A List of Cool Things I Want to Do in 2025 - Behind the Pod

This week I returned to Between Two Beers headquarters after three weeks off the tools.

It was my first break as a full-time business owner - and it hit a bit different.

After Christmas, it took me about four days to close all the open tabs in my head, and let go - and then I had the most epic time being present with family. There’s no freedom quite like turning your phone off.

But there was also an underlying feeling of excitement; of energy to build into 2025.

One of my goals this year is to connect into the epic network of former guests we’ve had on the show – and to learn from them.

And I got off to a flyer last week when I drove from Hamilton to Takapuna to spend 90 minutes with Shaun Quincey (the bloke who rowed the Tasman solo and then built a series of epic businesses).

It’s been my most valuable conversation of 2025 and is a contender to hold that place by the end of the year.

We talked kids, relationships, life-planning and business. I left feeling supercharged, inspired - and connected.

Shaun emphasized the importance of personal goals for him - and it inspired me to write mine down.

So here’s a list of cool things I want to do in 2025:

• 1 coffee a month with a B2B mentor

• Record a podcast with Steven Adams

• Travel to Australia to record with some international legends

• Host three live shows in Hamilton, Christchurch and Wellington

• Get the golf handicap down to 12 (currently 20) – and film some golf content!

• Record a podcast with Lorde

• Build a Hamilton studio

• Launch a Between Two Beers beer

• Do 50+ Reflections interviews with our team

• Crack 200k listeners per month for B2B

• Weekly dates with my wife

• Coach my boys' footy teams

• Turn my phone off on Saturdays!

Let's see how we go!!

-Steve

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