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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In this episode of Recorded At Red Nine, Andy Rowe sits down with mortgage advisor and Fresh Moni founder Willie Leota.

Willie shares his powerful story growing up in a family of seven kids sleeping in a garage, learning the hard lessons of money, and eventually building a career in banking and finance.

Today, he’s on a mission to help Pacific and Māori communities better understand the financial system through his platform Fresh Moni — a financial education podcast and platform designed to make money conversations more accessible.

From cultural differences around money to the realities of home ownership in New Zealand, this conversation explores how financial knowledge can transform lives.

We talk about:

• Growing up with seven kids sharing a garage

• Why Western financial systems can be difficult for Pacific communities

• Lessons learned working in banking

• Why people who look wealthy often aren’t

• The mission behind the Fresh Moni podcast

• Why home ownership in New Zealand isn’t impossible

🎙 Hosted by Andy Rowe

📍 Recorded at Red Nine Studios – Christchurch

Recorded At Red Nine explores the stories of people building businesses, ideas and communities across Canterbury.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

01:10 What is Fresh Moni?

02:00 Why Pacific communities struggle with finance

04:00 The cultural difference around money

06:40 Growing up with seven kids in one house

09:00 Discovering there was another way to live

12:00 Lessons learned working in banking

15:00 Why wealthy people don’t always look wealthy

18:00 Playing rugby in Scotland

20:00 Reconnecting with culture in Samoa

23:30 Understanding his parents’ struggles

25:00 The mission behind Fresh Moni

26:00 Advice for starting a business

27:00 Advice for getting your first mortgage

29:00 The biggest myth about buying property

30:20 Where to find Willie

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Di Foster is known for giving direct, no-fluff business advice — but this conversation goes far deeper than business.

In this episode of Recorded at Red Nine, Di shares the mindset that helped her navigate life, business, and being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

From resilience and parenting to accidental business ownership and motivation, this is a conversation about doing something with the day you’ve got.

In this episode:

• The mindset that changed how she sees life

• What her dad taught her about self-worth

• Why life is simple (but not easy)

• The truth about working for yourself

• Advice for Red Nine Studios and early-stage businesses

• The 5 areas every service business must master

• Her experience being diagnosed with terminal cancer

Recorded at Red Nine Studios

Christchurch’s own world class audio and video podcast studio.

👉 https://www.redninestudios.com

🔗 Connect with Di Foster

Website: https://www.difoster.com

Instagram: @difoster.live

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:44 “I’m nothing special”

01:45 What her dad taught her

03:41 “I want to die well”

05:47 Don’t overthink relationships

10:43 Why we’re hurting kids

18:46 Diagnosed with terminal cancer

21:41 Advice for business owners

If you’re thinking about starting a podcast or want better content from what you’re already doing — flick me a message studio@redninestudios.com

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What does it actually take to run one of the most successful rugby teams in the world?

In this episode, Andy Rowe sits down with Crusaders CEO Colin Mansbridge to talk leadership, business, and the reality of running a professional sports franchise.

Colin explains how he went from head of agribusiness at BNZ to running the Crusaders, and what business leaders can learn from the culture of one of the most successful teams in Super Rugby history.

They discuss:

• The leadership culture inside the Crusaders

• Why decisive leadership isn’t always the best leadership

• The challenge of pricing tickets and creating value for fans

• Why success on the field doesn’t always equal profit

• The impact of Christchurch’s new stadium

• Lessons for entrepreneurs building businesses

Whether you’re interested in rugby, leadership, or business, this conversation offers a fascinating look inside one of New Zealand’s most iconic sporting organisations.

🎙 Recorded at Red Nine Studios – Christchurch

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⏱ Chapters

00:43 From Banker to Crusaders CEO

02:18 Applying for the Crusaders Job

03:45 What Business Taught Him About Leadership

04:52 “A Bike With Square Wheels”

06:21 Leadership Inside the Crusaders

08:27 Thoughtful vs Decisive Leadership

11:43 How the Crusaders Make Big Decisions

13:19 Pricing Tickets & Business Strategy

16:19 Does Lower Price Increase Demand?

17:06 On-Field Success vs Commercial Success

18:54 The New Christchurch Stadium

20:26 Why Jerseys Don’t Have Player Names

24:50 The Biggest Myth About Super Rugby

26:41 Why People Ask for Freebies

27:57 Advice for Entrepreneurs

30:03 Closing Thoughts

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What actually IS cryptocurrency?

In this episode we sit down with a crypto expert from Cryptocurrency NZ to break down how Bitcoin works, why people mine crypto, and whether it's actually the future of money.

We talk about:

• What cryptocurrency actually is

• How Bitcoin mining works

• Why people lose access to their crypto wallets

• Paying rent using cryptocurrency

• Why New Zealand might be falling behind in crypto regulation

If you've ever been confused about Bitcoin or blockchain, this conversation explains it in plain English.

Recorded at Red Nine Studios in Christchurch.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Crypto teaser

00:30 What does Cryptocurrency NZ do?

01:13 Why crypto has a bad reputation

02:39 What cryptocurrency actually is

03:40 Who decides Bitcoin’s value?

05:18 What Bitcoin miners are really doing

08:08 Why Bitcoin mining is basically a game

09:40 How crypto became popular

12:43 Lending and borrowing with crypto

13:22 Biggest misconceptions about crypto

15:59 Paying rent with crypto

18:08 Why NZ is behind on crypto

22:42 Using crypto in a murder trial

24:22 Recovering lost crypto wallets

25:34 Leaving a job to start a business

28:30 Advice for starting a business

29:46 Should businesses accept crypto?

30:56 Advice for people thinking about Bitcoin

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How do you go from nobody knowing your product to 1 million users in a month?

In this episode, I sit down with the founder of Lumin to talk about building a product from Christchurch that now helps businesses around the world create, edit, collaborate on and sign documents online.

We talk about:

- how Lumin started

- how they found product-market fit

- why solving visible frustration online can lead to massive growth

- what Stanford taught him about scaling

- how AI and ecosystems are changing software

- why Christchurch is producing globally ambitious companies

Lumin started as a PDF editing tool and has grown into a broader productivity platform covering document editing, collaboration, agreements and e-signing.

Check out Lumin here:

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If you enjoy conversations about startups, Canterbury business, founders and growth, subscribe for more.

Recorded at Red Nine Studios, Christchurch.

CHAPTERS

00:38 What Lumin actually does

02:15 How Lumin handles contracts

03:09 Stanford and the US startup world

05:03 Why he went to Stanford after building Lumin

06:02 From engineering to software

06:59 The homemade boat story

10:20 Lessons from engineering in Christchurch

12:25 Why he built Lumin

13:32 His earlier app success before Lumin

15:10 How Lumin got 1 million users in a month

17:13 From startup to 130 million users

20:00 AI, ChatGPT and where Lumin fits

21:16 Why ecosystems matter in business

22:37 Christchurch’s growth mindset

23:41 The founder ecosystem in Christchurch

25:39 Why Lumin went global first

28:12 Advice for young founders

29:34 Build the plane while flying it

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