Latest / Best of Business / Business Panel: O-Studio founder Kate Twigg and Glide Media director Lukas Halikias
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- 0:41Speaker 3: us for the Business Panel this morning is host Studio
- 0:44Speaker 3: Wellington owner Kate Tweg. Good morning Kate, Good morning Nick.
- 0:47Speaker 3: How are you?
- 0:48Speaker 4: Yeah? Very well? Thanks?
- 0:49Speaker 3: Have you been on the worksite this morning? Have you
- 0:51Speaker 3: seen what's going on? And you're making sure the builders
- 0:53Speaker 3: are doing everything you wanted to do?
- 0:54Speaker 4: Actually, this morning is one morning I have not been
- 0:56Speaker 4: on site this morning, but yet that we've got to
- 0:59Speaker 4: call in. It's actually Sam's brother who's building it, so
- 1:02Speaker 4: call last night so they're all on schedule and raring
- 1:05Speaker 4: to go.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Great. Well, we'll get to that and talk a bit
- 1:08Speaker 3: about that and also Glide Media founder Lucas Helikius. Did
- 1:13Speaker 3: I pronounce your name right?
- 1:14Speaker 1: You did?
- 1:15Speaker 3: I'll just kept on the right microphone it's go again.
- 1:17Speaker 3: Did I get that pronunciation right?
- 1:19Speaker 2: You did? Indeed? Well done?
- 1:20Speaker 3: Okay, fantastic, Come a bit closer to the mic. So
- 1:24Speaker 3: you're a bit of a young sensation. You're the youngest
- 1:27Speaker 3: person by about twenty five years that we've ever had,
- 1:29Speaker 3: probably thirty years that we've ever had on apart from KPE. Yeah.
- 1:33Speaker 2: I was going to say, but on the show, on.
- 1:36Speaker 3: The show, sorry, So you're the young gun social media guy.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Tell us what makes you different to other social media
- 1:46Speaker 3: people around New Zealand and Wellington.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Oh that's a great question, Nick, I think I've done it.
- 1:52Speaker 2: I think you know that's that's the first thing. You know,
- 1:55Speaker 2: the story is being that started with my best mate
- 1:59Speaker 2: inside a Darian CORRORI and I mean the Numbers spoke
- 2:03Speaker 2: with themselves and there was a lot of views, a
- 2:04Speaker 2: lot of interactions. People loved us, and I think that's
- 2:07Speaker 2: where it starts. So I really understand the world of
- 2:09Speaker 2: social media by you know, creating content firsthand.
- 2:13Speaker 3: And get results totally.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I mean, as you know, more of the older generation
- 2:18Speaker 2: would say, numbers speak a lot of words. So like
- 2:22Speaker 2: you know the Numbers show, you know there's millions of
- 2:25Speaker 2: views on there, so I think that's that's a huge thing.
- 2:28Speaker 3: And I want to talk to you both about this
- 2:30Speaker 3: before we really get into it, because both of you
- 2:32Speaker 3: are in areas where you really haven't felt the recession,
- 2:37Speaker 3: I mean health and well being. Kate is, I don't know.
- 2:40Speaker 3: I mean gyms are still busy, people are still and
- 2:43Speaker 3: you are taking you your organization or studio are taking
- 2:47Speaker 3: it to the next level, aren't you. So explain what
- 2:51Speaker 3: you do that's different from a gym.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Absolutely so, how I think of it as O Studio
- 2:56Speaker 4: is a wellness and recovery center. It's like the gym
- 3:01Speaker 4: for the mind really and for the recovery. So you know,
- 3:05Speaker 4: your gym takes care of your physical stuff and studio
- 3:08Speaker 4: takes care of the mind stuff. Not to say that also,
- 3:13Speaker 4: recovery is huge for us at our studio. So when
- 3:16Speaker 4: you know professional athletes, people that are doing lots of sports,
- 3:19Speaker 4: hard workers, you know, builders, whatever, whatever you're doing that's
- 3:23Speaker 4: hard on the body, then you come to O Studio to, yeah,
- 3:28Speaker 4: to get that recovery, to quiet the mind, and to
- 3:32Speaker 4: be connected in a community that's like minded.
- 3:34Speaker 3: So how does it work? How does that work? I mean,
- 3:37Speaker 3: is it like we go and we hear Harley Christ
- 3:39Speaker 3: and new music, and we are normal. We hold hands
- 3:42Speaker 3: and we don't have one year after I try to
- 3:46Speaker 3: work out how it works when you say mind this,
- 3:48Speaker 3: you know, when I see all these ideas of pools
- 3:50Speaker 3: and ice baths and all that, that's more than mind us.
- 3:53Speaker 4: Okay, walk you through it. So you come in. You
- 3:55Speaker 4: come into the reception. On the right hand side, there's
- 3:58Speaker 4: a breathwork, meditation room and a recovery space. Then you
- 4:03Speaker 4: go through there's a couple of massage rooms and a
- 4:06Speaker 4: wet float. If you don't know what a wet floaters
- 4:09Speaker 4: it is when you lie in the water, just it's
- 4:13Speaker 4: almost like me time, relaxing time. You're floating on salt,
- 4:18Speaker 4: and so you just have an hour of stillness to
- 4:21Speaker 4: yourself floating. And there's also a dry float, which is
- 4:25Speaker 4: what we're bringing in in case you don't like being wet,
- 4:28Speaker 4: similar sort of experience. It's almost like a water bed.
- 4:30Speaker 4: Remember the water beds back I.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Do remember I do had a water bed, of course,
- 4:34Speaker 3: I'll remember the water.
- 4:35Speaker 4: Yeah, so you lie on it.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Because it's looking at us. What the hell's a water bed?
- 4:39Speaker 2: Are you not worried about these flotation pods like you know,
- 4:43Speaker 2: drowning or something. I just don't really understand.
