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Kia Ora and welcome to The Story Hub podcast, helping you live smarter and be inspired by the journeys of successful Kiwi professionals. We believe you can learn from others' mistakes and achievements, and that what is possible for your life is greater than you currently imagine. On The Story Hub, you will find long-form conversations (45mins - 2 hours) with successful Kiwi professionals discussing their personal career journey so far. Expect to be challenged, inspired, and hear great tips to help you with your own journey. Could be keen? Check out the Season Three Trailer to find out more!

  1. 12/04/2023

    TSH S3 E05 | Paul Gerritsen - Firefighter Entrepreneur, Rowing Across the Atlantic Ocean, Life as a Professional Athlete for New Zealand. A Journey of Discipline & Growth

    TSH S3 E05 | Paul Gerritsen - Firefighter Entrepreneur, Rowing Across the Atlantic Ocean, Life as a Professional Athlete for New Zealand. A Journey of Discipline & Growth “Anything becomes boring or difficult, but those are often the times you are making gains towards where you want to go” Paul Gerritsen is one of the most mentally tough guests we have had on the show. After Rowing for New Zealand Paul joined the New Zealand Fire Service, serving for 12 years before starting Purpose Fill - a waste and skip bin hire business that recycles 40% of what would have ended up in landfill. Oh yeah, and he also was a part of a team that rowed across the Atlantic, but he had no preparation or training. If you are interested in inspiring stories showing grit, discipline, and curiosity this conversation is for you.  #Grit  #RowingAcrossThe Atlantic #PurposeFill #HardChoicesEasyLife #NZFireService #podcast #LIVESMARTER #thestoryhub #Entreprenuer #Careerjourney #Growth #RowingNewZealand Time Stamps: 1:09 Entrepreneurial Early Family Life  4:27 Discovering Rowing, Being Coached by Ex-Olympian Ian Wright 7:08 Culture of Winning at St Pauls 9:29 Trying to Become a Professional Athlete and Row for New Zealand 14:54 Toughest Race Rowing in the U23 World Rowing Championship 18:38 What the Best Coaches Did 22:04 Life in the New Zealand Fire Service 23:33 Saving another Fireman as the Building Collapsed 26:35 Career Progression in Fire Service 29:53 Sudden Opportunity - Rowing Across the Atlantic 34:58 The Boat & The Goal 39:45 Running Out of Food, the Dangers of the Crossing 50:40 Fire Service & Dealing with Stress 54:20 The Quick Growth of Purpose Fill - Saving Waste from Landfill 59:01 Leaving the Fire Service to Lead Purpose Fill Full-time 1:04:29 Paul’s Favourite Achievement 1:05:55 Thoughts on Resilience & Discipline 1:08:38 Final Thoughts

    1h 11m

  2. 11/27/2023

    TSH S3 E04 | Liz O’Neil - The Pathway to CFO, Moving a Young Family to China, Career as an In-House Chartered Accountant

    TSH S3 E04 | Liz O’Neil - The Pathway to CFO, Moving a Young Family to China, Career as an In-House Chartered Accountant This conversation we hear from Liz O’Neil and her journey that has seen her work for large Corporates such as Lion Breweries, Spark, Fonterra, and most recently Coca-Cola Euro-Pacific Partners as CFO of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Hear about her journey where she didn’t take the traditional Chartered Accountancy path into a professional accounting firm and started in-house. Liz has had a wide ranging career from finance, business analyst and strategy roles to managing the Fonterra Farms in Beijing China. If you are interested in hearing her leadership tips as she has learnt what it means to lead through others and take your blinkers off you will love this conversation.  #CFO  #CocaCola #Leadership #WorkinginChina #TakingTheBlinkersOff #podcast #LIVESMARTER #thestoryhub #CharteredAccoutant #Careerjourney #Success Time Stamps: 1:18 Early Life and an Alternative Gap Year at Lion Breweries 7:52 Career Learnings Starting Out as an In-House Accountant 13:52 Becoming a Chartered Accountant - Why Did You Choose to be In-House? 16:26 What Does it Mean to “Take the Blinkers Off? & Developing Curiosity 20:29 Be More Curious with Liz’s Favourite Questions 22:44 Move to Spark, Multiple Roles & Restructures - Building Resilience 26:59 First Leadership Role, Favourite Leadership lessons 30:56 How to make Learning a Lifestyle 35:31 Leaving Spark Without a Next Step 38:56 Moving to China as a family of 4, Managing Fonterra’s Beijing Farms 44:18 Leading through Others, Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges  47:08 Leading through Change Effectively 49:26 Managing Work & Family Life 50:27 How to Grow in your Ability to Reflect 53:54 Final Thoughts

