Notes From The Executive
By Mina Amso
Categories: Business, Entrepreneurship
Notes From The Executive is NZ's no-BS business & entrepreneurship podcast for Auckland owners running established companies - $1M-$10M revenue, 5-50 staff - who want to grow faster, protect their margin, and build something worth selling. Hosted by Mina Amso (Podcaster + Founder), every episode has real NZ founders sharing the numbers, decisions & hard lessons. Topics: cash flow, scaling, hiring, business value & exiting high. Tired of generic advice? This is the show. 🔎 NZ business | Auckland entrepreneur | scale a business NZ | NZ podcast
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Recent episodes
- Forget The Recession: NZ Money Is Moving Where AI Can't Go
Where is the money actually being made in New Zealand right now?Twelve past guests on this show answered this question in one way or another. They all had very different roles in society. Economists, a man who speaks for New Zealand employers, the man who shuts companies down. The man who sells…
- Is The New Zealand Economy In Trouble? Did We Bet 'Everything' On The Housing Market?
Is the New Zealand economy in trouble? Economist Shamubeel Eaqub: "Yes, I think we are." Bernard Hickey: "we built an economy, which is a housing market with bits tacked on." The cost of living, tax debt and super, before New Zealand votes on Saturday 7 November.We put one question to two…
- I Added $50k To My Revenue Stream With This [Secret Revealed]
Natalie Tolhopf is an Auckland business coach, speaker and author, featured in the NZ Herald, NZ Business, The AM Show and Newshub.She wrote Allergic To Perfect and hosts the Sell with Confidence podcast.LogitechWin Logitech Productivity Giveaway worth $1,500To enter: 👉…
- Will The NZ Election Change Your Tax? | Nicola Taylor
Nicola Taylor is a lawyer by background and co-founder of Tax Traders and Taxi. Tax Traders was named Best Place to Work in Aotearoa for 2024 and is a certified B Corp. For most owners, the timing of tax matters more than the amount. We put that to work on the hardest cash flow date of the year…
- Advertising Doesn’t Cause Sales, This Does | James Hurman
James Hurman was named the world's best strategic planner. He is the founder and chair of Previously Unavailable, the Auckland venture company behind Tracksuit and AF Drinks, and the author of Future Demand. His argument: advertising doesn't cause sales, it decides which brand wins them.·We put…
- He Spent $0 On Marketing In Year One. Now 17,000 Kiwis Subscribe
Wonky Box, a NZ food rescue business spent nothing on marketing in its first year. It still reached more than 1,000 customers before paying for a single ad. Angus Simms explains how: a new grower's story every week, posted in local Facebook groups with no prices and no links.Now the business is…
- I Asked 9 Business Owners How They're Surviving NZ's Economy
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- Why NZ Is Losing Its Factories: Power Prices, Gas and a $60M Bailout
What happens to a country that stops making things?·AcademyExDon't get left behind with AI. Join the Disruptive Technologies Course starting October 6th and get $50 off with code PARTNERS👉 https://academyex.com/partners-courses·LogitechWin Logitech Productivity Giveaway worth $1,500To enter: 👉…
- $500K in 11 Weeks: The AI Brain That Runs His Business
Six New Zealanders who have used artificial intelligence in a real business. One made half a million dollars in eleven weeks with it.PwrfullyGet Recognised and speak to your ideal market on podcasts. Sign up to our workshop 👉pwrfully.com/workshopAcademyexGo to the next level with your skills at…
- “They Stopped Him At Auckland Airport”: This Is What Happened Next” NZ Tax Lawyer
New Zealand owes $9.4 billion in overdue tax. 65% of it is small business. Why are business owners their own worst enemy when it comes to IRD?·👉 Stop waiting on developers, build it yourself with AI👉 Download Free Guide: https://shorturl.at/EgyAjCourse Starts 17 September (Applications Close 10…
- The $10 Billion NZ Burns on Foreign Fuel. Your Business Pays
AcademyExStop waiting on developers, build it yourself with AI. Download Free Guide 👉https://shorturl.at/EgyAjCourse Starts 17 September (Applications Close 10 September)·New Zealand spends about as much on petrol and diesel as it earns exporting concentrated milk. Mike Casey says that money…
- No Data Centres, No AI Economy. NZ Is Already Too Late?
