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This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Will Zhang, CEO of EmoX, an AI mental health companion that has grown to 450,000 users since launching in 2024.The idea started as a joke. A friend showed up late to coffee after the worst road rage incident of his life, and someone said: what if you could just scream at an AI instead? That conversation led Will and his co-founders into a much bigger problem. One in three New Zealanders face mental health issues, but there are only 15 therapists per 100,000 people. The gap cannot be closed by training more humans. It's too slow.What makes this conversation different is that Will is building an AI product while openly questioning how far AI should go. His team deliberately made the voice feature sound less realistic so users wouldn't form unhealthy attachments. They're working on making the AI more assertive rather than endlessly agreeable, because constant validation turns out to be its own kind of harm. And research his team conducted with the University of Lincoln found that children will share more with a robot than with their own parents or teachers.Will also talks about a side effect of AI that nobody in the productivity conversation seems to be addressing: when your team can research in two minutes instead of three days, you end up making 10 to 20 times more decisions per day. You might be creating more value, but your mental health is dropping. His closing advice is two words: just be human.Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth PodcastCheck-out Will’s Start-up, The AI Health Innovation Hub#waystowealth #mentalhealth #aicompanion #emoex #healthtech #startup #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #wellbeing #autism #ai #loneliness #digitalhealth #wealthbuilding 

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Yashar Ahmadpour, co-founder and CEO of Impressive, an agentic AI company based in San Francisco. Yashar was born and raised in Sweden to Chilean and Iranian parents, moved to California to study, and ended up in tech after a degree in literature and writing.He is building AI agents for businesses every day, and he thinks most of what the industry is selling right now is noise. In this conversation, he pulls apart a string of real examples: a startup that claimed $7 million in annual recurring revenue within two months and attracted investment from Andreessen Horowitz before the numbers turned out to be fabricated, a compliance platform that stole a partner's product and got kicked out of Y Combinator, and a $400 million revenue company whose doctor testimonials turned out to be AI-generated fakes.Charlie and Yashar also get into why nobody in corporate America wants to say the word recession even though the signs are everywhere, why companies are using AI as cover for layoffs instead of using it to scale output, and why both of them believe we may be heading back towards a more distributed, pre-industrial model where individuals build smaller businesses and keep what they earn.Yashar’s Linked-inCheck out Impressive hereEvery episode of the Ways to Wealth podcasteccuityTimestamps: 00:00 Intro00:42 The Ai Truth Gap05:19 The Ai Goldrush08:12 The Opportunity 09:59 Outro#waystowealth #ai #siliconvalley #startups #agenticai #recession #techscams #entrepreneurship #venturecapital #ycombinator #bootstrapped #futureofwork #impressive #wealthbuilding

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Jon Randles, business coach, co-founder of marketing agency Mosh, and a man who started with a literature and classics degree, zero interest in business, and a student loan he had been spending on CDs and posters from an ATM machine.Jon's view of business changed completely when he got a job at the second ever Hell Pizza store in Wellington and realised that building a company could be creative, fun, and human. From there, he went to Japan, got into property, made $100,000 on a deal, thought he was going to be a property magnate, and then the GFC happened.He pivoted into business banking, co-founded Mosh in 2009, and spent years growing revenue without keeping any of it. When a business coach came in and helped them go from six figures in debt to six figures in the bank within 12 months, it changed how Jon thought about everything. Three years ago, he drew an org chart on a whiteboard, realised there was no circle that needed him, rubbed out his own job, and stepped away. Revenue went up.This conversation covers what it actually takes to remove yourself from your own business, why worrying is not strategizing, and why sales fixes everything, but only if three other foundations are already in place.Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth podcast here. Check-out Jon Randles' website here.#waystowealth #businesscoaching #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #smallbusiness #mosh #leadership #burnout #profitability #gfc #businessgrowth #delegation #wealthbuilding #startuplife

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Kim Barker, founder of Full Stack Creative and a marketer with decades of experience across analytics, digital strategy, and website optimisation.Kim left employment last year to start a boutique agency and expected it would take years to move into fractional marketing leadership. It took months. Small and medium businesses kept coming to her with the same problem: they knew they needed marketing, they had pieces in place, but nobody was connecting the dots or telling them what to actually focus on first.This conversation is about the gap between doing marketing and doing the right marketing. Kim talks about a blog post that went viral, landed on the first page of search results, became the highest performing page on her website, and brought her zero leads. That one example opens up a bigger discussion about why being busy with content is not the same as being effective, why the shiny new platform is rarely the answer, and why the basics of knowing who you are talking to and what you want to achieve still matter more than any tool.Checkout every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast hereLearn more about Kim’s business, Full Stack Creative here#waystowealth #marketing #digitalmarketing #fractionalcmo #smallbusiness #nzbusiness #marketingstrategy #contentmarketing #entrepreneurship #seo #analytics #ai #wealthbuilding #startup

