NBR Podcasts
NBR - National Business Review
Each episode explores issues impacting business & the New Zealand economy. Listen to in-depth interviews with NZ CEOs.
NBR (National Business Review) publishes NZ's leading business and finance podcasts, artificial intelligence, covering market shifts, investment, economics, and corporate leadership.
Episodes feature analysis of New Zealand companies, global markets, government policy, and entrepreneurship.
Our podcast shows include:
The NBR Podcast with Simon Shepherd: in-depth interviews with business leaders.
Weekly Wrap: a video round-up of the week on NBR.
Learn more on NBR.co.nz
NBR (National Business Review) publishes NZ's leading business and finance podcasts, artificial intelligence, covering market shifts, investment, economics, and corporate leadership.
Episodes feature analysis of New Zealand companies, global markets, government policy, and entrepreneurship.
Our podcast shows include:
The NBR Podcast with Simon Shepherd: in-depth interviews with business leaders.
Weekly Wrap: a video round-up of the week on NBR.
Learn more on NBR.co.nz
Episodes
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Jan 18, 2025 • 33min
Weekly Wrap #21: Uniting Māori, the Aussie dollar, brain implants
This is a wrap of the week's top business stories for the week ending 19 January. For today's top stories, head to NBR.co.nz. Proudly 100% subscriber funded.
- Kotahitanga ‘whare’ for Māori might take some building. For the full article click here.
- The strange case of the falling Aussie dollar. For the full article click here.
- Kitea Health begins brain implants on children. For the full article click here.
Jan 15, 2025 • 26min
#38: Outgoing Tower CEO Blair Turnbull
In this episode of The NBR Podcast with Simon Shepherd: Tower CEO Blair Turnbull is leaving after delivering a stunning turnaround for the insurance company. He talks about New Zealand’s need to build resilience, what the impact of the Californian wildfires could have, and why he finds running 250 kilometres ‘therapeutic’.
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Links to audio clips used here.
Jan 13, 2025 • 16min
Summer Series: Political editor Brent Edwards
In our last episode of The NBR Podcast Summer Series: Political editor Brent Edwards on PM Christopher Luxon and the coalition Government’s first year. What were the biggest issues and what’s facing New Zealand in 2025?
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Jan 8, 2025 • 18min
Summer Series: Brent Melville and Du Val
In the seventh episode of our NBR podcast summer series with Simon Shepherd: Property and tourism reporter Brent Melville on what it was like to break the Du Val raid story and an all round troublesome year for some other property developers.
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Jan 6, 2025 • 14min
Summer Series: Te Ao Māori editor Mike McRoberts
In the sixth of our NBR podcast summer series with Simon Shepherd: Te Ao Māori editor Mike McRoberts reflects on his previous life at Newshub and then taking up his new role in a year where Māori issues are front and centre.
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Jan 1, 2025 • 14min
Summer Series: Talking startups with Fiona Rotherham
In the fifth of our NBR Summer Series: Startups, venture capital, and market disruption, Fiona Rotherham covers it all in this chat including her take on NZ capital joining the nuclear fusion race.
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Dec 30, 2024 • 12min
Summer Series: Aussie correspondent Lachlan Colquhoun
In the fourth of our NBR podcast summer series with Simon Shepherd: Australian correspondent Lachlan Colquhoun talks about his picks for 2024, which include Qantas, ANZ, and the forthcoming general election.
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Dec 25, 2024 • 11min
Summer Series: Retail reporter Kate McVicar
In the third of our NBR podcast summer series with Simon Shepherd: Retail and Hospitality reporter Kate McVicar reveals her story highlights, what it means to win the Emerging Journalist of the Year award, plus we play a game of ‘good year/bad year’.
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Dec 23, 2024 • 14min
Summer Series: Economics journalist Jonathan Mitchell
On the second NBR Summer Series episode: Senior journalist Jono Mitchell reveals his top stories on such a big year in banking and economics and talks about his special report on Hawke’s Bay businesses post-Cyclone Gabrielle.
Feedback, story ideas, comments, all welcome – email simon@nbr.co.nz
Dec 21, 2024 • 31min
Weekly Wrap #20: Fiscal and economic update, bad books, Aussie media
This is a wrap of the week's top business stories for the week ending 22 December. For today's top stories, head to NBR.co.nz. Proudly 100% subscriber funded.
- Barbara Edmonds not sure how coalition will meet spending limits. For the full article click here.
- Fixing the economy and fiscal situation no easy task. For the full article click here.
- Aussie media looks to tech giants – again – to stay afloat. For the full article click here.
- Change the new constant for employment law. For the full article click here.
