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Success Interviews
Ep.24 – What Can Landing On An Aircraft Carrier Teach Us About Covid-19?
Win Charlesbois is the co-founder of The Diamond Shop which specialises in handcrafted diamond engagement rings. At one point he was a Navy pilot, landing on and taking off from aircraft carriers, before settling for a slightly slower form of transport in the form of a hand-built sailboat. In 1974, Win and his wife Linda […]
Ep.105 – How Solving Our High Asthma Rates Starts at Home
[podcastfooter] We might not think of it as a big deal when compared with more urgent diseases or medical conditions, but asthma has become a concerningly significant presence in Kiwis lungs. How has this happened? Well, Asthma NZ CEO Katheren Leitner broke down the causes, effects and what we need to do to turn […]
Pioneering AI in Healthcare
In the bulging record books of Australasian entrepreneurship, Julio De Laffitte is a name that stands out for his pioneering approach to financial education and wealth creation. With a track record of innovative ventures, De Laffitte is charting new territory with his work at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare. His latest endeavour […]
Technology Interviews
Ep.4 – Decision Making & Future Proofing Your Business
Danu founded RUSH Digital in 2010 and has led its technology teams in developing world-first solutions for global companies such as Microsoft, Disney, Google, Samsung and Nokia. He’s overseen and been hands-on involved in the design, development and deployment of numerous software and hardware projects across a wide range of platforms and disciplines. Not only […]
Ep.34 – It’s Not Just Tech Innovation, It’s Business Innovation That We Need
From emergency operations control for the New Zealand Police to building several businesses, Ash has a passion for innovation and helping people achieve their dreams and success. An engineer by profession, Ash built up one of the country’s most respected cloud service’s agency before realising a long-standing dream of building a modern, stylish entertainment and […]
Ep.61 – From Caravan To Global Impact
In 1998, you’d be at the cutting edge of things if you had a 56kb dial up connection. To download a song via Napster might take an hour all going well and, if you were one of those progressive companies to have a website, it might take you 6 months to get it manually listed […]
Entrepreneur Interviews
Ep.14 – CEO of Ierospace Industries Talks How To Create A Sustainable Optimistic Future
Ira Munn is Founder and CEO of Ierospace Industries International, where the team is developing electric efficiency technologies and 3D printed electric vehicle kits using recycled plastics. Incubating at Accelerating Aotearoa’s We o Tara STEM Learning Centre in Otara, Auckland. Ierospace merged with Los Angeles-based technology company R.E.P.S. Inc. after the BMWi/TED Next Visionaries talk […]
Ep.61 – From Caravan To Global Impact
In 1998, you’d be at the cutting edge of things if you had a 56kb dial up connection. To download a song via Napster might take an hour all going well and, if you were one of those progressive companies to have a website, it might take you 6 months to get it manually listed […]
Ep.27 – How to Innovate in Times of Crisis
As the Co-Founder and CEO of Comacc, which sold to MYOB a few years ago, Steve Nathan could have retired young, but he is a breed of Kiwi Tech Entrepreneur that wants to keep using his time to keep creating things. One of these things ironically is a platform, TimeHub, which allows business ideas to […]
Leadership Interviews
Ep.94 – What It Is Like To Open A Luxury Boutique Hotel In 2020
When talking about the opening of a new luxury boutique hotel in 2020, it is hard not to start off with what has now become the cliché of talking about the context of an unprecedented year. While there are of course challenges that come from the state of the international tourist market, there are also […]
Ep.16 – The Future of New Zealand’s SME Landscape From the Man Who Helped Shape it
Few people have had the breadth of experience in the SME and startup space like Andy Hamilton has over the last couple of decades. As the former CEO of The Icehouse (now a Director of its investment arm, Icehouse Ventures), Andy Hamilton’s work has helped a vast number of New Zealand businesses survive, adapt and […]
Ep.3 – Advice For Times Of Uncertainty And Future Opportunities
Theresa Gattung needs no introduction, but for the sake of consistency we will mention a few of her many achievements. Theresa first hit the public spotlight in a big way when she became CEO of Telecom in 1999, making her the first female CEO of a large public company in New Zealand. Since then she […]
Wellness Interviews
Ep. 80 – How To Beat Burnout And Create Optimum Human Function
This year we’ve all become aware of rising anxiety and stress in ourselves and those around us. And while a global pandemic and economic recession are pretty good excuses for this, Lifestyle and Breath Expert, Sarah Laurie points out that we have been dealing with rising anxiety and stress levels for a long time. And […]
Ep.43 – Adventuring Into Greatness
Cory Richards is one of the world’s most recognised adventure and mountaineering photographers, and the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012. His mission: to capture not only the soul of adventure and exploration, but also the beauty inherent in our modern society. His photography has taken him across the world – from the […]
Ep.59 – How To Shape The Life You Want, Not Have It Shape You
It’s hard to imagine it now but one of New Zealand’s most respected health and wellness experts, Rachel Grunwell, was an unhealthy and stressed out investigative journalist, covering crime and politics. It was when the opportunity came up to write about wellness/health and fitness that Rachel threw her journalistic curiosity into interviewing some of the […]
Women in Leadership Interviews
Ep.76 – Are We Really Tidy Kiwis?