- 4:46Speaker 4: No, that the water is only you can't see me,
- 4:48Speaker 4: but it's only about ten centimeters twenty centimeters deep. So
- 4:53Speaker 4: but because it's salt, you lie back and yeah, you've
- 4:57Speaker 4: got you're just floating.
- 4:59Speaker 2: And then the thing closes, the lid closes. It's not
- 5:01Speaker 2: a pod, it's not. Yeah, our one's very different.
- 5:04Speaker 4: It's like walking into a cabin and up on the
- 5:07Speaker 4: roof is all the stars. So you can actually stand
- 5:09Speaker 4: up in it. So anyone with crosstrophobia, which was myself,
- 5:12Speaker 4: no problem.
- 5:12Speaker 3: You can.
- 5:13Speaker 4: You can go in there, stand up in it, lie
- 5:15Speaker 4: down and yeah, where you go in saunas and ice sparts,
- 5:19Speaker 4: which is our big thing immunal ones.
- 5:21Speaker 3: And also so you go and have a sauna and
- 5:23Speaker 3: you go straight into the ice pas and backwards and forwards. Yes, yeah,
- 5:26Speaker 3: and you do you Is it a one off occasion
- 5:29Speaker 3: or have you become a member and go once a week.
- 5:32Speaker 4: Or absolutely you become a member. You know, at the
- 5:36Speaker 4: end of the day. It's like anything that's like the gym.
- 5:39Speaker 4: If you make it a habit, then you're going to
- 5:40Speaker 4: find the results and get consistency.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Talking about habits social media. How important is social media
- 5:48Speaker 3: right now? I mean people generally in business know about
- 5:52Speaker 3: paper advertising, they know about radio advertising, they know about
- 5:56Speaker 3: you know, billboards. Social media is a whole new phenomenon.
- 6:00Speaker 3: How does it work and how does it work effectively?
- 6:04Speaker 2: Good question? So I think from a business standpoint is
- 6:09Speaker 2: that what you sort of mean? I think from a
- 6:11Speaker 2: business standpoint, you have direct sort of point of contact
- 6:15Speaker 2: towards your consumer, really like if they want to search,
- 6:19Speaker 2: so say Hummingbird for example, that's you know, the lovely
- 6:22Speaker 2: restaurant there on Courtney Place. Thanks for you didn't say that, Yeah, anyway,
- 6:26Speaker 2: So for example a place like that, people want to
- 6:29Speaker 2: know in Wellington where the best spots are. And immediately
- 6:33Speaker 2: right now, everyone's going to social media. I think there's
- 6:35Speaker 2: a stat which I need to confirm, but it's something
- 6:38Speaker 2: like forty three percent of gen Z and millennials, which is,
- 6:42Speaker 2: you know, quite a large portion of the population are
- 6:46Speaker 2: going to TikTok search to find out, you know, all
- 6:49Speaker 2: of these things and what's going on. So Google's also
- 6:52Speaker 2: struggling with all this right now and trying to figure
- 6:55Speaker 2: out why they all going into this platform because it's
- 6:57Speaker 2: immediate validation on what they're seeing. So like if I
- 7:02Speaker 2: see a video compared to say, you know, how you'd
- 7:05Speaker 2: cook something? Right, So for example, people searched how to
- 7:08Speaker 2: cook x y z. They go to TikTok now and
- 7:11Speaker 2: social media platforms to see visually how to do so
- 7:14Speaker 2: or where to go. So I think it's really integral
- 7:17Speaker 2: that businesses start to just give it a go and
- 7:20Speaker 2: give it a nudge because that's where the conversation is
- 7:23Speaker 2: now online on Google, Yata, all that advertising. And I
- 7:27Speaker 2: understand radio, it's it's quite important for a specific.
- 7:31Speaker 3: They must work hand in hand too, isn't it If
- 7:33Speaker 3: you hear about one and then you go to the
- 7:35Speaker 3: other and you you know, you still listen to your radio,
- 7:38Speaker 3: so you still get awareness.
- 7:40Speaker 2: Yes you do, And that's right. And I think that
- 7:43Speaker 2: they should have Theoretically, they should be in every single
- 7:45Speaker 2: platform right right, so they should have a dabble in radio,
- 7:49Speaker 2: They should have a little dabble in social media. But
- 7:51Speaker 2: I think the world is changing and I think people
- 7:54Speaker 2: need to accept that that social media now is very
- 7:59Speaker 2: important as people have just got that that's there every
- 8:03Speaker 2: day entertainment, Like you know, no one really is concerned
- 8:06Speaker 2: about anything else, and they go to social media immediately
- 8:10Speaker 2: after five o'clock. They want to go through TikTok and
- 8:11Speaker 2: scroll through TikTok. My old man sixty five years old
- 8:13Speaker 2: and he's doing the same thing. So I think that
- 8:15Speaker 2: putting a business through social media as what we've seen
- 8:19Speaker 2: through results with for example, Greek food truck. We did
- 8:21Speaker 2: some stuff with and they were twenty thousand followers or
- 8:24Speaker 2: something and they started to bring consumers in.
- 8:27Speaker 3: Right, So it's a tame for you as social media
- 8:30Speaker 3: part going to be part of your program? Are you
- 8:32Speaker 3: going to have your own TikTok account and social media.
- 8:36Speaker 2: It's already there.
- 8:37Speaker 4: Yeah, it's booming along so.
- 8:39Speaker 3: People can actually go on and see how you're progressing
- 8:42Speaker 3: and what's going on.
- 8:43Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, and yeah, it's I find it tricky
- 8:47Speaker 4: because I have a fourteen year old daughter, right, So
- 8:50Speaker 4: there's that in one hand, I'm like, yes, for the business,
- 8:53Speaker 4: this is awesome, this is amazing, And for my fourteen
- 8:56Speaker 4: year old daughter, I'm like, oh, not so amazing. But yeah,
- 9:00Speaker 4: like you said, Lucas, there is a definite we somehow
- 9:04Speaker 4: have to go with the change in time. It is
- 9:07Speaker 4: the way it's going it's not going to go back,
- 9:11Speaker 4: and so we have to learn to work with it
- 9:13Speaker 4: and being in business. Yeah, we've I mean we've jumped
- 9:18Speaker 4: up to I don't know, like you said, the likes
- 9:20Speaker 4: and the follows are like one thousand, six hundred followers.
