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Get Booked & Paid With Podcasts. Start for Free 👉 https://www.pwrfully.com Damien Grant is the principal of Waterstone Insolvency and one of New Zealand's best-known liquidators. He has run Waterstone since 2006 and writes a weekly column for Stuff. His firm has handled some of the country's most public collapses, including Waikato construction firm Stanley Group, Ponsonby restaurant...

Get in front of your ideal clients, start for free! Check out: www.pwrfully.com(REPLAY) New Zealand sales expert Bill James breaks down how to win sales when the economy is against you and buyers have gone quiet. He shares the Rule of Two No's, the referral process that returns 105 leads for every 100 clients, and the one word that is silently lowering the value of everything you say. If you r...

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Pwrfully Get Booked & Paid With Podcasts. Start for Free https://www.pwrfully.com Hannah McQueen is a New Zealand chartered accountant, financial adviser and entrepreneur. She began at KPMG before founding Enable Me, a financial coaching business built on a mortgage-structuring formula she developed with the University of Auckland. She grew it to around 100 staff and 10 offices, worked with ro...

Bernard Hickey is one of New Zealand's best known economics commentators. Trained as an economist and as a journalist, he has spent more than three decades covering money, markets and housing. He now runs The Kākā, a subscription newsletter and podcast, and co-hosts an ANZ-funded economics podcast.<br> <br><br> Episode Sponsors<br> AcademyEx<br> Get ahead with AI&...

Ashish Saxena is a former executive at Lucent-Alcatel, Nokia and General Electric, an investor, mentors business owners across multiple markets. This is his second appearance on Notes From The Executive. What I Asked Ashish Why is a $13M business with a 2% margin more dangerous than a $1M business at 25% Why is revenue the metric quietly killing most NZ businesses How do I sell something before I...

Tim Warren is the Co-Founder of Ambit, a New Zealand AI software company serving Financial Services, eCommerce, Retail, Telco and Utilities. Before Ambit, Tim was a COO at JBWere and an executive at Goldman Sachs. He is an angel investor with more than 15 investments and was previously on the board of Flying Kiwi Angels. In this conversation he tears apart New Zealand's government AI strategy,...

Nicki Osbaldiston is a NZ marketing strategist and founder of Client Focused Approach. She has spent years repositioning founders whose marketing was never the real problem and built a framework experienced operators use to win back premium clients without producing more content. Episode Sponsors AcademyEx Get ahead with AI https://discover.academyex.com/mina Pwrfully Get Your Free Podcast List ht...

Brent Coleman is a New Zealand personal finance YouTuber who built a channel generating the NZ median income while working full-time. He has a finance degree, lived and worked in Singapore for six years, and brings a numbers-first, no-fluff approach to topics most Kiwis avoid talking about publicly. Episode Sponsors ACADEMYEXGet ahead with AIhttps://discover.academyex.com/minaPWRFULLY Get Your Fre...

ASB's Chief Economist Nick Tuffley delivers the warning most NZ business owners do not want to hear: rate cuts are over and the Reserve Bank is likely to raise rates as soon as September. He calls this a 9 out of 10 shock, worse than the GFC. If your mortgage is coming up for refix, this is the episode you need before you sign anything. Episode Partners AcademyEx Get ahead with AI https://disc...

Shamubeel Eaqub is one of New Zealand's most respected economists and Chief Economist at Simplicity. With over 20 years of experience analysing New Zealand's economy, Shamubeel has advised governments, businesses, and organisations on economic policy, housing, and long-term prosperity. He is a regular media commentator and author who has shaped conversations around New Zealand's econom...

James Whittaker is the British-born founder and CEO of Resonate Health, New Zealand's world-first hearing aid subscription company. A former British Airways executive, he spent over a decade running audiology businesses across New Zealand, Japan and Australia before launching Resonate in November 2022. In under three years he has grown the company to 31 studios nationwide, backed by private eq...

