Money Talks

Interesting New Zealanders share how money has shaped their lives and what they've learned about it through the years. We're not going to tell you how to get rich, we're not going to try and pick the next interest rate move - this podcast is all about our relationship with money.

Episodes

2degrees boss Mark Callendar: 'I didn’t set out to be a CEO. That was a bit of a Sliding Doors moment'

June 4, 2025 • 26 mins

This week, the chief executive of 2degrees, Mark Callendar, shares his best and worst money stories with Liam Dann, including his unusual path to running a major company, and the current state of the telco industry.

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Georgia Lines: 'I never considered swapping music for something that might make more sense financially'

May 28, 2025 • 41 mins

This week, Liam is joined by singer-songwriter Georgia Lines, who shares her best and worst money stories - from starting her own businesses as a teenager, to how money has impacted her art.

Georgia is nominated for four Aotearoa Music Awards, being handed out tonight, and will perform Under the Stars with Friends at the Auckland Live Cabaret Season - tickets and details available here: https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/cab...

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Pals co-founders Mat Croad and Nick Marshall: From childhood friends to RTD moguls

May 21, 2025 • 32 mins

This week, Liam is joined by Mat Croad and Nick Marshall, co-founders of RTD business Pals, to discuss how a previous failure informed their meteoric rise in the drinks world, growing up in Tauranga together, and the different career paths they took before working together.

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NZ Super chief Jo Townsend: From 'pretty tough' upbringing in rural Tasmania to running an $80 billion fund

May 14, 2025 • 28 mins

This week, chief executive of the NZ Super Fund, Jo Townsend, shares her best and worst money stories with Liam Dann - from her upbringing in rural Tasmania in the 1970s, to working on the trading floors in Sydney, to getting into the super industry.

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Nigel Latta: 'The money stuff literally doesn’t matter to me. What matters is time'

May 7, 2025 • 36 mins

This week, for the first guest of the new season, Liam is joined by clinical psychologist, author and TV presenter, Nigel Latta, to discuss his career on and off camera, his cancer diagnosis last year, and his new app Parentland.

You can find more details on it and how to download it at https://www.parentland.app/

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Sir Bill English: 'It's easy to advocate change if you don't have to look into the eyes of those facing the consequences'

October 2, 2024 • 45 mins

For the final episode of the year, former Prime Minister Sir Bill English shares his best and worst money stories with Liam Dann.

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Money Talks

Episodes

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.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}Georgia Lines: 'I never considered swapping music for something that might make more sense financially'

Pals co-founders Mat Croad and Nick Marshall: From childhood friends to RTD moguls

NZ Super chief Jo Townsend: From 'pretty tough' upbringing in rural Tasmania to running an $80 billion fund

Nigel Latta: 'The money stuff literally doesn’t matter to me. What matters is time'

Sir Bill English: 'It's easy to advocate change if you don't have to look into the eyes of those facing the consequences'

Musician Jon Toogood: How converting to Islam changed his views on money

MP turned CEO Simon Power: 'I believe in the power of market economies'

NZ Initiative's Oliver Hartwich: 'Germans hate inflation with a passion'

Suzanne Paul: 'People didn't want me to be motivated by money'

Former All Blacks manager Darren Shand: 'It wasn’t something that I had put on my life path'

EnableMe's Hannah McQueen: 'Earning money doesn’t mean that you know how to grow wealth'

Bayleys' Lloyd Budd: 'Sometimes we have to say, what are the sacrifices?'

Foodstuffs' Chris Quin: 'It’s very real to me what has happened with food price inflation'

Jack Tame: 'I saved from the word go - very nerdily'

Dame Wendy Pye: 'There’s nothing wrong with making money out of helping people'

ACT leader David Seymour: 'I’m a liberal in the classical and consistent sense of it'

Author Emily Perkins: ‘We’re always going to be drawn to stories about the unhappy rich’

Briscoes owner Rod Duke: 'I don't spend a lot of money on myself'

ASB CEO Vittoria Shortt: 'Don’t go and choose something because it pays'

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