- 9:22Speaker 4: We're not even open, so people are engaging in it.
- 9:26Speaker 4: That's where people are finding out about. We're doing a
- 9:29Speaker 4: lot of community events and things before we open. So
- 9:32Speaker 4: we've done an early Bird Beats, which is a morning
- 9:34Speaker 4: dance party for anyone that wants to come, and a
- 9:37Speaker 4: seven am research breathwork class. They've been sold out and
- 9:42Speaker 4: full because of social media.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Why do you think that wellness is such a peak industry?
- 9:53Speaker 3: I mean you think that everyone will be trying to
- 9:55Speaker 3: cut back in hard times and me and you have
- 9:57Speaker 3: talked about hard times, orf air and stuff and how
- 10:00Speaker 3: hard you know. I'm sort of respectful of you going
- 10:04Speaker 3: into business and taking a risk and starting wall this,
- 10:07Speaker 3: But wellness is so and why.
- 10:10Speaker 4: Because I've got a view on this, my own view.
- 10:14Speaker 3: That's what we wanted.
- 10:15Speaker 4: It is that we used as our parents' generation, our generation,
- 10:20Speaker 4: we used alcohol for everything and we are now realizing
- 10:26Speaker 4: that alcohol is not the answer to everything. And when
- 10:30Speaker 4: we don't have any other tools in our box, and
- 10:33Speaker 4: we come to hard situations in our life, and some
- 10:36Speaker 4: of us come there sooner rather than later, we've got nothing.
- 10:41Speaker 4: And that happened to me because I got cancer, breast cancer,
- 10:46Speaker 4: and then from breast cancer, I got leukemia. And during
- 10:49Speaker 4: that time I had to give up alcohol, and I
- 10:52Speaker 4: didn't have anything other than alcohol to get me through,
- 10:57Speaker 4: and so I started researching and I started looking into things,
- 11:00Speaker 4: and that's how I got into meditation, breath work, sauna's,
- 11:05Speaker 4: I sparse, the cold, everything to do with health and life.
- 11:08Speaker 4: But I think suddenly this younger generation is seeing our
- 11:12Speaker 4: generation and how we handled the situation with alcohol, and
- 11:17Speaker 4: they're going, Nah, we don't we don't want that.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Lucas, I'm coming to you quickly. I've got to go
- 11:22Speaker 3: to an air break, but I'm going to come thank you.
- 11:24Speaker 3: That's a wonderful story, and I'm respectful respect to you.
- 11:28Speaker 3: But is that right a young people? I mean, they're
- 11:31Speaker 3: still going out and using alcohol as much, but are
- 11:33Speaker 3: they starting to think there's more to life than alcohol.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Yeah, just to follow on from what you said there,
- 11:38Speaker 2: that's due to social media as well. The power of
- 11:41Speaker 2: social media. I think wellness has become this huge thing,
- 11:44Speaker 2: and I think that people are slowly, as we're seeing,
- 11:47Speaker 2: people aren't going out as much anymore. And I think
- 11:50Speaker 2: that not only are they looking about think about their wellness,
- 11:53Speaker 2: also their health, of course, and I think that's due
- 11:55Speaker 2: to a lot of influencers on the platform talking about wellness, health,
- 11:59Speaker 2: cold sorenas, all of this. I would have never known
- 12:02Speaker 2: that if it wasn't for social media, I must say
- 12:04Speaker 2: right now.
- 12:05Speaker 3: So social media an educator as well.
- 12:07Speaker 2: One height and one hundred ply the bad educator.
- 12:11Speaker 3: Because we talked about just before the last hour and
- 12:13Speaker 3: I'm going to go to an air break. I'm going
- 12:14Speaker 3: to get really told. But we talked in the last
- 12:16Speaker 3: hour about the problems with tooth de kay and kids
- 12:19Speaker 3: at the moment and all the sugary things. Now I
- 12:21Speaker 3: know for a fact that that my family kids are
- 12:25Speaker 3: buying stuff off social media because there's trends and sugary stuff.
- 12:30Speaker 3: And you're laughing like hell because you know I'm right.
- 12:32Speaker 3: And I mean there's bad education too, isn't it.
- 12:35Speaker 2: One hundred percent there's bad education, But there's all forms
- 12:37Speaker 2: of education, and.
- 12:38Speaker 4: It's like anything right, and you can choose. You can
- 12:42Speaker 4: choose which one you want to go. Yeah, you've got
- 12:45Speaker 4: a choice.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Hard to get a seven year old to choose where
- 12:48Speaker 3: Theo's got the heroes saying that the strength's perfect, But
- 12:51Speaker 3: there's Lolly's an ice cream a great ordered online and
- 12:54Speaker 3: go here and give me your give me you a Greg,
- 12:56Speaker 3: give me your card Grandad and.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not it's not. It's not good as that.
- 13:00Speaker 2: And just make sure they don't get hacked too. I
- 13:01Speaker 2: think that's something that would happen to you, to be honest.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Take a short. We're in the business panel with mister Hellikius,
- 13:11Speaker 3: Lucas Helikius. I got it right, correct, I've got it.
- 13:15Speaker 3: I'll put your mic on as well. I'll let you
- 13:17Speaker 3: speak and Kate twig right, let's quickly talk about the budget,
- 13:21Speaker 3: because I know you both don't want to have a
- 13:23Speaker 3: big long conversation about the budget. And I'll start with you, Kate,
- 13:26Speaker 3: what did you make of it? Are you worried about
- 13:28Speaker 3: any parts of it?
- 13:29Speaker 2: You?
