A Kiwi Original

A Kiwi Original is a podcast and video series, sharing uniquely Kiwi stories from people contributing to New Zealand's future.

A Kiwi Original is found on all the main podcast streaming channels, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

New episodes are released on YouTube. Subscribe for free to get notified when new episodes are released.

Share Your NZ Made Story

Each episode is approximately 25 - 35 minutes long. While each interview is unique, there are key themes that come up each time including:

• The origin story behind your business.

• What your business makes.

• The people and skills your business relies on.

• The products that have been created and the problems they solve.

• How this business is positively shaping New Zealand's future. 

There is no additional appearance fee for being featured on A Kiwi Original. This service is included as part of your NZMade or NZCode licence fee. For licence holders, the best moments of the show are shared with our 25,000 NZ Made fans across LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

A Kiwi Original - Shawn Beck - Skinny Fizz - Episode 60

Skinny Fizz, a company who is taking on the multi-nationals with a delicious sparkling water flavoured with real fruit and none of the bad stuff. This week we talk to founder Shawn Beck about this truly Kiwi drink that aims to be simple, healthy and environmentally conscious.

A Kiwi Original - Angus Brown - Ārepa - Episode 59

A drink that makes you smarter sounds like science fiction, but Angus Brown and Ārepa have managed it. By combining rigorous scientific research with New Zealand natural blackcurrants and pine extract, Ārepa was born. Angus discusses the science behind Ārepa, as well as the years-long journey to its formation.

A Kiwi Original - Peri Drysdale - Untouched World - Episode 58

Peri Drysdale is the founder and CEO of Untouched World...a company that does more than make quality garments, it reaches out and does good in our communities. In this episode, we chat garments, what makes a garment last beyond a few years; in ruggedness and in style. But also, we touch on what Untouched World is doing in the sustainability space in terms of changing processes and empowering young leaders to take change of sustainable action in these uncertain times.

A Kiwi Original - Toby Skilton - Mutu - Episode 57

Mutu wants to change the way we consume. In this episode Ryan interviews Toby Skilton, Founder and Director of Mutu, an online peer-to-peer rental marketplace app. Toby wants to see Kiwis get better use (and a bit of cash) out of the things that they have lying around their homes, be that cameras, water blasters, mowers or candy floss machines!!

A Kiwi Original - Stellar Library team - Stellar Library - Episode 56

Stellar Library started a decade ago solving the problem of securing board papers for management teams and now the broader enterprise. In this episode I'm joined by Dipti, Mike and Johnny at Stellar Library to talk about custody of information, developing intuitive software and keeping close to customer needs. We also discuss the values that Stellar Library lives by and advice from the Co-Founder on why NZ Coded software is world class.

A Kiwi Original - Asa Cox - Arcanum - Episode 55

Asa Cox is the CEO of Arcanum AI... a company that is empowering New Zealand businesses to see things previously unseeable or unknowable and that's translating into better business outcomes. Arcanum has built over 50 machine learning models that can learn from your video, text and data across a number of problems that humans can't solve on our own.

A Kiwi Original - Sri Govindaraju - Zealandia Honey - Episode 54

Sri's shares what her experience has been like opening up export markets in India and the Middle East, we talk about how Zealandia is going beyond Manuka honey using research led innovation to create new products and what it feel likes as to bring her vision to life with business co-founders Sunil and Robin.

A Kiwi Original - Nick Davenport - Lanaco - Episode 53

Lanaco had been developing air filtration media for a decade when Covid hit at the beginning of 2020. In this special episode I speak with Nick about Lanaco has geared up this year. We talk about protecting the lives of New Zealanders, why a sustainable and environmentally friendly mask material is so important in our new world and the initiative Lanaco and NZ Made undertook to protect New Zealanders through the community mask initiative.

A Kiwi Original - Timothy Allan - UBCO Bikes - Episode 52

Whisper quiet bikes make for quieter fleets of pizza drivers in the city (or better hunting results in the bush), but UBCO Bikes have cut their teeth on solving the needs of farmers who need a safer, more effective alternative to quad bikes.

A Kiwi Original - Lisa Portas - Palliser Ridge - Episode 51

Lisa is the Expansion Manager and Director at Palliser Ridge - a farm story of diversification that now includes direct to consumer eCommerce sales. Lisa shares how she is applying her brand experience to Palliser Ridge to create compelling wool and honey products as well as accommodation experiences from their stunning location with views over Kaikoura.

A Kiwi Original - Stefan Powell - Dawn Aerospace - Episode 50

Space. The final frontier. New Zealander Stefan Powell is on a mission to make space more accessible, not from rockets, but from space planes like the Aurora II and the Aurora III which will be taking off from Oamaru airport and other New Zealand airports before we know it.

A Kiwi Original - Scottie Chapman - Spring Sheep - Episode 49

Scottie Chapman is a fifth generation sheep and beef farmer turned sheep milk exporter who is on a mission to bring the goodness of New Zealand sheep milk to the world. Two megatrends Spring Sheep are capitalising on is the demand for nutritious infant formula milk products from people who have digestive issues with dairy and moving New Zealand beyond 'peak cow'.

A Kiwi Original - Bernie Stewart - Canvas Plus Group - Episode 48

I speak with Bernie Stewart from Canvas Plus Group who is behind a range of canvas based solutions to solve a number of key problems including on site construction and building noise, drain nets that help local councils clean up our waterways and partitioning clean rooms where dirt and dust is created.

A Kiwi Original - Josh Comrie - Ambit - Episode 47

Conversational intelligence is at the heart of the capability that Ambit creates for the enterprise looking to 'know thy customer' at scale. In this broad ranging chat with Josh Comrie we discuss servicing large numbers of customers with 'digital employees', how Ambit delivers actionable insights from those conversations and New Zealand's preparedness for AI in the enterprise space.

A Kiwi Original - Michael Carden - JoyousHQ - Episode 46

Michael Carden is CEO for JoyousHQ, an organisation that specialises in enterprise grade feedback software that sparks action through conversations not surveys.

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