Plain-talk finance with guest-room energy.
Beyond the Field is a casual finance and property show built around real questions, approachable advisers, and guests with practical business stories. It moves quickly from jokes and quickfire prompts into deposits, lending, wealth planning, startups, and what financial decisions feel like in normal life.
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Beyond the Field is a conversational finance and property show powered by Money Empire. It does not approach money like a formal seminar. The show usually begins with something loose: a dream car, a holiday spot, a favourite food, a sportsperson for an apocalypse, or another quickfire prompt designed to relax the room. Then the conversation starts to gather shape. Episodes move into home loans, property pathways, investing, wealth management, financial literacy, and the real-life pressure points behind those topics. A discussion about 5% deposits, for example, gets into student loans, lender mortgage insurance, standard rates, Kainga Ora, and which lenders can participate. A wealth management episode turns from portfolio construction into risk comfort, retirement income, succession planning, and whether the next generation is ready to handle family capital. The guest format gives the show a wider business lane too. Amy from Slice to Buy explains how a platform can reduce barriers to home ownership by breaking the process into steps. Ben Lenart talks about turning a healthier beverage idea into Almighty Drinks and thinking beyond a small local model. Hugh Wallis brings in the world of four-wheel-drive accessories and Outbound Industry. David from Boring Without You Skincare keeps the tone playful before the business story starts. The result is a show that treats financial empowerment as practical, local, and social. It is not glossy. It is brisk, lightly chaotic, and direct. The value comes from hearing money questions worked through in plain language, often with advisers and guests stopping to define what a term means or why a decision matters. Beyond the Field is a good fit for listeners who want business and finance to feel less intimidating. It has enough banter to stay casual, but it keeps steering back to what someone can actually understand, compare, or act on.
Made for: For listeners who want money, property, and business topics explained in everyday language, especially with New Zealand context. It suits first-home buyers, young professionals, founders, and anyone who prefers practical examples over financial polish.
What sets it apart: Beyond the Field blends adviser-led financial education with relaxed guest interviews, so the show can move from a joke about cars into a serious explanation of deposits, portfolios, or scaling a business. Its strength is making finance sound like a real conversation rather than a presentation.
Welcome to Beyond the Field – a finance-oriented (kinda) series powered by Money Empire, a group of financial advisers that like to do things a little differently. We are bringing you all the financial info (and cool guest speakers) so you can go forth in the world and feel empowered.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical questions and informal guest conversations make borrowing, shared ownership, wealth planning and business growth easier to reason through.
Beyond the Field turns financial questions into relaxed conversations, moving between guest interviews and discussions led by Money Empire advisers.
A 5% deposit meets Friday beers, so you get money talk without the boardroom voice.
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Amy turns home buying into a sequence of decisions that feels easier to face in order.
Home ownership feels less hazy here, framed as a process that can be worked through step by step. Amy from Slice to Buy lays out the platform's six-part journey, beginning with confidence and education before moving into deposit questions, borrowing indications, buying with…
A relaxed look at how bespoke investing meets the work of passing wealth between generations.
The episode links portfolio construction with the broader duties that come with family wealth. Chris frames Parler Wealth Management as an independent advice business launched in June 2020, then talks through how bespoke portfolios can balance global equities, fixed income,…
Ben Lennart weighs a successful local concept against the pull of building for wider reach.
Ben Lennart's route through two coffee shops, a Wellington juice shop and a beverage launch across Scandinavia gives this founder story a clear question: when is a good local business no longer the business its owner wants to build?
A candid conversation about salary secrecy, partner finances, and why money talk depends on trust.
Cam and Neve's second Beyond the Field takeover settles into the tricky territory where money meets real life: relationships, friendships, and unequal incomes.
A clear, practical look at the 5% deposit option, its fee, lender access, and borrowing limits.
A 5% home loan deposit can make a first home feel within reach, and Beyond the Field keeps its focus on the practical details behind that promise.
Paul Haavardsrud unpacks Canadian money stories, from ski-hill VIP pricing to French butter tariffs.
Real-estate freedom, taught in plain numbers.
Cam and Neve continue their takeover of Beyond the Field, recapping their previous discussion on young adulthood, travel, and homeownership.
Host interviews Tim Cotton, winner of The Block NZ 2021, with quickfire questions and discussion about his experiences.
Financial advisors Nev Jervis and Lisa Barton from Money Empire explain how first-home buyers in New Zealand can secure a mortgage with just a 5% deposit under the First Home Loan scheme.
Property can feel massive.
Chris Glackin says Parler Wealth Management launched on June 2, 2020 with “no clients on day one” and a bottle of champagne.
Maternity leave can reduce both income and KiwiSaver, making flexible work a financial decision.
Ben Lennart, founder and director of Almighty Drinks, describes moving from Wellington hospitality jobs and a 16-year coffee-shop business called Milk Crate into beverage production.
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Hosts Goran and Issa interview Hugh Wallace, co-founder of Outbound Industry, about his background and business in 4WD accessories.
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