- 13:29Speaker 3: Did it? Please you? I mean you would have been
- 13:31Speaker 3: sitting there thinking, imagine if anything changes. I've set up
- 13:34Speaker 3: a whole business I'm about to open.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a little bit of that, I guess,
- 13:38Speaker 4: but you can't. You can't change anything before it happens,
- 13:41Speaker 4: so you just go with what's presented with you. I
- 13:44Speaker 4: think there was definitely the twenty percent investment booster that
- 13:49Speaker 4: was really.
- 13:50Speaker 2: Good for us.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Can you can you do it? Can you use that?
- 13:54Speaker 4: Let me ask my husband, hang on, No, we can.
- 13:59Speaker 4: We will be able to, I'm sure, but we just
- 14:00Speaker 4: have to clarify that with our accountant. But yeah, we
- 14:03Speaker 4: are bringing in lots of lots of things for our
- 14:06Speaker 4: studio that haven't been there for so yeah, I'm sure
- 14:09Speaker 4: we'll be able to get something out of it. The
- 14:12Speaker 4: one percent key we saver not too worried about that.
- 14:15Speaker 4: I guess there's enough time. I think.
- 14:18Speaker 3: I think that you're right about that time. If you
- 14:21Speaker 3: got told that it was next week and you've got
- 14:23Speaker 3: all these new staff starting, you've done all their contracts,
- 14:25Speaker 3: and you're now two percent out, Yes, really aren't you?
- 14:28Speaker 2: Yeah? Exactly so.
- 14:30Speaker 4: And I look at it, as you know, always trying
- 14:32Speaker 4: to find the positive, because that's what I do is
- 14:35Speaker 4: just for future. Then it's great.
- 14:38Speaker 3: So so you thought the budget was okay? Yeah, Lucas,
- 14:42Speaker 3: what did you think you're a young guy. You don't
- 14:44Speaker 3: really give a damn about a budget. You give a
- 14:46Speaker 3: damn about Friday night and whether you've got enough social
- 14:48Speaker 3: media people looking at your post. Don't you know you're
- 14:51Speaker 3: not even looking at the budget.
- 14:54Speaker 2: I just want to say quickly, the budget obviously the
- 14:58Speaker 2: key we saver going for three to four percent. I
- 15:00Speaker 2: think it's going to be really good long term, but
- 15:03Speaker 2: it could slow the wage growth down in the short term,
- 15:06Speaker 2: don't you think?
- 15:06Speaker 3: Absolutely? I mean, and that's what it is. I mean,
- 15:09Speaker 3: you've only got a certain amount of money to spend,
- 15:11Speaker 3: haven't you. I mean, if you're saying to someone I'm
- 15:12Speaker 3: going to give you one hundred grand for that job,
- 15:14Speaker 3: suddenly it becomes two or four percent down, doesn't it. Yeah,
- 15:18Speaker 3: so it changes it.
- 15:19Speaker 2: Is that a good point? Because I thought that was
- 15:21Speaker 2: a good point.
- 15:21Speaker 3: I thought it was a very good point for a game,
- 15:24Speaker 3: you know.
- 15:24Speaker 2: I mean, I can't believe I came up with that.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Who would have thought?
- 15:27Speaker 3: Have you put it out on your social media as
- 15:29Speaker 3: if you told everyone around New Zealand about it?
- 15:31Speaker 2: No, I probably should, and then you know the twenty
- 15:33Speaker 2: percent tax ree. But it's smart. It's obviously encouraging businesses investment.
- 15:37Speaker 2: But obviously, see how would you use that?
- 15:39Speaker 3: Let me let me, let me cut to the chase
- 15:41Speaker 3: on that you'll use that because suddenly you'll want a
- 15:44Speaker 3: new camera. You know, you told me the other week
- 15:47Speaker 3: when you did some recording with me that your camera's
- 15:49Speaker 3: worth ten or fifteen grand. Will you automatically get twenty
- 15:52Speaker 3: percent of that back now? So that's a pretty good thing,
- 15:54Speaker 3: isn't it? And the government of paying for.
- 15:56Speaker 2: It isn't Isn't that great? That's exactly what we want.
- 15:58Speaker 2: That that help from the government, which has been we've
- 16:01Speaker 2: been searching for. I feel like it's a business owner,
- 16:03Speaker 2: you know, it's been it's been really tough, and I think, yeah,
- 16:07Speaker 2: of course you in the social media game, and it's
- 16:10Speaker 2: different to the expenses are a lot different, right then
- 16:12Speaker 2: obviously yourself and and somewhere like Corney plays both of you.
- 16:15Speaker 2: But for me, obviously you know, getting a little bit
- 16:18Speaker 2: of a rebound like that, I think it's really really good.
- 16:21Speaker 3: So well, it will make you spend money, and then
- 16:23Speaker 3: because you're spending money, someone else is getting the reward
- 16:26Speaker 3: of that, so they are getting money, so they they
- 16:28Speaker 3: spend money. So it's actually a psychical thing that we're
- 16:31Speaker 3: not many people are talking about. But it's putting money
- 16:34Speaker 3: into the community and.
- 16:35Speaker 4: Putting money back into your business that in turn helps
- 16:38Speaker 4: you know people coming to you, and yeah, it's great.
- 16:40Speaker 2: There's always so many negatives on decisions may day. I
- 16:43Speaker 2: always noticed that they're just here, so many negatives, like okay,
- 16:47Speaker 2: the budgets come out and there's a massive uproar of
- 16:50Speaker 2: the side and a massive look, I'm still learning this,
- 16:54Speaker 2: you know, the politics game. I don't really you know,
- 16:56Speaker 2: to me, I don't really deeply look into it and go, yeah,
- 16:59Speaker 2: that's interesting. That's just me and who I am. I guess,
- 17:03Speaker 2: but I'm just trying to.
- 17:04Speaker 3: Just give you a little bit of help. Can I
- 17:06Speaker 3: just be be your doctor Phil for a second please.