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Stephanie McKee Wright, founder of Epic People and an HR and leadership development consultant with 30 years of experience.Stephanie spent decades in senior HR roles across public and private sectors before her company was acquired by a global and the job she had built for herself disappeared overnight. The creativity was gone, the autonomy was gone, and she decided it was time to go too.She started from what she calls a standing position. No clients, no website, no product. Just 30 years of knowledge and enough savings to give herself a runway. Ten months in, she is still figuring it out, still building courses between client calls, and still learning what works. Her biggest surprise so far is that TikTok, not LinkedIn, has become her primary source of leads. One video filmed at her kitchen bench with no makeup and messy hair hit 125,000 appearances.This conversation is an honest look at what the first year of running your own business actually feels like, the self-doubt, the wet cement, the Friday that was supposed to be marketing day but got swallowed by a client emergency, and the small wins that keep you going.Check out Stephanie's company Epic People here: https://epicpeople.co.nz/Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: https://www.eccuity.com/podcasts #waystowealth #epicpeople #hrconsultant #entrepreneurship #tiktokmarketing #leadership #nzbusiness #solofounder #startingabusiness #smallbusiness #womeninbusiness #selfemployed #wealthbuilding #yearone

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Andy Rolston, founder of Rolston Leadership Group and a leadership coach who learned more about leading people on a rugby sideline than he ever did in a corporate office.Andy left school and became a mechanic, moved into computing, spent time in corporate, then walked away to retrain as a rugby coach. He coached across New Zealand, Canada, and England before buying a carpet cleaning business, building it up, selling it to his partner, and eventually landing where he is now, helping managers become leaders.The conversation covers why most people get promoted for being good at their job and then get no preparation for the completely different skill set that leadership requires. Andy explains why he used to do his most technical coaching when players were exhausted rather than fresh, why he never told his team what to fix at halftime, and how giving one nervous young player a single thing to focus on unlocked her entire game.He also gets into why ego is the biggest barrier to good leadership, what the All Blacks got right after the 2007 World Cup, and why he thinks every business owner should be building for sale even if they never plan to sell.Listen to every episode of Ways to Wealth here: https://www.eccuity.com/podcastsLearn more about Andy at: https://andyrolston.com#waystowealth #leadership #rugbycoaching #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #managertoleader #trust #teamculture #allblacks #coaching #businessexit #personalgrowth #wealthbuilding #smallbusiness

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

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Mindy Gibbins-Klein, founder of the first book coaching company in the UK and the person behind over 1,400 published thought leaders across 18 countries.Mindy moved from the US to the UK following a boyfriend, got left behind, and decided to stay. After three redundancies in five years, including being laid off while pregnant, she used her severance as a financial cushion to start her own business. That was 25 years ago.She has since built a career around helping experts, executives, and entrepreneurs get their thinking out of their heads and into books that serve their business. Her method, which earned her the name "The Book Midwife", starts before a single word is written, helping clients make the dozens of decisions around scope, structure, tone, length, and format that most people don't realise they need to make.In this conversation, Mindy explains why publishing is the easy part and why most books fail long before they reach a publisher. She talks about the client who handed her a self-published book and the 23 problems she found immediately, why she now works with only ten private clients per year, and what she learned from supporting 32 Tony Robbins events as a senior leader.Charlie and Mindy also get into why long-form content is becoming more important as AI floods the market with short-form noise, and why someone spending four hours reading your book creates a completely different relationship than someone seeing your ad.Check-out Mindy on Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindygibbinsklein/Check-out Mindy’s company here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/giving-1-percent/ Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast: https://www.eccuity.com/podcasts #waystowealth #bookcoaching #thoughtleadership #entrepreneurship #publishing #writingabook #credibility #personalbranding #nzbusiness #wealthbuilding #contentcreation #selfpublishing #tonyrobbins #authors

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Julian Zhu, founder and managing director of MiDeer Limited and partner at Skychee Ventures.Julian has spent over 25 years leading cross-border business between New Zealand, China, and the US, managing a $500 million investment fund and advising organisations from Fortune Global 500 companies like Tencent and NTT through to New Zealand health brands entering the Chinese market for the first time.Julian graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Nanjing University, one of China's top ten, and later completed an EMBA there alongside a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from Massey University. He was named Person of the Year by the Nanjing University Business School in 2016.Before building his own advisory practice, Julian worked at a company backed by Peking University and spent time at US Fortune 500 firm Shaw Group. After arriving in New Zealand 26 years ago, he started as a research assistant at the University of Auckland before falling into cross-border consulting through helping Good Health Products become one of the first NZ supplement brands to enter China.In this conversation, Julian explains why he calls himself a lighthouse rather than a bridge, because most Kiwi businesses looking at China can't see where to go, who to trust, or how to structure a deal that works across both cultures. He walks through how he structures partnerships that give NZ companies access to Chinese capital, agents, and distribution without requiring them to sell equity, and why co-branding agreements and agent-funded marketing models often close faster and protect both sides better than traditional raises.He also talks about why China should never be treated as a single market, the trust-building process that sits behind every deal, and the radio story about New Zealand birds that made him choose this country over anywhere else in the world.Learn more about JulianLearn about Julian’s companyWatch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast#waystowealth #crossborder #nzbusiness #chinamarket #export #tencent #entrepreneurship #investment #auckland #shanghai #capitalraising #jointventures #traderelations #wealthbuilding

