What Corporate Life Can't Prepare You For, with Ray Nicholls - Ways to Wealth EP152

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 bought a 28-year-old brand he had admired for years.What he found was not what he expected, and the biggest shift came from the last person on the team he would have predicted.This conversation covers what corporate life prepares you for and what it doesn't, why a business track record can be misleading, and why giving young people real trust might be the most underrated decision a business owner can make.#waystowealth #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #beverages #chi #frucor #privateequity #leadership #youngtalent #acquisition #venturestudio #resilience #wealthbuilding #smebusiness