- 17:09Speaker 3: Kate's just explained some of the trials and tribulations that
- 17:14Speaker 3: she's had in her life. You know, I can spend
- 17:17Speaker 3: all day telling you about mine as you g older.
- 17:20Speaker 3: These stumbling blocks, so I call them the stumbling box.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Absolutely, yep. I think that's a great way of putting it.
- 17:25Speaker 3: Stumbling blocks will come and then you'll start thinking shivers,
- 17:29Speaker 3: what could have I done then? Or what could have
- 17:31Speaker 3: I done there? So you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll understand that
- 17:34Speaker 3: as you go through. But you know, when you're starting out,
- 17:37Speaker 3: life's your oyster, isn't it? Yep? You know?
- 17:40Speaker 4: But also why not? Like I always have that saying
- 17:44Speaker 4: instead of what if it doesn't work? Like what if
- 17:47Speaker 4: it all works? What if it all works out?
- 17:50Speaker 3: How do you get can you tell our listeners? Because
- 17:52Speaker 3: I love this stuff and you'll would have seen a
- 17:53Speaker 3: lot of it old social media as I do. How
- 17:57Speaker 3: do you actually get your mind into that? When I
- 17:59Speaker 3: wake up in the middle of the night, which I
- 18:00Speaker 3: do every single night, and go through all the things
- 18:03Speaker 3: that possibly could go wrong the next day, How do
- 18:05Speaker 3: I get my mind? How do I get myself back
- 18:07Speaker 3: to sleep?
- 18:08Speaker 2: I love?
- 18:08Speaker 4: I could talk for days on this. I actually had
- 18:11Speaker 4: to do this during cancer, right because things went wrong
- 18:15Speaker 4: all the time constantly. It was through COVID. My kids
- 18:18Speaker 4: couldn't come and see me, like there was a whole thing.
- 18:21Speaker 4: And so I always live in the now. And what's
- 18:27Speaker 4: the point in worrying about something before it's actually happened?
- 18:31Speaker 4: What does that actually do to you?
- 18:33Speaker 3: Yeah? But what if it is your future? What if
- 18:35Speaker 3: you're sitting on a deal that could actually change your life.
- 18:38Speaker 4: So you have to trust in the process. It's about
- 18:41Speaker 4: rewiring your brain right, because your brain is already now
- 18:46Speaker 4: wired to focus on the negative, to pull out the negative,
- 18:52Speaker 4: to worry about the bad stuff. What if you switched
- 18:56Speaker 4: your brain around.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Flipped the narrow Is it possible flip?
- 19:00Speaker 2: Yes?
- 19:00Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's possible.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Is it, Lucas? I think it's possible. You're right. I
- 19:05Speaker 2: completely agree with you. One you can read way anything
- 19:09Speaker 2: that's you're You're completely right. She's completely right.
- 19:12Speaker 4: That's what I'm not saying.
- 19:13Speaker 2: It's easy.
- 19:14Speaker 4: It's not easy, and it's hard, like if you're if
- 19:16Speaker 4: you're in that way, I'm going.
- 19:17Speaker 3: To go to an air break and have a private
- 19:19Speaker 3: session business panel. It's getting hectic in here, isn't it
- 19:22Speaker 3: getting a bit hectic? Yes, it is. You're a bit
- 19:24Speaker 3: young for the show. You're just making too much energy.
- 19:26Speaker 3: We can't I can't control it, and Caate can't control me.
- 19:29Speaker 3: So we're away, Kate, Twig and Lucas. Helicius right, tell
- 19:33Speaker 3: me about Wellington. I'm going to start with you, lucause
- 19:35Speaker 3: I don't know why, but it's a stupid, stupid decision
- 19:37Speaker 3: to do. But I'm going to start with that, you
- 19:39Speaker 3: can go hard things that's still really tough in the city.
- 19:42Speaker 3: I know that you're young and you're driving brand new
- 19:45Speaker 3: car and you've got all this happening and you're the man,
- 19:47Speaker 3: and I get that. But businesses are closing, there's a
- 19:50Speaker 3: decline in house prices, and a population that hasn't grown
- 19:53Speaker 3: in five years, so all things that don't look good
- 19:55Speaker 3: for the future of Wellington. How would you now if
- 19:59Speaker 3: someone from overseas, someone from Greece rang you and said
- 20:02Speaker 3: to you, do you understand Greek? Can you speak you?
- 20:04Speaker 2: So? I can?
- 20:04Speaker 3: Okay, someone said to you in Greek, tell me about Wellington.
- 20:07Speaker 3: I've got lots of friends families that live in Wellington.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Tell me what how you would describe Wellington right now?
- 20:13Speaker 3: How would you describe it back to them?
- 20:15Speaker 2: Great? Oh wow?
- 20:16Speaker 3: I think just for yourself, how would you look?
- 20:20Speaker 2: I don't like the state of Wellington right now. I
- 20:22Speaker 2: think for me it's lost what it's really about. And
- 20:28Speaker 2: Wellington is that small social hub of the Southern Hemisphere.
- 20:33Speaker 2: It's like you can interact with anyone like, for example,
- 20:38Speaker 2: maybe I know you and two people down the road,
- 20:41Speaker 2: you know, Chris Luxan type. It's a small community. We
- 20:44Speaker 2: all know each other somehow in some way. But I
- 20:46Speaker 2: think we're losing that. Why, you know, what's a great question.
- 20:52Speaker 2: And I think that the way that and look the
- 20:56Speaker 2: way that the council is approaching Wellington, and I think
- 21:00Speaker 2: they have the wrong intentions. I feel like and for example,
- 21:03Speaker 2: just to for me at my age, Look Place, as
- 21:08Speaker 2: you know, was a social harbor. It was huge. It
- 21:11Speaker 2: was used to have the sevens on and like obviously
- 21:14Speaker 2: I didn't get to experience that, which I'm gutted about
- 21:16Speaker 2: because my cousin told me it was unreal. I don't
- 21:17Speaker 2: know if you got to experience that, Kate, but he did, Yeah,
- 21:20Speaker 2: Liver you guys, so that was like, you know, it
- 21:22Speaker 2: was a great time. Yes, there was alcohol involved, but
- 21:25Speaker 2: it was a place for people to mingle and get together.
