Marc Ellis was always a dream guest for us, and he delivered the goods in our original episode recorded back in early 2023! It’s been our most popular episode to date and if you listen back to the conversation in its entirety you’ll understand why. His unpredictable brand of hijinks and gags came to life after years out of the spotlight, and his infectious personality rubbed off on us both. But behind the laughs and wild stories is an incredibly driven, successful, thoughtful guy. Marc...

Welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners. It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last five years. This is the 11th episode in the series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start. In this one, we reflect on our fifth birthday and the best lessons learned from five years as podcasters. There's still an exciting opportunity available to sponsor this show. If this interests you, please...

Hamish Pinkham is the co-founder and director of Rhythm and Vines and Endeavour Live - NZ's friendliest promoter of live events. When we recorded this Between Two Beers episode in 2023, we were in the process of transitioning into a business, so to hear insights on how Hamish and two of his flatmates from the University of Otago had turned their idea of a party for their friends at a Gisborne vineyard into New Zealand's premier live music festival was inspiring. R&N turned 21 last year...

Welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners. It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last five years. This is the 10th episode in the series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start. In this one, our business coach Di Foster takes us through some couple's therapy! We talk about end of year goal setting, how to not take business personally and Seamus and Steve explore each other’s...

This week on Business in Between we hear from Cassie Roma. The American-born kiwi is an award-winning global thought leader in creative ideation, media, brand strategy, digital innovation, and executive leadership. She's also an author, brand ambassador, storyteller, broadcaster, emcee, and keynote speaker. For over 20 years Cassie held high-flying marketing roles at big-name businesses including Air New Zealand, ANZ Bank, The Warehouse Group, Mighty River Power and NZME (New Zealand’s...

Welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners. It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last five years. This is the ninth episode in the series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start. In this one, we're talking about building the Between Two Beers empire. We talk about what success means to us, what the plans are for the business next year - and for the next five, what’s holding us back...

Tim Brown had been a dream guest for us since we started the Between Two Beers podcast in 2019 – and he didn’t disappoint when we recorded with him at the end of 2023. This is one of our favourite episodes and we left this original recording feeling incredibly inspired. Tim was a professional footballer who played 112 times for the Wellington Phoenix and earned 30 caps for the All Whites. But at the same time, he was forming an idea for a woollen, environmentally friendly, sustainable...

Welcome to episode 8 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners.It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last five years.This is the eighth episode in the series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start.In this one, we're talking money.One of our long-time listeners messaged us asking us if we could talk about what the financial change has looked like across the different chapters in our podcast business. ...

Welcome to the latest episode of Business in Between... it's our new series, on our new podcast channel, that features long-form chats with NZ's most interesting business minds. This week we hear the incredible story of how a Kiwi entrepreneur turned an idea for a fitness goal setting app into a global business with customers in over 150 countries and revenue exceeding $80 million a year. It’s the story of Adam El-Agez and his app called The Conqueror. Adam started his fitness goal setting...

Welcome to episode 7 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners. It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last 12 months. This is the seventh episode in the series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start. In this episode we talk about the struggle of managing friendship and business, and the tools we use to try to bring some balance to our lives.   There's still an exciting opportunity available to...

Welcome to the latest episode of Business in Between... it's our new series, on our new podcast channel, that features long-form chats with NZ's most interesting business minds. This week we're dipping back into our Between Two Beers archives and getting business lessons from Steve Dunstan. Steve is the co-founder of Huffer, one of New Zealand’s most loved fashion brands. He started the company as a 21-year-old and over 20 years grew it into a multi-faceted business with stores across New...

Welcome to episode 6 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners. It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last 12 months. This is the sixth episode in the series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start. In this episode we talk about receiving an email from the Prime Minister's Office, asking if we'd have Christopher Luxon on our Between Two Beers Podcast. It got us thinking long and hard about who we...

Welcome to episode 5 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners. It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last 12 months. This is the fifth episode in the series, but they are all standalone – so you don’t have to go back to the start and follow along. My name is Steve Holloway and alongside my best mate Seamus Marten, we started a podcast called Between Two Beers nearly five years ago in my Hamilton garage. In quite a surreal...