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Joe Slater, co-founder of Six Barrel Soda and head of product at Consumer NZ. Joe built six businesses across hospitality, beverages, distribution, and e-commerce before stepping out of his own company and getting a job for the first time in years. The transition from founder to employee raised a question he hadn't expected: can I do this, and who am I without the business?Joe started with a caravan cafe on an old car yard in Wellington in 2008. He opened a bar and restaurant shortly after, then launched Six Barrel Soda in 2012 during the early days of the craft beverage movement. The brand grew to export to six countries, landed in Target stores in the US, and was eventually sold to St Andrews Limes in early 2025.But the exit wasn't a straight line. Joe talks about the burnout that led to him stepping out of operations, how he found and hired his replacement in six weeks over a single coffee, and the systems he put in place years earlier that made the handover possible.He also spent three years at Creative HQ running startup programs and coaching pre-launch founders. That experience gave him a different view of what makes businesses succeed and fail, and he is direct about the traps he sees founders walk into, from copying other companies instead of being themselves, to not understanding how long it takes to make money, to raising capital before knowing what they actually want.The conversation covers what it feels like to go from running your own thing to having a boss, why full-sugar Coke sales still go up every year despite the health movement, and what Joe and his wife are planning across the next 20 years.Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here.Check-out Joe’s Linked-in here.#waystowealth #sixbarrelsoda #consumernz #entrepreneurship #startup #nzbusiness #craftbeverages #founders #smallbusiness #burnout #exits #wealthbuilding #businesscoaching #wellington

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Peter McKay, former Wall Street Journal markets reporter and Web3 content creator.Peter covered oil and commodities for the Journal during the Iraq war, reported on the 2008 crash from the trading floor, and says what's unfolding right now with Iran, oil, and the global economy is giving him flashbacks. Except this time, he thinks the uncertainty might be worse.Peter spent over a decade at the Wall Street Journal, where he was part of the team that won a Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the 2010 flash crash. He has since moved into Web3 marketing and content, co-authored white papers on blockchain supply chains for the World Economic Forum and writes the w3w newsletter on decentralisation.This conversation is a wide-ranging look at what's going on in the world right now. Peter and Charlie break down why 2008 started in finance and spilled into the real economy, but this time the reverse is happening, starting with supply chains, oil, and consumer spending before working its way into markets.They get into the concentration of both consumer spending and R&D in the US, where the top 20% of earners now drive an outsized share of the economy. They also discuss why AI might be following the classic hype cycle pattern, why most companies outside of tech still haven't found a real application for it, and the growing problem of bot-generated content on social media that could be undermining the entire digital advertising model.The conversation finishes on blockchain's quiet momentum in finance, including the fact that the clearinghouse behind the New York Stock Exchange is now experimenting with on-chain settlement.Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here.Check-out Peter McKay’s Linked-in here: Timestamps:00:00 intro00:59 The world right now06:54 The technology shift18:05 What you can actually do23:18 Outro#waystowealth #wallstreetjournal #oilprices #geopolitics #ai #web3 #blockchain #socialmedia #markets #inflation #supplychain #iran #fintech #economy

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Kerri McMaster, CEO of ‘Goodair Nosebuds’. One in four people worldwide deal with chronic nasal congestion, and fewer than 15% are happy with what's available to them. Kerri took a prototype sitting in a university lab, one she initially dismissed the first time she saw it and turned it into a drug-free consumer product that sold out within days of launch.Kerri is a two-time karate world champion who has spent most of her career doing one thing: taking ideas that are stuck and turning them into businesses. She ran 42 karate schools, built a consulting business in sports performance, co-founded Performance Lab Technologies, and spent over 20 years in sports tech before the company merged with a US partner in 2020.When a contact at AUT showed her a vibrating nasal device with a clunky prototype and a giant battery, she didn't see the opportunity at first. But the deeper she went into the research behind nasal breathing, nitric oxide production, and how the body's own systems can be activated without pharmaceuticals, the bigger the potential became.In this conversation, Kerri talks about what it took to move from 20 years of university research to a product on a pharmacy shelf, and why her decision to position it as a wellness device instead of going down the medical route changed everything.She also opens up about the quality control crisis that nearly ended the business before it launched, what happens when demand outpaces your ability to scale, and what she learned across multiple startups about finding the right people to build with.Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here.Check-out Goodair Nosebuds here.#waystowealth #goodairnosebuds #nasalcongestion #healthtech #breathing #drugfree #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #wearabletech #hayfever #wellness #sportstech #wealthbuilding #startup