- 21:27Speaker 2: But now ever since COVID, I feel like there hasn't
- 21:30Speaker 2: been the right move towards growing a greater Wellington. It's
- 21:34Speaker 2: been put into completely other things which are not important
- 21:38Speaker 2: in my opinion. I think that mouse community and connection
- 21:41Speaker 2: one hundred and I think really, yeah, I don't know,
- 21:45Speaker 2: you've seen it firsthand, that you're in Corney Place, you've
- 21:48Speaker 2: seen it firsthand. People are slowly.
- 21:50Speaker 3: You know, I got to omit that I worked on
- 21:53Speaker 3: the weekend last weekend and I got it shot in
- 21:56Speaker 3: the arm from Kate because I talked to Kate and
- 21:58Speaker 3: was a little bit negative and I got sort of
- 22:00Speaker 3: put in my place big in the street and on
- 22:03Speaker 3: the weekend I went in with a different attitude, and
- 22:05Speaker 3: I actually felt that last weekend was a great week
- 22:08Speaker 3: in courty Place. I thought that I thought the city
- 22:11Speaker 3: felt great.
- 22:12Speaker 4: See, in that moment, you chose to focus on the positive.
- 22:16Speaker 4: You went in with another attitude, and that's what we.
- 22:18Speaker 2: Need to do.
- 22:19Speaker 3: We still have challenges in the city. Cake, give me the.
- 22:21Speaker 4: There is no doubt that we have challenges.
- 22:24Speaker 3: Tell me about the cors and tell me what challenges
- 22:26Speaker 3: are you you're starting a business, creating employment, creating something,
- 22:30Speaker 3: what challenges have you faced?
- 22:32Speaker 4: Okay, So I find that Wellington has an incredible soul.
- 22:39Speaker 4: We're really vibrant and exactly, you know, it's vibrant, it's creative,
- 22:43Speaker 4: it's got people in there from all walks of life,
- 22:46Speaker 4: and it's easy to get around. It's you know, I
- 22:48Speaker 4: always say, if this was Sydney, then we'd be overrun.
- 22:52Speaker 4: If the weather in Sydney would be overrun because it's
- 22:54Speaker 4: so incredible. But what we've done is we've lost focus.
- 22:57Speaker 4: We've chosen to focus on the negative rather than the
- 23:02Speaker 4: positives that are happening. And the media doesn't help there
- 23:05Speaker 4: at all. So they are constantly going in there saying
- 23:09Speaker 4: this cafe is closed, this something's closed. Like half of
- 23:12Speaker 4: those places that have closed aren't even for the reason
- 23:14Speaker 4: of COVID or what's going on in the city. It's
- 23:17Speaker 4: actually people who have got other circumstances in their life
- 23:21Speaker 4: or whatever, but they choose to run and then promote
- 23:25Speaker 4: it as though Wellington's this doom and gloom place.
- 23:29Speaker 3: But we can't hide from the fact, Lucas that we
- 23:33Speaker 3: have lost a lot of government employees. We are doing
- 23:36Speaker 3: it tough economically. The stats don't lie. If the retailers
- 23:40Speaker 3: were doing well, the stats would show that the retailers
- 23:42Speaker 3: doing well. I get it. I get about the positive
- 23:45Speaker 3: mind and I get about that, but realistically we are
- 23:48Speaker 3: still in tough times. You're doing a documentary on Courtney
- 23:51Speaker 3: Place at the moment I am, indeed, and you're seeing
- 23:53Speaker 3: what people were talking about from yesteryear.
- 23:56Speaker 2: It's different. So from my opinion, I think that from
- 24:00Speaker 2: what Kate's saying, there is an element of we should
- 24:02Speaker 2: be looking positive on the city because this is one
- 24:05Speaker 2: of the best cities in the world, and you cannot
- 24:07Speaker 2: deny that on its day. I mean, how many times
- 24:10Speaker 2: have you heard you can't be welling on a good day.
- 24:12Speaker 2: You even said to me that if the weather was
- 24:14Speaker 2: consistently like this, this would be the most expensive place
- 24:17Speaker 2: to live in the whole world. But for me, right now,
- 24:19Speaker 2: I'm seeing a city where media is, as Kate sat,
- 24:25Speaker 2: media is just neged of this that, oh, this is
- 24:27Speaker 2: happening Wellington. What about the positive story? So, for example,
- 24:30Speaker 2: this Corney Place documentary that I'm creating with a good
- 24:34Speaker 2: friend of mine, Ben Cushman, we're trying to bring out
- 24:38Speaker 2: that element of how good and how how much potential
- 24:42Speaker 2: the city has. You know, there's people like yourself we're
- 24:45Speaker 2: interviewing it. There's people like Raft Degagori on the courtney
- 24:48Speaker 2: at the corner of Courney Place, who's running this you know,
- 24:51Speaker 2: Italian Italian, you know restaurant and it's vibrant. You go
- 24:56Speaker 2: inside there and it's like that's what it should be about,
- 24:58Speaker 2: and as soon as you step outside, it's just like
- 25:00Speaker 2: it's not the same, Like there are elements of Wellington
- 25:03Speaker 2: right now where we should be focusing on that we
- 25:07Speaker 2: can actually create some sort of vibrant place.
- 25:10Speaker 3: Okay, right, there's one topic that I really want to
- 25:15Speaker 3: speak to Lucas about. Lucas, Helikias and Kate Tweg join
- 25:19Speaker 3: us on the Business panel. Going overseas. So many bright
- 25:23Speaker 3: young New Zealanders are moving over speed, especially to Australia.
