In the wake of the resignation of Greg Foran from Air NZ Steve and Seamus talk about the 'Between Two Beers Curse' and if Paddy Gower belongs in the conversation. They also talk about how many haircuts Steve has left, how they get guests, answer questions from the audience, and reminisce on nights at The Outback Inn. 🔹 How cringe is Steve's voice note to Lorde? 🔹 What gift did Seamus surprise Steve with? 🔹 Who has a good Outback Inn story? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Mar 12, 2025•36 min
This week on Between Two Beers we're re-releasing one of our favourite all time episodes with Dame Sarai Bareman which was recorded on the morning of the FIFA Women's World Cup semi-final in Auckland in August 2023. Sarai is one of the most powerful and influential women in world sport and has been FIFA’s Chief Women’s Football Officer since the role was first created in 2016. Her mandate included doubling the sport's global female player base from 30 million to 60 million and she's ultimately r...
Mar 10, 2025•2 hr 2 min
Welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners presented by The Icehouse. In this episode we talk about financial breakthroughs, unreasonable goals, and how it feels to turn a side hustle into a full-time job. The Icehouse is a community for kiwis wanting to take their business to the next level. Their practical programmes, one-on-one business coaching and short workshops are designed specifically for people who own and manage their businesses, and the leaders they back to get thing...
Mar 05, 2025•39 min
Lance O’Sullivan is New Zealand racing royalty. A Hall of Fame jockey, who is the son of a Hall of Fame trainer. Lance was born to racing and from his first race in 1980, wins and records fell to him as if by right. He was a champion jockey a record twelve times, had six wins in a day on five occasions, 62 Group One wins (including 10 in Australia) and from start to finish – rode nearly 2,500 winners. In this episode we learn why Lance wakes up at 3.30am and why Damien McKenzie is often at his h...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 208
In this episode of Hambassadors, Steve and Seamus share behind-the-scenes stories from their night at The Halberg Awards—including presenting an award, unexpected moments with Dan Carter, Richie McCaw, and Valerie Adams, and Steve’s autocue blunder on stage. They also react to the feedback from their Greg Foran episode, discuss what really goes on at New Zealand’s biggest sports awards, and bring their signature banter to another classic conversation. 🔹 What went wrong with the autocue? 🔹 What...
Feb 26, 2025•27 min
Sharyn Casey is one of New Zealand's best-known and most-loved broadcasters. A few months ago, she pulled the curtain down on a near 20-year career at The Edge radio station - and this is her first interview since stepping away. In this episode we talk about why she left and what’s next, her best and worst moments on air, that time she dropped a c-bomb on live TV, teenage gangster Sharyn from Timaru, panic attacks while hosting Dancing with the Stars, Will Ferrell, Guy Williams, The Trainee Sexo...
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 207
This week we both have a chat with Di individually! These chats are both pretty raw and there's a good dose of emotion sprinkled throughout. First up is Steve who talks about his experience juggling a young family and running a business, and in the second half Seamus talks about his complicated relationship with being seen and finding his voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 19, 2025•43 min
Greg Foran is the CEO of Air New Zealand – and one of the country’s most successful businessmen. Greg started his career as a shelf-stacker in a Hamilton supermarket. By the age of 20 he was a Woolworths manager and by 48 he was on track to be the next CEO of Woolworths Australia – but was overlooked for the top job. He pivoted to America via China where he started working his way up the Walmart ladder and in 2014 became the CEO of Walmart US. As CEO of Walmart US – Greg had 1.5 million staff, 4...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 206
This week we discuss our segment on Breakfast TV promoting all things Hamilton with Chris Chang. We chat about the upcoming Halberg Awards, NZ's best sporting moments of 2024 and Steve blows Seamus' mind with a TikTok trend! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 12, 2025•26 min
Clayton McMillan is head coach of the Chiefs and widely respected as one of New Zealand’s very best rugby coaches. In this episode we talk about Clayton’s unconventional upbringing, why he became a police officer, and why he left the force, his rugby career, his coaching career – and his path to the Chiefs job. The second half of this one is packed full of world class coaching and leadership wisdom. We talk about what was happening behind the scenes at the Chiefs when he took over in 2021, his r...
