Between Two Beers Podcast

This week o we’re re-releasing one of our favourite episodes with Sir Wayne Smith.

Smithy is one of the most respected and accomplished figures in New Zealand Rugby history – an absolute legend of the game.

He was a 17-cap All Black who went on to win three World Cups - two as All Blacks assistant coach, and one with the Black Ferns.

He’s also been the All Blacks coach, won four Super Rugby titles as a coach, two with...

On this week’s Hambassadors, we unpack Seamus' controversial sick day, Steven’s scooter dash to Ignite 25, and why he still doesn’t understand how sound works.

We also get into the viral 1 gorilla vs 100 Kiwis meme, a kids’ football blowout that sparked an ethics debate, and behind the scenes of our Reflections webinar and business journey.

Plus: a car giveaway prank gone wrong, political backlash from our Philip Mills episod...

This week on Between Two Beers we talk to Phillip Mills!

Phillip is the founder and Executive director of Les MIlls international - and one of NZ's most successful businessmen.

Some people might think Les Mills is a few gyms in New Zealand… but they would be badly mistaken. Les Mills has become a global operation, boasting partnerships with over 20,000 gyms and a presence in over 100 countries. Their wide range of workouts ar...

Hey team, welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners.

The premise of the show is that last year Seamus and I became fulltime business owners. We left our 9-5s to go all in on the podcast - and the other businesses we built off the back of it – and thought it would be interesting to document our journey.

Last year we also started working with a business and mindset coach Di Foster, who you might remember as a ...

This week's guest is Dr Paul Wood – speaker, author, psychologist… and a man who spent 11 years in prison for murder.

Paul opens up about the defining moments of his life: the crime that changed everything, what prison was really like, how he transformed behind bars, and how he became the first person in NZ to earn a PhD while incarcerated.

We cover the brutal realities of prison life, the mental strategies he used to survive...

This week on Between Two beers we talk to Toni Street.

Toni is one of New Zealand's best and most popular broadcasters.

She's been a host on breakfast TV and been a sports reporter for TVNZ, she co-hosted Seven Sharp alongside Mike Hosking for four years, before she made the switch to radio - where she now hosts the Coast Breakfast host alongside Sam Wallace and Jason Reeves.

In this episode we talk about playing for NZ A...

Hey team, welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners.

The premise of the show is that last year Seamus and I became fulltime business owners. We left our 9-5s to go all in on the podcast - and the other businesses we built off the back of it – and thought it would be interesting to document our journey.

Last year we also started working with a business and mindset coach Di Foster, who you might remember as a ...

This week on Between Two Beers we talk to Duncan Sandlant

Duncan is widely regarded as the leading agent in world rugby for coaches - at one point he represented two thirds of the best rugby coaches in the world.

He's been shortlisted by Rugby World as one of the 50 most influential people in the game on three occasions and is the only agent to have ever appeared on the list.

He's a Kiwi, who started out as a lawyer before...

Dr Jo Brown is a low key legend, a Kiwi who has reached the top of her field on the global stage.

She has been the physiotherapist and performance coach for some of the biggest sports names on the planet, including Noah Lyles, Yohan Blake and Megan Tapper, NBA players, Professional football players, Australian Olympic teams and even the Jamaican bobsled team (Cool Runnings 2).

One thing that was ...

Hey team, welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners.

The premise of the show is that last year Seamus and I became fulltime business owners. We left our 9-5s to go all in on the podcast - and the other businesses we built off the back of it – and thought it would be interesting to document our journey.

Last year we also started working with a business and mindset coach Di Foster, who you might remember as a ...

Neil Wagner is one of New Zealand cricket’s best red ball bowlers of all time.

Only Sir Richard Hadlee has a better strike rate in tests among New Zealanders who have taken more than 100 wickets.

Wagner has relentlessly thumped his right boot into creases around the country for almost 17 years, having arrived from South Africa in 2008 and in this one we unpack his incredible journey.

We talk about why his break never came ...

Ali was one of NZ’s most high profile broadcasters and journalists for more than two decades and worked for One News, Breakfast, Fair Go, Seven Sharp, Radio Live, Close up and many more.

In this episode we talk about her rise to the top of NZ Media and all of the twists and turns along the way, getting made redundant five times and how she kept bouncing back, why her relationships became front page news of every media outlet, wo...

Hey team, welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners.

This is a show we ran last year on our Business channel – and this year we’re bringing it into our main feed.

The premise of the show is that last year Seamus and I became fulltime business owners. We left our 9-5s to go all in on the podcast – and thought it would be interesting to document our journey.

Last year we also started working with a business...

Steve Williams is the greatest golf caddie of all time.

He's best known for his partnership with Tiger Woods where they won 13 majors together across 12 years.

But what's perhaps less well known, is his path to working Tigers bag.

In this episode we talk about being a 2 handicap at the age of 10, becoming Greg Norman's caddie at 17 and the remarkable career path of one of New Zealand's most successful sportspeople.

And of course, there...

Gordy Walker is arguably New Zealand’s best coach of all time. He’s certainly in the conversation. He’s won the Halberg Coach of the Year award six times and in 2021 was crowned the Halberg coach of the decade – and after listening to this you’ll understand why.

This was a really special episode. In the first half we learn about Gordy the athlete, his string of Coast-to-Coast wins, adventure races where he didn’t sleep for days,...