Depending on your age, the catch cries “Be a Tidy Kiwi” and “Do the Right Thing” will bring back some 90s nostalgia. But as well as being a bit of feel good Kiwiana, they are part of a body of work from Keep New Zealand Beautiful, an organisation that has been working for half a […]
Ep.42 – Hemp Innovation And How The Future Could Be In Old Knowledge
Kirsty Harkness is the first licensed industrial hemp grower in NZ vineyards, Co-founder and Managing Director of Mount Base Vineyards, Owner of Tigertiger photography agency, and Ice Angel. While very seemingly different businesses, Kirsty leverages the connections and creates new value along the way. While only it’s early days, Kirsty’s trials in growing hemp alongside […]
Ep.65 – The Hope for Hospitality
Some people like to describe us as a collective, as all being in the same boat in this Covid-19 world, but the reality is that some sectors are facing it tougher than others and for hospitality this time has been particularly brutal. In her role as the CEO of Hospitality New Zealand, Julie White represents […]
Sports Interviews
Ep.69 – MMA Champ Fighting For Mental Health
Mixed Martial Arts and the world of UFC has become a big deal over the years and there must be something in the water at City Kickboxing in Auckland because it helping to produce New Zealand fighters that are kicking arse and taking names, figuratively and literally, on the global stage. One fighter on the […]
Ep.62 – Fighting for Peace
The head trainer of a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu studio called the Combat Room might not seem like the sort of person to talk to peace, enlightenment, mindfulness and mediation with, but as well as being a black belt in BJJ, Pires Vanderson has lived with monks and has dedicated his life to not only bringing […]
Ep.115 – Brook Macdonald – Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
A little over a year ago, champion New Zealand downhill mountain biker, Brook MacDonald lay in agony, semi-paralysed and unable to feel his legs on a Quebec mountain for five hours, waiting for a helicopter to arrive. Brook had sustained a serious spinal injury when he crashed during his first practice run at the World […]
M2 Summit Podcast
Ep.113 – What Culture Collision Means For The Future of Business
[podcastfooter] As diversity becomes increasingly important in every facet of our world, what we think we know about the idea of ‘culture’ is quickly evolving. Breaking down the impending future of ‘cultural collision’ and how it is affecting our work and personal lives at the M2 Summit was Nuwanthie Samarakone, founder of ICE. Samarakone […]
Ep.112 – How To Build & Sell A $500M Company. And What Do You Do Next?
[podcastfooter] What exactly does one do after they sell their business for $500m? Vaughan Fergusson, founder of Vend, dropped in for a fireside chat with editor Andre Rowell at the M2 Summit to give us the insight and impart with some wisdom on just how he grew his business to that astonishing value. Fergusson […]
Ep.110 – How Humans And Robots Can Work Together In The Future
[podcastfooter] As AI development advances further year by year, the question of what separates us from our creations becomes more pressing. Talking the M2 Summit audience on Thursday 20 May through this fascinating, complicated and a little bit scary territory was behavioral scientist Dr. Sydney Savion. Sitting down with our editor, Andre Rowell, the […]
Sustainability Interviews
Ep. 99 – Back to the Future
There’s a breed of business thinking that is not only about making money but also making a positive impact on the world. And Oz Jabur from Future co is this breed of entrepreneur, helping to drive those other metrics of success. We talk to Oz about the future of active wear, sustainable sportswear and how […]
Ep.77 – Designing A Sustainable Future
As the daughter of one of New Zealand’s leading environmentalists and businessmen, the late Sir Rob Fenwick, Isabel Fenwick has been immersed in the work of organisations shifting to greener, more sustainable ways of working. Isabel carries on her family legacy with her skills in human-centred design and design thinking methodologies to translate complex problems […]
Ep.21 – Jemma Whiten: How The Hell Do You Market Now?
Jemma Whiten is the Marketing and Digital Director and driver of sustainability projects at ecostore, the leading environmental and sustainable brand in New Zealand. Jemma is passionate about driving business and brands as a force for good and is using her 19 years of experience working across the globe to help ecostore to do just […]