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A Kiwi Original shares uniquely Kiwi stories from people like you contributing to New Zealand's future. 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. 

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A Kiwi Original

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.

A Kiwi Original - Pattrick Smellie - BusinessDesk - Episode 45

Pattrick Smellie is co-founder of BusinessDesk and in this 180 degree interview reversal, Ryan gets to interview a journalist on how BusinessDesk got started, getting your business into the news, why post election every business will need a trusted source on news for policy impacts and how to get into becoming a news journalist.

A Kiwi Original - Hadleigh Bognuda - Ezyvet - Episode 44

Ezyvet is the software that improves the workflow of vets worldwide helping looking after our pets when they're not well. CEO Hadleigh Bognuda shares the origin story of Ezyvet through to today where their software supports clinical data across the workflows of 40,000 users globally.

A Kiwi Original - David Percy - Pertronics - Episode 43

David Percy, Founder of Pertronics, has been interested in technology and manufacturing for 4+ decades, turning his hobby into a substantial New Zealand business employing over 100 Kiwi's.

A Kiwi Original - Grant Johnson - Rocketspark - Episode 42

Beautifully simple websites by Rocketspark. Kiwis are DIY’ers and that often applies to websites too. Rocketspark makes websites fun again and Founder Grant Johnson shares how the restrictions of Covid-19 has resulted in a resurgence in businesses wanting to reflect what 2020 Kiwi consumers expect and more.

A Kiwi Original - Toby Litten - Parkable - Epsiode 41

Toby Litten is the Chief Exec and Founder of Parkable - for parking that doesn’t suck. The built environment is only just starting to adopt technology and that creates an opportunity for Parkable.

A Kiwi Original - Charlie Cooper - BluTui - Episode 40

BluTui is a SaaS software platform for web agencies to solve the problems of managing multiple websites without restricting the technical creativity demanded by their clients. We have an in-depth chat on BluTui software, the New Zealand software ecosystem and why BluTui has built a better product for agencies than overseas platforms that have accrued technical debt like Wordpress, Squarespace and Wix.

A Kiwi Original - Kate Slavin & Felicity Morgan-Rhind - Ironclad Pan - Episode 39

Ironclad Pan co-founder Kate Slavin and chef extraordinaire Felicity Morgan-Rhind who creates the recipes for IronClad Pans joins us on this episode to discuss why the classic cast iron pan is the way forward for Kiwi cooks.

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