Kate Ricketts is the CEO and founder of ISpyNits, creator of the world's first biofluorescent glow-in-the-dark lice detection and treatment system. Her product is now stocked in pharmacy chains across New Zealand and Australia and is currently being piloted across more than 750 lice clinics in the United States. 👉🏻 Join me to learn about AI with AcademyEx's Disruptive Tech Course https:/...

Perrin Rowland is the Chief Product and Experience Officer at AcademyEx, New Zealand's leading disruptive technology education institution, and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of customer experience in New Zealand. What Perrin reveals   ◽️ Why New Zealand is falling dangerously behind the rest of the world on AI ◽️ The three forces converging right now that make this moment unlike...

Lee Tan is a former award-winning pharmacist and serial entrepreneur who built a pharmacy business from $0 to over $3.50 million in annual revenue. After 15 years of "doing everything right", from social media to 14-day shifts, Lee faced the crushing reality of corporate competition and the heavy burden of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this deeply emotional episode, she opens up about the &q...

Miriam Chancellor is the founder of Naked Audience, New Zealand's leading executive public speaking and presentation coaching consultancy. A Diploma in Speech and Drama, a Bachelor's degree in Communication from AUT, and five years as President of Auckland Toastmasters underpin her expertise. She coaches C-suite executives and high-performing teams from organisations including BNZ, AirBnB...

Angus Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Arepa, New Zealand's pioneering brain food company. Since 2012, Angus has grown Arepa from a university side project into a brand stocked in 4,000+ retailers across Australasia, doubled revenue year-on-year for five consecutive years, hit nearly $10M in revenue, won Deloitte's fastest food and beverage growth award, and was named EY Entrepreneur of...

Andrew Barnes ONZM is the founder of Perpetual Guardian, New Zealand's largest corporate trustee company, and the architect of the global 4-day work week movement. After trialling a 4-day week at his 300-person firm in 2018, the story generated over 12,000 media articles worldwide, became the second most-read story in the New York Times, and sparked a movement now reaching 5.5 billion people a...

Jackie Smith is the Co-Founder and Director of Caci Clinic, one of New Zealand’s most established aesthetic and skin confidence brands with 75+ clinics nationwide. Over 30 years, Jackie helped pioneer laser hair removal in NZ, introduced nurse-led injectables before it was mainstream, and built one of the country’s most recognised franchise brands using a membership model that changed the industry...

Simon Bridges is the CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber, New Zealand’s former Energy Minister, and the former leader of the New Zealand National Party (and thus Leader of the Opposition, 2018–2020).  Episode Partner: 👉🏻 NZBusiness Magazine - www.nzbusiness.co.nz What Simon reveals ◽️ The NZ business outlook: costs, competitiveness, and why he’s cautiously optimistic ◽️ Why power bills are hi...

Paul Spoonley is a New Zealand social scientist and demographer who has led research on aging, fertility decline, immigration and regional development. He has advised government and business on long-term planning, productivity and labour markets, and has worked on immigration and settlement policy, social cohesion, and the future of work and education. Episode Partners: 👉🏻 NZBusiness Magazine ww...

Renting vs buying NZ, net worth tracking, and the mindset shift from scarcity to abundance — chartered accountant-turned-entrepreneur Luke Kemeys goes deep on how Kiwis can build real financial well-being without being chained to a mortgage. We cover when renting beats buying, monthly net-worth tracking (assets minus liabilities), using debt (carefully), and the exact habits that unlock growth for...

NZ property investment strategy that built a $20M portfolio. Ilse Wolfe shares the BRRRR framework, renovation tactics for cash flow + capital growth, and how leverage accelerates wealth building in real estate. In this episode, Ilse Wolfe breaks down: • The BRRRR framework (Buy, Renovate, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) • How to achieve both capital growth AND cash flow • Leverage strategies for propert...

Four of New Zealand’s most experienced business leaders join this episode: Tony Falkenstein (CEO, Just Water Group)Ashish Saxena (Wholistic Leadership Coach)Richard Conway (Founder, Pure SEO)Lloyd Budd (CEO, Bayleys Auckland) Together, they break down the real fundamentals of scaling a business. From the controversial strategy of "looking bigger than you are" to the psychology of presenc...