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Stephanie Pow, founder of Crayon and former equity derivatives trader at UBS. She studied at Wharton and Harvard, spent years on one of the largest trading floors in the southern hemisphere, and then spotted a gap in financial support that almost nobody was solving. When her first child arrived, she saw firsthand how life transitions change the way people engage with money, and she set out to build something around it.Stephanie started her finance career at 18 through a co-op program that landed her internships at UBS, Goldman Sachs, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. She joined UBS full-time after graduating and spent four years on the equity derivatives desk, finishing up running the hybrids book as one of five women on a floor of over a hundred.Before Crayon, she founded Capital W, Australia's first organisation for women studying undergraduate business, won a General Sir John Monash Scholarship, and joined Kiwi SaaS startup Vend as Chief of Staff. Then she had her first child, and everything changed.Her first attempt at a startup was a robo-investing platform. She got an FMA license, built wireframes, and tested with users for two years before looking at the unit economics and realising the model wouldn't work in New Zealand. She binned it all and started over.What came next was Crayon, a bootstrapped and completely independent financial coaching company that works through employers to support people during the transitions that forces them to engage with money, whether that's having a baby, losing a job, or starting a new career.In this conversation, Stephanie explains why she chose not to raise VC, how she navigated the trade-offs with her partner, and what she learned from burning out while pushing a startup forward as a new mum. She also gets into why most financial education fails and what she is doing differently.Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: Check-out Stephanie’s Company, Crayon here: #waystowealth #crayon #financialwellbeing #parentalleave #fintech #entrepreneurship #womeninfinance #nzbusiness #startup #financialcoaching #bootstrapped #wealthbuilding #personalfinance #tradingfloor

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Sajita Setia!Sajita is a physician specialising in pharmaceutical medicine, with experience across global organisations including Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson. Now based in New Zealand, she leads research into digital wellbeing and its impact on mental health, productivity and emotional development in young people.This episode explores one of the most underappreciated risks of modern life: how technology is shaping behaviour, focus and mental health at scale. Sajita breaks down why children are not “addicted” to devices, but instead being systematically manipulated by design, and what that means for parents trying to navigate screen time.Charlie and Sajita discuss the rise of passive consumption, artificial rewards and short feedback loops, and how these are rewiring motivation and attention. They also explore practical strategies for families, from setting shared rules and boundaries to reframing technology use as a game that can be won.This is a conversation about awareness, responsibility and control in a world where devices are only becoming more embedded in daily life.Check out Sajita Setia here#digitalwellbeing #parenting #mentalhealth #technology #focus #productivity #socialmedia #screen time

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Joost Schouten!Joost is the co-founder ofnestr.io, a platform building collaboration software for the next generation of organisations. Born in the Netherlands and now based in New Zealand, Joost’s work sits at the intersection of organisational design, distributed authority, and the future of work.This conversation goes deep into how organisations actually function beneath the surface. From early experiences inside large corporates to building and rethinking SaaS businesses, Joost unpacks why many of today’s systems create more friction than performance.They explore why motivation is often misunderstood, how power structures shape behaviour, and what happens when authority is distributed instead of concentrated. The discussion also covers self-organisation, governance, decision-making, and the real challenges of building teams that can adapt in a rapidly changing world.Along the way, Charlie and Joost connect these ideas to real-world experiences managing distributed teams, investing in businesses, and navigating the shift toward AI-driven organisations.Check out nestr.ioConnect with Joost here#waystowealth #podcast #entrepreneurship #leadership #futureofwork #startups #management #ai #businessgrowth

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Alexander Bikeyev!Alexander shares his journey from corporate finance and financial modelling into biotech, machine learning, and entrepreneurship. After years of building models, working in audit, and pursuing algorithmic trading, he explains why he walked away from trying to beat the market and instead focused on solving real world problems.They explore the limits of forecasting, why most projections are inherently flawed, and how professionals build “reasonable” forecasts using external data, scenario analysis, and judgement. Alexander also breaks down his experience building products versus solutions and why understanding the customer journey matters more than the technology itself.The conversation dives into the rapid pace of change in software and AI, the shifting role of sales, and why human involvement remains critical in both biotech and machine learning. Alexander also reflects on career pivots, meaning in work, and what it takes to transition into a completely new industry later in life.Check out Alexander’s LinkedIn here.#waystowealth #entrepreneurship #machinelearning #biotech #investing #startups #careergrowth

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 feel emotional, why “being right” can still lose you money, or how to protect your buying power when currencies swing, this conversation gives you a clearer mental model. It also covers what DeFi gets right today, where it is still fragile, and why stablecoins are one of the most useful building blocks so far. Sacred Capital is building modular reputation infrastructure for micro networks, including tools like reputation libraries and a reputation vault designed to help communities define culture and carry reputation across contexts.  Check out Sacred Capital here: www.linkedin.com/company/sacred-capital/Learn more about Sid here: www.linkedin.com/in/siddharth-sthalekar-143a8113/ Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: www.eccuity.com/podcasts #web3 #defi #stablecoins #economics #investing #wealth #nzd #currency #bitcoin

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 company built on SEO, content, conversions.  This one is for anyone trying to level up fast: how to manufacture experience when nobody hiresjuniors, what “right message right time” looks like, and why equity beats salary if you want real upside.Check out Matt here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qmmhardy/Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: https://www.eccuity.com/podcasts #startups #marketing #careers #productledgrowth #seo #saas #founders #equity #esop #newzealand