Feb 09, 2025•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 205
We’ve got big goals for 2025… But how do we actually achieve them? Business coach Di Foster puts our feet to the fire yet again, in this week’s new episode of Accidental Business Owners! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 05, 2025•40 min
Joe Daymond is one of New Zealand’s best and funniest comedians who shot to fame during lockdown with his snackable social media vids. He’s now an award-winning comedian, actor, director and producer who has sold out national tours across both New Zealand & Australia. In this episode we talk about his fast rise through the NZ comedy scene, why he lived out of his car for months, becoming the youngest Kiwi comedian to sell-out Sky City Theatre – and why it may have happened too quickly, deali...
Feb 02, 2025•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 204
Seamus and Steve discuss their top picks for NZ’s best sporting moment of the year, Chris Wood’s incredible season in England, recent episodes with Sean Fitzpatrick and Alia Bojilova, and why they left NZME for Acast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 29, 2025•28 min
Strap in for this one, because Dr. Alia Bojilova is one of the most impressive guests we’ve had on the show. She moved to New Zealand from Bulgaria as a 17-year-old who didn’t speak a word of English but soon became the lead psychologist for the New Zealand SAS. After leaving the military she embarked on a PhD, focusing on the concept of resilience and is now a world leader in the field, working with some of the biggest names, companies and athletes in the world. In 2013, Alia was working as a U...
Jan 26, 2025•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 203
Welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners. This is a show we ran last year on our Business in Between channel – but this year we’re bringing it onto our main feed. The premise of the show is that last year Steve and Seamus became fulltime business owners. We left our 9-5s to go all in on Between Two Beers – and thought it would be interesting to document our journey. Last year we started working with a business and mindset coach Di Foster, who you might remember as a guest on t...
Jan 22, 2025•34 min
Sean Fitzpatrick is recognized as one of the greatest All Blacks of all time. He was capped 92 times by New Zealand, 51 of those as captain, is a World Cup winner, and a key member of one of the best rugby teams ever. But Sean is more than just the sum of his rugby achievements. After rugby retirement, at the age of 40, he moved his family to the UK – and has been there since. He’s now the Chairman of the Laureus World Sport Academy and the stories he tells in this one of what his job is, the sp...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 202
Steve and Seamus share their goals for 2025 and reveal their dream podcast guests for the new year. Seamus talks about the epic response to his 'before and after' weight loss pics, Steve reveals their epic guest for next week and the lads update all the most interesting life updates from guests in 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 15, 2025•33 min
We're releasing our Business in Between episode with Cassie Roma we recorded in 2024. The American-born kiwi is an award-winning global thought leader in creative ideation, media, brand strategy, digital innovation, and executive leadership. She's also an author, brand ambassador, storyteller, broadcaster, emcee, and keynote speaker. For over 20 years Cassie held high-flying marketing roles at big-name businesses including Air New Zealand, ANZ Bank, The Warehouse Group, Mighty River Power and NZ...
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 201
We kick off Between Two Beers in 2025 by re-releasing one of our favourite episodes of 2024 - with Mark Stafford. This ep is really special. There's just so much goodness in here. Staffy is a radio host, who is best known as the former face of the TAB, where he spent two decades as a bookmaker and broadcaster. But what's not so well-known is his roller-coaster ride through life with all its twists and turns. In this episode we talk about how he died in a car accident, before being brought back t...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 50 min
Happy Holidays! Our best of compilation series continues with part two - Best of Sport. We've chopped up some of the best bits from all of our favourite sport episodes from 2024. In this episode you'll hear from Dame Lisa Carrington, Ali Williams, Tim Brown, Raelene Castle, Samuel Whitelock, Megan Compain, Paula George, Craig Fenton, Simon Porter, Steve Tew, Andrew Mehrtens, Matthew Ridge, Sione Faumuina, Cameron Leslie, Dr. Inia Raumati, Emma Twigg and David Nyika. It's quite a list! If you mis...
