What if a boozy rosé lunch and a magnitude 7.1 earthquake were the unlikely origins of a children's book business? That's exactly the story Hannah Davison tells in this episode.

Hannah is the co-founder of My Big Moments — a range of children's books backed by neuroscience, child psychology and play therapy, designed to help kids aged 2–7 navigate the big milestones and challenges of early life. Think: new siblings, starting school, going to hospital, grief and loss, and building resilience. The books can even be personalised, putting your child in the story as the empowered helper rather than the one in distress.

In this conversation, Hannah talks about how the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake — waking up to a freight train sound, running through broken glass in bare feet, jumpstarting a car with bricks falling off the roof — drove home exactly why this project had to exist.

She also gets into the science behind why hearing your own name fires your neurons, the Einstein quote that guides her business philosophy, how a spontaneous conversation about leaking boobs led to a multi-award-winning podcast, and why trusting your intuition might be the best business advice there is.

📚 My Big Moments

🌐 Website: https://mybigmoments.com

📸 Instagram: @mybigmoments

🎙️ Untidy Podcast (Hannah & Matilda Green)

🌐 Website: https://www.untidypodcast.com

📸 Instagram: @untidypodcast

🎙️ Red Nine Studios

🌐 Website: https://www.redninestudios.com

📸 Instagram: @recordedatrednine

🎧 Recorded at: @redninestudios

Chapters

0:00 – Intro

0:39 – What is My Big Moments?

1:11 – The books: topics, ages, and what they actually do

3:32 – Starting school, hospital visits, grief — why the big stuff matters

6:18 – Born over a boozy rosé lunch with business partner Flicka Williams

7:37 – The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: waking up to a freight train

9:46 – "There is nothing I can do to protect my children"

11:11 – Getting out of the house: bricks, glass, bare feet

13:11 – Jumpstarting the car with the roof falling apart

15:03 – Pushing boulders off the road in your pyjamas

16:38 – The morning after: it wasn't a bad dream

16:58 – How the earthquake became the "why" behind the books

18:28 – Resilience, trauma, and turning hard experiences into superpowers

19:44 – Working with neuroscientists, psychologists and play therapists

21:40 – Why personalisation isn't just cute — it fires neurons

22:14 – Three years of work, then COVID hits the launch

24:00 – The unstoppable drive to put this thing into the world

25:10 – Pivoting during COVID: supporting parents instead of selling

26:28 – How Matilda Green came into the picture

28:29 – The conversation that became the Untidy podcast

30:09 – Business advice: what would you tell Red9 Studios?

30:58 – The Einstein quote that guides everything

32:04 – Trusting your intuition: 100% alignment, every time

33:23 – Expand your consciousness — the best advice Hannah has

34:14 – Where to find My Big Moments and Untidy

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Amy from Addie & Lou joins us on Recorded at Red Nine to share the real story behind building a boutique retail business.

From growing up in Kaikōura and working as a radiographer, to opening a homewares store that now has locations in both Kaikōura and Christchurch, Amy’s journey is full of lessons, risks and a few hilarious mistakes along the way.

Including the time she accidentally ordered $17,000 worth of candles.

We talk about:

• Starting a retail business with no formal business experience

• The early mistakes every founder makes

• Why the Addie & Lou café was never part of the original plan

• The reality of running a retail store during tough economic times

• Learning about margins, stock and imports the hard way

• And the unexpected stories that come with running a business

Recorded at Red Nine is a podcast exploring the stories of the people building businesses across Canterbury and beyond.

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🎙 Hosted by Andy Rowe

📍 Recorded at Red Nine Studios – Christchurch

🌍 Businesses Building Canterbury

CHAPTERS

01:44 Why They Had a Wedding in Bali

03:24 What Is Addie & Lou?

04:48 Rebranding the Store in 4 Days

05:51 Starting a Business Just Before COVID

06:56 Growing Up Working on a Farm

08:05 Why She Started the Business

09:17 What Addie & Lou Actually Is

10:41 Opening the Christchurch Store

12:29 The Cafe That Was Never the Plan

14:09 Lessons from Running a Business

15:30 The $17,000 Candle Order

17:39 Learning Business the Hard Way

20:17 How Retail Buying Works

21:17 Are They in the Black or the Red?

22:15 The Catfish Dating Story

26:19 Meeting Her Partner Dan

27:22 Moving Into Wholesale

28:51 Where to Find Addie & Lou

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In this episode of Recorded at Red Nine, we sit down with one of the founders of Partly — the Christchurch-based startup transforming the global automotive supply chain using AI.

If you’ve ever had a car repaired, you’ve experienced the inefficiencies firsthand. Wrong parts. Delays. Supplementary orders. Wasted time. Insurance costs blowing out.

Partly is solving that.

By using AI to identify the exact parts required for a repair — down to the precise SKU — and intelligently selecting the optimal supplier, Partly is eliminating billions in inefficiency across one of the world’s largest industries.

With over 120 people across Christchurch, Auckland, London, Manila and San Francisco, and four funding rounds behind them, Partly is building what could become one of New Zealand’s most ambitious global tech companies.

We cover:

• Why 95% accuracy in parts ordering is still a huge problem

• How AI can identify car damage from video

• Why project selection is the most important decision in business

• The difference between good opportunities and great ones

• What it really takes to raise venture capital

• And why this could be a trillion-dollar opportunity

This is a story about ambition, scale and building from Canterbury to the world.

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🎙 Hosted by Andy Rowe

📍 Filmed at Red Nine Studios - https://www.redninestudios.com

🌍 Businesses Building Canterbury

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CHAPTERS

01:01 The Broken Parts Ordering System

03:55 Why 95% Accuracy Is Still a Huge Problem

05:20 The Two Big Problems Partly Solves

07:28 AI Analysing Vehicle Damage From Video

08:54 Why Car Manufacturers Make It Complicated

10:53 Standardising 30,000 Parts Per Vehicle

12:20 From Homeschool to Startup Founder

14:33 Building a Business From a Caravan

17:01 The Most Important Rule in Business: Project Selection

18:38 Saying No to “Good”

19:46 Why They Shut Down Their First Company

22:28 Growing Partly to 120+ Staff Globally

23:54 Brutal Reflection and Cutting Average

25:01 Are They in the Black or the Red?

27:10 Raising Venture Capital

29:02 The Trillion Dollar Opportunity

30:40 Thinking in Decades, Not Years

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