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Mils Muliaina: former All Black talks new role on Auckland Business Chamber · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed be
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  Speaker 2: Former All Blacks Legends Mills mully Aina is now playing
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  Speaker 2: a different game, which is business. He's just been hired
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  Speaker 2: by the Auckland Business Chamber Board as the first pacifica
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  Speaker 2: director and there're one hundred and sixty nine year history
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  Speaker 2: and he's with us now.
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  Speaker 1: Hoy Mels, hey here there, how are you? And very well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, congrats on the role.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you very much. Yeah, it's coming a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a surprise, but I've known for a wee while,
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  Speaker 3: so it's yeah, I'm look first, it's just it's a
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  Speaker 3: it's a significant opportunity for me. I suppose to provide
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  Speaker 3: a voice for the communities and especially the Pacific community,
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  Speaker 3: and you know on finance, insurance and I suppose economic matters.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm pretty toughed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it might surprise a few people to
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  Speaker 2: hear that you've you've popped up in business, but you
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  Speaker 2: are you a mortgage advisor in real life?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, i am. I'm coming up eight years being a
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  Speaker 3: qualified financial advisor, so most people have to seen me
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  Speaker 3: on the screens probably thinking I'm just there has been
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  Speaker 3: X rugby player. It's sort of bitching and maining about
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  Speaker 3: the about the Orbalex. But no, I've been in business.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a small cum uh that I've that I
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  Speaker 3: started in twenty nineteen and we do mortgages, insurance sets
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  Speaker 3: in our investment I'm almost qualified in the investment space.
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  Speaker 3: It's just taking me a bit longer to do this
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  Speaker 3: last paper.
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  Speaker 2: Oh brilliant stuff. So so what's your job here in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the Pacific economy.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's just that it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's being their voice. You know what we what
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  Speaker 3: WAT Treasury sort of mention it's and it's it's it's
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  Speaker 3: awesome the fact that you know, the largest population population
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  Speaker 3: is in Auckland and the drivest majority of the Pacific activities,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whether it's in business, social enterprise, employment, in
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  Speaker 3: an even you know, in formal volunteering, the volunteering sector.
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  Speaker 3: So my role really is to be their voice, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Josur you mentioned the fact that the Pacific community you
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  Speaker 3: contribute eight billion annually towards the economy, so that's pretty significant.
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  Speaker 3: And being a voice on on and having a seat
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  Speaker 3: on that chamber really just you know, working through that
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  Speaker 3: sort of sort of stuff, and I suppose working through
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  Speaker 3: the challenges, but also you know, it is a very
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  Speaker 3: challenging time, but also you know, celebrating also the success
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  Speaker 3: that it brings with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I get the feeling that the Pacific economy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe overlooked, Like I suspect many people will not realize
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  Speaker 2: how big it is and therefore it will not actually
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  Speaker 2: have been developed as much as we could.
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  Speaker 3: No. I mean that's the thing that there's not a
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  Speaker 3: lot has known about the Pacific business sector and more
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  Speaker 3: work does need to be to be done, not only
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  Speaker 3: just a celebrator, but to bring awareness to it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, a comprehensive you know, collective sort of
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  Speaker 3: collect data on Pacific businesses and activities that that needs
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  Speaker 3: to happen and it hasn't. And I suppose it's finding
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  Speaker 3: out more and more about that and sort of how
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  Speaker 3: we can sort of grow that in sort of some
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  Speaker 3: of the areas. And I mean we are resilient, and
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  Speaker 3: the Pacific community is resilient, but they tend to also
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  Speaker 3: stay within themselves and not sort of you know, hype
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  Speaker 3: up the fact that they're doing really well. You know
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  Speaker 3: what's not widely known as there's a high proportion of
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  Speaker 3: business businesses that are owned by Pacific women, and that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And even in sectors like you know, agriculture and also aquaculture,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and that's that's something that's sort of unheard of,
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  Speaker 3: but they don't celebrate it and they keep to themselves.
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  Speaker 3: You know, small to medium enterprises with you know, wonder
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  Speaker 3: five sort of staff. Then there's a lot of that
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  Speaker 3: going around. But you know, eight billion a year that
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  Speaker 3: they contribute. Will Pacific people contribute to the to the
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  Speaker 3: economy is it's quite significant. It should be celebrated.
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  Speaker 2: Now, tell me what do you reckon is the best
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  Speaker 2: rate to lock in at the moment? Well, the ocr's
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  Speaker 2: out tomorrow, Yeah, twenty five or fifty.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping it's I'm hoping it's. Well, it's everyone we
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  Speaker 3: being it's fifty, but another drop will be fantastic. One
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  Speaker 3: thing we've got to consider as the bank's already have moved,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes when they move early, it gives them the
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  Speaker 3: reason to say, hey, well we've already moved. But there's
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  Speaker 3: no doubt there is a little bit of consumer confidence
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  Speaker 3: now with the rates coming down, hopefully in another push
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  Speaker 3: we've got to and you know, especially to the end
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  Speaker 3: of the year when people tend to spend a lot,
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  Speaker 3: you know, during that Christmas period. But I'm hoping for
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  Speaker 3: a fifty, but I'll be more than happy for a
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  Speaker 3: twenty five here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what are you looking in? What do you
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  Speaker 2: reckon one year?
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  Speaker 3: Well, mine's coming up, so I'll definitely be looking at
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  Speaker 3: one year. I think it's four point four to nine
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  Speaker 3: at the moment, and hopefully another drop, but they won't
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  Speaker 3: tend to happen till hopefully next week. But the one
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  Speaker 3: year is looking pretty good. Eighteen months as similar, and
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  Speaker 3: it's great. It's great for you know, it gives people
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of hope but also, as I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of consumer confidence leading into the summer.
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  Speaker 3: Break good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Mills, Thanks very much man, and good luck with the
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  Speaker 2: Auckland Business Chamber. That's Mills MILLI you know, it's the
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  Speaker 2: new PACIFICA director on the ABC, isn't it nice? I
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  Speaker 2: always love it when a rugby player turns out to
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  Speaker 2: be not only awesome at running and passing a ball,
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  Speaker 2: which is like a thing to be awesome at obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but also has brains. That's just fantastic. I love that.
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