Podcast: Steve Pirie of Wonder & Wander

By June Ramli Welcome to another episode of 30 minutes with DailyStraits.com. Our guest today is New Zealand-based entrepreneur Steve Pirie, the founder of Wonder & Wander. Steve is a serial entrepreneur who started working on his ventures at the tender age of 19. His naturally curious mind has led him to co-found and sell many successful businesses including Unleashed Travel (named by BRW as one of Australia’s 100 fastest growing startup businesses in 2011 and 2012), Nurture Change, Nurture Her and UnpluggedFiji.  Recently, Steve has fused his passion for events, mindset, education, travel, health and wellness at Wonder & Wander, an ecosystem created to inspire a new way of thinking and a new way of being.  His company brings together innovation consulting, travel and learning. His team collaborates with people and brands to unleash their most innovative ideas, events and experiences. Steve also offers ideation and growth strategy sessions to start-ups and established businesses in the travel, events and business space where companies hack their naturally curious mind to get ideas and connections for their business and their lives. In this podcast, we discuss: What got him interested in being an entrepreneur in the first place? His approach in dealing with failure? Why he decided to sell two successful businesses? Without further ado, let’s listen to the interview here.