Welcome to episode 4 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners.It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last 12 months.This is the fourth episode in the series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start.My name is Steve Holloway and alongside my best mate Seamus Marten, we started a podcast called Between Two Beers nearly five years ago in my Hamilton garage.In quite a surreal series of events, it’s turned...

Welcome to the first new episode of Business in Between... it's our new series, on our new podcast channel, that features long-form chats with NZ's most interesting business minds.This week we're getting business lessons from Matt Stark.For those outside of Hamilton, Matt could be described as a super successful business buyer, builder, investor and leader.For those inside of Hamilton - Matt Stark is the guy transforming the city. With his team at Stark property he's built, innovated and...

Welcome to episode 3 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners.My name is Steve Holloway and alongside my best mate Seamus Marten, we started a podcast called Between Two Beers nearly five years ago in my Hamilton garage.In quite a surreal series of events, it’s turned into our fulltime job – and along with the podcast we’ve also started two side businesses.One is B2B Speakers – which brings the guests you hear on Between Two Beers to your live event as MCs or Speakers, and the other is...

Welcome to episode 2 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners. It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last 12 months. My name is Steve Holloway and alongside my best mate Seamus Marten, we started a podcast called Between Two Beers nearly five years ago in my Hamilton garage. In quite a surreal series of events, it’s turned into our fulltime job – and along with the podcast we’ve also started two side businesses. One is B2B...

Welcome to episode 1 of our new show: Accidental Business Owners.It's a podcast about business, life, mindset, relationships and the inside story of a pretty wild last 12 months.My name is Steve Holloway and alongside my best mate Seamus Marten, we started a podcast called Between Two Beers nearly five years ago in my Hamilton garage.In quite a surreal series of events, it’s turned into our fulltime job – and along with the podcast we’ve also started two side businesses.One is B2B Speakers –...

This week on Business in Between we revisit our chat with Raelene Castle from earlier this year. Raelene is the CEO of Sport NZ, and one of the most accomplished and experienced administrators in NZ sport.  She spent six years as CEO of Netball NZ, before becoming the first female CEO of an NRL team, when she led the Bulldogs for six years.  After that she smashed another glass wall, becoming Rugby Australia’s first female CEO in 2018.  In this episode we talk about the challenges of the...

This week on Business in Between we're revisiting our chat with Izzy Whitley from 2023.   Izzy is one of New Zealand’s most successful, self-made men under 30. At 29 he has founded two businesses that do over $30 million a year in revenue and has the world at his feet. But things weren’t always so smooth.    In the full episode of this podcast, on the Between Two Beers feed, you can hear about his incredible rise; from his humble beginnings in Gisborne to leaving home at 16 and dropping out...

On this episode of Business in Between we revisit our chat with Duane Dalton. Duane is the founder and Director of Pita Pit and the 20 minute conversation you’re about to hear was plucked from our 90 minute episode on the Between Two Beers podcast. Duane tragically lost his wife, former Silver Fern legend Tania Dalton to a brain aneurism in 2017, and the first part of the recording focused on life after loss.But the second part was all business and Duane shares his story of how and why he...

On this episode of Business in Between we talk to Brodie Kane. Brodie is a Kiwi media pioneer. She had an extensive career in radio and television working for the Hits and TVNZ before she was made redundant from her Christchurch radio gig in 2020. That’s when she decided to start her own company – Brodie Kane Media – where she hosts the very popular The Girls Uninterrupted and Kiwi Yarns podcasts, and produces two other podcasts, Three Gals One Beehive, and Out the Gayte. When we...

This week we're revisiting our chat with David Higgins from 2021. David has one of the most fascinating minds in the business of sport with a cunning intelligence and the balls to continually bet big on himself, and win.  In his mid 20s with no boxing experience and little money, he engineered the Fight of the Century between David Tua and Shane Cameron which laid the path for his journey to the top of the boxing world as Joseph Parker’s manager.  This pod is packed with cracking stories...

Welcome to episode #2 of the Business in Between podcast. This week we’re re-visiting our chat with Dion Nash from 2022 where we talked about his transition from professional sportsman to business owner.The original recording of this episode went for two hours, with the first 90 minutes focused on his upbringing, family and his professional cricket career.We’re going to join the action on the home-straight, where we switch to his business journey – and it’s a compelling 30 minutes.Dion talks...