Data centres are not a technology story. Greg Cross calls them the infrastructure of the AI economy, in the same way dams and power lines were the infrastructure of the electrical one. His view on where New Zealand sits: very late to the party, with a pretty embarrassing record on infrastructure…
- "A Once In A Decade Year": The Best Year To Buy A NZ Business?
Mike Ponsonby is a business broker with Kakapo Business Sales. He did the same number of transactions in the first six months of 2026 as he did in all of 2025. He calls it a once in a decade year. Of his first ten deals this year, eight went to people who already owned a business. Two went to…
- Is New Zealand Actually Going Broke: A 9 Out Of 10 Crisis?
I asked eight people whether New Zealand is actually broke, or whether that is a false narrative. They do not agree with each other, the question is, do you?AcademyEx👉 Stop waiting on developers, build it yourself with AI 👉 Download Free Guide…
- Google Rank #1 Means Nothing To AI: A Warning For NZ Business
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- NZ is About to Change: Here's What 2040 Really Looks Like | Ft. Melissa Clark-Reynolds ONZM
AcademyExBuild Business Software Using AI Tools (without becoming a professional developer). With AcademyEx Program. Sign up 👉https://academyex.com/courses/micro-credential/understanding-software-development-processes-and-tools-micro-credential/Course Starts 17 September (Applications Close 10…
- I Made $500K In 11 Weeks: The Fastest Way To Use AI Agents To Make $$ & Be More Productive (No Code)
AcademyExBuild Business Software Using AI Tools (without becoming a professional developer). Sign up 👉https://academyex.com/courses/micro-credential/understanding-software-development-processes-and-tools-micro-credential/Course Starts 17 September (Applications Close 10 September)PwrfullyGet…
- Why Australia Stopped Taking NZ Seriously: Phil O'Reilly ONZM
👉 Stop waiting on developers, build it yourself with AI 👉 Download Free Guide: academyex.com/courses/micro-credential/understanding-software-development-processes-and-tools-micro-credentialCourse Starts 17 September (Applications Close 10 September)AcademyExPhil O'Reilly is one of the most…
- What's Actually Destroying NZ Companies? The Undertaker Speaks Out
Get Booked & Paid With Podcasts. Start for Free 👉 https://www.pwrfully.comDamien Grant is the principal of Waterstone Insolvency and one of New Zealand's best-known liquidators. He has run Waterstone since 2006 and writes a weekly column for Stuff.His firm has handled some of the country's most…
- How to Sell When the NZ Economy Is This Bad (Sales Expert's Recession Playbook)
Get in front of your ideal clients, start for free!Check out: www.pwrfully.com(REPLAY) New Zealand sales expert Bill James breaks down how to win sales when the economy is against you and buyers have gone quiet.He shares the Rule of Two No's, the referral process that returns 105 leads for every…
- Why New Zealand Is Going Broke: 3 Top Economists Explain Why (Plus a Social Scientist)
Get started with podcasting for free.Check out Pwrfully.comFollow MeMina on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@NotesFromTheExecutivePodcastMina on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4QgZGJdrnfjZ1sEm6MeGcp?si=c12e08e33f604916Mina on Apple Podcasts…
- 'Should I Sell My Company?' Could This Be The Worst Time to Sell Your NZ Business?
PwrfullyGet Booked & Paid With Podcasts. Start for Freehttps://www.pwrfully.comHannah McQueen is a New Zealand chartered accountant, financial adviser and entrepreneur. She began at KPMG before founding Enable Me, a financial coaching business built on a mortgage-structuring formula she developed…
- Bernard Hickey: The NZ Housing Game Is Over (It's Not Coming Back)
Bernard Hickey is one of New Zealand's best known economics commentators. Trained as an economist and as a journalist, he has spent more than three decades covering money, markets and housing. He now runs The Kākā, a subscription newsletter and podcast, and co-hosts an ANZ-funded economics…
- The 5 Small Business Habits Killing NZ Margins
Ashish Saxena is a former executive at Lucent-Alcatel, Nokia and General Electric, an investor, mentors business owners across multiple markets. This is his second appearance on Notes From The Executive.What I Asked AshishWhy is a $13M business with a 2% margin more dangerous than a $1M business…
- Forget AI Tools: Why Most NZ Business Owners Are Burning Cash
Tim Warren is the Co-Founder of Ambit, a New Zealand AI software company serving Financial Services, eCommerce, Retail, Telco and Utilities. Before Ambit, Tim was a COO at JBWere and an executive at Goldman Sachs. He is an angel investor with more than 15 investments and was previously on the…
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