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 capability, track performance, and stay accountable.You will learn how to spot weak boards early, how to ask better questions in the room, and when a founder needs a formal board versus just better decision support.Learn more about ⁠Peter Crow⁠, Founder of ⁠QuarryGroup⁠Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast ⁠here⁠.#boards #leadership #governance #governwithimpact #strategy #founders #scaling #familybusiness #nzbusiness

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, from setting up an assembly line, to ordering parts in the right volumes, to selling direct to customers in 34 countries. If you are building a product brand, this is a simple guide to turning attention into output that lasts.Check out AV Gar here.Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here. #waystowealth #entrepreneurship #manufacturing #ecommerce #branding #design

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 helping NZ businesses turn ESG from a buzzword into measurable action. They cover why sustainability momentum took a hit, why the companies that “get it” are quietly pulling ahead, and how climate risk shows up in the real world through insurance, supply chains, and resilience.If you have a business, a KiwiSaver, or just want a clearer view of what matters, this episode will sharpen your thinking fast.Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: eccuity.com/podcasts Learn more about Nick and Go Well Consulting here: gowellconsulting.co.nz/#waystowealth #sustainability #esg #climaterisk #circulareconomy #nzbusiness #kiwisaver #supplychain #netzero

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 Ventures. This episode is for anyone staring at AI thinking, where do I even start, and how do I start without making an expensive mistake. Midu and Charlie unpack why most businesses get stuck chasing tools instead of building capability, how small and medium enterprises can run safe experiments that create real productivity without taking on fragile risk, and why the next decade of careers will reward people who can move between roles, outcomes, and industries without ego.They also get into what is more exciting than automation: building entirely new products because AI makes the old constraints disappear. Midu shares what Scene Ventures is building and backing, including Agress AI in MedTech simulation and immersive language learning, plus the behind-the-scenes reality of B2B distribution, getting early traction, and creating wealth building opportunities through equity participation.Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: eccuity.com/podcastsCheck-out Seen Ventures here: seen-ventures.com#waystowealth #miduchandra #seenventures #ai #smes #entrepreneurship #productbuilding #b2b #aigrowth #newzealandbusiness

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 holding company role expecting to take one anchor client, lost the entire pipeline overnight, and had to start from zero with two people, belief, and hustle. From there, it became a decade of steady, compounding progress, never chasing shortcuts, just getting sharper every year.Kelly breaks down what has changed in PR over the last five years and what has not, why local nuance and trust matter more than ever, and why the firms that earn attention through podcasts, op eds, conferences, and consistent thought leadership will keep pulling ahead as search and media keep shifting. Check out One Plus One Communications here: Follow Kelly Bennett here: #waystowealth #kellybennett #oneplusonecommunications #publicrelations #pr #communications #reputation #brandstrategy #earnedmedia #linkedinmarketing #newzealandbusiness

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 moment a restructure forced a hard reset that turned into a new company, a new lane, and a much bigger ambition.Charlie and Riley unpack how Avatars Global went from early experiments to enterprise work, why most of their clients are offshore, and what it takes to sell a concept before the market has the language for it. Riley breaks down the operating reality of a five founder team across time zones, why his shift into the COO seat became the backbone for scale, and how they think about focus when the industry throws a new shiny idea at you every week.They also get into where AI and immersive experiences are actually headed, why “digital humans” are becoming the interface people will expect, and how a small team can move fast enough to build a lead before the giants fully turn their attention.Check out Avatars Global hereFollow Riley here#waystowealth #rileymalins #avatarsglobal #aiavatars #digitalhumans #aicompanions #founders #entrepreneurship #nztech #startuplife #remotework #aiinterfaces

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 Labs, then later stepped away to focus on something with real social impact: The Wellbeing Protocol.Charlie and Mark unpack why the current grant system is sodraining for community groups, why the paperwork and “beg for funding” loop burns the people doing the work, and what changes when you flip the model. Instead of forcing organisations to constantly re apply, Mark’s approach letsfunders stream money into a community treasury with rules baked in, then enables the community to issue micro grants locally with clear tracking of where the money went.They also go into the practical reality of building thisinside today’s constraints. Why they keep the “blockchain” angle quiet in certain rooms, how the system can run on chain while the real funds sit safely in existing bank accounts, and what needs to happen before stablecoins and wallets become normal for everyday community funding. Along the way, Mark shares the deeper motivation behind the project: moving past the default “more money” scoreboard and rebuilding the kinds of capital that strengthen wellbeing and community life.Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast: www.eccuity.com/podcasts Check out www.hum.community#waystowealth #markpascall #web3 #blockchain #philanthropy #communityfunding #dao #ethereum #stablecoins #socialimpact #wellbeing #futureofmoney

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 stories. Her work has been shaped by a clear mission: getting more women into tech, and getting women seen as founders, leaders, and builders, not support roles.But this episode goes somewhere more personal and more useful. Vic lays out the financial reality many women face when career and family collide. The decisions look small in the moment, stepping back, going part time, pausing KiwiSaver contributions, carrying more of the household load, but the compounding cost can be brutal. She shares what she wishes she had structured earlier, and the conversations she now encourages women to have before the trade-offs become permanent.Charlie and Vic also zoom out to the state of the market: the post boom hangover in tech hiring, the pull of Australia, and why so many capable people feel stuck. They explore what “high agency” looks like in practice when jobs are scarce, including building something on the side, buying existing profitable businesses, and staying in motion long enough for momentum to show up again. There’s also a sharp look at how fast AI is changing the bar for what teams need, and why distribution and trust are becoming more valuable than chasing endless features.