- 25:27Speaker 3: This is concern you and why why are your friends
- 25:29Speaker 3: all going to Aussie?
- 25:30Speaker 2: I think, first of all, yes, it is a little
- 25:33Speaker 2: bit concerning. Of course, I think that Wellington and New
- 25:37Speaker 2: Zealand as a whole has a lot more to offer
- 25:39Speaker 2: than people understand and people think. And I've seen it firsthand.
- 25:43Speaker 2: Growing a business in New Zealand I feel like is
- 25:47Speaker 2: not easy, but it is relatively, you know, not as
- 25:52Speaker 2: hard as going to restart over in Australia as a
- 25:55Speaker 2: nurse or a trade I understand it more pay I
- 25:58Speaker 2: get it getting a degree and finding your way. I
- 26:02Speaker 2: think you start and you stick around in New Zealand
- 26:04Speaker 2: and utilize the connections that you have here. It's a
- 26:06Speaker 2: small place. As I said before, you may know someone
- 26:09Speaker 2: that knows the Prime Minister that that's how tighten it
- 26:12Speaker 2: the community here is in New Zealand and utilize those connections,
- 26:15Speaker 2: go out and meet people. I think that people are
- 26:18Speaker 2: running away from the fact that, oh, you know, I'm
- 26:20Speaker 2: sick of it on board of you haven't even experienced that.
- 26:23Speaker 2: We've experienced it at this high school. Is like you
- 26:25Speaker 2: want to go experience England. I get that, maybe for
- 26:28Speaker 2: a year and then come back, but they always come back.
- 26:31Speaker 2: It seems like ct your thoughts on this.
- 26:34Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree it in what Lucas is saying, definitely,
- 26:37Speaker 4: but I yeah, I also know that this small country,
- 26:41Speaker 4: we do have the tendency to want to go over
- 26:44Speaker 4: seas and explore a little bit more. And for some
- 26:47Speaker 4: people that's a really good thing, especially in the business,
- 26:50Speaker 4: because we gain higher qualifications and achievements, and then generally
- 26:57Speaker 4: most people come back. So you know our age group now,
- 27:01Speaker 4: which is that forty five year old bracket, I've got
- 27:04Speaker 4: a handful I can count that is still overseas. Most
- 27:06Speaker 4: of us have come back and most of us starting
- 27:09Speaker 4: some sort of business or doing something back in New Zealand.
- 27:12Speaker 3: So see, I have a daughter about the same age
- 27:15Speaker 3: as you, and she lives in Melbourne and she wouldn't.
- 27:18Speaker 3: I mean, she comes back three or four times a
- 27:20Speaker 3: year to see your family and everything. She would not
- 27:22Speaker 3: move back to New Zealand if someone put a gun
- 27:25Speaker 3: to a head. You know, she just thinks that everything
- 27:27Speaker 3: is so much better in Melbourne than it is in Wellington.
- 27:31Speaker 4: Absolutely, and you know you can't change people's views. That's her,
- 27:35Speaker 4: that's where she wants to live, that's what she wants
- 27:37Speaker 4: to do. I think there are definitely things that we
- 27:39Speaker 4: can do here in Wellington to make it more attractive
- 27:43Speaker 4: for people to come back.
- 27:45Speaker 3: And can I ask you about that, because you know,
- 27:48Speaker 3: the council's just done its ten year plan and we've
- 27:50Speaker 3: seen them what they're doing and changes. I don't know
- 27:53Speaker 3: whether you've been starting at CAPE. But I mean, let's
- 27:55Speaker 3: talk a little bit about the mayoral's race, because I
- 27:58Speaker 3: mean we're going to have a new mayor. Does that
- 27:59Speaker 3: make a big difference to the city.
- 28:01Speaker 4: Absolutely. I think we I want to, you know, applaud
- 28:06Speaker 4: Tory for her time and her effort and what she's done.
- 28:10Speaker 4: I think you're never going to please everybody. I think
- 28:13Speaker 4: we do need a refresh now and I feel like
- 28:18Speaker 4: in Wellington we need somebody who's really about community and
- 28:22Speaker 4: connection and actually listening to what we want as Walentonian's
- 28:27Speaker 4: not just pushing the paper out the legal requirements and saying, oh,
- 28:32Speaker 4: we put it out there. We've told them you know
- 28:34Speaker 4: that this is going to happen, and we didn't get
- 28:36Speaker 4: any responses or people didn't really care or whatever. I
- 28:39Speaker 4: don't know what the actual process is, but I feel
- 28:42Speaker 4: like you don't hear about things till the last minute.
- 28:45Speaker 4: And there is somebody out there that cares about Wellington
- 28:50Speaker 4: a lot and cares about what the people in Wellington think,
- 28:54Speaker 4: and that's the road that we need to be heading down.
- 28:56Speaker 3: Okay, I'll come back to you on that in one second. Lucas,
- 28:59Speaker 3: you're a young guy. What do you think you've had
- 29:02Speaker 3: a young mayor that's a party mayor and trying to
- 29:04Speaker 3: sort the city out. What do you think she's like,
- 29:07Speaker 3: she's leaving. Do you think we need change?
- 29:09Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, I think we definitely need a change, for sure.
- 29:14Speaker 2: There's a couple of antics there that was reported on
- 29:17Speaker 2: by her, but obviously which aren't very good, and we
- 29:21Speaker 2: saw those in the in the in the articles, which Yeah, anyway,
- 29:24Speaker 2: we'll move on from that, as I'm saying, so, I
- 29:26Speaker 2: think that she didn't do that good of a job.
- 29:28Speaker 2: To be honest at all, I think that Wellington as
- 29:31Speaker 2: a whole has stayed stagnant, hasn't moved, hasn't done anything.
- 29:35Speaker 2: There's just been papers signed and as Kate saying, you know,
- 29:39Speaker 2: we need more of a voice. What was happening and
- 29:42Speaker 2: what has been happening for many years and I don't
- 29:44Speaker 2: know how many years before. But what I've seen is
- 29:46Speaker 2: that here you go, we're gonna We're going to do
- 29:48Speaker 2: this in Wellington. It's going to make it so much better.