Dec 29, 2024•3 hr•Ep. 200
It's our last recording for 2024! We check out Chasing The Fox with the TAB and bump into a former guest having a great old time. It's a chance to say thank you for the year we've had and can you pick the first 7 guests for 2025? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 25, 2024•18 min
Happy Holidays! It's compilation time on Between Two Beers, and in the first of a two-part series - we've chopped up some of the best bits from all of our entertainment and business episodes from 2024. In this episode you'll hear from Tim Brown, Jesse Mulligan, Mark Stafford, Kanoa Lloyd, Sir Ian Taylor, Karen O'Leary, Matt Heath, Shane Bradley, Jehan Casinader, Di Foster, Brooke Howard-Smith, Jason Gunn, Jamie Pennell, Bree Tomasel and Zion Armstrong. It's quite a list! We recorded 45 new episo...
Dec 22, 2024•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 199
Emma Twigg is one of New Zealand's greatest rowers and won Olympic gold in Tokyo and Olympic silver in Paris. This is Emma's second appearance on Between Two Beers and life has changed a lot since we recorded with her at her Cambridge home back in 2020. In this episode we talk about her emotional Olympic triumphs, her health scare leading into Paris, motherhood, athlete well-being, elite sport and what her future holds. This was a really fun chat – with one of New Zealand's greatest Olympians. S...
Dec 15, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 198
Steve plays golf with Eric Murray and gets the worst hangover of his life, Seamus sings acapella at Paddy Gower's live show, reflections on episodes with Shaun Quincey and Sam Whitelock, Seamus commentates Auckland FC game and talks about the wildest week of his year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 11, 2024•25 min
Samuel Whitelock is one of the greatest rugby players New Zealand has produced. He's the most capped All Black in history with 153 caps. He went to four Rugby World Cups and won two. He also played in 181 Super Rugby Games and won seven titles with the Crusaders. In this episode we talk about retiring from rugby and what life looks like now, searching for Harry Potter wands on All Blacks tours, his mum's incredible interview with the NZ Herald, the most difficult moments of his career, Crusaders...
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 197
Hey team - we've got a special midweek delivery here for you... This is the 10th episode in the Accidental Business Owners series, but they all stand alone – so you don’t have to go back to the start to follow. In this one, our business coach Di Foster takes us through some couple's therapy! We talk about end of year goal setting, how to not take business personally and Seamus and Steve explore each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Enjoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Dec 04, 2024•43 min
Shaun Quincey is a top business executive and angel investor helping fund Kiwi business dreams. But before that he became the only person to have successfully rowed solo from Australia to New Zealand and became a top selling author after writing a book about it. We spent the first half talking about his epic solo Tasman voyage, which took two years of planning and 54 days of rowing in the world's most treacherous stretches of water. This story is insane, and includes yarns about rowing into whal...
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 196
Steve and Seamus unpack all the highs and lows from the 'biggest day of their career', and getting named Apples #1 podcast in New Zealand, they discuss their upcoming live show with Paddy Gower, reflect on their recent episodes with Georgie and why Seamus needs to bring more energy to his gigs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 27, 2024•30 min
Zion Armstrong is one of our favourite episodes of the year and when Apple Podcasts released their list of the best performing episodes in New Zealand in 2024 it was on it too! We've picked up a lot of new listeners since we originally released it in February and we wanted to highlight his incredible story again. The Zion Armstrong story starts in West Auckland and involves running away from the police so fast that he started an athletics career that took him to the Commonwealth Games. At the sa...
Nov 24, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Paula George – or Georgie as she’s commonly known – has a story that will blow you away. She has lived the most remarkable life – with the most inspiring mindset – and she’s our favourite type of guest, a humble legend. Georgie is a very private person – and her story, till now, has largely gone untold. Her life started on the back foot in Wales. Georgie wasn’t just the only person of colour in her village, but also her family. She was abandoned by her mother, forced into foster care and experie...
Nov 17, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 195