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 children’s charity in Cambodia that has now been operating for 15 years, and why that experience permanently changed what she believes business is for.Charlie and Marijke get into the real problem most foundersface, not effort, not hustle, but unclear thinking. They break down why small businesses get pulled into tactics, why that gets expensive fast, and how discernment comes from strategy first. Marijke explains why she built The Marketing Collective as a collective, not an agency, and how coaching helps founders either do it themselves properly or outsource with confidence because they know what good looks like. If you are building something values led and want yourmarketing to feel like you, not noise, this one is for you. Check out The Marketing Collective here: themarketingcollective.co.nzFollow Marijke on Instagram: instagram.com/marijke_t/ Check out every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast: eccuity.com/podcasts #waystowealth #marijketimmers #themarketingcollective #brandstrategy #marketingstrategy #sme #founders #purposeledbusiness #customerexperience #marketingcoaching #b2bmarketing #entrepreneurship

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 the scenes access with operators, and why network effects are the real moat for modern media.They get into the practical reality of going solo, learning camera and editing end to end, protecting momentum when your pipeline slows, and the psychology of burning the boats when you are not naturally a big risk taker.Check out Business with Madison here.Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here.#waystowealth #madisonmalone #businesswithmadison #marketswithmadison #independentmedia #creatorbusiness #networkeffects #entrepreneurship #builders #podcast

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 matters even when you think you have no competitors, and what Debbie learned from building brands in high pressure environments, including large scale experiential marketing that changed customer behaviour.Charlie and Debbie also get practical on pricing psychology, how to set goals without creating bureaucracy, and the cadence of 12 days, 12 weeks, and 12 months. Plus, the unexpected second act: Footprint Distribution, a Scandinavian outdoor tile business that shows how one opportunity can open an entirely new market.

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 conversation about autonomy, optimism, and what real change would take. Check out Sean Collier here Listen to the Ways to Wealth Podcast here#entrepreneurship #podcast #nzpodcast #wealth #comedy #finance #investing #economy

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 matters, and where early-stage capital can genuinely reduce risk for founders. Mike breaks down the fund’s mandate, typical cheque sizes, how they think about deal flow, and what “active capital” looks like in practice through their three C’s: capital, connection, and capability.The conversation also dives into the structural shifts shaping fintech, including open banking, CDR, and upcoming regulation changes, plus why trust and adoption change generationally. We close on how Fintechscan survive while capital constrained, and why the best companies don’t just compete on pricing, they reframe the category and dislocate the market.Check out the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: eccuity.com/podcasts#WaysToWealth #FinTech #VentureCapital #StartUps #NewZealand #OpenBanking #CDR #Banking #Innovation #Investing

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 for everyday investors. Active versus passive, what to look for inside a fund, and why benchmarks matter only if you can clearly explain what they are.The conversation also explores EarnabuckNZ’s personal journey through the 2020 bull run and the 2022 drawdown, and how the pain of volatility forced better portfolio construction, process, and emotional discipline. From concentrated stock picking and FOMO to a simplified core and satellite approach, the theme is consistent: avoid catastrophic mistakes, keep compounding, and stay grounded in first principles.Check out EarnabuckNZ on Instagram here. Check out the Ways to Wealth Podcast here. #WaysToWealth #KiwiSaver #Investing #PersonalFinance #ActiveInvesting #PassiveInvesting #PortfolioConstruction #FinancialLiteracy #NewZealand

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 park business Uptown Bounce before launching Phantom Sport, a sportswear brand redefining golf apparel through experience and community.In this conversation, Dan shares what he learned from scaling too fast, why capital discipline matters more than most founders realise, and how understanding your real why changes the way you build businesses. They also explore the rise of experiential brands, the importance of community in an increasingly digital world, and why athletes like Tiger Woods and Roger Federer are now building their own companies instead of partnering with Nike. The discussion also covers investing, the difference between productive assets and property, thoughts on Bitcoin, and what building meaningful brands looks like in an AI driven future.#waystowealth #entrepreneurship #start-ups #investing #branding #business #founders #golf #ecommerce #community

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.The conversation explores Mikkel’s journey from idea to global market, sparked by a friend’s $12,000 cracked bike frame that led to a world first frame protection product. Operating from Queenstown, he deliberately bootstrapped the business to retain autonomy, investing heavily in R&D and tooling rather than chasing fast growth.Mikkel breaks down his unconventional marketing approach, including how posting directly into Facebook groups helped Fox Folk reach customers in 80 countries within nine months without spending anything on paid advertising. He also shares why focusing on true novelty rather than commodity products has allowed the business to compete on its own terms, and what’s next with a second product launching in early 2026 into a market 20 times larger than the first.Find out more about Fox Folk here: foxfolk.coWatch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: eccuity.com/podcasts#waystowealth #entrepreneurship #productinnovation #design #manufacturing #start-ups #bootstrapping #marketing #newzealand

