The Road To Success Podcast

Jane Watson is professional netball player whose highlights include 2019 World Champion, ANZ premiership champion, Player of the year in 2017 and 2022, 100 caps for the Canterbury Tactix, 56 for the Silver ferns and she was named one of 25 best players the last 25 years. Jane is a champion off the court as much as she is on it. She is a proud mum, and bloody great human being.

John Plato is the founder of Plato Creative. After dropping out of high school art 15, John spent the next 10 years as a diesel mechanic before leaving to start a business with his wife Lisa. Plato Creative is now one of New Zealand’s most celebrated and successful creative agencies spending three consecutive years in the Deloitte Fast 50. His story includes everything from family trauma and a crack at professional rugby, to working 32 hours straight to win a career defining tender.

Andrew Nicol entrepreneur, businessman and podcast host. He is the founder and managing partner of OPES Partners, host of the Property Academy podcast and an expert on property investment in New Zealand.

Josh Komen is one of life’s true heroes. He was one of the fastest 800m runners in New Zealand before being diagnosed with leukaemia and beginning his battle with cancer. After going into remission Josh started to live life on his terms; climbing to Mt Everest Base camp, and becoming a professional skydiver, but his fight with cancer wasn’t over. In this episode Josh openly shares his journey of life and death that reminds of all of what truly matters.

Dr Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three Rugby World Cup wins, has a PHD in sociology and was the first woman to be appointed to the NZ Rugby board. She is an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, has been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame and The New Zealand Women's Provincial Championship was renamed the Farah Palmer Cup in her Honour. She currently works as an Associate Dean at Massey university where her research revolves around race, gender and leadership issues in sport.

Jamie Fitzgerald is a modern-day adventurer and expert in strategy, leadership and change management. He has walked unaided to the South Pole, holds the world record for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, is a double New Zealand representative , and as CEO of a performance consultancy business has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies around the world achieve more.

Mike Allsop is Airline pilot, Everest mountaineer, adventurer and extreme marathon competitor. This self proclaimed “ordinary family” proves that anybody can accomplish extraordinary things. He is one of only a very small group of human beings to successfully complete the infamous TRIPLE SEVEN Marathon event which is 7 Marathons, in 7 Days, in 7 Continents. He survived an “unsurvivable” plane crash, ran the world’s highest marathon and wrote the best selling book ‘high altitude’.

Bestselling author and speaker, Abbas Nazari, fled the Taliban in Afghanistan as a child, and was resettled in New Zealand after his family were rescued by the Tampa container ship in 2001. In 2019, Abbas was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the United States, where he graduated with a Masters in Security Studies from Georgetown University, Washington DC. His memoir, After the Tampa: From Afghanistan to New Zealand (Allen & Unwin, 2021), is a #1 bestseller. Abbas is a sought-after speaker and media commentator, a prominent advocate for refugees, and has recently been named a semi-finalist for the 2022 University of Canterbury Young New Zealander of the Year.

Geoff Knight was a patched member of the notorious Highway 61 motorcycle gang before turning his life around an finding a new life as an opera singer.

Darren Shand has been the All Black's Manager since 2004. His time with the team has included the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning campaigns and the first undefeated Test season in 2013, winning the Tri Nations and subsequent Rugby Championship six times. The All Blacks have also won three Grand Slams and been World Rugby Team of the Year ten times, as well as World Sports Team of the Year at the 2015 Laureus Awards. He is an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and incredible intellect, and a bloody nice guy.

Sean Thomas is an expert in human motivation, engagement and productivity. He has spent his career helping organisations, teams and individuals make huge gains in productivity and profit. Sean is also a published author, a black belt, and mentor to many young people.

Monique Kimber-Bell survived the Christchurch earthquake after spending six hours trapped inside the collapsed PGC building.