    56 min

  3. 10/20/2023

    TSH S3 E03 | Owen Culliney - A Lawyer Entrepreneur? Building Multiple Successful Law Practices, Developing a High Performance Culture

    This conversation follows Owen Culliney’s success in Law, building up multiple successful law practices including his own. We talk through Owen’s entrepreneurial journey purchasing Clinico, a Denture and Hearing business, and when he finally decided to start his own firm iCLAW alongside Aasha Foley. If you are interested in a career in Law, tips & wisdom in starting your own business, and developing a fun high performance culture you will love this conversation.  #law #entrepreneur #leadership #highperformanceculture #SimonSinek #podcast #LIVESMARTER #thestoryhub #iCLAW #Clinico Time Stamps: 1:02 - Immigrant parents & Busy Early Life 5:11 - Law & Business, reflections on the University of Waikato 7:49 - Early Law Career in Hamilton 10:12 - Discovering Commercial Law 13:45 - Favourite Learnings from Harkness Henry 15:07 - Balancing TechnicalProficiency & Networking, Reflections on starting out in Law 19:08 - Standing Out in a Saturated Market 23:37 - So you want to start your own practice? 27:00 - Are YOU ready for a Promotion? 30:35 - $750k revenue pa by 3 years, A new Practice at James and Wells 39:24 - Deciding to start iCLAW 42:27 - Empathy as a Culture 44:42 - In 5 years, could iCLAW be acquired?  47:47 - Risk vs Sacrifice - the Next Evolution of iCLAW 52:03- Culture of Growth & Success at iCLAW 57:25 Adjusting to the Ebbs & Flows of the Market 1:07:14 Owning Clinico 1:09:48 Mindsets & Capacity to Adapt 1:14:16 Favourite Learnings on his Career so far 1:16:53 Best Books to Help You Grow 1:19:59 Final Thoughts

    1h 22m

  4. 04/19/2023

    TSH S3 E02 | Kim Ballinger - Create Engaging Team Cultures, How to Excel in New Roles & Sales, Working in Brazil, Mexico & the USA, Success in the Dairy Industry

    Brazil’s First Female Salesperson for NZ, Negotiating the Sale of TipTop as CEO, How to Excel in New Roles & Sales, & Create Thriving Team Cultures - this is Kim Ballinger’s journey. This conversation follows Kim Ballinger’s success in the Global Dairy Industry, starting out in a technical role with a Chemical Technology degree to being the first female salesperson in Brazil for NZ Milk Products. Hear her leadership journey which saw one of her teams get the highest engagement scores in Fonterra after only leading it for a year. We discuss her learnings as CEO of TipTop before and during the process of its sale and reflections on her time so far as CEO of AsureQuality, NZ’s leading food quality state-owned enterprise. All of this epic story from a shy girl from Invercargill.  Time Stamps: 1:12 Growing Up in Invercargill, Family Life, Moving to Tauranga in Yr13 8:11 Massey University Experience 10:20 First Job out of Uni - Should you Follow the Money? 13:38 Key Growth and Career Foundations in your Early 20s 15:38 Standing Out as a Graduate/New Team member - Excellence Award in her first year 20:02 Kim’s Habit you NEED to Adopt  22:21 Heading to Mexico (Scorpion Story!) 26:44 What makes doing an OE worthwhile? 30:09 Becoming the First Female Salesperson in Brazil’s Dairy Industry 35:39 Navigating Mass Currency Devaluation & Learning Brazilian Culture 38:22 To the USA - Business Development for a New Factory 42:08 Stepping into Leadership - Building Trust 46:18 Creating a Thriving Culture & Excellent Results in a Global Team 48:46 Reflections on being a Working Mum 56:12 Strategy & China - Why the Chinese Market Teaches you so Much 59:42 Highest Team Engagement Score in Fonterra, within 12 months as  a Leader 1:05:57 Succeeding as a Woman in the Primary Industries 1:08:34 Becoming Fonterra’s Brand Marketing Manager after the Botulism Scare 1:10:55 Launching Fonterra’s Purpose 1:12:52 Why taking a Demotion Led to Success 1:15:55 Starting in her First CEO Role - TipTop Ice Cream  1:18:23 Negotiating the Sale of TipTop 1:21:51 Most Proud Achievements at TipTop 1:23:05 CEO of a State-Owned Enterprise - AsureQuality 1:24:40 Favourite learnings from AsureQuality 1:26:05 Final Thoughts leadership, adapting, balancing your focus on the present vs future