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 corners of tech.The conversation covers the launch of Beyond’s first collaborative VR game Oddball and the tough timing of COVID shutting down venues just weeks after their US launch, the pivot into home entertainment with Runaways on Apple Vision Pro, and their latest initiative Game Fit bringing VR fitness gaming into New Zealand high schools with Sport Waikato and Les Mills. Jessica also explains how Beyond has survived through a hybrid model of services revenue and IP development, the realities of platform dependency, particularly with Meta, and her philosophy on fast customer validation, balanced bootstrapped and funded growth, and keeping gaming healthy and collaborative.Find out more about Beyond here: www.beyond.funWatch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: www.eccuity.com/podcasts#waystowealth #vr #augmentedreality #gaming #startups #entrepreneurship #technology #founders #newzealand

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Nick O'NeillNick 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 building and scaling a professional services business.The conversation covers the shift from CRM agnostic consulting to specialising in HubSpot, the realities of cash flow pressure and making payroll in the early years, and how modern sales has evolved from cold calling to inbound led growth. Nick also explores how AI and automation are reshaping customer acquisition, the value of a single customer view, and what businesses should focus on when implementing CRM systems for sustainable growth. The episode also touches on Hype and Dexter joining the Avidly Group in 2023 and what it means to be part of the worlds largest HubSpot partner network.#podcast #nzstartup #sales #crm #hubspotcrm #startups #businessgrowth #automation #ai

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 and built a technology venture that is designed to help the value chain express and transfer value from farm to consumer.In this conversation, Melissa and Charlie explore her journey from agriculture to tech entrepreneurship, the realities of being a mission driven founder, and how she built her business without external capital while maintaining a job to support early relationships. They discuss the complexity of agricultural value chains, why innovation can stall inside commodity systems, and how her product automates sustainability reporting and supports processors in matching farm attributes with evolving customer preferences. Watch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: www.eccuity.com/podcasts#waystowealth #podcast #melissabeer #agriculture #technology #entrepreneurship

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 across global markets.Charlie and Lucia explore information advantages across the financial world, comparing the transparency of Western markets with the opacity of parts of the Middle East. They discuss leverage as the consistent cause of financial crises, from the Great Depression to the recent challenges in New Zealand’s property market.Lucia shares insights on the shift from property speculation to building personal IP and vocational wealth, emphasising the long-term mindset required to create meaningful financial security. The conversation also dives into cryptocurrency volatility, US dollar reserve status, global liquidity differences, and how geopolitics shapes both risk and opportunity for investors.At the heart of the discussion is a timeless insight: patient, unleveraged long-term investing reliably outperforms short-term speculation. Anything good, as Lucia says, takes 10 years.Find out more about Lucia Dore Consultancy here: https://www.luciadore.comWatch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: https://www.eccuity.com/podcasts

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, luxury goods, and performance sport, this marks his fourth invention and a return to bicycle design after first building a bike in his early twenties.Charlie and Alex explore the journey behind creating a timeless, Art Deco-inspired e-bike with a compact e-wheel that houses both the motor and the battery, eliminating the bulky frames typical of electric bikes. They discuss circular economy design, ensuring all components are non-proprietary and easily replaceable, and how the bike can convert seamlessly into a traditional push bike.Alex shares how he bootstrapped the company for years, later brought in investors, and pre-sold the first 40 bikes in New Zealand through a nationwide tour. He explains his commitment to slow, sustainable growth, expansion plans into Australia and Japan, and the decision to stay direct-to-consumer. The conversation also touches on his philosophy of timeless quality over flashiness, taking cues from luxury brands that prioritise elegance and durability.Find out more about Le Velo Studio here: https://www.levelostudio.comWatch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: https://www.eccuity.com/podcasts#WaysToWealth #AlexGuichard #Entrepreneurship #NZBusiness #Design #Innovation #Sustainability #LuxuryDesign #Ebike #WealthBuilding

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 narratives, this is your front-row seat to the key shifts shaping the financial landscape right now.

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 student to multi million dollar business owner, including the periods of severe anxiety and depression that shaped his approach to entrepreneurship. He tells the story of raising capital while mentally struggling, the lockdown yoga retreat that shifted his life, and why he chose to build BioGold without selling a single share of equity.Find out more about BioGold here: https://www.biogoldnz.comWatch all episodes of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: https://www.eccuity.com/podcasts#waystowealth #entrepreneurship #bootstrapping #mentalhealth #nzbusiness #wealthbuilding #biogold

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 competition, Jahred shares how jiu-jitsu became the defining force that reshaped his life.Charlie and Jahred explore what makes a great gym culture, how community and mentorship build resilience, and the balance between self-competition and external validation. They also discuss burnout, overtraining, and the mindset required to perform at a high level — whether in sport, business, or life.This episode is a raw, reflective look into what it takes to pursue mastery over decades — and the importance of staying grounded, curious, and connected along the way.Timestamps00:00 Intro01:06 Jared02:08 Origins07:21 Gyms18:53 P.E.Ds24:18 Accusations26:27 Progression38:56 Impact42:47 Outro

