Kiwi Yarns

Today’s guest is a beautiful, talented young woman who, despite the fact she cannot "smile", brings smiles to the faces of thousands every single day.Tayla Clement is 26-years young and has Moebius syndrome - a one-in-4-million condition.Tayla is not shy of discussing how brutally tough her life has been dealing with all that has come with this.What’s epic to see is the amazing mahi she is doing as a rugby content creator and hosting her own podcast Toe the Line.Tayla is on a mission to make the sporting arena more inclusive and we are absolutely here for that!A warning: we will be discussing mental health and suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest is fresh from winning the first New Zealand season of The Traitors (If you haven’t watched it, you absolutely need to - it's on Three Now)!Anna Reeve is a mother of two beautiful boys, she’s a former model, an influencer and a Global Alopecia Ambassador.We discuss how she lost all of her hair when she was just seven-years old and how she has navigated through living with Alopecia.She’s smart, talented and someone I’ve very lucky to call a friend - because fun fact - we were on The Traitors together and basically fell in love! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reposting a couple of my faves this week!Today's guest is quite simply, a national treasure.Tammy Wells is someone we all feel like we have a connection with, she is pretty much part of our furniture...and of course the Briscoes furniture too.Tammy is the woman who, with a big warm smile, delights us with that welcome news that Briscoes is indeed having a sale.She's been the Briscoes Lady for a remarkable 32 years - and still loves every minute of it.Oh how delightful this yarn is! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reposting one of my favourite chats this week!I've been hanging out to chat with investigative journalist and documentary maker David Farrier for a while now, so this big long decent yarn, best dissected with a long walk or maybe even a nice drink (or both haha).From his hilarious TV3 sign off from back in the day, to chasing Mongolian Death Worms, interviewing Colin Craig in the sauna, to now spending a lot of time looking into conspiracy theories - this guy is just so interesting and awesome.Here's the link to David's Webworm: https://www.webworm.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest is one of our talented radio broadcasters, and even though he’s still super young it feels like he’s been around the industry for years!Clint Roberts' success has a lot to do with his glorious-natured personality - plus he's a great champion of women in the industry.He’s also an extremely proud dad of two beautiful daughters - and recently launched a parenting podcast with another super cool dad - How to Dad (Jordan Watson) - called The Parenting Hangover.Some truly great yarns in here with a great mate! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest was New Zealand's first Bachelor.Back in 2015, Art Green was thrust into the spotlight, where he spent a good chunk of time on television without his shirt on, he got to pash a whole bunch of lovely ladies and got called super cliché things like a “heart throb”. And then, he fell in love on the show with Matilda, he picked her and it really was the start of something special.Now Art and Matilda are happily married, living a delightful life in Warkworth with their third child on the way. He now HOSTS the Bachelor/Bachelorette, he’s a really awesome advocate in the health and fitness space (the good side of it too may I add), and he really loves gardening, and cooking massive bits of meat on the barbecue.He is also - as I discovered - a former Guinness World Record Holder! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest is the international best-selling author and award-winning property investor and property coach, Nichole Lewis.Nichole is the CEO of the Property Lifestyle which she describes as her “dream job”. As we’ll hear, she's had an extremely interesting life and really challenging career - including coming painstakingly close to bankruptcy - pretty much losing everything around the Global Financial Crisis.She bounced back, having to start all over again, and now spends a good chunk of her time sharing that knowledge and learnings with others. A really eye-opening listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest is one of the nicest guys in the music business. And when I say nice, I mean cool, kick-arse, bad-arse, delightful, ridiculously talented and extremely down to earth - all at the same time!All those things have led Mitch James to where he is today - he's just absolutely smashed out his first-ever headline world tour - performing 50 shows across 15 countries - unreal.Such a fascinating chat with a wonderful young man! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest is a wonderful woman I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for the past three years. During that time Kelly Hutton - one of the OG Canterbury Flames netballers - has been living with stage three Ovarian Cancer. She’s beaten it twice - but was told at the start of August that she’s got just weeks to live.Kelly and I first met when she won a charity auction helicopter skydive with me, and we have kept in touch ever since. She has a passion for living life and really has pulled the middle finger at her cancer. Since diagnosed she's done half marathons, jumped out of helicopters, walked some of our beautiful walks and got a good chunk of the way through cycling across Aotearoa before she got sick again.Now, she really is out of time, and this may very well be the last time I speak to her. We were messaging and she asked if I was open to doing a Kiwi “end of” Yarn - she said we Kiwis don’t tend to talk that much about the end of life and “this sort of shit enough”, so could we hit one final spot together and change a bit of the world.We'll miss you Kel, but we are so lucky to have had you in our world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest is the co-captain of the 21-strong New Zealand Invictus Games team heading to Germany next month.Staff Sergeant Bob Pearce is a former Intelligence Operator with both the British Army and New Zealand Army.You'll hear how Bob is looking ahead to the Invictus Games to open a new chapter - 20 years after his good friend was killed in a blue on blue incident in Iraq by US Forces.It's a pretty raw and open chat about dealing with PTSD - but Bob speaks so beautifully and you might need some tissues.A warning - we will be discussing mental health and suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices