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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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)
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TSH S3 | Trailer to Season Three
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