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 from everything she’d built, she began a new mission: to help women redefine what it means to be powerful, successful, and fulfilled on their own terms.Now based in New Zealand, Yaela is the founder of The Powerhouse Alliance and host of The Powerhouse Diaries Podcast, an ecosystem dedicated to helping female founders tear up the rulebook, rebuild from authenticity, and lead with connection instead of competition.Charlie and Yaela explore the dangers of resilience culture, the myth of balance, and how chasing constant growth can disconnect us from our purpose. They unpack how to tune out the noise, build discernment, and embrace both “flow” and “hustle” in business and life — a concept Yaela calls Flussle.This conversation is a reminder that rebellion isn’t about chaos — it’s about returning to connection, courage, and clarity in a world that celebrates burnout.Check out The Powerhouse Alliance here: www.powerhouse-alliance.comCheck out eccuity here: www.eccuity.comTimestamps: 00:00 Intro01:10 Yaela02:42 Female Founders06:27 The Rebellion11:22 Success13:28 Start-up Help21:04 Noise39:01 How to adapt53:37 Running your own race55:35 Outro#WaysToWealth #YaelaRaber #FemaleFounders #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Mindset #Reinvention #WealthBuilding #NZBusiness

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 growing role in productivity, and Elon Musk’s bold claim that apps will disappear within five years. They finish by exploring whether governments could one day use crypto to strengthen — not weaken — their control of money.#macromondays #markets #inflation #investing #ai #bigtech #usd #finance

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 status quo.Now, as co-founder of Alimentary, he’s tackling one of the world’s biggest problems — waste. Inspired by the biology of a cow’s stomach, his team is developing bioenergy systems that turn organic waste into clean power, fertiliser, and profit. Backed by the largest innovation grant in New Zealand’s environmental history, they’re proving that sustainability and scalability can go hand in hand.Charlie and Matthew dive into how courage fuels entrepreneurship, what it takes to build deep tech in New Zealand, and how to design a business model that captures both economic and environmental value. They also explore new ways of raising capital, the changing venture landscape, and what it means to lead with values at the core of innovation.Learn more about Alimentary here: alimentary.systemsLearn more about eccuity here: eccuity.comTimestamps:00:00 Intro01:29 Experience03:12 Sued by an Industry06:17 Transitioning Start-ups06:40 VC08:05 NZ Start-ups12:53 Alignment14:12 Matt's Solution17:31 Economy & Environment18:45 Idea to Implementation19:58 Grants21:32 Challenges21:58 Day-to-Day29:25 What Success is31:16 5-year goal34:18 Raising Capital35:33 Going International38:04 First Steps42:09 Outro#WaysToWealth #MatthewJackson #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Sustainability #ClimateTech #WealthBuilding #NZBusiness

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 strategies that helped him scale from a one-man operation to a team of six, his approach to growth in good and bad markets, and why focusing on service over sales created exponential results. Charlie and Sanjeev also dive into the broader economic trends shaping New Zealand’s property and currency markets, and how everyday investors can think differently about building wealth.Check out Loan Market here: loanmarket.co.nzCheck out eccuity here: eccuity.com#WaysToWealth #SanjeevJangra #FinancialFreedom #NZBusiness #WealthBuilding #Entrepreneurship

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 and Vanesha unpack the challenges of scaling a services business, bootstrapping tech without venture capital, and how today’s founders can balance income, equity, and sustainability in a changing economy.Check out Role Call Recruitment here: rolecall.co.nzCheck out Birdeey here: birdeey.comCheck out every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: eccuity.com/podcasts#WaysToWealth #VaneshaDin #Recruitment #StartUps #Entrepreneurship #Hiring #NZBusiness #Bootstrapping #WomenInBusiness #Innovation #TechFounders #FoundersJourney

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, Charlie questions whether speculation is overtaking fundamentals and what it means for investors watching the next big unwind.#macromondays #markets #investing #usd #gold #bitcoin #openai #nvidia #finance

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, private credit stress, Trump’s latest market influence, and what these shifts could signal for a potential recession ahead.#markets #macromondays #investing #finance #crypto #usd #nz #economy

In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie is joined by Anthony Sage!Together they unpack the latest shifts in monetary policy, interest rates and the ripple effects of the US Fed’s unexpected rate cut. Anthony shares his perspective on how New Zealand’s housing-driven economy compares to the more dynamic US market, and why falling mortgage rates might not mean what most think. The pair also explore how immigration, private credit, and global money flows are shaping what could be a decade-long economic realignment.Check out eccuity here: https://www.eccuity.comLearn more about Advice Knight here: https://www.adviceknight.co.nz#WaysToWealth #AnthonySage #Finance #Economy #Investing #NZFinance #KiwiInvestors #InterestRates #USMarkets #RBNZ #FederalReserve #Property #Wealth