    1h 29m
  5. TSH S3 E01 | Brent McConnell - Dairy Farmer to Entrepreneur, Stoney Creek’s Journey From Receivership to Iconic Brand, Leading the Creation of a Passionate Team & Customer Base

    02/13/2023

    TSH S3 E01 | Brent McConnell - Dairy Farmer to Entrepreneur, Stoney Creek’s Journey From Receivership to Iconic Brand, Leading the Creation of a Passionate Team & Customer Base

    Dairy Farmer to Entrepreneur, Stoney Creek’s Journey From Receivership to Iconic Brand, Leading the Creation of a Passionate Team & Customer Base - this is Brent McConnell’s story. Don’t miss this challenging & inspiring conversation which is the first episode of Season Three on The Story Hub podcast.  Hear about the challenges in trying to turn Stoney Creek around after needing to drop ALL the current suppliers and a complete change in marketing strategy. We talk about leadership in developing the passionate Stoney Creek culture amongst staff and customers. So if you are looking for an inspirational and challenging story You will love this episode. Listen now! Time Stamps: 2:52 - Growing up on a Taupiri farm, upbringing in a dairy farmer family 10:17 - First passions & an entrepreneurial start to an agri career 23:37 - Brents out of the box journey to farm ownership 31:09 - Inspiration for a move into business 38:05 - Buying Stoney Creek in the midst of receivership 41:51 - A steep learning curve into the clothing industry 46:13 - Redefining Stoney Creek - why & how? 58:10 - Quality first - complete change in suppliers 59:47 - Business Strategy - navigating B2C & B2B 1:04:44 - A culture of innovation (Sustainable products) 1:08:37 - Growing leadership capacity 1:15:52 - Becoming a global brand 1:19:07 - A moving tribute to Stephen Gack 1:28:17 - Resilience mindset that searches for opportunity 1:32:40 - Embracing Covid - connecting with customers 1:41:27 - Digital adoption and supply chain adaption 1:49:52 - Personal reflections and advice for business 1:53:17 - Generosity in their local community 1:58:37 - Chasing a dream (final thoughts) Looking for more from The Story Hub? Seasons One & Two are out now!

    2h 2m

  6. SEASON 3 TRAILER

    TSH S3 | Trailer to Season Three

    WE ARE BACK!! The Story Hub Season Three is finally here with the promise of 10 excellent conversations for you in 2023.  If you want to know what’s coming up and an exciting announcement we have listen to the trailer NOW. SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss a thing. If you want to check out our brand new Live Smarter podcast click here for Spotify & Apple Podcasts

    3 min
  7. TSH S2 E07 | Graeme Milne - Excellence in Crisis Leadership, Foundations of a Successful Director, NZ Dairy Leader

    06/13/2022

    TSH S2 E07 | Graeme Milne - Excellence in Crisis Leadership, Foundations of a Successful Director, NZ Dairy Leader

    This week we have the massive privilege to have Graeme Milne on the show to wrap Season Two. Graeme contributed to some of the dairy mergers which ended up creating Fonterra in the `90s, worked in West and East Germany during the `80s, and all started out with a degree in biotechnology from Massey University. Graeme has a successful directorship career too, serving on many influential boards including Synlait as the chairman. If you are interested in learning about crisis management, leadership, and what it means to be a director, you will love this fascinating conversation. Enjoy practical tips, along with detailed stories where he shares the key experiences that have shaped his life. P.S Update about Season 3 at the end of the episode.

    1h 38m
  8. TSH S2 E06 | Phil Southward - Early Investor in Xero, Living the Gig Economy Life before Everyone else, Living in Germany. IT Contracting & Leading Agile Teams

    06/06/2022

    TSH S2 E06 | Phil Southward - Early Investor in Xero, Living the Gig Economy Life before Everyone else, Living in Germany. IT Contracting & Leading Agile Teams

    This week we have Phil Southward, an IT Contractor and one of the early investors in Xero. Phil has had a rich career working in NZ and Germany embracing the gig economy before the phrase was coined. If you are interested in learning about agile systems of working, What it's like to live in Germany and try a contractors’ life, and what can happen if you don’t wait and be patient - this conversation is for you. Here is a story to challenge your perspectives on the normal career path

    1h 3m
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Kia Ora and welcome to The Story Hub podcast, helping you live smarter and be inspired by the journeys of successful Kiwi professionals. We believe you can learn from others' mistakes and achievements, and that what is possible for your life is greater than you currently imagine. On The Story Hub, you will find long-form conversations (45mins - 2 hours) with successful Kiwi professionals discussing their personal career journey so far. Expect to be challenged, inspired, and hear great tips to help you with your own journey. Could be keen? Check out the Season Three Trailer to find out more!

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