- 29:50Speaker 2: We don't care about your opinion. Just just just take it.
- 29:53Speaker 3: Can I quickly ask you both? I'll start with you,
- 29:56Speaker 3: Lucas you know Andrew Little's come along, he's an ex politician.
- 29:59Speaker 3: What are you thinking? Does that what we're looking for
- 30:01Speaker 3: in the city?
- 30:01Speaker 2: Is anyone running against him? Is there anyone?
- 30:03Speaker 3: There's quite a few, quite a few different there is.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, so Andrew Little, as far as I'm aware,
- 30:09Speaker 2: I don't really know too much about him. I heard
- 30:11Speaker 2: there's someone else running. I think there's Grand blocks And
- 30:13Speaker 2: running as well. Is that true?
- 30:14Speaker 3: I believe? So.
- 30:15Speaker 2: I think there's that look. At the end of the day,
- 30:18Speaker 2: I think it's anyone's game. I don't really have too
- 30:20Speaker 2: much to say on Andrew Little. I think at this
- 30:22Speaker 2: rate anyone could be willing to maror as it stands.
- 30:25Speaker 2: And I think that, just to just to touch on
- 30:28Speaker 2: before I finish, it takes a village to raise a child,
- 30:32Speaker 2: right have you heard that saying? I've heard that saying
- 30:35Speaker 2: from the old man. Right, So, Wellington is our city,
- 30:39Speaker 2: So why don't the community get together and actually figure
- 30:43Speaker 2: out what we're going to do, not this one side
- 30:46Speaker 2: of things and go, oh, we're going to do that. Sorry,
- 30:48Speaker 2: we don't get your opinion. Alan Bay, for example, before
- 30:50Speaker 2: I finish rap from PiZZ and Uper, he let me
- 30:53Speaker 2: know this, which is quite funny story. They put the
- 30:55Speaker 2: cycle ways in and they made people park five meters
- 30:58Speaker 2: away from their houses and then then after they asked, oh,
- 31:02Speaker 2: is it okay? And then the majority said no, and
- 31:06Speaker 2: then so they said no, no, we don't have enough
- 31:07Speaker 2: money to get rid of it.
- 31:08Speaker 3: So right, oh, here we go. Business panel Kate Twig
- 31:12Speaker 3: and Lucas Helikias. Kate, I want to start with you.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Someone's really really important, someone you really really care about
- 31:19Speaker 3: rides into Wellington at three o'clock this afternoon. You're going
- 31:21Speaker 3: to take them never been to Wellington before, I haven't
- 31:23Speaker 3: been here for years. What are you going to do
- 31:25Speaker 3: with them?
- 31:25Speaker 4: I'm going to take them up to space Yoga. I
- 31:27Speaker 4: don't know if you've been up there space Yoga up
- 31:30Speaker 4: on Rosey. Amazing incredible views out there. So we'd go
- 31:34Speaker 4: and do that. Then we'd come down, we'd go to
- 31:36Speaker 4: the markets, we'd walk along the waterfront. Of course, we'd
- 31:40Speaker 4: nip into O Studio for a sauna and an ice bath,
- 31:43Speaker 4: probably some pastries from Tomboy and dinner at Hummingbird.
- 31:47Speaker 3: Oh there you go, there you go. Come on, you
- 31:50Speaker 3: don't have to say the same. What are you doing?
- 31:52Speaker 2: I'm ready? So the boys called me Buttata for a reason.
- 31:55Speaker 2: So I love food that means, you know, fatty. So
- 31:59Speaker 2: for a branch breakfast vibes, I'm going Prefab with my
- 32:03Speaker 2: mate Jeff there and Lola stays. Then for lunch or
- 32:07Speaker 2: what am I feeling for lunch? I think I'll probably
- 32:09Speaker 2: head I don't know, some Japanese place and then now
- 32:14Speaker 2: I'm going Hummingbird or Pizza Nuple of course.
- 32:16Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, Kate, can I just quickly ask
- 32:19Speaker 3: you what your thoughts on Andrew little are you? Do
- 32:22Speaker 3: you feel comfortable? And you what are you and your
- 32:23Speaker 3: husband sitting around thinking this would be a good move
- 32:25Speaker 3: for wanting.
- 32:26Speaker 4: To be To be completely honest with you, Nick, I
- 32:30Speaker 4: I don't know. I want someone fresh, en, vibrant. I
- 32:33Speaker 4: don't know if he's got that or not.
- 32:35Speaker 2: Not sure. I'm running for me watch the space.
- 32:39Speaker 3: I reckon, Lucas, I reckon, I reckon, You'd be great
- 32:42Speaker 3: youngest youngest me are ever?
- 32:43Speaker 2: Absolutely would people vote on me? Because actually I actually
- 32:46Speaker 2: would love to just get people's opinion, not just creating money.
- 32:49Speaker 3: We'll find out, we'll get a few on the text.
- 32:50Speaker 3: Beteed I'll probably say twenty years too young. Thank you
- 32:53Speaker 3: both for joining us today. It's been amazing great to
- 32:56Speaker 3: see you again, Kate, and you did you are that
- 33:01Speaker 3: thing of good good fortune, that thought of good fortune
- 33:05Speaker 3: because I thought about I mean, I was grumpy with
- 33:07Speaker 3: you when I talked to you, and I thought about it,
- 33:10Speaker 3: and then you you corrected me. Thank you, Lucas, always
- 33:14Speaker 3: good to talk to you, Good to see you. Say
- 33:15Speaker 3: loo to your parents for me. I wait, great people,
- 33:17Speaker 3: great Wellingtonian the Greek.
- 33:19Speaker 2: I can't wait till this Courtney place then comes out. Eh.
- 33:21Speaker 3: Yes, we'll wait and see it. I'll let people know.
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