eccuity Podcasts

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Will Zhang, CEO of EmoX, an AI mental health companion. Will talks to us about a side effect of AI that nobody in the productivity conversation seems to be addressing: when your team can research in two minutes instead of three days, you end up making 10 to 20 times more decisions per day. You might be creating more value, but your mental health is dropping. His closing advice is two words: just be human.

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Yashar Ahmadpour, co-founder and CEO of Impressive, an agentic AI company based in San Francisco. Yashar was born and raised in Sweden to Chilean and Iranian parents, moved to California to study, and ended up in tech after a degree in literature and writing. About the state of the Ai industry, and the subversive actions startups are taking to rip off investors.

Jon Randles, a business coach who co-founded Mosh in 2009, and spent years growing revenue without keeping any of it. When a business coach came in and helped them go from six figures in debt to six figures in the bank within 12 months, it changed how Jon thought about everything. Three years ago, he drew an org chart on a whiteboard, realised there was no circle that needed him, rubbed out his own job, and stepped away. Revenue went up.

Kim left employment last year to start a boutique agency and expected it would take years to move into fractional marketing leadership. It took months. Small and medium businesses kept coming to her with the same problem: they knew they needed marketing, they had pieces in place, but nobody was connecting the dots or telling them what to actually focus on first.

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Stephanie McKee Wright, founder of Epic People and an HR and leadership development consultant with 30 years of experience. Stephanie spent decades in senior HR roles across public and private sectors before her company was acquired by a global and the job she had built for herself disappeared overnight.

Andy left school and became a mechanic, moved into computing, spent time in corporate, then walked away to retrain as a rugby coach. He coached across New Zealand, Canada, and England before buying a carpet cleaning business, building it up, selling it to his partner, and eventually landing where he is now, helping managers become leaders.

Mindy moved from the US to the UK following a boyfriend, got left behind, and decided to stay. After three redundancies in five years, including being laid off while pregnant, she used her severance as a financial cushion to start her own business. She has since built a career around helping experts, executives, and entrepreneurs get their thinking out of their heads and into books that serve their business.

Julian has spent over 25 years leading cross-border business between New Zealand, China, and the US, managing a $500 million investment fund and advising organisations from Fortune Global 500 companies like Tencent and NTT through to New Zealand health brands entering the Chinese market for the first time.

Joe built six businesses across hospitality, beverages, distribution, and e-commerce before stepping out of his own company and getting a job for the first time in years. The transition from founder to employee raised a question he hadn't expected: can I do this, and who am I without the business?

Peter spent over a decade at the Wall Street Journal, where he was part of the team that won a Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the 2010 flash crash. He has since moved into Web3 marketing and content, co-authored white papers on blockchain supply chains for the World Economic Forum and writes the w3w newsletter on decentralisation.

Kerri is a two-time karate world champion who has spent most of her career doing one thing: taking ideas that are stuck and turning them into businesses. She ran 42 karate schools, built a consulting business in sports performance, co-founded Performance Lab Technologies, and spent over 20 years in sports tech before the company merged with a US partner in 2020.

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Stephanie Pow, founder of Crayon and former equity derivatives trader at UBS. She studied at Wharton and Harvard, spent years on one of the largest trading floors in the southern hemisphere, and then spotted a gap in financial support that almost nobody was solving. When her first child arrived, she saw firsthand how life transitions change the way people engage with money, and she set out to build something around it.

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Bex and Kate, co-founders of The Better Packaging Co. Bex came from tech startups and IBM. Kate left consulting to launch a magazine. Both stepped away to raise young families before channelling everything into Better Packaging in 2018. They started with compostable packaging, then went back to the drawing board when the science told them it wasn't enough. What they built next was something the industry said couldn't be done.

Sajita is a physician specialising in pharmaceutical medicine, with experience across global organisations including Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson. Now based in New Zealand, she leads research into digital wellbeing and its impact on mental health, productivity and emotional development in young people.

Joost is the co-founder of Nestor, a platform building collaboration software for the next generation of organisations. Born in the Netherlands and now based in New Zealand, Joost’s work sits at the intersection of organisational design, distributed authority, and the future of work.

Alexander shares his journey from corporate finance and financial modelling into biotech, machine learning, and entrepreneurship. After years of building models, working in audit, and pursuing algorithmic trading, he explains why he walked away from trying to beat the market and instead focused on solving real world problems.

Sid has lived on both ends of the financial spectrum. He ran a major equity derivative and algo trading desk in India, then walked away from finance to explore community led, trust-based economics and later returned to build new infrastructure for distributed finance through Sacred Capital.

Matt is an award-winning full-stack marketing and communications professional with a diverse range of experience working with some of the most respected brands within their respective verticals. Matt went from “no real marketing experience” to managing social for the Cricket World Cup, then helped drive 1500 percent growth inside a start-up, and now leads growth at Landlord Studio, a product led company built on SEO, content, and conversions.

Peter has spent decades helping founder led companies, family businesses, and scale ups make better group decisions. He breaks governance down to 4 jobs any board must do well: set direction, build capability, track performance, and stay accountable.

Heather shares how she went from building businesses for decades to launching a new product that suddenly took off online. When 8.4 million people hit the page, the hard part was not hype. It was making and shipping the product at scale, without losing quality. Heather breaks down the real work behind the scenes, from setting up an assembly line, to ordering parts in the right volumes, to selling direct to customers in 34 countries.