wildfires, US employment making Stocks Slide and Bonds Jump, Trump pushing for fewer rate cuts, Ai Overload at CES negatively impacting CES 2025, NZD vs USD near 2-year low, Will the Euro Stock market outperform the US in 2025 and what will happen when Trump is sworn...

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we're speaking to Sameer Channa! Sameer works in Strategic Transformation Program Management, and serves as a board member at NIMBAL, contributing his experience in resource planning, customer relationship management and process improvement has been instrumental in Sameer being successful in transforming businesses across New Zealand. Sameer shares hi...

In this week’s episode, Charlie digs into the US economy post-election cycle. Including: The Dow Jones weeklong crash, the majority of S&P sectors now struggling and the Shiller CAPE ratio, showing you how to use eccuity’s tools so you can follow the market as it develops, ARKK and BTC’s strong price and risk correlation, Bitcoin’s historic rise to $100k USD, the FED being expected to cut rate...

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, we’re talking about the new and exciting Employee Financial Wellbeing Program! Charlie and his team have been working hard at researching and analysing the impacts that a lack of financial wellbeing has in the life of employees. We found that 75% of employees are stressed about their personal financial situation and this financial stress is so impactful in...